Title pretty much sums it up. Watched a video recently where someone was asked to name a black superhero that didn’t have lightning based powers and while I could name a few it made me realize just how prevalent the trope is.
But why?
Edit: Y’all I’m not asking for examples of black heroes that don’t have lightning powers. I’m asking why it’s a trope to begin with 😮💨
TV Tropes has an article on this that probably does a better job explaining than I could.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ElectricBlackGuy
Nice, the first example given was naruto.
Naruto is spiritually black
Naruto flute music
The first example given is literally called Black Lightning, but yes, the Naruto universe heads the Anime list
Holy shit. How can a dot org site enshittify itself so much?
I don’t think the top level domain of the site has much to do with its platform decay, but yeah the ads are beyond obnoxious.
And it won’t function if you have AdBlock active. It forces you to allow the ads unless you subscribe.
Heh? I’ve never had issues on it with an adblocker.
This is on my phone. I actually don’t have an ad blocker extension installed on this browser, so I assume it’s mad either about me having Firefox set to default to private mode or about me using a VPN.
I’m on FF mobile and can access normally.
Are you using private mode and/or using a VPN?
No just FF mobile.