In the future, scientist Dane Whitman took his uncle's criminal inventions and created the persona of the Black Knight in order to make up for his uncle's wrong doings. Now, he fights crime in the present.

adjective

1. soiled; dirty
2. disgraceful
3. full of sorrow or suffering; sad; dismal; gloomy

noun

in the Middle Ages, a military servant of the king or other feudal superior; tenant holding land on condition that he serve his superior as a mounted man-at-arms; later, a man, usually one of high birth, who after serving as page and squire was formally raised to special military rank and pledged to chivalrous conduct