Black Order



The Black Order (also known as the Cull Obsidian) is a team of cosmic supervillains appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are the elite henchmen of Thanos the Mad Titan.

Story
The Black Order is a group of ruthless aliens that work for Thanos. They help Thanos into razing worlds where they demand tribute. When Corvus Glaive sent one of their Outriders to find a new world to raze, the Outrider targeted Earth.

Members

 * Black Dwarf - The big, brutish member of the Black Order who has super-strength, enhanced density, and impenetrable skin. He is the brother of Corvus Glaive.


 * Corvus Glaive - Thanos' most favored general who has enhanced strength, speed, durability, and endurance and uses a bladed pike which can cut through anything. When Corvus Glaive has the bladed pike in his hand, it makes him immortal.


 * Ebony Maw - A member of the Black Order who has genius-level intellect, specializes in persuasion. Utilizes a teleportation device and force field generator.


 * Proxima Midnight - A member of the Black Order and the wife of Corvus Glaive who is a master hand-to-hand combatant, has super-strength and is nigh impervious. Her lance transforms into unavoidable toxic light beams.


 * Supergiant - A member of the Black Order with telepathic abilities.

Other Media

 * Members of the Black Order will appear in the film Avengers: Infinity War, including Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Ebony Maw, and a character named Cull Obsidian. Directors Joe and Anthony Russo took several creative liberties with the group's depiction, most notably excluding Supergiant for "consolidation". Other changes include depicting the group as "children of Thanos", and nerfing their abilities for the film.

Trivia

 * Infinity by Jonathan Hickman introduced the Black Order and they never appeared in any previous Thanos story. Despite this, they're treated like they've always been there, with Supergiant even mentioning that she first encountered Thanos when she was in an orphanage as a young child. The A God Up There Listening mini-series also depicted them in a flashback story, showing them fighting alongside Thanos against Ego the Living Planet.