Black Manta/Smallville

Black Manta is a fictional assassin and a minor character featured in the CW Network television series Smallville. He appeared in a brief scene with no dialogue in the twentieth episode of season ten, "Prophecy". This is the only appearance of the character.

Biography
Almost nothing is known about this mysterious man save that he was an assassin hired by Winslow Schott and was an associate of Marionette Ventures and part of his self-styled "Legion of Doom". He wore a black suit with white gloves and a large, metallic black helmet that covered the entirety of his head.

Schott put together a forum of villains and gave them assignment to track down and kill associates of Clark Kent. This man was given the task of killing the amphibious Justice League member Aquaman, though he never succeeded in this duty.

Notes & Trivia



 * The comic book version of Black Manta first appeared in Aquaman, Volume 1 #35 in September, 1967. He made six appearances in that series and then returned to plague Aquaman in ten issues of the Aquaman feature in Adventure Comics. He has made numerous appearances since then.


 * Black Manta is never identified by name in the actual episode. It is possible that his first name is David.


 * The actor who portrays Black Manta is unidentified and unknown.


 * Black Manta's association with the Legion of Doom is a throwback to the 1978 Hanna-Barbera Productions animated series Challenge of the Super Friends, which included a super-villain team called the Legion of Doom, of which Black Manta was a member.