Historic recurrence is the repetition of similar events in history. It is a recurring theme in Dark, where events seemingly repeat themselves between the years of the time loop. Characters often mention history repeating itself and experience déjà vu.
Occurrences[]
Event | 1953 | 1986 | 2019 |
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Children going missing | ✔ (Helge Doppler, returns) | ✔ (Mads Nielsen) | ✔ (Erik Obendorf, Mikkel Nielsen, Yasin Friese, Jonas Kahnwald) |
Men missing during children's disappearance | ✔ (Tronte Nielsen) | ✔ (Peter Doppler) | |
Dying animals | ✔ (Birds) | ✔ (Sheep and birds) | ✔ (Birds) |
Flickering lights | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Sex in the school | ✖ | ✔ (Katharina and Ulrich) | ✔ (Franziska and Magnus) |
Hannah trying to ruin Ulrich |
✔ Leaving him at prison[] |
✔ Accusing him of rape | ✔ Asking Aleksander to do so |
A Nielsen having an affair | ✔ Doris Tiedemann with Agnes Nielsen | ✔ Claudia Tiedemann with Tronte Nielsen | ✔ Hannah Kahnwald with Ulrich Nielsen |
Ulrich being imprisoned by Egon | ✔ (Accused of murder) | ✔ (Accused of rape)
✔ 2019-Old Ulrich is taken back to the mental institution after trying to escape with Mikkel[] |
✖ |
Regina being targeted by Katharina | ✖ | ✔ (In a field) | ✔ (In the school) |
Helge almost being killed | ✔ (Hit with a rock) | ✔ (In a car crash) | ✔ (Actually died in a car crash) |
Mentions[]
- Jana Nielsen compared Erik Obendorf's disappearance to Mads's disappearance in 1986 and said everything was repeating itself.
- Helge Doppler repeats the phrase "It's going to happen again" to himself.
- Martha experiences déjà vu in the forest. Jonas says if the world is a simulation, déjà vu is a glitch in the matrix and Martha says it could be a message from the other side.