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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

• 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

• 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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