Black Best Friend: Difference between revisions

* The heroine of the western manga ''Rhysmith'' has one of these.

* Machiste who, despite being king of his own land, spends most of his time as the loyal companion to Travis Morgan in ''[[The Warlord]]''.

** As revealed by artist/writer [[John Byrne]] on his message board: It was the habit in the [Marvel] Office to refer to CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON as [http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/showthread.php?34790-John-Byrne-Describes-Marvel-s-Casual-Racism-In-The-Seventies Captain America and the Fowl Coon].

** When Cap quit being Cap and a new one was appointed by the US government, the replacement John Walker, in that brief interlude before he started getting evil, also had a black best friend, Lemar Hoskins, who was given the costume of and codename of Bucky, Original Cap's [[World War Two]] sidekick. The comics people rapidly realized that there were [[Unfortunate Implications]], and in an unusual move [[Author's Saving Throw|addressed these within the comic]], as the Lemar explained to Walker that 'Bucky' was an unfortunate slang term for black men, and there was something demeaning about a grown man being named after a dead white teenager, so he'd like to pick a new codename. Walker agreed and Lemar became Battlestar.