Jordan Calloway Upped to Series Regular as Black Lightning Villain Painkiller

According to Coming Soon, The CW & DC Entertainment have confirmed that Jordan Calloway has been promoted to a series regular as Black Lightning villain Khalil Payne aka Painkiller.

Khalil Payne was a high school All-American track star with dreams of going to the Olympics until a stray bullet severed his spine, leaving him embittered and unable to walk. Black Lightning’s archnemesis Tobias Whale (Marvin “Krondon” Jones III) offers him legs for loyalty. Khalil accepts the offer and receives cybernetic enhancements that transform him into the Painkiller, meta-strong and able to generate an anesthetic from his body that causes temporary paralysis when delivered through darts. Now, he is a living weapon for a ruthless crime boss.

Black Lightning returns for season two on Tuesday, October 9, at 9PM ET.