Black Knight

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A black knight is a literary stock character.

Black Knight or Black Knights may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Comics

  • The Black Knight (comics), a 1998 Scrooge McDuck story
  • Black Knight (Marvel Comics), several Marvel Comics characters
  • Black Knight (manga), a 2003 yaoi manga by Kai Tsurugi
  • The Black Knights, a fictional resistance movement in the anime series Code Geass

Film

  • The Black Knight (film), a 1954 film starring Alan Ladd
  • Black Knight (film), a 2001 film starring Martin Lawrence
  • Black Knight (Monty Python), character in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Games

  • Black Knight (pinball), a pinball game by Williams Electronics
  • Black Knight 2000, the sequel to the original Black Knight pinball machine.
  • MechWarrior 4: Black Knight, an expansion pack of the computer game MechWarrior 4: Vengeance
  • The Black Knight, a major antagonist in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
  • Sonic and the Black Knight, a 2009 Wii game by Sonic Team
  • Black Knight, a major antagonist in the video game Shovel Knight

Literature

  • The Black Knight, a 1926 novel by Ethel M. Dell
  • The Black Knight, a 1976 novel by Flora Kidd
  • The Black Knights, a 1977 novel by Guy N. Smith, the first installment in The Truckers trilogy
  • The Black Knights, a 1983 novel by Charles Whiting, writing as Leo Kessler

Music

  • Black Knights (rap group), affiliated with The Wu-Tang Clan
  • The Black Knights (band), a Mersey Beat band
  • The Black Knight (Elgar), a symphony/cantata written by Edward Elgar in 1889–1893

Television

  • Black Knight: The Man Who Guards Me, a 2017 South Korean TV series
  • Black Knight (South Korean TV series), a 2023 South Korean TV series
  • Victor Newman, from the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, called the Black Knight

Military

  • 57th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, a USAF fighter squadron known as "The Black Knights of Keflavik"
  • VFA-154, a US Navy fighter squadron nicknamed "The Black Knights"
  • VMFA-314, a US Marine Corps fighter squadron nicknamed "The Black Knights"
  • VMM-264, a US Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron nicknamed "The Black Knights"
  • RSAF Black Knights, a precision aerobatics team of the Republic of Singapore Air Force
  • "The Black Knights", the display team of No. 54 Squadron RAF in the 1950s
  • 5th Cavalry Regiment, a United States Army unit referred to as "The Black Knights"

Nickname

  • Ralph de Ashton (fl. 1421–1486), an officer of state under Edward IV of England
  • Zawisza Czarny (1379–1428), Polish knight and diplomat
  • Gary Player (born 1935), South African professional golfer
  • Eduard Ritter von Schleich (1888–1947), Bavarian World War I flying ace and World War II Luftwaffe general
  • James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorn (c. 1383-after 1451), Scottish nobleman

Sports

Science and technology

  • Black Knight (rocket), part of the British rocketry program in the 1950s
  • Black Knight (vehicle), an unmanned ground vehicle designed by BAE Systems
  • TrES-2b, an exoplanet colloquially known as "Black Knight" due to its darkness
  • Camacinia othello, a species of dragonfly

Other uses

  • Black knight, a knight in chess
  • Black Knight, a magazine for Aboriginal Australians produced in Brisbane by Bill Rosser in 1975
  • Black Knight (Arthurian legend), any of several knights clad in black armor in Arthurian legend
  • Black Knight (company), an American technology company
  • Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory, a conspiracy theory about an alien satellite
  • Knight of Glin or Black Knight, an Irish hereditary knighthood
  • Vincent Black Knight, a British motorcycle made between 1954 and 1955 by Vincent Motorcycles

See also

  • Black Night (disambiguation)
  • Dark Knight (disambiguation)
  • White Knight (disambiguation)
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