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Note that the character doesn't necessarily have to be of African descent, just large, imposing, brown/dark-skinned, and have a tendency to make people wet themselves with a single glare.
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{{noreallife|real people are not defined by a single trope.}}
== Anime & Manga ==▼
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* Dutch from ''[[Black Lagoon]]''—though despite his somewhat menacing appearance he's [[Subverted Trope|not very scary once you get to know him]], being one of the most cool-headed and easygoing people in the show. He certainly has nothing on [[media:cit black lagoon nightmare fuel.jpg|Revy]].
** Well, like just about everyone else in this series, he's also an unflinching killer. So his scariness/lack thereof is relative. He's also the only one who can keep Revy's more [[Heroic Sociopath|sociopathic]] tendencies in check, as seen in the Nazi arc.
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** His appearance also makes the occasions when he actually acts like a normal teenager all the more hilarious, such as when he challenges Sena...to a pillow fight.
* Pippin of ''[[Berserk]]'' is the biggest member of the Band of the Hawk apart from Guts himself, and is a [[Gentle Giant]]. Donovan, Guts's rapist from his days as a child mercenary, qualifies as an evil example.
* James Ironside from ''[[Blood
* ''[[Averted Trope|Averted]]'' by Cameroon of [[Axis Powers Hetalia]]. He has the ([[Tall, Dark and Handsome|very good]]) looks and the height as well as [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|a scar on the back of his head]] and [[Stoic Spectacles]]... but he's actually [[Nice Guy|a very kind and sweet]] [[Gentle Giant]] who [[The Beautiful Game|likes playing soccer]] [[Friend to All Children|with the children of his land]] [[Cute Kitten|and has a pet lion cub.]]
* In the fifth season of [[Detective Conan]], an old man named Yoshifusa Yamauchi comes back from Brazil to claim his share of his deceased brother's huge inheritance and brings a SBM named Carlos as his bodyguard. {{spoiler|It's surprisingly averted: Yoshifusa is actually Dickson Tanaka, a [[Badass Grandpa]] who is [[Dead Person Impersonation|impersonating]] the deceased Yoshifusa ''and is Carlos's bodyguard'', since the supposed Scary Black Man was a harmless [[Gentle Giant]] - and Yoshifusa's son, whom Dickson swore to protect from his friend's [[Big Screwed-Up Family]].}}
* Parodied hard by the [[Show Within a Show]] in ''[[Gundam 00: Awakening of the Trailblazer|Gundam 00 a Wakening of The Trailblazer]]'', where the pilot of the [[BFG]]-throwing Gundam Seravee, Tieria Erde, is not the same slender white man wearing glasses but instead a muscular Scary Black Man outright, parodying the common racial stereotype of black men as big muscles in the entertainment media.
* Blackbeard from ''[[One Piece]]'' (who Oda has said would be from Swahili if the manga took place in the real world) doesn't look like one at first glance, and is introduced as a cheery, jovial old seadog who gives inspirational speeches. But once he shows his true colors, it quickly becomes clear just how dangerous he really is. A cunning, treacherous pirate captain with powers over pure darkness and a crew full of vicious psychopaths, Blackbeard quickly establishes himself as one of Luffy's most hated enemies, and one of the most powerful men in a [[World of Badass]].
== Character Actors ==
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* Delroy Lindo. [[Congo|When he tells you to stop eating his sesame cake, you damn well better stop.]]
* Although not a man, Grace Jones deliberately invoked elements of this trope with her on-stage look (square-cut padded masculine suits, flat-top hair, nearly 6 feet tall and muscular) early in her career.
* [[Morgan Freeman]]'s roles often overlaps this with [[Badass Grandpa]]. Good examples include ''[[Wanted (film)|Wanted]]'', ''[[Glory]]'', ''[[Se7en]]'', and ''[[Batman Begins]]''. He even fit the Trope via [[Sesame Street Cred]] when he appeared in shorts on ''[[The Electric Company]]''.
== Comic Books ==
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== Film ==
* ''[[The Serpent and the Rainbow]]''
* Pictured above, Jules Winfield of ''[[Pulp Fiction]]''. In fact, if a movie (without [[Star Wars]] in the title) has [[Samuel L. Jackson]] in it (whether he's the hero or villain), chances are he will be playing one of these.
* ''[[The Blind Side]]'': But despite his intimidating size, Michael is actually a [[Gentle Giant]]. He's plenty scary if you're lined up against him on the football field, though.
* ''Revenge of the Nerds'' pulls out a whole squad of 'em, when the Tri-Lamb head gives Gilbert the support to speak out in front of the Alpha Betas.
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* Prince Escalus (now portrayed as a policeman) in ''[[William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet]]''.
* ''[[Black Dynamite]]''.
== Literature ==
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* Colonel Ike Dubaku of Sangala from ''[[24]]''.
** Even more so, his boss, General Benjamin Juma, played by the above-mentioned Tony Todd.
* Onyx Blackman in ''[[Strangers with Candy]]'', played by Greg Hollimon. Also a [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]. Paul Dinello describes [https://web.archive.org/web/20161119044040/http://www.pauldinello.net/pdnetinterview.htm suddenly being nose to nose with Greg] after a game where they all had their eyes shut.
* In an episode of ''[[Salute Your Shorts]]'', counselor Ug goes looking for his runaway campers at a movie theater. Since he does not plan to see a movie, he senses his presence to be awkward and tries talking friendly to the large black usher/bouncer. The usher remains silent and stone-faced. To be fair, the white woman at the refreshment stand treats Ug just the same, even helping the usher to throw Ug out the door when he crosses the line. But only when the camera's on the usher do we hear a beast growling in the movie.
* [[Chappelle's Show|Charlie Murphy!]]
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* [[Arrested Development (TV series)|You can't have a party without]] [[Real Men Wear Pink|''ICE'']]!
* The title character on ''[[Luther]]'', a genius police detective, has a habit of smashing doors and windows to pieces when he gets upset and is occasionally shown picking people up bodily by their necks.
* In both the old ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'' and [[Magnum P.I. (2018 TV series)|the 2018 reboot]], TC was a respectable businessman (running a tour copter), true to his friends, and a charitable man who mentored youth groups. In other words he was a normal and [[Beware the Nice Ones|genuinely nice]] guy. Get on his bad side by hurting someone he cares about though and you are in trouble. It helps of course that he is [[Gentle Giant|just plain huge.]]
== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[Professional Wrestling]]'s best example: '''''New Jack.''''': he's a former bounty hunter with four confirmed kills, oh and that isn't [[Kayfabe]]. In a [[Worked Shoot]] interview he says he's glad he wasn't victim to a botch, he tried pushing him off the thirty foot ledge. And that his favorite match was the Mass Transit incident where a 17 year old was almost killed. He also had a big scar on the top of his head, which invoked memories of a [[The Butcher|certain someone.]]
* Bad News Brown a.k.a. Bad News Allen. Real name Allen Coage, Olympic medalist in judo, generally considered one of the most legitimate badasses in pro wreslting history...the best story about him involves the time his friend and fellow badass The Dynamite Kid got jumped by the Rougeau Brothers backstage at a WWF event in the 80's...after jumping Dynamite with brass knuckles, Bad News saw what was happening and came after them...with a 2-on-1 advantage and brass knuckles, they were terrified to mix it up with Bad News and ran away...
* Former WWECW wrestler Big Daddy V is 500 pounds(!) of half-Scary Black Man, half-[[The Giant]]; of course, the one thing (well, two things... possibly three) that's even scarier than his power and his quietness are his gargantuan man-boobs. I tells ya, those things are just creepy... Nelson Frazier, the man behind V, has actually been in the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] off and on for 16 years, first as the rapper Mabel, then as the aristocrat King Mabel, then the gothic Viscera, and then as the world's largest love machine. However, he has always been a scary black man, as anybody who saw him break The Undertaker's face in 95 can tell you. Though at least, in those incarnations, he had a shirt.
* "[[Spell My Name with a "The"|The]]" Brian Kendrick had Ezekiel Jackson, a Scary Black Man, as his bodyguard. So far it has been played straight, although he was shown reading ''The Cat In The Hat'' for no apparent reason. He has also quoted Sun Tzu, so take that as it stands. Zeke made it to the ECW brand and eventually joined William Regal's "Ruthless Roundtable", where he was pushed to the point of becoming the last ECW Champion, then alternated between inactivity and mostly squashing lower-midcarders as a face, before really resurfacing on ''Smackdown'' as a member of the Corre who would [[Holy Shit Quotient|routinely bodyslam and even once suplex]]'''[[Holy Shit Quotient|THE BIG SHOW]]'''.
* Amazing Kong/Awesome Kong/Kharma is a Scary Black Woman.
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* Potemkin from ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' is black (or at least very, very dark-skinned), enormous, and hugely strong—he sketches in his spare time, but needs special supplies, as he breaks ordinary pencils just by trying to use them, applying several ''tons'' of pressure. He's also [[Gentle Giant|one of nicest guys in the entire series.]]
* ''Kung Fu's'' [http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/kung-fu/ "fat black man"].
* The Demoman from ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' is a [[Crazy Awesome]] mix of this trope and [[Violent Glaswegian]]. Although when he's not drunk off his head and [[Punch Clock Villain|blowing people up in armed combat]], he's a very nice guy who dotes on his [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|old blind mother.]]
* Averted with Valve's zombie shooter, ''Left 4 Dead'', in which the only black character is the least assuming of the lot, being a fairly whiny (ex-)office worker, while the others are a complete thug; an old man who is a [[Badass Grandpa]] on account of being a War vet, and a female student who has the advantage of being [[Genre Savvy]] at least...
*** ''Left 4 Dead'' 2 has the fat black guy with the chainsaw, though.
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** Especially in his Wii rendition, which has been compared to [[The Incredible Hulk]].
*** He levels up in scariness in Title Defense mode where he gets pissed off at Little Mac for basking in the glory of his fans and the camera zooms in on Sandman's face. Also occurs in the in between round segments where he says something like "Did you brush your teeth, Little Mac? It's bed time!" and having a close up of his scary face.
** And of course, [[Mike Tyson|Iron Mike Tyson himself
* Sgt. Bidwell from ''[[Quake 4|Quake IV]]''.
* Father Rodin from ''[[Bayonetta]]''. He beats up demons with his bare fists, steals their souls, and converts them into Bayonetta's weapons. Also, when given the "Platinum Ticket", he goes from scary black man to scary black ''celestial deity''!.
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* Deus from ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'', in a world where most other characters are lighter skinned and or asian descent. He combines with [[Blond Guys Are Evil]].
* Barbatos Goetia from ''[[Tales of Destiny|Tales Of Destiny 2]]''. Brown skinned, large, and such a nasty guy that historians opted to remove him from recorded history; something he seeks to rectify when he gets revived. It's hard not to like him despite his evilness, though, largely thanks to [[Norio Wakamoto|who he's voiced by]].
* Doomfist from ''[[Overwatch]]'' is an enormous, imposing terrorist of Nigerian descent and one of the top leaders of the international terrorist organization Talon. He's so powerful that he could knock down entire buildings with a single punch, and his debut trailer had him nearly kill three of Overwatch's top agents before he was finally apprehended. This carries over into the gameplay where his basic Rocket Punch attack will kill a good chunk of the cast in one hit if there's a wall he can punch them into, which combined with his silent footsteps and amazing agility makes him almost come off as a slasher villain of sorts.
* Dedue from ''[[Fire Emblem: Three Houses]]'' is an extraordinarily tall and muscular dark-skinned young man hailing from Duscur, and his near-permanent scowl and cold demeanor add to his intimidation factor. Thankfully he's quite the [[Gentle Giant]] once you get to know him, and some of his favorite hobbies include gardening and cooking among other things. But god help ''anyone'' who hurts his lord and best friend, Dimitri, [[Undying Loyalty|because he'll kill them without so much as a shred of hesitation.]]
== Web Animation ==
* {{spoiler|Nagato Yuki}} in [[The Abridged Series]] version of ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''. Simply [[Badass]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA9nwFksDko Enjoy].
** And while we're on the subject, ''[[Tales of the Abyss: The Abridged Series]]'' has somehow turned ''[[Ridiculously Cute Critter|Mieu]]'' of all things into [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F-DBVh37q8 this].
* The pecking order: [[Dragon Ball Abridged|You, the dirt, the worms in the dirt, Popo's stool, Kami, and Popo]].
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* Scipio from ''[[Templar, Arizona]]''. He's over six feet tall, built, proficient in several martial arts and works as a bodyguard. However, by personality, he's about intimidating as a cup of chowder, making him something of a [[Gentle Giant]].
* Bruce Camaro from ''[[The Wotch]]: Cheer!'' is also not very intimidating, generally coming off as a [[Black Best Friend]]-type and a [[Boisterous Bruiser]], but he's also a bodyguard, and has shown off his, um, [[Buffy-Speak|bodyguarding side]].
* Clancy from ''[[Plus EV]]'' knows about this trope, tries to use it, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130401054313/http://plusev.keenspot.com/d/20070824.html but doesn't really understand it.]
* [[The Straight Man|Jacob]] from [[Shortpacked]] ''wishes'' he was this, because then maybe his white co-workers would leave him alone.
* Spades Slick, Hearts Boxcars and Diamonds Droog of the [[Homestuck|Midnight Crew]] all qualify. Clubs Deuce... not so much.
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[[Category:All the Tropes Superhero Team]]▼
[[Category:Always Male]]
[[Category:Characters As Device]]
▲[[Category:All the Tropes Superhero Team]]
[[Category:Race Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Scary Black Man]]
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