Darkle

Darkle Bosses
Appears in	Princess Peach: Showtime! (2024)
Leader	Grape
Members Disco Wing Light Fang Purrjector Cat Spotlion

Darkle is a power used by Grape in Princess Peach: Showtime! It is the antithesis to Stella's Sparkle. This power is also used by a group of Grape's minions called Darkle Bosses who work with Grape to rewrite the Sparkle Theater's plays into tragedies. Peach must defeat a Darkle Boss at the end of each floor to proceed to the next one. There are a total of four of them:

Image	Name	Floor
	Disco Wing	1F
	Light Fang	2F
	Purrjector Cat	3F
	Spotlion	4F

In the post-game, they can be re-fought by heading up to paintings that have appeared between the two upper stairs on the floors they were originally fought in. These re-fights are mandatory for 100% completion, as up to three Sparkle Gems per Darkle Boss is given for fulfilling specific criteria while beating the Darkle Bosses in re-fights.

Naming

"Darkle" is a portmanteau of "dark" and "sparkle".

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Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	ヤミラージュ Yamirāju	Portmanteau of「闇やみ」(yami, "darkness") and "mirage"		[?]
French	Étinsombre	Portmanteau of Étincelle ("sparkle") and sombre ("dark")		[?]
Italian	Scurore	Portmanteau of scuro ("dark") and splendore ("sparkle")		[?]
Spanish	Malgurio	From mal augurio ("bad omen")		[?]