Tropescilloscope: Black Dude Dies First

The token minority of the cast is always the first to go. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Ms. Fanservice Alas, Poor Villain It Can Think Ghost Fiction Sole Survivor Villain Ball The Load Gorn Red Right Hand Authority Equals Asskicking Irony Fanservice Extra Well-Intentioned Extremist Damsel in Distress Darkest Hour Hero of Another Story Sinister Minister The Sociopath Spiteful Spit Oh, Crap! '80s Hair Disguised in Drag Science Fiction Films Ax-Crazy Butt-Monkey Only Known by Their Nickname Calling the Old Man Out All Just a Dream Double-Meaning Title May–December Romance Needs Wiki Magic Love Corrupt Corporate Executive Refuge in Audacity NO INDOOR VOICE Would Hurt a Child I Did What I Had to Do Good Is Not Nice Show Within a Show Dark Reprise Bald of Evil Honor Before Reason Black and Gray Morality Dark Is Not Evil Mistaken for Gay Fatal Flaw Dying Moment of Awesome Drowning My Sorrows Obviously Evil Evil vs. Evil Alpha Bitch Sequel Hook A Father to His Men Dirty Old Man Motor Mouth Redemption Equals Death Overprotective Dad Blood Knight Take a Third Option My God, What Have I Done? Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Australian Movies Not So Stoic N-Word Privileges Dogged Nice Guy Handicapped Badass The Alcoholic Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Ghost Major Injury Underreaction The Starscream Jerk with a Heart of Gold Dwindling Party Knight Templar Wretched Hive Canadian Movies Historical-Domain Character Dumb Blonde Black Comedy Trailers Always Spoil Deliberately Monochrome Rule of Funny Would Hit a Girl Hoist by His Own Petard Adaptation Dye-Job Actor Allusion The Cavalry Dull Surprise Scary Black Man Author Appeal Big Bad Duumvirate An Axe to Grind Every Car Is a Pinto Diabolus ex Machina Break the Cutie Cold-Blooded Torture Genre Throwback War Is Hell Music Stories The Dog Bites Back The Mafia Chiaroscuro Arch-Enemy Big Damn Heroes Fish out of Water Creepy Child Cool Old Lady Dramatic Gun Cock Aside Glance The Power of Love Mystery and Detective Films Silence Is Golden Whole Plot Reference Death by Adaptation Rewatch Bonus Sci-Fi Horror Grey and Gray Morality The Hero Dies Black Comedy Rape Heroes Want Redheads Leaning on the Fourth Wall Epic Fail Arranged Marriage Genre Savvy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Shower Scene Reality Has No Subtitles "Shaggy Dog" Story Mighty Whitey Never My Fault Laser-Guided Karma Action Prologue Death of a Child Chekhov's Gun Bland-Name Product Bi the Way Time Skip Storming the Castle Adults Are Useless The '60s The '90s Never Trust a Trailer Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Wham Shot In Name Only Improbable Weapon User Together in Death Slashed Throat Loophole Abuse No Ending My Beloved Smother Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Taking You with Me Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Big Brother Instinct Foreshadowing Lampshade Hanging Fat Bastard Heroic Sacrifice Took a Level in Jerkass Say My Name Unspoken Plan Guarantee La Résistance Mundane Made Awesome Retcon Rated M for Manly Antagonist Title I Need a Freaking Drink Extremely Short Timespan Insane Troll Logic Pyrrhic Victory Knife Nut Male Frontal Nudity Cluster F-Bomb Thriller Line-of-Sight Name Film Series Product Placement Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Extreme Doormat Spared by the Adaptation Monumental Damage Missing Mom Off with His Head! Novelization Fate Worse than Death Nothing Is Scarier Character Development Reasonable Authority Figure Catch-Phrase Red Herring Rich Bitch Military and Warfare Films Fire-Forged Friends Self-Deprecation Homage Danny Peary Cult Movies List Curse Cut Short Blood from the Mouth Evil Brit Soft Glass Only in It for the Money From Nobody to Nightmare Domestic Abuse Crucified Hero Shot Becoming the Mask Genre Shift Parental Incest Reckless Gun Usage Undying Loyalty Eiffel Tower Effect Jump Scare Badass Longcoat The Quiet One Be Careful What You Wish For Vomit Discretion Shot Take That! Developing Doomed Characters Light Is Not Good Blatant Lies Soundtrack Dissonance From Bad to Worse Really Gets Around Pet the Dog Cat Fight Psychopathic Manchild The Voiceless Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bottomless Magazines Beauty Is Never Tarnished Auto Erotica Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Faking the Dead Mr. Fanservice Comically Missing the Point Dramatic Irony Love at First Sight Very Loosely Based on a True Story Five-Man Band "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Large Ham Protagonist Title Epic Movie The Bad Guy Wins Manly Tears Rule of Three Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Manchild Deal with the Devil Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Morality Pet Bloody Hilarious An Arm and a Leg Asshole Victim Here We Go Again! Television Movie Index Truth in Television Disproportionate Retribution Those Wacky Nazis Apocalypse How Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Karmic Death Silent Movie Historical Villain Upgrade Rule of Symbolism Stealth Pun Cruel and Unusual Death Anti-Hero Evil Plan Hong Kong Films Bar Brawl Heel–Face Turn Fingore Actually Pretty Funny Framing Device Index of Film Westerns Fourth Date Marriage Lock and Load Montage Broken Pedestal Playing Gertrude Sassy Black Woman Foil Idiot Ball Pretty Little Headshots Villain Opening Scene The '70s Continuity Nod The Smurfette Principle Enemy Mine Ungrateful Bastard Parental Neglect Book-Ends Eagleland Wham Line Badass Normal Ominous Latin Chanting Hidden Depths Those Two Bad Guys Poor Communication Kills Disney Death Broken Aesop Break the Haughty The Great Depression Cassandra Truth Hate Sink Betty and Veronica Defrosting Ice Queen timeperiod Bloodless Carnage Even Evil Has Loved Ones No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Breaking the Fourth Wall Agony of the Feet No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Madness Mantra Hypocrite Amusing Injuries Fantasy Films Evil Is Hammy I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Totally Radical Badass Bookworm Villainous Breakdown Annoying Younger Sibling Drugs Are Bad Big Eater Evil Is Petty Toplessness from the Back Horror Comedy Obfuscating Stupidity Catapult Nightmare Dutch Angle Public Domain Feature Films Bond Villain Stupidity Dramedy The Lancer Nice Hat Determinator Artistic License – Physics A.I. Is a Crapshoot Informed Ability Animal Title Index Make It Look Like an Accident Our Vampires Are Different Insult Backfire Unusual Euphemism Based on a True Story Famous Last Words Put on a Bus Male Gaze Does Not Like Shoes Hope Spot Dark and Troubled Past In Medias Res "The Reason You Suck" Speech Decoy Protagonist Gratuitous English You Have Failed Me Kids Are Cruel Made of Explodium Film Noir Kick the Son of a Bitch The Musical Destination Defenestration Reality Ensues Brainless Beauty Tagline Plot Hole Fun with Acronyms Men Are the Expendable Gender I Have Your Wife Martial Arts Movie Evil Laugh Mind Screw Parental Abandonment Maybe Ever After More Dakka Mooks Precision F-Strike Body Horror No Antagonist Covers Always Lie Establishing Character Moment Action Girl The Casanova Intrepid Reporter As the Good Book Says... Creative Closing Credits Sports Stories Beard of Evil Took a Level in Badass Sexy Discretion Shot Gilligan Cut Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Cameo Romantic Comedy The Oner The Alleged Car Adapted Out O.O.C. Is Serious Business My Greatest Failure Throwing Your Sword Always Works Paper-Thin Disguise The End... Or Is It? The Dreaded All There in the Script Our Zombies Are Different Stealth Hi/Bye Due to the Dead Psycho for Hire Bloodier and Gorier Unreliable Narrator Yandere Rasputinian Death Insistent Terminology Taking the Bullet Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Vitriolic Best Buds Big-Bad Ensemble Japanese Films Scare Chord B-Movie Driven to Suicide Crazy Jealous Guy Despair Event Horizon Groin Attack Wounded Gazelle Gambit Beta Couple folderlabel The Hero Race Against the Clock Back from the Dead Jerkass This Is Gonna Suck Adult Fear Contrived Coincidence The Smart Guy Ragtag Bunch of Misfits All Men Are Perverts The Dragon Kick the Dog Artistic License – Military The Remake Black Best Friend Token Minority Fiery Redhead Hypocritical Humor Laughing Mad Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday One-Word Title Creator Cameo Serious Business Adaptational Villainy Politically Incorrect Villain Slasher Movie Interrupted Suicide Film Noir Index Country Matters Super Strength Big "NO!" Hollywood Darkness Composite Character Mood Whiplash Mugging the Monster Bowdlerise Frame-Up Anti-Villain Eureka Moment A God Am I He Who Fights Monsters Award-Bait Song And the Adventure Continues Pretty in Mink Dual Wielding Big Fancy House Friend to All Children Heroic BSoD Curb-Stomp Battle Leitmotif Spell My Name with an "S" Reality Is Unrealistic Everyone Has Standards The Reveal Not Quite Dead Not What It Looks Like Not Using the "Z" Word Mr. Exposition True Companions Married to the Job Chekhov's Skill Star-Crossed Lovers Fatal Family Photo Anguished Declaration of Love Captain Obvious Jerk Jock Get Out! Shout-Out Heterosexual Life-Partners There Is No Kill Like Overkill Manic Pixie Dream Girl Almost Kiss Your Cheating Heart Abhorrent Admirer Cloudcuckoolander Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Race Lift Match Cut Gory Discretion Shot The Stinger BFG Villain with Good Publicity Disney Villain Death Villain Song Greater-Scope Villain Zombie Stories Coming-of-Age Story Improbable Aiming Skills The Bully Parental Substitute Deconstruction Scenery Gorn Cool Guns Aluminum Christmas Trees Ambiguous Disorder Artistic License – Biology Redshirt Army Cool Car Up to Eleven She Cleans Up Nicely Gold Digger Brother–Sister Incest Half the Man He Used to Be Serial Killer Facial Horror The X of Y Never Found the Body The Brute Smoking Is Cool Face Death with Dignity Slasher Smile Crapsack World Screw the Rules, I Have Money! No OSHA Compliance Your Head A-Splode All There in the Manual Cat Scare Card-Carrying Villain Closed Circle Cowboy Cop Gone Horribly Right Empathic Environment Beware the Nice Ones The '80s Final Girl Documentary Let's Get Dangerous! Expy One Steve Limit Biopic And I Must Scream Jerkass Has a Point Horror Films Mercy Kill You Killed My Father Call-Back Small Name, Big Ego Bunny-Ears Lawyer Mama Bear Leave the Camera Running Blackmail Affectionate Parody Russian Films For Want of a Nail The Ditz Early-Bird Cameo Early Installment Weirdness Affably Evil Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Place Artistic License – Geography Earn Your Happy Ending Heel Realization Pay Evil unto Evil Abusive Parents Kubrick Stare A Minor Kidroduction The '50s Stock Footage Have a Gay Old Time Foregone Conclusion Superhero It Will Never Catch On A Date with Rosie Palms Anyone Can Die Death by Sex It's Personal Fantastic Racism Vacation Films Karma Houdini Meet Cute Straight Gay Determinator aka: The Determinator Getting Crap Past the Radar Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Dropped a Bridge on Him Four-Temperament Ensemble Death Glare No Celebrities Were Harmed Downer Ending Humans Are Bastards Retirony Exact Words Flashback Same Language Dub Killed Mid-Sentence Deliberate Values Dissonance Ironic Echo Air-Vent Passageway Translation Convention Title Drop Green-Eyed Monster Disappeared Dad Demonic Possession Corpsing Real Life Made of Iron Offscreen Moment of Awesome Drives Like Crazy Ass Shove Twist Ending British Films For the Evulz Better to Die than Be Killed Red Oni, Blue Oni Tranquil Fury Ambiguous Ending Wicked Cultured Car Fu Vampire Fiction Chewing the Scenery Last-Name Basis Sealed Evil in a Can Badass in a Nice Suit Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Woman in White Daddy's Girl Stepford Smiler No-Sell Love Triangle Not So Above It All Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Instant Death Bullet Funny Foreigner Jitter Cam Shell-Shocked Veteran Flipping the Bird Depraved Bisexual Obstructive Bureaucrat Bare Your Midriff Darker and Edgier Immune to Bullets 20 Minutes into the Future Only a Flesh Wound Anachronic Order Moment Killer "Well Done, Son!" Guy Pragmatic Villainy Deus ex Machina The Un-Reveal Too Dumb to Live Chase Scene I'm a Humanitarian Bavarian Fire Drill Punny Name Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Red Shirt Ripped from the Headlines Gainax Ending Death by Irony Adaptational Heroism Worthy Opponent Deadpan Snarker Broken Bird Mexican Standoff Stuff Blowing Up Meaningful Echo Vomit Indiscretion Shot Department of Redundancy Department Adorkable Italian Films The Stoic Bilingual Bonus Credits Gag Children Are Innocent The Mole Happily Married Neck Snap Recycled IN SPACE! Face–Heel Turn Eldritch Abomination Smug Snake Re-Cut Noodle Incident The Big Guy Man on Fire Logo Joke Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Rule of Cool Evil Sounds Deep Historical In-Joke Police are Useless The Chessmaster Christmas Movies Index Sacrificial Lion Awesome, but Impractical Stylistic Suck Punch-Clock Villain Kill 'em All Works Set in World War II Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking What Happened to the Mouse? Funny Background Event Sadistic Choice Imagine Spot Visual Pun Gender Flip Revenge Sir Swears-a-Lot Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Advertised Extra Sanity Slippage Bound and Gagged Action Survivor Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Alliterative Name Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Spanner in the Works French Films Batman Gambit Hollywood Law Age Lift Only One Name Artistic License – Gun Safety An Aesop Big Applesauce Conspicuous CG Berserk Button Badass Grandpa Suspiciously Specific Denial Double Entendre Pragmatic Adaptation Adaptational Badass Skewed Priorities Accidental Murder Celebrity Paradox Overly Long Gag Big Bad In the Back Dirty Cop Hair-Trigger Temper Shut Up, Hannibal! Arc Words Setting Update Victoria's Secret Compartment The Lost Lenore Nice Guy Animated Credits Opening Malevolent Masked Men Adaptational Attractiveness Eyepatch of Power Ship Tease Pimped-Out Dress Tap on the Head Older Than They Look Babies Ever After Easily Forgiven The Chick Police Brutality Shoot the Shaggy Dog Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Bullying a Dragon Unusually Uninteresting Sight Eye Scream Dissonant Serenity Sequel Escalation She's Got Legs Neck Lift Properly Paranoid Not Even Bothering with the Accent Fanservice Even Evil Has Standards Off-into-the-Distance Ending Hooker with a Heart of Gold Naked People Are Funny Ascended Extra Bury Your Gays Hell Is That Noise Riddle for the Ages Femme Fatale Accidental Misnaming Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Improvised Weapon Implacable Man Romantic False Lead Brick Joke Psychological Thriller Meaningful Background Event Suspiciously Similar Substitute Costume Porn Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Cool Shades As You Know Fainting Amoral Attorney I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Manipulative Bastard Peek-a-Boo Corpse Bond One-Liner Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Room Full of Crazy The Atoner Artistic License – History Guile Hero Captain Ersatz Camera Abuse The Ace Once More, with Clarity! Camp Gay Real Life Writes the Plot Pre-Mortem One-Liner Shirtless Scene Distracted by the Sexy World of Ham Armor-Piercing Question Grievous Bottley Harm You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Ambiguously Gay Crazy-Prepared Left the Background Music On Bittersweet Ending Villain Protagonist Spiritual Successor Brutal Honesty Call-Forward Not So Different Suddenly SHOUTING! Combat Pragmatist Demoted to Extra Bring My Brown Pants Did Not Get the Girl Only Sane Man Historical Hero Upgrade Adaptation Name Change Central Theme Names to Run Away from Really Fast Slap-Slap-Kiss Evil-Detecting Dog Action Genre Cain and Abel German Films Expository Hairstyle Change Drill Sergeant Nasty After the End MacGuffin Scenery Porn Lighter and Softer Papa Wolf The Stoner The Faceless Does This Remind You of Anything? Posthumous Character Market-Based Title Bolivian Army Ending Intergenerational Friendship Fake Shemp Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Anachronism Stew Rousing Speech Non-Indicative Name Henpecked Husband Mythology Gag How We Got Here Humiliation Conga Cool Old Guy No Name Given As Long as It Sounds Foreign Unresolved Sexual Tension Boom, Headshot! Wrong Genre Savvy What You Are in the Dark Meaningful Name Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Retired Badass Bad Boss Bad "Bad Acting" All for Nothing Faux Affably Evil Adaptation Expansion Red Eyes, Take Warning Running Gag Outrun the Fireball Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Word of God And Starring What the Hell, Hero? Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dark Action Girl The Vamp Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Belligerent Sexual Tension Animal Motifs Shipper on Deck It's All About Me Tempting Fate Mad Scientist He Knows Too Much Black Dude Dies First Daylight Horror Defiant to the End