# Black Knight

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 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 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