Tropescilloscope: Scary Black Man

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

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