Black Knight

A black knight is a literary stock character.

Black Knight or Black Knights may also refer to:

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