Black Vulcan
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Black Vulcan was a fictional character on the animated series Super Friends.
Along with Apache Chief, he was introduced in an effort to make the show more multicultural, an attempt that was not generally regarded as successful.
His superhuman powers included the ability to fire electricity from his body, fashion cages for enemies out of electricity, and use electricity to fly. One time, he even used his electricity to travel through time.
Unlike most of the Super Friends, Black Vulcan was not a pre-existing DC Comics character. This is particularly notable since DC Comics' roster did include an African-American superhero with electricity-based powers Black Lightning. Black Lightning could not be used in the show, however, due to disputes between DC Comics and Tony Isabella, the creator and owner of the character.
Black Vulcan has made several appearances on the show "Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law", debuting in the season 1 episode, "A Very Personal Injury". Since then he has had somewhat of a supporting role in the series if only to utter the prepositional phrase "...in your pants." or "...in my pants." Apparently he used to go by the name of Super Volt before Aquaman suggested his present name, to which Black Vulcan responds that maybe they should just call him White Fish.
The character Juice from the Justice League Unlimited episode was also directly based on him.