Tropescilloscope: Black Best Friend

A satellite black character is best friends with non-black main character in attempt to make the latter fare better. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is Serious Business Parental Incest Bottomless Magazines Fat Bastard Card-Carrying Villain Italian Films Manic Pixie Dream Girl Enemy Mine Big Damn Heroes Comically Missing the Point Fantasy Films Creator Cameo Noodle Incident Scenery Gorn Gratuitous English Gorn Death of a Child Shoot the Shaggy Dog Demoted to Extra Bad "Bad Acting" B-Movie Mr. Fanservice Ms. Fanservice Department of Redundancy Department Did Not Get the Girl Evil Is Hammy Anyone Can Die Ripped from the Headlines Gold Digger Awesome, but Impractical Mugging the Monster He Who Fights Monsters Off with His Head! Artistic License – Military Adaptation Name Change Flipping the Bird No Name Given Beard of Evil Running Gag Anti-Villain N-Word Privileges Leaning on the Fourth Wall Parental Abandonment The '80s What Happened to the Mouse? 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Easily Forgiven Unreliable Narrator Shout-Out Those Two Bad Guys Killed Mid-Sentence Mercy Kill Neck Snap Evil Brit Beta Couple Blood from the Mouth Disproportionate Retribution Auto Erotica Would Hit a Girl Disney Death Costume Porn Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Determinator aka: The Determinator Men Are the Expendable Gender Epic Fail Film Noir Index Pragmatic Villainy Early-Bird Cameo Malevolent Masked Men Very Loosely Based on a True Story Pragmatic Adaptation Not Using the "Z" Word Film Series Deal with the Devil Mythology Gag Cassandra Truth Ironic Echo Advertised Extra Vomit Discretion Shot Gender Flip Star-Crossed Lovers Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Spared by the Adaptation Famous Last Words Hong Kong Films The '90s Sassy Black Woman Heel–Face Turn Fanservice It Will Never Catch On Sexy Discretion Shot Drugs Are Bad Only in It for the Money One-Man Army Unwitting Instigator of Doom It Can Think Adaptational Badass Pet the Dog Deadpan Snarker Dramatic Irony For Want of a Nail The Brute Rule of Symbolism Woman in White Agony of the Feet Not So Different You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Determinator Abusive Parents Works Set in World War II Politically Incorrect Villain Real Life No OSHA Compliance Black Comedy Rape Establishing Character Moment Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun And I Must Scream Wham Shot Dark Is Not Evil Villain Ball Affectionate Parody Badass Grandpa Call-Forward Kill 'em All Curb-Stomp Battle How We Got Here Taking You with Me Chiaroscuro Leitmotif Big Eater Defrosting Ice Queen Punch-Clock Villain "Well Done, Son!" Guy Gory Discretion Shot Room Full of Crazy Bowdlerise Five-Man Band I Have Your Wife Calling the Old Man Out Ambiguous Disorder Cloudcuckoolander Henpecked Husband Action Survivor I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Big "NO!" Index of Film Westerns Film Noir Faux Affably Evil Darkest Hour Riddle for the Ages Love Triangle Psycho for Hire In Name Only folderlabel Hollywood Law Manipulative Bastard Idiot Ball Blatant Lies Red Eyes, Take Warning Heroic BSoD Only One Name Instant Death Bullet Epic Movie Becoming the Mask And Starring Genre Shift Made of Iron Book-Ends Captain Ersatz Obviously Evil Gainax Ending Informed Ability Affably Evil Bavarian Fire Drill Coming-of-Age Story Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Based on a True Story Poor Communication Kills Male Gaze Superhero Military and Warfare Films Chewing the Scenery Scenery Porn Canadian Movies Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Faceless The Dreaded Heterosexual Life-Partners As the Good Book Says... Blood Knight Tagline Tap on the Head What You Are in the Dark Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Adults Are Useless Apocalypse How Rule of Cool Foregone Conclusion Asshole Victim Suddenly SHOUTING! Pretty in Mink Artistic License – Geography The Ace Villain Protagonist Daylight Horror Dressing as the Enemy Dirty Coward You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Slashed Throat Hidden Depths Race Against the Clock Mexican Standoff Sacrificial Lion Mistaken for Gay Jerk Jock This Is Gonna Suck Evil vs. Evil Romantic Comedy Sequel Hook Driven to Suicide Bare Your Midriff Not So Above It All The Cameo Laser-Guided Karma Too Dumb to Live Australian Movies Expository Hairstyle Change What the Hell, Hero? Narrator The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Adaptational Attractiveness Token Minority Made of Explodium Imagine Spot The Stoic Jerkass Has a Point Bar Brawl Cool Old Guy Meaningful Echo Black Dude Dies First Psychological Thriller "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Obstructive Bureaucrat Red Oni, Blue Oni Anti-Hero Didn't Think This Through Hollywood Darkness Break the Cutie Adaptational Heroism Worthy Opponent Maybe Ever After Slasher Smile Hell Is That Noise Pimped-Out Dress Fatal Family Photo Adorkable Insult Backfire A.I. Is a Crapshoot Smoking Is Cool Adaptational Villainy Stylistic Suck Fake Shemp Reality Ensues Chekhov's Gunman Older Than They Look Visual Pun Bolivian Army Ending Evil Plan Kick the Dog The '70s Science Fiction Films Babies Ever After Storming the Castle Reasonable Authority Figure Market-Based Title Deliberate Values Dissonance Pre-Mortem One-Liner Smug Snake Take a Third Option Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Historical In-Joke Mind Screw Reality Is Unrealistic Extreme Doormat Boom, Headshot! Wounded Gazelle Gambit Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Humiliation Conga Artistic License – Gun Safety Blackmail Our Vampires Are Different Abhorrent Admirer Early Installment Weirdness Depraved Bisexual Composite Character It's Personal Fanservice Extra Double-Meaning Title And the Adventure Continues Bound and Gagged Red Right Hand Nothing Is Scarier Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Victoria's Secret Compartment Married to the Job Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Beauty Is Never Tarnished Unusual Euphemism Bad Boss Karmic Death Evil Sounds Deep The Quiet One Kids Are Cruel Catapult Nightmare Male Frontal Nudity Catch-Phrase Important Haircut Bloody Hilarious Adaptation Distillation All There in the Manual Framing Device All There in the Script Corpsing Demonic Possession Offscreen Moment of Awesome Stock Footage Once More, with Clarity! 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Obfuscating Stupidity Re-Cut Everyone Has Standards Chekhov's Skill Twist Ending Action Genre Black and Gray Morality As Himself Eye Scream Yandere Exact Words Truth in Television Big-Bad Ensemble Drowning My Sorrows Bring My Brown Pants Fire-Forged Friends Revenge An Aesop Retired Badass The X of Y Extremely Short Timespan Kill It with Fire Morality Pet Crapsack World Suspiciously Specific Denial The Chessmaster Broken Pedestal My Greatest Failure Double Entendre Man on Fire Ghost Fiction Dual Wielding Skewed Priorities Aside Glance Green-Eyed Monster Foreshadowing Horror Films Not Even Bothering with the Accent The '50s Death by Sex Ship Tease Intrepid Reporter Overly Long Gag Amusing Injuries Hooker with a Heart of Gold Lock and Load Montage Even Evil Has Loved Ones Face–Heel Turn Protagonist Title The Casanova Serious Business The End... Or Is It? 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Needs Wiki Magic Love I Did What I Had to Do Heroic Sacrifice Grey and Gray Morality Nice Hat Daddy's Girl Reckless Gun Usage Fun with Acronyms Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Badass Boast Call-Back Jerk with a Heart of Gold Throwing Your Sword Always Works No-Sell Bi the Way Race Lift Karma Houdini Wham Line Armor-Piercing Question Almost Kiss The Dragon Central Theme Diabolus ex Machina Dark Action Girl "The Reason You Suck" Speech Self-Deprecation Silence Is Golden The Place Crucified Hero Shot Black Comedy Together in Death Never Found the Body As You Know Dramedy You Killed My Father Improbable Aiming Skills Shell-Shocked Veteran Whole Plot Reference Left the Background Music On Here We Go Again! Suspiciously Similar Substitute Chase Scene Arranged Marriage Rousing Speech Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Death by Adaptation Stepford Smiler Fantastic Racism Martial Arts Movie Large Ham Cat Scare Genre Savvy Improvised Weapon Accidental Murder Ambiguous Ending Action Prologue Police Brutality Intergenerational Friendship Beware the Nice Ones Posthumous Character Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Drives Like Crazy Big Bad Cold-Blooded Torture Fourth Date Marriage Humans Are Bastards Wicked Cultured Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Mama Bear The Remake Dissonant Serenity Dark and Troubled Past Bury Your Gays Betty and Veronica Tempting Fate Credits Gag Destination Defenestration The Voiceless The Dog Bites Back I'm a Humanitarian The Vamp World of Ham Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Brutal Honesty Non-Indicative Name Training Montage An Axe to Grind Mad Scientist It's All About Me Flashback The Hero Dies "Awesome McCool" Name Handicapped Badass Celebrity Paradox Lighter and Softer Hoist by His Own Petard Took a Level in Badass I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Insane Troll Logic Parental Substitute Documentary Not What It Looks Like Freeze-Frame Bonus Police are Useless Sadistic Choice Hypocrite Implacable Man Funny Background Event Car Fu Hero of Another Story Madness Mantra Covers Always Lie Adaptation Expansion Show Within a Show Stealth Pun Adapted Out Interrupted Suicide Paper-Thin Disguise The Musical Failed a Spot Check Brick Joke Hate Sink Foil Evil Laugh Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Rape as Drama Batman Gambit Darker and Edgier Oh, Crap! No Antagonist Artistic License – Physics No Celebrities Were Harmed Shower Scene She's Got Legs Camp Gay Rated M for Manly Love at First Sight Redemption Equals Death The Bully Unusually Uninteresting Sight An Arm and a Leg Laughing Mad Video Credits Pay Evil unto Evil The Lancer Facial Horror Retcon Undying Loyalty Unresolved Sexual Tension Offscreen Teleportation Animal Motifs Stalker with a Crush A God Am I Mood Whiplash All for Nothing BFG Ambiguously Gay Our Zombies Are Different Greater-Scope Villain Dutch Angle The Cavalry Papa Wolf No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Bullying a Dragon Artistic License – Law Ass Shove Line-of-Sight Name Let's Get Dangerous! Alpha Bitch Fiery Redhead Breaking the Fourth Wall Casting Gag Historical Villain Upgrade Rule of Three Decoy Protagonist Cain and Abel Deliberately Monochrome Damsel in Distress Parental Neglect Eiffel Tower Effect No Ending Children Are Innocent Sealed Evil in a Can Genre Throwback Improbable Weapon User Deconstruction Woman Scorned Get Out! Neck Lift Frame-Up Cool Car Attempted Rape For the Evulz Villain with Good Publicity Cluster F-Bomb Word of God Vampire Fiction Sanity Slippage Actor Allusion Bait-and-Switch Bitch in Sheep's Clothing British Films Say My Name Guns Akimbo Major Injury Underreaction The Reveal Tranquil Fury Trailers Always Spoil Bittersweet Ending Sequel Escalation Cowboy Cop Broken Aesop From Bad to Worse Creative Closing Credits The Load Every Car Is a Pinto Shipper on Deck