At a glance, Wonder-Black might just seem like a quiet, video game-obsessed kid with his head in the clouds, but the reality is that he's an 11-year-old college student with a super genius IQ, and apparently, such a good multitasker that he can make time for video games even with the fate of the world resting on his shoulders.
Wonder-Black joins the team in Operation 005-A wielding a weapon he personally helped the CENTINELS develop, the Time Bomb, and is the default user of Unite Bomb.
An 11-year-old super genius with an IQ of over 300. While an active Wonderful One based at the New Delhi field office, Wonder-Black is also enrolled in a technical university in the Unite States, where he devotes himself to mechanical-engineering research. He has enjoyed playing with machines ever since he can remember, parlaying this interest into numerous contributions to advanced science and technology. Working closely with Professor Shirogane, he has become an indispensable component of the CENTINELS Central Science Research Center. His accolades in field combat are equally impressive, as Black is especially gifted in solving cyber-crime.
Never showing much emotion, during missions Black is usually absorbed in his video games, never saying a word; however, inside his head, he is constantly thinking and preparing for what lies ahead. Nearly the same age as Green, the two have a close relationship and will often lose themselves in ridiculous conversations, even in the middle of battle. After all, for all of Wonder-Black's adult achievements, he is still a child.
His weapon, a personal invention he named the Time Bomb, has the ability to slow down the flow of time in its direct blast radius.
Description[]
Appearance[]
Krishna Ramanujan is a young child with an olive skin color and black hair, styled into cornrows with colored beads. His eye color is brown, and he has a red tear-drop shaped bindi on his forehead, though these features are obscured by his hat in his civilian form. Evidentially a fan of hip-hop, Krishna wears a black muscle shirt with orange trim, a grey long sleeved shirt tied around his waist, baggy black jeans, and black sneakers with red soles. He also wears a black baseball cap with a logo of a turntable that reads "SINCE 19XX" worn with the visor tilted so far down that his face is almost completely obscured in darkness, a silver ring on each pinky finger, a black backpack with red straps slung over his left shoulder, a black digital watch on his right wrist, and he also keeps an orange and white pair of headphones around his neck.
Krishna is almost always seen playing a handheld video game console that exactly resembles an original model Nintendo 3DS, with custom colors and details that make it resemble a Game & Watch Donkey Kong game.
As Wonder-Black, he dons a Wonder-Mask and a black CENTINEL-Suit, with a gray hoodie-style jacket brandishing the Wonderful Ones logo across its back. In this form, he wears his baseball cap backwards to reveal his face (or rather, the parts of his face not concealed by his Wonder-Mask) and his headphones are now on his head.
Like all Wonderful Ones, when Black activates his suit's Unlimited Form a cape is released from the back of the suit and protective plates extend from his mask, covering his mouth. When unmasked, Black's suit vanishes and he is reduced to black briefs.
Black's weapon, which he helped the CENTINELS develop, is the Time Bomb: a black hand grenade resembling a Mk 2 fragmentation grenade brandishing a Wonderful Ones emblem on its side, with the ability to slow down the flow of time in its direct blast radius.
Personality and Background[]
Game Over
"..." ― Wonder-Black's incoherent, often inaudible mumbling
Because of the fact that he rarely speaks, Wonder-Black has the most subtle and difficult to read personality of any character in The Wonderful 101.
Wonder-Black is a devoted lover of electronics and technology, having had an interest in mechanical-engineering and other sciences for as long as he can remember. Although his devotion to technology is often expressed in the form of an apparent obsession with video games (which he is seen playing at all times, even on missions as a Wonderful One), he is also a member of the CENTINELS Central Science Research Center alongside Professor Shirogane, and developed numerous forms of technology for the organization, including even his personal weapon. Black is also described as being involved in solving cyber-crimes.
Black is extraordinarily intelligent: despite only being 11 years old, he's skipped grades all the way into college and university, and is described as having a super genius IQ of over 300. Apart from his contributions to science, Black's intelligence also shows in his practical skills, such as his ability to reverse engineer the controls of a Gah-Goojin in seconds during Operation 005-C, allowing the team to control the captured mech.
According to Wonder-White, there's something of a saying among the CENTINELS that you can "always bet on Black" to operate electronic devices.
Despite his accomplishments in science, Wonder-Black is still a young kid, with various childish interests unrelated to his love of technology. As evidenced by his style of civilian clothing and his unique theme music, Wonder-Black enjoys hip-hop culture and rap, and is a skilled breakdancer.
Because of their similar age and shared interests, Wonder-Black is friends with Wonder-Green, and the two are known to have have childish conversations with each other on missions behind the backs of the rest of the team.
Wonder-Black also seems to have a good relationship with Wonder-Pink, as she seemed particularly excited when the team met up with him during the events of Operation 005-A. Of course, he's by no means exempt from her temper, as he still managed to enrage her by continuing to play his video game instead of joining the team in combat. Based off the undisclosed wager he proposed to Wonder-Green at the start of Operation 009-A, which involved Wonder-Pink in some way, Wonder-Black might also share Wonder-Green's crush on her (though he is many orders of magnitude more subtle about it than Green is, if that's the case.)
A newspaper headline in the Epilogue reveals that Black was eventually awarded a Ph.D. The Wonderful 101 Operation WOOF! reveals that after the events of the game, Green and Black once thwarted an evil "GEATH-donut" plot together.
Gameplay[]
Wonder-Black automatically joins the team during Operation 005-A, and is the first Unite Bomb user in the game, permanently enabling the use of Unite Bomb in all future levels and playthroughs. Black is also the default user of Unite Bomb, and is automatically selected to use the Unite Morph unless he's unavailable or the set user of Unite Bomb is changed using the Leader Select menu.
Unite Bomb is the last of the seven main Unite Morph weapon types to be obtained in the game.
"..." ― Wonder-Black's incoherent, often inaudible mumbling
"Wonder-eyes, Black." ― Wonder-Black announcing his Wonder-eyes transformation, Operation 005-A
"If it isn't the 8-Bit Enchanter, Special Combat Agent, CENTINELS Planetary Secret Service, New Delhi Field Office... Wonder-Black!" ― Wonder-Red introducing Black, Operation 005-A
"Black! Will you put that thing away and help us out already!?" ― Wonder-Pink, losing patience with Black's video game obsession, Operation 005-A
"Uh, let's see, what button... Where... Oh yeah, here, this is it..." ― Wonder-Black figuring out the Gah-Goojin's controls (his only audible line of real dialogue in the entire game), Operation 005-C
"Ahh, the so-called "always bet on Black" to operate electronic devices." ― Wonder-White on Black's skills with electronics, Operation 005-C
"Unite Bomb..." ― Wonder-Black calling a Unite Bomb QTE
Wonder-Black's Trophy from Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Trivia[]
A specified 8-bit device
Wonder-Black's handheld video game console exactly resembles an original model Nintendo 3DS, with custom colors and details that make it resemble a Game & Watch Donkey Kong game. When questioned about Wonder-Black's handheld, Hideki Kamiya stated that it was an unspecified high-spec 8-bit device.[citation needed]
Wonder-Black, real name Krishna Ramanujan, is named after the famous Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, who, despite his young age and lack of formal education, made a substantial number of revolutionary contributions to the field of mathematics, with new discoveries still being made based off his research notes nearly a century after his death.
His first name, Krishna, is a Sanskrit name meaning black or dark.
To make up for having the least amount of dialogue out of any character in the game, Wonder-Black is voiced by both the English and Japanese voice over directors for The Wonderful 101, Kris Zimmerman and Orine Fukushima (respectively.)
Wonder-Black also shares his Japanese voice actress with Wonder-Green.
Wonder-White's line about Wonder-Black's skill in operating electronic devices, "always bet on Black", is a quote from the Wesley Snipes film Passenger 57.
The character Loki from Bayonetta 2 bears a slight resemblance to Wonder-Black.
If you try to skip recruiting Wonder-Black in Operation 005-A by using Wonderful Codes to unlock Wonder-Gramps early (another Unite Bomb user,) an invisible wall will be placed in front of the spinning drill statue until Black joins the team, preventing you from progressing further into the level without him, even though you can still stop the statue using Wonder-Gramps.
At 11 years old, Wonder-Black is the youngest of the seven main Wonderful Ones.
Wonder-Black, a.k.a. the "8-Bit Enchanter", is one of the only two characters referred to by their nicknames in Wonder-Red's intros, the other being the "Hammering Russkie", Wonder-Yellow.
Additionally, Wonder-Black is strangely the only character whom Red does not refer to by their real name in his introductions.
Wonder-Black is the only main Wonderful One whose code-name does not match the color of their Unite Morph, as Unite Bomb's color scheme is primarily purple.
Black's official listed occupation is "college student", however his Wonderful File states that he's enrolled in a University.
Black's weapon has the same name as Wonder-Gramps's weapon: the Time Bomb.
Unite Bomb.
Wonder-Black
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