History Main / AngryBlackManStereotype

* Albert Belle

A stock character popular in the 1970s - 1980s. A male black youth, usually written by a white socially conscious writer (ie, ridden with White Guilt). The AngryBlackMan knows that TheMan is out to get him, and that the Revolution will soon come and whitey will have his back against the wall. The AngryBlackMan sees injustice everywhere and is capable and intelligent but usually financially destitute because the damn Honkeys won't hire him to give him an opportunity.

* On ''FamilyGuy'', Peter (who has swallowed a cellphone) gets a call from [[KavorkaMan Quagmire]], bragging about how he had sex with a black woman. Everyone can hear, so Peter ends the conversation when a black couple walks by (a little surprised, but not upset or anything). Peter explains that he didn't want to offend them, in case the man was one of those angry black men. He wasn't, until [[TooDumbToLive Peter]] started with the whole PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy thing, thus offending him.

* Parodied in ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' in "Inside the Outsiders": BlackLightning, the Outsiders' resident ball o' rage, isn't angry at the world--he's merely ''very easily annoyed''. "Sprinkles--on ''coffee?'' What are you, ''six?!''"

** Subverted in ''FinalFantasyVIII'' with Kiros Seagill, who is the OnlySaneMan of the entire cast.

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* The MarvelUniverse's [[LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]], a.k.a. Power Man, [[CaptainEthnic superpowered version]].

* TeenTitans' early comics had an issue featuring a teenage hero called Jericho (who is [-ANGRY BLACK!-] Robin) in a racial-issues themed issue. The Executives didn't want controversy so they prevented the story from being published, but many of Jericho's characteristics were latter reused in Cyborg, and his name was recycled as Deathstroke's son.

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* Michael Moore is ''very'' hot for this kind of person, as evidenced by what he writes on the subject (the above cliche of the black man never befriending whitey just makes him even more euphoric).

* {{Stomp}} -- black men doing lots of [[AngryDance angry dancing]] to show how macho they are as they prance about.

* [[MedaBots Medabee]]'s [[WoolseyIsm English voice actor plays him as one of these]].

* Invoked in the ''Destroyer'' novels. Master Chiun, the WiseOldMentor, is an incredible racist (having been raised in the 19th century) of the Korean stripe, so he sees ''all'' races as specific insulting tropes. Blacks, in his viewpoint, are "always angry". (Which is better than his opinions of Japanese, or Russians, or Americans, or Chinese, or ... damn well everyone who had the bad taste to not be Korean, really).

* Troy [=McCann=] from ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' tends to drop into this from time to time. Notably, he ''intentionally'' made himself out this way in order to be more like the rap stars he idolises.

* On ''FamilyGuy'', Peter (who has swallowed a cellphone) gets a call from [[KavorkaMan Quagmire]], bragging about how he had sex with a black woman. Everyone can hear, so Peter ends the conversation when a black couple walks by (a little surprised, but not upset or anything.) Peter explains that he didn't want to offend them, in case the man was one of those angry black men. He wasn't, until [[TooDumbToLive Peter]] started with the whole PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy thing, thus offending him.

* Parodied in ''Undercover Brother'' with Conspiracy Brother, a very angry, ''very'' ill-informed radical.

* Tyroc in the ''LegionOfSuperHeroes,'' even though it takes place in the year 3000.

* BarackObama is absolutely ''not'' one of these, and [[http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/06/rage_why_obama_wont_and_cant_g.html for good reason]]. Indeed, most educated black men are sufficiently conscious of this stereotype that they have subconsciously engaged to [[InvertedTrope invert]] it.

* Uh, hello? ''The Boondocks'', anyone? All three of the main characters, Huey, Riley, and Grand-dad are all angry black males, albeit for differing reasons.

* [[FinalFantasyVII Barret Wallace]], who revives a long-dead terrorist organization purely for purposes of revenge against the evil MegaCorp running the world. Subverted in ''FinalFantasyVIII'' with Kiros Seagill, who is the OnlySaneMan of the entire cast.

** It's worth noting that Hardware's creator, Dwayne [=McDuffie=], is a black liberal who knows what he's talking about, not a white liberal trying and failing to be ~socially conscious~. If anything, the character is a [[PlayingWithATrope deliberate exploration]] of the trope, not a straight example.

* The MarvelUniverse's Luke Cage, a.k.a. Power Man, [[CaptainEthnic superpowered version]].