Pitch Black

"If enough kids stop believing, wonder, hopes and dreams it all goes away. And little by little, so do they. No Christmas, or Easter or little fairies that come in the night. There will be nothing but fear, and darkness... and me. It's your turn not to be believed in."

- Pitch Black

Pitch Black is the embodiment of fear itself, able to control the surroundings in order to cast the world in darkness, as well as manipulate others based on their greatest fears. He fights a constant battle with the Guardians in effort to extinguish children's belief in them and therefore remove their power.

Physical appearance
Pitch is tall, lithe, and dark in appearance. He has silver-golden yellow eyes, dull pale-gray skin, and glossy black hair that is styled to come out as slick spikes from the back of his head. He wears a long black robe, obscuring his body like a shadow. Underneath the robe, he wears black pants and black shoes.

Personality
Pitch has always been jealous of the Guardians, who are believed in and praised by children all over the world. The fact that the world's children adore the Guardians and brush him off as 'just a bad dream' has left him bitter. After centuries of hiding under beds and listening to parents tell children he doesn't exist has further blackened Pitch's heart.

He had considerable power in the Dark Ages, as everyone believed in him and was terrified of the dark. But once the Guardians came along, Pitch's power decreased until nearly everyone stopped believing or fearing in the Boogeyman. This motivated him to reach his goal: to snuff out every believer the Guardians have until they get a taste of how it feels to be forsaken. He also wished to re-establish belief in the Boogeyman and reclaim some (if not all) of the power he had in the Dark Ages.

Pitch is cunning and manipulative, which he shows multiple times in the film. One example is when he lures Jack in his lair and tells him that the Guardians will never accept Jack as one of them. Because Pitch can tap into people's greatest fears, he uses this ability to his advantage. While he is not physically threatening, he uses more subtle and unnerving tactics to scare Guardians and children alike. Pitch also shows to be ruthless when he shoots Sandman with a harpoon from behind, apparently 'killing' him. A glimpse of his vulnerability is seen, however, when he asks Jack Frost to join him in his shadowy crusade, hoping that their shared sense of loneliness would win Jack to his side, and is genuinely hurt by Jack's refusal. He assumed that Jack would show sympathy for his position--both invisible outcasts and shunned by the world.

==Pitch's Story in "Guardians of Childhood" Before Pitch became the King of Nightmares, he was called General Kozmotis Pitcher and he led the Golden Age Armes, in a time called the Golden Age  where the Constellations ruled the galaxies, in capturing the Fearlings, Nightmare Men, Dream Pirates, Nightmares, and their ilk. After the evil had been rooted out, he valiantly volunteered to guard the lead prison planet containing the Fearlings and their ilk. For years, he was forced to listen to the prisoners strange mutterings and whisperings halfway driving him insane. His only desire was to see his lost daughter who he kept a photograph of to keep him watchful. One day, the prisoners sensed his longing and imitated her voice by saying, "Daddy, I'm trapped with these shadows and I scared. Help me Father, please!" Pitcher thought that his daughter, who was identified as Mother Nature or Emily Jane, was inside the dungeon cell. He opened the door thinking he would find his daughter, but instead was possessed by ten thousand Fearlings, transforming him into Pitch Black, The Nightmare King, the one called The Boogeyman. His mind now twisted with the Fearlings' thoughts of vengeance Pitch decided he would end the Golden Age and the Lunoff family by turning dreams into nightmares. Sailing on his Nightmare Galleon with his shadowy Fearlings, Nightmare Men, and Dream Pirates he would harpoon shooting stars (one of which was the Sandman's star), destroy planets, exstinguish Constellations, and destroy Golden worlds (some of which were the Easter Bunny, Bunnymund's earth and the Lunar Lamadary's sanctuary.) Some time later, Pitch learned of a child who never had a bad dream and set off to find the Lunoff prince and turn him into the Prince of Nightmares, only to be defeated by the princeling's guardian, Nightlight, and crashed his black pirate ship into the ground and sent Pitch and his Fearlings, Nightmare Men, and Dream Pirates into a dark cave that The Nightmare King was imprisoned in with Nightlight using his moonlit dagger pierced through his chest into his icy black heart. Centuries later, a brave yet foolish Moonbeam realized Nightlight and Pitch reawaking his Fearlings and Nightmare Men in the process. Then he went after the children of Ombric's village Santoff Clausen because they never had nightmares. Pitch and his Fearlings and Nightmare Men came into contact with Nicholas St. North, Ombric, and Katherine who defeated the Nightmare King in their first battle.

Weapons
As mentioned above, Pitch's nightmare sand is flexible and can be easily morphed into any weapon he needs. He does, however, seem to favor an enormous scythe and his dark arrows. His center being fear, he often uses the power of his words and his innate knowledge of people's greatest nightmares to provoke them or talk them into submission.

Role in the Crossover
With Pitch's immortal form, power and global-threatening intentions, Pitch is the main antagonist in the Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons crossover, if the AU happens to include conflict. The Big Four are usually chosen to battle against him and grapple with him both physically and mentally. Pitch often tries to corrupt Hiccup, Merida, and/or Rapunzel in order to crush Jack or get him on his side.



Mor'du
Pitch doesn't pay much attetion to Mor'du but because he is strong, Pitch needs him in battles. Pitch still counts him as an ally but he only notices him when he uses him.

Red Death
Pitch is the Red Death's rider. They have both taken to each other as both have extremely vicious natures. Pitch on occassion fuses his nightmare sand with the Red Death's firepower to create powerful weapon and extremely strong blasts.

Mother Gothel
With Gothel being the only other 'human' in the group, Pitch and Gothel do tend to plan on how to attack 'The Big Four'. They enjoy blackmailing the others with Rapunzel, preying on Hiccup's self doubts and trying to get Jack to join their side (although Pitch tries harder than Gothel). That aside, the two would hold little trust in each other, one expecting (or attempting) to backstab the other. Sometimes however, Pitch and Gothel can have a romantic relationship.

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
Pitch delights in preying on Hiccup's self-doubts and this usually comes in the form of threatening Merida (see Mericcup) or Toothless. Hiccup is shown as being more prone to mental attacks from Pitch, but will still valiantly stand against him, fighting Pitch's powers with Toothless' intelligence strength fire and speed.

Jack Frost
Pitch and Jack are actually very similar. If Jack had made different choices before becoming a Guardian, he could have very well ended up like Pitch. Pitch knows this, and he constantly tries to bargain and blackmail to get Jack on his side. Pitch sees Jack as one of the biggest threats along with Toothless(him being the most feared and powerful dragon), He will usually try and use his powers to control the other members of the Big Four in hopes that he can threaten Jack with them or convince him to join Pitch.

Merida DunBroch
Merida has an iron resolve, which is enormously helpful when she has to face Pitch. She uses her arrows against his own and defends her friends with a fierce passion that Pitch finds hard to overcome. Merida sometimes has difficulty standing against Mor'du, which is often a creation of Pitch in the crossover.

Rapunzel Corona
Pitch sees Rapunzel as a weak link in the Big Four that is easily broken. Since she has close relationships with the other characters (such as the ship Jackunzel), Pitch exploits these feelings and blackmails the others by threatening her or controlling her. There isn't much Rapunzel can do to protect herself from him, and she often ends up the victim of his attacks. However, in several instances, Rapunzel uses the power of her hair to heal those that have been hurt by him. Under all of his scheming and planning, Pitch may even hold a shadow of fear in Rapunzel and her magic, as its purity and light may restore the one thing he dreads most: his humanity.

Even though in some stories he views her as the enemy, there are some fans pairing them together called BlackGold.

Concept Art
(Concept Art sketched and submitted for original film is credited to Shane Prigmore)