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The Fratbro is a male college student or alumnus depicted as stereotypical member of a "Greek" group in university, which will usually be a Fiendish Fraternity. They're almost always unintellectual and usually want to party and drink all day, try to get laid all night, and will likely engage in Wacky Fratboy Hijinx, such as pranks and hazing freshmen. Despite the name, they don't have to be (or have been) in a fraternity. If they aren't in a fraternity, they nevertheless still often go to fraternity parties. As far as academics go, they live by the motto "C's get degrees," and the more well-off bros are often guaranteed a job under one of their parents' companies or through family friend connections, regardless of school performance. For this reason they often study straightforward, business-related majors like accounting, marketing, real estate, etc. Rare is the fratboy studying to be a scientist or teacher, where they'd have to rely on their own skills and not personal connections. They're in college to party and hook up with sorority girls. In a lot of ways this character is an evolution of the Dumb Jock stereotype as they often fulfill the same role, although the Fratbro will not necessarily be an athlete (he will at least be a big follower and fan of sports, however, especially when kegs of beer are involved). Also unlike the traditional jock, the Fratbro will often be a very big fan of soft drugs (particularly cannabis), and be portrayed as being pretty much harmless in comedic works, but darker examples will frequently throw in a proclivity towards Date Rape and using rape drugs to incapacitate victims (GHB, Rohypnol). As well, since they are usually from upper-middle-class/upper-class backgrounds, the family will attempt to use family connections to get them out of legal trouble. This is a subtrope of Men Are Uncultured, specifically designed around the idea that it's "normal" for young men to behave this way and sow their depraved wild oats before stepping foot in the real world. The ones who can't let go of this phase in their lives may grow up to be a Jaded Washout or The Stoner all through their 30s. Fratbros are usually mocked in pretty much any work not aimed at this demographic, but to their credit, most fratbros aren't above self-deprecating humor. Often used as a Bromantic Foil to the male lead. One popular Aesop for this type of character is to become a Ladykiller in Love, especially if they Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest. Whether or not it works is a toss-up, as this sort of character can easily imply that the audience Should Not Do This Cool Thing. Compare Life of the Party and Wacky Fratboy Hijinx. Also compare and contrast with Hard-Drinking Party Girl, The Lad-ette, and All Guys Want Sorority Women, the rough Distaff Counterparts. A Frat Bro who is intelligent enough to land a tech job or start a computer or software company is a Tech Bro. |
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In The Mark and the Void, the team of bankers the Caliph of Oran sends to make a deal are all 18-year-olds who are interested only in drinking, drugs, and making lewd jokes. Being English, they all have somewhat ridiculous cockney accents. | |
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Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell has demon fratbros as one faction of demons for Johnny Gat and Kinzie to contend with during their time in Hell. | |
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Monsters University: James Sullivan's first semester at the titular institution is spent partying and playing with the Roar Omega Roar Fraternity as well as being popular with the ladies. All the while disregarding the Book Smart part of his studies. He initially succeeds by virtue of his natural talent (he looks scary) and family name (his father is a famous Scarer) but he quickly stagnates and is ultimately expelled from the Scaring Major. During his first final exam, he's more concerned about winning a silent scaring competition against his rival than reviewing. It's only after bonding with the Oozma Kappa Fraternity members (a bunch of uncool, nonscary losers) that he stops being biased jerk and starts trusting Mike's superior planning skills. | |
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"Captain Awesome" from Chuck is a somewhat more nuanced, mature version of the fratbro. His mode of speech is very reminiscent of the archetype (including a fondness for the word "awesome" which provides his nickname), but rather than being a shallow party animal, he's a compassionate doctor. It helps that he's more Surfer Dude than Bro, and drawing on that archetype has a lot fewer negative associations to begin with. |
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In one episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the gang attempts to reclaim their dominance in "Flipadelphia", a local version of the Flip Cup game. With their old bar rivals now refusing to play them, they instead end up challenging a group of fratboys from Dennis' old college fraternity. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "Homer Goes To College", Homer attempts to cultivate this image when he attends Springfield University to take a course in Nuclear Physics. Unfortunately, he learned all of his stereotypes about college from watching raunchy 80s comedy films, and soon learns that real college is nothing like what was depicted in fiction. He eventually befriends a trio of nerds and attempts to teach them how to "par-tay." | |
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In Questionable Content there is a trio of background bros who appear and chant "BROS!" whenever someone says the word. Between the three of them, they demonstrate fratbro-attire quite well, wearing college-labelled clothing, hoodies, and pastel polo shirts. No surprise that they first showed up at a bar. | |
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This pops up several times in Whose Line Is It Anyway?, particularly after its move to the US, with Brad Sherwood and Wayne Brady the most recurring offenders; which naturally confused the hell out of Josie Lawrence from the UK version when she made a guest appearance. | |
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In the Broad City episode "Citizen Ship," Jaimé says "I love hamburgers and I love DUIs!" in an exaggerated American accent. This catches the attention of an actual fratbro, who says "Do I know you from Michigan State? Were you Delta Sig?" and then does a Secret Handshake with Jaimé | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force has the "Frat Aliens" (Donkey Puncher and Skeeter), who are aliens that behave like stereotypical fratboys, except From Space. Their very names are lewd sexual terms ("Donkey Punch" means to punch someone in the back of the head during doggystyle coitus, and "Skeet" means to ejaculate on someone). | |
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Troy from Community begins the show somewhere between this and Dumb Jock, having injured himself performing a "keg flip" but he's open to Wacky Fratboy Hijinks. He quickly evolves past this, becoming a much more rounded character. | |
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Wonder Woman: Etta Candy's sorority sisters known as the Hollday Girls were a genderswapped example during the The Golden Age of Comic Books. They pretty much constantly wore college-labelled clothing, spent way more time partying than studying or going to class, got in fights, sang bawdy songs about men, and were all required to have experience in at least one sport in order to get into the sorority in addition to the Initiation Ceremony. They are pretty constantly engaged in Wacky Sororitygal Hijinx. | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin's father, the poster boy for Misery Builds Character, is often alluded to have been one when he was younger, with his son pulling out old pictures of him from college where he apparently did headstands on beer kegs with the "Party Naked" t-shirt. | |
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A skit in The Jews Are Coming shows David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi studying together in university in late Ottoman Constantinople. Ben-Zvi makes it very clear they're there to blend into Ottoman politics and promote Zionist ideas among its leadership. Ben-Gurion is mostly concerned with partying and making out. | |
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Obviously ubiquitous in Being A DIK, given its focus on Wacky Fratboy Hijinx. Almost every member of Delta Iota Kappa qualifies, with the most obvious example being Derek, who straight-up declares that he has come to college to drink, party, and have sex. | |
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Sorority Boys is about three members of the "KOK" fraternity who dress up in drag to infiltrate a rival sorority. The film serves to deconstruct frat bro antics, especially regarding their treatment of women. The climax takes place on a party cruise with KOK alumni, including main character Dave's father, and all the older men still act like fratbros despite their age and careers. | |
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Homestuck has the aptly-named Bro Strider (also known as Dirk Strider in an alternate universe). He outright says that he aspires to be the ultimate "bro". He's obsessed with baseball hats (if he can't wear one, he does the next best thing and wears a t-shirt with a picture of a hat on it), rap music, video games, unhealthy snack foods, extreme sports, and video games about extreme sports and unhealthy snack foods. Bro's brother, Dave, copies many of these interests to an extent, but he's doing it "ironically" while Bro's irony is so far gone that it's completely indistinguishable from sincerity. | |
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The Derrick Comedy skit "Bro Rape" is about bros being, well, raped by other bros. It's styled like a "To Catch a Predator" segment, luring the predator-bros into police sting operations with an online profile named "Chad" who professes to enjoy bro-related activities such as drinking beer, playing video games, watching TV shows like Family Guy, and getting raped by big black dildos. Incidentally, the sketch also stars a young Donald Glover, who plays the aforementioned Troy in Community. | |
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Steve from Melody loves drinking and partying, he used to ogle other girls while on dates with Melody, and he can’t even remember if he did in fact sleep with MC’s (made-up) daughter (implying that he Really Gets Around). | |
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Pretending to Be People features Brett, a science experiment in the Glass compound. For some reason, he sports a puka shell necklace, frosted tips, and a douchey demeanor. | |
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The title character in Van Wilder is a mix between this trope and a Big Man on Campus. Ironically, the film's main antagonist is the actual president of a fraternity but he does not fill this role and is instead portrayed as a Jerk Jock and a (male) Academic Alpha Bitch. | |
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Sam leaps into a Fratbro in an episode of Quantum Leap, and has trouble getting the Girl of the Week to listen to him because she knows him to be a jockish ass. His fratty mates keep appearing and trying to embroil him in wacky high jinks, including raiding the office of "Dean Stockwell". | |
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Vernon from You're the Worst still behaves much like an especially immature one of these despite being almost 40 years old - he constantly spews juvenile humor and insists on making highly alcoholic "trash juice" punch for parties. His wife Becca even calls him a "talking penis in a clown wig". | |
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In The Office (US), Andy was a former Frat Bro at Cornell and was in an a capella group. He often gives his co-workers silly nick names and even has several of his own ("Nard Dog" being the most common). It seems he was pretty popular at college but not so much in the workplace. | |
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A few of Cecil and Kain's lines in the Playstation version's translation of Final Fantasy IV are like this. Legends of Localization refers to this as "Cecil and Kain, who are super-high ranking knights, talk[ing] like college bros or something". | |
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The Onion: "Most College Males Admit to Regularly Getting Stoked." The joke is that the panel's hosts are treating Wacky Fratboy Hijinx as though it were a dangerous drug or youth trend that could get them killed, but towards the end, one of the hosts reveals that he himself is a fratbro at heart, and gets stoked in the middle of the studio by jumping on the desk while screaming "I'm on TV!!!". | |
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CollegeHumor: Played with in "If I were a Bro", wherein Sarah dresses up as a stereotypical frat boy hanging out with the rest of the dudes. Also appears in "Brohemian Rhapsody." He closely resembles the above-mentioned Bluto, and partakes in activities with his "bros," such as casual sex with girls from school, drugs and alcohol, video games, and beer pong. He also has a Potty Failure at a party, knocks over a lamp and gets hurt, and gets himself arrested. |
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Paper Chase: Bluto is a member of a fraternity and encourages you to have a strong drink to prove yourself worthy of the pledge pin. | |
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One of the entries in Gravity Falls: Journal 3 tells of the Author's encounter with the "Abominable Bro-Man", a Sasquatch who dresses and acts like a stereotypical frat boy. | |
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VG Cats: Bro Gamers. | |
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Animal House: John "Bluto" Blutarsky is the Trope Codifier. Frequently drunk, and always on the lookout for mischief, he neglects his studies to the extent of receiving a grade point average of exactly 0.0. His many fratboy activities include starting a cafeteria Food Fight, spying on women students changing, and smashing someone's guitar in the middle of a song. When the dean expels him and his frat brothers, Bluto rallies them to commit one last act of mayhem at Homecoming. In the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, it's revealed that Bluto has become a Senator. And in the sequel, he is The Unseen... because he's The President of the United States. | |
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BlazBlue: Chronophantasma: Kagura Mutsuki has this as his mindset of least resistance - that is to say, give him enough time without inhibitions and he will party with a hot babe (or several) with alcohol for everyone. This usually lasts until Hibiki or Makoto find out - the former will lecture him at great length about not taking his job seriously, while the latter literally beats it into him. That he is introduced suffering from a hangover after a floozy runs out on him doesn't help his case - Noel even points out that the room "reeks of alcohol". His Fratbro personality does not in any way stop him from being a Colonel Badass, however. | |
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Hazbin Hotel: Adam, despite being the leader of the Exorcists and Biblical first man, is a walking Fratbro stereotype—being an obnoxious, vulgar, and sexist hedonist who loves to party and sleep around when he isn't mass-murdering Sinners. | |
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Rocko from Undergrads is a walking fratbro stereotype. He's big, muscular, dumb, prone to drinking copious amounts of beer and unsuccessfully propositioning everything with breasts that crosses his path, and he joined a fraternity specifically to get up to Wacky Fratboy Hijinks like in the movies. He does not let the fact that his frat otherwise consists entirely of sweater-vest-wearing preppy guys who find his antics annoying stop him, to the point that he hazes himself when his frat won't. | |
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What If…? (2021): "What If... Thor Were An Only Child?" suggests that without Loki around to inadvertently teach Thor some life lessons in responsibility, Thor would basically become one of these. He dubs himself "God of Parties" and is more concerned with drunken debauchery than studying to be the next Asgard ruler. The only thing that stops him is Jane tattling on him to his mother Frigga. | |
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Eric & Jeremy from The Amazing Race 9, who even earned themselves the nickname "The Fratboys" despite never having gone to college. They were a couple of slackers who hit on every woman they came across in an overly douchey fashion. Eric would return for All-Stars with a woman he met on Season 9. Joey & Danny in Season 20 played this in a more likable and humorous vein as theirs was more subdued and clearly done in jest. |
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Not to be outdone, Smite also released a skin for He Bo, the God of the Yellow River... into "He Bro", who turns the Chinese sage into a combination of this trope and Surfer Dude. | |
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League of Legends: Pictured above is the Champion Olaf in his alternate skin: "Brolaf". Usually, Olaf is a berserk Viking Blood Knight who is a Death Seeker and generally rage-filled. Equip the skin, and his personality goes a 180, into an immature dude who likes hot babes, chugging beers, makes Your Mom jokes, and his Battle Cry being a parody of an existing meme, being... BROMACIA!!! | |
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An episode of South Park portrays musical theatre creators Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Elton John as all being beer-swilling bros in secret. Season 19 features stereotypical frat bros who are all obsessed with enforcing Political Correctness to the extreme, with one of them being the new principal of South Park Elementary. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: They show up in the fourth season, when the gang goes to college. A group of them accidentally summon a fear demon while turning their frathouse into a haunted house. | |
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Code Monkeys features Dean, the college-aged son of Game-A-Vision's CEO Bob "Big T" Larrity, who fits the stereotype to a T. In one episode when he becomes the acting head of the company, Dean hires several of his college friends, who are members of the Alpha Sigma Sigma fraternity. | |
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Guys Being Dudes: Arlo used to dress and behave as one of these while dating Candela including casually misogynistic behavior, attempting to behave as the "ultimate cishet guy" as her boyfriend, and wearing shirts with popped collars, which he's deeply embarrassed about. | |
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Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation characterizes Xbox 360's target audience as being largely this trope, largely due to the popularity of their multiplayer shooters appealing to them. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: Ted (currently a college professor) "saves" a girl who is being hit on by a pack of these. The leader (dubbed "Boomer" by the girl, the kind of nickname a fratbro would have) tries to convince her to join them to come to a party. Ted confiscates their beer... but not their hard lemonade. The girl even laments that dumb frat guys invite her to a kegger every single week. Recurring character Brad is a Genius Ditz version of this. He's first seen hosting a wild college party (though as law students, he made everyone sign a waiver before they could "FREAKING RAGE"), his later appearances that season included a bromance with Marshall, and disappearing during Marshall's bachelor party only to reappear at the end, naked and wandering the streets. He also speaks like a bro, almost to the point of a verbal tic. |
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Kingdom of Loathing: The Frat Orcs combine traditional fantasy orcs with this trope and many other frat-boy stereotypes. For example, they drink Swiller beer and use frat paddles as weapons. | |
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Teddy Sanders and the rest of his fraternity brothers from Neighbors all fit this stereotype. The film actually serves as a Deconstructive Parody of frat boy comedies, showing the worst aspects of the immaturity displayed by Fratbro characters when surrounded by reasonable people. | |
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Initially Subverted but later Enforced in The Cabin in the Woods. Curt is introduced as a generally intelligent and sensitive character, but needing him to fit a stereotype, the Controllers begin manipulating him with drugs until he fits this trope perfectly. Forms a plot point as well: it is so out of character that it makes Marty suspicious. | |
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American Pie: Even before he went to college, Stifler fits the stereotype perfectly by being a boisterous party animal focused on partying and getting laid. It's rather telling that his Character Development in the sequel is "becoming comfortable enough with his sexuality to kiss a dude in order to have a threesome with lesbians." | |
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In Shadowrun Storytime, the player of Trout decided to not meet up with the rest of the players and wandered off to find his own job. The GM responded by introducing Terrence Jackson, an orc fratbro who is constantly drunk, constantly watching porn on his AR glasses, and wears two polo shirts with both collars popped. He's on last chance after beating up too many nerds, so instead he hires Trout, a professional killer, to beat one up for him. | |
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