Tropescilloscope: Sassy Black Woman

A black woman with a big voice and an even bigger attitude. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Death by Adaptation Brother–Sister Incest Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Stinger Not What It Looks Like Spared by the Adaptation Fat Bastard Frame-Up Faux Affably Evil Australian Movies Downer Ending Butt-Monkey Laser-Guided Karma Shoot the Shaggy Dog Politically Incorrect Villain Cowboy Cop Villain Ball Your Cheating Heart Ascended Extra Better to Die than Be Killed Accidental Misnaming Tagline Pretty Little Headshots Wicked Cultured Slashed Throat Expy The Ace Dirty Coward It's Personal Bad Boss Jitter Cam No OSHA Compliance Actor Allusion What You Are in the Dark Adaptation Distillation The '70s Actually Pretty Funny Animal Title Index For the Evulz A.I. Is a Crapshoot Instant Death Bullet Deliberately Monochrome Face Death with Dignity Super Strength Disproportionate Retribution The Mafia Silence Is Golden Apocalypse How The Alleged Car Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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The Dragon Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Eureka Moment Chekhov's Skill Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Dropped a Bridge on Him Mind Screw Loads and Loads of Characters Poor Communication Kills Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Unusually Uninteresting Sight Kids Are Cruel Cool Old Lady Early-Bird Cameo Slasher Movie Horror Comedy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Villain Song Badass Longcoat The Alcoholic The Bad Guy Wins Our Zombies Are Different The Power of Love Overprotective Dad Daylight Horror Heroes Want Redheads Obviously Evil Attempted Rape Visual Pun Contrived Coincidence Mooks Parental Neglect Arranged Marriage Anti-Villain Establishing Character Moment Adaptational Heroism Bloodless Carnage Obfuscating Stupidity Sealed Evil in a Can Police Brutality Captain Obvious My Greatest Failure Almost Kiss Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas B-Movie Training Montage Jerkass Has a Point Only a Flesh Wound Hate Sink Time Skip Would Hit a Girl Dramedy Manic Pixie Dream Girl Logo Joke The Faceless Combat Pragmatist Heel–Face Turn Sequel Escalation Groin Attack Be Careful What You Wish For Getting Crap Past the Radar Interrupted Suicide Match Cut Alpha Bitch Not So Above It All Big Brother Instinct Line-of-Sight Name Drugs Are Bad The Smart Guy Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Adult Fear In Name Only How We Got Here Anachronism Stew "Well Done, Son!" 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Beware the Nice Ones Wrong Genre Savvy As You Know Mr. Fanservice Maybe Ever After Improvised Weapon Gainax Ending Irony Depraved Bisexual No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Corpsing Christmas Movies Index Sanity Slippage Jerkass Extreme Doormat Dutch Angle Random Events Plot Never My Fault Kubrick Stare Fatal Flaw An Axe to Grind Reality Is Unrealistic Character Development Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Curse Cut Short Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Affably Evil MacGuffin Reality Ensues Dull Surprise Mr. Exposition Drives Like Crazy Animal Motifs Wham Line Deal with the Devil Arch-Enemy Distracted by the Sexy Neck Lift Serial Killer Antagonist Title Light Is Not Good Evil Is Hammy Hong Kong Films Yandere Black Comedy Rape Extremely Short Timespan Wretched Hive Fantastic Racism Mad Scientist Race Lift Film Noir Evil-Detecting Dog Here We Go Again! 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The Musical Put on a Bus More Dakka Setting Update Slasher Smile Horror Films Greater-Scope Villain Catch-Phrase Vomit Discretion Shot Punny Name Historical Hero Upgrade As Long as It Sounds Foreign Throwing Your Sword Always Works Reasonable Authority Figure Beta Couple Danny Peary Cult Movies List Took a Level in Jerkass Offscreen Moment of Awesome Smoking Is Cool Straight Gay Adaptation Dye-Job Mood Whiplash Comically Missing the Point Soft Glass Insane Troll Logic Does Not Like Shoes Anachronic Order Television Movie Index Room Full of Crazy Anguished Declaration of Love Cool Shades Hooker with a Heart of Gold As the Good Book Says... Foil Composite Character Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Motor Mouth Offscreen Teleportation Red Shirt Homage I Have Your Wife Papa Wolf Call-Forward Ripped from the Headlines Science Fiction Films No Ending As Himself Unwitting Instigator of Doom No Name Given Leave the Camera Running Undying Loyalty Big "NO!" 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Biopic The Chessmaster Men Are the Expendable Gender Shower Scene Cloudcuckoolander Blatant Lies Mighty Whitey Ungrateful Bastard Cain and Abel Plucky Comic Relief Deus ex Machina Retcon Hell Is That Noise Pretty in Mink Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Dramatic Gun Cock Badass Normal Meet Cute Honor Before Reason Too Dumb to Live Batman Gambit Evil vs. Evil Properly Paranoid For Want of a Nail Word of God Rule of Cool Bittersweet Ending Psychopathic Manchild Genre Throwback Once More, with Clarity! Brainless Beauty Gender Flip Breaking the Fourth Wall Epic Fail Department of Redundancy Department Exact Words The Chick The '80s The Big Guy Rule of Symbolism The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Country Matters Cassandra Truth Madness Mantra It's All About Me The Stoic Fake Shemp Lighter and Softer The Place Fingore You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Badass Bookworm Noodle Incident Pragmatic Adaptation Well-Intentioned Extremist Police are Useless Pet the Dog Non-Indicative Name Romantic Comedy Blood from the Mouth The Atoner Rewatch Bonus Small Name, Big Ego Ironic Echo Villain Opening Scene Retirony Smug Snake Mercy Kill Defiant to the End Narrator Five-Man Band Calling the Old Man Out Corrupt Corporate Executive Stock Footage Knife Nut Adaptation Expansion Naïve Newcomer Suspiciously Similar Substitute