Khalil Payne Archives

While the story of Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) looks to be ending (for now) with the current fourth and final season of The CW's Black Lightning, its legacy could live on in Jordan Calloway's Khalil Payne aka Painkiller So when the series returns on Monday, April 12, viewers will find Khalil attempting to start a[...]

All Rights Reserved. Calloway's Khalil Payne is a young man riddled with guilt over his troubled past from his former life in Freeland City, where, as a super-enhanced killing machine known as Painkiller, he was both a member of Tobias Whale's (Marvin Jones III)  gang and a weapon of Agent Odell (Bill Duke) and the shadowy[...]

All rights reserved CW's Black Lightning stars Cress Williams as Jefferson Pierce / Black Lightning, Nafessa Williams as Anissa Pierce, China Anne McClain as Jennifer Pierce, James Remar as Peter Gambi, Damon Gupton as Inspector Henderson, Christine Adams as Lynn Pierce, Marvin Jones III as Tobias Whale, and Jordan Calloway as Khalil Payne Greg Berlanti, Salim[...]

CT on CW, and make sure to join us next week for our thoughts on next episode "The Book of the Apocalypse: Chapter Two: The Omega": https://youtu.be/5PFcMS97Ig4Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Black Lightning 2×16 Promo "The Omega" (HD) Season 2 Episode 16 Promo Season Finale (https://youtu.be/5PFcMS97Ig4) CW's Black Lightning stars Cress Williams as Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning, Nafessa Williams as Anissa[...]

While maybe a little short on action and moving the main story together, it deeply developed so many of the side storylines that it was more than worth it. Next week we continue with the (likely) biblical references with Black Lightning s02e13 "The Book of Secrets: Chapter Three: Pillar of Fire" – where it looks like[...]

panel at SDCC. In the first season, Painkiller, aka Khalil Payne (interestingly, the comic version of the character was never given a real name), was the boyfriend of Black Lightning/Jefferson Pierce's daughter, Jennifer Pierce Khalil was paralyzed after being shot at a march into the 100 territory, controlled by crime lord Tobias Whale Khalil and Jennifer[...]

Khalil Payne is a villain from the comics, more specifically a villain from the Black Lightning comics… Painkiller. How do we know he's Painkiller? It says it in the photo description released by the CW. Black Lightning — " Shadow of Death: The Book of War" — Image BLK113c_0061b.jpg — Pictured: Jordan Calloway as Khalil/Painkiller — Photo:[...]