It consists of a long-sleeved jumpsuit, stopping at the wearer's knees. It has white shoulder pads, going down in an X-shaped pattern in blue and black stripes. Its boots are white, with a dark gray toe cap, and its gloves are white.
Its away version is similar to the home version, switching the blue stripes with white stripes.
It consists of a long-sleeved jumpsuit. It has black shoulder pads, going down in an X-shaped pattern in gray and yellow stripes. Its boots are yellow, with a black toe cap, and its gloves are black and yellow.
Its away version has white shoulder pads, going down in an X-shaped pattern in white and red stripes. Its gloves are yellow and red.
In the Inazuma Eleven anime, they appear before Raimon from the mist surrounding the school's field.
In the anime and Inazuma Eleven Strikers games, each member has a purplish coloration to their sclera.
Some of its members have their numbers switched around across media.
Shishido wears the number 3 in the games while he wears the number 8 in the anime.
Max wears the number 8 in the games while he wears the number 9 in the anime.
Shadow wears the number 9 in the games while he wears the number 3 in the anime.
As shown in concept artwork, Tamagorou and Ootani were originally planned to be members of the team, but were replaced by Takeshi and Nishigaki.
Interestingly, in the game, both of them are featured on Dummy Emperors, an iteration of Dark Emperors not being under the influence of the Aliea Meteorite.
Its game formation, F-D Emperor, is identical to Raimon's formation, F-Basic.
In both the main line games and in the anime, despite Kazemaru being the captain, he does not wear the captain's armband.
The only instances of it being shown are in the Inazuma Eleven Strikers series.
In the Inazuma Eleven Strikers game, unlike most playable teams, Dark Emperors misorders Shadow and Max as every other team orders by default position, treating as if Shadow was listed as a and Max listed as a .
This was rectified on the following games, but is present in the European localizations of the game.