Black Knight
Appearance
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A black knight is a literary stock character.
Black Knight or Black Knights may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Comics
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Black Knight (horse) (1979–2002), Australian Thoroughbred racehorse
- Army Black Knights, the nickname of the sporting teams of the United States Military Academy
- Black Knights, the sports teams and (singular) mascot at:
- Baltimore City College, Baltimore, Maryland, US
- Charlottesville High School, Charlottesville, Virginia, US
- Vegas Golden Knights, a team which considered the name Las Vegas Black Knights
Science and technology
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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