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