Tropescilloscope: Scary Black Man

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

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