History Film / BadBlack

* DropTheHammer: Swaaz brings out a hammer to break the bank teller's window and steal the money.
--> VJ Emmie: "I have a key! Ugandan key!"

!! Trope the untropable!
* ActionGirl: Black and Supazilla both easily fit this category.

* AlmostDeadGuy:
** VJ Emmie is surprised to find that an old man in a chair at the clinic wasn't actually dead, just sleeping.
** Everyone at the hospital assumed that Flavia was dead (or as good as dead) until she revived.
* AmericaSavesTheDay: The American Ssali is the one who captures Black and hands her over to the police.
-->Ssali: "[[PrecisionFStrike Don't fuck]] [[BadassBoast with Americans]]."

-->VJ Emmie: "He's winning! ...he's losing."

* BadassFamily: Everyone in Ssali's family—his [[ActionDad father]], [[ActionMom mother]], brother, and even his ''[[ActionPet dog]]''—are commandos except for him.
* BadassLongcoat: One of the uncle's friends (who later fights Ssali when he first tries to attack Black's hideout) is wearing what seems to be a white lab coat. He certainly rocks the style, though.

* BigDamnReunion: Flavia and Black have this in the courtroom.
* BitchSlap: Flavia delivers this to Hirigi when he tries to talk to her as she walks through the courtroom.

--> "Eat the muzungu! He must be delicious!"

* DeadManWalking: VJ Emmie has low hopes for Ssali's future after Black starts plotting against him:

* TheFagin: The "Commando" who initially leads Black's gang qualifies as this.

--> "You ever wanted to fly? Well you're gonna be the first Ugandan on the moon!"

* HateSink: Hirigi is an unrepentant RichBastard and a DomesticAbuser who disowned both of his kids for marrying below the social status. [[AudienceSurrogate VJ Emmie even outright calls him an asshole]].

* KlingonPromotion: Black becomes leader of the gang after killing the former leader.

* MythologyGag: VJ Emmie not only reuses his famous line "Expect the unexpectable!" from ''Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex'', but also adds variations like "He can fit the unfittables!" when Swaaz squeezes through a narrow gap.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: During Kenny's shootout, VJ Emmie compares him to {{Franchise/Rambo}}, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger... and Creator/BillMurray.

* AuthorityEqualsAssKicking: Black and Supazilla are not only the leaders of their own gangs, but also the toughest members.

** Hirigi beats his wife, and has kicked both his children out of his house for marrying below their social status.

* ItsXIHateX: Black thinks Ssali is a commando, and she ''hates'' commandos.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa5kPuDtosQ&t=3562s Bad Black]]'' is a 2016 low-budget action film by Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana (Nabwana I.G.G.), creator of the 2010 cult hit ''Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex''. The film primarily follows two storylines: the rise of the titular Bad Black (Kirabo Beatrice as a child, Nalwanga Gloria as an adult) from a street girl to a gang leader, and an American doctor named Ssali (Alan Ssali Hofmanis) who seeks revenge on her. The film opens with a man called "Swaaz"[[note]]short for "Schwarzenegger"[[/note]] (Ssebankyaye Mohammed) and his child sidekick "Buddy Spencer" (Mugisha Henry) robbing a bank, desperately in search of medical funds to save Swaaz's dying wife. The police arrive, and a car chase through the streets of Kampala commences. Spencer takes the money and jumps out of the car, while Swaaz continues to draw the police's attention. Swaaz crashes into a sports car in a street race, gets in a shootout with the police, and is killed when his car explodes.

* AmericaSavesTheDay: The american Ssali is the one who captures Black and hands her over to the police.

* BigDamnReunion: Flavia and Black have this in the courtoom.

* BitingTheHandHumor: VJ Emmie cheerfully pokes fun at Alan Hofmanis and his character a few times, despite the latter also being a co-producer on the film.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Surprisingly enough, when compared to ''Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex''. While both films have the low-budget and [[LemonyNarrator VJ Emmie]]'s charm, ''Captain Alex'' has their antagonists being mostly LaughablyEvil, not to mention how over-the-top some of them can be. ''Bad Black'' on the other hand, focuses on a girl's rise from orphan to a crime lord, and while VJ Emmie still delievers comedy, it's usually (no pun intended) BlackComedy.

* RichJerk: Hirigi. His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him [[WouldHurtAChild harass and beat Black]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for trying to steal his carparts.]] Later, he intents on [[CommunityThreateningConstruction disposing of the Ghetto by buying their land and evicting the impoverished residents]] and also [[IHaveNoSon disowns his son Kenny]] for wanting to marry a woman below his social position, [[DomesticAbuse beating both his son and his wife in a fit of anger]]. Finally, it is revealed that Hirigi has thrown his daughter out as well, for the same reason as with Kenny, ruining her and her husband's life in the process. Ruthless, greedy, indifferent and abusive to his own family ([[EveryoneHasStandards VJ Emmie even calls him an asshole for that]]), contemptous of the poor, Hirigi fits the trope to the T.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa5kPuDtosQ&t=3562s Bad Black]]'' is a 2016 low-budget action film by Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana (Nabwana I.G.G.), creator of the 2010 cult hit ''Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex''. The film primarily follows two storylines: the rise of the titular Bad Black (Kirabo Beatrice as a child, Nalwanga Gloria as an adult) from a street girl to a gang leader, and an unnamed American doctor (Alan Ssali Hofmanis) who seeks revenge on her. The film opens with a man called "Swaaz"[[note]]short for "Schwarzenegger"[[/note]] (Ssebankyaye Mohammed) and his child sidekick "Buddy Spencer" (Mugisha Henry) robbing a bank, desperately in search of medical funds to save Swaaz's dying wife. The police arrive, and a car chase through the streets of Kampala commences. Spencer takes the money and jumps out of the car, while Swaaz continues to draw the police's attention. Swaaz crashes into a sports car in a street race, gets in a shootout with the police, and is killed when his car explodes.

The movie jumps ahead again by ten years, showing the arrival of the unnamed "muzungu" (white) doctor, and his child assistant Wesley Snipes (Kasule Rolean). Wesley notices that the doctor has a commando's dog tags, and the doctor explains that they were actually his father's. Black, having since become leader of the gang, decides to steal from the doctor after seeing his dog tags and mistaking him for a commando. Meanwhile, she also plots to seduce and defraud Hirigi in revenge. Hirigi is later shown kicking his son Kenny (Kazibwe Ronald) out for impregnating a woman from the ghetto.

When the doctor finds that his possessions (especially his dog tags) were stolen by Black, Wesley says he has to become a commando and take them back by force. After training under Wesley, the doctor launches a disastrously unsuccessful attack on Black's hideout, but he resolves to try again. Meanwhile, Kenny approaches the hideout in search of drugs, and eventually falls in with the gang. Black continues to seduce Hirigi, promising him that she would be a better wife and would provide a better-behaved son, and convinces Hirigi to give her access to his bank account. She takes him to meet her foster grandmother, who is outraged at Hirigi. She reveals that Black is actually Hirigi's granddaughter; her mother is Hirigi's long-dead daughter Flavia, who he forced out of his house years prior for marrying a poor man. When he returns to his house with a police officer (who is Black's foster "uncle"), Black shoots her uncle dead, prompting Hirigi to run away in terror.

Black is conducting a gun deal in her hideout, but it's right as both the police and the doctor attack at the same time. The doctor captures her first, then turns her over to the police once he's recovered his dog tags. In prison, she's intimidated by the prison gang leader Supazilla, but eventually befriends her. Black also befriends a woman (Nabatanzi Hawah) who was arrested just after giving birth, who hopes to one day meet her daughter after she's released. That night, Black's gang give Kenny a bunch of guns and turn him loose on the prison, where he claims to be the real Black. He releases all the prisoners, but Black convinces the other woman to stay: she only has two days left in her sentence, and getting recaptured during the escape means she may never see her daughter again. Black is caught offscreen, and Kenny is subdued and captured alive.

* AmericaSavesTheDay: The doctor is the one who captures Black and hands her over to the police.
-->Doctor: "[[PrecisionFStrike Don't fuck]] [[BadassBoast with Americans]]."
* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: When the doctor first tries to infiltrate Black's hideout and gets in a fight, he's thoroughly trounced and runs back to Wesley.

* BadassAdorable: Wesley Snipes, who teaches the far older doctor how to be a commando.

* BadassFamily: Everyone in the doctor's family—his [[ActionDad father]], [[ActionMom mother]], brother, and even his ''[[ActionPet dog]]''—are commandos except for him.
* BadassLongcoat: One of the uncle's friends (who later fights the doctor when he first tries to attack Black's hideout) is wearing what seems to be a white lab coat. He certainly rocks the style, though.
* BerserkButton: Thanks to the previous gang leader, a Commando who murdered her friend in front of her, Black has a ''very'' strong hatred of Commandos (which is the reason she targets the doctor in the first place).

* BitingTheHandHumor: VJ Emmie cheerfully pokes fun at the doctor's actor a few times, despite the latter also being a co-producer on the film.

* BlackComedyCannibalism: Skin color {{pun}}s aside, VJ Emmie adds this when Wesley Snipes and his friends chase the doctor:

* BratsWithSlingshots: Wesley Snipes and his friends attack the doctor with slingshots while telling him to dodge as part of his commando training.

* CharacterShilling: PlayedForLaughs. During the doctor's intro scene, VJ Emmie insists that his actor is "America's [[Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme Van Damme]]".

* DeadManWalking: VJ Emmie has low hopes for the doctor's future after Black starts plotting against him:

** InUniverse example where Wesley Snipes gives the doctor a fake gun made out of sticks during his training session.

* EasilyForgiven: In TheStinger it is revealed that Black works as the doctor's assistant/nurse, despite all the previous hostility between them.
* EatThat: In order to help the doctor become a commando, Wesley Snipes throws away the doctor's canned dinner and makes him eat an [[ForeignQueasine ''interesting'' local meal]] called "kikommando."

* TheFagin: the commando who initially leads Black's gang qualifies as this.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: After the doctor spin-kicks a cabbage as part of his training, a cow is seen eating the remnants on the ground.

* HeroicLineage: Wesley tells the doctor that he ''can'' be a commando because it's in his blood, even though that's [[LamarckWasRight not exactly an inheritable trait]].
* HiddenBadass: The doctor is [[NiceGuy a kind, mild-tempered fellow]] [[FriendToAllChildren who happily helps the kids]], a black sheep in the [[BadassFamily family of Commandos]] ([[ActionPet and a Commando dog to boot]]). Despite his initial clumsiness, he TakesALevelInBadass when fights his way to Black with a single MG.

* ItsXIHateX: Black thinks the doctor is a commando, and she ''hates'' commandos.

* LanguageBarrier: During his introductory scene, the doctor doesn't understand what his child patient's name is, so he just calls her "Betty."

* MailOrderBride: Someone in the ghetto accuses the doctor of coming to Uganda in search of a wife.

** The doctor grabs a machine gun and fights his way through Black's hideout.

* NoNameGiven: The doctor's name is never revealed, and even the credits refer to him simply as "Muzungu".
* NoodleIncident: During the doctor's rampage, one of the villagers yells that "''another'' muzungu has gone crazy!"

** The doctor is able to fight his way through Black's gang hideout armed with a single stolen machine gun.

* PoliceAreUseless: The doctor tried to go to the police after Black stole his dog tags, to no avail. Wesley Snipes tells him that the police are useless and that he needs to become a commando to bring about justice. Eventually subverted when the cops carry out a raid on Black's base.

** The doctor does one of these to Black's hideout in a quest to get back his dog tags.

* SarcasmBlind: When Black notices the doctor has a commando's dog tags and asks if he's one, he sarcastically replies "What do you think?" She takes it to be a "yes."

* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Three months later, Black has turned her life around and is working as a nurse in the doctor's clinic. Hirigi's wife shows up and tries to shoot Black for ruining her husband's life. She misses Black... [[AccidentalAimingSkills but hits and kills the doctor]].]]

** Doctor's first venture into Black's turf ends with him getting battered and almost killed, as he, who was only a bit trained and had no prior combat experience, gets quickly overwhelmed by the ruthless and skilled gangsters.

* TokenEvilTeammate: The Commandos are all shown to be the heroic fighters, excape for the beggars ringleader who is shown to be a Commando (with proper dog tags to boot) and is also an extremely violent gangster who ''[[WouldHurtAChild murders a child]]'' in front of everyone because Black presumably stole money from him.
* TrainingMontage: Wesley Snipes subjects the doctor to this in order to get him in shape and make him a commando.

* WhiteMaleLead: The doctor is the only white character in the film, and his role is almost as important as Black's.
* YoungerMentorOlderDisciple: Wesley Snipes, despite clearly being under ten years old, is the one who ends up teaching the doctor how to be a commando.

''Bad Black'' is a 2016 low-budget action film by Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana (Nabwana I.G.G.), creator of the 2010 cult hit ''Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex''. The film primarily follows two storylines: the rise of the titular Bad Black (Kirabo Beatrice as a child, Nalwanga Gloria as an adult) from a street girl to a gang leader, and an unnamed American doctor (Alan Ssali Hofmanis) who seeks revenge on her. The film opens with a man called "Swaaz"[[note]]short for "Schwarzenegger"[[/note]] (Ssebankyaye Mohammed) and his child sidekick "Buddy Spencer" (Mugisha Henry) robbing a bank, desperately in search of medical funds to save Swaaz's dying wife. The police arrive, and a car chase through the streets of Kampala commences. Spencer takes the money and jumps out of the car, while Swaaz continues to draw the police's attention. Swaaz crashes into a sports car in a street race, gets in a shootout with the police, and is killed when his car explodes.

* RichJerk: Hirigi. His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him [[WouldHurtAChild harass and beat Black]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for trying to steal his carparts.]] Later, he intents on [[CommunityThreateningConstruction bringing down the whole Ghetto to buy their lands]] and also [[IHaveNoSon disowns his son Kenny]] for wanting to marry a woman below his social position, [[DomesticAbuse beating him and his wife in a fit of anger]]. Finally, it is revealed that Hirigi has thrown his daughter out as well, for the same reason as with Kenny, ruining her and her husband's life in the process. Ruthless, greedy, indifferent and abusive to his own family ([[EveryoneHasStandards VJ Emmie even calls him an asshole for that]]), contemptous of the poor, Hirigi fits the trope to the T.

* ItIsDehumanizing: Hirigi calls Kenny's fiance "it", just to show how lowly he regards the poor.

* RichJerk: Hirigi. His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him [[WouldHurtAChild harass and beat Black]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for trying to steal his carparts.]] Later, he intents on [[CommunityThreateningConstruction bringing down the whole Ghetto to buy their lands]] and also [[IHaveNoSon disowns his son Kenny]] for wanting to marry a woman below his social position, ([[{{Hypocrite}} despite dating the ghetto woman himself]]), [[DomesticAbuse beating him and his wife in a fit of anger]]. Finally, it is revealed that Hirigi has thrown his daughter out as well, for the same reason as with Kenny, ruining her and her husband's life in the process. Ruthless, greedy, indifferent and abusive to his own family ([[EveryoneHasStandards VJ Emmie even calls him an asshole for that]]), contemptous of the poor, Hirigi fits the trope to the T.

* YouWouldntShootMe: The "Commando" gang leader tries to pull this on child Black, saying she can't kill him because he's a Commando. She [[BoomHeadshot proves him]][[{{Pun}} dead wrong]].

* YouWouldntShootMe: The "Commando" gang leader tries to pull this on child Black, saying she can't kill him because he's a Commando. She [[BoomHeadshot proves him]][[{{Pun dead}} wrong]].