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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 ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

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[โ€“] early_riser@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] ChickenZenphyre@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Nice, the first example given was naruto.

[โ€“] berno@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Naruto is spiritually black

Naruto flute music

[โ€“] Witchfire@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The first example given is literally called Black Lightning, but yes, the Naruto universe heads the Anime list

[โ€“] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Holy shit. How can a dot org site enshittify itself so much?

[โ€“] early_riser@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I donโ€™t think the top level domain of the site has much to do with its platform decay, but yeah the ads are beyond obnoxious.

[โ€“] vsg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And it won't function if you have AdBlock active. It forces you to allow the ads unless you subscribe.

[โ€“] Barracuda@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Heh? I've never had issues on it with an adblocker.

[โ€“] toynbee@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm on FF mobile and can access normally.

[โ€“] toynbee@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you using private mode and/or using a VPN?

No just FF mobile.