Black Dynamite You Are High as a Kite Yet Again

"Who the hell is interrupting my kung fu?!"

I wanna tell y'all a story about a friend I had. He'due south a mean motherfucker and he'south super bad! So grab onto your seats and hang on tight, while we describe the moving-picture show starring Black Dynamite!

Black Dynamite is an entirely ridiculous, over-the-top 2009 homage to the Blaxploitation films of The '70s. Michael Jai White plays the championship character, a Vietnam vet and former CIA agent who declares state of war on all drug dealers when his brother, a CIA informant, turns up murdered by the mob. He soon discovers that the conspiracy goes far across the local drug dealers and sets his sights on the masterminds behind the scheme.

An blithe serial premiered on Developed Swim on July fifteen 2012, with many of the movie's cast reprising their roles. Also has an upcoming 2020 Spiritual Successor, Outlaw Johnny Black, which seems to take the adventures to The Western.

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As Bullhorn would say, "The film as it was just described above, contains tropes that are examples of:"

• Activeness Film, Tranquility Drama Scene: Parodied, like everything else, when Black Dynamite gives us the least reverent and tasteful Vietnam War story ever, featuring a Vietnamese kid who he repeatedly repeatedly refers to as Chinese and whose terminal words are actually telling him "yous're full of shit" in Vietnamese.
• Activeness Politician: Richard Nixon establishes that he is not a Not-Activeness Big Bad when he personally fights Black Dynamite at the end. Of course he loses, but anyone who lasts more than a second confronting Blackness Dynamite has got some serious moves.
• Aerith and Bob: The brothers Black Dynamite and Jimmy. Yes, Black Dynamite is his actual proper name.
• Affectionate Parody: Of Blaxploitation films. So much effort is put into making it expect like an authentically terrible example of the genre, you could actually fault information technology for the genuine article.
• Anyone Can Die: In the film, All of Dynamite'southward allies who get with him to Kung Fu Isle end upward dead.
• Curvation-Enemy: Blackness Dynamite has Fiendish Dr. Wu, a Yellow Peril Diabolical Mastermind whom he's clashed with several times before the picture, and turns out to be the one who killed his brother.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Fiendish Dr. Wu, natch. His airs is a bit justified, as he effortlessly kills Bullhorn and lasts a bit confronting Black Dynamite, merely he still ends up severely outmatched.

  Wu: Your kung-fu is quite extraordinary, Blackness Dynamite. But no match for mine.

• Creative License – History: The film claims Roscoe created craven and waffles, which started at Roscoe'due south House of Chicken and Waffles in LA. In truth, the chicken and waffles dish was created during the 1920s by Joe Wells, the possessor of Well's Supper Club in Harlem, New York. Roscoe'south Business firm of Craven and Waffles' bodily founder was Herb Hudson, a Harlem native. This was surely intentional.
• Every bit Long every bit It Sounds Strange: Black Dynamite says he didn't understand the Vietnamese kid's "Chinese" terminal words, saying it sounding like "some kind of cartoon shit." After, he reveals that he really does know actual Chinese when talking to Fiendish Dr. Wu.
• Equally You Know: Played for comedy in Black Dynamite'due south flashbacks. People helpfully sideslip their names and ages into their dialogue.

  Black Dynamite: Jimmy, I am 18-year-sometime Blackness Dynamite, and yous are my 16-year-old blood brother, and yous are high every bit a kite yet once again!

• Authority Equals Asskicking: Richard Nixon. The guy's got nunchucks with the Presidential Seal inside his desk-bound in the Oval Office.
• Badass Boast:
  • Black Dynamite, when one of the militants confronts him.

    Black Dynamite: Heed, sucka. I'grand blacker than the ace of spades and more than militant than you and your whole damn army put together. While you lot're out there chantin' at rallies and brow beatin' politicians, I'g takin' out any money-frontin' sucka on a hummer that gets in my style. Then I tell you what: when your and then-chosen "revolution" starts, yous call me, and I'll exist right down front, showin' you how it'due south done. But until then, you demand to shut the fuck upwards when grown folks is talkin'.

  • He'south even given ane from Officer Nancy, the policeman investigating Jimmy's death.

    Officer Yancy: My God, men! Exercise you know what this means!? Do you know whose brother... this ghetto is gonna be turned upside down, I tell yous, upside down! The streets are gonna run ruddy with the blood of the men responsible for his brother'southward decease. Homo I'one thousand speaking of is a veritable I-Man Army and if you get on his bad side, brother, you're done for. Now it's only a thing of fourth dimension earlier he finds out and when he does, no matter where he is, get prepare gentlemen, because hell's a comin', comin', comin', comin', comin'.

• Bad "Bad Acting": Many of the line readings are delivered in an intentionally stilted style to parody the level of interim you might find in a inexpensive blaxploitation movie. In one notable example, Black Dynamite is supposed to be frolicking playfully with his new girlfriend, but instead appears confused and annoyed by the scene, and it ends in an extremely bad-mannered hug. ^note Michael Jai White even mentions in the commentary that this was inspired by whatsoever dear scenes featuring Jim Brown, a tough-guy sort of histrion who couldn't play "tender" to save his life.
• Bat Deduction: Blackness Dynamite'southward "Eureka!" Moment at a diner, where he figures out the evil plot by some Insane Troll Logic. Starting from M & K's slogan, with an extended trip to Ancient Greece and Rome, which of course everyone is familiar with, and catastrophe up at Little Richard. ^note They are at a diner that serves waffles who melt in your oral cavity. M&Ms also melt in your rima oris (And not in your paw) and are made past the Mars Candy Company. Mars is the Roman God of War, and his Greek counterpart is Ares. Mars backwards without the S reads "Ram", which is the symbol for Aries. Ares' half sister is Athena, who is the namesake for Athens, Hellenic republic. Zodialogical Astronomy was invented by the Greeks in 785 BC (everyone around the table knows this). 785 is the area code of Topeka Kansas. Which tin be shortened to Code Kansas. Code Kansas backwards without ane of the S gives Snake Doc. AKA Snake Doc. Aesculapius is the Greek Demigod of Medecine who believed snakes' tongues had mystical healing power and whose staff surrounded past snakes is the symbol for medicine. Apollo is Aesculapius' father, and a legend involving him and snakes is in both Greek and Roman mythology - Apollo slew the serpent at Delphi. The Serpent was "a big-ass serpent." The Southward American anaconda is the biggest snake in the globe. Anaconda Malt Liquor has the slogan "Anaconda Malt Liquor gives you Whooooooooooo!" "Whooooooooooooo!" sounds similar Little Richard. So the motto actually is: "Anaconda Malt Liquor gives yous Little Richard". Dick is some other proper name for Richard. So the existent motto (and the sinister plot) is that Anaconda Malt Liquor gives you a small dick. And their decision is immediately proven correct.
• Large Bad: Richard Nixon.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Black Dynamite deals with a variety of villains in his quest to avenge his brother's decease.
• Large Damn Heroes: After BD dispatches almost all of Chicago Wind's goons, the terminal one remaining points a gun at him, letting Air current escape. Almost right afterwards, Bullhorn appears, knocking the gun out of the minion's mitt, giving Dynamite a take a chance to chase after Chicago.

  Bullhorn: Become take hold of Chicago Wind before he disappears! I'll take intendance of this gorilla-eatin' goon hither.

• Bigger Is Better in Bed: This is why Nixon wants to shrink the penises of blackness men, in order to reduce their population.
• Big "NO!": Afterward a Hugger-mugger Service amanuensis blows up the helicopter Cream Corn'southward in, Blackness Dynamite does one of these.
• Bilingual Bonus:
  • The phrase that Blackness Dynamite heard the dying "Chinese" kid speak is actually Vietnamese for "Yous are total of shit."
  • The residue of the foreign dialog is Cluster F-Bombs.
• Black Is Bigger in Bed: The protagonist manages to have sex with three women simultaneously, and please all of them equally. And to take the gag Up to Eleven, it is revealed that three or 4 more women were asleep next to the bed at the fourth dimension, already having been pleasured. It'southward also a rare situation where this becomes a plot betoken: the villains of the movie are trying to shrink blackness men's penises to eliminate their, ahem, "racial advantage."
• Blaxploitation Parody: One that really goes all-in when it comes to poking fun at the genre.
• Bottomless Magazines: Blackness Dynamite'due south six-shot revolver can fire dozens of rounds without reloading. While having no bullets in the chamber.
• Bragging Theme Tune: With lyrics similar "Utilise kung fu when he want to / take sexual activity when he please".
• Brick Joke: After a shootout that ruins his chili and donuts eating house, Roscoe remarks that the odd combination wasn't working out anyway. Nearly an hour later, Cream Corn scoffs at a waitress' ridiculous offer of chicken and waffles. Upon hearing this, Roscoe jumps upwards in the background, shouts "That's IT!" and runs out of the diner, the implication being that it gave him the idea for Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles.
• The Cameo: Arsenio Hall, Brian McKnight, Tommy Davidson, Cedric Yarbrough. All the girls shown topless on-screen are real-life porn stars.
• Helm Obvious:
  • "These children are orphans, and orphans don't have parents!"
  • Likewise this hilarious commutation:

    Militiaman: How did yous get here?

    Black Dynamite: I walked in...

• The Casanova: Black Dynamite, who per movie tradition flirts with condign a Ladykiller in Beloved by the end.
• Character as Himself: Inverted, as the main characters are "played" by equally fictional "actors":
  • Baltimore Colts All-Star Running Back Ferrante Jones (Michael Jai White) as Black Dynamite.
  • Ebony Mode Off-white Model Tambula Qatar (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) as Gloria.
  • William T Michaelson (Mykelti Williamson) as Chicago Air current.
  • Ronnie Sinatra (Kevin Chapman) as O'Leary.
  • Piddling Tiny Tiggs (Tommy Davidson) every bit Cream Corn.
  • June Bug (Arsenio Hall) as Tasty Freeze.
  • Bo Willy Peters (Buddy Lewis) equally Gunsmoke.
  • And that bad Bullhorn (Byron Minns) as Himself; making him, paradoxically, both a direct case and an inversion of the trope at the same fourth dimension.
• Chekhov's Boomerang: An bodily bladed boomerang, which returns to the target if it misses the offset time. The Fiendish Dr. Wu throws it offscreen to kill Bullhorn, so throws information technology over again at Blackness Dynamite to distract him twice, giving Fiendish Dr. Wu enough time to flee. Blackness Dynamite throws information technology the third fourth dimension, while offscreen, to accept it home in on Fiendish Dr. Wu afterwards on.

  Black Dynamite: HAHA! I threw that shit earlier I walked in the room!

• Chewing the Scenery: Black Dynamite's tirade when confronting Fiendish Dr. Wu and when Bullhorn dies by his hand.

  Black Dynamite: Bullhorn! At long last, a friendship bonded by the struggle against The Man has been brought to an end by KUNG-FU TREACHERY! Brother, your death will not go unavenged. Fiendish Dr. Wu, yous done fucked up at present!

• Classically Trained Actress: The actor playing Blackness Dynamite'south brother Jimmy as an developed delivers his lines with an absurdly stagey, snobbish delivery that borders on British, which just makes them even more ridiculous to hear.

  (With impeccable wording) "Come on, you jive turkeys, what kind of run-down is this? Look, homo; I've got to get BACK to the STREETS, WHERE I COME FROM, ssssucka."

• Comically Invincible Hero: Black Dynamite is a parody of the blaxpoitation action hero, being the meanest, nigh badass black dude in this earth and the next. Secondary characters keep dropping like flies around him simply any opponents at best just momentarily inconvenience him personally.
• Crazy-Prepared: BD already threw that shit (a boomerang) before he walked in the room!
• Curse Cutting Short: Also interrupting one of Bullhorn's rhymes no less, just as he was about to get it on with a adult female.

  Bullhorn: Human, who Dare knock when I'm plannin' to plant my—

  [Black Dynamite enters the room]

  Bullhorn: —master homo Blackness Dynamite!

• Deadpan Snarker: Black Dynamite in the hospital afterwards being shot in the shoulder by Raffeli'southward hitmen.

  Black Dynamite: So how'due south my x-ray?

  Black Dynamite's doc: Well, no fragments. In and out. You're lucky, Blackness Dynamite. Iii inches to the left and nosotros wouldn't even be having this conversation!

  Blackness Dynamite: Three inches to the right, it woulda missed my black donkey.

• Deliberate Values Dissonance: The flick doesn't shy abroad from parodying some of the rather... dated aspects of the Blaxploitation genre.
• Destination Defenestration: If there'south a window nearby, it's pretty much a guarantee that Black Dynamite volition throw someone through information technology. Even twelve-year sometime Black Dynamite!
• Deus ex Machina: The ghost of Abraham Lincoln arriving to salvage Black Dynamite from being shot by Richard Nixon.
• Disc-One Final Boss: O'Leary beingness the commencement disc final boss and Fiendish Doctor Wu existence the 2nd.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Black Dynamite has some anger issues, to put it mildly. 12 twelvemonth-old Black Dynamite gets mercilessly teased by a few kids for beingness an orphan. He tosses them out of a window.
• Exercise Not Do This Cool Thing: In-universe, of course. Black Dynamite — a stern, violent, murderous pimp — appears as himself on the faux-kids bear witness Ding Dong Roar to deliver a PSA to children about how Drugs Are Bad; the way they choose to spread the word, however, is through a song confusingly titled "Drugs are Fun", almost entirely about how drugs accept street names that sound like nice things.
• Double Entendre: "Anaconda Malt Liquor gives you 'oooo'." Sounds innocent plenty, but afterward a "Eureka!" Moment y'all realize information technology means information technology gives you a tiny penis.
• The Dragon: Fiendish Doctor Wu.
• Driving a Desk-bound: The rear projection shows Chicago Wind's automobile making some pretty large turns, despite him non looking at the route. Then when he turns to look at the road, he instantly screams equally he'due south about to run over a cliff that wasn't in the rear projection.
• Drugs Are Bad: From which we get this gem:

  Blackness Dynamite: From now on, I'm declarin' war on anyone who sells drugs to the community!

  Chocolate Lightheaded-Upwards: Simply Black Dynamite, I sell drugs to the community!

• "Eureka!" Moment: A ridiculously circuitous, three-minute long one that besides counts equally Insane Troll Logic.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He might be a bad guy, simply Richard Nixon all the same loves his married woman and goes ape-shit when she is injure.
• Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: Anybody in this globe knows Kung-fu for some reason, despite its seemingly limited actual uses, including President Richard Nixon.
• Every Motorcar Is a Pinto: The Stock Footage used takes this Up to Eleven - the cars that Black Dynamite destroy really explode earlier they hit anything.
• Eye Scream: The mook of Fiendish Dr. Wu who was told to keep his eye on Black Dynamite.
• Fanservice Extra: Done, equally with everything else, in the fashion of onetime blaxploitation movies.
• Fighting with Chucks: The Weapon of Pick for Black Dynamite and Richard Nixon.
• Fight Scene Failure: invokedWhile near of the fight scenes involving Blackness Dynamite himself are surprisingly good, the other actors tend to be visibly clumsier, throwing punches that clearly miss. In 1 scene, Bullhorn even accidentally punches a guy for real, at which the visibly pissed-off guy advances on him, and then a cut replaces him with a different guy that Bullhorn hands beats up.
• Final Boss: Richard Nixon.
• Flashback: Black Dynamite has one to Vietnam. It is the least reverent and tasteful Vietnam War story ever, complete with a Vietnamese kid who he repeatedly refers to every bit Chinese and whose final words are really telling him "you're total of shit" in Vietnamese.
• Flash Stride: Blackness Dynamite pulls off an impressive one in the dojo scene, although information technology might have been an intentional error.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Throughout the opening commercial for Anaconda Malt Liquor, Leon St. James is never shown taking a sip, or even raising the bottle to his lips. Clearly, he's not willing to risk the side effects on his love life.
  • The scene with the zodiac love-making positions; the Greek zodiac subsequently plays a role in deciphering the true purpose of Anaconda Malt Liquor.
  • Blackness Dynamite swears on the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, who helps him to defeat Richard Nixon. That'southward what Nixon gets for using John Wilkes Berth'south derringer.
• Framing Device: The story is implied to be told by Bullhorn in the afterlife.
• Freudian Excuse: A heroic inversion: The reason why Dynamite jumps at the chance to help out orphans is because he didn't exactly accept the best childhood growing up after he became one himself.
• Friendly Neighborhood Gangster: Beautifully parodied to perfection with the pimp council. The pic mines some great jokes out of the fact that, although they're a frequent selection for protagonists in the blaxpoitation genre, well-nigh pimps in real life aren't exactly nice people.

  BD: From now on, I'm declarin' state of war on anyone who sells drugs to the community!

  Chocolate Empty-headed-Up: But Black Dynamite, I sell drugs to the community!

• Funny Afro: Endless, merely Foam Corn's takes the cake, every bit not but is it gigantic, but it is shaped like a pimp hat.
• Gilligan Cutting: Cream Corn claims to know nothing nearly Jimmy'south murder, and the picture show cuts immediately to Cream Corn held upside-down over the side of a building, offering to tell Black Dynamite what he knows.
• Guns Akimbo: Blackness Dynamite's modus operandi as parachutes down to the White House, laying waste to Secret Service members all the while.
• Hammerspace: Black Dynamite can produce his nunchucks at will and put them away somewhere afterwards, even when in that location'southward nowhere he could feasibly fit them in his wearing apparel or they'd be clearly visible if they were there.
• Hidden Depths: Everyone seems to know a great deal about Greek and Roman mythology. And Kansas surface area codes.
• High-Distance Interrogation: How Black Dynamite gets Cream Corn to spill the beans about Chicago Air current.
• Historical Dazzler Update:
  • Call back, the white baby who Leg Clings to Blackness Dynamite at the terminate of the movie is supposed to be First Lady Pat Nixon, who in real life was 62 past the end of her husband'south presidency.
  • Richard Nixon actually doesn't wait as harsh equally he did in real life.
• Historical Domain Graphic symbol: Richard Nixon and his wife and the ghost of Abraham Lincoln appear in this movie.
• Historical In-Joke: Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles (a real identify) was inspired past a totally random lunch guild. His previous venture was Roscoe'due south Chili & Donuts.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: Needless to say, the real Richard Nixon never tried to emasculate black men.
• Hoist by His Ain Petard: Non-lethal instance, when Fiendish Dr. Wu go his left arm cut off by his own boomerang, thrown at him by BD himself.
• Homage: Black Dynamite'south look and signature kiais are modeled on Jim Kelly, a martial arts-fighting blaxploitation star.
• Human Shield: When Gloria and Blackness Dynamite are ambushed by assassins, the latter uses the mascot of Roscoe's Chili & Donuts as one of these to provide himself cover while he guns down their assailants.
• Hypocritical Humor: Black Dynamite speaks of how he's out to stop drugs from being sold to kill in the neighborhood, before stopping to furiously insult and verbally threaten 1 of his prostitutes. This is then followed by an bad-mannered silence from everyone nowadays.
• Insistent Terminology: It's not but "Dr. Wu", it's Fiendish Dr. Wu.
• Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Played for one-act. While Black Dynamite is decorated recalling a flashback of a child he saw during the Vietnam War, he keeps referring to him every bit Chinese rather than Vietnamese. Fifty-fifty better, the kid'southward hamlet was supposedly in Tainan, which is a city in Taiwan and really adds up with the child beingness Chinese.
  • Potentially a case of Aluminum Christmas Trees, as the United states military conducted multiple low-cardinal or secret operations in countries outside of Vietnam, and the distance between Tainan to Ho Chi Minh City (in southern Vietnam) isn't much more than the distance between Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi (in northern Vietnam).
• Jive Turkey: The makers noted that most of the erstwhile blaxploitation movies were actually written by white men, and contained slang that didn't actually resemble the way blackness people talked even in the seventies. One said that he had never in his life heard a blackness homo call someone a "jive turkey," but of course Black Dynamite had to be total of that kind of thing.
• Just Following Orders: O'Leary when explaining why he was the one who ordered Jimmy dead.
• Kiai: Black Dynamite's deep "oooo-weee!" kiais audio similar Jim Kelly'due south, such as in Three the Difficult Style .
• Kids Are Cruel: BD was bullied as a kid for being an orphan.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: Cream Corn. The most he blurts out before dying is "Son of a biiiiiii—"
• Large Ham: BD becomes this a number of times.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Whenever the boom mike brushes his afro, or another bandage member delivers a line incorrectly, Black Dynamite tin oft be seen glancing meaningfully at the off-screen managing director to cease the scene. As well happens in a few purposefully sloppy edits.
• Leg Cling: The concluding pose of the film, pictured to a higher place. The white lady is Commencement Lady Pat Nixon, to boot.
• Leitmotif: Afterward watching this flick you'll accept "Dy-no-mite! Dy-no-mite!" playing over and over in your head.
• Luke, You Are My Father: A girl mentions that her father is called Black Dynamite. Her friend, surprised, says her male parent is besides. Black Dynamite, awkwardly trying to encompass information technology upwards from his Love Involvement, argues that many guys accept that proper name.
• The Human Behind the Homo: Who is it? Of course! We should have known! It was Richard Nixon all along!
• Mercy Kill: Gunsmoke would rather accept this than alive on with a shrunk Johnson.
• Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: The expiry of a CIA informant at the hands of the mob ends up revealing a authorities conspiracy to shrink black men'due south penises.
• The Mole: O'Leary.
• Mundane Solution: Nixon tries simply shooting Black Dynamite... but Abe Lincoln kung-fu'd the derringer out of Nixon'south hands.
• Noodle Incident: Unlike the balance of the pimps, who don't seem that afraid of Black Dynamite when he walks in — with Osiris even greeting him similar an old friend — Chocolate Giddy-up is absolutely terrified and completely deferential to BD, suggesting that he's faced his wrath in the past.
• N-Discussion Privileges: Existence a Blaxploitation pastiche, it's just natural that this gets a piddling bit of exercise. While well-nigh of the bandage uses the word at least once, there are several notable examples:
  • In the small amount of screen fourth dimension he gets, Chicago Wind throws it around quite frequently equally a means of insult.
  • The security guard at the Anaconda Malt Liquor establish is definitely not immune to use the debasing "coon", with the militia members striking him in the head every time he does then. Eventually, he slips into a coma with a slur still on his lips.
  • Nixon's wife, rather than use any particularly offensive term, instead refers to Blackness Dynamite past the weirdly archaic "moon cricket".
• Off with His Head!: Bullhorn, who is killed by Fiendish Dr. Wu'due south Precision-Guided Boomerang.
• Offhand Backhand: Black Dynamite shoots a Secret Service amanuensis who comes up behind him while assaulting the White Business firm.
• Oh, Crap!: The entire group in the pool hall. They threaten Black Dynamite, and he turns to go out. They start throwing out insults, when Dynamite only flips the sign and and so slides the burglary gate shut. Everyone goes silent. Then the asskicking ensues.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Most of the supporting cast. Blackness Dynamite, notwithstanding, seems to actually be the human's proper noun.
• The Other Darrin: In-universe. A stuntman is replaced mid-action scene after he's accidentally struck in the face by Bullhorn and gets aroused; his replacement looks nothing like him.
• Our Presidents Are Different: They programme conspiracies to compress the penises of black men and fight with nunchucks when their plans are discovered.
• Overly Long Gag: The aforementioned "Eureka!" Moment, which is about 4 minutes in length.
• Pimp Duds: The scene with the pimp council, which has all the pimps seen with at least one part of the uniform (Tasty Freeze's sunglasses; Chocolate Giddy-Upward's fur coat; Willie's cane; etc.).
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Richard Nixon, who hatches a plot to shrink the penises of black men in gild to continue them from out-convenance the white race.
• Precision F-Strike:
  • When Black Dynamite encounters Richard Nixon in the White Business firm, Nixon pulls out a pair of nunchucks and yells "Showtime, motherfucker!", though his oral communication becomes a minor Cluster F-Bomb afterwards.
  • Fiendish Dr. Wu pulls i as well, in Chinese fifty-fifty. He besides performs some other one in English language, when a mook follows him:

    Fiendish Dr. Wu: What the fuck!? Go along your heart on Blackness Dynamite!

  • And subsequently Bullhorn is killed by Fiendish Dr. Wu's boomerang.
• Precision-Guided Boomerang: Substantially more casuistic than that trope usually is, since here the boomerang automatically returns to the target rather than the user. Of grade, This was the bespeak.
• Protagonist Title
• Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: Ane of the militants does this frequently."The militants turn, startled. This is private... Sarcastically, I am in accuse." Much later on in the film, he mentions what he's going to exercise when he goes dwelling house: "retire, shows picture..."
• Really Gets Around: Black Dynamite, of course. When one of his lady friends introduces himself to two random petty girls on the street, both of them mention that both of their fathers are named Black Dynamite. Worried, Blackness Dynamite tells them that a lot of guys are named Black Dynamite.
• Redshirt Army: The militia. Lampshaded past Black Dynamite himself, in response to the previous quote.

  Black Dynamite: If you were in charge, you lot might as well surrender to whitey right at present crusade your survival skills ain't worth a damn.

• Refuge in Audacity: The entire film. Arguably the viral marketing for the moving-picture show did this too, setting upwards a fictional charity ("Fight Smack In The Orphanage") and fictional public service announcements across Youtube. One bizarre PSA had Blackness Dynamite actualization on a fictional 1970'due south children's bear witness that warned children against drug use. The PSA's title? "Drugs Are Fun".
• Real Trailer, False Movie: How the picture came to exist. The original trailer (fabricated up mostly of scenes from real blaxploitation films combined with a few scenes of original footage) was used to sell the idea to producers.
• Retirony: Consummate with Fatal Family Photo. Lampshaded past BD:
• Retraux: The unabridged movie. It goes through so many lengths to look like an authentic '70s film that even Roger Ebert admitted that y'all could hands mistake information technology for one.
• Revolvers Are But Better: BD fires off eighteen rounds without reloading.
• Rhetorical Question Corrigendum: When Black Dynamite declares war on the drug dealers, 1 of them, outraged, asks "now who you supposed to be?" Another leans in and, in a helpful tone of voice, says "oh, that's Black Dynamite."
• Rhymes on a Dime: Lots of characters, only specially Bullhorn.
• Roaring Binge of Revenge}: BD goes on ane subsequently he finds out about his brother Jimmy is killed.
• Saving the Orphanage: After seeing how badly smack has ravaged the children at Gloria'southward orphanage, Blackness Dynamite vows to brand whoever's responsible for the drug pay.
• Self-Disposing Villain: Played for laughs; Chicago Current of air spends so much time looking dorsum to gloat at Blackness Dynamite that his car runs off a cliff and explodes.
• Serious Business organization: Suicide is preferable to having a small penis.
• Sharp-Dressed Man
• Shout-Out:
  • Blackness Dynamite himself is several blaxploitation stars rolled into one. His predilection for Kung Fu and Kiai screams is taken from Jim Kelly, his purpose every bit a ridiculously over-the-summit womanizing badass and tough every bit nails detective has echoes of both Dolemite and Shaft. Him being "Played by former Football game star Ferronte Jones" is a reference to Fred Williamson, a Blaxploitation star who likewise was a one-time Pro American Football athlete.
  • Jimmy, Black Dynamite's brother, speaks in a very articulate theater-like dialect, referencing black Shakespearean actors who acted in Blackxploitation films, most famously William Marshall in Blacula.
  • The "Dyno-mite! Dyno-mite!" riff in the soundtrack is a articulate reference to the similar "Dole-mite! Dole-mite!" riff in Dolemite. Bullhorn's Rhymes on a Dime shtick is as well very similar to Rudy Ray Moore'south in his comedy acts.
  • The line "Of a sudden I'd like to leave your island!" is from Bruce Lee's 1973 moving-picture show Enter the Dragon. It was said by Williams, another black kung fu guy.
  • "Where is Bucky, and what has he had?" is a direct reference to Rudy Ray Moore's famous line from Avenging Disco Godfather.
  • Black Dynamite's "I'chiliad taking any any forepart-money sucker on a humble that gets in my way" is from Hammer , another blaxploitation classic.
  • Black Dynamite'south fight with Fiendish Dr. Wu (himself a clear riff on Doctor No.) on Kung Fu Isle (and the black spy turtleneck he wears there) is partially a take-off on the climax of That Man Commodities, starring Fred Williamson. The villain is even dispatched with a throwing star - though Bolt only had information technology stick in his hand and leave him vulnerable to a shot from behind, whereas BD slices off Wu's unabridged arm and sets him on burn.
  • The pimp meeting is substantially a slightly more ridiculous version of the pimp gathering in Willie Dynamite and not coincidentally, one of the Pimps in the meeting is chosen "Willie".
• Signature Shot: In every movie Michael Jai White is in, there is e'er a scene with a mascot being beat up. This movie has the most visible case.
• Sleazy Politico: Congressman James.
• Soft Glass
• Sophisticated equally Hell: The insanely convoluted deduction scene where Black Dynamite and co display a surprisingly in-depth knowledge of Greco-Roman mythology, history, zodialogy, and zoology...while all the same talking like stereotypical 70s jive turkeys.

  Saheed: That'due south right! Apollo slew the ophidian at Delphi, which was a big-ass snake!

• Soul Brotha: Everyone.
• Sniff Sniff Nom: Saheed does exactly that. To a cartridge case, no less, licking it for powder residue.
• Special Consequence Failure: Oft and obviously intentionally invoked. Notable examples include shuriken on strings and a car driving off a cliff and exploding before it hits the ground.
• Stock Footage:
  • Recreating a 70s car chase would be expensive, but there's plenty of former unused machine chases from back then. And editing all that footage together makes for hilarious discontinuities. The same car explodes twice in different scenes, while resembling neither of the two cars that were supposed to explode.
  • Likewise used in some battle scenes on Kung Fu Island.
• Storming the Castle: Both Kung Fu Isle and the White Business firm.
• Stunt Casting / Non-Thespian Vehicle : In-universe, in the "imitation" trailer. Blackness Dynamite is apparently played by "all-star running back Ferrante Jones", referencing sportsmen-turned-actors Fred Williamson and Jim Brown. "That bad Bullhorn" also appears As Himself.
• Stupid Statement Dance Mix: BD briefly discusses during with Gloria, proverb that the people of the ghetto don't empathize what she or Congressman James are talking near, but at to the lowest degree they can put his to a vanquish.
• Stylistic Suck: The moving-picture show is presented equally a shoddy blaxploitation film with 70s-era Deliberate Values Dissonance and low product values. There's plenty of obvious stock footage, rough edits, bad acting and visible boom mikes.
• Super Villain Lair: Kung Fu Island.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Black Dynamite's blood brother Jimmy is killed when he denies existence a snitch despite no one accusing him of existence one.
• Teeny Weenie: The gruesome fate of all who drink Anaconda Malt Liquor, as demonstrated past Gunsmoke's cruelly "shrunk Johnson". (The prop shown was fashioned out of a prophylactic baby pacifier.)
• Tempting Fate: Foam Corn's commencement appearance; he's inside a salon getting his hair washed, bragging all nigh how expert of a pimp he is and how nobody meliorate mess with him. And then he turns around, sees BD, and completely freaks out.
• Timeshifted Histrion: Parodied; while in the flashback with Jimmy, "18-Year-Sometime Blackness Dynamite" looks so little like his adult counterpart (with Scott Sanders mentioning in the commentary how Neill Lewis is "several shades lighter" than Michael Jai White) that he notwithstanding has to state who they both are, just for clarity.
• Truth Serums: Gunsmoke uses one to make the Anaconda Malt Liquor worker reveal the bones details of Code Kansas.
• Villainous Valour: Nixon doesn't hesitate to have on Black Dynamite in hand-to-hand combat.
• Visible Nail Mic: Intentionally, plain. Black Dynamite even looks visibly distracted by information technology.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Certain plot points involving Congressman James, such as him being in league with Raffelli and getting incriminating documents heisted from his office by BD'south crew, are just explained fully in deleted scenes. Of course, the somewhat disjointed nature of the terminal production only makes it experience fifty-fifty more authentically cheesy.
• The White House: Called "The Honky House".
• Who Dares?: Bullhorn after BD accidentally interrupts a moment between him and a ho:

  Bullhorn: Man, who dare knock when I'm plannin' to plant my— (Dynamite!)

• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Averted and subverted on dissimilar occasions. In the latter case BD apologizes subsequently. The struck woman is confused, seeing equally how she was trying to shoot him to death.
• Yellow Peril: Fiendish Doctor Wu.

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"Whenever there'southward injustice, wrongs to be righted, innocents to be dedicated, Black Dynamite will be there, delivering ass-whuppings. And I will non hesitate to lay the hammer downward on whatsoever clown that comes around. Cause if they desire a fight, they best come see me. Cause I'thousand Blackness Dynamite!"

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