Dark matter in fiction

Dark matter is occasionally described in video games and other works of fiction. In such cases, it is usually attributed extraordinary physical or magical properties. Such descriptions are often inconsistent with the properties of dark matter proposed in physics and cosmology.

Examples of dark matter in fiction

 * In several games produced by Squaresoft, including Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy VIII, and Final Fantasy X, dark matter exists as a powerful magical element, enabling certain kinds of major attacks.
 * Dark Matter plays a central role in the His Dark Materials - Trilogy by British author Philip Pullman.
 * In many of the Kirby videogames, Dark Matter is an evil entity from space that posesses characters, such as King Dedede, to do its bidding.
 * In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, dark matter is used in forging very powerful but cursed equippable items.
 * In the popular comedy cartoon series Futurama, dark matter was a very heavy piece of fuel for the show's starships, excreted by Leela's pet Nibbler.
 * Dark matter is briefly mentioned in the description of a debris field in the Kepler and Galileo systems of Freelancer, a space combat game. Despite the use of dark matter in context in this last case, there is little similarity between the dark matter of Freelancer and anything we know about dark matter in real life.
 * The webcomic Schlock Mercenary involves several battles with dark matter entities, who have been plotting to destroy the galaxy for several hundred thousand years.
 * Dark Matter is the title of a science fiction novel by Garfield Reeves-Stevens involving mystery, horror, and physics.
 * In Final Fantasy IX, Dark Matter was used to summon Odin.
 * In the Alternity campaign setting Star*Drive, dark matter decay is used to fuel most modern starships as part of a "mass reactor." This reactor, in conjunction with a stardrive, makes FTL travel possible.
 * In one episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the space craft encounters and destroys a Dark Matter asteroid.
 * In the animated television series Exosquad, dark matter was a material found naturally on the tenth planet of the Solar system, Chaos. The Pirate Clans and the Exofleet used it to cloak their spaceships.
 * In Stephen Baxters "Ring", dark matter causes the sun to leave the Main Sequence (becoming a red giant) within only a few million years. The sun is nowadays believed not to leave the Main sequence for another 5 billion years.