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8	->''"Who the hell is interrupting my kung fu?!"''
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10	''I wanna tell you a story about a friend I had. He's a mean motherfucker and he's super bad! So grab onto your seats and hang on tight, while we describe the movie starring Black Dynamite!''
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12	''Black Dynamite'' is an entirely ridiculous, over-the-top 2009 homage to the {{Blaxploitation}} films of TheSeventies. Creator/MichaelJaiWhite plays the title character, a Vietnam vet and former UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} agent who declares war on all drug dealers when his brother, a CIA informant, turns up murdered by the mob. He soon discovers that the conspiracy goes far beyond the local drug dealers and sets his sights on the masterminds behind the scheme.
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14	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 a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQlNSndToc 2023]] SpiritualSuccessor, ''Outlaw Johnny Black'', which takes the adventures to TheWestern.
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17	!!Provides examples of:
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19	* 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]].
20	* ActionPolitician: [[spoiler:Richard Nixon]] establishes that he is ''not'' a NonActionBigBad when he personally fights Black Dynamite at the end. Of course he loses, but anyone who lasts more than a second against [[TheAce Black Dynamite]] has got some serious moves.
21	* AerithAndBob: The brothers Black Dynamite and Jimmy. Yes, Black Dynamite is his actual name.
22	* AffectionateParody: Of Blaxploitation films. So much effort is put into making it look like an [[{{Retraux}} authentically]] [[StylisticSuck terrible]] example of the genre, you could actually [[StealthParody mistake it for the genuine article.]]
23	* AnyoneCanDie: In the film, [[spoiler: '''All''' of Dynamite's allies who go with him to Kung Fu Island end up dead, with the exception of Cream Corn, who dies when Dynamite goes to the White House]].
24	* ArchEnemy: Black Dynamite has Fiendish Dr. Wu, a YellowPeril DiabolicalMastermind whom he's clashed with several times before the film, and turns out to be the one who killed his brother.
25	* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Fiendish Dr. Wu, natch. His arrogance is a bit justified, as he effortlessly kills Bullhorn and lasts a bit against [[ComicallyInvincibleHero Black Dynamite]], but he still ends up severely outmatched.
26	--->'''Wu:''' Your kung-fu is quite extraordinary, Black Dynamite. But no match for mine.
27	* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The film claims Roscoe created chicken and waffles, which started at Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles in LA. In truth, the chicken and waffles dish was created during the 1920s by Joe Wells, the owner of Well’s Supper Club in Harlem, New York. Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles' actual founder was Herb Hudson, a Harlem native. [[StylisticSuck This was surely intentional.]]
28	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Black Dynamite says he didn't understand the Vietnamese child's "Chinese" last words, saying it sounding like "some kind of cartoon shit." Later, he reveals that he actually does know actual Chinese when talking to Fiendish Dr. Wu.
29	* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: [[spoiler:Richard Nixon. The guy's got ''nunchucks with the Presidential Seal'' inside his desk in the Oval Office]].
30	* AsYouKnow: Played for comedy in Black Dynamite's flashbacks. People helpfully slip their names and ages into their dialogue.
31	--->'''Black Dynamite:''' Jimmy, I am 18-year-old Black Dynamite, and you are my 16-year-old brother, and you are high as a kite yet again!
32	* BackupFromOtherworld: [[spoiler:The ghost of Abraham Lincoln helps Black Dynamite defeat Richard Nixon, when the latter attempts to use John Wilkes Booth's gun to kill Black Dynamite]].
33	* BadassBoast:
34	** Black Dynamite, when one of the militants confronts him.
35	--->'''Black Dynamite:''' Listen, sucka. I'm blacker than the ace of spades and more militant than you and your whole damn army put together. While you're out there chantin' at rallies and brow beatin' politicians, I'm takin' out any money-frontin' sucka on a hummer that gets in my way. So I tell you what: when your so-called "revolution" starts, you call me, and I'll be right down front, showin' you how it's done. But until then, ''you need to shut the fuck up when grown folks is talkin'.''
36	** He's even given one from Officer Nancy, the policeman investigating Jimmy's death.
37	--->'''Officer Yancy:''' My God, men! Do you know what this means!? Do you know whose brother... this ghetto is gonna be turned upside down, I tell you, upside down! The streets are gonna run crimson with the blood of the men responsible for his brother's death. Man I'm speaking of is a veritable {{one man army}} and if you get on his bad side, brother, you're done for. Now it's only a matter of time before he finds out and when he does, no matter where he is, get ready gentlemen, because hell's a [[DoubleEntendre comin']], [[BiggerIsBetterInBed comin']], [[RuleOfThree comin']], [[GilliganCut comin']], [[OverlyLongGag comin']].
38	* BadBadActing: Many of the line readings are delivered in an intentionally stilted way to parody the level of acting you might find in a cheap blaxploitation film. In one notable example, Black Dynamite is supposed to be frolicking playfully with his new girlfriend, but instead appears confused and annoyed by the scene, and it ends in an extremely awkward hug.[[note]]Michael Jai White even mentions in the commentary that this was inspired by any love scenes featuring Jim Brown, a tough-guy sort of actor who couldn't play "tender" to save his life.[[/note]]
39	* BatDeduction: Black Dynamite's EurekaMoment at a diner, where he figures out the evil plot by some InsaneTrollLogic. Starting from M & M's slogan, with an extended trip to Ancient Greece and Rome, which of course everyone is familiar with, and ending up at Music/LittleRichard. [[note]]They are at a diner that serves waffles who melt in your mouth. [=M&Ms=] also melt in your mouth (And not in your hand) and are made by the Mars Candy Company. Mars is the Roman God of War, and his Greek counterpart is Ares. Mars backwards without the S reads "Ram", which is the symbol for Aries. Ares' half sister is Athena, who is the namesake for Athens, Greece. Zodialogical Astronomy was invented by the Greeks in 785 BC (everyone around the table knows this). 785 is the area code of Topeka Kansas. Which can be shortened to Code Kansas. Code Kansas backwards without one of the S gives Snake Doc. AKA Snake Doctor. Aesculapius is the Greek Demigod of Medecine who believed snakes' tongues had mystical healing power and whose staff surrounded by snakes is the symbol for medicine. Apollo is Aesculapius' father, and a legend involving him and snakes is in both Greek and Roman mythology - Apollo slew the serpent at Delphi. The Serpent was "a big-ass snake." The South American anaconda is the biggest snake in the world. Anaconda Malt Liquor has the slogan "Anaconda Malt Liquor gives you Whooooooooooo!" "Whooooooooooooo!" sounds like Music/LittleRichard. So the motto really is: "Anaconda Malt Liquor gives you Music/LittleRichard". Dick is another name for Richard. So the real motto (and the sinister plot) is that Anaconda Malt Liquor gives you a small dick. And their conclusion is immediately proven correct.[[/note]]
40	* BigBad: [[spoiler:Richard Nixon]].
41	* TheBigBadShuffle: Black Dynamite deals with a variety of villains in his quest to avenge his brother's death.
42	* 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 afterward, Bullhorn appears, knocking the gun out of the minion's hand, and giving Dynamite a chance to chase after Chicago.
43	--> '''Bullhorn:''' Go get Chicago Wind before he disappears! I'll take care of this gorilla-eatin' goon here.
44	* BiggerIsBetterInBed: This is why [[spoiler:Nixon wants to shrink the penises of black men, in order to reduce their population]].
45	* BigNo: After [[spoiler:a Secret Service agent blows up the helicopter Cream Corn's in]], Black Dynamite does one of these.
46	* BilingualBonus:
47	** The phrase that Black Dynamite heard the dying "Chinese" kid speak is actually Vietnamese for "You are full of shit."
48	** The rest of the foreign dialog is [[ClusterFBomb Cluster F-Bombs]].
49	* BlackIsBiggerInBed: The protagonist manages to [[GagPenis have sex with three women simultaneously, and please all of them equally.]] And to take the gag up to eleven, 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."]]
50	* BlaxploitationParody: One that really goes all-in when it comes to poking fun at the genre.
51	* BottomlessMagazines: Black Dynamite's six-shot revolver can fire dozens of rounds without reloading. [[StylisticSuck While having no bullets in the chamber.]]
52	* BraggingThemeTune: With lyrics like "Use kung fu when he want to / have sex when he please".
53	* BrickJoke: After a shootout that ruins his chili and donuts restaurant, Roscoe remarks that the odd combination wasn't working out anyway. Nearly an hour later, Cream Corn scoffs at a waitress' ridiculous offer of chicken and waffles. Upon hearing this, Roscoe jumps up in the background, shouts "That's IT!" and runs out of the diner, the implication being that it gave him the idea for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%27s_House_of_Chicken_and_Waffles Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles]].
54	* TheCameo: Arsenio Hall, Brian [=McKnight=], Tommy Davidson, Cedric Yarbrough. All the girls shown topless on-screen are real-life porn stars.
55	* CaptainObvious:
56	** "These children are orphans, and orphans don't have parents!"
57	** Also this hilarious exchange:
58	---> '''Militiaman:''' How did you get here?
59	---> '''Black Dynamite:''' I walked in...
60	* TheCasanova: Black Dynamite, who per movie tradition flirts with becoming a LadykillerInLove by the end.
61	* CastingGag: One of the government agents in the warehouse (the one injected with truth serum) is played by John Kerry, who played the corrupt Detective Mitchell in ''{{Film/Dolemite}}''.
62	* CharacterAsHimself: Inverted, as the main characters are "played" by equally fictional "actors":
63	** [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball Baltimore Colts All-Star Running Back]] Ferrante Jones (Michael Jai White) as Black Dynamite.
64	** Ebony Fashion Fair Model Tambula Qatar (Creator/SalliRichardsonWhitfield) as Gloria.
65	** [[RealNameAsAnAlias William T Michaelson]] (Mykelti Williamson) as Chicago Wind.
66	** Ronnie Sinatra (Kevin Chapman) as O'Leary.
67	** Little Tiny Tiggs (Tommy Davidson) as Cream Corn.
68	** June Bug (Arsenio Hall) as Tasty Freeze.
69	** Bo Willy Peters (Buddy Lewis) as Gunsmoke.
70	** And that bad Bullhorn (Byron Minns) as Himself; making him, paradoxically, both a straight example and an inversion of the trope ''at the same time''.
71	* ChekhovsBoomerang: An actual bladed boomerang, which returns to the ''target'' if it misses the first time. The Fiendish Dr. Wu throws it offscreen to kill [[spoiler: Bullhorn]], then throws it again at Black Dynamite to distract him twice, giving Fiendish Dr. Wu enough time to flee. [[spoiler: Black Dynamite throws it the third time, while offscreen, to have it home in on Fiendish Dr. Wu later on.]]
72	--> '''Black Dynamite:''' [[spoiler:HAHA! I threw that shit before I walked in the room!]]
73	* ChewingTheScenery: Black Dynamite's tirade when confronting Fiendish Dr. Wu and when [[spoiler: Bullhorn dies by his hand]].
74	--> '''Black Dynamite:''' [[spoiler:Bullhorn!]] At long last, a friendship bonded by the struggle against The Man has been brought to an end by KUNG-FU TREACHERY! Brother, your death will not go unavenged. Fiendish Dr. Wu, you done ''fucked up now!''
75	* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: The actor playing Black Dynamite's brother Jimmy as an adult delivers his lines with an absurdly stagey, snobbish delivery that borders on British, which just makes them even more ridiculous to hear.
76	-->''(With impeccable diction)'' "Come on, you jive turkeys, what kind of run-down is this? Look, man; I've got to get BACK to the STREETS, WHERE I COME FROM, ssssucka."
77	* ComicallyInvincibleHero: Black Dynamite is a parody of the blaxpoitation action hero, being the meanest, most badass black dude in this world and the next. Secondary characters keep dropping like flies around him but any opponents at best just momentarily inconvenience him personally.
78	* CrazyPrepared: BD already threw that shit (a boomerang) before he walked in the room!
79	* CurseCutShort: Also interrupting one of Bullhorn's rhymes no less, just as he was about to get it on with a woman.
80	-->'''Bullhorn:''' Man, [[WhoDares who DARE knock]] when I'm plannin' to plant my--
81	-->''[Black Dynamite enters the room]''
82	-->'''Bullhorn:''' --main man Black Dynamite!
83	* DeadpanSnarker: Black Dynamite in the hospital after being shot in the shoulder by Raffeli's hitmen.
84	--> '''Black Dynamite:''' So how's my x-ray?
85	--> '''Black Dynamite's doctor:''' Well, no fragments. In and out. You're lucky, Black Dynamite. Three inches to the left and we wouldn't even be having this conversation!
86	--> '''Black Dynamite:''' Three inches to the right, it woulda missed my black ass.
87	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The movie doesn't shy away from parodying some of the rather... dated aspects of the Blaxploitation genre.
88	* DestinationDefenestration: If there's a window nearby, it's pretty much a guarantee that Black Dynamite will throw someone through it. Even twelve-year old Black Dynamite!
89	* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:'''The ghost of Abraham Lincoln''' arriving to save Black Dynamite from being shot by Richard Nixon.]]
90	* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: O'Leary being the first disc final boss and Fiendish Doctor Wu being the second]].
91	* DisproportionateRetribution: Black Dynamite has some anger issues, to put it mildly. 12 year-old Black Dynamite gets mercilessly teased by a few kids for being an orphan. He tosses them out of a window.
92	* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: In-universe, of course. Black Dynamite -- a stern, violent, murderous pimp -- appears as himself on the faux-kids show ''Ding Dong Roar'' to deliver a PSA to children about how DrugsAreBad; the way they choose to spread the word, however, is through a song confusingly titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk6Zy1xC4JM "Drugs are Fun"]], almost entirely about how drugs have street names that sound like nice things.
93	* DoubleEntendre: "[[{{Slogans}} Anaconda Malt Liquor gives you 'oooo'.]]" Sounds innocent enough, but after a EurekaMoment you realize it means [[spoiler: it gives you a tiny penis]].
94	* TheDragon: Fiendish Doctor Wu.
95	* DrivingADesk: The rear projection shows Chicago Wind's car making some pretty big turns, despite him not looking at the road. Then when he turns to look at the road, he instantly screams as he's about to run over a cliff that ''wasn't'' in the rear projection.
96	* DrugsAreBad: From which we get this gem:
97	-->'''Black Dynamite:''' From now on, I'm declarin' war on anyone who sells drugs to the community!
98	-->'''Chocolate Giddy-Up:''' But Black Dynamite, I sell drugs to the community!
99	* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler: As the movie approaches its climax, Black Dynamite's comrades are killed by his enemies. When Cream Corn's helicopter is blown up, Black Dynamite finds himself facing White House security alone.]]
100	* EurekaMoment: A ridiculously circuitous, 3-minute long one that also counts as InsaneTrollLogic.
101	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He might be a bad guy, but [[spoiler: Richard Nixon still loves his wife and goes ape-shit when she is hurt.]]
102	* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Everyone in this world knows Kung-fu for some reason, despite its seemingly limited actual uses, [[spoiler:including President Richard Nixon and Abraham Lincoln's ghost.]]
103	* EveryCarIsAPinto: The StockFootage used takes this up to eleven - the cars that Black Dynamite destroy actually explode before they hit anything.
104	* EyeScream: The mook of Fiendish Dr. Wu who was told to keep his eye on Black Dynamite.
105	-->'''Black Dynamite:''' [[https://youtu.be/UZRu2SNx9wM?t=250 Do you see where I'm coming from, you jive mothafuckaaa!?]]
106	* FanserviceExtra: Done, as with everything else, in the style of old blaxploitation movies.
107	* FightSceneFailure: [[invoked]]While most of the fight scenes involving Black Dynamite himself are surprisingly good, the other actors tend to be visibly clumsier, throwing punches that clearly miss. In one scene, Bullhorn even accidentally punches a guy for real, at which the visibly pissed-off guy advances on him, and then a cut replaces him with a different guy that Bullhorn easily beats up.
108	* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Richard Nixon]].
109	* {{Flashback}}: Black Dynamite has one to Vietnam. It is the least reverent and tasteful Vietnam War story ever, complete with a Vietnamese child who he [[InterchangeableAsianCultures repeatedly refers to as Chinese]] and whose last words are actually telling him "[[BilingualBonus you're full of shit]]" in Vietnamese.
110	* FlashStep: Black Dynamite pulls off an impressive one in the dojo scene, although it might have been an intentional error.
111	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
112	** Throughout the opening commercial for Anaconda Malt Liquor, Leon St. James is never shown taking a sip, or even raising the bottle to his lips. [[spoiler:Clearly, he's not willing to risk the side effects on his love life.]]
113	** The scene with the zodiac love-making positions; the Greek zodiac later plays a role in deciphering the true purpose of Anaconda Malt Liquor.
114	** Black Dynamite swears on the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, [[spoiler: who helps him to defeat Richard Nixon. That's what Nixon gets for using John Wilkes Booth's derringer]].
115	* FramingDevice: The story is implied to be told by Bullhorn [[spoiler:in the afterlife]].
116	* FreudianExcuse: A heroic inversion: The reason why Dynamite jumps at the chance to help out orphans is because he didn't exactly have the best childhood growing up after he became one himself.
117	* FriendlyNeighborhoodGangster: Parodied to hell and back; the pimp council scene mines a lot of jokes out of the fact that, although they're a frequent choice for protagonists in the blaxpoitation genre, most pimps in real life aren't exactly nice people. Even Black Dynamite, despite ostensibly being a neighborhood hero, is still a pimp himself, and shouts violent threats at one of his prostitutes when she interrupts him (revealing in the process that one of the pimps on the council, Crenshaw Pete, tortures his own girls with "hot-ass coat hangers").
118	-->'''BD:''' From now on, I'm declarin' war on anyone who sells drugs to the community!
119	-->'''Chocolate Giddy-Up:''' But Black Dynamite, I sell drugs to the community!
120	* FunnyAfro: Countless, but Cream Corn's takes the cake, as not only is it gigantic, but ''it is shaped like a pimp hat''.
121	* GilliganCut: Cream Corn claims to know nothing about Jimmy's murder, and the movie cuts immediately to Cream Corn held upside-down over the side of a building, offering to tell Black Dynamite what he knows.
122	* GunsAkimbo: Black Dynamite's modus operandi as [[spoiler:parachutes down to the White House, laying waste to Secret Service members all the while]].
123	* {{Hammerspace}}: Black Dynamite can produce his nunchucks at will and put them away ''somewhere'' afterwards, even when there's nowhere he could conceivably fit them in his clothes or they'd be clearly visible if they were there.
124	* HiddenDepths: Everyone seems to know a great deal about Greek and Roman mythology. And Kansas area codes.
125	* HighAltitudeInterrogation: How Black Dynamite gets Cream Corn to spill the beans about Chicago Wind.
126	* HistoricalBeautyUpdate:
127	** Remember, the white babe who {{Leg Cling}}s to Black Dynamite at the end of the movie is supposed to be [[spoiler:First Lady Pat Nixon, who in real life was 62 by the end of her husband's presidency]].
128	** [[spoiler:Richard Nixon]] actually doesn't look as harsh as he did in real life.
129	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[spoiler:Richard Nixon and his wife and the ghost of Abraham Lincoln]] appear in this movie.
130	* HistoricalInJoke: Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles (a real place) was inspired by a totally random lunch order. His previous venture was Roscoe's Chili & Donuts.
131	* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Needless to say, the real [[spoiler:Richard Nixon]] never tried to [[spoiler:emasculate black men]].
132	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Non-lethal example, when Fiendish Dr. Wu get his left arm cut off by his own boomerang, thrown at him by BD himself.
133	* {{Homage}}: Black Dynamite's look and signature kiais are modeled on Jim Kelly, a martial arts-fighting blaxploitation star.
134	* HumanShield: When Gloria and Black Dynamite are ambushed by assassins, the latter uses the mascot of Roscoe's Chili & Donuts as one of these to provide himself cover while he guns down their assailants.
135	* 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 after she finishes his catchphase. This is then followed by an awkward silence from everyone present.
136	* InsistentTerminology: It's not just "Dr. Wu", it's ''[[CardCarryingVillain Fiendish]]'' Dr. Wu.
137	* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Played for comedy. While Black Dynamite is busy recalling a flashback of a child he saw during the Vietnam War, he keeps referring to him as Chinese rather than Vietnamese. Even better, the child's village was supposedly in Tainan, which is a city in ''UsefulNotes/{{Taiwan}}'' and [[FridgeBrilliance actually adds up]] with the kid being Chinese.
138	* JiveTurkey: The makers noted that most of the old blaxploitation movies were actually written by white men, and contained slang that didn't really resemble the way black people talked even in the seventies. One said that he had never in his life heard a black man call someone a "jive turkey," but of course ''Black Dynamite'' had to be full of that kind of thing.
139	* JustFollowingOrders: [[spoiler: O'Leary when explaining why he was the one who ordered Jimmy dead]].
140	* {{Kiai}}: Black Dynamite's deep "oooo-weee!" kiais sound like Jim Kelly's, such as in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRY9dAqDLOQ Three the Hard Way]]''.
141	* KidsAreCruel: BD was bullied as a kid for being an orphan.
142	* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Cream Corn]]. The most he blurts out before dying is "Son of a biiiiiii--"
143	* LargeHam: BD becomes this a number of times.
144	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [[VisibleBoomMic Whenever the boom mike brushes his afro]], or [[TheShowMustGoOn another cast member delivers a line incorrectly]], Black Dynamite can often be seen [[AsideGlance glancing meaningfully at the off-screen director to end the scene]]. Also happens in a few [[StylisticSuck purposefully sloppy]] [[LeaveTheCameraRunning edits]].
145	* LegCling: The final pose of the film, pictured above. The white lady is First Lady Pat Nixon, to boot.
146	* {{Leitmotif}}: After watching this movie you'll have "Dy-no-mite! Dy-no-mite!" playing over and over in your head.
147	* LukeYouAreMyFather: A girl mentions that her father is called Black Dynamite. Her friend, surprised, [[LongLostRelative says her father is too]]. Black Dynamite, awkwardly trying to cover it up from his LoveInterest, argues that many guys have that name.
148	* TheManBehindTheMan: Who is it? Of course! We should have known! It was [[spoiler:Richard Nixon]] all along!
149	* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Gunsmoke]] would rather accept this than live on with [[spoiler:a shrunk Johnson]].
150	* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: The death of a CIA informant at the hands of the mob ends up revealing [[spoiler:a government conspiracy to shrink black men's penises]].
151	* TheMole: [[spoiler:O'Leary]].
152	* MundaneSolution: [[spoiler: Nixon tries simply shooting Black Dynamite... but [[ARareSentence Abe Lincoln kung-fu'd the derringer out of Nixon's hands]]]].
153	* 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 BD's facial expressions and body gestures are played out 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.
154	* NoodleIncident: Unlike the rest of the pimps, who don't seem ''that'' afraid of Black Dynamite when he walks in -- with Osiris even greeting him like an old friend -- Chocolate Giddy-up is absolutely terrified and completely deferential to BD, suggesting that he's faced his wrath in the past.
155	* NWordPrivileges: Being a Blaxploitation pastiche, it's only natural that [[PlayingWithATrope this gets a little bit of exercise]]. While most of the cast uses the word at least once, there are several notable examples:
156	** In the small amount of screen time he gets, Chicago Wind throws it around quite frequently as a means of insult.
157	** The security guard at the Anaconda Malt Liquor plant is ''definitely not'' allowed to use the pejorative "coon", with the militia members striking him in the head every time he does so. Eventually, he slips into a coma with a slur still on his lips.
158	** [[spoiler:Nixon's wife, rather than use any particularly offensive term, instead refers to Black Dynamite by the weirdly archaic "moon cricket".]]
159	* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Bullhorn,]] who is killed by Fiendish Dr. Wu's PrecisionGuidedBoomerang.
160	* OffhandBackhand: [[spoiler: Black Dynamite shoots a Secret Service agent who comes up behind him while assaulting the White House]].
161	* OhCrap: The ''entire'' group in the pool hall. They threaten Black Dynamite, and he turns to leave. They start throwing out insults, when Dynamite simply flips the sign and then slides the burglary gate shut. Everyone goes ''silent''. Then the asskicking ensues.
162	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Most of the supporting cast. Black Dynamite, however, seems to actually be the man's name.
163	* OpeningMonologue: Bullhorn's rhyming at the top of this page. [[spoiler:Since he dies mid-story, knows events he's not involved in, and refers to his friendship in the past tense, he might be telling the story in the afterlife]].
164	* TheOtherDarrin: In-universe. A stuntman is replaced mid-action scene after he's accidentally struck in the face by Bullhorn and gets angry; his replacement looks nothing like him.
165	* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:They plan conspiracies to shrink the penises of black men and [[ActionPolitician fight with nunchucks when their plans are discovered.]]]]
166	* OverlyLongGag: The aforementioned EurekaMoment, which is about 4 minutes in length.
167	* PimpDuds: The scene with the pimp council, which has all the pimps seen with at least one part of the uniform (Tasty Freeze's sunglasses; Chocolate Giddy-Up's fur coat; Willie's cane; etc.).
168	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler:Richard Nixon, who hatches a plot to shrink the [[BlackIsBiggerInBed penises of black men]] in order to keep them from out-breeding the white race.]]
169	* PrecisionFStrike:
170	** When Black Dynamite [[spoiler: encounters Richard Nixon in the White House, Nixon]] pulls out a pair of nunchucks and yells "Showtime, motherfucker!", though his speech becomes a minor ClusterFBomb afterwards.
171	** Fiendish Dr. Wu pulls one as well, in Chinese even. He also performs another one in English, when a {{mook}} follows him:
172	---> '''Fiendish Dr. Wu:''' What the fuck!? Keep your eye on Black Dynamite!
173	** And after [[spoiler:Bullhorn]] is killed by Fiendish Dr. Wu's boomerang.
174	--->'''Black Dynamite''':Fiendish Dr. WU, '''[[ItsPersonal YOU DONE FUCKED UP NOW!]]'''
175	* PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: Substantially more illogical than that trope usually is, since here the boomerang automatically returns to the target rather than the user. Of course, [[RuleOfCool This was]] [[RuleOfFunny the point]].
176	--> '''Black Dynamite:''' [[https://youtu.be/UZRu2SNx9wM?t=267 HAHA! I threw that shit before I walked in the room!]] ''[kick]''
177	* ProtagonistTitle
178	* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: One of the militants does this frequently."The militants turn, startled. This is private... Sarcastically, I am in charge." Much later in the film, he mentions what he's going to do when he goes home: "[[{{Retirony}} retire]], ''shows [[FatalFamilyPhoto picture]]''..."
179	* ReallyGetsAround: Black Dynamite, of course. When one of his lady friends introduces himself to two random little girls on the street, both of them mention that both of their fathers are named Black Dynamite. Worried, Black Dynamite tells them that [[BlatantLies a lot of guys are named Black Dynamite.]]
180	* RedshirtArmy: The militia. Lampshaded by Black Dynamite himself, in response to the previous quote.
181	-->'''Black Dynamite:''' If you were in charge, you might as well surrender to whitey right now cause your survival skills ain't worth a damn.
182	* RefugeInAudacity: The entire film. Arguably the viral marketing for the film did this too, setting up a fictional charity ("Fight Smack In The Orphanage") and fictional public service announcements across Youtube. One bizarre PSA had Black Dynamite appearing on a fictional 1970's children's show that warned children against drug use. The PSA's title? "Drugs Are Fun".
183	* RealTrailerFakeMovie: How the movie came to be. The original trailer (made up mostly of scenes from real blaxploitation films combined with a few scenes of original footage) was used to sell the idea to producers.
184	* {{Retirony}}: Complete with FatalFamilyPhoto. Lampshaded by BD:
185	-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG82W_UHYGE&feature=related "Who saw that comin- I mean-WHO SAW WHERE THAT CAME FROM?!"]]
186	* {{Retraux}}: The entire movie. It goes through so many lengths to look like an authentic '70s film that even Creator/RogerEbert admitted that you could easily ''mistake it for one.''
187	* RevengePornBlackmail: The ''real'' reason behind the Watergate break-in was that Richard Nixon was trying to steal and destroy pornographic photos of himself in bondage gear. Black Dynamite gets ahold of these photos and threatens to leak them unless Nixon promises to stop interfering with the black community.
188	* RevolversAreJustBetter: BD fires off [[BottomlessMagazines 18 rounds without reloading]].
189	* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When Black Dynamite declares war on the drug dealers, one of them, outraged, asks "now who you supposed to be?" Another leans in and, in a helpful tone of voice, says "oh, that's Black Dynamite."
190	* RhymesOnADime: Lots of characters, but particularly Bullhorn.
191	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: BD goes on one after he finds out about his brother Jimmy is killed.
192	* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:All of Black Dynamite's friends die, with the exception of Honeybee]].
193	* SavingTheOrphanage: After seeing how badly smack has ravaged the children at Gloria's orphanage, Black Dynamite vows to make whoever's responsible for the drug pay.
194	* SelfDisposingVillain: Played for laughs; Chicago Wind spends so much time [[DriverFacesPassenger looking back to gloat at Black Dynamite]] that his car runs off a cliff and explodes.
195	* SeriousBusiness: Suicide is preferable to having a small penis.
196	* SharpDressedMan
197	* ShoutOut:
198	** 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 nails 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.
199	** Jimmy, Black Dynamite's brother, speaks in a very clear theater-like dialect, referencing black Shakespearean actors who acted in Blackxploitation films, most famously William Marshall in Film/{{Blacula}}.
200	** The "Dyno-mite! Dyno-mite!" riff in the soundtrack is a clear reference to the similar "Dole-mite! Dole-mite!" riff in Film/{{Dolemite}}. Bullhorn's RhymesOnADime shtick is also very similar to Rudy Ray Moore's in his comedy acts.
201	** The line "Suddenly I'd like to leave your island!" is from Bruce Lee's 1973 film ''Film/EnterTheDragon''. It was said by Williams, another black kung fu guy.
202	** "Where is Bucky, and what has he had?" is a direct reference to Rudy Ray Moore's famous line from ''[[Film/DiscoGodfather Avenging Disco Godfather]]''.
203	** Black Dynamite's "I'm taking any any front-money sucker on a humble that gets in my way" is from ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_(film) Hammer]]'', another blaxploitation classic.
204	** Black Dynamite's fight with Fiendish Dr. Wu (himself a clear riff on [[Film/DrNo Doctor No]].) on Kung Fu Island (and the black spy turtleneck he wears there) is partially a take-off on the climax of ''That Man Bolt'', starring Fred Williamson. [[spoiler:The villain is even dispatched with a throwing star - though ''Bolt'' merely had it stick in his hand and leave him vulnerable to a shot from behind, whereas BD slices off Wu's entire arm and sets him on fire.]]
205	** The pimp meeting is essentially a slightly more ridiculous version of the pimp gathering in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Dynamite Willie Dynamite]] and not coincidentally, one of the Pimps in the meeting is called "Willie".
206	** One of the pimps is "Series/CaptainKangaroo Pimp."
207	* SignatureShot: In every movie Michael Jai White is in, there is always a scene with a mascot being beat up. This movie has the most visible example.
208	* SleazyPolitician: Congressman James.
209	* SoftGlass
210	* SophisticatedAsHell: The insanely convoluted deduction scene where Black Dynamite and co display a surprisingly in-depth knowledge of Greco-Roman mythology, history, zodialogy, and zoology...while still talking like stereotypical 70s jive turkeys.
211	--> '''Saheed''': That's right! Apollo slew the serpent at Delphi, which was a big-ass snake!
212	* SoulBrotha: Everyone.
213	* SniffSniffNom: Saheed does ''exactly'' that. To a cartridge case, no less, licking it for powder residue.
214	* SpecialEffectFailure: Often and obviously intentionally {{invoked}}. Notable examples include shuriken on strings and a car driving off a cliff and exploding before it hits the ground.
215	* SplitScreenPhoneCall: When Black Dynamite receives a phone call from his mother informing him of his brother's death.
216	* StockFootage:
217	** Recreating a 70s car chase would be expensive, but there's plenty of old unused car chases from back then. And editing all that footage together makes for hilarious discontinuities. The same car explodes twice in different scenes, while resembling neither of the two cars that were supposed to explode.
218	** Also used in some battle scenes on Kung Fu Island.
219	* StormingTheCastle: Both Kung Fu Island and [[spoiler:the White House]].
220	* StuntCasting / NonActorVehicle : In-universe, in the "fake" trailer. Black Dynamite is apparently played by "all-star running back Ferrante Jones", referencing sportsmen-turned-actors Fred Williamson and Jim Brown. "That bad Bullhorn" also appears AsHimself. The movie plays with this by having Pat Nixon (or rather the "actress" playing her) gently coaching "Ferrante Jones" on acting in their scenes together, implying that she is an experienced professional amidst a cast of amateurs.
221	* StylisticSuck: The film is presented as a shoddy blaxploitation film with 70s-era DeliberateValuesDissonance and low production values. There's plenty of obvious stock footage, rough edits, bad acting and visible boom mikes.
222	* SuperVillainLair: Kung Fu Island.
223	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Black Dynamite's brother Jimmy is killed when he denies being a snitch despite no one accusing him of being one.
224	* TeenyWeenie: [[spoiler:The gruesome fate of all who drink Anaconda Malt Liquor, as demonstrated by Gunsmoke's cruelly "shrunk Johnson". (The prop shown was fashioned out of a rubber baby pacifier.)]]
225	* TemptingFate: Cream Corn's first appearance; he's inside a salon getting his hair done, bragging all about how good of a pimp he is and how nobody better mess with him. Then he turns around, sees BD, and completely freaks out.
226	* 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 "several shades lighter" than Michael Jai White) that he still has to state who they both are, just for clarity.
227	* TruthSerums: Gunsmoke uses one to make the Anaconda Malt Liquor worker reveal the basic details of Code Kansas. However, he ends up giving him too much, causing him to freeze.
228	* VillainousValour: [[spoiler:Nixon doesn't hesitate to take on Black Dynamite in hand-to-hand combat]].
229	* VisibleBoomMic: Intentionally, obviously. Black Dynamite even looks visibly distracted by it.
230	* VoiceClipSong: BD briefly discusses 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]].
231	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Certain plot points involving Congressman James, such as him being in league with Raffelli and getting incriminating documents heisted from his office by BD's crew, are only explained fully in deleted scenes. Of course, the somewhat disjointed nature of the final product only makes it feel even more [[StylisticSuck authentically cheesy]].
232	* TheWhiteHouse: Called "The Honky House".
233	* WhoDares: Bullhorn after BD accidentally interrupts a moment between him and a ho:
234	-->'''Bullhorn:''' Man, who dare knock when I'm plannin' to plant my-- ([[{{Leitmotif}} Dynamite!]])
235	* WouldntHitAGirl: [[WouldHitAGirl Averted]] and subverted on different occasions. In the latter case BD apologizes afterwards. The struck woman is confused, seeing as how she was ''trying to shoot him to death''.
236	* YellowPeril: Fiendish Doctor Wu.
237	----
238	->''"Whenever there's injustice, wrongs to be righted, innocents to be defended, Black Dynamite will be there, delivering ass-whuppings. And I will not hesitate to lay the hammer down on any clown that comes around. Cause if they want a fight, they best come see me. Cause I'm Black Dynamite!"''

Context Film / BlackDynamite