Action and the Impossible White Man Trope

ATTENTION- Youtube is acting funny with my comments... idk why but keep posting them anyway until I get it figured out.

Fiq is switching things up with the good old Face Reveal, stepping in front of the camera to talk about one of the most interesting modern tropes in media right now, the impossible white man.

The impossible white man trope was coined by Rod of "The Black Guy Who Tips" Podcast, and it basically described your typical action hero... but Fiq takes a more analytical look at the who's and the why's of the trope by looking at its core features, history, and subversions (like the fact that many impossible white men aren't white... or men).

In doing so we learn a bit about modern masculinity by looking at movies like John Wick, Die Hard, Tenet, and even the popularity of Isekais. All that along with a nice trip down memory lane for all of the other aging millennials out there.


TBGWT Impossible White Manifesto can be found here (youtube won't let me post links in the vid...)- http://www.theblackguywhotips.com/the-impossible-white-manifesto/


00:00 Intro/Face Reveal and why I'm done talking about Tenet
05:31 What is the Impossible White Man Trope?
10:08 The Impossible White Man Archetype
16:32 Impossible Men of Color
22:27 Impossible White Women
27:37 Impossible Women of Color
30:46 Impossible Boomers, and Isekais/Closing

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