Black History Month: List Your 28 Favorite Black/African American Heroes

[JudicatorPrime]

To celebrate BHM, a couple of friends suggested that we put together a calendar featuring one fan favorite African American character for each day of the month of February. So let's hear it: Who are your favorite Black heroes? (I'll try to update this list periodically to avoid duplication of effort.)

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[scribbleMind]

Sunspot, Venus Dee Milo, and Mettle. Yes, Mettle, from Avengers Academy.

Now, granted, Mettle's ethnic origin is a bit of mystery. He's Hawaiian. His mom appears to be Caucasian, but we've never seen his dad. Judging by Mettle's dark complexion and black twists I'm going to go ahead and call it. Mettle is blackity black black (ok, not THAT black, but still).

[danielsan52]

1. LightBright
2. Tag
3. Derrick Beacon
4. Goblyn
5. Pathway
6. Gorilla Girl
7. Windshear
8. Aegis
9. Debris
10. Whiz Kid (Liberteens)
11. 3D Man
12. Spectrum
13. Synch
14. Rage
15. Night Thrasher
16. Wildstreak
17. Battlestar
18. Charcoal
19. Frenzy
20. Misty Knight
21. Bill Foster
22. 2D
23. Hope
24. Fin
25. Patriot
26. Prowler
27. Topspin
28. Gauntlet



Realizing a couple of these folks aren’t American, but they’re some of my favorites.

[Digifiend]

Sunspot, Venus Dee Milo, and Mettle. Yes, Mettle, from Avengers Academy.

Now, granted, Mettle's ethnic origin is a bit of mystery. He's Hawaiian. His mom appears to be Caucasian, but we've never seen his dad. Judging by Mettle's dark complexion and black twists I'm going to go ahead and call it. Mettle is blackity black black (ok, not THAT black, but still).

If his mother is white, and he looks black, he must be mixed race. He counts as black, I'd say.

Venus De Milo? Only superhero called that that I've heard of is the female Ninja Turtle from the live action Next Mutation show.

It's hard to even think of 28 African-American Marvel heroes. The American part means you can't include Black Panther, Shuri, Storm and Bishop - Bishop's an Aussie and the others are actual Africans.

Though I will say my #1 is Miles Morales (another hero who looks black but is actually mixed race - his other half is Latino).

[Dermie]

Some of mine are of mixed race background, and not 'just' black-- hopefully that's ok.

1) Spectrum (Monica Rambeau)
2) Silhouette (Janelle Chord)
3) 3-D Man (Delroy Garrett)
4) War Machine
5) Black Panther (T'Challa)
6) Falcon (Sam Wilson)
7) Storm
8) Fuse (Johnny Watts)
9) Alloy (Ramone Watts)
10) Blue Marvel
11) Rage
12) Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor)
13) Nightshade
14) Misty Knight
15) Charcoal
16) Prodigy
17) Frenzy
18) Doctor Voodoo
19) Tempo
20) Protector (Issac Ikeda) - I believe he is half black, half-Japanese.
21) Nancy Whitehead (not technically a superhero, but she is a badass who has held her own helping Squirrel Girl and friends against various threats)
22) Nightmask
23) Bling!
24) Luke Cage
25) White Tiger (Kasper Cole)
26) Monet
27) Doorman
28) (Spider-Man) Miles Morales

[dkrook]

If his mother is white, and he looks black, he must be mixed race. He counts as black, I'd say.

Venus De Milo? Only superhero called that that I've heard of is the female Ninja Turtle from the live action Next Mutation show.

It's hard to even think of 28 African-American Marvel heroes. The American part means you can't include Black Panther, Shuri, Storm and Bishop - Bishop's an Aussie and the others are actual Africans.

Though I will say my #1 is Miles Morales (another hero who looks black but is actually mixed race - his other half is Latino).

Um, I think that's why OP included black heroes. Hey I digress!

[Dermie]

Venus De Milo? Only superhero called that that I've heard of is the female Ninja Turtle from the live action Next Mutation show.

She is a member of X-Statix.

[mugiwara]

1 Sunspot
2 Prodigy
3 Blue Marvel
4 Mettle
5 Spectrum
6 Spider-Punk
7 Power Man (Vic Alvarez)
8 Dr Positron
9 Misty Knight
10 Night Thrasher
11 Ironheart
12 Luke Cage
13 Dr Voodoo
14 Spider-Man (Miles)
15 Patriot (Eli)
16 Doorman
17 Silhouette
18 Starling
19 Prowler/Hornet (Hobie Brown)
20 Synch
21 Cloak
22 Rage
23 Captain America (Sam)
24 Charcoal
25 Sun Girl
26 3D Man
27 War Machine
28 Nighthawk

At some point, in turned more into a "all the black american heroes I can name" list
Hobie is here twice (616 version and Spider-Punk version), I hope it's ok

[Vegeta]

It's hard to even think of 28 African-American Marvel heroes. The American part means you can't include Black Panther, Shuri, Storm and Bishop - Bishop's an Aussie and the others are actual Africans.

Storm was actually born in New York City. She also was listed in the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe" as a citizen of the United States. (I don't know if the Krakoa era has changed that last part though. I assume it's duel citizenship?)

[Wind Rider]

1. Storm
2. Bishop
3. Misty Knight
4. Spectrum
5. Shuri
6. Okoye
7. Frenzy
8. Tempo
9. Ainet
10. Khora
11. Luke Cage
12. Synch
13. Black Panther
14. Gentle
15. Dr. VooDoo
16. Blade
17. Night Thrasher
18. Blue Marvel
19. Oya
20. Monet
21. Prodigy
22. Hub
23. Shola Inkosi
24. Cloak
25. Bling!
26. Ironheart
27. Stevie Hunter
28. Nightshade

[marhawkman]

Funny thing with Monet, and her family, is that apparently the writers in the original story with her actually made her dark skin come from Algerian Berbers.

But that gets into how you define "black"... and opinions vary there. Especially when you have to .... use detective work and look for context clues to try and guess what cultural background some characters even have.

Cecilia Reyes is another one... is she one of the relatively dark latinas or...? That's actually never been canonically established. At this point it'd probably be a retcon anyways. I personally think Latina, though. Her first appearance kinda reads as that to me.

Karima Shapandar is another I've seen... but... she was working in Calcutta as one of the local police when she got turned into Omega Sentinel. She's not African anything.

Lucas and Shard Bishop also get this. We know that one side of their family is actually Australians. Not really sure of the other. Might be 100% Aborigine for all I know.

[dkrook]

Cardiac
Blue Marvel
Monica Rambeau
Bishop
Luke Cage
Storm
Josiah X
Black Panther
War Machine
Cloak
Synch
Patriot (Eli Bradley)
Night Thrasher
Shola Inkosi
Blade
Dr. Voodoo
Sunspot
Manifold
Jessie Bedlam
Miles Morales
Tempo
Battlestar
Deathlok
Tyrone cash (Hulk)
Wow, I can't even name enough that I like.

[Tofali]

I get confused whenever this kind of question comes up because I've seen too many ppl stressing the distinction between African-America, Afro-Latino and African. However I'm seeing all these categories in one list when the question specifically asked for African-American.

[Sutekh]

I like seeing Khora of the Burning Heart make it onto this list.

The whole Arakki thing was kind of a feast, or would be, if they were better explored developed, because there's (in some estimations) as many as sixteen million of them, and they all seem to be from north Africa. Apocalypse, Genesis, Bei, Isca, Death, War, White Sword, etc., etc.

It is cool that the list has gotten so far beyond 'Storm, Black Panther, Luke Cage, Brother Voodoo and Misty Knight' and now includes people like Synch and Sunspot and Monica Rambeau getting some of the love and recognition they deserve. Let's hope it keeps going and elevates the profiles of Frenzy and Tempo, Bling! and Shola Inkosa, Sun Girl and Fuse & Alloy!

[Redjack]

1. PROWLER (Hobie Brown)
2. MOSAIC
3. BLACK PANTHER
4. CAPTAIN MARVEL
5. BLUE MARVEL
6. MISTY KNIGHT
7. GOLIATH
8. DR. VOODOO
9. STORM
10. BLADE
11.NICK FURY
12. SPIDER-MAN (Miles)
13. NIGHT THRASHER
14. CAGE
15. THE FALCON
16. FRENZY
17. PATRIOT
18. PHASTOS
19. PRINCESS ZANDA
20. SUNSPOT (when he was still black))
21. M
22. SHARD
23. SASQUATCH
24. NIGHTHAWK
25. MOON GIRL
26. SILHOETTE
27. M
28. BLUR