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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Lance''': "Always trying to keep the [[Token White|white]] man down."
'''Conspiracy Brother''': "[[Jerkass|THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT]]...[[Heel Realization|no that ain't right]]."|''[[Undercover Brother]]''}}
Back in the 70s, [[Blaxploitation]] films took hard-nosed Black heroes and pitted them against [[The Man]] in action-packed stories full of [[Jive Turkey]] and [[Unfortunate Implications]], all set to a funky beat. These days, any film producer (with the possible exception of [[Quentin Tarantino]]) would be committing career suicide if they tried to make a [[Blaxploitation]] film... even if they did it because they loved the genre.
The solution is the
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-pe_QWsE5U This] ice-cream ad from Chile, featuring a [[Soul Brotha]] [[Afro Asskicker]] and his [[Action Girl]] [[Ms. Fanservice]] partner.
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* ''[[Dolemite]]'' - A hard-working pimp fights back against crooked cops who want to frame him for crimes he didn't commit (instead of the rather obvious crimes he does commit). One of the first blaxploitation parodies, [[Misaimed Fandom|but some people think it's a straight example]].
* ''[[The Hebrew Hammer]]''. A "Jewsploitation" movie, same plot concept, but with Jewish stereotypes. And [[Santa Claus]].
* ''[[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]'' - A 1986 film starring Keenan Ivory Wayans and several other stars of blaxploitation films such as Jim Brown, Antonio Fargas (that's "Huggy Bear" to you ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]'' fans) and Isaac Hayes.
* ''[[Jackie Brown]]'' is [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s homage to the genre.
* ''[[Machete]]'' started out as a fictitious Mexploitation film whose [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie|trailer]] was part of ''[[Grindhouse]]'', but [[Robert Rodriguez]] [[Defictionalization|actually made it]].
* ''[[Undercover Brother]]'' - An early 2000s Eddie Griffin film about a [[Soul Brotha]] who joins a secret organization in its fight against "The Man" and his quest to "whitewash" influential black figures.
* ''[[Pootie Tang]]'' is a completely silly spoof of the blaxploitation genre.
* In ''Hollywood Shuffle'', Robert Townsend plays an actor who gets cast in a [[Blaxploitation]] film. He's not sure if he should take the job - on the one hand at least he'd be working, but on the other hand he'd be working in one of these. [[Imagine Spot
* The "Cleopatra Schwartz" segment of ''[[Kentucky Fried Movie]]''.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Isaac Washington, the secondary protagonist of ''[[The House of the Dead (
* Not an entire work, but one of the main characters of ''[[
* The hats released for Demoman from ''[[
* ''[[Max Payne 2]]'' has the [[Show Within a Show]] "Dick Justice", a parody of the first ''Max Payne'' with a black protagonist.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* It's only a brief clip, but ''[[The Simpsons (
** Also in ''The Simpsons'', Homer watches "Blaxploitation Theater" which is said to feature ''[[
* Similarly, ''[[
** Said trailer also mentioned ''Blackdraft,'' ''Caddyblack'' and ''Black Kramer vs. Kramer.''
* An elder black version of Dracula in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[[Drawn Together]]'' has Foxxy Love, a sass talking black girl and mystery solver who is often fighting against oppressive, and white, institutions (i.e., The Board of Education)
* The ''[[
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' has Jefferson Twilight who is a [[
* Robot Police Officer URL from ''[[Futurama]]'' is a parody of [[Blaxploitation]] heroes. This overlaps with [[Salt and Pepper]] and [[Odd Couple]], given his partner is human Police Officer Smitty.
* The [[Show Within a Show]] ''Action Hank'' in ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'', it was revealed that Donna starred in a film she regretted being in, ''Hot Cocoa Bang Bang''.
* In ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'', all the forest animals are sitting around a campfire telling a segment of a story. Barry the Bear (an obvious Barry White parody) tells his story segment in this fashion.
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