The Battery

The Battery is a well known hero from Darkseed, despite never being displayed on screen, Mike Dawson makes several references to it in his dialog.

First Appearence
The Battery first appears in Mike's Garage in Darkseed 1. It is alluded to when Mike yells "The Battery still works" when honking the horn. Many critiques of the game focus on this superb piece of writing with one commentor stating:

"Mike's introduction of The Battery indicates a deeper meaning. He is remembering his mother. The chemical reactions occuring inside The Battery remind him of Mrs. Dawson's cooking pot, and the steam rising from it. Furthermore, the loud honk reminds him of his mother's constant complaints. Perhaps, this is the true source of his headaches, not his weird alien brain thing."

No matter what the true meaning, we can all agree this is an excellent line.

Theme
The Battery has a great theme, known to fans as BGM05. Some mistakenly know this as the "Shop Theme", but they are wrong. It is clearly the theme of the game's true hero.

Fate
No one really knows the true fate of The Battery, we can only speculate. When Mike goes totally mad after a trip to the Dark World to meet the equally great character, Shovel, he fills the car in the Garage with Scotch, for some reason this makes the car start. Naturally, this makes a spaceship in the dark world able to fly when Mike presses some random button. This suggests that the car also flew away, but this has not been confirmed despite many emails to the developers. Fans often argue about what end The Battery met, some say it is a happy one, others think The Battery made the ultimate sacrifice. Whatever happened, at least we can take comfort in the fact that the lawn doesn't need mowing.