She is also manipulative and sadistic, using people's emotions against them and reveling in other people's misfortunes, though she is not quite as evil, as her father Damien remains very important to her. Though occasionally taking smug, sadistic pleasure in other people's misfortunes, Nora does not quite take her cruel sense of humor as far as her father; after discovering that Martin Stein was trapped in Jefferson Jackson's body, he fell into an uncontrollable laughter, but she was unaffected and seemed to have no humor about it, instead calmly asking him if he needed a moment before they chased after their enemies. Upon becoming a permanent vessel for Mallus, Nora's character took a turn for the worse the stronger he became inside her, with her becoming even more violent, sadistic, and conceited than before, to the point that her father, fearing for her safety and at last admitting to missing his daughter as she'd been before Mallus and working with the Legends to try and exorcise Mallus from her.
Publication Information
- Arrow : Nora Darhk
- Version : Arrow Series
- Multiverse : Earth One
- Known As :
- Emily
- Eleanor
- Type :
- Relative :
- Damien Darhk : Father
- Ruvé Adams : Mother
- Affiliation : Mallus
- Gender : Female
- Origin : Earth One
- Season : Arrow
- First Appeareance : Arrow Season 4 Episod 4 : Beyond Redemption (Mentioned)
- Last Appeareance :
- Number of Appeareance :
- Potrayer :
- Main View : Full Episod
Once separated from Mallus, Nora returned to her typical personality, now bitter from the second death of her father and the prospect of being a prisoner of the Time Bureau. However, she's shown to have some form of appreciation towards Ray for continuously going out of his way to show her kindness and saving her and proclaiming that she can be an ultimately good person from what he saw in her when they weren't being watched over her father.
Possessed by Mallus
After Damien was killed, Nora was placed into child services under the alias "Emily." With her name taken from her and both of her parents dead, she became lonely and afraid which drove her to become a target to the mysterious demon known as Mallus. During this time John Constantine, unaware of the identity of both Nora and the demon, attempted to rid her of Mallus. He was unsuccessful, and she was admitted to the Sumner Asylum at Star City on September 23, 2017. When Constantine went to the asylum to try to exorcise Mallus, the demon-possessed Nora, telling him that he would take both her and also Sara Lance, before the exorcism was interrupted by the asylum staff.
Serving Mallus
As Mallus needed a Blood Moon to resurrect her father, Nora went into the past to recover his body immediately after it had been buried. However, due to the Legends' blunder in Aruba, anachronisms were popping up all over time and Damien's corpse ended up in 1895 London. Traveling into the past, Nora went by the name Madame Eleanor, a medium capable of communicating with the deceased.
Stranded in 1960s East Germany with Ray Palmer
After learning of a long-dead scientist in communist East Berlin in 1962 who's could help fix the shattered Fire Totem. Nora volunteers for the mission saying she's the best choice of not risking any paradoxes due to her father's younger version being there. She takes Ray since he speaks "Geek" and together they go to the past.Younger Darhk tried to kill Vogal, but Ray Palmer and Nora Darhk rescued him and escaped. The following day, Darhk tried to kill Vogal again as the group tried to get in West Berlin but failed.
Conversing with Sara in Mallus' dimension
After The Death Totem corrupts Sara Lance her spirit is trapped in the spirit realm where Nora shows up. She gives Sara a brief history on the totem and reveals it's the one that works in Mallus's favor which why it was erased from the history of the totems. She tries to convince Sara that life not full of regret and guilt would be the path best chosen for her and shows her an old mission from which she carried out from underneath the League of Assassins orders in which the victim's daughter stumbled upon her dying father.
Freeing Mallus from his prison
Eventually, Kuasa began having second thoughts about helping the Darhks to free Mallus and double-crossed them by handing Nate over them in exchange of the Anansi Totem and secretly returning it to Amaya. Later, after she caught her father just pretending to torture Nate while actually confessing to him his displeasure about Mallus taking over her daughter's body, Nora went furious and started to draining Nate's life force by herself; however before she could kill him, she was stopped by Wally, Amaya and Kuasa so, after easily defeat them all, in retaliation for what her former ally did, Nora used her magic to extract the Water Totem's powers from Kuasa's body, killing her in the process and forcing the Legends to flee.
Saved and arrested
Later, Ray comes up with a plan to stop Mallus from completely taking over Nora's body. Desperate to save his daughter, Damien Darhk goes along with it, the duo time jump back to right before Mallus broke free in 1992's Zambesi Village, where Damien shoots Nora with Ray's anti-magic gun. Not to be defeated so easily, Mallus proceed to take over Damien's body, while Ray brought Nora back on the Waverider, curing her from the side-effects of the gun and comforting her for her loss.
Abilities
- Dark magic : After merging with the soul of Mallus, Nora became able to assess much of its powers, some of which are similar to those used by her father, Damien Darhk. After Mallus left Nora's body, she was shown to retain some of the inherit powers gifted by Mallus.
- Life-Force Absorption : Nora can siphon the life-force from people and kill them through physical contact.
- Mediumship : Nora is able to communicate with Mallus and speak for him. She is also able to see into the true nature of people, as she quickly determined that Martin Stein and Jefferson Jackson had switched bodies.
- Telekinesis : Nora can move and otherwise exert force objects and people with her mind. This notably allowed her to could stop and launch multiple projectiles or to crush objects, such as flames, without physically touching them.
- Thermokinesis : While channeling the powers of Mallus, Nora is able to control flames of the Heat Gun and cryoblasts of Cold Gun.
- Photokinesis : While channeling the powers of Mallus, Nora is able to control light blasts of the A.T.O.M. Exosuit.
- Electrokinesis : While channeling the power of Mallus, Nora is about to control electricity such as absorbing and redirecting Wally’s lightning.
- Energy Projection : While channeling the powers of Mallus, Nora is able to project a powerful dark energy, purple in color, and is concussive in nature.
- Air Totem : Nora's temporary powers came from the Air Totem, a totem that channels and harnesses the power of the air.
- Aerokinesis : The Air Totem granted Nora with the power to manipulate the air, bending it in whichever way she wanted.
- Anansi Totem : After Damien Darhk stole the Anansi Totem from Amaya Jiwe, he gave it to his daughter. However, Nora learned from Kuasa that she could only tap into the Totem's power when she had a selfless reason for doing so.
- Superhuman strength : Through the spirit of the gorilla, Nora becomes incredibly strong, able to drag Ray Palmer to the ground with a single hand even while attempting to fly away in his A.T.O.M. Exosuit
- Flight : Through the spirit of the hawk, Nora is able to seamlessly flight in the air.
- Skilled hand-to-hand combatant / Martial artist : Presumably, due to her father being Damien Darhk, Nora might have received training from her father to protect herself and to fight others.
- Skilled interrogator / Torturer : Nora is a skilled torturer and seems to used to take pleasure out of torturing others until Ray convinced her that 'torture is not the answer.
- Master of deception : Nora is an exceptional liar, and got great improvisation skills.
- Bilingual : Nora is capable of fluently speaking English and German.
- Anti-magic gun : When Nora attempted to kill Amaya, Ray shot Nora with a special nanite pistol he'd built to counteract Mallus' magic, which may have cost Nora her life if not for a cure Ray gave her afterward.
- Light magic : Much like her father, Nora's powers come from Dark magic so it is very likely that if one person can focus their natural life energy into positive sources of strength.
- Aberrations / Anachronisms : The more aberrations and anachronisms that are being made, the more likely that Mallus takes more control of Nora's body.
- Time stone : Nora used a mystical stone that allows her the powers of teleportation and time travel. It was destroyed by a gun by the 1962 version of Damien Darhk.
- Air Totem : After tricking Zari into giving her totem to her, she used the necklace to manipulate the air. Zari managed to get it back during the fight that followed.
- Anansi Totem : After her father stole it from Amaya Jiwe, Nora acquired the Anansi Totem to summon the spirit of any animal, but she could only summon the powers of the totem when she when she had selfless reasons to use it.
- Water Totem : After the betrayal of Kuasa, Nora used her magic to draw the Water Totem out of Kuasa, causing it to reform. It was later stolen by her father to give to the Legends.
