Black Lightning (CW)
Real name: Jefferson Pierce
Full name: Jefferson Pierce
Aliases: Black Lightning
Alignment: Good
First appearance: Black Lightning Season 1: Episode 1
Occupation: Teacher, Vigilante
Base: Freeland
Relatives: Alvin Pierce (father, deceased), Lynn Stewart (ex-wife), Anissa Pierce (daughter), Jennifer Pierce (daughter)
Gender: Male
Race: Metahuman
Height: 6'4" • 193 cm
Weight: 192 lb • 86 kg
Eye color: Brown
Hair color: Black
Superpowers: Accelerated Healing, Agility, Audio Control, Durability, Electrokinesis, Endurance, Energy Absorption, Energy Blasts, Energy Manipulation, Flight, Force Fields, Marksmanship, Peak Human Condition, Reflexes, Stamina, Stealth
Stats: intelligence 80, strength 15, speed 35, durability 70, power 80, combat 90

History:
Jefferson Pierce is the superhero Black Lightning, the protector of the city of Freeland. In his civilian life, he is the principal of Garfield High School. Originally taking up the mantle to avenge the death of his father by ganglord, Tobias Whale, he retired from heroing after it ruined his family life. In his nine years of retirement, Whale and his gang, the 100, managed to expand their empire. After they threatened the safety of his school and daughters, Black Lightning returned to the streets.

Powers:
 Jefferson possesses the power to generate, create and project electricity from both his hands or his entire body.  Jeff can generate electricity from his body which he can manipulate and control. He is also able to manipulate the electricity around him; according to Lynn Stewart, Jeff can only take electricity from it's source, channeling it via his body, but he can't actually generate or create electricity. Whenever he utilizes or is about to utilize his electrical powers, Jeff's eyes glow bright blue. Originally lacking this power, Jeff later became able to generate electricity on his own. However, this can noticeably exhaust him. His electricity a bluish-gray color and his eyes glow the same color when he is using this power.  Jeff can charge himself with electricity from nearby electrical sources, essentially draining them, event without physically making contact with the source; instead, he is able to redirect the electricity toward him so he can absorb it. He can also absorb the electricity his daughter, Jennifer Pierce generates, which at one point completely energized him after he lost his powers or when he temporarily died.  Jeff can create blasts and bolts of electrical energy and project them at his opponents. He can also throw them large distances, cause injuries and even hold his opponents in the air with using his electricity.  Jeff can use his electrokinetic powers to create physical objects out of electric energy.  Jeff is capable of constructing a shield that can protect him and others from harm, an application of his powers that he has used to block hails of bullets on several occasions.  Jeff is capable of making orbs of electrical energy from as small as a basketball (an aspect of his power that he normally uses in combat as ammunition) to as large as a fully-grown adult (an aspect of his powers that he has recently developed which essentially imprison a target with electricity, preventing them from physically interacting with any person or object and blocking any active power usage, much like the anti-metahuman weapons used by the ASA).  Jeff can manifest his electrical energy in the shape of whips, allowing him to essentially lasso his targets, either to yank them closer to them or to more easily slam them against walls and/or ceilings. This can also be used to prevent someone from completing an attack by restraining them.  Jeff can use his electricity to act as a taser from his hands, thus knocking his opponents unconscious, as he did so with a man who was high on Green Light.  Using his electricity, Jefferson can manipulate the matter of objects with electricity or electromagnetism. He usually performs this feat by hurling or lifting his opponents into the air.  Jeff is completely immune against any electric weapons and attacks, as exhibited when he was tasered by police officers and the Sange. He can even redirect the electricity back to the source, as shown when he used the taser darts shot at him by police to send the electrical shock back at them instead.  After a suit upgrade, Jefferson is able to use his electricity to give him the ability to fly and propel himself in the air.  Jeff possess an accelerated healing factor, allowing him to heal from wounds much faster than a normal human. However, according to Lynn Stewart, he doesn't heal as fast as he used to when he was younger, but does still heal twice as fast a normal human.  Jeff possesses the ability to change his voice through the use of electricity. He vibrates his vocal cords with his own electricity, thus making his voice much deeper than usual.    Jeff is in top physical condition from his time as an Olympic athlete which he maintains by working out regularly. His own physical strength allowed him to hold his own against the physically stronger Tobias Whale and even knock him to the ground and against some school lockers.  Jeff is skilled in acrobatics, using acrobatics to escape pursuit in his vigilante activities as Black Lightning.  Jeff is an extremely skilled close-range combatant and martial artist, able to compete against numerous opponents at one time. Jeff can also compete against his daughter Anissa Pierce, and managed to defeat her despite her own superpowers. He also managed to defeat the physical stronger Tobias in hand-to-hand combat with the latter wearing lightning resistant material during the fight.  Jeff possesses impressive marksmanship skills, as he is able to easily fire electricity at several members of the 100 with ease.  Jeff possesses impressive stealth skills, as he was able to sneak away from inspector Bill Henderson with him noticing or hearing him. He was also able to stealthily sneak away from Anissa during a sparring match, and then sneak up on her. He was able to sneak away from Two-Bits without the latter hearing or noticing him.  Being a teacher at Garfield High School, Jefferson has some level of teaching abilities.  Along with his native English, Jefferson can also speak some Spanish.