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** Laura from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' is a ButNotTooBlack example, being Afro-[[SpicyLatina Brazilian]]. She can generate electricity apparently by running her hands through her hair.

* Though he's an anthropomorphic dog using lightning-like pyrotechnics rather than a (black) human superhero, Powerline in ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' is a recording artist who leans heavily into his electrical theme and is voiced by black singer Tevin Campbell.

* ''ComicBook/MilesMorales'' has the ability to emit powerful bio-electric blasts as part of his "Venom Blast" attack, an ability not shared by his friend and predecessor, [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker.]]

* [[PsychoElectro Electro]] in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' got [[RaceLift race-lifted]] and is played by African-American actor Creator/JamieFoxx. Like his comics counterpart (and befitting his name), he has electric powers. Foxx is due to reprise his role in the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' in the sequel for ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesBattleForNeighborville'' has Electric Slide, who is an Electric Black Lady. Downplayed, however, in that 1) the electricity she fights with comes from advanced technology, and 2) [[EthnicityObscuringMutation because she's a zombie, her skin is now green]].

* ComicBook/{{Storm}} from the ''Franchise/XMen'' is a native African woman who uses lightning as her primary offensive power. She's a non-copycat example, since she appeared two years before Black Lightning, and her overall control of weather makes lightning only one of her abilities.

* Garnet from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is [[RubberForeheadAliens an alien]] that resembles a black woman and has electrical powers, [[DownplayedTrope though she uses them a lot less than her other powers]].

* Vainglorious hero Thunder from '"Fable'' specializes in Lightning magic.

** Interestingly, Static gets to be a Black Lightning stand-in in a series ''with'' Black Lightning. Similar to JLU, we get a team of Superfriends shout-out characters. The ''actual'' Black Lighting is in the series, but he's got a different role in the story that doesn't involve those characters, and is not a teenager like the others, so Static takes the Black Lightning/Vulcan role among them.

* [[PsychoElectro Electro]] in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' got [[RaceLift race-lifted]] and is played by African-American actor Creator/JamieFoxx. Like his comics counterpart (and befitting his name), he has electric powers.
** Foxx is due to reprise his role in the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' in the sequel for ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''.

** Laura from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' is a ButNotTooBlack example. She can generate electricity apparently by running her hands through her hair.

* Sentinel from ''VideoGame/{{Brawlhalla}}'' is this, using both [[BladeBelowTheShoulder katars]] and [[DropTheHammer grapple hammers]], both [[GeniusBruiser designed by himself as his weapons]] to have electricity-related signature attacks. During his life he also managed to become a PresidentSuperhero.

* Sentinel from ''VideoGame/Brawlhalla'' is this, using both [[BladeBelowTheShoulder katars]] and [[DropTheHammer grapple hammers]], both [[GeniusBruiser designed by himself as his weapons]] to have electricity-related signature attacks. During his life he also managed to become a PresidentSuperhero.

* Sentinel from ''VideoGame/Brawlhalla'' is this, using both [[BladeBelowTheShoulder katars]] and [[DropTheHammer grapple hammers]], both [[GeniusBruiser designed by himself as his weapons]] to have electricity-related signature attacks. During his life he also managed to become a PresidentHero.

* ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'' of Creator/MilestoneComics, published through DC. One of the more well-known examples of Black Lightning Expies. Possibly more famous than Black Lightning himself, in no small part thanks to having his own cartoon series. When Milestone was folded into DC, Black Lightning became his mentor.

* In the Comicbook/{{New 52}}, the "wizard" who gives Comicbook/{{Shazam}} his powers is actually Mamaragan, an Australian lightning god, who appears as an Aborigine man.

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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Jamal Castle, codenamed Jolt, a Electrical Energizer, meaning he has some electrical abilities, and is black as an episode of his PowerIncontinence was described as [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/366-there-s-an-angel-in-dickinson-cottage-part-1 "The black kid yelped and suddenly erupted in a crackling field of arcing electricity"]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/NextAvengersHeroesOfTomorrow'' has Azari, the son of ComicBook/BlackPanther; his mother is unmentioned, but presumed to be Comicbook/{{Storm}}, given his [[SupernaturalWhiteHair white hair]] and electrical powers. He also has his father's strength and agility.

* Marsha Bradley from Creator/ImageComics's ''ComicBook/SavageDragon'' is an African American woman with electricity based powers who goes by the alias Lightning Lady.

* ComicBook/{{Storm}} from the ''Franchise/XMen'' is a native African woman who uses lightning as her primary offensive power. She's a non-copycat examples, since she appeared two years before Black Lightning, and her overall control of weather makes lightning only one of her abilities.

* Baal Hadad of ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'', being a god of thunderstorms in an avatar as a black man.

* [[PsychoElectro Electro]] in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' got [[RaceLift race-lifted]] and is played by African-American actor Jamie Foxx. Like his comics counterpart (and befitting his name), he has electric powers.

* And of course, ''Series/BlackLightning'''s back.

* The Post-''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' version of Sparx and the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''' Lightning Lad are both racebent from white to black, making DC's most notable electricity powered heroes who weren't already black black.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesBattleForNeighborville'' has Electric Slide, who is an Electric Black Lady. Downplayed, however, in that 1) the electricity she fights with comes from advanced technology, and 2)
[[EthnicityObscuringMutation because she's a zombie, her skin is now green]].