Probably the first most iconic Black villain I ever saw on the big screen was Evilene (played with relish by the late Mabel King) in Sidney Lumet's film adaptation of 'The Wiz' (1978) ... designed to look like a nightmarish mammy figure... economically oppresses Black people in a way meant to echo slavery.
The ranks of great Black movie villains are, in truth, fairly thin... have a complex relationship to power, specifically power they had seized through capitalism, the military, patriarchy, an appropriated martial art from another culture, or apocalypse and attempted to replace those who have oppressed them.
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