Tropescilloscope: Scary Black Man

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

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