While caught doing research on him at school he plays it off as though he's writing a report on him, which gets his parents called. Discussed in Static when Static faces off against the Malcolm Xerox Commando X.The executives didn't want controversy, so they prevented the story from being published, but many of Jericho's characteristics were later reused in Cyborg, and his name was recycled as Deathstroke's son. An early Teen Titans issue featured a teenage hero called Jericho in a racial-issues themed issue.When Paul Levitz brought Tyroc back in the late 2000s, he received some Character Development beyond his initial portrayal. Notably, the writers and artists were all painfully aware of how this trope was being played in a setting where racism should've been eliminated, but were forced to portray Tyroc as such due to the Executive Meddling. Tyroc from Legion of Super-Heroes, even though it takes place in the year 3000.If anything, the character is a deliberate exploration of the trope, not a straight example. 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". The conflict is never explicitly made racial, however. Justified by the fact that he is constantly being directly and intentionally oppressed by a physical incarnation of the Man, his arch-nemesis and surrogate father Edwin Alva. The trope name is actually the title of his first story. While John eventually mellowed for the most part, Bruce Timm and Paul Dini decided the early take on John would make for the most dramatically interesting Green Lantern for the DC Animated Universe version of Justice League. Green Lantern: John Stewart was originally this kind of character, which meant he had to prove himself to Green Lantern Hal Jordan that he was a worthy recruit to the Corps.Lucius Fox's son, Tim, was portrayed this way in 1980s Batman comics.Not to be confused with Scary Black Man, which is more about physical appearance than motivations, though the two often overlap. Also compare Soapbox Sadie, which could be considered a Distaff Counterpart to this trope. The character's anger born from their criticisms of the current state of racial inequality need to be dismissed In-Universe and/or by the narrative or the character's portrayal needs to be so exaggerated as to make them a caricature (which also serves to let the audience know that this character need not be taken seriously).Ĭompare Malcolm Xerox and Blaming "The Man", both of which often go hand-in-hand with this trope.
Note that merely being black and having a Hair-Trigger Temper is not enough to qualify as this trope. Still, straight portrayals of the trope do still show up occasionally. In modern works, you're much more likely to see this Discussed or played with rather than intentionally played straight. Something that has increasingly become a Discredited Trope over the last several decades. It usually contains a ( broken) Aesop about how Fighting Back Is Wrong or Revenge Is Not Justice. Therefore, modern black communities saying they face systemic inequality, or oppression can be downplayed or even dismissed entirely, because they're just looking for reasons to get mad.ĭownplayed versions of this trope may acknowledge that the injustice the Angry Black Man complains about does indeed exist, but still portrays his anger as fundamentally misguided, unhelpful, and counterproductive to the justice he seeks.
Chief among them is the belief that since the end of the Civil Rights Movement, there is no longer any real racial injustice worth complaining about, and the only reason black people might say otherwise is because they're simply angry at the world.
#Empire of sin hair trigger bug full#
Popularized in the 1970s, this stereotype is chock full of Unfortunate Implications. This trope refers to a stereotype that portrays black people in general, and black men in particular, as perpetually (and often irrationally) angry at others due to perceived racial discrimination. The RAGE-emblazoned leather vest is a bit on the nose.
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