
Dane protests that he's meditating, Percy scoffing at his distant descendant's incompetence before warning him of an encroaching threat from beyond the stars. As Dane internally grumbles that Percy is a nosey busybody who even in undeath sees fit to foist his unwanted counsel upon his heirs, Percy interrupts his train of thought by insulting him again and demanding to know what he's doing. As he laments that it's not just a regular non-cursed magic sword, the ghost of Sir Percy of Scandia - the first Black Knight - appears and calls him a crass heathen before saying he has a quest. Still internally monologuing, the Black Knight plummets from the sky as the symbiote dragon dives after him.Įarlier in the day, Dane Whitman sits crosslegged in his underwear in Garrett Castle, awkwardly begging the Ebony Blade to stop trying to make him kill everyone and everything around him. The symbiote dragon turns its head and chomps down on the Black Knight, denting his armor's culet with its fangs - to his indignation. As he slashes at its wing, the symbiote dragon strikes his winged horse and breaks its neck, the Black Knight snapping that they take weeks to clone as he leaps off the horse shouting for the symbiote dragon to die. Reddit (Mentioned) ( Topical Reference)Īstride a winged horse, the Black Knight battles a symbiote dragon while internally monologuing in faux-Shakespearean English about his eternal struggle to resist the dark impulses of the Ebony Blade.Spider-Man's Black Suit (Only in recap).United States of America (Only in recap).Smeagol (Mentioned) ( Topical Reference).




The Ebony Blade can only be wielded to its mightiest potential by those impure of heart.
