Black Noir

## **Personality**

Black Noir seems to be the lone silent type and is somewhat socially withdrawn from other members of The Champions. He never speaks but is apparently very in touch with his emotions as he was shown to be very distraught with the revelation that he and all the other supes weren't born with their powers causing him to cry through his mask. Despite being a fierce fighter and rarely ever showing his emotions, he is apparently not to be as ruthless as some of the other Champions members. Upon eliminating Naqib, Noir finds a little boy in his pajamas and grabs a nearby stuffed animal and plays with it in front of the boy and just heads out. He also apparently has a soft spot for animals and was genuinely shocked and heart-broken to see a whale beached and killed at the hands of Sharpshooter.

## **Powers, Abilities, Equipment, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Superhuman Physiology:** Black Noir was born super-abled. Since his mother had been exposed to dangerous doses of Compound V during his pregnancy with him. Black Noir possesses certain physical skills superior to those of human athletes. His superhuman metabolism affords him slightly greater reaction time, endurance, and speed than the human race's most perfect physical specimen.

* **Enhanced Athleticism:** Black Noir agility, flexibility, dexterity, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete, as displayed when he confronted Frenchie and Kimiko. He climbed in top of a roof without any effort.
* **Enhanced Durability:** Black Noir bone and muscle tissues are augmented to levels that are considerably stronger and harder than human and the tissues are impervious to injury to an extraordinary extent. The structure of his tissues give him a golden-proportioned body, and even without training his muscles are brawny and his body shape doesn't change no matter how many calories he intakes. Which notably allowed him to withstand the superhuman strength of Kimiko without issue, whereas she was able to significantly damage A-Train and even give him a compound fracture. His sturdiness also allowed him to survive Naqib's self-detonated explosion at point-blank range, without even being moved and only suffer burn marks to half his face and chest. He later survived several explosions in Judy's home.
* **Enhanced Reflexes:** Black Noir his reflexes are far superior to those of even the finest human athlete. His auto-reflexes allow him to easily dodge any threat or attack without him having to acknowledge about it. He can move, react, and maneuver himself in microseconds as well as process information as quickly.
* **Enhanced Senses:** Black Noir senses are incredibly enhance. His senses enables him to see, hear, smell, feel, and taste things imperceptible to humans. He automatically and passively notices, processes and understands any/all details of any situation or environment no matter how small, allowing him to intuitively understand and solve any situation no matter how difficult it may be. It doesn't matter how small the details are, he will automatically know and process them almost instantly. This allows him to detect any modifications or powers in anyone he looks at, as well as how they work, so he can defeat them. He can detect what special abilities a opponent has, he can see the enhancements. He can even detect electrical activity in the brain. He tracked Butcher from Becca's house, and detected the Boys in a hidden room when Terror barked, giving away their position.
* **Enhanced Speed:** According to Crocodile, Black Noir can move faster than the human eye in a quick speed burst, an effect perhaps created by his always possessing the element of surprise. He normally moves at slightly above human speed he can outrun a car. He was able to quickly slit a woman's throat and catch a glass she was holding before she dropped it.
* **Enhanced Stamina:** Black Noir body is highly resistant to the build-up of lactic acid in his muscles, allowing him to be physically active for considerably longer periods of time than the average human. He can endure physical stresses beyond the capabilities of the greatest humans enabling him to do things such as operating on a "low power setting" (being able to operate efficiently for extended amounts of time), holding his breath for large periods of time, remain calm through stressful or painful situations, tolerate extreme hunger, unbearable thirst, and strong urges to sleep.
* **Enhanced Strength:** Black Noir is rated as having a significant degree of superhuman strength allowing him to exert 1000 kg/cm2 of force with each fingertip and toes. He can dismember opponents with his bare hands and feet. He was able to trade blows with and significantly harm Kimiko in their confrontation (and even disembowel her), whereas A-Train failed to do so, even when he rapidly slammed her head against concrete many times. During his mission to assassinate Naqib, he ripped a man's head open by prying his jaws apart. He later knocked Butcher back several feet with a single swipe, and held him up against a wall with one hand. His strength allowed him to completely overpower Starlight, throwing her around like a rag doll and smashing her through concrete.
	+ **Enhanced Leap:** Hecan jump farther than average human. He can leap farther than even the greatest human athlete. Impressive feats include being able to jump over large fences, clear big holes in the ground, jump from building top to building top, and etc.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Noir possesses a superhuman healing factor which allows him to regenerate damaged or destroyed bodily tissue with far greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human it seems to heal within hours or at maximum, days. He's fought with, and healed from, a broken neck, broken limbs, holes through his chest, having his whole body set on fire, explosions, contracting various viruses (including AIDS), and other things.
	+ **Contaminant Immunity:** The unique regenerative qualities of Noir's healing factor also extend to his immune system; he is immune to all diseases, infections, disorders, imperfection, and resistant to elemental extremes.
	+ **Head & Limb Reattachment:** His head or any other limb can be reattached using this ability. While beheaded, Black Noir can still move his body normally.
	+ **Healing Blood:** In small doses, Noir's blood has demonstrated the ability to heal others and extend their lifespans beyond their natural limits.
	+ **Pain Suppression:** He can turn his pain receptors on and off so he can keep fighting when the pain would stop a normal man as he doesn't react when Naqib uses his self detonation, leaving him with severe burns on his head and chest, or when Hughie shoots through his hand at point blank.
	+ **Self-Sustenance:** He has the uncanny capacity to live entirely self-sufficiently and without sustenance. He can survive in anaerobic environments indefinite periods of time, even the vacuum of space, can adapt to various environments if needed and desired. Black Noir can go without food or water for an undetermined amount of time.
	+ **Semi-Immortality:** Black Noir's healing factor provides him with an endless lifespan by halting the aging process.

### **Abilities**

**Aviation Intuition:** Black Noir possesses extraordinary skills in piloting aircrafts/spacecrafts and is better than everyone else. He usually credited with shooting down several enemies during aerial combat and accounted for the majority of air-to-air victories in any battle/war.

**Enhanced Combat:** Black Noir is an expert hand-to-hand combatant, highly trained in various forms of martial arts. According to his bio, he is a ninja and a lethal warrior who is proficient in martial arts, having been trained by a sensei to make him a dealer of death. He defeated Merry during their confrontation, placing his power-level well above thugs and trained policemen. During his mission to assassinate Naqib, he stealthily eliminated several terrorists. He later held his own against the majority of the Battalion and easily beat Starlight in a fight, and would have killed her if Maeve had not intervened.

**Intimidation:** According to his bio, criminals run in terror at the mere mention of his name. Little is known about him; and whatever lies behind Black Noir’s mask is a complete mystery – which only makes him more terrifying. Frenchie was notably scared of him.

**Musical Intuition:** Black Noir can play the piano. Using this ability, they gain immediate understanding and mastery at using pianos and producing musical notes with it, they can replicate any song heard or described, and have both perfect pitch and the ability to produce any note/tone with any instrument regardless of its nature or difficulty.

### **Equipment**

**Daggers:** Black Noir has great skill in throwing daggers and using them in close combat. This allowed him to harm Merry. During his mission to assassinate Naqib, he took down numerous guards by slicing their throats and impaling them. He also decapitated Naqib and dispatched Crocodile with a single throw of a blade.

### **Weaknesses**

**Mental State:** He not immune to telepaths, but he is highly unstable and prone to violent outbursts without the slightest provocation, at least against those he knows could handle.

**Durability Limitation:** Even with his healing factor, Black Noir can still feel pain from damage taken, although he has a notably high pain tolerance.