History Main / BlackDudediesfirst

* Famously inverted in ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'': the black character is the only one of the group to survive the night, only to be unceremoniously shot by a posse in the morning. [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1990 The remake]] [[spoiler:has him zombiefied to avoid the UnfortunateImplications of the original ending]].

* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'''s sequel Monster Camp features Jerry, who discusses this trope and its UnfortunateImplications in one event. [[AvertedTrope Needless to say]], he doesn't pull it off considering he never kills anybody important or any minorities, [[FridgeLogic although technically every character is a token since most of them are different monster species.]]

In other words, if you're gonna go after the black man nowadays, you might want to check the credits to see who's playing him. If it's no one you've actually heard of, they're probably fair game. Creator/TonyTodd? Go for it. Creator/SamuelLJackson? You can take your chances, but no promises. Creator/RosarioDawson? Yeah, good luck on that. Creator/DenzelWashington? Bad idea. Creator/MorganFreeman? You should give up. Creator/WillSmith? Run away and hide.

* In ''VideoGame/WinBack'' for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64, the main story involves tracking down your fellow squad members from whom you were separated. One of the first to be encountered is Matt, the black squad member, who instantly receives a sniper bullet to the face from [[DragonInChief Cecile]].

* In the ''{{Elseworld}}'' comic series, ''ComicBook/JLAActOfGod'', ComicBook/{{Steel}}, a.k.a. John Henry Irons ends up being first hero who bites the dust as he gets stomped to death by a giant robot. It also overlaps with TheWorfEffect, since Steel, being a techology-based hero, was described as being the strongest hero left, after all the superpowered heroes were depowered.

* In a 1999 ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' strip, Huey writes an e-mail to Creator/GeorgeLucas saying how excited he is that Creator/SamuelLJackson will be playing a Jedi Master (Mace Windu, for the uninitiated) in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' (and very formally so). He then pauses, and with a grim expression, writes "...but he had '''BETTER''' not be the first one to die."

* In ''VideoGame/{{Siren}}: Blood Curse'', the black camera man Sol Jackson is the first of the protagonists to be killed, before you even get a chance to play as him. Then everyone goes back in time because Crazy Cult Lady's plan got screwed over. Sol is alive again! ...Until he dies first a ''second'' time. Even worse is that another character is shown to be in the exact same predicament that presumably kills Sol the second time around, yet he's shown to be perfectly fine later on.

* ''Film/{{Steam}}'': The only character to die is August, a Black man, due to a heart attack (he's in his seventies at least).

* Gorilla Girl from ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'' sums it up perfectly during ComicBook/SecretInvasion (which she surives and is noted in the epilogue as having retired from heroing to become a judge on a successful reality show):

* ComicBook/BlackPanther is the first hero to be killed on-panel in ''ComicBook/AgeOfUltron'' (though [[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]], and the [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner Hulk]] [[GreatOffscreenWar were all stated to have been killed prior to the start of the story]]).

* Variation in ''[[ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen Avengers: X-Sanction]]''. The first [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avenger]] to be taken out by Characters/{{Cable|NathanSummers}} is [[Characters/CaptainAmericaHeroes The Falcon]], who is knocked out without a fight and used as bait to lure his teammates into a trap.

** Parodied in an episode itself a parody of ''Film/TheCore''. In the original, a black scientist dies after engaging a switch deep while in almost direct contact with the Earth's mantle; in the parody, Cartman explicitly picks Chef as "the black man who will sacrifice himself". This is subverted, however, as Chef safely makes his way through the crowd of Hippies, does what was asked, and gets back... only for Cartman to keep going on as though Chef had died.

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* ''WebOriginal/FortniteTheMovie'': After somehow surviving being shot in Fortnite the Movie, Mime is shot and seemingly killed first in Fortnite the Movie 2. [[spoiler:Completely subverted in Fortnite the Movie 8: Enemy of the Clown when it turns out that Mime survived the attack.]] [[spoiler:Mime even survives Fortnite the Movie 9: Day of the Clown, the movie where majority of the main cast is killed off, only to finally be killed in Fortnite the Movie: The Reign of The Oni, the third last film in the whole series.]]