Tropescilloscope: Scary Black Man

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

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