History Main / BlackDudediesfirst

** [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] created several XCom squad members based on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses contributors. The one based on the RapCritic was the first to die. [[https://twitter.com/Phanto/status/358783403899895809 Read about it here]].

* Inverted in the direct-to-video monster movie ''{{Frankenfish}}'', where none of the white characters make it to the end.

* In ''Film/ForrestGump'', an unnamed black RedShirt gets sniped at the very beginning of the ambush in which Bubba, Forrest's best friend, dies. However, Forrest manages to save several fellow squad members, one of whom is also a black man.[[/folder]]
* ''Terminator Salvation'' has a blink and miss it shot of an unnamed black soldier among debris towards the beginning who seems to have died recently.

* Lampshaded by Turk in the ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' episode "My Long Goodbye".

* Lampshaded by Liz Lemon in ''Series/ThirtyRock''.

* In ''{{Christine}}'', a black assembly-line worker is the first victim of the titular killer car.

* The only black character in ''SpiderBaby'' is killed in the film's intro. Interestingly, from the same director who would later bring us {{Blaxploitation}} classics ''{{Coffy}}'' and ''FoxyBrown''.

* In the ''Halloween'' remake, Joe Grizzly is Michael's first "proper" victim after he escapes the [[BedlamHouse mental institution]].
** Earlier Halloween movies managed to avert this. In ''Halloween H20: 20 Years Later'' and ''Halloween: Resurrection'' the black guys makes it to the end while rescuing the main girl.
* In ''{{Super 8}}'', when Colonel Nelec's bus is attacked, he tells one of his soldiers to shoot the attacker with a tracking dart while having the driver open the door. Both are black, and both evidently have seen this movie before, because they both immediately give him a look which just screams "Oh, hell no." Predictably, both die.

* A pair of black policemen accidentally fall off a building to their deaths while attempting to pursue a criminal in ''TheOtherGuys''.

*** "Accidentally fall"? They both intentionally jumped. What movie were YOU watching?

** The only black man on the pirate crew is the Siren's first onscreen victim in "Curse of the Black Spot".[[spoiler Though ultimately he, in fact, [[SubvertedTrope lives.]]]]

** The only black man on the pirate crew is the Siren's first onscreen victim in "Curse of the Black Spot".

* Parodied in a comic by [[JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac Jhonen]] [[InvaderZim Vasquez]] describing the worst movie ever made.

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* ''Film/RedDawn1984'' is an extreme example. In the storyline, millions of people die offscreen. Dozens of white people die on screen. Only one black guy dies in the whole movie, but he's dead within the first two minutes!

* In ''PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'''s fifth book, Beckendorf is the first to die (in a HeroicSacrifice, but still). On the one hand ''The Last Olympian'' [[ADeathInTheLimelight was his debut as a major character]] (he had been more of a background figure before). On the other, given Bianca and Zoe in ''The Titan's Curse'', he's not exactly the first major character to die in the series.

* The novel ''Morrigan's Cross'' by Nora Roberts. It's pretty obvious what's going to happen because (a) he is the only black guy, and (b) there's 4 guys and 2 girls and it's a romance novel, so you have to get another girl in the mix somehow.

* ''InDeath'': ''Judgment In Death'' has a black cop named Kohli be the first murder victim.
* Tiberius in ''{{Robopocalypse}}'', in what appears to be a trap set by the BigBad to kill the rest of Brightboy squad as they march to Alaska. It slightly works.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', the black captain dies first. Go figure. Subverted, because he is resurrected. Then dies again. Yeah. Though, as a villain, it isn't all that surprising that he dies.

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* In a 1999 ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' strip, Huey writes a fan letter to GeorgeLucas saying how excited he is that SamuelLJackson will be playing a Jedi Master in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. He then pauses, and with a grim expression, writes "He better not be the first one to die!"
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