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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The character of Muhammad X from the ''[[Superman]]'' comics.
* [[Aquaman (Comic Book)|Aquaman's]] arch nemesis Black Manta, whose motivation was to conquer Atlantis so he could slaughter the inhabitants and make the kingdom a haven for black people who'd been so repressed on the land. Or so he says - he's shifted goals multiple times and has outright stated he's just pretending to do this in order to get funds and men. He really just wants money and to see Aquaman dead.
* A [[The Sixties|1960s]] ''Little Annie Fanny'' comic, satirizing the ideological conflict between MLK Jr.'s and Malcolm X's followers, ends with "Marvin X" and his followers donning surplus [[GodwinsGodwin's Law|Nazi uniforms]] and "Marvin" shouting "We must build a superior race! Let the liquidations begin!" At this, the unnamed MLK Jr. stand-in, whom Marvin's ship had rescued from the ocean, swims off saying, "I think I'll take my chances with the sharks."
 
== [[Film]] ==
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* The Mau Mau gang from [[Spike Lee|Spike Lee's]] ''[[Bamboozled]]''. They fit the "hypocrisy" aspect of this character. The Mau Maus angrily denounce the [[Blackface]] entertainers with "Painted faces, disgrace to the races!" - but they are, in their own way, [[You Are What You Hate|just as buffoonish as what they condemn]]. And they're even more hypocritical when they execute one of the show's performers while wearing some of the "Mantan" Halloween masks they so despise (which makes them [[Dirty Coward|Dirty Cowards]] as well).
* Buggin' Out from ''[[Do the Right Thing]]''. Many of the other characters are angry about race issues as well, which is kinda the point of the movie.
* The Wayans brothers like the comedic version of this trope, with the addition that the more outspokenly afro-centric the character is, the more obsessed he is with [[Where Da White Women At?|banging white chicks]] -- most notably in ''[[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]'' and ''[[Don't Be a Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood (Film)|Don't Be a Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood]]''.
* Mitch Mullany's ''The Breaks'' includes a scene reminiscent of ''[[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]'' when the main character, Derrick, attends a spoken word performance. After a dreadlocked black man recites an angry Afrocentric poem, the hostess says, "Thank you very much, Stokely Ungawa, and your lovely wife, Betsy..." at which point the camera cuts to the same poet, embracing a very [[White Anglo Saxon Protestant|WASPy]] looking blonde.
* Martin Lawrence plays an especially obnoxious example of this trope in ''National Security''.
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Ras the Exhorter]] from Ralph Ellison's ''[[Invisible Man (Literature)|Invisible Man]]''.
* The X-Man from Minister Faust's superhero novel ''From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain''. Played straight {{spoiler|until the ending, when it's revealed pretty much all his paranoid delusions about The Man are true.}}
* An interesting example from [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's for Kids?|youth literature]] is Axon Befal from the [[Green Sky Trilogy]]. The Erdlings are [[Ambiguously Brown]], and {{spoiler|the decendants of exiled Kindar (Kindar being the race with "privledges")}}. When this all is revealed and the Erdlings are freed from their imprisonment [[Beneath the Earth]], Befal is preaching for ''violent'' retribution against the Kindar, including those ignorant of the Erdling's existence. Most Erdlings want nothing to do with him and consider him a criminal. In the game, his "wand" (a machete) makes the game [[Unwinnable]] if you [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment|use it on anything other than briar bushes]].
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[A Different World]]'': Lena James and, to a lesser extent, Winifred 'Freddie' Brooks (who was also a [[Hippie Chick|hippie]] and a [[Soapbox Sadie]]), though this was somewhat realistically (or cynically) toned down when she became a lawyer. Although some who have a [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] of her believes she became toned down do to her somewhat becoming a realist after she got her law degree. [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids|And thus became less overbearing. And to some less likable]].
* Tashim from ''[[Martin]]'', though mostly played for comedy.
* A decent number of black characters from ''[[Law and Order]]'' qualify. Basically, if there's a black prosecutor/lawyer/defendant/minister/activist/etc. opposing the lead cast, s/he is likely to hit ''at least'' some parts of this trope and [[Angry Black Man]].
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