History Main / MalcolmXerox

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 the ThemeParkVersion 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.]]

* Zeus from ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'' definitely qualifies. 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.

* [[Wrestling/TeddyLong Theodore Long]], specifically when he was running his "Thuggin N Buggin Enterprises" faction with clients like [[Wrestling/DLoBrown D'Lo Brown]], Rodney Mack, Wrestling/MarkHenry, and Jazz. Though he toned it down once he became the fan-favorite ''[=SmackDown=]'' [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure GM]]. Coincidentally, Brown and Henry were former members of the Nation.

* 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.

* 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]]. 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. Both ended up assassinated for their trouble as well: Fisher Tiger after being betrayed by a human village to whom he returned a captured slave, and Otohime by a fishman pirate who wanted to stoke anti-human hatred. Fittingly enough, Tiger's played by the African-American Gabe Kunda in the Creator/{{Funimation}} English dub.

A form of StrawCharacter, this trope is often specific to black characters.

The trope can also apply to activists of other races or categories (including fictional ones) whose ideology is modeled on this character type. A common variation is to have the Malcolm Xerox contrasted with a more 'reasonable', less radical alternative activist, who tends to be similarly patterned off of UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr; as with Malcom X, this comparison tends to involve an oversimplification of King's views.

** 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 as a nod to the reactionary Nation of Islam...and yet he doesn't even know the basic Islamic greeting, which he mispronounces as "salami, eggs and bacon", two of which are typically made of ''pork'' which is a major haram and big no in Islam.
** 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 conpiracy theories and being dead serious all the time, but in the context of the show, he's almost always ProperlyParanoid given how awful the white elite is shown to be in the show. No one listens to him though, because, you know, he's 10 years old and somewhat arrogant.

* Sideshow Raheem from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.

* The ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' incarnation of Black Manta has elements of this, although significantly downplayed from the comic version.

* Dewey from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' 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...and yet he doesn't even know the basic Islamic greeting. 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 conpiracy theories and being dead serious all the time, but in the context of the show, he's almost always ProperlyParanoid. No one listens to him though, because, you know, he's 10 years old.

The trope can also apply to activists of other races or categories (including fictional ones) whose ideology is modeled on this character type. An extremely common version is to have the Malcolm Xerox contrasted with a more 'reasonable', less radical alternative activist, who tends to be similarly patterned off of UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr; as with Malcom X, this comparison tends to involve an oversimplification of King's views.

A form of StrawCharacter, this trope is specific to black characters.

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}} 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 StrawCharacter.

* In the final season of ''Promised Land'', 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 the BlackBestFriend to the white Josh (the main family's oldest son).

* 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 fishman slaves and espouses their races' superiority in response to humans (and specifically the [[AristocratsAreEvil Celestial Dragons]]') discrimination against them. 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. Both ended up assassinated for their trouble as well: Fisher Tiger after being betrayed by a human village to whom he returned a captured slave, and Otohime by a fishman pirate who wanted to stoke anti-human hatred.

* The original Nation Of Domination in USWA were a {{parody}} of this trope, made up primarily of white wrestlers like Tracy Smothers, lead 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/TheRock, who had been in USWA for a minute and was uncomfortable with what The Nation had become, took control.

* 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 fishman slaves and espouses their races' superiority in response to humans (and specifically the Celestial Dragon's) discrimination against them. 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. Both ended up assassinated for their trouble as well: Fisher Tiger after being betrayed by a human village to whom he returned a captured slave, and Otohime by a fishman pirate who wanted to stoke anti-human hatred.

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* The original Wrestling/NationOfDomination in USWA were a {{parody}} of this trope, made up primarily of white wrestlers like Tracy Smothers, lead by White Rappers PG-13 with a white manager who went by "Randy X". There were two or three back wrestlers in the group at any given time, 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/TheRock, who had been in USWA for a minute, took control.

* Theodore Long, specifically when he was running his "Thuggin N Buggin Enterprises" faction with clients like [[Wrestling/DLoBrown D'Lo Brown]], Rodney Mack, Wrestling/MarkHenry, and Jazz. Though he toned it down once he became the fan-favorite ''[=SmackDown=]'' [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure GM]]. Coincidentally, Brown and Henry were former members of the Nation.

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-->'''Detective:''' What's this South Bronx People's Party that keeps comin' up?
-->'''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]].

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* ''TheLegendsOfChamberlainHeights'' has Malik, the brother AND father 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 rethoric, 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!''

* A straight example from ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'' is the film director, though he ''is'' played by Chris Rock, [[ActorAllusion who has spent his career lampooning these kinds of characters]].

* An early episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' had Peter 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, Peter just drops the whole thing.

* ''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. [[GenreSavvy Sure enough...]] [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt they leap into each others arms]] [[BelligerentSexualTension and start making out.]]

* ''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. [[GenreSavvy Sure enough...]][[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt they leap into each others arms]] [[BelligerentSexualTension and start making out.]]

* ''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. [[GenreSavvy Sure enough. . .]][[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt they leap into each others arms]] [[BelligerentSexualTension and start making out.]]

* 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.