Black Bomber

**Black Bomberman** (also shortened **Black Bomber**) is a major character in the Bomberman series. A member of the Bombermen, who are usually inhabitants of Planet Bomber, he has the ability to generate bombs. He was the leader of his own gang of Bombermen, leading Red, Blue, Green and Yellow Bombers. He proclaims himself to be White Bomberman's best friend and most cunning rival.

## Appearance

Black Bomberman is a robotic life-form with flat computer screen-like face that have eyes within a circular helmet. He possesses a roundish body, long limbs and usually pink balled hands and feet. His suit is black, and has a belt with a yellow star.

As Shadow Flash, he appears to be a ninja-themed bomberman.

As Raven Flash, he ???

As Break Bomber, his appearance runs the same but with the addition of a gray motorcycle helmet hiding his entire face and a red scarf

When he is on a literature club, he wears

## Personality

He is usually portrayed with a gung-ho personality, rather serious in battle (although he likes to make fun of his opponents). He is a little more forceful, mildly frustrated at living in White's shadow, because he is unable to catch up with White Bomber's level of skill. He has a cool and collected personality in the later games, such as in *Super Bomberman R* where he's more of a narcissist. (although he loses his cool around women, though it did get better after Pretty Bomber and the other Dastardly Bombers reformed at the end of the 6th world. In addition, in the 7th world (Planet Bomber), he said to Pink Bomber that she doesn't need to get a pet Ballom, and instead, he raises his arms and said sympathetically that "all she needs is her brother's love", showing that Black cares for Pink because he is her older brother.) The instruction manual for *Bomberman Land Wii* states that he is surprisingly good at foreign languages.

In Amanda Johnson's Adventures Series/Chronoles, his personality runs the same but with the addition of the personality based on Lego Batman

## TV Tropes

### In Canon

* '50s Hair: In Super Bomberman R, he is often drawn with the front corner of his helmet curled upwards, resembling slicked-back hair as befitting his wannabe cool guy nature. See the image to the right to get what we mean.
* Aloof Big Brother: In Super Bomberman R, at least outwardly.
* Badass Cape: In the first two anime series.
* Big Bad: Of II, where he frames White Bomberman for a robbery he committed; 1990, where he kidnaps Lisa Matsumori; and of '93. where he shuts down the pan-galactic bureau mother computer by stealing the seven chips and scattering them across the Magellan solar system.
* Brother–Sister Incest: Despite his bio stating that he doesn't like girls, he gets very visibly flustered when Karaoke Bomber flirts with him. Unknown to him, she's secretly his sister, Pretty Bomber. To their credit, he didn't recognize her at the time, and Pretty seemed to undergo Identity Amnesia of her family.
* Cannot Talk to Women: In Super Bomberman R. While he's said to dislike girls, in truth, he's extremely shy around them.
* Dark Is Evil: He's colored black, has "Black" in his name, and is a villain. Inverted after his Heel–Face Turn, though.
* Dark Is Not Evil: Except that he originally was. He got better by the time the Super Bomberman games rolled out.
* Dub Name Change: Star Bomber in Bomberman Hardball, and Cool Black in the English Bomberman Land localizations.
* Eviler Than Thou: Kinda. He's a villain himself and in Super Bomberman he's defeated by a Mecha Bomber from Dr. Mook and Carat Diamond (the game's primary villains). However, he loses the evil part soon afterwards.
* Ex-Big Bad: He starts off as the primary antagonist of Bomberman (TG-16), Bomberman II, and Bomberman' 93. From Super Bomberman onwards, however, he's one of the heroes.
* Final Boss: He's the final obstacle you face in Bomberman (TG-16) and Bomberman '93.
* Glowing Eyes of Doom: Gained these in the remotely obscure Hi-Ten Chara Bom.
* Grew Beyond Their Programming: It's stated the reason he was evil was due to a programming error by Dr. Mitsumori.
* Heel–Face Turn: Black was once White's main adversary in the TurboGrafx-16 games (excluding '94) and II. Then after getting defeated by a Mecha Bomber in Super, White comes to his aid and they become friends.
* In-Series Nickname: Kuro Bom (Black Bomb) in Japanese.
* The Lancer: Becomes the most recurring ally to White after his Heel–Face Turn.
* Narcissist: His personality in Super Bomberman R.
* The Pawns Go First: He waits for White Bomberman to defeat his minions before he starts attacking him in Bomberman (TG-16).
* Psycho Pink: A male example before his Heel–Face Turn; he has some pink (though it's less noticeable in Bomberman II) and is the Final Boss of Bomberman (TG-16) and Bomberman '93.
* Redemption Demotion: Once he defected to White's side, Black lost the magic and tech he had used during the final battles of TG-16 Bomberman and '93.
* Scarf of Asskicking: In Bomberman Kart, Bomberman Generation, Bomberman Battles / Hardball, Bomberman Land 3, and Bomberman Land Portable.
* The Slacker: According to the Super Bomberman R website, he tries to come across as the cool pragmatist, but in reality just wants an excuse to slack off.
* Something About a Rose: His victory pose in Super Bomberman R.
* Surfer Dude: Black tends to say "dude" a lot in the Land localizations.
* Teleport Spam: Starts doing this after the four bombers are defeated in the TurboGrafx-16 Bomberman.
* Villains Want Mercy: During the endings of Bomberman (TG-16) and Bomberman II, he begs White Bomberman for mercy.
* Wouldn't Hit a Girl: States this when approached by Karaoke Bomber in Super Bomberman R. He regains his composure after Pink Bomber chimes in.

### In Starable’s Projects

* Badass Biker: Known to be an expert of riding motorcycles ever since the past when he was a rival to White Bomber.
* Brainwashed and Crazy: In Five Nights at Miraculous 3’s Prologue where, he is brainwashed by Black Wing/Spade Bat after being killed
* Cruel and Unusual Death: His execution in Bloodshed Chaos involved *raped to death* by fake women.
* Eyebrow Waggle: When Natsuki tells all to shut up and not call her cute, Black, Red, Plasma, White, Phantom, and Pretty hilariously waggle their eyebrows (for Black, Red, and White, they seemingly blush as they continue to waggle their eyebrows) (Natsuki: ""/Black: "What? I thought it would be funny. Touche, yes?")
* Irony: In the Miraculous Harmonronpa Series, Shadow Flash's title is Ultimate Gentleman, but his appearance is actually a ninja.
* Knife Nut: Uses a kunai as his primary weapon of choice
* Ninja: Yes, he's known to be one
* Precision F-Strike: In Five Nights at Miraculous 3 where he reacted to Fluffy’s dead body shown by Spade Bat: *"You sick son of a bitch! You killed her?!"*
* Throwing Your Sword Always Works: As Yamato Bomb-astic, his main method of attack is chucking his spearhead at enemies

### In Amanda’s Projects

* Adaptational Backstory Change:
* Adaptational Nationality: Originated in Japan
* Adaptational Villainy: Blake Black (his Saben self) ???
* Affably Evil:
* Cool Mask: His saban self wears a gray ninja mask
* Foil: Blake Black (His saban self) is to Reala from NiGHTS.
* Heel-Face Turn: Was once Wallace's rival until he redeems
* Lightning Bruiser: His saban self is faster than original self
* Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: His line when he's about to turn into a witch, to everyone's horror: *"**I. WARNED. YOU. TO STAY AWAY!!!!**"*
* Would Hit a Girl: In The Roommate Troubles (THAC), to Chickadee, Po and Master Pain (NexaVerse) just because the fact they were stealing some of his stuff.

## Nicknames

* Kuro Bom
* Shadow Flash (Akumatized Name)
* Raven Flash (Miraculous Hero Name/When using the Raven Miraculous)
* Ninja Conniving (Tenshified Name)
* Yamato Bomb-astic (White Z-Ray Name)
* Shade Chameleon (When using the Chameleon Miraculous)
* Gung-Ho Flash (Phantomized Name)
* Mew Style (Tokyo Mew Mew Name)
* Onyx Bomber (Crystal Force Name)
* Sailor Black (Sailor Guardian Name)
* The Narcissist One (by )
* Main handsome guy (By Monika, Yuri, Natsuki, Miruko and Sayori)
* ??? (PMMM Witch Name) (ninja witch with ??? nature)
* Beauty Incu-Bomber (When using the Succbus Miraculous)
* Bat Bomber (When using Amanda’s Bat Miraculous) (Amber City Universe)
* The Ultimate Ninja (Nickname from Team Harmony’s Adventures Chronicles Season 16 intro)
* Break Bomber (Heroic Secret Alter Ego)
* ShadowDeath MurderFlash (Elements of Insanity AU as Shadow Flash)

## Songs he sang

* Let's Get Nuts (from LEGO Batman Movie)
* The Day (from My Hero Academia)
* Die Anywhere Else (From Night in the Woods)
* Hide and Seek (by
* Just Monika (Along with Starable, Amanda Johnson, Lightfur the Angel-Demon Cat and Vincent Afton/As the MC)
* DEAD OR LIE (along with Despair!Bomberman Bros., Despair!Shovel Knight, The Despair!Plants, Team Harmony, Despair!Five Dastardly Bombers, Despair!Guardians of Friendship and The Elements of Darkness/Season 16 intro)
* Philistine (No More Heroes 2) (briefly in Sarvente's Demon Spell! Demons For a Day! (TAHHZ), specifically the verse "Requiem eternal. Bullets right through the sternum, lullaby to hell. Babe reaper's got your name" until he later gets slapped by White Bomber)
* Notorious D.I.G. (Crypt of the Necrodancer) (first sang in Bleak Life (MHA), sang again in)

## Rap battles

* Termination (From the VS Q.T Mod)
* Philly Nice (from Week 3 from Friday Night Funkin’)
* Roses (from Week 6 from Friday Night Funkin’)
* Manifest (from the VS Sky Mod)

## Theme songs

* Snake Man Stage (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate) (His theme/This theme shares with Amanda Johnson (when going rampage, but sometimes as Dianasaurus, Sucubcutie or Hopdini), Roy, Phantom Bomber, Skittles, Tom Ridgewell, Kageki Luminosity, and Girlfriend)
* Shadow Man Stage (Smash Bros for Wii U/3DS) (One of his themes/theme of Break Bomber/this theme shares with Meggy, Hex, Jason, Fluffy, Rustbolt, Sam, Natsuki, Monika, Sayori and Charles Calvin)

## Trivia

* He, Red Bomber, White Bomber and Pretty Bomber are the only Bomberman characters to be an akumatized villain
	+ Likewise his akumatized villain will be "Shadow Flash" in Miraculous Harmony Adventures
* In Parasoul (MHA), it is revealed that Skullgirls is Black‘s favorite game and being the fan of said game
	+ Likewise, in Kirai Kirai Shitsuren On'nanoko 2 (MHA), he mistook all Doki Doki girls as one of many characters from Skullgirls (an example is he mistook Monika as Squigly)
* In Miraculous Harmony Adventures, there are numerous times Black is sometimes the target for the akumatized villain. (Most of these akumatized villains contain charismatic, charming or flirtatious females)