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* Officer Earl Devereaux from the animated ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]''. Extra points for being voiced by Mr T.
* Lieutenant Mailer, the <s>blood-puking crazy</s> Infected soldier in ''[[28 Days Later]]''.
* Basically the entire oeuvre of Ving Rhames. Oftentimes, this will be subverted, as in the ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' movies, where he turns out to be a [[Genius Bruiser]] and a very nice guy. But just as often, it's played straight. Fully half of his film roles seem to be as violent criminals with names like "Animal" and "Diamond Dog."
* Sgt. Foley (Louis Gossett Jr.) from ''[[An Officer and a Gentleman]]''. Justified as it's his role as [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]].
* Mac from ''[[Predator]]''.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' has a Space Marine chapter that's an entire army of Scary Black Man called the Salamanders. They have expertise with fire weapons, also making them an example of [[Kill It with Fire]]. All fire based weapons (flamers and meltas) and hammers are master-crafted because they're also trained as black smiths. That means that you're also better off running from their Assault Terminators (who's armor makes them even larger and scarier than a normal Space Marine) who wield Thunder Hammers. These guys are actually one of the nicer chapters around.
** As of the most recent codex, they now have totally black, obsidian-coloured skin and red eyes as a result of genetic engineering to resist radiation burns rather than having anything to do with ethnicity.
* Inquisitor Mordecai Toth from ''Dawn of War''. A scary black man with a [[Drop the Hammer|thunder hammer]], a [[Hand Cannon|bolt pistol]], and [[Psychic Powers]].
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* Mad Jack from ''[[Heavy Rain]]''. He's so scary, {{spoiler|he has a skull in his acid bath.}}
* Ganondorf, from ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'', is a ''[[Complete Monster|terrifying]]'' black man. Though he's more [[Ambiguously Brown]] than anything, he certainly counts, up until he goes [[One-Winged Angel]].<ref>As if to address any accusations of [[Unfortunate Implications]], though, his fellow Gerudos aren't nearly as horrid as him. He's also kind of green, which mitigates it further.</ref>
* Gabriel Tosh from ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]]'' ''2''. He's a big, scary, [[Knife Nut|wields a mean knife]], practices voodoo, and is an experimental improved [[Psychic Commando|Ghost]] who [[SchrodingerSchrödinger's Gun|may or may not]] be a [[Psycho Prototype]]. The only reason he joins Raynor is because he ''really'' hates Mengsk and the Dominion -- [[He Who Fights Monsters|his hatred of the Dominion is so strong]] it disturbs [[The Heart|Matt Horner]].
* The [[James Bond]] game, ''NightFire'', has Armitage Rook, one of the [[Big Bad]]'s [[The Dragon|Dragons]]. You can meet him at one point in the first level, to which he replies 'Not. Now.' or 'I'm busy.' Later he flies a helicopter and tries to kill you, and then ends up with a [[Badass Scar]] on his face.
* Averted with Vulcan Raven. Even if he is technically Inuit, he looks like one and does take many of the intimidating stances of one. And yet he probably turns out to be the least crazy of all of the members of FOXHOUND.
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