History Film / BlackDynamite

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Parodied, like everything else, when Black Dynamite gives us the least reverent and tasteful Vietnam War story ever, featuring a Vietnamese child who he repeatedly [[InterchangeableAsianCultures repeatedly refers to as Chinese]] and whose last words are actually telling him "[[BilingualBonus you're full of shit]]" in Vietnamese.

* BackupFromOtherworld: [[spoiler:The ghost of Abraham Lincoln helps Black Dynamite defeat Richard Nixon]].

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: [[spoiler:Richard Nixon. The guy's got ''nunchucks with the Presidential Seal'' inside his desk in the Oval Office]].

* TimeshiftedActor: Parodied; while in the flashback with Jimmy, "18-Year-Old Black Dynamite" looks so little like his adult counterpart (with Scott Sanders mentioning in the commentary how Neill Lewis is [[ButNotTooBlack "several shades lighter"]] than Michael Jai White) that he still has to state who they both are, just for clarity.

* BigBadShuffle: Black Dynamite deals with a variety of villains in his quest to avenge his brother's death.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: BD briefly discusses during with Gloria, saying that the people of the ghetto don't understand what she or Congressman James are talking about, [[RhymesOnADime but at least they can put his to a beat]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Leitmotif}} DY-NO-MITE! DY-NO-MITE!'']]]]

!!As Bullhorn would say, "The film as it was just described above, contains tropes that are examples of:"

* NeckSnap: Parodied in the dojo training scene, where after Black Dynamite beats down a bunch of his trainees, he then stomps his foot on the neck of a downed opponent offscreen, with ''audible'' sound of breaking bones (said scene seems to be a ShoutOut to a moment in ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' when Bruce Lee steps on O'Hara's neck offscreen - even the camera angles are played the same way). But the following scene when a phone call from BD's mother interrupts his training, all the trainees, ''including'' the necksnap victim, are alive and well.

** Potentially a case of AluminumChristmasTrees, as the US military conducted multiple low-key or secret operations in countries outside of Vietnam, and the distance between Tainan to Ho Chi Minh City (in southern Vietnam) isn't much more than the distance between Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi (in northern Vietnam).

* FightingWithChucks: The weapon of choice for Black Dynamite and [[spoiler: Richard Nixon]].

* FightingWithChucks: The {{weapon of choice}} for Black Dynamite and [[spoiler: Richard Nixon]].

* BigBadEnsemble: Black Dynamite deals with a variety of villains in his quest to avenge his brother's death.
* BigDamnHeroes: After BD dispatches almost all of Chicago Wind's goons, the last one remaining points a gun at him, letting Wind escape. Almost right afterwards, Bullhorn appears, knocking the gun out of the minion's hand, giving Dynamite a chance to chase after Chicago.
--> '''Bullhorn:''' Go catch Chicago Wind before he disappears! I'll take care of this gorilla-eatin' goon here.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge}: BD goes on one after he finds out about his brother Jimmy is killed.

* AnyoneCanDie: In the film, [[spoiler: '''All''' of Dynamite's allies who go with him to Kung Fu Island end up dead]].

* BlackIsBiggerInBed: The protagonist manages to [[GagPenis have sex with three women simultaneously, and please all of them equally.]] And to take the gag UpToEleven, it is revealed that three or four more women were asleep next to the bed at the time, already having been pleasured. It's also a rare situation where this becomes a ''plot point'': the villains of the movie [[spoiler:are trying to shrink black men's penises to eliminate their, ahem, "racial advantage."]]

* EveryCarIsAPinto: The StockFootage used takes this {{up to eleven}} - the cars that Black Dynamite destroy actually explode before they hit anything.

-->'''Chocolate Giddy-Up:''' But Black Dynamite, ''I'' sell drugs to the community!

-->'''Chocolate Giddy-Up:''' But Black Dynamite, ''I'' sell drugs to the community!

An [[WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite animated series]] premiered on Creator/AdultSwim on July 15 2012, with many of the movie's cast reprising their roles. Also has an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQlNSndToc upcoming 2020]] SpiritualSuccessor, ''Outlaw Johnny Black'', which seems to take the adventures to TheWestern.

* HypocriticalHumor: Black Dynamite speaks of how he's out to stop drugs from being sold to kill in the neighborhood, before stopping to furiously insult and verbally threaten one of his prostitutes. This is then followed by an awkward silence from everyone present.

* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Everyone in this world knows Kung-fu for some reason, despite its seemingly limited actual uses, [[spoiler:including President Richard Nixon.]]

* MoralDissonance: Lampshaded, especially the genre's recurring choice of the hero being a pimp (who aren't generally nice people). Black Dynamite speaks of how he's out to stop drugs from being sold to kill in the neighborhood, before stopping to furiously insult and verbally threaten one of his prostitutes. This is then followed by an awkward silence from everyone present.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodGangster: Beautifully parodied to perfection with the pimp council. The movie mines some great jokes out of the fact that, although they're a frequent choice for protagonists in the blaxpoitation genre, most pimps in real life [[MoralDissonance aren't exactly nice people.]]

** Black Dynamite himself is several blaxploitation stars rolled into one. His predilection for Kung Fu and {{Kiai}} screams is taken from Jim Kelly, his purpose as a ridiculously over-the-top womanizing badass and tough as snails detective has echoes of both Film/{{Dolemite}} and Film/{{Shaft}}. Him being "Played by former Football star Ferronte Jones" is a reference to Fred Williamson, a Blaxploitation star who likewise was a former Pro American Football athlete.

* StylisticSuck: The film is presented as a shoddy blaxploitation film with 70s-era ValuesDissonance and low production values. There's plenty of obvious stock footage, rough edits, bad acting and visible boom mikes.