Tropescilloscope: Scary Black Man

A tall, physically imposing black man who is perceived as intimidating. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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