717 documented Literary and Fictional supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 329 lesser and 185 greater in power tier.
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Bilbo Baggins is a fictional Hobbit character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, protagonist of The Hobbit and a supporting figure in The Lord of the Rings; within Tolkien's conceit he is also presented as the in-world author/translator of parts of the Red Book of Westmarch.
Billina is an anthropomorphic, speaking hen introduced in L. Frank Baum's Ozma of Oz who becomes Dorothy Gale's animal companion in the Land of Oz. Portrayed as spunky, talkative, and domestically ordinary, she plays a decisive narrative role when one of her eggs proves lethal to the Nome King within Baum's story-world.
A fictional ensemble of costumed crimefighters originating in American comic books and adapted into television and film; the team name designates a cooperative superhero/vigilante franchise within the DC Comics media universe rather than a supernatural being.
A named nobleman in Marie de France’s lai who periodically transforms into a wolf for three days each week; the tale treats his condition as a distinct, non‑typical form of shape‑change tied to hidden clothing and resolved through royal investigation and recovery of those garments.
The bishop-fish (also called the sea bishop) is a legendary marine prodigy recorded in 16th-century European accounts and natural histories. Reported incidents include specimens exhibited to rulers and clerics — one taken to the King of Poland and another shown to Catholic bishops, which allegedly made the sign of the cross and returned to the sea — and a 1531 capture near Germany of a specimen that refused food and died in captivity.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Marvel (Adam Bernard Brashear) is a fictional, human-origin superpowered scientist and former Marine in the Marvel Comics universe. He gained vast antimatter-derived powers in an accident involving a Negative Zone reactor, operating as a high-powered hero from the 1960s onward while also serving as a long-lived academic and team member of groups like the Mighty Avengers and the Ultimates.
The Blue Snowman is a fictional comic-book supervillain in the DC Comics universe who acts as a recurring adversary of Wonder Woman. Portrayed as Byrna Brilyant, the character employs genius-level inventiveness and specialized cold/cryogenic technology—most notably devices that generate "blue snow"—while wearing a distinctive snowman-themed blue costume or exo-suit. The Blue Snowman has no innate supernatural powers; threats are technological and resolved by heroic intervention.
Blue Trinity (Russian: Голубая Троица, Golubaya Troitsa) is a fictional team of three Soviet-engineered superhuman operatives in DC Comics, created by Soviet scientists as state-controlled assets in a Cold War narrative; they are described in sources as abnormally strong, emotionally unstable, and raised for loyalty to the Soviet Union.
The Blue Wizards are members of the Istari — Maiar-origin angelic beings who took physical form and some limitations of Men to intervene in the affairs of Middle-earth during the Third Age as emissaries of the Valar.
Bob the Galactic Bum is a fictional comic-book character created for a 1995 four-issue DC Comics mini-series. Presented as a satirical, idiosyncratic protagonist, Bob is a low-status, bumbling figure transposed into a spacefaring, science-fiction setting and used as a vehicle for humor and pastiche.
Bolivar Trask is a fictional human character from Marvel Comics and adaptations. A scientist, anthropologist, and industrialist, he initiates large-scale technological programs (most famously the Sentinels) intended to detect and control mutants; his projects and decisions catalyze major human–mutant conflicts across multiple continuities.
Boodikka is a Bellatrix-born Green Lantern Corps member: a centuries-old warrior, former Bellatrix Bombers mercenary, ring-bearer, trainer/recruiter, and later an Alpha Lantern enhanced with Manhunter technology.
Booster Gold (Michael Jon "Booster" Carter) is a fictional superhero from DC Comics: a 25th-century human who travels to the 20th/21st century using future technology to operate as a publicity-minded hero in Metropolis and later matures into a more responsible protector involved in time-travel storylines and Justice League membership.
Boromir is a mortal nobleman and warrior of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He serves as heir-apparent to the Steward of Gondor, joins the Fellowship of the Ring, succumbs briefly to temptation over the One Ring, repents, and dies heroically defending his companions.
Bors is the name of two related knights in medieval Arthurian literature (father and son), introduced in the 13th‑century Lancelot‑Grail prose cycle and preserved in later retellings such as Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. The younger Bors de Ganis is notable as one of the three questing knights (with Galahad and Perceval) who achieve the vision of the Holy Grail and as a model of Christian chivalric virtue; the name also appears in modern datasets as a toponym for a commune in Charente, France.
Brainiac is a recurring supervillain in the Superman/DC Comics fictional universe: a hyper-intelligent non‑human agent—variously depicted as an android, cyborg, or extraterrestrial—obsessed with collecting knowledge and known for shrinking cities (notably Kandor) and preserving them aboard a skull‑shaped spaceship. First appearing in Action Comics #242 (July 1958), he is portrayed across continuities as a persistent strategic threat whose artificial consciousness is repeatedly resurrected in new physical forms.
Brainiac 5 (Querl Dox) is a fictional Coluan genius and long‑standing member of the Legion of Super‑Heroes in DC Comics, notable for prodigious scientific inventions and for being a descendant of the original Brainiac. His stories center on invention, unintended consequences from his creations, and his attempts to atone for or distance himself from his ancestor's villainous legacy.
Brainiac 8, commonly known by the alias Indigo, is a fictional engineered Coluan intelligence from DC Comics: an inorganic, future-origin infiltration agent capable of interfacing with and controlling technology who initially poses as a sympathetic ally before revealing a mission to secure Coluan dominance.
Bran Mak Morn is a fictional heroic king created by Robert E. Howard, presented as the last king of Howard's romanticized Picts. In Howard's stories he is a martial leader in narratives framed as historical fiction; after his death Howard's fiction reports a localized cult that deifies him as the 'Dark Man' or 'Dark One.'
Bree is a proper name and toponym attested across multiple geographic and cultural referents (places in Belgium, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, South Africa) and as a personal and fictional name (including a village in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth). It is not presented in the supplied sources as a supernatural or folkloric being.
Bregalad, also called Quickbeam, is an Ent of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth associated with Fangorn Forest. He is depicted as a tree-like, giant humanoid member of the Ent-kind who speaks and sings and who appears in narrative episodes involving the hobbits Merry and Pippin.
Brennius is a legendary royal figure from medieval British historiography, best known from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. Presented as a human king and conqueror, his narrative links British legendary genealogy with continental events—notably campaigns in Gaul and the (legendary) capture and rule of Rome.
Brian Braddock is a fictional human champion created within modern comic-book mythmaking, empowered by Arthurian figures to serve as the protector of the British Isles and a defender of Earth-616 within Marvel Comics' multiversal framework. First appearing in 1976, he has borne titles including Captain Britain and later adopts the name Captain Avalon after narrative developments.
Brian David Banner is a fictional human character in Marvel Comics whose lifelong abuse, alcoholism, institutionalization, death, and posthumous spectral appearances function as recurring psychological antagonists in the life of his son, Bruce Banner (the Hulk). Created for The Incredible Hulk (vol. 2) #267 (1982), he appears as a violent, unstable man in flashbacks and later as a taunting apparition and a temporarily resurrected assailant in crossover storylines such as Chaos War.
Briseis is a mortal woman in the Homeric epic tradition, captured at Lyrnessus and attached to Achilles as a war prize; her transfer between leaders (Achilles and Agamemnon) functions as a key social and moral symbol in the Iliad and later literary traditions.
Bronze Tiger (Benjamin 'Ben' Turner) is a fictional DC Comics character: an African-American, world-class martial artist, operative, and recurring figure who has served as assassin, mercenary, instructor, and member/second-in-command of Amanda Waller's Suicide Squad. Created in the Bronze Age of comics, his history includes training under O-Sensei, capture and brainwashing by the League of Assassins, and later rehabilitation and multimedia adaptations.
Broteas (Ancient Greek: Βροτέας, lit. 'mortal' or 'man') is a mythic human figure in Greek tradition, presented as a son of Tantalus and member of that cursed house. He is credited in local tradition with carving the ancient rock relief of the Great Mother (Cybele) on Mount Sipylus near Magnesia ad Sipylum and is also variously narrated as a hunter punished by Artemis or listed among the Lapiths slain in the Lapith–centaur battle.
A recurring fictional cult-leader mantle in DC Comics borne by multiple individuals (notably men named Sebastian Blood and later incarnations) who lead the Church/Cult of Blood; the role combines political-theocratic leadership, ritual relics, and supernatural powers tied to lineage and artifacts.
A recurring supervillain organization in DC Comics, introduced in Doom Patrol #86 (1964). Led by the Brain and frequently allied with Monsieur Mallah and other powered operatives, the Brotherhood functions as an enduring antagonist faction opposing the Doom Patrol, New Teen Titans, and occasionally the Justice League.
Bruenor Battlehammer is a recurring fictional dwarf character in the Forgotten Realms setting, portrayed as a warrior-king, master smith, and member of the adventuring group the Companions of the Hall. He is chiefly associated with Mithral Hall and the Icewind Dale region and appears across novels, game products, and fan compilations.
Bruno Mannheim is a recurring fictional organized-crime boss in DC Comics and derivative media, leader of Intergang and a recurring antagonist of Superman and allied heroes. Across continuities he functions as a power broker who sometimes employs or is empowered by Apokoliptian/New God elements (notably Darkseid and agents such as Kanto).
A legendary king of the Britons attested in Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudo‑historical account and later reinterpreted in Elizabethan literature as a martial founder figure. In Geoffrey he is an otherwise unremarked dynastic successor; in sixteenth‑century sources he is magnified into a warrior who led an expedition to Hainaut.
Brutus of Troy is a legendary ancestral founder-king in medieval British pseudo-history, presented as the eponymous progenitor of the Britons and first ruler/founder of Britain in narratives that link Britain to Trojan and, in some recensions, biblical genealogies. Best known from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae and earlier mentions in the Historia Brittonum, the figure functions as a culture-ancestor and legitimizing founder rather than a supernatural being.
James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is a fictional human character created for American comic books published by Marvel Comics (originally Timely Comics). Introduced in 1941 as the youthful sidekick of Captain America, he was later retconned and reinvented in modern comics as the brainwashed cyborg assassin the Winter Soldier before regaining memories and seeking redemption.
Bulleteer is a fictional human-based superheroine from DC Comics (debut: Seven Soldiers: The Bulleteer #1, 2005). Alix (civilian name Alix Harrower; also appears as Rose Mendes in the Injustice continuity) is transformed when an experimental 'smartskin' bonds to her, rendering her tissues indestructibly hard and granting superhuman strength; she subsequently adopts the costumed identity Bulleteer and operates as a mid-tier hero within shared-universe team narratives.
Button-Bright is a fictional boy created by L. Frank Baum who appears as a recurring secondary protagonist in several Oz books. He is portrayed as an absent-minded, wandering child who participates in journeys around the Emerald City and its neighbouring lands rather than as a supernatural being.
Bêlit is a fictional Shemite pirate-queen from Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age, captain of the ship Tigress and romantic partner of Conan in the short story "Queen of the Black Coast" (1934). Presented as a mortal warrior-leader whose life and death intersect with supernatural elements in the tale, she is remembered as an avaricious and charismatic sea-queen in later adaptations and comics.
Cacus is a monstrous, fire‑breathing giant of Roman myth who lived in a cave on the site of the future Rome (Aventine Hill/Forum Boarium). He stole cattle, preyed on humans, and was slain by the hero Heracles/Hercules; his death is etiologically linked to the founding of a local altar (the Ara Maxima) and to annual rites to Hercules in that district.