Line #13 YMMV/NewJackCity


1	%% Nino Brown is not a Complete Monster; he has redeeming qualities. Do not add him without going through the cleanup thread first: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok&page=1 Please read the FAQ first.
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3	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack, which is filled with catchy early '90s {{New Jack Swing}}[=/=][[Main/RAndB R&B]] hits like Color Me Badd's "I Wanna Sex You Up", Johnny Gill's "I'm Still Waiting" and Christopher Williams's "I'm Dreamin'".
4	* CultClassic: An early-90s crime thriller that many say still holds up.
5	* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Being a drug lord is clearly not an admirable goal to attain, but ''damn it'' do Nino and his CMB gang make it look cool with all of the money, power, and respect they possess.
6	* DracoInLeatherPants: Nino. He's truly a bastard in virtually every sense of the word, but he still has quite a following among female viewers [[EvilIsCool (and male viewers for that matter)]]. Being played by a young Creator/WesleySnipes was doubtless a major factor in this.
7	* HarsherInHindsight:
8	** Seeing Ice-T's and Michael Michele's characters as allies become this after realizing [[spoiler: what the former [[RevengeByProxy would do]] [[MultipleGunshotDeath to the latter]]]] in the next [[Series/NewYorkUndercover production they were in together.]] Additionally, he became a powerful and ruthless drug lord, the same ''exact'' person that he was trying to bring down in the film.
9	** During his trial, Nino tries to evade responsibility by claiming Kareem Akbar was the true mastermind behind CMB. Years later, after both Wesley Snipes and Christopher Williams had dated Creator/HalleBerry and she went on to say that a previously abusive boyfriend had beat her so badly she became deaf in one ear, the latter man pointed the finger at the former as being her unnamed abuser in question after Williams himself was blamed.
10	* MemeticMutation:
11	** "SIT yo' five dollar ass down before I make change!"
12	** "I wanna shoot you so bad my dick is hard."
13	** Nino [[spoiler: crying as he's about to shoot G-Money]] is a popular reaction gif/picture, where it's primarily used by someone who's forced to denounce somebody they genuinely liked.
14	** "Am I my brother's keeper? Yes, I am!"
15	* MoralEventHorizon: Nino crossed it either when he used a little girl as a {{human shield}} during a hit on his life at a wedding or years earlier when he killed Scotty's mother (a random schoolteacher whom he didn't even know) when he was in a gang initiation.
16	* ValuesResonance: Nino's NotSoDifferentRemark in court, while mostly based on BlatantLies designed to shift away the blame from his own wrongdoings, does [[VillainHasAPoint raise some valid discussions]] about the role the government and society at large play in UsefulNotes/TheWarOnDrugs, which came increasingly into question by the TurnOfTheMillennium and TheNewTens. The quote has been sampled by many hip hop artists:
17	-->'''Nino:''' I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during the prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, come on, let's kick the ballistics here. Ain't no Uzis made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.
18	* WTHCostumingDepartment: Nino is considered a rather fashionable guy for the early 90s... except for his haircut, which resembles a speed bump.

Context YMMV / NewJackCity