Tropescilloscope: Sassy Black Woman

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

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