- "Gentlemen, the Thunderbird machines will be arriving here at approximately 11:00 hours, tomorrow morning. The final phase of Operation "Ambush" has commenced."
Black Phantom (only known name) is a shadowy, enigmatic - and utterly ruthless - figure, as evidenced by the elaborate scheme he's devised. Its goal: to take down International Rescue and seize the Thunderbird craft for his own ends!
"Operation Ambush" begins with Skyship One, the high-tech airship designed by "Mr. X" (Brains), which is about to embark on its maiden round-the-world voyage. Black Phantom plans to steal the airship - with its passengers (Alan, Tin-Tin, Parker and Lady Penelope) - literally, in plain sight. Members of his criminal gang, posing as crew members, furtively get aboard and kill the real Skyship crew. Because the airship is fully-automated, the imposters' seeming lack of expertise will thus go unnoticed...
He also orders his phoney Captain Foster to record, then transmit, a fake distress call from Penelope (pieced together from covert recordings of her voice) - so that he could then trap Thunderbirds 1 and 2 in his desert hideout, and murder their occupants...
However, the four IR agents figure out the ruse in time, and warn Jeff, at Tracy Island. Before Black Phantom's men can attack with their guns, Thunderbirds 1 and 2 open fire on the desert hideout with their demolition cannons, and Black Phantom and his henchmen presumably perish in the resulting destruction of their base.
Voiced by Gary Files, Black Phantom appears in the movie Thunderbird 6.
Notes[]
- In the Thunderbird 6 DVD commentary, Sylvia Anderson refers to Black Phantom as "Hood Jr," suggesting a blood relation to the series main villain. In the first edition of The Complete Book of Thunderbirds however, it is indicated that the Black Phantom is actually the Hood himself. Ironically (or, perhaps not?), Black Phantom's puppet was previously used as the Hood's in the movie Thunderbirds Are Go.
