Julie Hastings the prized elephant. When Julie refuses the prize, he remarks, furiously, "Take the fucking elephant!" When a cat hisses at him, he is enraged and argues with the cat, and accuses it of thinking he is a "freak of nature". Despite his temper and preference for violence, Darkman also has a morbid sense of humor in sticky situations. For example, Darkman breaks into a business meeting while attached to Durant's chopper. He remarks to the businessman, "Excuse me!" before being pulled off again, and when Strack begs for mercy, stating murder will haunt his conscience. Darkman, after only some hesitation, drops him to his death and remarks, "I'm learning to live with a lot of things". Appearances Films Darkman This film documents Darkman's origins and his relationship with Julie, and systematically showing his transformation into a vengeful criminal killer and his first battle with Durant and the businessman Strack. Darkman II: The Return of Durant Durant survives his ordeal from the first film and plans to take over the city using futuristic weaponry. Only Darkman can stop his archenemy and avenge one of Durant's latest victims. Darkman III: Die Darkman Die Drug lord Peter Rooker allies with a scientist who also worked on Darkman's superhuman strength and invulnerability. He invents a steroid that gives test subjects superhuman strength, but leaves them mentally unstable. Darkman then poses as Rooker to foil his plan, but ends up having to save the villain's family. Novels At the time of the first film’s release Jove Books published a novelisation written by Randall Boyll. In 1994 Boyll wrote four new novels (The Hangman, The Price of Fear, The Gods of Hell, and In the Face of Death) which continue Darkman's story and expands his character and background. Comics At the time of the film’s release in 1990 Marvel Comics published a three issue comic book adaption. In 1993 Marvel also published a six issue miniseries about the character. In 2006 Dynamite Entertainment published a crossover comic where Darkman teams up with another Sam Raimi creation Ash Williams. Unaired television pilot The character also appears in an unaired TV pilot played by Christopher Bowen, with a similar origin to the movie version with some alterations. In this version while Robert G. Durant (Larry Drake reprising his role) retains his role in causing the explosion that turned Peyton into Darkman, Julie is also killed in