History Main / BlackBestfriend

* Zack Underwood to Milo Murphy in ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw''.

* Spoofed in ''TheSarahSilvermanProgram'' episode "Batteries" when Sarah meets God depicted as an African-American man and she asks him "Are you God's black friend?"

* ''Webcomic/SketchComedy'': It would seem that Paul's sole purpose is to help James realize how ridiculous his elitist opinions are. [[http://thesketchy.com/ic/2012/10/18/even-meanwhiler It's not exactly working]].

* A parody website called ''[[http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/ Black People Love Us!]]''. It goes on about how "well-liked [they are] by Black people," and hangin' out with their black friends.

* ''Series/{{The Facts of Life}}, Natalie and Tootie.

** As revealed by artist/writer Creator/JohnByrne on his message board: It was the habit in the [Marvel] Office to refer to CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON as [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/showthread.php?34790-John-Byrne-Describes-Marvel-s-Casual-Racism-In-The-Seventies Captain America and the Fowl Coon]].

* Even older than previous example, works by JulesVerne frequently featured African and Aftican-American characters as sidekicks of the protagonists.

* In a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch Creator/LouisCK stars as UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln in a parody of his show ''{{Louie}}''. He tries to make new black friends at a bar by mentioning how he emancipated them. It doesn't go well.

* Sayers is this to Piccolo in ''Film/BriansSong'', although this isn't a standard use of the trope because the film focuses on both characters equally rather than making the white guy the "main character" and the black guy "the friend". But the implications of having a best friend and roommate of another race are touched on, even though it never shows either man actually experiencing racial remarks from anyone else over the issue.

* ''Series/{{The Facts of Life}}, Natalie and Tootie

* Original Cindy from ''Series/DarkAngel''; she's also a lesbian, giving you a [[TwoferTokenMinority twofer]].
** Subverted in that Original Cindy has a healthy and acknowledged sex life and frequent subplots involving her life and relationships.
** On the other hand, since Max herself is both Latina and a cyborg [[CatGirl "cat-girl"]], wouldn't ''she'' be the Twofer Best Friend?

* Atsuko, the childhood [[WeUsedToBeFriends friend-turned-nemesis]] of Michiko in ''Anime/MichikoToHatchin''. However, Atsuko receives a good amount of screen time and character development in her own right, and as mentioned above, is no longer friends with Michiko. Not to mention that Michiko is not white.

* Valerie from ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussyCats'' to Josie and Melody.

* The ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' TV and big screen movies have Chad as Troy's Black Best Friend and Taylor as Gabriella's.

* ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'': {{Inverted}} with Chelsea who's the [[TokenWhite Best White Friend]]

* Franklin in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', although he's depicted as Shermy's best friend, rather than the protagonist Charlie Brown's.
** Originally, Franklin was a kid from the next neighborhood over who apparently knew Charlie Brown from school and was visiting the Peanuts Gang. He proceeded to become the OnlySaneMan when he realized that all the kids in the neighborhood were so eccentric that he could never possibly be friends with them. (He obviously changed his mind later, though.)
** Being in the same class as Peppermint Patty with all her silliness helps.

* Anthony Higgs in ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM''.

* [[BetaBitch Miranda]] on ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' is [[LovableAlphaBitch Courtney]]'s best friend. Miranda's extremely popular and generally very cool.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', Numbuh Five is usually considered the TokenBlack, but also fills this role this to pretty much all four other members of the team, ''especially'' Numbuh One--One episode claims she used to be the ''leader'' of the team, and it is suggested that the reason she resigned that post is because [[MyGreatestFailure the incident where he lost his hair]] was her fault. She's also the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Kid]] on the team and the [[StraightMan voice of reason]], more often than not.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'': [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Fillmore is the main character; Ingrid is ''his'' white (and female) best friend.

* Parodied with ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', where Billy's Black Best Friend Irwin ''tries'' to be cool, but is a complete and almost hopeless dweeb with [[StalkerWithACrush an obsessive crush]] on Mandy.
** Irwin also manages to be an [[{{Averted Trope}} aversion]]. He does occasionally get his [[{{A Day In The Limelight}} own episodes]] exploring his struggles and relationships outside of Billy and Mandy. His family, which consists of [[{{Monster Mash}} mummies and a geriatric Dracula]] even get a moment to shine in all their [[{{Dysfunction Junction}} dysfunctional, macabre glory]].

* Lola, the little cutie from ''{{Robotboy}}'', seems to want to make romantic sparks with the show's human protagonist Tommy Turnbull than be friends with him.
* Clyde from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' is this to Lincoln.

* Satirized in ''TheLAComplex'' when Raquel goes out for the role of the protagonist's best friend in a new TV show and is told that they're looking for a Black Best Friend.

* Melody in BaileySchoolKids

* The IncredibleHulk used to hang out with a homeless man named Crackajack Jackson and then teenage runaway Jim Wilson, feeling a kinship with them because they all felt like outcasts. Jackson died in the same issue he was introduced, but made a big enough impression that he kept appearing in flashbacks and such when the Hulk was feeling sad and lonely for years; the Hulk really loved him, and his death hit him hard. Wilson eventually drifted out of the Hulk's life (as the Hulk's friends tend to do), and then returned years later, dying of AIDS.

* ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' features Jessi to the other girls.

* Charles Robinson from the Creator/PierceBrosnan era of the Film/JamesBond film series was apparently this to Bond, given how genuinely terrified for James' life he is in one instant and how genuinely happy he is at Bond's release from a North Korean prison. **Felix Lighter is the closest thing James has to a real friend in the world. He has been played by a black man on a few occasions.

* Charles Robinson from the Creator/PierceBrosnan era of the Film/JamesBond film series was apparently this to Bond, given how genuinely terrified for James' life he is in one instant and how genuinely happy he is at Bond's release from a North Korean prison.

* ''Film/GrandCanyon'': Jane (Alfre Woodard) is this to Dee (Mary-Louise Parker)

* Mace from the 2014 remake of ''Film/EndlessLove''.

* The IncredibleHulk used to hang out with a homeless man named Crackajack Jackson and then teenage runaway Jim Wilson, feeling a kinship with them because they all felt like outcasts. Jackson died in the same issue he was introduced, but made a big enough impression that he kept appearing in flashbacks and such when the Hulk was feeling sad and lonely for years. Wilson eventually drifted out of the Hulk's life (as the Hulk's friends tend to do), and then returned years later, dying of AIDS.

* The IncredibleHulk used to hang out with a homeless man named Crackajack Jackson and then teenage runaway Jim Wilson, feeling a kinship with them because they all felt like outcasts. Jackson died in the same issue he was introduced. Wilson eventually drifted out of the Hulk's life (as the Hulk's friends tend to do), and then returned years later, dying of AIDS.

* The ''StephaniePlum'' novels have Stephanie teamed with black ex-hooker Lula.

* Danny, Chris' best friend from ''{{Sonic X}}''.

* In ''{{Superman}}[=/=]{{Shazam}}: First Thunder,'' [[KidHero Billy Batson]] has one named Scott Okum. An odd case, since he's never seen in any of the main ''{{Shazam}}'' stories that are supposed to be set after this one. [[spoiler:[[BlackDudeDiesFirst There's a reason for that]]]].

* [[SeenItAMillionTimes Happens a lot on animated shows]]. The lead white character will almost always have a black best friend, or at least a non-Caucasian best friend. If the best friend ''is'' black, then said-friend is often either straight out ''sassay'' or the more [[BlackAndNerdy bookish type]] (or sometimes a mix of both).
** And in most animated shows, ''especially'' ones set in a school environment, the main character and his/her two best friends will make up a TokenTrio: the (usually white) protagonist with the (usually black) best pal of the same sex and the (usually platonic) friend of the opposite sex.