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