Tropescilloscope: Black Best Friend

A satellite black character is best friends with non-black main character in attempt to make the latter fare better. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Only Sane Man Suspiciously Specific Denial Flipping the Bird Department of Redundancy Department An Axe to Grind Straight Gay Green-Eyed Monster Brainless Beauty The Smart Guy I Need a Freaking Drink Famous Last Words Anachronism Stew Hong Kong Films Not Using the "Z" Word Country Matters Corpsing Big Bad Duumvirate Adaptation Name Change Improbable Weapon User Sequel Escalation Stealth Hi/Bye All There in the Manual Beware the Nice Ones As Himself More Dakka Getting Crap Past the Radar Karmic Death Jerkass Has a Point Big-Bad Ensemble Plucky Comic Relief Maybe Ever After Alpha Bitch Be Careful What You Wish For Works Set in World War II Disney Villain Death Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bland-Name Product Skewed Priorities Bring My Brown Pants Even Evil Has Loved Ones Rape as Drama Red Shirt Death Glare Casting Gag Bond One-Liner Manchild Knight Templar Stylistic Suck Beard of Evil Fiery Redhead Honor Before Reason Roger Ebert: Great Movies List He Knows Too Much Ambiguously Gay Adorkable Get Out! Dramedy Artistic License – Geography Genre Shift Mighty Whitey The Place The Ace Monumental Damage Face Death with Dignity Never Trust a Trailer Anyone Can Die British Films Black Comedy The Cameo Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor In the Back Psychological Thriller Totally Radical Not Even Bothering with the Accent Taking You with Me Made of Explodium Cool Guns Actually Pretty Funny Disproportionate Retribution Self-Deprecation Ambiguous Ending Almost Kiss Romantic False Lead Wham Shot Badass Boast No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Pragmatic Villainy Determinator Blood from the Mouth My Greatest Failure Japanese Films Madness Mantra Last-Name Basis Visual Pun French Films Recycled IN SPACE! Air-Vent Passageway Guns Akimbo Artistic License – Physics Manipulative Bastard Title Drop Scare Chord Driven to Suicide Adaptational Attractiveness Fantastic Racism Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Hell Is That Noise Exact Words Reasonable Authority Figure Faking the Dead Exactly What It Says on the Tin Sir Swears-a-Lot Heroes Want Redheads Conspicuous CG Together in Death Missing Mom Obviously Evil Annoying Younger Sibling Half the Man He Used to Be Death by Irony Outrun the Fireball Villainous Breakdown Mr. Exposition Combat Pragmatist Accidental Misnaming Back from the Dead The Hero 20 Minutes into the Future As You Know Cowboy Cop Downer Ending Dramatic Gun Cock No Name Given Historical Hero Upgrade Bunny-Ears Lawyer Pretty Little Headshots Irony Beta Couple Adult Fear Ambiguous Disorder Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dwindling Party Reckless Gun Usage Film Noir Bittersweet Ending Took a Level in Jerkass Curb-Stomp Battle Actor Allusion Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Comically Missing the Point Evil-Detecting Dog Retcon What Happened to the Mouse? Demoted to Extra Mind Screw Blatant Lies The Remake Amusing Injuries Eyepatch of Power Ax-Crazy Papa Wolf Leaning on the Fourth Wall Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Casanova Rated M for Manly Villain Song Refuge in Audacity Reality Is Unrealistic Mexican Standoff Not Quite Dead Kill 'em All Mistaken for Gay Animal Title Index Face–Heel Turn Malevolent Masked Men Those Two Guys No-Sell Femme Fatale Leave the Camera Running Central Theme Moment Killer Public Domain Feature Films Product Placement Killed Mid-Sentence I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Take That! Fake Shemp Big Brother Instinct Random Events Plot Artistic License – Law Framing Device The Lost Lenore Intrepid Reporter Crazy-Prepared Insane Troll Logic Call-Forward Empathic Environment Crucified Hero Shot Antagonist Title Redshirt Army Pet the Dog Closed Circle Bi the Way Rich Bitch Composite Character Canadian Movies Tap on the Head Humiliation Conga Running Gag Kids Are Cruel Drowning My Sorrows Wretched Hive In Medias Res Film Series Cat Scare Fatal Family Photo Establishing Character Moment The Alcoholic Big Fancy House Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Disney Death Big "NO!" Important Haircut Eldritch Abomination Yandere Rousing Speech Bald of Evil Biopic Hero of Another Story Made of Iron Sports Stories Deliberately Monochrome Soundtrack Dissonance Evil Counterpart Oh, Crap! Guile Hero Eureka Moment Undying Loyalty Determinator aka: The Determinator Wrong Genre Savvy Parental Neglect You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Catch-Phrase The Starscream Babies Ever After The Vamp Camp Gay Translation Convention Put on a Bus Badass Grandpa Stepford Smiler Freudian Excuse Thriller You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Artistic License – History Spared by the Adaptation "Shaggy Dog" Story Fanservice Extra "Well Done, Son!" Guy Kill It with Fire The Dreaded Light Is Not Good Eiffel Tower Effect For Want of a Nail Didn't Think This Through Bad Boss Dark Reprise Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Faux Affably Evil Catapult Nightmare Final Girl A Minor Kidroduction Needs Wiki Magic Love Noodle Incident Silent Movie Wham Line It's Personal Cassandra Truth Death of a Child Bond Villain Stupidity The Big Guy Ass Shove Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Zombie Stories Disappeared Dad Overprotective Dad Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Fire-Forged Friends Adults Are Useless Break the Haughty Breaking the Fourth Wall Anti-Hero Break the Cutie Meet Cute Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Those Two Bad Guys Retirony Sci-Fi Horror Gratuitous English Lock and Load Montage Vacation Films Death Seeker Improvised Weapon Friend to All Children Gone Horribly Right Documentary One-Word Title Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Does Not Like Shoes Room Full of Crazy Kubrick Stare Paper-Thin Disguise Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Chekhov's Gun Military and Warfare Films The Stoner Canon Foreigner Historical Villain Upgrade The End... Or Is It? I'm a Humanitarian Dual Wielding Chase Scene Sequel Hook The Ditz Truth in Television Insult Backfire Dressing as the Enemy Cool Shades Anguished Declaration of Love Rasputinian Death Artistic License – Biology Brother–Sister Incest Villain Opening Scene Dutch Angle Riddle for the Ages Not So Above It All Extremely Short Timespan Film Noir Index Really Gets Around Line-of-Sight Name Smoking Is Cool Offscreen Moment of Awesome Chiaroscuro Martial Arts Movie Anti-Villain Developing Doomed Characters Grey and Gray Morality The Great Depression Jerk Jock The Voiceless Rule of Funny The Brute The Faceless Foregone Conclusion Meaningful Echo Handicapped Badass Evil Is Hammy An Arm and a Leg Creator Cameo Wicked Cultured Lampshade Hanging Heel Realization Training Montage Left the Background Music On Expository Hairstyle Change Frame-Up Good Is Not Nice Christmas Movies Index Easily Forgiven Affably Evil You Killed My Father Sacrificial Lion Bowdlerise Reality Has No Subtitles Epic Fail The Un-Reveal Same Language Dub Arc Words Scenery Gorn Only a Flesh Wound Based on a True Story Genre Throwback Costume Porn Fate Worse than Death Properly Paranoid Deadpan Snarker She's Got Legs Mr. Fanservice Mad Scientist Death by Sex Shout-Out Tranquil Fury Have a Gay Old Time Fanservice Woman Scorned Dumb Blonde Index of Film Westerns Off-into-the-Distance Ending Race Lift Psychopathic Manchild Gilligan Cut This Is Gonna Suck Artistic License – Military Police are Useless Parental Abandonment After the End Precision F-Strike Ominous Latin Chanting Everyone Has Standards Cool Old Lady Genre Savvy The Cavalry Jump Scare Jitter Cam Failed a Spot Check Woman in White Rule of Three All Men Are Perverts Gold Digger Leitmotif Chekhov's Skill Hair-Trigger Temper And the Adventure Continues Ghost Fiction Revenge Greater-Scope Villain Tagline Dirty Cop Suspiciously Similar Substitute Alas, Poor Villain Adapted Out Slasher Smile Red Right Hand Despair Event Horizon Meaningful Name Evil Sounds Deep Unwitting Instigator of Doom Sinister Minister Captain Ersatz Major Injury Underreaction Dying Moment of Awesome Australian Movies Dirty Old Man Ascended Extra For the Evulz No Celebrities Were Harmed Even Evil Has Standards Sanity Slippage Obstructive Bureaucrat Morality Pet Knife Nut NO INDOOR VOICE Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Evil Plan Neck Lift Humans Are Bastards Aluminum Christmas Trees Eagleland Fat Bastard Hope Spot Book-Ends Vampire Fiction What the Hell, Hero? Horror Comedy Token Minority Unusually Uninteresting Sight Hate Sink One Steve Limit Abhorrent Admirer As the Good Book Says... Defrosting Ice Queen Shown Their Work Psycho for Hire Dies Wide Open Badass Normal Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Gory Discretion Shot Mood Whiplash Spanner in the Works Adaptational Villainy Loads and Loads of Characters Butt-Monkey Unresolved Sexual Tension Distracted by the Sexy Character Development Hypocrite The Stinger Dogged Nice Guy Take a Third Option Drives Like Crazy Double-Meaning Title Instant Death Bullet Armor-Piercing Question Whole Plot Reference Camera Abuse Tempting Fate Heroic Sacrifice Vomit Discretion Shot I Want My Beloved to Be Happy My Beloved Smother Stock Footage Big Applesauce Early Installment Weirdness timeperiod Adaptational Badass Show Within a Show A Date with Rosie Palms Laughing Mad Bloodier and Gorier Pragmatic Adaptation Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Broken Pedestal Shoot the Shaggy Dog Fish out of Water Fatal Flaw Non-Indicative Name Heroic BSoD Bavarian Fire Drill Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Informed Ability Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The '90s Plot Hole Heterosexual Life-Partners Our Zombies Are Different Five-Man Band Love Triangle Dramatic Irony Earn Your Happy Ending '80s Hair Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Bloody Hilarious Adaptation Dye-Job Hidden Depths The Mafia Belligerent Sexual Tension Adaptational Heroism Victoria's Secret Compartment Horror Films Mystery and Detective Films Intergenerational Friendship Apocalypse How The Reveal Drugs Are Bad Arranged Marriage Red Herring Creepy Child Pretty in Mink Wounded Gazelle Gambit Parental Substitute Dark and Troubled Past Body Horror Pimped-Out Dress Daylight Horror True Companions Deal with the Devil Decoy Protagonist Big Damn Heroes Black and Gray Morality Dull Surprise Domestic Abuse Ms. Fanservice Off with His Head! Roaring Rampage of Revenge Men Are the Expendable Gender Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The X of Y The Chessmaster O.O.C. Is Serious Business Up to Eleven Television Movie Index Award-Bait Song Corrupt Corporate Executive Trailers Always Spoil Bilingual Bonus One-Man Army Hero Antagonist Anachronic Order Bait-and-Switch Deus ex Machina Danny Peary Cult Movies List Death by Adaptation Stalker with a Crush Fantasy Films Damsel in Distress Male Frontal Nudity Slashed Throat Re-Cut Dirty Coward Taking the Bullet The Stoic Sole Survivor Sadistic Choice The Musical He Who Fights Monsters Took a Level in Badass Evil vs. Evil Too Dumb to Live Historical In-Joke Say My Name Red Oni, Blue Oni Animal Motifs Mugging the Monster Fan Disservice Celebrity Paradox Would Hurt a Child Homage No OSHA Compliance Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Storming the Castle Spiritual Successor Mama Bear Setting Update Laser-Guided Karma Credits Gag Let's Get Dangerous! Slasher Movie Sexy Discretion Shot Your Cheating Heart Spell My Name with an "S" And I Must Scream Those Wacky Nazis Darkest Hour Names to Run Away from Really Fast Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies I Did What I Had to Do How We Got Here Meaningful Background Event Action Girl Evil Brit Once More, with Clarity! Narrator Blackmail Cold-Blooded Torture Improbable Aiming Skills Redemption Equals Death Enemy Mine Sealed Evil in a Can Groin Attack The Dog Bites Back Abusive Parents Big Eater Gender Flip All for Nothing Foil Badass Longcoat Amoral Attorney Brutal Honesty Ripped from the Headlines Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Historical-Domain Character Demonic Possession Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Market-Based Title It's All About Me Throwing Your Sword Always Works From Nobody to Nightmare Agony of the Feet Naked People Are Funny Chekhov's Gunman No Antagonist Coming-of-Age Story Hooker with a Heart of Gold Evil Is Petty Disguised in Drag Silence Is Golden I Have Your Wife Nothing Is Scarier In Name Only Better to Die than Be Killed Call-Back What You Are in the Dark Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Screw the Money, I Have Rules! La Résistance Rewatch Bonus Henpecked Husband Badass Bookworm The Bully Motor Mouth Hollywood Law Punny Name Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Very Loosely Based on a True Story Expy Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Badass in a Nice Suit Implacable Man Awesome, but Impractical All There in the Script Novelization Cool Old Guy Dark Is Not Evil Nice Hat Idiot Ball Extreme Doormat Author Avatar Not What It Looks Like Alliterative Name Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Creative Closing Credits The Ghost You Have Failed Me The Film of the Book The Chick Italian Films Playing Gertrude Married to the Job Bullying a Dragon Vitriolic Best Buds A God Am I Big Bad An Aesop Jerkass Stuff Blowing Up Make It Look Like an Accident The Dragon Adaptation Expansion Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Cruel and Unusual Death A.I. Is a Crapshoot Bottomless Magazines Ironic Echo Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Affectionate Parody Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Real Life Writes the Plot "The Reason You Suck" Speech Reality Ensues Love at First Sight The '70s Evil Laugh Author Appeal Pre-Mortem One-Liner Unreliable Narrator Stealth Pun Beauty Is Never Tarnished Grievous Bottley Harm The '80s Artistic License – Gun Safety Twist Ending Your Head A-Splode The Load Toplessness from the Back Super Strength Daddy's Girl Politically Incorrect Villain Logo Joke Suddenly SHOUTING! Dropped a Bridge on Him Race Against the Clock Depraved Bisexual Asshole Victim Card-Carrying Villain Shell-Shocked Veteran Curse Cut Short Villain with Good Publicity Becoming the Mask Destination Defenestration Four-Temperament Ensemble folderlabel Boom, Headshot! Authority Equals Asskicking Russian Films Match Cut Contrived Coincidence Science Fiction Films Karma Houdini MacGuffin The Lancer The Smurfette Principle The Mole Imagine Spot Arch-Enemy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Pyrrhic Victory Male Gaze Rule of Symbolism German Films Mooks Deconstruction Happily Married She Cleans Up Nicely Action Survivor Continuity Nod Small Name, Big Ego Action Prologue Broken Bird Retired Badass Villain Protagonist Advertised Extra Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Loophole Abuse Scary Black Man Soft Glass Serious Business Does This Remind You of Anything? Crapsack World Immune to Bullets The Hero Dies Attempted Rape Hoist by His Own Petard Calling the Old Man Out All Just a Dream Bolivian Army Ending Early-Bird Cameo Only Known by Their Nickname Shower Scene May–December Romance As Long as It Sounds Foreign Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Quiet One Neck Snap Here We Go Again! Punch-Clock Villain Every Car Is a Pinto The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Shipper on Deck Foreshadowing Well-Intentioned Extremist Insistent Terminology Black Dude Dies First Bound and Gagged Parental Incest Did Not Get the Girl Mundane Made Awesome Time Skip Cain and Abel Manic Pixie Dream Girl Red Eyes, Take Warning Posthumous Character Flashback Darker and Edgier Double Entendre Never My Fault Worthy Opponent World of Ham My God, What Have I Done? Funny Foreigner Real Life Hollywood Darkness Captain Obvious Aside Glance Black Comedy Rape Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Funny Background Event Auto Erotica Naïve Newcomer The Sociopath The '50s A Father to His Men Car Fu Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Deliberate Values Dissonance N-Word Privileges Gainax Ending Mercy Kill No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Action Genre Gorn Unusual Euphemism Due to the Dead Mythology Gag Dark Action Girl Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Atoner Never Found the Body Poor Communication Kills Slap-Slap-Kiss Protagonist Title Accidental Murder Spiteful Spit And Starring Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Epic Movie Batman Gambit Only One Name Not So Different Animated Credits Opening Fun with Acronyms Shirtless Scene No Ending Only in It for the Money Heel–Face Turn Interrupted Suicide B-Movie Crazy Jealous Guy Peek-a-Boo Corpse Music Stories Older Than They Look "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Superhero Offscreen Teleportation Smug Snake Drill Sergeant Nasty Manly Tears Rule of Cool Kick the Dog Brick Joke It Can Think Bar Brawl Fourth Date Marriage Children Are Innocent Covers Always Lie Cluster F-Bomb Villain Ball Star-Crossed Lovers Betty and Veronica Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Obfuscating Stupidity Our Vampires Are Different Broken Aesop Bad "Bad Acting" Bury Your Gays Defiant to the End Blood Knight Pay Evil unto Evil Fainting Romantic Comedy Serial Killer Black Best Friend Man on Fire Scenery Porn Age Lift Large Ham Cool Car Freeze-Frame Bonus Word of God Police Brutality Bloodless Carnage Adaptation Distillation The Power of Love Ungrateful Bastard Facial Horror Video Credits Hypocritical Humor Berserk Button War Is Hell Bare Your Midriff Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Ship Tease Dissonant Serenity Kick the Son of a Bitch It Will Never Catch On Cloudcuckoolander Nice Guy BFG The Bad Guy Wins Not So Stoic The Oner There Is No Kill Like Overkill "Awesome McCool" Name Chewing the Scenery Diabolus ex Machina All Girls Want Bad Boys Shut Up, Hannibal! Eye Scream Would Hit a Girl The Alleged Car Cat Fight From Bad to Worse Jerk with a Heart of Gold Fingore Overly Long Gag The '60s Lighter and Softer Sassy Black Woman