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[[caption-width-right:1000:''DYNAMITE! DYNAMITE!'']]
''Black Dynamite'' is a series of comics written by Brian Ash, based on the [[Film/BlackDynamite film]] and [[WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite cartoon]] of the same name, that chronicle the ass-kicking Kung Fu adventures of BlaxploitationParody hero Black Dynamite.
The first comic, a standalone titled ''Black Dynamite: Slave Island'', was published in 2011 by Ape Entertainment and Ars Nova. A brief run of four later comics was published by Creator/IDWPublishing from 2013 to 2014. Many of them are set after the events of the film, and follow Black Dynamite after he left to WalkTheEarth for several years.
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!!This is some heavy troping...
* BaldOfEvil: The Man and Two Swole, the only bald characters in the series, are both villains.
* BankruptcyBarrel: Fixin' Ken, one of the people who lost their livelihood thanks to Black Dynamite's fights, is seen wearing one.
* BlamingTheMan:
** In Issue #2, The Man is a literal person, a high ranking member of the Illuminati who attempts to recruit Black Dynamite.
** Paul "the Pole" Monroe's death was a conspiracy organized by Chuck Taylor and Jack Purcell to make sure that no black athlete ever has a famous shoe brand of his own.
* BondOneLiner: After the man-snake yells "I'm blind!" Black Dynamite kicks him off a cliff and says "And now you're dead too, sucker!"
* BurnBabyBurn: Rather than risk destabilizing the black community with athletic sneaker mania, Black Dynamite burns down the warehouse full of Paul "the Pole" Monroe's branded shoes.
* CombatPragmatist: Having been trained in such a short time, the Tibetan monks don't have the pure Kung Fu skills that Black Dynamite or the man-beasts have, so they have no qualms about using buckets of boiling water, broken bottles, and switchblades.
* CommunityThreateningConstruction: The Illuminati wants to kill the members of a Tibetan monastery so they can turn the mountain they're on into a silicon mine.
* ConspiracyKitchenSink: The Man confirms that all the different rumors about shadowy cabals controlling world events are true.
* ContinuityNod:
** At several points in the series, Black Dynamite lets out a BigNo reminiscent of his reaction to Cream Corn's death in the film.
** Black Dynamite has very in-depth knowledge of Greek mythology, as demonstrated by the BatDeduction scene in the film.
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: Paul "the Pole" Monroe's death, despite being caused by an obviously exploding car witnessed by an entire stadium full of people, is officially listed as a steroid overdose. Lampshaded by a newspaper headline in the comics:
-->'''''DOCS: DEAD POLE DIED OF O.D.'''''\\
''WIDOW: "HELL NO"''
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Subverted. A Ford Pinto is shown exploding for no particular reason, but it's later revealed to have been deliberately sabotaged.
* FakeDefector: Black Dynamite plays along with The Man's offer of joining the Illuminati right up until he gets his hands on a rocket launcher.
* FakingTheDead: Chuck Taylor is revealed to have faked his 1969 death for unspecified reasons.
* AHandfulForAnEye: Black Dynamite defeats the man-snake by throwing dust in his eyes and kicking him off a cliff.
-->'''Man-snake:''' Ssss-simpleton! The Order of the Illuminati cannot be defeated, '''the eye sees all!'''\\
'''Black Dynamite:''' [''flings dust''] How about now?\\
'''Man-snake:''' I'M BLIND!
* HistoricalDomainCharacter:
** One recurring character is Alex Haley, best known as the author of Literature/{{Roots}} and ''The Autobiography of UsefulNotes/MalcolmX''.
** Various celebrities in attendance at the LA Forum in Issue #4 include boxers UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, and Larry Holmes; singers Ike and Music/TinaTurner; Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Howard Cosell. UsefulNotes/EvelKnievel also helps perform a stunt.
** The antagonists of that issue are Chuck Taylor and Jack Purcell, two white athletes best known for lending their names to famous shoe brands.
* HistoricalInJoke: Much like the film and the cartoon, the comic is full of them:
** Black Dynamite fears that if the Illuminati takes over computer manufacturing, they'll put computers with tracking devices in the pocket of every man, woman, and child on the globe.
** Paul "the Pole" Monroe is killed by an explosion from a (seemingly) defective 1972 Ford Pinto. Later, a newspaper can be seen with the headline "PINTO STILL A GOOD BARGAIN."
** The future that Black Dynamite envisions caused by Paul Monroe's shoes parallels what does happen with Nike Air Jordans: namely, them being the subjects of fights, robberies, muggings, and murders throughout the black community.
* TheIlluminati: They're shown to be very real, and are the overarching villains of the comic series.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Black Dynamite describes his mission in Issue #3 as sounding like something out of a comic book.
* TheMole: One of The Man's bodyguards is revealed to be part of the rebel alliance, and helps Black Dynamite escape from Guantanamo Bay.
* MultipleHeadCase: Played with in Issue #3. The Man cheats death by having his head transplanted onto the body of a black convict, and it seems like this trope will be in play--right up until The Man orders the other head severed.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Los Angeles Lakers player Paul "the Pole" Monroe takes his name from New York Knicks player Earl "the Pearl" Monroe. The real Monroe didn't die in a tragic slam dunk stunt gone wrong, though.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Black dynamite doesn't join the rebel alliance [[NotInThisForYourRevolution because he believes in the cause]] or cares about what's right, but because he wants to be paid--and to have the money secretly wired to the black community.
* PerpetualSmiler: Literally every panel featuring The Man shows him with a full-blown SlasherSmile, even when he's talking.
* PreMortemOneLiner: When Two Swole accuses Black Dynamite of choking during a fight, he strangles Two Swole to death wit his nunchuks while saying ''he's'' the only one doing any choking here.
* ScoobyDooHoax: A rather elaborate version in Issue #3. The Tibetan monks believe the monsters attacking them are ancient demons foretold to kill them all as part of the cycle of death and rebirth, but they're actually {{Genetic Abomination}}s created by the Illuminati to convince the monks that the legend is true and to keep them from fighting back.
* TheShangriLa: The majority of Issue #3 is set in a mountainside Buddhist monastery in Tibet.
* ShoutOut:
** The group fighting to undermine the Illuminati is referred to as a [[Franchise/StarWars rebel alliance]].
** Black Dynamite describes himself as a [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire hero for hire]].
** When Black Dynamite and the monks fight the man-beasts, they quote lines from Music/JamesBrown's "The Payback."
** The warehouse full of Paul "the Pole" Monroe's sneakers resembles the warehouse shot from ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.
* StabTheSalad: The female officer at Guantanamo Bay enters Black Dynamite's cell with a cart full of nasty-looking bladed instruments. It turns out she's a barber and cleans up his hair.
* SurveillanceStationSlacker: Black Dynamite is able to fly into Tibet without issue because a Red Chinese airspace monitor is sleeping on the job.
* TapOnTheHead: A rather comical example. Black Dynamite is knocked out by being hit in the head with a badminton shuttlecock.
* UnhandThemVillain: Two Swole picks up grandma Graham and her little grandson Keith. When Black Dynamite tells him to put them down, Two Swole responds by tossing them in the air.
* VillainRespect: Even after promising to kill him and everyone he loves, The Man still tells Black Dynamite "God, you're good..." after getting defeated and impaled.
* WalkingDisasterMagnet: Alex Haley convinces Black Dynamite to leave the black community by pointing out all the destructive villains who show up to challenge him.
* WalkingTheEarth: Black Dynamite spends several years traveling the world as a drifter, eventually ending up in Cuba.
* WarriorMonk: Played with. The Tibetan monks were fighters centuries ago, but committed themselves to pacifism. It takes Black Dynamite to teach them how to be warriors once again.
* WeatherControlMachine: The Illuminati's first demonstration of power to Black Dynamite is by instantly making a thunderstorm stop.
* WeCanRuleTogether: The Man tries to recruit Black Dynamite into joining the Illuminati by offering him "wealth and power beyond your wildest imagination."
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[[caption-width-right:1000:''DYNAMITE! DYNAMITE!'']]
''Black Dynamite'' is a series of comics written by Brian Ash, based on the [[Film/BlackDynamite film]] and [[WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite cartoon]] of the same name, that chronicle the ass-kicking Kung Fu adventures of BlaxploitationParody hero Black Dynamite.
The first comic, a standalone titled ''Black Dynamite: Slave Island'', was published in 2011 by Ape Entertainment and Ars Nova. A brief run of four later comics was published by Creator/IDWPublishing from 2013 to 2014. Many of them are set after the events of the film, and follow Black Dynamite after he left to WalkTheEarth for several years.
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!!This is some heavy troping...
* BaldOfEvil: The Man and Two Swole, the only bald characters in the series, are both villains.
* BankruptcyBarrel: Fixin' Ken, one of the people who lost their livelihood thanks to Black Dynamite's fights, is seen wearing one.
* BlamingTheMan:
** In Issue #2, The Man is a literal person, a high ranking member of the Illuminati who attempts to recruit Black Dynamite.
** Paul "the Pole" Monroe's death was a conspiracy organized by Chuck Taylor and Jack Purcell to make sure that no black athlete ever has a famous shoe brand of his own.
* BondOneLiner: After the man-snake yells "I'm blind!" Black Dynamite kicks him off a cliff and says "And now you're dead too, sucker!"
* BurnBabyBurn: Rather than risk destabilizing the black community with athletic sneaker mania, Black Dynamite burns down the warehouse full of Paul "the Pole" Monroe's branded shoes.
* CombatPragmatist: Having been trained in such a short time, the Tibetan monks don't have the pure Kung Fu skills that Black Dynamite or the man-beasts have, so they have no qualms about using buckets of boiling water, broken bottles, and switchblades.
* CommunityThreateningConstruction: The Illuminati wants to kill the members of a Tibetan monastery so they can turn the mountain they're on into a silicon mine.
* ConspiracyKitchenSink: The Man confirms that all the different rumors about shadowy cabals controlling world events are true.
* ContinuityNod:
** At several points in the series, Black Dynamite lets out a BigNo reminiscent of his reaction to Cream Corn's death in the film.
** Black Dynamite has very in-depth knowledge of Greek mythology, as demonstrated by the BatDeduction scene in the film.
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: Paul "the Pole" Monroe's death, despite being caused by an obviously exploding car witnessed by an entire stadium full of people, is officially listed as a steroid overdose. Lampshaded by a newspaper headline in the comics:
-->'''''DOCS: DEAD POLE DIED OF O.D.'''''\\
''WIDOW: "HELL NO"''
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Subverted. A Ford Pinto is shown exploding for no particular reason, but it's later revealed to have been deliberately sabotaged.
* FakeDefector: Black Dynamite plays along with The Man's offer of joining the Illuminati right up until he gets his hands on a rocket launcher.
* FakingTheDead: Chuck Taylor is revealed to have faked his 1969 death for unspecified reasons.
* AHandfulForAnEye: Black Dynamite defeats the man-snake by throwing dust in his eyes and kicking him off a cliff.
-->'''Man-snake:''' Ssss-simpleton! The Order of the Illuminati cannot be defeated, '''the eye sees all!'''\\
'''Black Dynamite:''' [''flings dust''] How about now?\\
'''Man-snake:''' I'M BLIND!
* HistoricalDomainCharacter:
** One recurring character is Alex Haley, best known as the author of Literature/{{Roots}} and ''The Autobiography of UsefulNotes/MalcolmX''.
** Various celebrities in attendance at the LA Forum in Issue #4 include boxers UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, and Larry Holmes; singers Ike and Music/TinaTurner; Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Howard Cosell. UsefulNotes/EvelKnievel also helps perform a stunt.
** The antagonists of that issue are Chuck Taylor and Jack Purcell, two white athletes best known for lending their names to famous shoe brands.
* HistoricalInJoke: Much like the film and the cartoon, the comic is full of them:
** Black Dynamite fears that if the Illuminati takes over computer manufacturing, they'll put computers with tracking devices in the pocket of every man, woman, and child on the globe.
** Paul "the Pole" Monroe is killed by an explosion from a (seemingly) defective 1972 Ford Pinto. Later, a newspaper can be seen with the headline "PINTO STILL A GOOD BARGAIN."
** The future that Black Dynamite envisions caused by Paul Monroe's shoes parallels what does happen with Nike Air Jordans: namely, them being the subjects of fights, robberies, muggings, and murders throughout the black community.
* TheIlluminati: They're shown to be very real, and are the overarching villains of the comic series.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Black Dynamite describes his mission in Issue #3 as sounding like something out of a comic book.
* TheMole: One of The Man's bodyguards is revealed to be part of the rebel alliance, and helps Black Dynamite escape from Guantanamo Bay.
* MultipleHeadCase: Played with in Issue #3. The Man cheats death by having his head transplanted onto the body of a black convict, and it seems like this trope will be in play--right up until The Man orders the other head severed.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Los Angeles Lakers player Paul "the Pole" Monroe takes his name from New York Knicks player Earl "the Pearl" Monroe. The real Monroe didn't die in a tragic slam dunk stunt gone wrong, though.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Black dynamite doesn't join the rebel alliance [[NotInThisForYourRevolution because he believes in the cause]] or cares about what's right, but because he wants to be paid--and to have the money secretly wired to the black community.
* PerpetualSmiler: Literally every panel featuring The Man shows him with a full-blown SlasherSmile, even when he's talking.
* PreMortemOneLiner: When Two Swole accuses Black Dynamite of choking during a fight, he strangles Two Swole to death wit his nunchuks while saying ''he's'' the only one doing any choking here.
* ScoobyDooHoax: A rather elaborate version in Issue #3. The Tibetan monks believe the monsters attacking them are ancient demons foretold to kill them all as part of the cycle of death and rebirth, but they're actually {{Genetic Abomination}}s created by the Illuminati to convince the monks that the legend is true and to keep them from fighting back.
* TheShangriLa: The majority of Issue #3 is set in a mountainside Buddhist monastery in Tibet.
* ShoutOut:
** The group fighting to undermine the Illuminati is referred to as a [[Franchise/StarWars rebel alliance]].
** Black Dynamite describes himself as a [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire hero for hire]].
** When Black Dynamite and the monks fight the man-beasts, they quote lines from Music/JamesBrown's "The Payback."
** The warehouse full of Paul "the Pole" Monroe's sneakers resembles the warehouse shot from ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.
* StabTheSalad: The female officer at Guantanamo Bay enters Black Dynamite's cell with a cart full of nasty-looking bladed instruments. It turns out she's a barber and cleans up his hair.
* SurveillanceStationSlacker: Black Dynamite is able to fly into Tibet without issue because a Red Chinese airspace monitor is sleeping on the job.
* TapOnTheHead: A rather comical example. Black Dynamite is knocked out by being hit in the head with a badminton shuttlecock.
* UnhandThemVillain: Two Swole picks up grandma Graham and her little grandson Keith. When Black Dynamite tells him to put them down, Two Swole responds by tossing them in the air.
* VillainRespect: Even after promising to kill him and everyone he loves, The Man still tells Black Dynamite "God, you're good..." after getting defeated and impaled.
* WalkingDisasterMagnet: Alex Haley convinces Black Dynamite to leave the black community by pointing out all the destructive villains who show up to challenge him.
* WalkingTheEarth: Black Dynamite spends several years traveling the world as a drifter, eventually ending up in Cuba.
* WarriorMonk: Played with. The Tibetan monks were fighters centuries ago, but committed themselves to pacifism. It takes Black Dynamite to teach them how to be warriors once again.
* WeatherControlMachine: The Illuminati's first demonstration of power to Black Dynamite is by instantly making a thunderstorm stop.
* WeCanRuleTogether: The Man tries to recruit Black Dynamite into joining the Illuminati by offering him "wealth and power beyond your wildest imagination."
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