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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 Toto South Central While Drinking Your Juice Inin The Hood (Film)|Don't Be a Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In Thethe 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''.
* Dave Chappelle playing "Conspiracy Brother" as a comedic subversion of this in ''[[Undercover Brother]]''.
* A blink-and-you'll-miss-him background character who shows up twice in ''[[Across the Universe (Filmfilm)|Across the Universe]]''. First during a war protest in New York City, mixed in amongst the crowds, and later can be seen in Paco's office, as another sign of Paco's increasing extremism.
* The 1997 remake of ''[[Twelve12 Angry Men]]'' recasts the bigoted Juror #10, a white man in the original version, as one.
* Zeus from ''[[Die Hard With a Vengeance]]'' definitely qualifies. In fact, [[Samuel L. Jackson]] researched the role to look and act exactly like [[Malcolm X]] himself.
* Played straight and subverted with Marcus in ''[[Airheads]]'', who accuses Rex and Milo of being racist, but has no clue who Rodney King is.
* Jeriko One in ''[[Strange Days]]'' is a combination of Malcolm X and Tupac Shakur. Given the fact that he's murdered by racist cops, he might have a point.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Ras the Exhorter]] from Ralph Ellison's ''[[Invisible Man (Literaturenovel)|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 It'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]] ==
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* Parodied with Chris Rock's character Nat X on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. He's so black, he urinates oil! He's so black, that when he went to night school, the teacher marked him absent.
* Michael Evans on ''[[Good Times]]''. Nicknamed the "Militant Midget" by his family, he once declared that he preferred Cream of Wheat to oatmeal because "at least they got a black man on the box!"
* One of the two villains in the ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'' episode "Cuba Libre."
 
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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