Editing Darkmess Manta

{{character infobox
|image=[[File:Darkmess_Manta.png|250px]]<br>The Darkmess Manta flying above [[Peach's Castle]]
|first_appearance=''[[Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope]]'' ([[List of games by date#2022|2022]])
|species=[[Manta]]<br>[[Darkmess]]
}}
The '''Darkmess Manta'''<ref>'''Probes and Memeories Memory:''' ''With the sudden arrival and then disappearance of the '''Darkmess Manta''' - who took with it Mario, Beep-0, and Rabbid Peach - I gathered the remaining Heroes and executed a rescue mission, for which I have yet to hear Beep-0 say thank you.''</ref> (also referred to as the '''Manta''') is a giant, flying [[manta]] made of [[Darkmess]] that appears in ''[[Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope]]''. It is only seen in the [[An "Overall" Nice Day|prologue]], and it covers planets in Darkmess. The Darkmess Manta is mostly blue, black, and pink in color, with a white face and claw like mouth, along with a feathered body and yellow eyes. It also serves as a [[unrevisitable area|one-time]] place for tutorial battles.

According to one of the game's concept artists, Giacomo Boni, the Darkmess Manta was created from [[Cursa]]'s cloak.<ref>{{cite|quote=The second part of the Prologue sequence, taking place on the back of a giant space Manta, born from Cursa's cloak.|author=Boni, G. "reptilestrack"|date=December 14, 2022|url=www.artstation.com/artwork/4XJqB2|title=Mario+Rabbids Sparks of Hope - Darkmess Manta|publisher=ArtStation|accessdate=March 10, 2023}}</ref>

==History==
===''Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope''===
After [[Mario]] and [[Rabbid Peach]] find [[Rabbid Mario]]'s overalls at [[Peach's Castle]], some [[Spark (Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope)|Sparks]] fall down from the sky, and hide behind Mario and his friends. They are fleeing from the Darkmess Manta, which arrives shortly after the Sparks do. It covers up the castle and surroundings in Darkmess, and abducts Rabbid Peach, leading to Mario and [[Beep-0]] to save her. They land on top of the Darkmess Manta, and are transported to [[Darkmess Dimension|another dimension]] from a portal, where they then land on the Darkmess Manta's tail. Mario and Beep-0 then battle some [[Stooge]]s. They rescue Rabbid Peach, who fights alongside them, even destroying the [[Darkmess Eye|weak points]] on the Darkmess Manta, causing it to temporarily collapse, and launching the heros down to a large rock platform below. A Spark named [[Starburst]] also helps and fixes the heroes' weapons.

The three eventually jump down from the platform back on the Darkmess Manta, and [[Cursa]] appears in front of it. Starburst then tells Mario that Cursa is very evil, and that they barely escaped from it. Cursa hypnotizes [[Goomba]]s to fight the heroes, but Mario and Rabbid Peach stop them. Cursa then gets angry, but [[Luigi]], Rabbid Mario, [[Princess Peach]], and [[Rabbid Luigi]] arrive with the [[WM ARC]] Spaceship and rescue Mario, Rabbid Peach, and Beep-0 and escape Cursa.

After everyone escapes from Cursa, it is unknown what happened to the Darkmess Manta, and Peach's Castle [[unrevisitable area|cannot be returned]] to until the ending. Curiously, all tutorial battles fought share the same location icon as Peach's Castle.

==Main Quest==
*[[An "Overall" Nice Day]]
**[[From Cover to Cover]]
**[[Tough Egg to Crack]]
**[[Shot in the Darkmess]]
**[[Headlong into the Unknown]]

==[[Spark (Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope)|Sparks]] encountered==
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!width=10%"|Spark
!How to obtain
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|[[File:Starburst icon MRSOH.png|70px]]<br>[[Starburst]]
|Automatically joins the Heroes at the beginning of the [[Headlong into the Unknown]] battle 
|}

==Enemies==
*[[Stooge]]s
*[[Goomba]]s

==Gallery==
<gallery>
M+RSOH-PrologueIcon.png|Prologue icon used for the Darkmess Manta battles
MRSOH Cursa team artwork.jpg|Artwork of Cursa and her minions against [[Mario]]'s team (with logo)
MRSOH Cursa team artwork no logo.jpg|Artwork of Cursa and her minions against Mario's team (without logo)
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Ita=Manta dell'Oscutiferio
|ItaM=Darkmess' Manta
|PorA=Arraia de Malumbra
|PorAM=Darkmess' manta ray
|Rus=Манта Темени
|RusR=Matna Temeni
|RusM=Darkmess' Manta
}}

==References==
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[[Category:Rays]]
[[Category:Platforms]]
[[Category:Darkmess]]
[[Category:Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope locations]]
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