History Main / BlackFace

* AbilityOverAppearance: Used to be a justification for blackface in the days when it was acceptable; directors such as Creator/DWGriffith would claim they just chose the best actors for the parts and made them up accordingly. Of course, this was rife with racist UnfortunateImplications of its own: you mean to say that ''no'' black people ''anywhere'' were good enough actors to play black characters?

* UnfortunateImplications: The inherent purpose of the outfit is racist caricaturing and stereotyping of African American people and culture. Website/TheOtherWiki [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface goes into more depth]] on the history and controversies surrounding it.

* An unknown character in an {{omake}} from ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' appears to don this. The character was going to [[UnfortunateImplications perform a ritual to curse people.]]

** In another episode, Bertie is persuaded to disguise himself as an African chief [[ZanyScheme in order to retrieve a tribal artifact]], making things very awkward when the real chief shows up. In each case, UnfortunateImplications are mostly skirted because the joke is not on black people but on what a dolt Bertie is for thinking it would work.

* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine's music video for "No Light, No Light" has two savage people in blackface [[ScaryBlackMan menacing]] the white singer, who is saved by white choirboys and seen at the end with a white lover. Supposedly, the men in blackface are meant to be [[UnfortunateImplications demons]].

'''Forest Demon:''' No no, you don't understand! I'm literally a forest demon from across the bridge, this isn't a costume!\\

->'''Party Bro''': Whoa! Is that fucking blackface, dude?!
->'''Forest Demon''': No no no, this isn't blackface, I'm an actual demon!
->'''Woman''': Are you fucking serious?
->'''Man''': Not cool, man!
->'''Forest Demon''': No no, you don't understand! I'm literally a forest demon from across the bridge, this isn't a costume!
->'''Man''': ''(punches the demon)'' Get the FUCK out, man!

* The helpers of UsefulNotes/{{Sinterklaas}} (the Dutch Santa Claus) are usually white people in blackface and colourful costumes called Zwarte Piet ("Black Pete").

->''"Whoa! Is that fucking blackface, dude?!"''
-->-- '''Party Bro''', ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends''

* Appeared in quite a few of the early ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' shorts as well. These scenes tend to be edited out in modern TV airings, and a couple shorts which can't be easily edited have been all-out banned and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes don't even appear on the [=DVDs=]]].

* "WesternAnimation/BalloonLand" features a few black inhabitants of Balloon Land who look like blackface caricatures. They have crossed eyes and dopey expressions and are the first ones popped by the Pincushion Man.

* ''[[Film/Babylon2022 Babylon]]'': Sidney, a black jazz trumpetist in the 1930s, is made to wear blackface so that his appearance will match the white musicians who are also in blackface. He goes through with it under great pressure but quits his position immediately afterward.

* Appeared in quite a few of the early ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' shorts as well. These scenes tend to be edited out in modern TV airings, and a couple shorts which can't be easily edited have been all-out banned and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes don't even appear on the [=DVDs=]]].

* Creator/TheMarxBrothers, evading the law, momentarily done blackface to hide among a bunch of stable hands in ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces''. Harpo only paints half his face.

* UncannyValley: Putting dark skin onto someone with European features almost certainly results in this. That's why the trope was usually played for comedy when it was popular, since it's pretty impossible to believe someone doing it is actually Black ([[Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 D.W. Griffith]] tried to play it realistically, and was sorely mocked).

* The third episode of ''Series/WithBobAndDavid'' has two examples: in one sketch, a phony tech guru shows a picture of an old advertisement for blackface as part of his presentation. In a later sketch, an desperate police watchdog activist tries to goad some police officers into brutalizing him by donning blackface.

--->'''Lois''': You can't just pretend to be Black, that's offensive! It's a stupid idea!
--->'''Peter''': What?
--->'''Lois''': IT'S A STUPID IDEA! YOU'RE A STUPID MAN! A STUPID, STUPID, ''STUPID MAN!''