History
Origins[]
The son of Black Bolt and Medusa, Ahura was born a prince of the Inhuman Royal Family. The Inhuman Ruling Council deemed the young boy a threat, fearing his powers would be much like his father's and as a result put the entire Inhuman Nation at risk of destruction. In order to spare their son's life, Black Bolt put his son under the care of Captain Britain to raise as his own son.[1]
At some point in the convening years, the Inhumans grew restless in their refuge and sought to live in the outside world. Not wanting his people to die from the outside world's pollution or persecution, Black Bolt secretly released the Terrigen Mist into the Earth's atmosphere with a device built by his mad brother Maximus. This caused a world-wide mutation of humanity, unleashing chaos in its wake. After this the Inhuman Royal Family left Earth to explore outer space.[2]
Following the mutation of humanity, Braddock was chosen to be the king of Britain as the world's nations turned to established superhumans for leadership. Ahura grew up to become the mute Black Knight, successor of the previous Knight Dane Whitman who had been turned into stone along with his teammates in Excalibur by the Grey Gargoyle. As the Black Knight, Ahura became a member of Captain Britain's royal guard.[1]
Earth X[]
Years after the mutation of humanity, the Inhuman Royal Family returned to Earth, to warn Reed Richards of an incident they witnessed in space: the remains of a planet, destroyed from the inside out and its inhabitants, the Eternals formerly of Earth trapped in Vibranium. Their secondary purpose was to find their son, because he was chosen to marry Luna, the daughter of Crystal and Quicksilver.[1]
Although the Royal Family met the Black Knight, they would not know his true identity until the people of Earth had defeated the Skull who was taking over the planet, and Black Bolt had sacrificed his life to summon Galactus to save the Earth from the impending threat of a Celestial embryo growing in the planet's core. When Luna (now mutated by the Terrigen Mist) offered her hand in marriage, she was turned away by the Black Knight who felt it was his responsibility to protect the world, not just tend to royal matters.
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The New Black Bolt
Universe X[]
Over the next three years the countries of the world constructed giant Human Torches to burn the Terrigen Mist out of the air so that humanity could be restored to its original state. Additionally, the world's climate changed as a result of the destruction of the Celestial embryo. The world's poles shifted, changing Britain into a tropical paradise. Most mutated humans did not want to give up their powers and its heroes were divided between stopping Immortus and his Church (manipulated by Mephisto) from taking down the Torches, and trying to find a way to reverse Earth's re-polarization. During this time, the Inhuman Royal Family divided their time between Buckingham Palace in Britain, and Doctor Doom's Castle in Latveria.[3]
The Black Knight was officially presented as heir to King Britain and the world, but rejected his claim to kingship of the new Inhuman world, declaring that he would not recreate a kingdom in need of revolution, as the old Inhuman kingdom had been.[4]
Captain Marvel found himself reborn into a new body and on a quest to collect items of power and fragments of his own Cosmic Consciousness in order to save the universe. When he came to Britain seeking the book of the Darkhold from Merlin, the Black Knight revealed himself in a costume closely resembling his father's. As the new "Black Bolt" Ahura traveled with Captain Britain, his mother Medusa, Captain Marvel and Captain America to the Siege Perilous to meet with Merlin to collect the Darkhold.[3]
Later, when the Tong of Creel came for the piece of the Absorbing Man in Captain Britain's protection, the Black Knight helped defend Buckingham Palace from the attack. However, they failed and the Tong escaped with the portion of the Absorbing Man they sought.[5]
With an army of Iron Avengers (robots modeled after a number of the Avengers, originally designed by Tony Stark), Black Knight went to the Savage Land in order to investigate why the Human Torch there had gone out. While there he travelled to Sentinel City, a mutant sanctuary constructed out of Sentinels by Magneto during the early days of humanity's mass mutation. The re-polarization had caused Magneto and his minion the Toad to switch powers. The power mad Toad used his new-found magnetic power to enslave all who came to Sentinel City. Black Knight was defeated and the Iron Men who accompanied him were put under the Toad's control.[6]
Iron Maiden and Jade Dragon came to Sentinel City answering the summons of Cable, who was trapped under the city (due to the final effects of the Techno-organic Virus he was infected with). The two would-be saviors also found themselves caught up in the feud between Toad and Magneto. Freeing themselves and the Black Knight, the three fought off the Toad and his new creation, Tank. During the fight, Black Knight used his powers to blast open a hole in Sentinel City, revealing Cable, who had become a giant mass of techno-organic matter. With Cable's aid, Iron Maiden used her powers to reorganize the Vibranium in the area so that the power switch between Toad and Magneto would reverse itself. With Magneto's powers restored, Magneto repaired all the damage and apologized to the Toad for all his years of abuse.[6]
Later, the Black Knight and the Iron Avengers aided the heroes of New York against the newly revived Absorbing Man, who had absorbed all of Manhattan. While the Knight and his Iron Avengers' attack proved ineffectual, Loki eventually convinced Creel to change his body into Vibranium and saved the world from destruction.[7]
The Black Knight returned to Britain where he remained mostly not involved in the events of the following three months. During this time, Mar-Vell completed his quest of killing Death in the Realm of the Dead and created a new realm he called Paradise. This however caused those in the land of the living to be unable to die and many were left to eternal suffering in giant hospitals constructed out of the Human Torches.[8]
Paradise X[]
Later still, when Mephisto gathered the remainder of the Deviant race to make a final strike on humanity, they attacked Buckingham Palace, where Mephisto took the sword Excalibur (one of few items capable of delivering true death) and seemingly slayed Captain Britain. Captain Britain was really Meggan in disguise. Black Knight, Captain Britain, X-51, Medusa, and Ransak the Reject led the counter attack against Mephisto and the Deviant hordes, and Mephisto fell to the very blade he sought to capture.[9]
Shortly after this, Black Knight teamed up with the Reject, and Loki (who took on the guise of Thor) to form a new team of Avengers to act as Earth's defenders.[10]Attributes
Powers
Seemingly those of Black Bolt.
While Ahura appears to share his father's powers, he has shown a greater degree of control over them, in particular displaying the ability to speak.Abilities
Weaknesses
Paraphernalia
Equipment
Weapons
Black Knight originally wore a suit of black armor. The exact composition and durability of said armor was never revealed. When wearing this armor, Black Knight would typically use weapons of similar vintage; swords, javelins etc.
Later, he would don an armor resembling that of his late father's. This suit of armor would be constructed out of Vibranium. It's durability and defensive properties are unknown, however it had built-in wings that either facilitated or aided flight, and a tuning fork which would work in conjunction with the suit's Vibranium construction and the Knight's powers to allow him to "speak" through it. This tuning fork could also be used as a channel for his powers, allowing him to make controlled bursts of his own powers.
Black Knight would have access to any of the weaponry available through his ties to the British/Inhuman royal family and the resources at Buckingham Palace.
At times, Black Knight would use the Iron Avengers robots, usually one of each model, but has on certain occasions utilized an entire army of the robots, like in his battle against the Toad.Transportation
See Also
- 19 appearance(s) of Ahura Boltagon (Earth-9997)
- 4 mention(s) of Ahura Boltagon (Earth-9997)
- 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Ahura Boltagon (Earth-9997)
- 7 image(s) of Ahura Boltagon (Earth-9997)