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Black orchid or Black Orchid may refer to:

Books and comics[edit]

Black Orchid (comic book), a DC Comics miniseries created by Neil Gaiman
Black Orchid (comics), a character from DC Comics
Black Orchids, a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout
- 'Black Orchids' (novella), the first story in the above
Black Orchid (Killer Instinct), a character in the Killer Instinct video game series

Film and television[edit]

Black Orchid (film), a 1953 film with Ronald Howard
The Black Orchid (film), a 1958 film with Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn
Black Orchid (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who serial
Black Orchids (film), a 1917 American silent drama film

Music[edit]

The Black Orchid (nightclub), a Chicago night club from 1949 to 1959
Black Orchid (band), an Australian gothic metal band
Black Orchid (album), a 1962 jazz album by the Three Sounds
Black Orchid, a 1987 Hawaiian album by Peter Moon Band
'Black Orchid', a song by Stevie Wonder from Stevie Wonder's Journey Through 'The Secret Life of Plants'
'Black Orchid', a jazz tune written by Neal Hefti
'Black Orchid', a song by Avantasia from The Mystery of Time

Plants[edit]

Brasiliorchis schunkeana, formerly known as Maxillaria schunkeana, a species of orchid native to Brazil
Any member of several species of genus Bulbophyllum, commonly called 'Black orchid'
Calanthe triplicata or Australian Black orchid
Coelogyne mayeriana, a species of orchid native to Southeast Asia
Coelogyne pandurata (Black orchid), a species of orchid native to Borneo
Coelogyne ovalis, a species of orchid native to Indochina
Coelogyne usitana, a species of orchid native to the Philippines
Coelogyne xyrekes, a species of orchid native to Southeast Asia
Cymbidiella falcigera and Cymbidiella humblotii (Black orchid), species of orchid native to Madagascar and Île aux Nattes
Cymbidium canaliculatum (Queensland black orchid), a species of orchid native to northern and eastern Australia
Dendrobium johannis var nigrescens, a species of orchid from Australia
Disa cornuta, a species of orchid from South Africa
Dracula benedictii, a species of orchid from Colombia
Dracula minax, a species of orchid from Colombia
Dracula ubangina, a species of orchid from Ecuador
Dracula vampira, a species of orchid found on the slopes of Mount Pichincha in Ecuador
Fredclarkeara (Truly black orchid), a hybrid genus consisting of the genera Catasetum, Clowesia, and Mormodes
Grammatophyllum wallisii, a species of orchid from the Philippines
Liparis nervosa (Black orchid), a species of orchid native to Japan and China
Masdevallia rolfeana (Black orchid), a species of orchid native to Central America
Maxillaria variabilis, a species of orchid native to Central America
Monnierara (Black orchid), a hybrid genus consisting of the genera Catasetum, Cycnoches, and Mormodes
Ophrys insectifera, a species of orchid from Europe
Phalaenopsis mannii, a species of orchid native to Nepal and China
Prosthechea cochleata (Black orchid), the national flower of Belize that is also known as the Clamshell (or Cockleshell) orchid
Stanhopea tigrina var. nigroviolacea or Stanhopea nigroviolacea, a species of orchid from Mexico
Stelis immersa (Black orchid), a species of orchid ranging from Mexico to Venezuela
Trichoglottis atropurpurea (Black orchid), a species of orchid native to the Philippines

See also[edit]

Bouquet of Black Orchids, a compilation album by The Tear Garden

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Black Orchid is a relatively obscure DC Comics superheroine whose big moment of fame came in a miniseries written by Neil Gaiman, with art by Dave McKean. (There's a well-known anecdote to the effect that when Gaiman asked his DC editor if he could do a Black Orchid story, he then had to explain to her who Black Orchid was.) In particular, there's one very famous expectation-subverting scene; at the time this page was created, that scene alone was responsible for fully half of the Black Orchid-related trope examples on this wiki.

To begin at the beginning: Black Orchid was created by writer Sheldon Mayer and artist Tony DeZuniga, and debuted in Adventure Comics #428 (July, 1973), during the early days of the Bronze Age. After three try-out issues of Adventure Comics, she became the regular back-up feature in The Phantom Stranger for the next few years.

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Black Orchid is a master of disguise, and many of her adventures involve her going undercover in the criminal organisation she is investigating. She can also do more standard superheroics; she has a purple superhero outfit and can fly, has super strength, and is immune to bullets. The stories never showed her when she wasn't in some disguise, nor revealed her real name or the origin of her powers (although one story arc gave an apparent reveal, which then turned out to be part of a Costume Copycat plot).

There apparently wasn't enough demand for Black Orchid to get her own series, and when the 1970s version of The Phantom Stranger ended its run, she slipped into obscurity for a decade.

She began reappearing in the late 1980s, as some of the children who had read her adventures became comic book writers themselves. She appeared in an issue of Blue Devil where various mystic themed characters gave conflicting origin stories for her that parodied some of the more famous Marvel origin stories. She made a string of appearances with John Ostrander's Suicide Squad, putting her mastery of disguise to good use. And then in 1988 came Neil Gaiman's Black Orchid miniseries.

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The miniseries, one of the pioneering titles that influenced the later Vertigo Comics imprint, starts in the familiar way, with Black Orchid impersonating a secretary to get the goods on another criminal organization. Then it turns out the secretary's boss knows who she really is — and instead of ranting at her, sticking her in a death trap, or locking her in a storeroom until the Big Bad arrives, he shoots her in the head. Then, having empirically verified that she really is Immune to Bullets, he burns down the building with her still inside.

It turns out that the real protagonist of the mini is Black Orchid's sister, who is left to deal with the fallout of her death and sort out the messy history of their family, in the process finally revealing who she was and whence her powers. (It's complicated, and involves cameos by just about every plant-themed hero or villain on DC's roster, from Poison Ivy to the Swamp Thing.) At the end of

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