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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Or Is It? 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The Smurfette Principle Hollywood Law Be Careful What You Wish For Red Eyes, Take Warning Never Found the Body Mood Whiplash Catch-Phrase Decoy Protagonist Only Known by Their Nickname Sports Stories Sole Survivor The Chessmaster Mind Screw Comically Missing the Point Sadistic Choice Fire-Forged Friends Anti-Villain Chiaroscuro Tap on the Head Disney Death Authority Equals Asskicking Leave the Camera Running Those Wacky Nazis How We Got Here Our Vampires Are Different Dark and Troubled Past Up to Eleven Kids Are Cruel Irony Cain and Abel Extremely Short Timespan Informed Ability Freudian Excuse Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Bare Your Midriff Contrived Coincidence Cowboy Cop Demoted to Extra It's All About Me Funny Foreigner Villain Ball Let's Get Dangerous! 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Is Serious Business Exact Words Ripped from the Headlines Henpecked Husband Historical Hero Upgrade Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Nice Hat Unresolved Sexual Tension Evil Plan What Happened to the Mouse? Works Set in World War II Insult Backfire Eye Scream As the Good Book Says... Sir Swears-a-Lot Shout-Out Cold-Blooded Torture Creative Closing Credits Red Oni, Blue Oni You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Our Zombies Are Different All for Nothing Rich Bitch Slashed Throat Ambiguous Ending Genre Savvy Drowning My Sorrows Black and Gray Morality The Remake Spiritual Successor Artistic License – Military Word of God Vomit Discretion Shot Knife Nut Race Against the Clock British Films Getting Crap Past the Radar Failed a Spot Check Early Installment Weirdness There Is No Kill Like Overkill Smug Snake No-Sell The Dragon Protagonist Title Gorn Casting Gag In the Back Police are Useless I Have Your Wife Bowdlerise Man on Fire Shown Their Work Framing Device