History Main / MalcolmXerox

The TropeNamer is MalcolmX, who achieved fame during the American civil rights movement for his aggressive and hard-line views on race; however, he was actually a subversion in that after going to Mecca he started to promote racial equality and unfortunately got killed for it by hard-line black nationalists.[[note]]Unless you believe the conspiracy theories that say otherwise[[/note]]

* The nefarious Rev. Darnell Potter on ''Series/BlueBloods'' is mostly an Al Sharpton expy.

* Sam McAndrews in ''Literature/AnIslandInTheSeaOfTime''. He 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]].

* In ''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.

* 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!''

* Ahmad Zaire from ''TheParentHood''.
* Senator Clay Davis in ''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 [[CatchPhrase sheeeeeeeeeeeit]]...

** Defense attorney Carl Halpert, defense attorney Jerome Bryant....(notice a pattern here??)

* Senator Clay Davis in ''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 realiy he's an embezzling, selfish, corrupt piece of [[CatchPhrase sheeeeeeeeeeeit]]...

* Tashim from ''{{Martin}}'', though mostly played for comedy.

* Sharif from ''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!).

* Mitch Mullany's ''The Breaks'' includes a scene reminiscent of ''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.
* Martin Lawrence plays an especially obnoxious example of this trope in ''National Security''.
* Dave Chappelle playing "Conspiracy Brother" as a comedic subversion of this in ''UndercoverBrother''.

* The 1997 remake of ''TwelveAngryMen'' recasts the bigoted Juror #10, a white man in the original version, as one.

* Played straight and subverted with Marcus in ''{{Airheads}}'', who accuses Rex and Milo of being racist, but has no clue who Rodney King is.

* Jeriko One in ''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.
* The third ''DirtyHarry'' film, ''TheEnforcer'', has a black militant group based on both the Black Panthers and the the Symbionese Liberation Army.

* The Mau Mau gang from SpikeLee's ''{{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).

* [[AntiVillain Strangely enough,]] {{Magneto}} is this, though he's white and Jewish and doesn't really care about black people (unless they also happen to be mutants). He wants to destroy humans because he believes mutants are superior. He and [[BigGood Professor X]] are compared to Malcom X and Martin Luther King, with oppression against mutants is a parallel to oppression of minorities.

* ''Series/ADifferentWorld'': Lena James and, to a lesser extent, Winifred 'Freddie' Brooks (who was also a [[HippieChick hippie]] and a SoapBoxSadie), though this was somewhat realistically (or cynically) toned down when she became a lawyer. Although some who have a AlternateCharacterInterpretation of her believes she became toned down do to her somewhat becoming a realist after she got her law degree. [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids And thus became less overbearing. And to some less likable]].

* Zeus from ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'' definitely qualifies. In fact, SamuelLJackson researched the role to look and act exactly like MalcolmX himself.

-->-- '''Achoo''', ''RobinHoodMenInTights''

** Chappelle did a riff on this trope nine years earlier, as Achoo in ''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.

* ''ADifferentWorld'': Lena James and, to a lesser extent, Winifred 'Freddie' Brooks (who was also a [[HippieChick hippie]] and a SoapBoxSadie), though this was somewhat realistically (or cynically) toned down when she became a lawyer. Although some who have a AlternateCharacterInterpretation of her believes she became toned down do to her somewhat becoming a realist after she got her law degree. [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids And thus became less overbearing. And to some less likable]].

* Speaking of attorneys, Charles Gunn barged into the lobby of hellish law firm Wolfram & Hart on ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Evil's only weakness: ''political correctness!''

* One episode of ''{{Series/Angel}}'' had Gunn pose at this to create a distraction for Angel to break into Wolfram and Hart.

** He presumably does know who Rodney King is; his response when the "ROD-NEY KING!" chant starts is "What's that supposed to mean?", which does not mean he doesn't know who Rodney King is.

* A decent number of black characters from ''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 AngryBlackMan.

* One of the two villains in the ''LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' episode "Cuba Libre."

The TropeNamer is MalcolmX, who achieved fame during the American civil rights movement for his aggressive and hard-line views on race; however, he was actually a subversion in that after going to Mecca he started to promote racial equality and unfortunately got killed for it by hard-line black nationalists.[[note]]Unless you believe the conspiracy theories that say otherwise[[/note]]]

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 black TV shows and movies, they're very rarely depicted as respectable or intelligent people whose opinion is 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 StrawmanPolitical. Needless to say these characters can easily veer into UnfortunateImplications territory.

The TropeNamer is MalcolmX, who achieved fame during the American civil rights movement for his aggressive and hard-line views on race; however, he was actually a subversion in that after going to Mecca he started to promote racial equality and unfortunately got killed for it by hard-line black nationalists.

->"Aw, people of Sherwood, you've been had! Hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Run amuck! ''We'' didn't land on Sherwood Forest; Sherwood Forest landed on ''us''!"

* [[AntiVillain Strangely enough,]] {{Magneto}} is this, though he's white and Jewish and doesn't really care about black people. He wants to destroy humans because he believes mutants are superior. He and [[BigGood Professor X]] are compared to Malcom X and Martin Luther King, with oppression against mutants is a parallel to oppression of minorities.

The TropeNamer is MalcolmX, who achieved fame during the American civil rights movement for his aggressive and hard-line views on race; however, he was actually a subversion in that after going to Mecca he started to promote racial equality and unfortunately got killed for it.