History Main / BlackKnight

*** [[spoiler: Dimitri could count as one in the Blue Lions route after the 5 year time skip. He goes from an earnest, idealistic teenager to a bitter and [[RevengeBeforeReason vengeful]] BloodKnight. He speaks with a [[GutturalGrowler raspy snarl]] and will stop at nothing to rip Edelgard's head from her shoulders. The black armor he wears post-timeskip lends itself well to the Black Knight aesthetic]].

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'':

** Hakumen plays this trope almost completely straight, except without actually having black armor. He's mysterious, imposing, and one hell of a badass, to the point where most of the cast, who are pretty badass in their own right, do not want to mess with him.

* Ashram in ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'' is a rare case of a {{Bishonen}} Black Knight.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Godforsaken}}'': Blackguards are evil knights who serve dark entities or their own corrupt agendas and use high-quality equipment usually decorated with symbols depicting death, demons or evil gods.

* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts: "Knight for a Day", which stars Goofy, Goofy, and more Goofy, has the good Goofy jousting with a Black Knight named [[PunnyName Sir Cumfrence]].

** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'''s ''Dragonborn'' DLC adds the [[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Dragonborn:Ebony_Warrior Ebony Warrior]], a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Redguard]] donning a full set of enchanted ebony armor, who appears when you turn level 80 and challenges you to a duel in the middle of nowhere. The devs also gave him a lot of [[ContractualBossImmunity immunities to your abilities]], making him virtually uncheesable. He also has some of the [[MagicKnight most powerful spells]], the two most annoying [[MakeMeWannaShout Thu'um shouts]] in the game, and some really high skills to boot, making him just about the hardest OptionalBoss to fight in the game. The reward for beating him is his gear[[note]]If you've been putting perks into your enchanting and smithing skills, you could probably make better equipment[[/note]] and some rare and useful, but otherwise findable, items, making beating him pretty much a BraggingRightsAward.

** Points to the Dark Angel's Ravenwing company, not just for their jetblack armor, but for their elite members actually being called Black Knights.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' has a fight against a Black Knight figure (except with gold armor) in the Spirit Temple near the end of the game, as a personal servant to the BigBad of the dungeon, Twinrova. He is revealed upon defeat to be... [[spoiler:a girl -- and more specifically, Nabooru, who had been kidnapped by Twinrova]].
** Iron Knuckles in general almost fit the description, being TheDreaded among the enemies who are neither bosses nor sub-bosses (except for the aforementioned one, anyway). The only difference is that they don't wear black armor; a regular Iron Knuckle's armor is silvery.
** The Darknuts from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' probably count as well. They aren't important in the plot, but one does appear as a mini-boss in one dungeon, their difficulty makes them very imposing when you have to [[DegradedBoss fight multiple ones later on in the game]]. A confrontation with three at once even serves as the game's OptionalBoss. Ganondorf seems to be inspired by this trope in the same game, since he has similar armor and a similar sword to the Darknuts, although he is first and foremost an evil king rather than a knight.
** Darknuts in general games for that matter, although not all of them wore black armor. Similar figures can also be found in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' (the Mighty Darknuts sent to attack Link when Zelda got captured), and a single black Darknut (which is even named the Black Knight by its figurine) in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap''.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] [[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas with that]] ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' [[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries game]], although it's also part of this trope. ''For the pinball tables by Creator/SteveRitchie, [[Pinball/BlackKnight click here.]]'' Or the hit single by Music/DeepPurple (this one is called "Black ''Night''"). And not necessarily [[Franchise/{{Batman}} The]] ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Dark]]'' [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Knight]].

An enigmatic warrior, clad head to toe in armor black as night, [[TwentyFourHourArmor which he is never seen without]]. Usually ridiculously powerful, he is [[TheDreaded feared]] by all who know of him. Wielding a sword, speaking in a [[BadassBaritone low monotone]] or sinister growl, and looking totally badass while doing it, he is almost always a major antagonist. Commonly fills the role of TheDragon in fantasy stories. TheHero probably has a [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon score to settle with him]]. The mystery surrounding his true identity is often a main plot point. Given his armor, he can show up and fight in TheTourney without betraying it. Sometimes there's nothing but the [[AnimatedArmor suit of armor]]. Sometimes, [[SamusIsAGirl they're even a girl]].

* Literature/WraithKnight: Jacob Riverson and the other Wraith Knights were this by nature. They were all undead MagicKnight warriors who served as the King Below's generals. Jacob is a rare heroic version of this and a DarkIsNotEvil (theoretically) example. He is still a man in ice-covered black hooded armor, a being referred to as "Dark Lord", and a superhuman killing machine capable of taking on small armies.

* ''VideoGame/Dota2'': Although more dark-purple than completely black, Abaddon has this look going for him, complete with spells based around death. Appropriately, Abaddon was a Death Knight in the original ''VideoGame/Warcraft3'' map.

* In ''Webcomic/QuestofCamelittle'', the main villain is a Black Knight who calls himself "Big Bad." He's also served by four other Black Knights, named as the Sloth Knight, the Blast Knight, the Spike Knight, and the Assault Knight.

** The trope name is also the [[RedBaron epithet]] of Kagura Mutsuki. He doesn't actually wear armor of any kind and is one of the most unambiguously good characters. He does however dress primarily in black clothing and wields an extremely large blade as well being among the highest ranking officials in the series' resident government. And proving that AuthorityEqualsAsskicking, his fighting skills are also worth mentioning, so much that he can straight up beat the main character, noted to be a OneManArmy, without too much effort and hold his own against a BloodKnight known to the masses as a mass murder.

* ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'' has several as well. There's Saber of Black, the legendary [[spoiler:Siegfried]] who visibly embodies the trope in his all black armor that renders him totally invulnerable. In keeping with the DarkIsNotEvil elements of this trope, he is among the kindest members of his faction, and [[spoiler:sacrifices his life by transplanting his heart into the body of a dying, sentient, homonculus]]

* In ''LightNovel/FateZero'', Berserker, AKA [[spoiler:Lancelot, the Knight of the Lake]], epitomizes this trope; he is over 6 feet tall, clad with heavy black armor from head to toe, has a black BattleAura, and has two Noble Phantasms that firstly conceal his identity and Servant statistics from everyone, and secondly, allow him to wield ANY object that is conceptually a weapon, (from butter knives, to simple metal poles, to ''modern firearms'' and even '''F-15 Jet fighters''') as a weapon, with master-level proficiency, even if he has not actually even held that specific weapon before. If that is not enough for you, he also has a final, third Noble Phantasm which is [[spoiler:his fairy-made, [[UnholyHolySword no-longer-holy blood red sword]], Arondight (the sword of the lake)]], an anti-unit type weapon that is said to be the counterpart of the legendary anti-fortress sword Excalibur, increases all Berserker's attributes by one rank and has special dragon-slaying properties, with the only downside being that it seals both of the aforementioned Noble Phantasms while it's activated.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}'', the [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Black Knight]] is TheHero in disguise: He and the Demon Queen (disguised as a human scholar) are secretly playing both sides to find a peaceful political solution to the human-demon war.

* Ainz from ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}'' disguises himself as one when acting as an adventurer to learn about the world he was put into. An interesting example, in that he is acting as a typical "good" knight, but he is closer to gray morality-wise. He is also actually a mage rather than a knight, but Ainz is powerful enough that even faking being a knight, he is on the level of the highest-ranking adventurers, if not stronger.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'''s ''Dragonborn'' DLC adds the [[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Dragonborn:Ebony_Warrior Ebony Warrior]], a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Redguard]] donning a full set of enchanted ebony armor, who appears when you turn level 80 and challenges you to a duel in the middle of nowhere. The devs also gave him a lot of [[ContractualBossImmunity immunities to your abilities]], making him virtually uncheesable. He also has some of the [[MagicKnight most powerful spells]], the two most annoying [[MakeMeWannaShout Thu'um shouts]] in the game, and some really high skills to boot, making him just about the hardest BonusBoss to fight in the game. The reward for beating him is his gear[[note]]If you've been putting perks into your enchanting and smithing skills, you could probably make better equipment[[/note]] and some rare and useful, but otherwise findable, items, making beating him pretty much a BraggingRightsAward.

** The Darknuts from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' probably count as well. They aren't important in the plot, but one does appear as a mini-boss in one dungeon, their difficulty makes them very imposing when you have to [[DegradedBoss fight multiple ones later on in the game]]. A confrontation with three at once even serves as the game's BonusBoss. Ganondorf seems to be inspired by this trope in the same game, since he has similar armor and a similar sword to the Darknuts, although he is first and foremost an evil king rather than a knight.

** In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Genealogy of the Holy War]]'', the second generation of characters has Ares, the son of the first generation's legendary knight Eldigan. He sports black-ish armor, wields the demon blade Mystletainn, holds a grudge against [[TheHero Seliph]], and starts out as a mercenary serving the enemy (and [[HeelFaceTurn eventually defects]]). His lineage can be traced back to Hezul, one of the Twelve Crusaders and also a heroic Black Knight.

*** [[spoiler: Dimitri could count as one in the Blue Lions route after the 5 year time skip. He goes from an earnest, idealistic teenager to a bitter and [[RevengeBeforeReason vengeful]] BloodKnight. He speaks with a [[GutturalGrowler raspy snarl]] and will stop at nothing to rip Edelgard's head from her shoulders. The black armor he wears post-timeskip lends itself well to the Black Knight aesthetic. After he emerges from his DespairEventHorizon and regains much of his old personality, he promotes to a Great Lord, which replaces his all-black armor with an ensemble that is mostly white.]]

* Disney Comics have two Black Knights. One is the Phantom Blot, MickeyMouse's murderous, sometimes megalomaniac supervillain foe covered completely in an inky black cloak.

* This is one of the enemies in the "Knight of the Roses" table of ''VideoGame/LastGladiators''

** Boethiah, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of Plots (as well a litany of high crimes including Murder and Treason), takes this appearance throughout the series. When in [[GenderBender male or female form]], Boethiah's usual appearance is of a caped warrior wearing all black. He is depicted with a [[AnAxeToGrind massive battle axe]] in male form and a CoolSword in female form. It is theorized that this may be the corrupted appearance of the Aedric deity Trinimac (now the Daedric Prince Malacath) who Boethiah swallowed and temporarily assumed his form. Additionally, the Ebony Mail is an artifact associated with Boethiah and is a suit of black armor, turning its wearer into one of these (at least aesthetically). In ''Skyrim'', considering that the Ebony Mail's enchantments [[CastingAShadow shroud its wearer in shadows to assist in sneaking]] and that acquiring the Mail requires sacrificing one of your followers to Boethiah, it's very likely that any Dragonborn wearing it will be a dishonorable, mysterious, and malevolent Black Knight in spirit as well as looks.

* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': [[AntiVillain Darius]], [[RedBaron the Hand of Noxus]], fits the bill. Clad from neck to toe in black and grey armor, wielding a [[{{BFS}} giant]] [[AnAxeToGrind battle-axe]], the [[TheDragon right-hand general]] of [[EvilOverlord Grand General Swain]] is practically a walking example of the trope.