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The [[Black Boss Lady]] is characterized by being a [[Twofer Token Minority]], both a woman and Black, in charge of probably mostly men in a stereotypically male profession. Right there, you know she's a badass because she must be so good at her job, that even any discrimination which might have been in her way due to either her femininity or her minority status was bulldozed flat in two-point-five seconds by her incredible competency.

Because the [[Black Boss Lady]] is ''good'', or she wouldn't be where she is today. She's not afraid to take some risk if there is a decent chance of a worthwhile pay off. She presides over her organization with an iron fist, but she's also a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]], and will give the [[Cowboy Cop]] (or lawyer, or reporter, etc.) credit were it's due. At first she might seem like a hardass [[By ~~the~~ Book Cop|by-the- book type]] but inevitably they get used to each other, she reveals hidden depths, and the two give each other room to work and come to appreciate the other's strength.

Because the [[Black Boss Lady]] is ''good'', or she wouldn't be where she is today. She's not afraid to take some risk if there is a decent chance of a worthwhile pay off. She presides over her organization with an iron fist, but she's also a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]], and will give the [[Cowboy Cop]] (or lawyer, or reporter, etc.) credit were it's due. At first she might seem like a hardass [[By-The-Book Cop|by-the- book type]] but inevitably they get used to each other, she reveals hidden depths, and the two give each other room to work and come to appreciate the other's strength.

When it comes to drama, her blackness is hardly ever mentioned, her femaleness being the main source of plot. This being so she won't have much of an [[American Accents|Urban Accent]] or have many tropes stereotypically associated with blackness. She almost never slips into [[Sassy Black Woman]], for instance. She's also usually very well-dressed, in a business skirt-suit or slacks (nothing even remotely risque), and it's not uncommon for her clothes to be somewhat masculine. Often she has managed to have her cake and eat it too (mostly) in that she has both a shining career and a family.

One could reasonably consider the [[Black Boss Lady]] to be the [[Distaff Counterpart]] to the [[Bald Black Leader Guy]], though the main things they have in common are being black and being leaders (though there's technically nothing in the trope that excludes her from being [[Bald Woman|bald]] too). Is also a subtrope of [[Da Chief]], most of the time, though this trope isn't restricted to situations were she actually is [[Da Chief]], she just needs to be the boss of whatever organization she's running.

== [[Comic Books]] ==

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* Victoria "Iron" Gates is [[The Umbridge]] in ''[[Castle]]'' {{spoiler|after the death of Captain Montgomery. [[Bait and Switch Tyrant|She's not as bad as she seems, though]]}}.

* A lot of characters on [[ER]] answer to Dr. Angela Hicks.

* ''[[~~Noahs~~ Arc]]'': Brandy.

* ''[[Noah's Arc]]'': Brandy.

* Heylia James from ''[[Weeds]]'' definitely qualifies too.

* Captain Claudette Wyms from ''[[The Shield]]''.