Does the black guy die first?
Having the black character die first or be the only black character to die is a racist trope that people want to know about before they go into a movie so they don't get their hopes up.
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Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
170
No
3
70
Yes, but not in a racist way. In this instance it is their family member who has died, not a supporting actor who is killed off to have a white main cast.
Movie • 2000 Report
Yes
120
No
5
24
DoritoPrincess
The first on-screen murder in the movie is Patrick Bateman killing a black homeless man and his dog.
Movie • 1980 Report
Yes
106
No
8
32
UnagioLucio
Sort of. The first dead bodies shown are white, but their deaths occurred before the start of the film. The first character to actually be killed onscreen is a black man.
Anime • 2018 Report
Yes
106
No
3
20
Kris
First death of the series is a black child who is shot.
Movie • 1993 Report
Yes
85
No
4
31
Kagey
He does, actually. The actor Jophery C Brown played the worker who got eaten alive by a raptor at the beginning of the movie.
TV Show • 2019 Report
Yes
74
No
9
16
Bitbat
Robin, Hughies girlfriend dies at the start of the show in graphic detail.
Movie • 1997 Report
Yes
72
No
1
20
zdy1994
Actually, yeah. Gets stabbed in the face, in a bathroom, pretty graphic really. 2nd victim is a black woman, stabbed multiple times in a crowded theater while screaming for help, no one realizes it's serious until she's already dead. Another black woman is stabbed later in the movie.
Movie • 2009 Report
Yes
61
No
3
14
nickg
The first character to die is a black woman.
TV Show • 2020 Report
Yes
59
No
3
11
cttaylor
most of dahmers victims are black gay men
TV Show • 2014 Report
Yes
57
No
9
8
mad_melody
A few nameless white characters are the first to die in Season 1 Episode 1. The only named black character at the time (a main character) is among the next to die in the following episodes.
Movie • 2018 Report
Yes
57
No
12
12
HopesFilms
Many asgardians die off screen but the first on screen death is (spoiler)
heimdall who is played by a black man
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
54
No
2
15
*Black woman
Movie • 2020 Report
Yes
51
No
0
16
PersonYeah
There are deaths before but he is the first of the characters we get to know that dies
Movie • 1994 Report
Yes
51
No
2
8
tangerines
Bubba is the first major character to die while fighting with Forrest in Vietnam.
Movie • 2020 Report
Yes
50
No
30
24
sopheverlasting
[SPOILER] Not "first" technically, but the only two people with speaking roles and names to die are black.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
47
No
1
12
colormehappy
Well, 90% of the characters are black, so I'm not sure if this counts as racism
Anime • 2009 Report
Yes
46
No
23
14
YoshikageKira
The first main character to die to Part 3 is the black guy
TV Show • 2018 Report
Yes
46
No
10
15
BumbleBee
Sort of? A lot of other people are killed trying to protect him, but he is the first major character to die.
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
42
No
0
9
PAPAYADRANK
The first death of a person in the movie is a graphic scene of a black young adult being brought in on a stretcher, with a variety of graphic and real unpleasant injuries post being hit by truck, and dying before he can be given medical assistance. You don't see him be hit by the truck.
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
40
No
0
12
absoluteloverboy
He dies when he goes to the basement.
TV Show • 2014 Report
Yes
40
No
1
Movie • 2014 Report
Yes
37
No
4
3
KanyeWesticles
The series' only Egyptian character and second-in-command of the Stardust Crusaders is thought by Polnareff to have been shot and killed, though is later revealed to have suffered non-fatal wounds. He *spoilers* is later killed by vampire Vanilla Ice, being the first major protagonist to actually die.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
36
No
4
7
*Black woman
Movie • 2021 Report
Yes
34
No
0
7
adeliajbrown
Yes, in one of the first shots that is a flashback to before the movie begins. And he’s an abuser
TV Show • 2011 Report
Yes
33
No
10
3
RidleyMathers
coven
Movie • 2003 Report
Yes
32
No
3
14
Jarguen
The black woman is the first shown death, but chronologically she isn't the first to die
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
31
No
1
3
mothfoots
The first few minutes of the movie are a flashback to the rest of the movie. Becky's husband, Dan, dies from a fall. He is black.
Movie • 1984 Report
Yes
31
No
3
12
RosClark
It's possible that he was only unconscious/incapacitated; his only visible injury is where the gremlin has stabbed him with a syringe, which was probably just local anaesthetic or antibiotics or something (he was planning on injecting the Mogwai). The only confirmed on-screen human death is an elderly white woman who is characterised as a cruel, unpleasant person.
Movie • 2021 Report
Yes
28
No
2
13
well i guess Kat's dad does die at the beginning of the movie, but that's not what this trope is technically about
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
27
No
7
5
DreadyBetty
A black man is the first person who dies, but he is a minor character and lots of white people are also killed immediately after.