People often get this character mixed up with the White Savior trope, but Black culture has a different name for this trope, and it comes from Boxing: The Great White Hope, that one white guy who is so much better at violence than whatever culture of violence he's landed in, usually an Asian one. From Lawrence of Arabia, to boxing, to Avatar, to The Last Samurai, and even the movie of the same name, he can always out-violence The Other!