How The Cast Of Blade Should Really Look

The Marvel superhero Black Knight, aka Dane Whitman, was recently introduced in the MCU's "Eternals," played by Kit Harington of "Game of Thrones" fame. The film obviously doesn't spend a ton of time on Harington's Black Knight, since it correctly focuses more on the Eternals themselves. Harington's Whitman is mainly just a bookend character as the human love interest for Sersi (Gemma Chan). Though compared to Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Black Panther's intros in other movies, he's comparably underwritten.

However, despite his relative unimportance to the plot of "Eternals," Whitman is not only the main focus of the last scene in the film before the MCU's patented mid-and-after credits sequences, but he's even the focus of the final after credits sequence. In that scene, Whitman opens up a secret case to reveal the Ebony Blade — the source of Black Knight's power. However, as he's about to touch it, magical black liquid surrounding the blade begins to move around. He is then startled as he hears the voice of who we presume is Mahershala Ali's Blade, saying, "Sure you're ready for that, Mr. Whitman?"

Again, that's not much to go on when it comes to the character's accuracy to the source material so far. Presumably, once Harington's Whitman wields the aforementioned sword, he'll also get his knightly armor. Until then, we can't say one way or the other how true to the comics he'll be, as the MCU is hit-or-miss when it comes to comics accuracy. Hopefully, when the time comes, the fans of Black Knight (who do exist, we assure you) will all be satisfied.