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