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Martha Nielsen, better known as Eva, is the secondary antagonist of the German 2017 Netflix-series Dark. She is the future self of the deuteragonist Martha Nielsen, who wants to preserve the so-called time knot, which is a time-loop that has caused many problems and misery for people. While she isn't actually evil, Eva believes that maintaining the loop is the only way she can save her loved ones, and takes extreme measures to do so.

She was played by Barbara Nusse.

Biography[]

Born as Martha Nielsen to Ulrich and Katharina, her life suddenly changed when Jonas Kahnwald (the one rescued by her future self) came to her on November 4, 2019. After witnessing Mads's body in the bunker, Martha gets entangled in the war for the time-knot.

Jonas takes her to 2052, where she meets her adult self, who enlists her to stop the Apocalypse. On the way to the power plant, Jonas suddenly abandons the plan and goes off to confront Eva. She tells him that Jonas's work is done (siring The Unknown), and gets her younger self to shoot Jonas.

Sometime after the Apocalypse in her world takes place and she gives birth to the Unknown, Martha eventually begins to work with her future selves (in contrast to Jonas/Adam whose selves are at odds with each other). She time-travels through her universe and recruits her friend Bartosz Tiedemann, his great-grandfather Egon and grandmother Claudia Tiedemann, Bartosz's son Hanno (Noah) to establish her group, Erit Lux, to preserve the knot above all.

Eva also recruits Claudia from Adam's World and convinces her to betray Jonas, as he will advocate to destroy the loop. Claudia will later turn on Eva after knowing she doesn't know how to truly defy the time loops, only making small changes for her own benefit.

Eva later orders the murders of Bernd Doppler, Gustav Tannhaus and the Power Plant's secretary Jasmin Trewen to create the wormhole in Adam's World and to maintain the secrecy of time travel, for which she uses her son, The Unknown. She makes him steal the power plant's papers, which is later used to cause the Incident in both worlds, causing the time-rift connecting 1953, 1986 and 2019 in Adam's World and 1986, 2019 and 2052 in her world.

In one of the time loops, Eva manipulates Adam into killing her by getting in between her younger self and her unborn son, The Unknown, who they both believe to be the origin of both their worlds. The younger Martha eventually witnesses her murder, and becomes a manipulator of perpetuating the time loops to spite Adam.

Trivia[]

  • Due to her being behind the Incident in Adam's World, she can be considered the Greater-Scope Villain of Season 1, due to the disappearances of Mads, Mikkel, Yasin and Erik and later those of Ulrich and Helge being connected to the wormhole in the Caves.

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