Good list

Great List!

I'm a little annoyed by the comments, because it speaks of the lack of education on the term "black" itself. Black is an umbrella term for people of African descent (by blood, not colonist settlers) and/or those who possess dark skin, people of African descent exist all over the globe and were the indigenous people of many nations.

M's mother is canonically Algerian (and shown briefly with dark skin) and her father is of African descent. She's black.

Brazilians are black; due to colonization, trade, and encouraged importation of European people there are white/European Brazilians and there are Asian Brazilians too. Being Brazilian is a nationality and an ethnic group; people can possess the same nationality and possess different ethnic identities, as well as different racial identities. Sunspot is Brazilian with dark (not tan) skin, he's black.

As for indigenous people of the Americas and Australia. In early North America after the concept of race was introduced indigenous people of America were actually considered the same race as Africans, due to the fact Africans settled in N.A. and had several tribes. Later on colonists categorized the "red Indians" from the "black Indians." The same happened with Australia, there are aboriginals with dark skin and features shared with African people, and there those who don't. This applies to Gateway, he is black.

There are also people of African descent in China, Japan, UK, Russia, etc not just in Africa. So black is an umbrella term, and people who are identified as such consist of many ethnicities, nationalities, speak several languages, have many different religions, and have diverse skin tones, eye colors, and hair textures. ;)

Good list.

Dope.

Correction-

I WAS INCORRECT ABOUT M.

M OR Monet-St-Croix does look black or clearly black from most pics i seen of her.

Anyway she is black,not a brown race person.

http://worldofblackheroes.com/2010/06/14/m-monet-st-croix/

http://blacksuperheroes.blogspot.com/2009/06/monet-st-croix-black-mutant-supergirl.html

http://marvel.wikia.com/Monet_St._Croix_%28Earth-616%29

Monet-St-Croix-Appreciation-Thread

http://community.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?5036-Monet-St-Croix-%28M%29-Appreciation-Thread

The actress playing her in the film looks is black too.

Generation X (film)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a7/GenerationX-poster.jpg/220px-GenerationX-poster.jpg

The TV film

In February 1996, the Fox Network aired a made-for-television Generation X movie, produced by Marvel Entertainment. The film featured Banshee and Emma Frost as the headmasters of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and M, Skin, Mondo, Jubilee and two new characters, Buff and Refrax, as students (Chamber and Husk were not written in because the budget didn't allow for the special effects their powers required). The team battled a mad scientist who used a machine to develop psychic powers. The low-budget film was a ratings failure and many fans were angered at the casting of a white actress (Heather McComb) to play the Asian character of Jubilee. Plans to develop a syndicated series that would air on the same night as popular sci-fi thriller The X-Files were abandoned.

Amarilis

http://www.srn.it/sweetvalleyhigh/amarilis1.JPG

Amarilis as Monet St. Croix/M, one of the students at the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, she claims that she is the perfect mutant; super intelligent, enhanced physical abilities and "level eight invulnerability".

Amarilis is a television actress. She made her debut as Patty Gilbert in the syndicated TV series Sweet Valley High and has guest starred on the TV series The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. Amarilis portrayed the Marvel Comics superheroine Monet "M" St. Croix in the television movie Generation X.

Generation X (film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X_%28film%29

Gorgeous George is purple not black

Black Panther is fully african not african-american.

It 's called the world of black superheros,so it will include aboriginals,blacks of asia,africa,all blacks in the west,like african americans or black americans,blacks from europe,south america .etc...

all of african origin,OF COURSE aboriginals AND MANY black of asia like india etc.. are not african anymore,but they are still black.Black does not not mean only african american you know..

It 's means those of african origin and blacks of asian origin,of course blacks of asia in the end do have a african origin.

Berbers,are white,black and brown,and not all of them are mixed.

Marvel and DC'S earth is different from our earth,keep that mind.

There are different rules etc...

Second M'S FATHER LOOKS CLEARLY BLACK, SO CLEARLY THERE ARE BLACKS IN ALGERIA IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE,so maybe there are more blacks living there in marvel 616 earth then real earth.

Remember these are comics,different rules, etc...etc..

.There are blacks in real earth algeria anyway and there are berber who are black.

In fact the first BERBER WERE BLACK AND THERE ORIGIN IS FROM EASTH AFRICA.

Check out the dna test results.

M LOOKS MIXED OR SHE COULD BE A BROWN RACE PERSON.

SHE DOES NOT REALLY LOOK BLACK FROM MOST OF THE PICTURES I SEEN OF HER,BUT HER FATHER IS CLEARLY BLACK FROM THE PICTURE I SEEN OF HIM.

I AM NOT GOING TO CALL ICON A SUPERMAN RIP OFF.

I WOULD just say the creators of icon were inspired by superman,and there are differences you know..

great list....

I just really don't like Icon and Hardware.

I mean,Icon I'm more okay with. But Hardware just seems like an Iron Man/Batman ripoff.

Not really INSPIRED from them,as in design,but like a huge ripoff of the characters.

It's like having a character that has super strength (lets say 8 tons at max),super speed,etc...and you called him arachno-man. The only difference was that he talked to Spiders.

I understand that he is his own character (as is every character),but he seems like such an Iron Man/Batman ripoff (hybrid).

Icon also seems like a Superman ripoff. But I think he's actually better than Hardware.

...however,I am just rambling now.Love this list.

BP is king!

Also love storms new look.

My opnion is Storm in 1°

Great list and.....you put a helluva lot of time into this. :)

But I think you made an error.Simon Baz was confirmed to be Arab-American,wasn't he?

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

wow wow wow wow wow 1000+

@Ryonslaught Great list man! It's a shame that so few of these characters have had enough popularity to make it to the mainstream.

dope list man but what about Power Fist?

and i mite be mistaken but did you forget the king of cool, Lando Calrissian?

im not sure that Sunspot should be on there, hes Brazilian so his skin coloured is more tanned/brown then black/brown... unless you were talking about when hes powered up, thats kind of an (*) entry

hot spot

tam fox isn't hero

tam fox? wtf?

Very nice! Keep up the good work.

Dude this is a really long list!

nice list

A new customer: Marcus Johnson.

@EganTheVile1 said:

You should totally do a villain version of this list!

Seconded!

Keep up this awesome list, i know there are more out there.

First of all Black is Black and technically were not black we are brown so dont be a dick about it aborigines are Brown like us so called african americans (really brown americans) because you cant generalize us all all as africans because we dont know what country of africa we are from. Australia is way closer to africa and was apart of africa before the continental drift just like the Americas north and south were part of africa before the continental drift. And berbers are mixed dont go there. There is only 3 races on earth Black (really Brown) white and asian. the rest is mixes of those races in different degrees. Now with that said all those north africans the white try to call berbers are also black. their genetics has been diluted through multiple counts of war and conquest prior to the founding of america. Also Italians and spainards are Of the Brown people . Regardless of what people say THE ONE DROP RULE IS TRUE 1 DROP OF BLACK ( BROWN) MEANS YOU ARE PART OF THE BLACK (BROWN ) RACE BROWN COMES IN MANY SHADES ! Its been a bad habit of the Europeans to separate the Brown race and putting them on different levels and causing confusion and tribalsm amongs the brown race just stop it. Arabs Are nothing but asian,black and Roman(Italian) people mixed stop the shit. Jews and so forth all have the Original Gene in them . The Vines have been tied up for centuries

Wow. I never knew that there is so little bit of black superhero related characters... = )

Awesome

You forgot About Uub From Dragonball Z and Pican from DBZ Technically Piccolo is Black even though he is green (admit it Thats wesly snipes all day) U also Forgot Catwoman she flip flops from good to bad like she flip flops from black to white. And technically The matrix was originally written By a black woman (who sued the creators of the movie) and she said Neo was Black just like most of the characters in the Matrix you forgot samuel jackson in star wars and the smooth playa fly dude from the old star wars and jar jar binks was obviously black. were gonna leave james earl jones out of this. oh and apocalypse from x men even though he isnt a good guy or bad guy. and you forgot cyborg from teen titans. If you want to put anime in the mix on one piece I believe Brook was black before he turned to bones and Ussop.

this has to be the longest list on comicvine. Holy crap you got some good picks on here, including some of my all time favorites.

I didn't know you can flag lists or what people say on lists but all of this needs to stop.

@doublezeroduck: yah she was born in France but her family is Berber NOT black. That goes for all her family. Is there anyway we can correct this database and remove her?

I'm sorry man but M and her siblings ARE NOT black. ALgerians are Berber in origin with Arab influence. I repeat SHE IS NOT black. She is dark skinned yes but you might as well Thunderbird black.

Crow villain Judah Earl

Isn't M from Monaco?

Great list! They aren't all heroes in this list, so I still think we need more black super heroes in general.

@EganTheVile1:I'm well aware of where Base should be BUT ht you don' get is the hell it is to edit a list of this size, It's near impossible, Ive attempted removing him multiple time to no avail.

Seriously Base is not black, his presence on your list is a disservice to it, Base is light skinned Japanese, great list aside him

What about DarcStorm?...He's black.
 
http://darcrabbit.deviantart.com/gallery/

Black Panther is fully african not african-american.

This is a great list but I don't know why you consider Remy McKenzie to be black since he is the son of Namor and the Invisible Woman whom both are white.