Black Hat

Black Hat is an immensely powerful entity who makes a living by selling weapons, traps and other devices to other malicious beings, as well as the boss of Dr. Flug Slys, Demencia and 5.0.5. Black Hat is portrayed as a cruel, sadistic and narcissistic fiend who does his part to make the world as vile and chaotic as he wishes it to be.

## Appearance

Black Hat has been shown wearing only his formal attire, if the show progresses he might be shown wearing something else. He wears a black trench coat reaching down near the ankles, the collar of which is popped.

Under that he wears a red and gray undershirt, along with long gray pants as well as black and white dress shoes. He wears his iconic black top hat with a red band going around the bottom, and dark gray gloves and a black tie.

Black Hat appears to have dark gray skin. His sharp teeth are pale green, and his left eye is covered by what looks like a monocle.

## Personality

Black Hat is extremely prideful, violent, deceptive, malevolent, and ruthless, to the point that he doesn't care about sacrificing innumerable amounts of civilizations simply for the sake of profit. Black Hat also possesses an insatiable hunger for power, always seeking to obtain objects of incalculable power, either to use them for his own gain or sell them to other evil beings in exchange for something of value to him.

He is a cruel, callous and outright narcissistic man who takes pleasure in the misery of others, as well as constantly abuses his minion Dr. Flug both physically and verbally. His narcissism is so potent to where he firmly believes that no villain is more evil than him. Even when Lord English was rampaging across time and space, he still held to that belief although he did admit that English's malevolent and destructive deeds were impressive.

Black Hat is also a quite sly, sinister, and intimidating man, as he likes to scare people, including scaring both Dementia and 5.0.5 in a couple of the shorts. He has no redeeming or anti-villainous qualities whatsoever and is completely evil through and through.

Black Hat is shown to be extremely intimidating and often unforgiving of failures. Dr. Flug once warned Toffee that he would know a new kind of pain if he did not give them the Butterfly Wand; this was proven true when he ruthlessly murdered Toffee for his failure in retrieving the wand for him and when he betrayed Black Hat. Black Hat threatened Vriska that he would paint his mansion with her blood if she failed to deliver the Journal, visibly terrifying the Troll.

## Powers and Abilities

Black Hat is an immensely powerful supernatural being, rightfully feared by those who know him and even those who have heard of him. While he did not display that many abilities, the villains who made dealings with him state that he possesses "frightening power". Many individuals that know of Black Hat all even state that he is pure evil given absolute form. Bill Cipher himself states, during a conversation with Sans, that fighting Black Hat is the "among the dumbest things you could ever think of."

* **High Intelligence:** Black Hat is shown to be extremely intelligent, and it is heavily implied that he is smart enough to create his own inventions, although he likely has Dr. Flug create them instead because he does not want to concern himself with "lackey work".
* **Immortality:** While it is unknown how old Black Hat is, it is believed that he has been around for a "very, very, long time". In fact, upon meeting with Crowley, the demon revealed that he is familiar with Black Hat and has not seen him since the "tree debacle" which highly implies that Black Hat has existed since the days of Adam and Eve.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Black Hat possesses a very powerful regenerative healing factor, allowing him to regenerate from any of his wounds, regardless of severity or blood loss. As a result it's almost impossible to truly kill him. Moreover, even if his physical body is destroyed his essence will continue to linger on and eventually materialize into his former self.
* **Shapeshifting:** On various occasions, Black Hat changes his appearance in order to fool/torment others, the most notable example of this being when he changed himself into a perfect replica of 5.0.5 in order to terrify Demencia. Black Hat can assume many different forms, including ones that are highly monstrous and disturbing.
	+ **Size Manipulation:** Black Hat can manipulate his size, density and mass just by thinking, enabling him to become any size he wants.
	+ **Elasticity:** Black Hat can stretch and deform his physical shape like taffy. He is able to stretch his arms a good distance away, only to snap it back like a rubber band afterwards.
	+ **Tendril Generation:** Black Hat is able to form shadowy tendrils which can also transform into tendrils with monstrous faces, claws, and even other weapons like blades. His monster-tendrils can also shoot beams of energy from their mouths.
* **Laser Vision:** Black Hat is able to fire powerful streams of lasers from his eyes. It is also revealed that he has pinpoint control over his beams, as his perfect aim allows it to travel in straight lines, bend, twist or curve. This makes it almost impossible to avoid them.
* **Portal Creation:** Black Hat is able to open portals, likely ones that lead to the Underworld itself. So far he has demonstrated that he can open portals that lead to Hell itself or even the Nightmare Realm.
* **Telekinesis:** Black Hat is able to move objects and people with thought alone. He even once choked Dr. Flug by simply flicking his fingers.This ability is so great that he is even able to warp the fabric of space to generate powerful spatial pressure around his surroundings, capable of crushing, pulling and freezing with tremendous and enable him to manipulate and move objects with just a single gesture.
* **Mind Control:** Black Hat can control the actions, thoughts and speech of almost anyone just by thinking. Black Hat can also alter the perceptions of how others view him which explains why he could walk among mortals undetected and how they are completely unaware of his true appearance.
* **Pyrokinesis:** Black Hat has tremendous control over fire. He can transform his body into flames and project himself through fires in any location. It is revealed that he is not only able to manipulate normal fire but also hellfire, which is a supernatural fire that burns the soul itself.
* **Umbrakinesis:** Black Hat is able to manipulate shadows to varying degrees. He is able to create shadowy constructs of either himself or other people. He can even make constructs of monsters to help fight in his stead.
	+ **Intangibility:** Black Hat is able phase and unphase himself and objects out of space, rendering them incorporeal and just as easily make them corporeal again.
	+ **Invisibility:** Black Hat has is able to make himself invisible though he uses it to scare his minions.
	+ **Illusion Conjuring:** Black Hat is able to alter reality to create highly realistic and elaborate physical simulations and illusions of false realities over a wide range of influence.
* **Pain Inducement:** While he uses torture devices, Black Hat can also use his own power as a very effective form of torture by exposing an individual to his dark power, causing them tremendous pain and can limit the amount of energy sent into the body of said being to avoid killing them. This was potent enough to cause a mature and fully-powered Star Butterfly excruciating amounts of pain, forcing the Eleventh Doctor to cooperate with him.