Tropescilloscope: Scary Black Man

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

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