Line #79 Main/MalcolmXerox


1	->''"Aw, people of Sherwood, you've been had! Hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Run amuck! ''We'' didn't land on Sherwood Forest; Sherwood Forest landed on ''us''!"''
2	-->-- '''[[Creator/DaveChappelle Achoo]]''', ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights''
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4	A form of StrawCharacter, this trope is often specific to black characters, though it is equally applicable to any member of a minority race, human or otherwise.
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6	These characters are often very far to the left of the political spectrum, and usually militant. These black radicals or activists are depicted as a bunch of [[StrawHypocrite hypocritical]], irrational, paranoid, unreasonable, lazy, bigoted, [[EverythingIsRacist race-card-playing]], [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiratorial]] raving loons. Even within [[{{Blaxploitation}} TV shows and movies targeted at a black audience]], they're often portrayed as ridiculous characters whose opinions are not of any real merit. When it comes to black TV and films, this could be an attempt by some black writers to subvert the stereotype of black people agreeing with these particular views. In the process, they ended up creating a StrawCharacter.
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8	The TropeNamer is UsefulNotes/MalcolmX, who achieved fame during the American civil rights movement for his aggressive and hard-line views on race; this trope usually involves TheThemeParkVersion of his actual views, warped and exaggerated for the sake of parody or to serve the author's own viewpoint. Ironically, [[UnbuiltTrope most of the early examples of this trope are subversions]], with the more modern iterations essentially being a parody of a parody. Worth noting also is that many of the earliest examples of this trope [[OlderThanTheyThink actually predate Malcolm X by a fair bit]].
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10	Compare with AngryBlackManStereotype and EverythingIsRacist.
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20	* Dian in ''Anime/Jewelpet2009'' was, in his backstory, a Jewelpet supremacist who wanted to free his kind from humans, thinking that they were taking advantage of their good will and superiority (being magical creatures). He led a rebellion, but it was suppressed and he was banished and sealed for hundreds of years. When he is unsealed again, he has MotiveDecay and only wants revenge.
21	* Fisher Tiger from ''Manga/OnePiece'' is a rare Japanese example, as well as a rare three-dimensional example. He raises a pirate crew of former [[FishPeople fishman]] slaves and espouses their races' superiority in response to humans (and specifically the [[AristocratsAreEvil Celestial Dragons]]') [[FantasticRacism discrimination against them]]. Tiger fought against the human Navy to liberate oppressed Fishmen, but on principle he never killed those he fought against. While he understood on an intellectual level that good humans existed, Tiger still held a great amount of hatred for them in his heart due to his [[TragicBigot status as a former slave]]. Ultimately, he is killed because his hatred of humans runs so deep that he refuses to accept treatment for a mortal injury because the only blood available for a transfusion is human blood. To really drive the point home, he is contrasted with the queen of Fishman Island, Otohime. While Fisher Tiger believes that the differences between humans and fishmen are irreconcilable and they must live separately, Queen Otohime tried to encourage cooperation between the two races. Otohime's dream was to bring the Merfolk and the Fishmen from the sea floor to the surface where they could join the rest of the world. She believed that by secluding themselves in such an inaccessible area, they were limiting their people's opportunities and allowing them to live in ignorance. In spite of their contrasting ideologies, however, both Otohime and Tiger held a great amount of respect for each other and their work. Both ended up assassinated for their trouble as well: Fisher Tiger [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished after being betrayed by a human village to whom he returned a captured slave]], and Otohime by [[TheFundamentalist a fishman pirate who wanted to stoke anti-human hatred.]] Fittingly enough, Tiger's played by the African-American Creator/GabeKunda in the Creator/{{Funimation}} English dub.
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25	* Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}'s arch nemesis Black Manta, whose motivation was to conquer Atlantis so he could slaughter the inhabitants and make the kingdom a haven for black people who'd been so repressed on the land. Or so he says - he's shifted goals multiple times and has outright stated he's just pretending to do this in order to get funds and men. He really just wants money and to see Aquaman dead.
26	* [[Franchise/StarWars "Jabari Jabari Binko"]] in an early ''[[ComicStrip/TheBoondocks Boondocks]]'' strip is a parody of this trope, meant to be an inversion of Jar Jar Binks' [[EthnicScrappy offensive racial stereotyping]].
27	* A [[TheSixties 1960s]] ''Little Annie Fanny'' comic, satirizing the ideological conflict between MLK Jr.'s and Malcolm X's followers, ends with "Marvin X" and his followers donning surplus [[GodwinsLaw Nazi uniforms]] and "Marvin" shouting "We must build a superior race! Let the liquidations begin!" At this, the unnamed MLK Jr. stand-in, whom Marvin's ship had rescued from the ocean, swims off saying, "I think I'll take my chances with the sharks."
28	* ComicBook/{{Magneto}} is often read this way. Loooong ago in TheSixties he was a generically evil villain who wanted to destroy humans because he believes mutants are superior, but by TheSeventies he'd been retooled with a more well-rounded characterization: when his past is revealed, we find he was a Holocaust survivor and believed that the growing hatred for mutants by humans would eventually mean a repeat, leading to a couple decades of [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope leading to him going]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters too far with his methods of]] [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized "protecting" and "ensuring the future"]] of mutantkind. The reading of him as a parallel to Malcolm X is well-known enough that even academic papers have referenced it, such as [[https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3774/ here]].
29	* Commando X in ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'' was an early villain. He started off as a vigilante who attacked white supremacists before he JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope and started attacking innocent Jews because he blamed "Jewish network executives" for his TV show being cancelled. This is actually an InvokedTrope: his character is used to address the troubled relationship between Jews and Black people in cities like Dakota, and to show Static the dangers of extremism.
30	* The character of Muhammad X from the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comics, a superhero in his own right who protects Harlem. He harasses Superman over his perceived neglect of the black community, and the damaging psychological effect of dependency on an all-powerful alien with white skin. Superman attempts to convince him that he can be a hero to all races, but fails, and the two part ways on rather bitter terms.
31	* ''ComicBook/SupremePower:'' Nighthawk is a fanatical black supremacist whose fanaticism actually causes him to leave a bad taste in the mouths of other African-Americans, and who in turn is so fanatical [[BoomerangBigot he becomes racist towards his own people]], as he openly espouses the idea that [[WithUsOrAgainstUs any Afro-American who isn't a black supremacist]] is a CategoryTraitor. His beliefs and behavior appalls Stanley Stewart, aka "The Blur", the only Afro-American superhuman in their world, who points out that he grew up and lives in TheDeepSouth and he had ''never'' been called "house negro" until "his fellow black man" Nighthawk did it, and likewise that Nighthawk has racially objectified him far more than the whites he lives amongst. This, combined with Nighthawk [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway dissing on Blur's]] SuperSpeed, causes Blur to [[HumiliationConga dish out some revenge]]: he strips Nighthawk naked and tells him that he can walk home that way. They happen to be in Louisiana, and Nighthawk's "home turf" is in Chicago.
32	-->'''Nighthawk:''' A long time ago, my dad heard UsefulNotes/MalcolmX speak at a church in Memphis. He said that during slave days, you had the house Negro, and the field Negro.\
33	The house Negro lived in the master's house, ate the same food as the master, lived in a warm room, usually in the basement. If the master got a cold, he was right there to help out, all cheerful and friendly because he wanted his own life to be good, and that meant making the master happy.\
34	The field Negro ate whatever scraps the dogs didn't eat, lived out in a cold shack, was beaten and kicked -- and when the master got sick, he prayed every day the master would die. Didn't matter if the master was technically a nice guy or not. The master represented the system, and it was the system he hated.\
35	Our backgrounds may not line up, but at the end of the day, as much as I like Stan, he's a house negro. And I'm a field negro. And that's never going to- ''(notices Stan just arrived and was listening to what he said)'' change...\
36	'''Stan:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck. You]].
37	* The Spike in ''ComicBook/XForce'' is a stereotypical militant {{Angry Black Man\|Stereotype}} who accuses everyone of race at every opportunity for purely careerist and publicity reasons.
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41	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' plays this trope for laughs by portraying Snowball the (white, ironically enough) bunny as the animal equivalent of this, militantly devoted to overthrowing humans throughout most of the movie. Bonus points for being voiced by African American actor Kevin Hart.
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45	* The Mau Mau gang from Creator/SpikeLee's ''Film/{{Bamboozled}}''. They fit the "hypocrisy" aspect of this character. The Mau Maus angrily denounce the {{Blackface}} entertainers with "Painted faces, disgrace to the races!" - but they are, in their own way, [[YouAreWhatYouHate just as buffoonish as what they condemn]]. And they're even more hypocritical when they execute one of the show's performers while wearing some of the "Mantan" Halloween masks they so despise (which makes them [[DirtyCoward Dirty Cowards]] as well).
46	* Subverted in ''Film/ChasingAmy'' by Hooper X, a comic book artist character who used this trope, playing a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy proud Nubian]] and StrawCharacter when promoting his comic book; but was in fact a [[CampGay flamboyant homosexual]].
47	* Buggin' Out from ''Film/DoTheRightThing''. Many of the other characters are angry about race issues as well, which is kinda the point of the movie.
48	%%* Willie Stevens from ''Film/HanginWithTheHomeboys''.
49	* A straight example from ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'' is the ''Bluntman and Chronic'' director, though he ''is'' played by Chris Rock, [[ActorAllusion who has spent his career lampooning these kinds of characters]]. Ironically enough, his name is also Chaka ''Luther King'' and instead of being an activist, he was merely an PointyHairedBoss to his white assistants.
50	* Sharif from ''Film/MenaceIISociety'', though he's not depicted badly so much as he is just disregarded by his troubled criminal friends. Although there's a lot of cynicism that can be picked up from the way the character is written, especially how other characters treat him (even his dad!).
51	* The Wayans brothers like the comedic version of this trope, with the addition that the more outspokenly Afrocentric the character is, the more obsessed he is with [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt banging white chicks]] -- most notably in ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' and ''Film/DontBeAMenaceToSouthCentralWhileDrinkingYourJuiceInTheHood''.
52	* Mitch Mullany's ''Film/TheBreaks'' includes a scene reminiscent of ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' when the main character, Derrick, attends a spoken word performance. After a dreadlocked black man recites an angry Afrocentric poem, the hostess says, "Thank you very much, Stokely Ungawa, and your lovely wife, Betsy..." at which point the camera cuts to the same poet, embracing a very [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASPy]] looking blonde.
53	* Martin Lawrence plays an especially obnoxious example of this trope in ''Film/NationalSecurity''.
54	* Dave Chappelle playing "Conspiracy Brother" as a comedic subversion of this in ''Film/UndercoverBrother''. Chappelle did a riff on this trope nine years earlier, as Achoo in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights.'' His speech is taken word-for-word from Malcolm X's line about Plymouth Rock "landing on" the Africans, not the other way around.
55	* A blink-and-you'll-miss-him background character who shows up twice in ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse2007''. First during a war protest in New York City, mixed in amongst the crowds, and later can be seen in Paco's office, as another sign of Paco's increasing extremism.
56	* The 1997 remake of ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'' recasts the bigoted Juror #10, a white man in the original version, as one. In this version, the defendant is a Hispanic boy, and the juror seems to be angry that the boy's "kind" is "outbreeding" his own people. A conversation he has with Juror #6 implies that he was kicked out of the Nation of Islam because ''they'' considered him to be a tad too intense.
57	* Zeus from ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'' definitely qualifies, with similarities in appearance as well as personality. In fact, Creator/SamuelLJackson researched the role to look and act exactly like UsefulNotes/MalcolmX himself. He gradually drifts into more sensible territory as the movie progresses, though.
58	* Played straight and subverted with Marcus in ''Film/{{Airheads}}'', who accuses Rex and Milo of being racist, but has no clue who Rodney King is.
59	* Jeriko One in ''Film/StrangeDays'' is a combination of Malcolm X and Tupac Shakur. Given the fact that he's murdered by racist cops, he might have a point.
60	* ''Film/TheEnforcer'' has a black militant group based on both the Black Panthers and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
61	* The Afrocentrists in Film/{{PCU}}.
62	* ''Film/DearWhitePeople'': Sam serves as a female version, though she mellows over the course of the film.
63	* Fudge from ''Film/HigherLearning'' is a sixth year senior at the university. He's really smart, and knows enough about Black history to teach the class at the university. However, he's still in school because he'd rather use his EverythingIsRacist philosophy as an excuse to be lazy. Malik turns into this as the movie goes on, using his school assignments as a soapbox for poorly thought-out rants about America's racist history, criticizing his black professors for giving him bad grades for subpar work, and bullying his white roommate into becoming a Neo-Nazi. The movie as a whole is a deconstruction of this trope: this attitude is the result of legitimate frustration of America as a whole trying to pretend that racism is over with, but in turn causes racial tensions to boil over.
64	* ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' gives us both Killmonger and his father N'Jobu. N'Jobu was a Wakandan spy in America who became disillusioned with his home country after witnessing the plight of African-Americans suffering from racism and Wakanda's refusal to help due to its isolationist policies. As a result, N'Jobu [[spoiler:helped Klaue steal vibranium in exchange for advanced Wakandan technology to empower oppressed minorities so they can fight back and get better treatment, until his brother King T'Chaka caught wind of it and killed him.]] Years later, Killmonger takes his father's goals further by [[spoiler:attempting to take over the Wakandan throne and using his power to ship Wakandan technology to spies all over the globe in an effort to overthrow all the world's governments and establish a new world order where the Wakandans and other black people rule over everyone else. When N'Jobu meets Killmonger again in the spirit plane, even he's shocked by the lengths his son is going to]].
65	* ''Film/FortApacheTheBronx'' (1981). The detectives are trying to work out who shot two police officers (actually murdered by an insane prostitute). Note that when they do decide to arrest the Bronx People's Party for interrogation, it leads to a large demonstration outside Fort Apache, implying the locals have a different view.
66	-->'''Detective:''' What's this South Bronx People's Party that keeps comin' up?\
67	'''Detective 2:''' They're [[BigBadWannabe disco revolutionaries]]. You know what I mean? They got federal money to open a storefront on Fox Street. They make a lot of hate-cop noises. They preach armed revolt but they spend most of their time [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt ballin' white chicks from Scarsdale]].
68	* Diamond Dog, one half of the BigBadDuumvirate in ''Film/ConAir'' is a black supremacist that went to jail for multiple murders, including [[WesternTerrorists bombing a NRA convention]]. Downplayed in that, despite believing white people to be evil, he is [[AffablyEvil fairly amiable]] towards his Caucasian colleagues outside of occasionally referring to them as "hillbillies". He also doesn't mind partnering up with an [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white racist]] like [[DiabolicalMastermind Cyrus the Virus]], though he observes this is merely out of [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatism]].
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72	* ''Literature/ForWantOfANail'', an 1972 AlternateHistory book: Philip Harrison fits this trope well. He's the founder of Black Justice, and he wants to wage war against the other races as well hoping to found a separate state for black people.
73	* ''Literature/FromTheNotebooksOfDoctorBrain'': The X-Man. Played straight [[spoiler:until the ending, when it's revealed pretty much all his paranoid delusions about the Man are true.]]
74	* ''Literature/GreenSkyTrilogy'': An interesting example from [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids youth literature]] is Axon Befal. The Erdlings are brown-skinned, and [[spoiler:the descendants of exiled Kindar (Kindar being the race with "privledges")]]. When this all is revealed and the Erdlings are freed from their imprisonment BeneathTheEarth, Befal is preaching for ''violent'' retribution against the Kindar, including those ignorant of the Erdling's existence. Most Erdlings want nothing to do with him and consider him a criminal. In the game, his "wand" (a machete) makes the game {{Unwinnable}} if you [[VideogameCrueltyPunishment use it on anything other than briar bushes]].
75	* ''Literature/InvisibleMan'': [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ras the Exhorter]] is a black separatist who uses inflammatory rhetoric and violence to get his point across, which causes no end of trouble for Ellison's AuthorAvatar. He directly contrasted to the Brotherhood (a stand-in for the American Communist Party), who are a well-meaning, but ineffectual group of Whites who actually harbor obliviously racist views.
76	* ''Literature/IslandInTheSeaOfTimeSeries'': Sam [=McAndrews=] joins the renegade Walker in the hopes of finding and aiding the current "black" civilization. After arriving in Egypt, he is rather disillusioned, and [[spoiler:plans to found a civilization of his own in present-day Sudan]].
77	* ''Literature/TheMentalState'' has 'Little Mickey' Crane, a black inmate who harbours a deep and abiding hatred for white people. He lobs racial slurs at the Caucasian inmates like hand-grenades and bullies the other black inmates into joining his vendetta. Most of the black inmates actually could not care less about racial differences, and only side with him because his brother is [[ScaryBlackMan the biggest and strongest of all the prisoners]]. He even plans to persecute the white inmates once he gets elected Prisoner Representative.
78	* ''Literature/MumboJumbo'' by Creator/IshmaelReed: The fictionalized Black Muslim street preacher Abdul Sufi Hamid fills this role, meant to illustrate Reed's criticisms of Black Nationalism. He's a StrawHypocrite parody of the RealLife preacher Sufi Abdul Hamid, who himself was perhaps the UrExample of this trope in RealLife.
79	* ''Literature/SongOfSolomon'': Guitar Baines becomes a particularly dark version of this as he grows up. His intelligence and eloquence is warped by his deep hatred of white people, which he attempts to rationalize with a disturbing scientific rhetoric that recalls the real life eugenics movement. He eventually joins the Seven Days, whose goal is to kill a random white person any time they hear of a black person who is killed by a white person.
80	* ''Literature/TheSoulBrothersAndSisterLou'': The bespectacled character Fess is an up-and-coming teenage militant in this mold. "You haven't seen the light, Little Sister. You need to be indoctrinated."
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84	* ''Series/ADifferentWorld'': Terence Taylor, to a T. He grew up in Germany with his white mother, but as soon as he hit Hillman's all-black campus, he began dressing in long wool coats and bedazzled fez hats, frequently talking about his new-found faith, "The Man", and how to uplift the black community. Played for comedy, the show being a sitcom and all. In the middle of one impassioned speech, [[TheHeckler Dwayne Wayne calls him a "Microwave Muslim."]]
85	* The Brotherhood in the ''Series/Adam12'' episode, "The Militants" LOG 76.
86	* One episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' had Gunn pose at this to create a distraction for Angel to break into Wolfram and Hart. Evil's only weakness: ''political correctness!''
87	-->"Y'all can cater to the ''demon'', cater to the ''dead man''! But '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHAT! ABOUT! THE BLACK! MAAAAN?!]]'''"
88	* Though he's outgrown it now, Dre of ''Series/{{Blackish}}'' was a standout example of this during his duration at the famously black Howard University.
89	-->'''College!Dre''': Peace God. I go by the title Yusef Supreme Justice Allah. And I want to first say that the Black man is the true Asiatic Nubian. I speak to the masses of those who are deaf, dumb, and blind to knowledge of self and wisdom.
90	-->'''Present!Dre''': ...College was a very confusing time for me.
91	* Rev. Darnell Potter, a fairly transparent copy of the Rev. Al Sharpton, in ''Series/BlueBloods''. Not only is he a demagogue, an accessory to murder, a crook, a hatemonger and a liar, he's waging a motiveless war on the NYPD to boot. He even quotes Malcolm X once or twice.
92	* One shows up briefly near the beginning of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Fear and Loathing." There's a serial killer targeting black teenage girls in the community, and this activist stirs up enough trouble to bring racial tension to a fever pitch. Even after the BAU determines that the serial killer is black and not racially motivated (he's just your garden-variety sexual predator who happens to favor girls of his own race), the mayor refuses to let them announce their profile because he knows the activist and his followers will just use it as further proof of the FBI/police's inherent racism.
93	* On ''Series/DearWhitePeople'', Joelle briefly dates Trevor, who seems like a caring and intelligent guy, until she finds out that he falls into this trope, thinks her friends are fake activists, and on top of that is a raging homophobe and sexist.
94	* On ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'', one Christmas the father was low on money, and happens across a stall advertizing Kwanzaa as a non-commercial option for Christmas. Chris' brother really gets into this, and according to the voiceover he still celebrates it in his adulthood and refuses to talk to white people on the day, including his white wife.
95	* ''Series/{{ER}}'''s Dr. Cleo Finch went through a period where she saw racism as the reason behind any reprimand she or any other African-American physician received. Boyfriend Benton inadvertently insinuates that she's overcompensating for being biracial.
96	* A two-parter on ''Series/FridayNightLights'' has Coach Mac make some ignorant comments about the natural abilities of black players versus white players that spark controversy and create tension between the white and black students. Smash, who was the one the comments revolved around in the first place, doesn't think it's that big a deal until his black activist girlfriend Waverly convinces him that Mac needs to be fired, especially after Mac botches his apology press conference. So Smash leads all the black players on a protest where they refuse to play in the team's next playoff game until Mac is fired. When Coach Taylor makes it clear he won't fire Mac ([[NobleBigot who clearly isn't a hateful man and actively struggles with the prejudices passed onto him by his father]]) and will just use JV players to fill the roster holes, Smash considers ending the protest so the black players won't put their college football scholarship prospects at stake. However, Waverly tells him not to do it and it doesn't matter if the players ruin their futures if it's for the cause. Eventually, Smash's mother gets fed up with her and tells Smash that the protest isn't going to prove anything to the racists in Dillion and that the best way for him and the other players to do is to play, get their scholarships and college degrees, and become successful adults to prove the racists wrong and inspire future generations.
97	* Michael Evans on ''Series/GoodTimes''. Nicknamed the "Militant Midget" by his family, he once declared that he preferred Cream of Wheat to oatmeal because "at least they got a black man on the box!"
98	* Parodied in ''Series/GoodnessGraciousMe'' with the character of "Malkit X", an Indian man who insists that everything around him is a calculated and deliberate insult to his race.
99	* A decent number of black characters from ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' qualify. Basically, if there's a black prosecutor/lawyer/defendant/minister/activist/etc. opposing the lead cast, s/he is likely to hit ''at least'' some parts of this trope and {{Angry Black Man\|Stereotype}}.
100	** Specifically defense attorney Shambala Green. Although not as over the top.
101	** Paul Robinette when he became a defense attorney.
102	** Defense attorney Carl Halpert, defense attorney Jerome Bryant... (notice a pattern here?)
103	** Then there's Congressman Eaton, a terrible Al Sharpton {{Expy}}.
104	** Perhaps most notorious is the Reverend Ott, who incites a riot in an episode based on the Crown Heights riots.
105	** Calvin Teller in "Act of God" is an entertaining variation. He shakes down local businesses allegedly on behalf of The Community, but if they don't play ball he'll probably move on. He's [[AffablyEvil quite civil]] in explaining this to Briscoe and Logan.
106	* One of the two villains in the ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' episode "Cuba Libre."
107	* ''Series/{{Martin}}'': The episode "The Snow Bunny" features one of these. When the gang takes a trip to a ski lodge, Pam brings along new boyfriend Tashim, who dresses like a Black Panther and throughout the episode makes snide comments about/towards Tommy's guest, a white woman. This is played entirely for comedy, because Tashim's militant stance is absurd to the extreme. In one scene, as everyone is heading out to the slopes, Tashim carries a spray can. When asked why, he answers that he plains to paint as much of the snow black as he can. And at the episode's end, Tashim approaches the white woman, menacingly telling her, "I've got something to say to you", as if he's going to say something really rude and racist, while she snaps, "I've got something to say to you too", as if she's fed up with his rudeness. Sure enough... [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt they leap into each others arms]] [[BelligerentSexualTension and start making out.]]
108	* Awesomely nuanced in a ''Series/NewYorkUndercover'' episode "''The Reckoning''", with a Nation of Islam minister (Minister Malik) who shows heavy shades of this, BUT is also very fleshed out and humanized. Even giving him a sweet moment towards the end of the episode when a young black kid approaches him on the street and tells him "''I'm ready to be a man''" and Malik smiles and nods, then says "''Then you will be''".
109	* Averted with Kareem Said in ''Series/{{Oz}}''. He is a Black Nationalist, but he's also a pacifist trying his best to reform the prisoners who follow him, and is even willing to work with white inmates and the prison administration in pursuit of doing what he thinks is right. Subverted with "Supreme Allah" (real name Kevin Ketchum -- he never legally changed it) in season 4: he preaches about black supremacy, but all he's really interested in is selling drugs.
110	* Ahmad Zaire from ''Series/TheParentHood''.
111	* In the final season of ''Series/PromisedLand1996'', the character LT epitomizes this even though he doesn't quote Malcolm X often, if at all, seeing racism as the reason behind basically everything someone says or does. He eventually gets over it, even becoming friends with the white Josh (the main family's oldest son).
112	* In the "Lamont Goes African" episode of ''Series/SanfordAndSon'', Lamont embraces his African heritage, starts wearing a dashiki and deems "Lamont" to be a slave name and gives himself the name "Kalunda".
113	* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
114	** Parodied with Creator/ChrisRock's character Nat X. He's so black, he urinates oil! He's so black, that when he went to night school, the teacher marked him absent.
115	** A Weekend Update sketch spoofed Scott Adams' racist statements by having ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} over-compensating and becoming this, much to Creator/MichaelChe's bewilderment.
116	--> '''Dilbert:''' I realized something. Even mundane work serves to uphold the capitalist system built to maintain a racial hierarchy. But that's all about to change. Race war's coming. You ready, Michael?\
117	'''Michael:''' [[FlatWhat What?!]]\
118	'''Dilbert:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Are. You. Ready?]] Because Dilbert's ready. I woke up this morning ready to take the streets and paint the city with the blood of the white man!
119	* Played with on ''Series/{{Scandal}}''. During the episode, The Lawn Chair, Olivia (having been hired by the police to handle the optics of a fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white cop) comes into conflict with Marcus Walker (a civil rights black neighborhood activist). She admonishes him for using the shooting as a boost to his political ambitions, but he throws it right back in her face by spewing allegations of her betraying the "community", pointing out her commitment to getting a white republican elected president twice and for her high class-status which distances her from the people in this community. The ultimate implication is that his accusation has more to do with class than race, since as a wealthy, successful black woman, she cannot entirely relate to the poor black community she's just walked into.
120	* Senator Clay Davis in ''Series/TheWire'' manages to fool most of Maryland into ''thinking'' he is this guy, the best example being his {{Glurge}} Unleaded defense speech in court. In reality he's an embezzling, selfish, corrupt piece of sheeeeeeeeeeeit...
121	* The Reverend Darnell Potter is antagonistic recurring character in ''Series/BlueBloods'' who revels in the spotlight and has decided the best way to get it is to [[EverythingIsRacist constantly throw around accusations of institutionalized racism against black Americans]], especially amongst the police. In his first appearance, he can quote Malcolm X by heart, but doesn't recognize a quote from Martin Luther King until it's spelled out for him. Over the course of the show, he is established to be a hate-peddling crook whose motivations are purely based on political power and whose war against the [=NYPD=] is motivated purely in attention-seeking. Over the course of the series, he is responsible in several crimes, from ''creating'' a needless confrontation between his own parishioners and the cops to witness tampering to cover up the truth that a black criminal accusing the police of throwing him out of a window actually jumped out himself in a failed attempt to escape. He gets away with it because [[CreateYourOwnVillain Frank Reagan doesn't want to add fuel to the fire, which largely lets Rev. Potter continue setting his small blazes with impunity]]... ironically, it comes back to bite him when his KarmaHoudiniWarranty expires in a tragic way, as his son is killed by a young black gangbanger.
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125	* The original Nation Of Domination in USWA were a {{parody}} of this trope, made up primarily of white wrestlers like Tracy Smothers, led by White Rappers PG-13 with a white manager who went by "Randy X". There were two or three back wrestlers at most during the stable's entire run, who one got the impression the whites were trying to impress. For better or worse, the WWF seemed to miss the joke when they took in the group, since they increasingly had them play the trope straight until [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]], who had been in USWA for a minute and was uncomfortable with what The Nation had become, took control.
126	* Faarooq (nee Wrestling/RonSimmons), during his time as leader of Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination stable in the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]]. Well, without the lazy part, and with a whole lot more violent tendencies. Clarence Mason, the Nation's attorney/manager was this trope combined with a parody of Johnnie Cochran.
127	* [[Wrestling/TeddyLong Theodore Long]], specifically when he was running his "Thuggin N Buggin Enterprises" faction with clients like [[Wrestling/DLoBrown D'Lo Brown]], Wrestling/MarkHenry (both ex-Nation members), Rodney Mack, and Jazz. He toned it down once he became the fan-favorite ''[=SmackDown=]'' [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure GM]], although he did keep the "Mack Militant" theme music.
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131	* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', there's a ped in the San Fierro section that fits this trope. He's even wearing a kente cloth dashiki and hat.
132	* Ramattra of ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has many traits of this as they apply to [[MechanicalLifeform Omnics]], a race of robots that have struggled to coexist with humanity following the devastating [[RobotWar Omnic Crisis]]. He's more nuanced and sympathetic than most examples -- the narrative [[WellIntentionedExtremist recognizes his concern for omnic life as valid]] and [[TragicVillain his downfall into villainy as tragic]] -- but he nevertheless has aggressive, hard-lined views of omnic and human relations, believing omnics should be free from human oppression by whatever means necessary and whether they ask for it or not, while also being [[FantasticRacism openly bigoted towards humans]], paranoid of further attacks on his kind, extremely difficult to reason with, and is seen by other omnics as [[StopBeingStereotypical a problematic embodiment of their worst stereotypes]].
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136	* ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES'' has Braveshroom, who varies between this and a parody of William Wallace, depending on the situation, fighting for mushroom rights against human and koopa oppressors. He even gives a parody of the same speech parodied in the pagequote (Super Mario landed on ''us''!).
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140	* ''WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite'':
141	** Stuey Fig Newton is the leader of the Black Pumas, a Black Panthers offshoot who are so opposed to race-mixing that they're willing to team up with TheKlan and murder black porn stars to stop the production of an interracial porno.
142	** In "Roots: The White Album," after white slavery is abolished, the white freedmen have so much collective trauma after a month that they can't go back to the white community, and decide to assimilate into the black community. They soon form a black white power movement, forming groups like the Pink Panthers and misappropriating Malcolm X quotes.
143	* From ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' :
144	** Huey Freeman is this trope parodied, deconstructed, and reconstructed. He's a self-described domestic terrorist, the founder of several (and mostly defunct) Black revolutionary organizations and a newspaper, is frequently seen quoting figures like Karl Marx and Elijah Muhammad, and engaging in activities like organizing a strikes and protests, all despite the fact that he's 10 years old. He has a tendency to destroy people's fun because of his conspiracy theories and being dead serious all the time, but in the context of the show -- which has a heavily cynical tone, especially towards authority figures -- he's almost always ProperlyParanoid. No one listens to him though, because, you know, he's 10 years old.
145	** Dewey is a hypocritical counterpart to Huey Freeman, who takes "down wit' the struggle" much further than even Huey by reading poetry, wearing capris, headwraps and sandals, even going as far as to become a Muslim -- a reference to Black nationalist Muslim groups like the Nation of Islam -- and yet he doesn't even know the basic Islamic greeting. Even worse, he mispronounces it as "salami, eggs and bacon", two of which are typically pork products, which are strictly prohibited by Islam.
146	* An early episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' had [[Characters/FamilyGuyPeterGriffin Peter Griffin]] discover that one of his ancestors had been a black slave who was owned by the Pewderschmidts, the family his in-laws belong to. As a result, Peter briefly becomes this trope, dressing in traditional African robes and insisting that everyone call him by his new black name, "Kishwa". However, when his father-in-law Carter offers to pay reparations (read: cuts him a check for $20,000), Peter just drops the whole thing.
147	* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfChamberlainHeights'' has Malik, the younger brother of main character Grover. Malik is a huge fan of the original Malcolm X, admonishes his brothers Grover and Montrel (a basketball-obsessed wannabe and a pot smoker respectively) for affirming black stereotypes, constantly spouts anti-white rhetoric, and targets his drug-dealing business exclusively to the "white devil" in the hopes of making them self-destruct. The kicker? ''Malik is 8 years old!''
148	* Chef during the town flag controversy (fittingly called 'Chef Goes Nanners') in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', right down to becoming Muslim and changing his "slave name" into a long, pseudo-Arabic one which no longer fit on his apron, so that he had to have someone follow him around, bearing a sign with the rest of his new name.
149	* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': [[Characters/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilToffee Toffee of Septarsis]] is a {{Deconstruction}}. He was the first real threat Star went against, and his role revealed Mewni's dark history as xenophobic warmongers who conquered a new country and annexed its original inhabitants. Toffee was a militant who wanted revenge for the Mewmans waging war on the monsters, and he made a statement by killing Comet, Moon's mother. Toffee was extreme in his methods. He was willing to sacrifice his own people, he was prepared to kill Marco to lure out Star, and he's just as extreme and bigoted as the Mewmans. And the Mewman Queen he murdered, Comet, was actually pro monster and was working to improve the life of his people. Her murder causes Comet's daughter Moon to rise to the throne at an early age and distrust the monsters, meaning Toffee is the reason things did not improve for the monsters.
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