Tropescilloscope: Scary Black Man

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

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