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* 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 [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished after being betrayed by a human village to whom he returned a captured slave]], and Otohime by [[TheFundamentalist a fishman pirate who wanted to stoke anti-human hatred.]] Fittingly enough, Tiger's played by the African-American Creator/GabeKunda in the Creator/{{Funimation}} English dub.

* 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 Creator/GabeKunda in the Creator/{{Funimation}} English dub.

* An interesting example from [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids youth literature]] is Axon Befal from the ''Literature/GreenSkyTrilogy''. The Erdlings are AmbiguouslyBrown, and [[spoiler: the decendants of exiled Kindar (Kindar being the race with "privledges")]]. When this all is revealed and the Erdlings are freed from their imprisonment BeneathTheEarth, Befal is preaching for ''violent'' retribution against the Kindar, including those ignorant of the Erdling's existence. Most Erdlings want nothing to do with him and consider him a criminal. In the game, his "wand" (a machete) makes the game {{Unwinnable}} if you [[VideogameCrueltyPunishment use it on anything other than briar bushes]].

* The Brotherhood in the ''Series/AdamTwelve'' episode, "The Militants" LOG 76.

* The Spike in ''ComicBook/XForce'' is a stereotypical militant AngryBlackMan who accuses everyone of race at every opportunity for purely careerist and publicity reasons.

* A decent number of black characters from ''Franchise/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.

Compare with AngryBlackMan.

* 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 friends with the white Josh (the main family's oldest son).

* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfChamberlainHeights'' has Malik, the younger brother 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!''

* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfChamberlainHeights'' 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!''

* ''Series/ADifferentWorld'': Terence Taylor, to a T. He grew up in Germany with his white mother, but as soon as he hit Hillman's all-black campus, he began dressing in long wool coats and bedazzled fez hats, frequently talking about his new-found faith, TheMan, and how to uplift the black community. Played for comedy, the show being a sitcom and all. In the middle of one impassioned speech, [[TheHeckler Dwayne Wayne calls him a "Microwave Muslim."]]

* ''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. Sure enough... [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt they leap into each others arms]] [[BelligerentSexualTension and start making out.]]
* A decent number of black characters from ''Franchise/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.
** Specifically defense attorney Shambala Green. Although not as over the top.
** Paul Robinette when he became a defense attorney.
** Defense attorney Carl Halpert, defense attorney Jerome Bryant... (notice a pattern here?)
** Then there's Congressman Eaton, a terrible Al Sharpton {{Expy}}.
** Perhaps most notorious is the Reverend Ott, who incites a riot in an episode based on the Crown Heights riots.
** 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.

* Ahmad Zaire from ''Series/TheParentHood''.

* Senator Clay Davis in ''Series/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]]...
* Awesomely nuanced in a ''Series/NewYorkUndercover'' episode "''The Reckoning''", with a Nation of Islam minister (Minister Malik) who shows heavy shades of this, BUT is also very fleshed out and humanized. Even giving him a sweet moment towards the end of the episode when a young black kid approaches him on the street and tells him "''I'm ready to be a man''" and Malik smiles and nods, then says "''Then you will be''".
* Averted with Kareem Said in ''Series/{{Oz}}''. He is a Black Nationalist, but he's also a pacifist trying his best to reform the prisoners who follow him, and is even willing to work with white inmates and the prison administration in pursuit of doing what he thinks is right. Subverted with "Supreme Allah" (real name Kevin Ketchum -- he never legally changed it) in season 4: he preaches about black supremacy, but all he's really interested in is selling drugs.
* Parodied with Chris Rock's character Nat X on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. He's so black, he urinates oil! He's so black, that when he went to night school, the teacher marked him absent.

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

* The Brotherhood in the ''Series/AdamTwelve'' episode, "The Militants" LOG 76.

* On ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'', one Christmas the father was low on money, and happens across a stall advertizing Kwanzaa as a non-commercial option for Christmas. Chris' brother really gets into this, and according to the voiceover he still celebrates it in his adulthood and refuses to talk to white people on the day, including his white wife.

* A two-parter on ''Series/FridayNightLights'' has Coach Mac make some ignorant comments about the natural abilities of black players versus white players that spark controversy and create tension between the white and black students. Smash, who was the one the comments revolved around in the first place, doesn't think it's that big a deal until his black activist girlfriend Waverly convinces him that Mac needs to be fired, especially after Mac botches his apology press conference. So Smash leads all the black players on a protest where they refuse to play in the team's next playoff game until Mac is fired. When Coach Taylor makes it clear he won't fire Mac ([[NobleBigot who clearly isn't a hateful man and actively struggles with the prejudices passed onto him by his father]]) and will just use JV players to fill the roster holes, Smash considers ending the protest so the black players won't put their college football scholarship prospects at stake. However, Waverly tells him not to do it and it doesn't matter if the players ruin their futures if it's for the cause. Eventually, Smash's mother gets fed up with her and tells Smash that the protest isn't going to prove anything to the racists in Dillion and that the best way for him and the other players to do is to play, get their scholarships and college degrees, and become successful adults to prove the racists wrong and inspire future generations.
* On ''Series/DearWhitePeople'', Joelle briefly dates Trevor, who seems like a caring and intelligent guy, until she finds out that he falls into this trope, thinks her friends are fake activists, and on top of that is a raging homophobe and sexist.
* 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 friends with the white Josh (the main family's oldest son).
* ''Series/{{ER}}'''s Dr. Cleo Finch went through a period where she saw racism as the reason behind any reprimand she or any other African-American physician received. Boyfriend Benton inadvertently insinuates that she's overcompensating for being biracial.
* Though he's outgrown it now, Dre of ''Series/{{Blackish}}'' was a standout example of this during his duration at the famously black Howard University.
-->'''College!Dre''': Peace God. I go by the title Yusef Supreme Justice Allah. And I want to first say that the Black man is the true Asiatic Nubian. I speak to the masses of those who are deaf, dumb, and blind to knowledge of self and wisdom.
-->'''Present!Dre''': ...College was a very confusing time for me.
* One shows up briefly near the beginning of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Fear and Loathing." There's a serial killer targeting black teenage girls in the community, and this activist stirs up enough trouble to bring racial tension to a fever pitch. Even after the BAU determines that the serial killer is black and not racially motivated (he's just your garden-variety sexual predator who happens to favor girls of his own race), the mayor refuses to let them announce their profile because he knows the activist and his followers will just use it as further proof of the FBI/police's inherent racism.

* Chef during the town flag controversy (fittingly called 'Chef Goes Nanners') in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', right down to becoming Muslim and changing his "slave name" into a long, pseudo-Arabic one which no longer fit on his apron, so that he had to have someone follow him around, bearing a sign with the rest of his new name.

* Dian in ''Anime/{{Jewelpet 2009}}'' was, in his backstory, a Jewelpet supremacist who wanted to free his kind from humans, thinking that they were taking advantage of their good will and superiority (being magical creatures). He led a rebellion, but it was suppressed and he was banished and sealed for hundreds of years. When he is unsealed again, he has MotiveDecay and only wants revenge.

* The character of Muhammad X from the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comics, a superhero in his own right who protects Harlem. He harasses Superman over his perceived neglect of the black community, and the damaging psychological effect of dependency on an all-powerful alien with white skin. Superman attempts to convince him that he can be a hero to all races, but fails, and the two part ways on rather bitter terms.

* The Spike in ''ComicBook/XForce'' is a stereotypical militant AngryBlackMan who accuses everyone of race at every opportunity for purely careerist and publicity reasons.

* [[Franchise/StarWars "Jabari Jabari Binko"]] in an early ''Boondocks'' strip is a parody of this trope, meant to be an inversion of Jar Jar Binks' [[EthnicScrappy offensive racial stereotyping]].

* Subverted in ''Film/ChasingAmy'' by Hooper X, a comic book artist character who used this trope, playing a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy proud Nubian]] and StrawCharacter when promoting his comic book; but was in fact a [[CampGay flamboyant homosexual]].
* A straight example from ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'' is the ''Bluntman and Chronic'' director, though he ''is'' played by Chris Rock, [[ActorAllusion who has spent his career lampooning these kinds of characters]]. Ironically enough, his name is also Chaka ''Luther King'' and instead of being an activist, he was merely an PointyHairedBoss to his white assistants.
* The Mau Mau gang from Creator/SpikeLee's ''Film/{{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).
* Buggin' Out from ''Film/DoTheRightThing''. Many of the other characters are angry about race issues as well, which is kinda the point of the movie.

* Sam [=McAndrews=] in the ''Literature/NantucketTrilogy''. 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]].

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}} TV shows and movies targeted at a black audience]], they're often portrayed as ridiculous characters whose opinion is not 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.

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}} TV shows and movies targeted at a black audience]], 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.

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.

* ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' gives us both Killmonger and his father N'Jobu. N'Jobu was a Wakandan spy in America who became disillusioned with his home country after witnessing the plight of African-Americans suffering from racism and Wakanda's refusal to help due to it's isolationist policies. As a result, N'Jobu [[spoiler:helped Klaue steal vibranium in exchange for advanced Wakandan technology to empower oppressed minorities so they can fight back and get better treatment, until his brother King T'Chaka caught wind of it and killed him.]] Years later, Killmonger takes his father's goals further by [[spoiler:attempting to take over the Wakandan throne and using his power to ship Wakandan technology to spies all over the globe in an effort to overthrow all the world's governments and establish a new world order where the Wakandans and other black people rule over everyone else. When N'Jobu meets Killmonger again in the spirit plane, even he's shocked by the lengths his son is going to]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'s earlier strips occasionally did blaxploitation parodies with this trope in full effect.

* A blink-and-you'll-miss-him background character who shows up twice in ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse''. First during a war protest in New York City, mixed in amongst the crowds, and later can be seen in Paco's office, as another sign of Paco's increasing extremism.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': {{Deconstruction}}, he was the first real threat Star went against, and his role revealed Mewni's dark history as xenophobic warmongers who conquered a new country and annexed its original inhabitants. Toffee was a militant who wanted revenge for the Mewmans waging war on the monsters, and he made a statement by killing Comet, Moon's mother. Toffee was extreme in his methods. He was willing to sacrifice his own people, he was prepared to kill Marco to lure out Star, and he's just as extreme and bigoted as the Mewmans. And the Mewman Queen he murdered, Comet, was actually pro monster and was working to improve the life of his people. Her murder causes Comet's daughter Moon to rise to the throne at an early age and distrust the monsters, meaning Toffee is the reason things did not improve for the monsters.

** 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 -- which has a heavily cynical tone, especially towards authority figures -- he's almost always ProperlyParanoid. No one listens to him though, because, you know, he's 10 years old.

* ComicBook/{{Magneto}} is often read this way. Loooong ago in TheSixties he was a generically evil villain who wanted to destroy humans because he believes mutants are superior, but by TheSeventies he'd been retooled with a more well-rounded characterization: when his past is revealed, we find he was a Holocaust survivor and believed that the growing hatred for mutants by humans would eventually mean a repeat, leading to a couple decades of [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope leading to him going]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters too far with his methods of]] [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized "protecting" and "ensuring the future"]] of mutantkind. The reading is well-known enough that even academic papers have referenced it, such as [[https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3774/ here]].

* ComicBook/{{Magneto}} is often read this way. Loooong ago in TheSixties he was a generically evil villain who wanted to destroy humans because he believes mutants are superior, but by TheSeventies he'd been retooled with a more well-rounded characterization: when his past is revealed, we find he was a Holocaust survivor and believed that the growing hatred for mutants by humans would eventually mean a repeat, leading to a couple decades of [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope leading to him going]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters too far with his methods of]] [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized "protecting" and "ensuring the future"]] of mutantkind. He's therefore more of a analogue to Meir Kahane of the Jewish Defense League than Malcolm X, and even uses Kahane's motto of "Never Again" to justify his position, even though he and [[BigGood Professor X]] are compared to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, with oppression against mutants as a parallel to oppression of minorities. The reading is well-known enough that even academic papers have referenced it, such as [[https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3774/ here]].

* ComicBook/{{Magneto}} is often read this way, though he's white and Jewish and doesn't really care about black people (unless they also happen to be mutant). Loooong ago in TheSixties he was a generically evil villain who wanted to destroy humans because he believes mutants are superior, but by TheSeventies he'd been retooled with a more well-rounded characterization: when his past is revealed, we find he was a Holocaust survivor and believed that the growing hatred for mutants by humans would eventually mean a repeat, leading to a couple decades of [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope leading to him going]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters too far with his methods of]] [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized "protecting" and "ensuring the future"]] of mutantkind. He's therefore more of a analogue to Meir Kahane of the Jewish Defense League than Malcolm X, and even uses Kahane's motto of "Never Again" to justify his position, even though he and [[BigGood Professor X]] are compared to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, with oppression against mutants as a parallel to oppression of minorities.

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. They usually don't depict Malcolm near the end of his life as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz when he had moderated his ideology after his pilgrimage to Mecca, realizing that his contemporaries like UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr had a point with their positions after all. 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.]]

* Sideshow Raheem from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', apparently. We don't see much of him, but the dashiki, afro, and confrontational personality (described by Krusty the Clown as "an angry, angry young man") seem to suggest that he fits.