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Black Dude Cyborgs

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SilentProtagonist

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So a running joke among my friends and I is that there seems to be an odd amount of black dudes in tv/movies/videogames who are either cyborgs, have mechanical parts, or are in fact a mechanic/sometimes a pilot, but often having a mastery of some sort of piece of machinary (often times all of the above). We're not exactly sure why this happens so much but I just thought it was strange. I'll start with some examples:





I guess the gist is, if there's a team of people generally the black guy is the cyborg and/or mechanic of the group.



And if anyone was wondering, yes I'm black and no I'm not a cyborg.
 
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ChiTownBuffalo

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double jump

you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
Jazz the Autobot in Transformers

and

Miles Dyson in Terminator 2: Judgment Day
 
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XANDER CAGE

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I really wonder whether this is just us being selective, or whether this is a trope that just sorta sprung up out of nowhere.
 
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Snake

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It is because John Henry was a steel drivin man.

From then on black people were officially the masters of machinery, within and without.
 
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TheOGB

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I have a friend who used to just be tall and lanky, but after a summer he got buff as fuck out of nowhere

My first thought was roids, but after seeing this thread I question his love of dubstep and the only dance I see him do being The Robot


Hokuten said:
It is because John Henry was a steel drivin man.

From then on black people were officially the masters of machinery, within and without.
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That is exactly what I was thinking.
I did a project on John Henry in the 5th grade, I can't help but make the John Henry connection everywhere I see it now :p
 
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ViewtifulJC

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Man, I don't care about that bald headed white dude was at the end of RotJ. Look at pose, that swagger, dat black man confidence. Remember that voice!

Darth Vader was a brotha
 
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Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
I'm guessing this is an attachement to the black heroes and electricity thing.
 
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