Dark Gaia (ダークガイア Dāku Gaia?), also known as simply Gaia, is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. He is a primordial hyper energy organism from the dawn of time and the incarnation of darkness, night, and destruction. Since his birth, Dark Gaia has been in an eternal conflict with Light Gaia over earth, where they maintain a cycle of destruction and rebirth of the planet.

In the present day, Dark Gaia was awoken prematurely by Dr. Eggman, who planned to use his power to establish Eggmanland, which caused it to break apart and scatter across the world. After being reassembled, Dark Gaia attempted to destroy the world, but was defeated and returned to dormancy by Sonic the Hedgehog and Light Gaia, restoring its cycle.

In Sonic Unleashed, Dark Gaia is an gargantuan creature of such size that it makes characters like Sonic seem like grains of sand by comparison. In its incomplete base form, it has brown skin with its lower body and torso resembling that of a snake's, two thin arms with long neon-blue claws, and scaly shoulders. Its head itself is very wide, much wider than its main body and is mostly composed of its jagged mouth (which remains closed until it transforms) and has a single green eye on each end of it. Its central face looks like that of a reptile's, with four small horns on the top of it, white eyes, and one large green eye on the middle of its forehead. Also, on its back, Dark Gaia has seven purple flaming energy tentacles sticking out from it, and neon blue scaly fins that run from its lower back up to its head. It also possesses "hair" in the form of purple energy that emits from its head and back, giving it the appearance of a mohawk.

Dark Gaia seems to change size throughout the course of its debut. When it first awakened, it was large enough to put one hand on either side of the earth, yet during the final fight, it was noticeably smaller and fit inside the earth with plenty of extra space in the planet's core. This is probably due to Dark Gaia's mass being spread out and incomplete, as SA-55 states later on.

Dark Gaia also has a design featured in the Archie Comic's non-canon "OFF-PANEL". "I found you, faker! OR Prepare For Trouble: It's Chip's Evil Double!", Dark Gaia is depicted with an appearance almost identical to Chip's (Light Gaia), except with a darker color scheme, bat wings instead of fairy wings, a leather jacket, and piercings.

External link

• https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Gaia (where the wiki description originates from)