Black Knight - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

• Batman is often referred to as "The Dark Knight," because symbolically he is a modern-day version of a black knight. As an outcast he works anonymously for a greater purpose, and is known to go against authorities should his mission necessitate it.
• Marvel Comics has legacy characters all called Black Knight, who are descended from a Knight of the Round Table. The current one is Dane Whitman, a superhero who carries an enchanted sword, the Ebony Blade. He had served the Avengers at one point, among many other superhero teams.
• Snake Eyes, a character from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero created by Larry Hama is depicted as a tragic, modern, militarized and righteous black knight.
• The Black Knight
• Black Knight
• Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail
• Sega's Sonic Team transforms King Arthur into "The Black Knight" as a result of corruption from his immortality inducing scabbard of Excalibur given by the Lady of the Lake in the Arthurian influenced Sonic and the Black Knight.
• Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn feature a character named the Black Knight.
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail features a Black Knight who confronts King Arthur and, even having his four limbs severed, refuses to concede defeat.
• The Black Knight Ghost is a recurring villain in the Scooby Doo series.
• The Black Knight is an NPC in the MMORPG World of Warcraft he was introduced as part of the argent tournament in patch 3.2.
• The Kinshra, a fictional organisation in the MMORPG RuneScape, are nicknamed 'black knights' by commoners.
• The Black Knight (Berserker) in Fate/Zero is none other than Lancelot of the Lake.
• The Black Knights in Robin Hood, the 2006-2009 BBC series, are a secret organization formed by the Sheriff of Nottingham for the purpose of overthrowing King Richard.
• The MMORPG "AdventureQuest Worlds" features both an NPC and a boss called The Black Knight, the NPC being the lamenting ghost of the man who wore the armor, and the boss being the man's evil armor continuing its dark deeds.
  • Even before Artix Entertainment released AdventureQuest Worlds, in their original game AdventureQuest there were monsters called both Dark Knights and Black Knights, with the description featuring a play on words (Dark Knight/ dark night).
• The Black Knight has featured in the game White Knight Chronicles as an enemy's incorruptus (an incorruptus is a 7 metre tall armor-like robot), dragon and white knights are featured as playable incorrupti.
• Prince Gares the Black Knight, a character from the video game Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, son of the Empress Endora and a primary antagonist in the game, is a black knight capable of magically animating numerous "copies" of his signature black armor to attack the player throughout the game, thus making him appear immortal. If his real body is found, however, he can be slain permanently. Later games in the series featured a military group of the Holy Lodis Empire alternatively known as "The Dark Knights" and "The Brigade of the Radiant Cross of the Caliginous Order" (in Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together and Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber respectively) who serve as primary antagonists to the player, the word "caliginous" connotating "dark" in the latter case.
• Cecil Harvey from the Final Fantasy series is a black knight.
• The Black Knights in the video game Dark Souls are powerful recurring enemies scattered throughout the world of Lordran. The once-proud knights of Gwyn, the Lord of Sunlight, they traveled with him when he linked the Fire, and were burned alive. As a result, their suits of armor were charred by the hot ashes, but the kindled Flame reanimated them as well. The Black Knights splintered from the Silver Knights, who chose to stay in the forsaken city of the gods, Anor Londo, to serve their goddess.