Black: his gloves of finest mole,
Black: his codpiece made of metal,
His horse is blacker than a vole,
His pot is blacker than his kettle.
Black: his codpiece made of metal,
His horse is blacker than a vole,
His pot is blacker than his kettle.
You're dressin' all in black,
From your front to your back,
And all your evil ways,
They seem to go on for days,
And as a matter of fact...
From your front to your back,
And all your evil ways,
They seem to go on for days,
And as a matter of fact...
— "Super Villain", Powerman 5000
The Doctor: (stifling laughter) Just what are you wearing?
Quences: Robes of night that drink the light! I'm traditional!
—Big Finish Doctor Who "Auld Mortality"
"Fe'Tor. Bad guy. Dressed in black."
— John Crichton, Farscape, "Scratch N' Sniff"
Psychiatrist: May I ask, why are you wearing black?
McCall: It enables me to fade into the background on night operations. And as one well-known terrorist once said, it is after all the colour of annihilation!
GM: Black gloves, black boots, and flowing black robes complete his attire.
Jim: Do you think this might be a bad guy?
Jim: Do you think this might be a bad guy?
"I was there, in the beginning, when they invented the Phoenix Operation. Do you know what everyone was most upset about? Oh, not the idea that we were consciously structuring a group of men whose purpose was the clandestine murder of other men. Not the moral ramifications that might befall us in another life, or the decision based on political expediency, oh no. What we got most embroiled in was an argument over what a particular group of assassins (that we decided to call the Black Tigers), what that group of assassins would wear, when they decided to relieve selected individuals of their very lives. Well finally after a great deal of bitter argument, we determined to dress the Black Tigers in all black. A commission was then paid to a noted designer (who shall be nameless) who designed the black clothing the Black Tigers wore as they rolled out on their holy crusades."
— Edgar Harolds, Good Guys Wear Black (1978).
"You don't want any clothes that are not monochromatic?"
— Weasel, Deadpool (2016)
"Don't mind me.", I grunted. "It just hit home that I'm leading a Legion of Terror while wearing a black cape and plotting nefarious things in the dark."
"You're not currently wearing a cape.", Masego pointed out, about as helpful as tits on a sparrow.
"Apprentice," I replied patiently, "I own like five capes. All of them black. I get we have a theme here, but would it kill anyone to get me some clothes a vampire wouldn't wear?"
The tall figure who came down the ladder was dressed entirely in black, a kind of black that seemed to absorb the light surrounding it. From the skintight cowl that covered his entire head to the toes of his magshoes, he wore a one-piece bodysuit that was as dark as space itself.
— Captain Future in Love by Allen Steele
"Navy...navy...charcoal...black! Really, Carmine; is a splash of color too much to ask?"
— The Joker, Batman: The Long Halloween
A dozen soldiers of Zarkendorf's private army stood at attention in their black velvet unitards, black jackboots, black helmets with black visors, and black gauntlets gripping sinister black machine-rifles. The fashion designer who tried to tell Zarkendorf that pink was the new black had been immediately executed.
