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As Black Knight takes on the ultimate, Arthurian evil, the MCU Eternals hero finds himself teaming up with the long-lost daughter he never knew.
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Black Knight: Curse of the Ebony Blade #5, on sale now from Marvel.
While Black Knight has an impressive list of superhero partners and allies, given the sheer number of teams he has served on and the earth-shattering scale of the threats he has faced over the years, Dane Whitman is largely something of an outsider in the Marvel Universe’s superhero community. Seen as something of a walking joke by some Avengers while an outright annoyance to others, Dane often spends his solitary days pining for glory days that have long since passed him by. But as the classic Arthurian villain Mordred plots to conquer the world for himself, Dane is joined by his long-lost daughter that he never knew he had to save the day on his own terms.
Black Knight: Curse of the Ebony Blade #5 — by Si Spurrier, Sergio Davila, Sean Parsons, Arif Prianto and VC’s Cory Petit — concludes the comic book miniseries spinning out of the events of the recent crossover King in Black in which Dane and his mythical Ebony Blade appeared. Dane’s latest existential crisis, stemming from the toll that the Ebony Blade took upon his soul, coincided with the arrival of Mordred, revived and plotting to seize the Ebony Crown to transform the world into a new vision of Camelot in his fiendish image. And while Dane appeared defeated by the magical supervillain, he revealed that he had conceived a daughter who, following in his bloodline, was capable of wielding the Ebony Blade herself and channel the legendary powers of the Black Knight.
With the Ebony Blade possessing the power to defeat him, Mordred and sought out all the heirs to the Whitman bloodline and murdered them to ensure that a new Black Knight could not stand in his way to complete global domination. However, in all his Arthurian chauvinism, Mordred had only ever hunted male heirs to the Whitman bloodline, never seriously considering that the Black Knight could be a woman. And as Mordred is surprised by monster hunter Elsa Bloodstone and Dane’s daughter as the new Black Knight, Dane reveals the origins of his daughter in a taped confession.
Dane reveals that he struck up a romantic relationship during his first year of college with a classmate, conceiving a daughter, though his girlfriend died of cancer shortly after his daughter’s birth. Dane himself hadn’t known about the existence of his daughter as he was focused on his own young life at the time, learning that a young woman named Jacks was his daughter. Dane quietly had Jacks take an academic job researching the myths surrounding the Black Knight’s castle and the Ebony Blade so he could properly introduce himself before Mordred struck and completely upended this planned family reunion.
While Jacks is shocked by the revelation, rising from an untimely death thanks to her familial connection to the Ebony Blade effectively proving Dane’s claims true, she and Elsa are able to defeat Mordred and stop his spreading corruption from the Ebony Crown. Reuniting with her father at Garrett Castle, Jacks is understandably overwhelmed but settles into her legendary destiny as the Marvel Universe now has two Black Knights active and Dane is now working directly with the daughter that eluded him for decades. And while the Black Knight may have a long way to go before being held in high regard by the Avengers, the superhero is no longer bearing his cursed burden alone.
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