Does anyone here know a mystical old black woman?

[Dr Dave]

A tv trope, indeed.

There's one in

Jeepers Creepers
True Blood
Doctor Who

What else?

Steven King's The Stand.

 

[CaptainWacky]

What about Aunt Viv.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

More especially insightful black characters

Book (Firefly)
Lucius Fox (Batman)
The Brachiosaur in Dinosaurs

 

[FBI parte due]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_negro

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Well OUR list has a few theirs' doesn't.

CITATE THAT!*

(*SITE THAT)

 

[Tisiphone]

This thread gives me the giggles.

We can't forget Chleo, though!!!

 

[CaptainWacky]

Louise (Jennifer Hudson) in the film "Sex and the City" (2008), where Carrie Bradshaw's emotional recuperation depends entirely on the labor of her plucky black personal assistant, who is disengaged from the storyline as soon as Carrie starts to feel better.[

that's the kind of thing that'll be edited out soon

 

[whisky]

Most of those aren't mystical black charcters, they are just black characters.

I'm surprised they don't have BA Baracus on the list

 

[Cassie]

Admiral Barnett.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Anthony on Designing Women.