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