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* The Squad leader from ''[[Resident Evil (film)|Resident Evil]]''.
* The crime lord Kingpin in the ''[[Daredevil (film)|Daredevil]]'' movie. In the comics, he's white.
** Obviously, only Michael Clarke Duncan is big and bald enough, ''and'' a good enough actor, to pull off the role.
*** Legendary [[Professional Wrestling]] [[Heel]] King Kong Bundy was going to play the Kingpin. He's six-and-a-half feet tall and weighs four hundred pounds (and he's white). The problem is, he wasn't that good of an actor.
** In the original comic, the Kingpin was ''intended'' to be black. But given that the time he came out in was full of race riots and civil rights protests, the editors felt that a black crime-lord would be inflammatory.
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** He becomes one again in the comicbook continuation, ''After the Fall''. {{spoiler|Albeit an evil, vampire version}}.
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' has Captain Sisko. Interestingly, Sisko started out not being bald; he shaved his head around the same time he was promoted from Commander to Captain. The initial presence of hair on his head resulted from [[Executive Meddling]], as the production team didn't want Sisko confused with Brooks' previous work as Hawk on ''Spenser For Hire.''
** And he shaved his hair and got the goatee back because he was doing ''Spenser'' TV movies at the time.
* Avery Brooks as [http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl Hawk] in ''Spencer For Hire'', from 1985 to 1988.
* The President of Great Britain in a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Another Dimension|Parallel Universe]].
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* Principal Robin Wood in the final season of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]].''
* {{spoiler|Oenomaus}}/Doctore in ''[[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]''.
* Uncle Phil from ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]''. In the second half of the show, he's a district judge. Also, in the final season, the Republican Party recruits him to run for another political position, though he decides to drop out of the election. Besides these, Uncle Phil is definitely a strong leader within his family and becomes Will's father figure.
* In ''[[Chuck]]'', Mike Tucker is the bald, black manager of the Buy More—though he's really more of a figurehead as he's about as interested in doing any work as the rest of the staff (i.e. not very) and so it's Chuck who ends up doing most of the actual leading, in between saving the world.
* In the fifth season of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', when [[The Leader|Hotch]] temporarily steps down, [[Big Brother Instinct|Morgan]] was briefly the team leader because {{spoiler|[[Complete Monster|The Reaper]] was back to hunt down Hotch}}.
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* ''[[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]'' has Zach Hammond, security officer and leader of your party. Hints are dropped that he might know more than he lets on...{{spoiler|until it's shown that it's Kendra who's actually the Mole. Hammond is just as much in the dark as you are.}}
* ''[[Second Sight]]'' gives us one of these as the head of the paramilitary organization you're allied with. On the plus side, you also get a Mexican as the weapons specialist, albeit one with a thick accent who's {{spoiler|the first to get shot.}}
* Possibly subverted by DHS agent Brad in ''[[Dead Rising]]''. He doesn't seem to have any authority over anyone besides his partner Jessie, and while he may be the one allegedly supplying food and essentials to the growing survivor population in the sealed Security Room, he doesn't hold a candle to Frank, who, blessed with incredible charisma, can lead large posses of frightened people through throngs of the undead.
* Michael Chain of ''[[F-Zero]]-GX'', leader of the Bloody Chain gang.
* Prophet of ''Crysis'' is your squad leader, spending the entire game giving out orders using the radio.
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== Web Original ==
* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance]]'', Ismail is a bald, black man who becomes the captain of the Black Guard of Vanna.
* ''[[Tech Infantry]]'' has Abdul Johnson, Chairman of the Grand Council, and Rashid King, head of Internal Security and the power behind the throne. Both are Black Muslims, although their hairstyle is never quite made explicit.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' episode ''Tag Sale - You're It!'' begins with such a guy leading a squad of OSI agents. They're careful not to anger him, perhaps out of fear that he'll make them wear frilly dresses, which he seems quite intent on doing.
* [[Green Lantern]] John Stewart in [[Justice League Unlimited]].
* ''[[South Park]]'' parodies examples of this in '' {{spoiler|Ass Burgers}}'', which [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the frequency of the trope:
{{quote|'''Leader''': The world around us has {{spoiler|turned completely to shit}}, but [[They Live!|aliens are putting out a brainwave]] that keeps most people seeing a false reality.<br />
'''Stan''': Aliens?<br />
'''Leader''': [[The Matrix|...or robots from the future.]] Whatever. <br />
'''[Later]'''<br />
'''Leader''': (Firing shotgun) [[Blade|You vampire sons-of-bitches!]] }}
* In ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'', [[Old Soldier]] and [[Four-Star Badass]] Panthro takes on this role in his debut. Having singlehandedly rescued the rest of the Thundercats from a tight spot, he's incredulous at their lack of "adult supervision" and young king Lion-O's impulsiveness, in particular. Panthro demands they defer to him on a shared mission and refuses to acknowledge Lion-O as his liege until [[Asskicking Equals Authority|Lion-O proves himself in battle]].
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