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. Followed Black Knight 2000 and Black Knight: Sword of Rage
 - MechWarrior 4: Black Knight, an expansion pack of the video game MechWarrior 4: Vengeance
 - The Black Knight, a major antagonist in the video games Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
 - Sonic and the Black Knight, a video game
 - Black Knight, a major antagonist in the video game Shovel Knight
 
Literature
- The Black Knight, a 1920 novel by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick and Crosbie Garstin
 - 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 the Black (1379–1428), Polish knight and diplomat
 - Hans von Trotha (c. 1450–1503), German knight and marshal excommunicated by Pope Innocent VIII; after his death, local folklore as a nefarious "Black Knight" and restless spirit
 - Gary Player (born 1935), South African 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