There is a long and respected tradition of knights in fiction, dating back centuries, to the probably-apocryphal stories of Camelot. (To be honest, it probably has origins long before that.) The JSA featured a literal time-lost knight in Sir Justin, The Shining Knight, while technology helped to augment The Black Knight of The Avengers. Heck, you could even make the case for Rom, The Spaceknight (it’s right there in the name!) who quested across the galaxy with a coterie of similarly-impressive warriors to defeat the Dire Wraths and save his home world of Galador, but the question of which knight is the best knight is complex and difficult, leading us to today’s Heath Ledgery query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) has a soft spot for Sir Brenzin The Bold, but that may just be my personal bias talking, asking: What fictional man-at-arms is your pick for the best knight ever?
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In terms of origins, you’re right in that fictional knights date far further back than Camelot, but for my money, as a scholar who dabbles in Arthuriana, it’s in Arthur’s court that I would search for an answer. In fact, I suppose I’d say Arthur himself would be my choice, or his faithful knight Gareth. They’ve always been my two favorite chivalrous heroes.
Don Quixote!
Visionaries, Knights of the Magical Light. Back when Saturday was all about cartoons.