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Bizarro is a fictional superhuman character from American comic books, created as a mirror-opposite duplicate of Superman. Introduced in 1958, the character functions within the comics as a flawed imitation or inverse counterpart—sometimes antagonist, tragic figure, or antihero—produced by duplication technologies or deliberate creation within the narrative.
Bizhan (also Bijan, Bejan, Bezhan; Persian: بیژن) is one of the main Iranian heroes in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. Presented as a mortal warrior of an aristocratic heroic house, he appears in several notable episodes (including slaying Nastihan and being rescued from a pit by Rostam) and is depicted frequently in illustrated Shahnameh manuscripts.
Black Adam (originally Teth‑Adam) is a fictional superhuman character from American comic books published by DC Comics (originating at Fawcett Comics). Within the comics' internal cosmology he is a human chosen by the wizard Shazam, transformed into an overwhelmingly powerful magical champion whose moral alignment has shifted between antagonist and antihero across publication history.
Black Annis is a Leicestershire bogeywoman in English folklore: a blue-faced, clawed hag said to haunt Dane Hills and a cave called Black Anny's Bower Close. Traditionally portrayed as a nocturnal predator of children and lambs who tans victims' skins to wear, she inspired local customs including an Easter Monday drag-hunt.
In Slavic mythology, the Black Arab is a malevolent chthonic demon that kidnaps women and girls. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Primordial, not Ancient (Ancient implies deity-level abilities, but the Black Arab's abilities are more limited). 2. Origin story is speculative and unsupported by source mater)
Black Bolt (Blackagar Boltagon) is a fictional character published by Marvel Comics, portrayed as the king of the Inhuman city-state Attilan and a member of the Inhuman Royal Family; his defining trait is a destructive voice-linked power that forces him into near-total silence.
Black Canary is a legacy costumed heroine identity appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, borne most notably by Dinah Drake (Golden Age) and her daughter/successor Dinah Laurel Lance. The persona functions as a crime-fighter and team member in serialized superhero narratives rather than as a folkloric spirit; sources emphasize the legacy nature of the mantle and its cultural role as a strong, sexually-styled female protagonist in mid‑20th‑century and later popular culture.
Black Condor is a legacy superhero identity used by three different fictional characters originating in Quality Comics and later appearing in the DC Comics universe. The persona is avian-themed and consistently associated with unaided flight and aerial motifs; individual incarnations have differing additional powers and origins.
Black Darna is attested in the provided sources only as a named character entry within the Darna comics/television franchise of the Philippines. Available materials identify it as a comics/media character label (Wikidata) and place it in the broader context of the modern Philippine fictional character Darna (Mars Ravelo) and a 2005 television adaptation; no folkloric, mythological, or ritual information about Black Darna is present in the cited sources.
A class of supernatural canine apparition in British vernacular folklore, often associated with liminal places and regarded as an omen-bearing or guardian hound. Local named forms (Black Shuck, Barghest, Gurt Dog, Gallytrot) show a range from malign, death-portending hellhounds to benevolent guide-figures.
A fictional, anthropomorphic manifestation of the Speed Force’s corrective/dark aspect in DC Comics. It functions as a reclaiming or deathlike agent specifically for characters who possess a connection to the Speed Force, appearing when such connections are severed or when the Speed Force requires reclamation.
A literary and cultural stock character archetype — the 'Black Knight' — defined by armored anonymity (absence of heraldry) and often coded as morally ambiguous or villainous; the term has been adapted across literature, film, comics, and other media rather than existing as a single supernatural being. The dossier treats the trope as a recurring narrative role rather than a mythic entity with a fixed cosmology.
A site-bound female apparition from Bradley Woods, Lincolnshire, depicted as a mourning woman in black who wanders the woods in search of lost family. She is presented in local tradition as pitiable and unnerving rather than actively harmful, and has been used in parental admonitions and local storytelling.
An organized force of reanimated corpses in DC Comics' 'Blackest Night' storyline, driven by a primordial darkness represented as the color black (the absence of light). The Corps uses black power rings and a Black Central Power Battery to revive deceased individuals as corporeal revenants that seek to extinguish life and restore darkness.
Black Lightning is a fictional American comic-book superhero (Jefferson Pierce) created for DC Comics in 1977. He is a community-focused, costumed protector whose powers involve the generation and manipulation of electricity and who exists within DC's shared metahuman urban setting rather than a folkloric spirit cosmology.
Black Manta is a recurring human supervillain in DC Comics who serves as Aquaman's archenemy. Portrayed as a technologically equipped, ruthlessly vengeful maritime criminal, he appears across decades of comics, animation, film, and games.
Black Mariah is a fictional human antagonist in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, primarily an enemy of Luke Cage who appears as a Harlem-based crime boss. The name is also used for a television adaptation (Mariah Dillard/Stokes) portrayed by Alfre Woodard in the Luke Cage series and derives from a historical nickname for a 19th-century Boston police 'black wagon.'
The Black Marvel is a Marvel Comics superhero identity first published in 1941. Primarily associated with the civilian Daniel Lyons, the Black Marvel is a Golden Age costumed adventurer whose origin involves tests administered by a dying Blackfeet chief (Man-to) and his medicine man (Running Elk); the character later appears in modern Marvel continuity in storylines involving wartime team-ups, murder and resurrection plots, and a Faustian bargain with the demonic Mephisto.
A human political and cultural faction originating in Númenor in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. They are a villainous offshoot of Númenóreans who abandoned worship of Eru Ilúvatar, rebelled against the Valar, and whose actions led to the Downfall of Númenor; remnants or ideological heirs later acted as tyrants in Middle-earth.
A Golden Age American comic-book costumed hero identity first appearing in Prize Comics #2 (April 1940). The mantle was used by more than one human character (notably Doug Danville and Walt Walters) and also appears as an unrelated modern lexical label for artists, companies, and groups in contemporary sources.
In the DC Comics / Starman continuity, the Black Pirate is the ghost of Jon Valor, a 16th‑century English privateer whose posthumous curse bound the dead of the port that became Opal City until his name was cleared. The label "Black Pirate" also appears outside this fiction as a film title and in various modern cultural references, but those uses are unrelated to the comic-book ghost figure.
A spectral black dog of East Anglian legend, with glowing red or green eyes. Its appearance is an omen of death. Its howl has been heard on clifftops during storms for centuries.
Black Spectre is a fictional villain identity used by multiple human antagonists in Marvel Comics, primarily as an adversarial persona opposing the vigilante Moon Knight. The mantle has been adopted by different individuals (not a supernatural being) to carry out criminal, political, and terroristic schemes within contemporary urban narratives.
Black Spider is a name applied to distinct cultural entities: (A) a costumed human vigilante/assassin (Eric Needham) in DC Comics continuity, and (B) a supernatural figure around which Jeremias Gotthelf's nineteenth‑century Swiss novella The Black Spider is framed. The usages are separate: one is a modern fictional vigilante within superhero narratives, the other a literary supernatural motif tied to plague and a Faustian pact in a rural Swiss setting.
A Golden Age American comic-book costumed hero identity originating in 1941 as pharmacist Bob Benton who gained powers from a chemical called "formic ethers." Across decades and publishers the identity has been reinterpreted as a powered crimefighter, a vengeful vigilante, an impersonated costume used by agents, and a consciousness housed in a computer program called Terror 2000.
Black Tom Cassidy (Thomas Samuel Eamon Cassidy) is a fictional mutant supervillain from Marvel Comics who first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #99 (1976). He is an Irish-born criminal boss and recurring X-Men adversary whose powers center on projection of force through wooden media and, after a medical graft, become plantlike in nature; in later stories he forms a physiological union with the mutant island Krakoa and serves in a security role.
A composite cosmological guardian from East Asian tradition (Chinese: 玄武, Xuánwǔ; Japanese: Genbu) that functions as the northern member of the Four Symbols. Represented iconographically as a tortoise intertwined with a snake, it orders sky and landscape (north, winter, seven lunar mansions) and is venerated in temples, palace gates, and funerary contexts as a protective presence.
A modern urban-legend motif embodied in a black Volga automobile (originally GAZ models) reported across parts of Europe and Eurasia from the 1960s–1970s onward. The vehicle is said in various tellings to abduct and sometimes kill people (often children in some summaries), with motives ranging from political abduction to blood- or organ‑theft; a single verbal formula is recorded in some variants as a way to make the car vanish.
Black Vulcan is a fictional African-American superhero created by Hanna-Barbera for the Super Friends animated series (debuting 1977). Presented as an electricity-manipulating costumed hero in the show and later reinterpreted satirically in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, he was created as a replacement for DC's Black Lightning due to rights disputes.
A modern popular-culture fictional character originating in Marvel Comics (1964) and later adapted into the Marvel Cinematic Universe; a highly trained human spy and operative whose codename 'Black Widow' denotes a role in espionage and covert operations rather than a supernatural being.
A name used within DC Comics for multiple distinct fictional constructs: a 1968 space‑saboteur antagonist, a Kryptonian terrorist/clone‑liberation movement that detonated a device in Krypton's core, an intelligent computer virus dormant in Kryptonian technology, an alternate Superboy who assumes the mantle Black Zero, and the name of a Kryptonian prison frigate in film adaptations.
A domestic cat with black fur that functions both as an ordinary companion animal and as a versatile folkloric symbol. In many traditions it is an omen of good or bad fortune, is associated with witches and seafaring luck, and has been repurposed in modern political and cultural symbolism.
A black horse is an equine whose hair coat is wholly black; in the provided sources this is a biological coat-color phenotype described in terms of genetics, breed occurrence, and identification rather than a supernatural being.
A melanistic colour variant of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) documented in zoological and regional observational sources. The term is used both for living black-coated wolves—whose coloration is now known to trace to a dog-origin mutation in some populations—and as a modern cultural label (titles, team names, etc.). The provided sources do not document a discrete supernatural being called “Black Wolf.”
Blackheart is a fictional infernal being from Marvel Comics, created by the demon-lord Mephisto from concentrated 'evil energy' at Christ's Crown, New York. He is an autonomous, politically ambitious resident of Hell who acts on Earth in human guises and opposes heroes such as Ghost Rider.
A polyvalent English term documented in technical, medical, media, and cultural domains; the provided sources do not describe a supernatural being or a comic-book character named Blackout or Marcus Daniels. Uses include power outage, broadcasting ban, drug-related amnesia/lost time, and titles of cultural works or brands.
Blackwulf (Lucian) is a fictional comic-book character from Marvel Comics: a native of the world Armechadon who bears a hereditary affliction called the "Black Legacy." He assumes the Blackwulf identity after his brother Pelops' death and acts as a conflicted heroic/anti‑heroic figure opposing his father Tantalus and allying with groups such as the Underground Legion and occasional Earth heroes.
A modern American urban‑legend phenomenon describing childlike figures with completely black eyes who are reported to request entry to homes or rides. Presented in contemporary paranormal media and internet storytelling, accounts characterize them as allegedly nonhuman (undead, demonic, alien, or otherwise) but provide no empirical verification.
Bladud is a legendary king of the Britons credited in medieval and later sources with founding the city of Bath and discovering the healing properties of its hot mud/springs. He appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudo-historical tradition and later retellings that amplify motifs of healing, learning, necromancy, and an attempted flight that causes his death.
Blanchefleur is a recurring proper name and literary personage in High Medieval romance and later adaptations, functioning as an emblem of purity, idealized beauty, and floral/Marian imagery rather than a supernatural being. The name appears in multiple vernaculars (Old French, Norse, later modern retellings) attached to different human female characters—lovers, heroines, or hagiographic figures—whose roles vary by text.
Blanka is a fictional character created by Capcom for the Street Fighter video‑game series: originally human (birth name Jimmy) in series backstory, he becomes a feral, green‑skinned fighter with the ability to generate electricity and an animalistic fighting style. The character appears across multiple Street Fighter installments and related media rather than in any traditional folkloric system.
Blastaar is a fictional extraterrestrial monarch and recurring antagonist in Marvel Comics, a warlord from the planet Baluur in the Negative Zone who pursues conquest, rules Baluurians at times, and repeatedly clashes with Earth heroes.
Blaze and Satanus are fictional demonic twin siblings in the DC Comics cosmology who have, in various storylines, claimed rulership over infernal domains (such as Purgatory, the Nether World, or the Dark Realm) and act as recurring supernatural antagonists to magical heroes.
The Blazing Skull is a fictional Golden Age comic-book superhero first published by Timely Comics (later Marvel Comics). Mark Anthony Todd, a foreign correspondent, is transformed and trained by a non-human group called the Skull Men and operates as a wartime and later-era champion with a flaming-skull motif and superhuman abilities.
Blaí Briugu (Blaí the Landholder or Hospitaller) is a figure of the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythic literature. Presented as a wealthy Ulster warrior and keeper of a hostel, he is notable for a geis obliging him to sleep with any unaccompanied woman who stayed at his establishment, an action that led to his death at the hands of Celtchar.
Bledudo (Welsh: Blaiddyd) is a legendary or pseudo‑historical king recorded in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s regnal lists and later compilations of the Kings of Britain. He appears in medieval and post‑medieval king lists as a named ruler placed between Merianus and Cap (with some manuscript variation showing Oenus in neighboring positions) and is dated to c. 191 BC in modern summaries of those lists.
Bleez is a fictional comics character appearing in DC Comics, identified with the Red Lantern Corps — an organization whose power derives from the emotional spectrum of anger. The provided sources classify Bleez as a comics character and link her affiliation to the anger-powered Red Lantern Corps.
Bleiddwn is a named individual from the fourth branch of the medieval Welsh Mabinogi: the child born to two men temporarily transformed into wolves, who is taken by the ruler-mage Math and transformed into a human and baptized 'Bleiddwn' (from Welsh blaidd, 'wolf'). His existence indexes metamorphosis, punishment, and restoration within the tale-world.
Blenda is the eponymous heroine of a Småland legend (Blendasägnen) who, according to local tradition, rallied the rural women of Värend to defeat a pillaging Danish force; the tale functions as an aetiological foundation for certain local social rights and ritual markers rather than describing a supernatural being.
Bleoberis is a legendary Arthurian knight appearing across medieval romance cycles as a recurring Round Table member, kinsman of Lancelot, and participant in major campaigns, funerary duties, and penitential pilgrimage narratives. He functions as a noble companion and political-military actor rather than a supernatural being.
Blind Al (Althea Winifred Sanderson) is a fictional, non-supernatural supporting character in Marvel Comics who serves as a long-term companion, housemate, and verbal foil to Wade Wilson (Deadpool). Presented as an elderly, blind woman with a sharp tongue and complex interpersonal authority, she appears across Deadpool comics and film adaptations.
In the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, Blodeuwedd is a woman fashioned by the magicians Math and Gwydion from flowers to be the wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes; she later betrays him, is transformed into an owl as punishment, and functions etiologically to explain owl nocturnality and enmity with other birds.
A Golden Age American costumed crime-fighter published by Timely Comics (later Marvel Comics). The Blonde Phantom is the masked vigilante identity of secretary Louise Grant (later Louise Mason), a glamorous alter ego who aids detective Mark Mason and starred in her own comics in the late 1940s and was revived in Modern Age stories beginning in 1989.
Bloodwynd is a legacy superhero identity in DC Comics tied to a mystical 'blood gem' created by an ancient ritual. The gem houses the spirit Rott (the incarnate spirit of Jacob Whitney in the gem's microscopic world) and bestows necromantic and psychic powers on its bearers while exacting moral and metaphysical costs.
Bloody Bones (also Rawhead, Rawhead-and-Bloody-Bones) is a vernacular bogeyman figure originating in Britain and carried into regional North American traditions; it functions chiefly as a cautionary monster used to frighten children from danger and ill speech, typically associated with deep water or dark household recesses.
A mirror-associated apparition invoked by chanting a female name in dim or candlelit conditions. Originating in catoptromantic divination practices, the figure functions in modern youth-lore and urban legend as an ambiguous ghost/witch who may reveal future information or enact violent harm on participants.
Blud is a Slavic concept that functions both as a supernatural agent said to cause physical disorientation—leading people to wander "aimlessly around and round"—and as a lexical term in church discourse denoting illicit sexual desire or moral deviation, which clerics attributed to the Devil.
Blue Beetle is a recurring American comic-book superhero identity first appearing in 1939. The mantle has been borne by multiple human individuals over decades and has been explained variously by technology, a mystical scarab artifact, or legacy succession depending on publisher continuity.
Blue Beetle is a published fictional superhero identity in American comic-book tradition that has been held by multiple human protagonists. The Jaime Reyes incarnation is the modern, scarab-bonded teenager whose scarab morphs into an armored battle suit; the mantle as a whole illustrates editorial legacy, shifting origins (chemical, mystical, technological), and reinvention across publishers (Fox, Charlton, DC).
A local Somerset dragon-legend tied to the coastal landscape of Kilve. The tale explains coastal features and a fossil ichthyosaur skull by attributing them to the life and death of a fire-breathing dragon sometimes said to have been ridden by the Devil.