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The Golden Knight is a fictional character in publications from DC Comics. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company The character last appeared in Demon #20.

Fictional character biography

The Golden Knight is protectorate of a dimensional region beyond virtue of Heaven's Gate and can only let something of pure goodness pass. The Thing That Never Dies passes but Etrigan has to fight the Golden Knight. The origin of the Golden Knight is created when Lancelot obtains the Holy Grail and is cursed by Merlin to eternally guard a gateway leading through England from Hell. In the Arthurian legend, Sir Lancelot ( Lancelot du Lac, also Launcelot) is one of the Knights of the Round Table. According to Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the dish plate or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, said to possess miraculous powers Etrigan leaves his brother, Scapegoat, here after passing with a scroll from The Thing That Never Dies. scapegoat was a Goat that was driven off into the wilderness as part of the ceremonies of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement in Judaism during the times


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