Tropescilloscope: Scary Black Man

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

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