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Dark Passenger 

The Dark Passenger is a concept that represents the demon inside that makes us do terrible things.

“I just know there's something dark in me. I hide it. I certainly don't talk about it. But it's there. Always. This ‘Dark Passenger.’ And when he's driving, I feel...alive. Half sick with the thrill of complete wrongness. I don't fight him. I don't want to.” Dexter

Psychiatrist Carl Jung describes those aspects of the personality that we choose to reject and repress as the Shadow. He saw the psyche as something that could be divided into component parts which function like secondary selves that contribute to the whole. “No one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.”

Have you ever said or done something really shitty, mostly on an impulse, that you later regretted? In this moment the lack of control you had betrays the existence of a different person lurking beneath.

The Dark Passenger can also refer to an addiction, such as for a drug, and other distinctive dark desires. If you give in, you're no longer driving behind your own actions, and your darker self does whatever it wants until you're left with only wreckage and aftermath.

See also: feeding the alligators
“The Dark Passenger has been with me ever since I can remember, pulling the strings, running the show, but as it turns out, I'm no puppet.”
Dark Passenger by Darkpool February 3, 2020

Dark Passenger 

A state of being referred to when you display latent toxic traits toward your significant other while intoxicated on a hit reality tv show.
Stassi had to Beau apologise for going Dark Passenger and shouting at him at their friends birthday party
Dark Passenger by Scandoval April 25, 2023

Dark Passenger 

Urge/force pushing one (psychological) to feel the need to kill others.
As in The Venture Bros Red Death “I need to feed my dark passenger...”
Dark Passenger by Lepaul4 September 24, 2018

Dark Passenger 

A big poop that you have to dump immediately.
Aw man, this dark passenger is gonna make me poop my pants!

Dark Passenger 

When you take a poop in someone's car that they can't find, so they end up driving around with the hidden turd
Ugh, your car smells! You must have a dark passenger somewhere in here!
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