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	* John Coffey in ''[[The Green Mile]]''		* John Coffey in ''[[The Green Mile]]''
	* [[Morpheus]] (played by Laurence Fishburne) in ''[[The Matrix]]'' and sequels (''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'' and ''[[The Matrix Revolutions]]'')		* [[Morpheus]] (played by Laurence Fishburne) in ''[[The Matrix]]'' and sequels (''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'' and ''[[The Matrix Revolutions]]'')
			* [[Shepherd Book]] in ''[[Serenity (film)]]''

	==Further reading, critiques, etc.==		==Further reading, critiques, etc.==

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	* John Coffey in ''[[The Green Mile]]''		* John Coffey in ''[[The Green Mile]]''
	* [[Morpheus]] (played by Laurence Fishburne) in ''[[The Matrix]]'' and sequels (''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'' and ''[[The Matrix Revolutions]]'')		* [[Morpheus]] (played by Laurence Fishburne) in ''[[The Matrix]]'' and sequels (''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'' and ''[[The Matrix Revolutions]]'')

			==Further reading, critiques, etc.==
			* [[Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu]]. "[http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20041025/kinga.shtml Stephen King's Super-Duper Magical Negroes]", ''[[Strange Horizons]]'', 2004-10-25.

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	* [[Oda Mae Brown]] (played by Whoopi Goldberg) in ''[[Ghost (film)\|Ghost]]''		* [[Oda Mae Brown]] (played by Whoopi Goldberg) in ''[[Ghost (film)\|Ghost]]''
	* John Coffey in ''[[The Green Mile]]''		* John Coffey in ''[[The Green Mile]]''
	* [[Morpheus]] (played by Laurence Fishburne) in ''[[The Matrix]]''		* [[Morpheus]] (played by Laurence Fishburne) in ''[[The Matrix]]'' and sequels (''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'' and ''[[The Matrix Revolutions]]'')

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The '''magical negro''' is a common character trope for Black characters in films and TV with white protagonists. This character may be particularly wise or have access to deep wisdom and/or power; they are not always literally magical (but in SF quite often are). The character often acts in an advisory or sometimes service capacity to members of the white cast. In many instances, the character may be "special" in some other way: mentally retarded, mentally ill, a ghost.

The term may have been popularized by [[Spike Lee]].

Examples:
* [[Guinan]] (played by Whoopi Goldberg) in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' (and two of the ST films). She is the bartender and like bartenders is a great listener; her people are sometimes called "listeners". She is a font of sage advice and it was intimated that she had mystical powers. Her people are long-lived and her past was mysterious.
* [[Oda Mae Brown]] (played by Whoopi Goldberg) in ''[[Ghost (film)|Ghost]]''
* John Coffey in ''[[The Green Mile]]''
* [[Morpheus]] (played by Laurence Fishburne) in ''[[The Matrix]]''

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