History:
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (probably Shi'ar - see notes)
Occupation: Member of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard
Group Membership: Shi'ar Imperial Guard
Affiliations: Astra, Blackthorn, Deathbird, Earthquake, Electron, Gladiator, Hobgoblin, Impulse, Magic (Magique), Mentor, Nightside, Oracle, Scintilla, Smasher, Starbolt, Tempest, Titan, White Noise
Enemies: Excalibur (Captain Britain, Lockheed, Meggan, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Widget), Starjammers (Binary, Ch'od, Corsair, Cr+eee, Hepzibah, Lilandra, Raza)
Known Relatives: Al'Svee Neramini (Deathbird, mother), unknown father, White Noise (twin?) sister), Lilandra Neramini (aunt), D'ken Neramani (uncle), Adam-X (cousin)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Shi'ar Galaxy;
First Appearance: X-Men: Spotlight on … Starjammers#2 (1990)
Powers/Abilities: Black Light was an adult humanoid who claimed Deathbird to be his mother, thus giving him (at least partially) Shi'ar avian characteristics including enhanced strength and endurance. He could fire powerful concussive blasts of black energy from his eyes. He could fly; this seems to have been an innate ability as he fell when blasted in mid-air although he had no wings. There appeared to be some of sort of synchronous mental link between him and his sister, as he was affected by a stun blast taken by her. As a member of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, he had training in hand-to-hand fighting and was required to follow the orders of whoever was ruler of the Shi'ar Empire.
History:
(X-Men: Spotlight on Starjammers#2) - In an effort to stop Deathbird from acquiring the formidable powers of Phalkon (actually the Phoenix Force), the Starjammers pursued her to Earth but found her apparently knocked unconscious on a Shi'ar spaceship floating in the North Atlantic Ocean after a battle with Excalibur. Due to a misunderstanding, the Starjammers and Excalibur fought each other briefly before uniting against a large contingent of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, who had arrived to protect Deathbird and which included Black Light as a new member.
Hovering alongside his sister, White Noise, he attacked Captain Britain using his black eye blasts, knocking Captain Britain out of the fight. However, Raza fired his gun using a stun blast at White Noise, knocking her unconscious along with her brother, with both falling to the deck. The two new recruits quickly recovered only to see Lilandra punch out Deathbird who was seeking to siphon the Phoenix Force. Black Light quickly picked up his mother, and ordered to retreat by Gladiator to protect Deathbird, left next to the other Shi'ar Guard members, and headed into an open teleportal, left open by Widget, that led back to Shi'ar space.
Comments: Created by Terry Kavanagh (writer), Dave Cockrum (penciler) and Jeff Albrecht (inker).
Black Light does not appear to be full-blood Shi'ar and may have a non-Shi'ar father. However, he hasn't popped up since and Deathbird has made no mention of him; it may be that he and White Noise were adopted by Deathbird.
UncanyXmen.net comment that his eyebeams channelled Darkforce energy; this is not acually stated in the story, but sounds quite feasible.
Profile by Grendel Prime.
Clarifications:
Black Light has no known connections to:
images:
X-Men: Spotlight on … Starjammers#2, p39, panel 5
X-Men: Spotlight on … Starjammers#2 (1990) - Terry Kavanagh (writer), Dave Cockrum (pencils), Jeff Albrecht (inks), Mark Gruenwald (editor)
Last updated: 11/30/05
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