History Film / BadBlack

* TokenEvilTeammate: The beggars ringleader is shown to be a Commando (with proper dog tags to boot) and is also an extremely violent gangster who ''[[WouldHurtAChild murders a child]]'' in front of everyone because Black presumably stole money from him.

* VillainProtagonist: [[DarkActionGirl Bad Black]] is the eponymous main character and a [[TheQueenpin ruthless crime boss of the Ghetto]].

--> '''Wesley''': "It took me ''years'' to get this tough!"

-->Doctor: [[PrecisionFStrike "Don't fuck with Americans."]]

* CoolCar: The Subaru WRX being driven in the street race is certainly a fine piece of machinery, especially by Wakaliwood standards. Too bad it gets totaled by Swaaz.

* FreudianExcuse: Bad Black's reason becoming Uganda's most notorious crime lord is all said at the end in the court.

* HeelFaceTurn: Despite hitting and shaking down Black when she first arrives in prison, Supazilla later befriends Black when she realizes just who she is.

* CoolCar: The Subaru WRX being driven in the street race is naturally one of these, especially by Wakaliwood standards. Too bad it gets totaled by Swaaz.

* CoolCar: The Subaru WRX being driven in the street race is naturally one of these. Too bad it gets totaled by Swaaz.

* BlackComedyCannibalism: VJ Emmie adds this when Wesley Snipes and his friends chase the doctor:

-->"Oooooh, Ssali's mad. You'll be mad, too, [[MyCountryTisOfTheeISting if you can only act in Uganda]]."

-->"Oooooh, Ssali's mad. You'll be mad, too, if you can only act in Uganda."

* VillainProtagonist: [[DarkActionGirl Bad Black]] is the eponymous main character and a ruthless crime boss of the Ghetto.

--> Wesley: "It took me ''years'' to get this tough!"

* LemonyNarrator: As is common among other VJs in Ugandan cinema, Emmie's commentary is an eclectic mix of narration, translation, humor, and sometimes random words.

* DrugsAreBad: Subverted. One of Black's gang members tries to talk Kenny out of buying drugs... [[{{Hypocrite}} until he finds out]] that [[EveryManHasHisPrice Kenny has plenty of money he's willing to spend.]]

* HiddenBadass: The doctor is [[NiceGuy kindly, mild-tempered doctor]] [[FriendToAllChildren who happily helps the kids]], a black sheep in the [[BadassFamily family of Commandos]] ([[ActionPet and a Commando dog to boot]]). Despite his initial clumsiness, he TakesALevelInBadass when fights his way to Black with a single MG.

* HateSink: Hirigi is an unrepentant RichJerk and a DomensticAbuser who disowned both of his kids for consorting with the Ghetto people.

* RichJerk: Hirigi, to the point of being an outright HateSink. His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him [[WouldHurtAChild harass and beat Black]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for trying to steal his carparts.]] Later, he intents on [[CommunityThreateningConstruction bringing down the whole Ghetto to buy their lands]] and also [[IHaveNoSon disowns his son Kenny]] for wanting to marry a woman below his social position, ([[{{Hypocrite}} despite dating the ghetto woman himself]]), [[DomesticAbuse beating him and his wife in a fit of anger]]. Finally, it is revealed that Hirigi has thrown his daughter out as well, for the same reason as with Kenny, ruining her and her husband's life in the process. Ruthless, greedy, indifferent and abusive to his own family ([[EveryoneHasStandards VJ Emmie even calls him an asshole for that]]), contemptous of the poor, Hirigi fits the trope to the T.

''Bad Black'' is a 2016 low-budget action film by Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana (Nabwana I.G.G.), creator of the 2010 cult hit ''Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex'', and Alan "Ssali" Hofmanis. The film primarily follows two storylines: the rise of Black, a street-girl-turned-gang-leader, and Doctor Ssali, an American who seeks revenge on her. The film opens with a man called "Swaaz" (short for "Schwarzenegger") and his child sidekick "Buddy Spencer" robbing a bank, desperately in search of medical funds to save Swaaz's dying wife. The police arrive, and a car chase through the streets of Kampala commences. Spencer takes the money and jumps out of the car, while Swaaz continues to draw the police's attention. Swaaz crashes into a sports car in a street race, gets in a shootout with the police, and is killed when his car explodes.

The movie then jumps ahead an undefined number of years, and shows a man from the ghetto getting harassed by wealthy people from uptown for socializing with a woman from "across the bridge." The ghetto man retreats back to his home neighborhood, where his friends back him up in a fight. Although the uptown men flee, his mother's fruit stand is destroyed in the fight. The man says it isn't sustainable or healthy for his mother to keep raising Black, an orphan girl she took in; Black hears the argument from the other room and realizes she isn't wanted, so she runs away from home. After being rescued from some street thugs, she's brought into a gang led by a "commando." While scrounging for scrap, she's harassed and threatened by a wealthy man named Hirigi, and is later accused by her boss of stealing from her. After witnessing the gang leader kill another child, she steals his gun while he sleeps and kills him.

The movie jumps ahead again by ten years, showing the arrival of the "muzungu" (white) Doctor Adam Ssali, and his child assistant Wesley Snipes. Wesley notices that Ssali has a commando's dog tags, and Ssali explains that they were actually his father's. Black, having since become leader of the gang, decides to steal from Ssali after seeing his dog tags and mistaking him for a commando. Meanwhile, she also plots to seduce and defraud Hirigi in revenge. Hirigi is later shown kicking his son Kenny out for impregnating a woman from the ghetto.

When Ssali finds that his possessions (especially his dog tags) were stolen by Black, Wesley says he has to become a commando and take them back by force. After training under Wesley, Ssali launches a disastrous attack on Black's hideout, but he resolves to try again. Meanwhile, Kenny approaches the hideout in search of drugs, and eventually falls in with the gang. Black continues to seduce Hirigi, promising him that she would be a better wife and would provide a better-behaved son, and convinces Hirigi to give her access to his bank account. She takes him to meet her foster grandmother, who is outraged at Hirigi. She reveals that Black is actually Hirigi's granddaughter; her mother is Hirigi's long-dead daughter Flavia, who he forced out of his house years prior for marrying a poor man. When he returns to his house with a police officer (who is Black's foster "uncle"), Black shoots her uncle dead, prompting Hirigi to run away in terror.

Black is conducting a gun deal in her hideout, but it's right as both the police and Ssali attack at the same time. Ssali captures her first, then turns her over to the police once he's recovered his dog tags. In prison, she's intimidated by the prison gang leader Supazilla, but eventually befriends her. Black also befriends a woman who was arrested just after giving birth, who hopes to one day meet her daughter after she's released. That night, Black's gang give Kenny a bunch of guns and turn him loose on the prison, where he claims to be the real Black. He releases all the prisoners, but Black convinces the other woman to stay: she only has two days left in her sentence, and getting recaptured during the escape means she may never see her daughter again. Black is caught offscreen, and Kenny is subdued and captured alive.

The film jumps ahead to two days later, as the woman is being released from prison. She immediately goes to a courtroom, where Black is facing civil charges brought against her by Hirigi (the criminal charges were dropped and placed on Kenny). She explains her past, which reveals that Swaaz was her father, and that he robbed the bank to save Flavia, who was dying in childbirth. Buddy Spencer delivered the heist money to the hospital in time and saved Flavia's life, but she was immediately arrested due to her connection to Swaaz. The baby Black was then given to her foster grandmother to raise. The woman released from prison stands up, reveals she is Flavia, and runs forward to embrace her daughter. The judge is satisified with the explanation, dismisses the charges, and adjourns the court.

** VJ Emmie is surprised to find that an old man in a chair at Ssali's clinic wasn't actually dead, just sleeping.

* AmericaSavesTheDay: Ssali is the one who captures Black and hands her over to the police.
--> Ssali: [[PrecisionFStrike "Don't fuck with Americans."]]
* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: When Ssali first tries to infiltrate Black's hideout and gets in a fight, he's thoroughly trounced and runs back to Wesley.

* BadassAdorable: Wesley Snipes, who teaches the far older Ssali how to be a commando.

* BadassFamily: Everyone in Ssali's family—his [[ActionDad father]], [[ActionMom mother]], brother, and even his ''[[ActionPet dog]]''—are commandos except for him.
* BadassLongcoat: One of the uncle's friends (who later fights Ssali when he first tries to attack Black's hideout) is wearing what seems to be a white lab coat. He certainly rocks the style, though.
* BerserkButton: Thanks to the previous gang leader, a Commando who murdered her friend in front of her, Black has a ''very'' strong hatred of Commandos (which is the reason she targets Ssali in the first place).

* BlackComedyCannibalism: VJ Emmie adds this when Wesley Snipes and his friends chase Ssali:

* BratsWithSlingshots: Wesley Snipes and his friends attack Ssali with slingshots while telling him to dodge as part of his commando training.

* CaptainObvious: VJ Emmie frequently announces the title of the movie, its producers, and that it's by the same people behind ''Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex''

* DeadManWalking: VJ Emmie has low hopes for Ssali's future after Black starts plotting against him:

** InUniverse example where Wesley Snipes gives Ssali a fake gun made out of sticks during his training session.

* EatThat: In order to help Ssali become a commando, Wesley Snipes throws away Ssali's canned dinner and makes him eat an [[ForeignQueasine ''interesting'' local meal]] called "kikommando."

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: After Ssali spin-kicks a cabbage as part of his training, a cow is seen eating the remnants on the ground.

* HeroicLineage: Wesley tells Ssali that he ''can'' be a commando because it's in his blood, even though that's [[LamarckWasRight not exactly an inheritable trait]].
* HiddenBadass: Alan Ssali is [[NiceGuy kindly, mild-tempered doctor]] [[FriendToAllChildren who happily helps the kids]], a black sheep in the [[BadassFamily family of Commandos]] ([[ActionPet and a Commando dog to boot]]). Despite his initial clumsiness, he TakesALevelInBadass when fights his way to Black with a single MG.

* ItsXIHateX: Black thinks Ssali is a commando, and she ''hates'' commandos.

* LanguageBarrier: Ssali doesn't understand what his child patient's name is, so he just calls her "Betty."

* MailOrderBride: Someone in the ghetto accuses Ssali of coming to Uganda in search of a wife.

** Ssali grabs a machine gun and fights his way through Black's hideout.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[Creator/WesleySnipes Wesley Snipes]], [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Swaaz]] and [[Creator/BudSpencer Buddy Spencer]]
* NoodleIncident: During Ssali's rampage, one of the villagers yells that "''another'' muzungu has gone crazy!"

** Ssali is able to fight his way through Black's gang hideout armed with a single stolen machine gun.

* PoliceAreUseless: Ssali tried to go to the police after Black stole his dog tags, to no avail. Wesley Snipes tells him that the police are useless and that he needs to become a commando to bring about justice. Eventually subverted when the cops carry out a raid on Black's base.

** Ssali does one of these to Black's hideout in a quest to get back his dog tags.

* SarcasmBlind: When Black notices Ssali has a commando's dog tags and asks if he's one, he sarcastically replies "What do you think?" She takes it to be a "yes."

* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Three months later, Black has turned her life around and is working as a nurse in Ssali's clinic. Hirigi's wife shows up and tries to shoot Black for ruining her husband's life. She misses Black... [[AccidentalAimingSkills but hits and kills Ssali]].]]

* TrainingMontage: Wesley Snipes subjects Ssali to this in order to get him in shape and make him a commando.

* WhiteMaleLead: Ssali is the only white character in the film, and his role is almost as important as Black's.
* YoungerMentorOlderDisciple: Wesley Snipes, despite clearly being under ten years old, is the one who ends up teaching Ssali how to be a commando.

* MemeticMutation: VJ Emmie not only quotes the famous line "Expect the unexpectable!" from ''Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex'', but also adds variations like "He can fit the unfittables!" when Swaaz squeezes through a narrow gap.
* MildlyMilitary: Much of the Ugandan police forces' uniforms, equipment, vehicles, and bases are ramshackle and seem rather low-quality, though that is mostly due to [[NoBudget budgetary limitations]].

* PromotedFanboy: Alan Hofmanis went to Uganda after seeing the trailer for ''Who Killed Captain Alex?'' and being fascinated by it. He found his way to Wakaliga, met director Isaac Nabwana, befriended him, and eventually became the [[TokenWhite only white star]] in Wakaliwood films.

* YouLookFamiliar: The same actor who played [[Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex Captain Alex]] also plays a cop who is killed by Swaaz in the opening scene's shootout. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in VJ Emmie's commentary:
-->"He's alive! Captain Alex is alive!" '''''*BANG*''''' "...he's dead. He is ''s-o-o'' dead."
-->"Who killed Captain Alex? ''Schwarzenegger.''"

* RichJerk: Hirigi, to the point of being an outright HateSink. His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him [[WouldHurtAChild harass and beat Black]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for trying to steal his carparts.]] Later, he intents on [[CommunityThreateningConstruction bringing down the whole Ghetto to buy their lands]] and also [[IHaveNoSon disowns his son Kenny]] for wanting to marry a woman below his social position, ([[{{Hypocrite}} despite dating the ghetto woman himself]]), [[DomesticAbuse beating him and his wife in a fit of anger]]. Finally, it is revealed that Hirigi has thrown his daughter out as well, for the same reason as with Kenny, ruining her and her husband's life in the process. Ruthless, greedy, indifferent and abusive to his own family (VJ Emmie even calls him an asshole for that), contemptous of the poor, Hirigi fits the trope to the T.

* HiddenBadass: Alan Ssali is [[NiceGuy kindly, mild-tempered doctor]] [[FriendToAllChildren who happily helps the kids]], a black sheep in the [[BadassFamily family of Commandos]] ([[ActionPet and a Commando dog to boot]]). Despite his initial clumsiness, he TakesALevelInBadAss when fights his way to Black with a single MG.

* RichJerk: Hirigi, to the point of being an outright HateSink. His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him [[WouldHurtAChild harass and beat Black]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for trying to steal his carparts.]] Later, he intents on [[CommunityThreateningConstruction bringing down the whole Ghetto to buy their lands]] and also [[IHaveNoSon disowns his son Kenny]] for wanting to marry a woman below his social position, ([[{{Hypocrite}} despite dating the ghetto woman himself]]), [[DomesticAbuser beating him and his wife in a fit of anger]]. Finally, it is revealed that Hirigi has thrown his daughter out as well, for the same reason as with Kenny, ruining her and her husband's life in the process. Ruthless, greedy, indifferent and abusive to his own family (VJ Emmie even calls him an asshole for that), contemptous of the poor, Hirigi fits the trope to the T.

* DrugsAreBad: Zig-zagged. One of Black's gang members tries to talk Kenny out of buying drugs... until he finds out that [[EveryManHasHisPrice Kenny has plenty of money he's willing to spend.]]

* RichJerk: Hirigi, to the point of being an outright HateSink. His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him [[WouldHurtAChild harass and beat Black]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for trying to steal his carparts.]] Later, he intents on [[CommunityThreateningConstruction bringing down the whole Ghetto to buy their lands]] and also [[IHaveNoSon disowns his son Kenny]] for wanting to marry a woman below his social position, ([[{{Hypocrite}} despite dating the ghetto woman himself]]), [[DomesticAbuser beating him and his wife in a fit of anger]]. Finally, it is revealed that he's thrown his daughter out as well, for the same reason as with Kenny, ruining her and her husband's life in the process. Ruthless, greedy, indifferent and abusive to his own family (VJ Emmie even calls him an asshole for that), contemptous of the poor, Hirigi fits the trope to the T.

* PromotedFanboy: Adam Hofmanis went to Uganda after seeing the trailer for ''Who Killed Captain Alex?'' and being fascinated by it. He found his way to Wakaliga, met director Isaac Nabwana, befriended him, and eventually became the [[TokenWhite only white star]] in Wakaliwood films.

* RichJerk: Hirigi, to the point of being a HateSink. His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him [[WouldHurtAChild harass and beat Black]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for trying to steal his carparts.]] Later, he intents on [[CommunityThreateningConstruction bringing down the whole Ghetto to buy their lands]] and also [[IHaveNoSon disowns his son Kenny]] for wanting to marry a woman below his social position, ([[{{Hypocrite}} despite dating the ghetto woman himself]]), [[DomesticAbuser beating him and his wife in a fit of anger]]. Finally, it is revealed that he's thrown his daughter out as well, for the same reason as with Kenny, ruining her and her husband's life in the process. Ruthless, greedy, indifferent and abusive to his own family, contemptous of the poor, Hirigi fits the trope to the T.

* PoliceAreUseless: Ssali tried to go to the police after Black stole his dog tags, to no avail. Wesley Snipes tells him that the police are useless and that he needs to become a commando to bring about justice.

* RichJerk: Hirigi, to the point of being a HateSink. His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him [[WouldHurtAChild harass and beat Black]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for trying to steal his carparts.]] Later, he intents on [[CommunityThreateningConstruction bringing down the whole Ghetto to buy their lands]] and also [[IHaveNoSon disowns his own son Kenny]] for wanting to marry a woman below his social position, ([[{{Hypocrite}} despite dating the ghetto woman himself]]), [[DomesticAbuser beating him and his wife in a fit of anger]]. Finally, it is revealed that he's thrown his daughter out as well, for the same reason as with Kenny, ruining her and her husband's life in the process. Ruthless, greedy, indifferent and abusive to his own family, contemptous of the poor, Hirigi fits the trope to the T.