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Totalitarian Gangsterism
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In a Gangster Land, there's the Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters and then there's these. These are not your Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters, where crime syndicates treat the inhabitants inside their areas with at least some respect. Instead, they are just as violent towards the civilians in their areas (and any civilian that accidentally crosses their path), treating them just like a rival crime syndicate. In many cases, they would have some form of a de-facto Police State that watches over the neighborhood (or sometimes a Secret Police), Fascists' Bed Time in the form of violent crime overnight, The Aggressive Drug Dealer-styled drug enforcement or even forced Conscription into the gangster ranks. Sometimes said Police State would overlap with State Sec, if said crime syndicate is very close to the enforcers. Professional Killers would be commonplace in the area. In more severe cases, they would become an N.G.O. Superpower, rivaling the government in military power (or even being able to overpower it). Needless to say, these types of gangs may be seen as just as bad, if not worse than police corruption. Sometimes, the civilians would either become The Informant, (minus the criminal part) or actively try to rebel against the syndicate. When the civilians do try to rebel against the gangs, if they do suppress it, then they would crush the populace or even resort to a Final Solution. If a Mob War happens around this, expect it to be a case Evil Versus Evil. See also Vice City, Caught in the Bad Part of Town and The City Narrows. Compare with Taking Over the Town, Gangster Land and Wretched Hive. Compare and Contrast Ruthless Foreign Gangsters, in which it's the Crime Syndicates outside the area that are being ruthless and N.G.O. Superpower, in which although it does mean non-governmental organizations rivaling governments, doesn't just refer to Crime Syndicates. Could be the result of an Anarcho-Tyranny, where the tyrannical government deliberately lets the gangs have their way in specific parts of the country. |
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In Batgirl (2011), the Disgraced were a gang who attempted to take over Gotham's Cherry Hill District in order to run it according to their own extreme version of law and order. | |
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The Night's Dawn Trilogy. The B-7 Security Council which secretly governs Earth also controls the organised crime groups so they can rule from above and below, and also have a pretext to deport people from their overpopulated planet by increasing the crime rate. It's mentioned that it's not the first time a government tried this strategy, but they make it work by using bitek technology to directly control the crime bosses to ensure they don't get out of line. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: Them! are a group of human traffickers who rule over a little corner of New York with fear and violence, until they try attacking Diana to get to one of their escaped victims. | |
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Blue Bloods: The Bitterman Housing Projects , from season 3's final two episodes The Bitter End and This Way Out, has been turned into a hellhole with the residents hounded and terrorized by the vicious Los Lordes Gang, led by the monstrous Santana. Things have become so bad that one young mother kills herself and her baby to escape. Following the police refusing to drop the investigation, Santana declares war on them as if they were only another gang, arranging multiple ambushes including one that kills Jamie Reagan's partner Vinny Cruz (himself a kid from the projects), and tricking a mentally ill kid into shooting and paralyzing the Mayor during a town hall meeting. With some additional witnesses flipped, the police are able to orchestrate a massive raid of the complex to flush out the Los Lordes. | |
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The Space Crime Organization Makuu in Space Sheriff Gavan are a group of space mobsters who have plundered and terrorized planets across the cosmos, with their goal being to turn the planets they invade into places filled with crime. | |
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In Hobo With a Shotgun, Hope Town is portrayed as a Wretched Hive where every manner of horrible acts run wild and free under the thumb of the Drake and his sons, a crime family who has every cop paid off to let them get away with every horrible deed imaginable in public and duly punish anyone who so much as says anything bad about them. They are so cartoonishly evil, their Establishing Character Moment involved the Drake brutally killing his own brother in broad daylight in front of civilians just to make an example out of him. | |
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Their successors in Space Sheriff Sharivan, the Space Crime Syndicate Madou, are basically The Empire and the aim of most of the crimes they commit is to aid them in their conquest of the universe. | |
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Kidou Keiji Jiban: Criminal Syndicate Bioron have more in common with a terrorist organization than a criminal organization. Most episodes see them sending out Bionoids to carry out attacks in the name of their goal of taking over Japan. | |
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The Regulators in Fallout are a vicious gang serving as the de-facto police force of the town of Adytum, manipulating the town's mayor into giving them free rein as they turn it into a slave labor camp to expropriate its industrial wealth for themselves. They even went so far as to brutally murder the mayor's son as part of a False Flag Operation against a harmless gang of survivalists called the Blades to legitimize their own authority. | |
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Black Lagoon: The criminal gangs of Roanapur rule over their Wretched Hive with an iron fist, and Hotel Moscow stands above them with their extreme ruthlessness and military-style precision (and level of firepower). Most, if not all, kinds of ruckus within city limits that merits them coming to deal with it ends with a brutal bloodbath, and in one arc where Balalaika is asked by her bosses to assist a Yakuza clan they were trying to ally with over on Japan, Balalaika finds it better (not to mention more exciting) to just kill everybody and perform a full-blown occupation. | |
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The Axe Gang in Kung Fu Hustle rule all of Shanghai and spend an awful lot of time, energy and resources to snuff out any sign of dissonance. They were able to spook the entire Shanghai Police Department and clear out the streets just to kill the Crocodile Gang (which has been reduced to just four guys and the boss' defenseless wife after the Axe Gang recruited former Crocodiles), they send an army of goons to ransack the impoverished Pig Sty Alley when two of their lowest goons fail to intimidate them, they hire two of the most deadly (and expensive) assassins in the world when three of their tenants manage to fend them off, then they break out the Beast - who was being held at a government facility for being the deadliest man on Earth - when that fails. | |
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District 13: In the walled-off crime-ridden districts of Paris, the major gangs function as de facto feudal overlords, as the government has all but given up on trying to police the area. For instance, they're perfectly capable of kidnapping the protagonist's sister from her job as a supermarket clerk with nobody batting an eye. | |
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After the kingdom of Vale was bottled and stolen by Brainiac in Hunters of Justice, Roman Torchwick and his gang took over the industrial sector of the kingdom in the fallout. He rules over the sector like a dictator, hoarding resources he gets through trade of metal for himself and his men while the average citizens under his "authority" are left to starve, gamble, or eat vermin to survive. | |
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The Santa Blanca Cartel in Ghost Recon Wildlands rule Bolivia through an autocratic Shadow Government, have turned the entire country into a narco-state, and their leader El Sueño is the undisputed leader of the nation even if he's not even the official head of state. In the bad ending, CIA agent Bowman even states that she believes that in enough time, he could take over for real as an actual dictator. | |
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The Crow: Top Dollar's crime syndicate regularly engages in arson around Detroit and has the citizens living in those buildings robbed, brutalized, and murdered on a regular basis. At a conference, he suggests that he and his fellow gangsters should just forget about actually profiting from their crimes and instead burn the entire city to the ground for shits and giggles. | |
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Blake's 7: In "Shadow", Blake tries to recruit the help of the powerful organised crime group Terra Nostra in his fight against the oppressive Terran Federation, only to discover that the Federation runs that as well. | |
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Much of the conflict in Get Jiro! centers around how International and The Farm have monopolized real estate and resources for all of the other restaurants in L.A., creating what is essentially a Protection Racket, food service being Serious Business in this world. After Jiro manages to turn their cold war into a free-for-all, one of Jiro's friends who had suffered under the rule bring the oppressed masses into a revolution against them. | |
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