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In reaction to the mainstream stereotype (justified or not is beside the point) that most members of "street gangs" are black or non-white Latino, TV shows aimed at children sometimes go to great lengths to depict gangs as consisting mostly of other ethnic groups, or at least as an evil Five-Token Band. They may or may not be Pretty Fly for a White Guy or White Hair, Black Heart. This trope is to be expected in areas that are mostly white to begin with. It is important to point out that in some places and/or time periods this very much can be accurate. The cores of American cities, where such organized crime tends to take place, are only majority black and latino because of a phenomenon known as "white flight". This was a social phenomenon that occurred unevenly and didn't effect every European ethnic group: notably, it often excluded non-Christians. Many Suburban neighborhood covenants did not merely target black people but also practically everyone who wasn't of British descent and Protestant. This left significant white minorities in many cities. All young men inhabiting the neglected core of a city are highly likely to turn to organized crime, regardless of race. While in some places the gangs are almost always segregated by race, in other places they aren't at all: this kind of depends on what the relationships look like between the particular European ethnic group and the black residents. Compare Equal-Opportunity Evil. This trope is different to some degree because breaking the law is not in itself morally wrong, and gangs are not necessarily any more brutal than the police or indeed the businessmen they might prey on (i.e. they are not necessarily "evil" in comparison to any other character in the work). The gang might be cruder, perhaps more violent and up-front in their brutality, but might not actually be worse. Sometimes the gang might actually be the more principled party: if a Friendly Neighborhood Gangster is matched up with a Killer Cop, or a Magnificent Bastard of a corporate executive (in which case the gangsters might be the closest thing in the work to a "good guy"). |
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Any portrayal of American or European street gangs in manga or anime. Examples include Banana Fish, Fake, and Gunsmith Cats. Any work portraying Asian gangs will sometimes also show them interacting with The Mafia, though rarely with common street thugs. | |
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The Insane C-Notes are a gang comprised mostly of Italian-Americans and was founded in 1952 as a recruitment farm for The Mafia in Chicago. Originally membership was exclusive to Italians and those of Italian descent, but in the early 1970s, they opened up recruitment to anyone who was white and lived in the areas that the C-Notes claimed as their turf. In 1995, they joined the Folk Nation gang alliance because the power of the gang's Mafia benefactors were waning rapidly. In 2000, the C-Notes opened up recruitment to Latinos and Asian-Americans, making them a case of Equal-Opportunity Evil like the Harrison Gents two decades earlier. | |
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CSI: NY had the Tanglewood Boys, white guys from Staten Island. | |
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RoboCop (1987), which takes place in Detroit 20 Minutes into the Future has only a few black criminals amongst the dozens shown. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) The Purple Dragons consists of white, black, and asian members, by the second season they upgrade into The Syndicate. One episode reveals that there is another street gang called "Turks", and have white and black members within their ranks. |
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Grand Theft Auto V One of the gangs present in Los Santos is the aptly named Rednecks, they are commonly found at the Los Santos countryside. If you hang out with Michael's son Jimmy as Franklin, he tries to talk gang lingo at Franklin, who just chuckles at him. And in the mission Hood Safari, Trevor tags along with Franklin and Lamar for a drug buy, and also insinuates that he now considers himself a member of CGF, and if the player ends the mission playing as Trevor with Lamar as company, Trevor keeps asking about membership in the gang. Of the gangs found in Grand Theft Auto Online, the Hippies appear to be all white, and the clown faced Fooligans seem to be primarely white. There are also The Armenian Mob. Meanwhile, the Lost MC is multiracial, which is a departure from how most real life outlaw motorcycle clubs tend to operate. |
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ANNO: Mutationem: The Factio Pugni are the primary criminal element plaguing Noctis City and other nearby settlements, and they don't seem particularly choosy about who joins them, being a multiracial gang. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: While Frylock is obviously black, and Meatwad some odd mix that leans towards his interest in certain cultures and his speech being peppered particularly with aave, Shake is decidedly White, and still makes a rap album and defualts to black celebrities when attempting to impersonate them. | |
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The Spider-Man Trilogy films didn't have a non-white street thug until halfway through the second movie. | |
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In Shaman's Tears #6, a gang consisting of two whites and a black attempts to mug Joshua Brand in a Mugging the Monster moment. | |
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Much of all of the gangs in Saints Row, though membership in these seems to be more a factor of the part of the city one is from than ethnic heritage. Despite the Mooks being diverse, the gangs tended to make up of certain groups: In the first game, there was Los Carnales (drug runners, mostly Hispanic), the West Side Rollerz (car nuts, mostly white), and the Vice Kings (stereotypical gang bangers, African-American). In the second game, there was the Brotherhood (the "dregs", mostly white), the Ronin (Japanese), and the Sons of Samedi (drug runners, mostly Haitian). Of course, this was primarily the ethnicity of the leadership: all three gangs had a lot of white members simply because that was who they could readily recruit in Stilwater. The Third Street Saints were the sole group whose diversity extended to the upper ranks: in the first game, there was Julius (African-American), Gat (Korean), Lin (Chinese), Troy (White), and Dex (Afro-Caribbean). In the second game, there was Gat (again), Pierce (African-American), Carlos (Hispanic), and Shaundi (White), as well as whatever ethnicity was chosen for the player character from a choice of White, Asian, African-American, and Hispanic. Or zombie. In The Third, however, most of your new recruits are white, with the exceptions of Zimos (African-American) and Angel (Hispanic). And of course the last game features Asha (British-Indian), Keith David (African-American), CID (an alien whose consciousness was uploaded to a robotic orb) and Zinjai (alien). Finally, Jezebel (demon) is added in Gat out of Hell. Diversity, bitches. |
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In the first episode of GLOW (2017) ruth gets swarmed and mugged by a gang of white teenagers on skateboards who identify themselves as "Los Angels Death Squad" | |
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Riverdale has the Serpents, who are modeled after biker gangs and are mostly white. | |
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Robin: Tim's informant, only known as Killa Nilla. | |
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In Death Sentence, the protagonist (Kevin Bacon) battles a gang of white criminals who murdered his son as an initiation ritual. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories has the Sharks/Street Wannabees and Marty's Gang/Trailer Park Mafia, the former consisting of both white and black members while the latter are made up exclusively of white rednecks. Vice City is perhaps the only region that feature white gangs (Liberty City's white gangs are The Mafia who are more of an organized crime than street toughs). Grand Theft Auto V One of the gangs present in Los Santos is the aptly named Rednecks, they are commonly found at the Los Santos countryside. If you hang out with Michael's son Jimmy as Franklin, he tries to talk gang lingo at Franklin, who just chuckles at him. And in the mission Hood Safari, Trevor tags along with Franklin and Lamar for a drug buy, and also insinuates that he now considers himself a member of CGF, and if the player ends the mission playing as Trevor with Lamar as company, Trevor keeps asking about membership in the gang. Of the gangs found in Grand Theft Auto Online, the Hippies appear to be all white, and the clown faced Fooligans seem to be primarely white. There are also The Armenian Mob. Meanwhile, the Lost MC is multiracial, which is a departure from how most real life outlaw motorcycle clubs tend to operate. |
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For a period of time, the black power stable The Nation of Domination had a pair of white gangbanger hangers-on in PG13 (JC Ice and Wolfie D). Heck, while there were several black 'affiliates' (one of whom, D'Lo Brown, did eventually become/emerge as an actual wrestler), for the first third of the NOD's existence the only black man who actually wrestled for the group was the leader, Faarooq: the other main wrestlers were a white man and a Puerto Rican. | |
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In ads for the 2005 Royal Rumble, WWE played on the double meaning of the word "rumble" by riffing on West Side Story (1961), with the Raw Superstars as the Jets and the ones from SmackDown as the Sharks. This was probably because at that time, SmackDown featured almost all the promotion's Latino talent: Eddie Guerrero and his nephew Chavo, Rey Mysterio Jr., and Carlito Caribbean Cool (who actually was Puerto Rican). However, the Raw gang, while mostly white, did include Batista (half-Asian, half-white), so WWE obviously weren't trying to be too literal. | |
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In Collateral, Max (Jamie Foxx), a black Los Angeles taxi driver, is robbed by a gang of four white street criminals. | |
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The Dark Knight. There's also a Cosmopolitan Council for the organised criminals. It should be noted that the gangs tend to self-segregate when not meeting together. Sal Maroni and the Chechen seem to be pretty tight and close together (even seen having lunch together when Gordon rounds them up after Lau's capture), but Gambol and his black associates tend to keep to themselves. They do all rely on Lau, a Chinese accountant, to handle laundering. It should also be pointed out this is a sign of their desperation, all the gangs are suffering and they have to team up in order to focus on their new enemy: the Batman, but also to an extent, they also have enemies in the form of Harvey Dent and the Joker — Dent for putting their launderers out of business, and the Joker dislikes the mob's interests in money (he kills one of Gambol's guys with a disappearing pencil, later kills Gambol, and also burns Lau and the mob's money). |
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Al Snow was a self-proclaimed example on WWE's Sunday Night Heat. Chuck Palumbo was more of one who let his actions do the talking, though Chuck had more of a "biker" gimmick when he moved back to Smackdown. | |
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Nearly much of everyone in Gangs of New York, the main conflict is between the Anglo-Protestant Natives and Irish Catholic Dead Rabbits, with only one Token Black between them. | |
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The Kid, a character in Tomb Raider: Anniversary, has his background showing that he ran a small-time gang before being hired by Natla. His dialect in the cut scenes and quick time events are filled with gangbanger vibe. In the original his gimmick was that he was a skateboarder. | |
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Spider-Man (Insomniac): The Maggia, while technically a mafia themselves, they are distinct from mobsters loyal to Hammerhead as they wear the same outfit as common criminals, but without their ski-masks, giving them a gangbanger-esque look. | |
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Killing Floor: Kevo the Chav is more of a delinquent than a gangster, but he's still as competent as the other player characters, to his surprise as much as anybody else. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories has the Sharks/Street Wannabees and Marty's Gang/Trailer Park Mafia, the former consisting of both white and black members while the latter are made up exclusively of white rednecks. Vice City is perhaps the only region that feature white gangs (Liberty City's white gangs are The Mafia who are more of an organized crime than street toughs). | |
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In Batman: Gotham City Evolution, the five main criminal syndicates operating in Gotham were identified as the Italians, the blacks, the Columbians, the Chinese, and the Russians. The Cosmopolitan Council from The Dark Knight (see Film below) was probably based on this comic. | |
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In the first game, there was Los Carnales (drug runners, mostly Hispanic), the West Side Rollerz (car nuts, mostly white), and the Vice Kings (stereotypical gang bangers, African-American). | |
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In the second game, there was the Brotherhood (the "dregs", mostly white), the Ronin (Japanese), and the Sons of Samedi (drug runners, mostly Haitian). Of course, this was primarily the ethnicity of the leadership: all three gangs had a lot of white members simply because that was who they could readily recruit in Stilwater. | |
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Degrassi: The Next Generation had a group whose modus operandi revolved around theft of candy and office supplies. There are two token minorities in the group, though. | |
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On the other hand, 8 Mile depicts a Detroit where a few poor whites hang around in black gangs. The whites are depicted as almost culturally black, though, so it's hard to determine if this trope is being evoked. | |
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In The Allen And Craig Show, Episode 12, the cameraman (nameless, referred to as "camera guy") is kidnapped by two white thugsters with their eyes on the camera and "a guy to hold it". | |
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Pest is the only white member of the street gang in Attack the Block. | |
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When a dead Hispanic girl is found in Detective Falco's apartment in Law & Order, she is found to be a member of a multi-ethnic heist group. Notably, the members include an ex-skinhead, an ex-member of a Thai street gang, and an ex-member (and the son of the founder) of an exclusively black gang. The details on how the diverse group got together are left unclear, but a connection is made to the black member's father's book about rehabilitation and racial unity (which turns out to be a Red Herring). | |
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In Batman: The Animated Series, nearly all of the regular criminals and gangsters seen in Gotham are white. Justified by the '50s aesthetics and general Retro Universe nature of the setting, which would be ruined by too prominent representation by ethnic criminals. However, both of the major mob bosses (Arnold Stromwell and Rupert Thorne) have Anglo-Saxon names, which would be a little weird even in a Roaring Twenties/Great Depression-era storyline. The tie-in movie Mask of the Phantasm adds mobsters with Italian and Jewish names like Sal Valestra and Chuckie Sol. | |
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In Shortcut to Happiness, Stone is mugged by a multiracial gang that includes at least one very prominent white member. | |
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The Boondocks: Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy are a duo of scheming frat boys who, despite coming from wealthy WASP families, talk and act like stereotypical inner-city street thugs, participating in assassinations, drug trafficking, kidnappings, burglaries, armed robberies, and even terrorism either out of boredom or in servitude to Ed III's Corrupt Corporate Executive grandfather. In the fourth season, Ed Wuncler Jr. splits the difference between his fatcat capitalist father and wannabe-gangsta son by acting like a stereotypical "made man", making him another rare case of an Anglo-Saxon mafioso. |
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The Street Thunder gang in Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) is multiracial, and its most coldblooded member - the one who shoots a little girl in the chest point-blank - is a white guy. The multi-ethnicity is noted since most street gangs in real life often consist of one race. | |
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Gender-based version in Preacher: While instructing a counter-terrorism unit, Starr tells them to shoot the women first — if they managed to be accepted as a fellow soldier by her squadmates it's because she's more dangerous than all the others. | |
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In Ms. 45, a multiracial gang attempts to attack Thana in the park. This ends badly for them. | |
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In Hard Target, the gang that attempts to rob and rape Nat outside the diner is predominantly white, with a single black member. | |
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Pretty common in Shadowrun since gangs tend to be divided up by metatype rather than race- an ork gang cares that you're an ork, not whether you're a white or a black ork (and if you're an ork you're more likely to be green anyway). Likewise, a go-gang like the Halloweeners tends to care more about whether or not you're good with a motorcycle rather than your skin color. There are some gangs that are organized by race, but they're rarer. | |
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The Wire: The show features a smattering of white drug dealers in Baltimore's white neighborhoods, and they are mostly portrayed as posturing phoneys, leading to Herc jokingly suggesting to Kima at one point that white gangbangers need their own version of Affirmative Action. Compared to the difficulties the police have to deal with trying to bust professional, elaborate, and deeply paranoid groups like the Barksdale Organization or Marlo Stanfield's crew, the white dealers are a walk in the park for them. About the only white Baltimore drug dealer who isn't shown as a complete wannabe is Mike McCardle, AKA "White Mike", a higher-level dealer who has contacts with both The Greeks and the corrupt Stevedores Union. |
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Criminal Minds had an episode where a serial killer was slaying the members of a street gang in Los Angeles. One would assume they were Latinos because of the setting. They even 'looked' Latino. When the gang's leader was named, though, his name was Glen Hill. | |
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Also, some of the gangs from Jet Set Radio. Poison Jam are a good example, and they also worked for an Asian boss for a while. The main characters are a mix of ethnicities, including White, Black, Japanese, and possibly other kinds of Asian (Beat is Korean, at least according to a popular Fanon theory). | |
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Several gangs from The Warriors. The eponymous gang is mixed and gets a white leader early in the film. The director intended for The Warriors to be all Black/Hispanic, but Executive Meddling made most of the members White. | |
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Used to humorous effect in the Stephen Seagal vehicle Exit Wounds. He beats up a multiethnic gang consisting of an Asian who knows martial arts, a Latino with a knife, and a black guy holding his gun Gangsta Style. | |
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Of the gangs found in Grand Theft Auto Online, the Hippies appear to be all white, and the clown faced Fooligans seem to be primarely white. There are also The Armenian Mob. Meanwhile, the Lost MC is multiracial, which is a departure from how most real life outlaw motorcycle clubs tend to operate. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The criminal element, usually vampires, is rarely black - but then, almost nobody in Sunnydale is black, as Mr. Trick points out. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Excellence in Broadcasting" Brian is confronted by a street gang consisting of several youths, each of them a different ethnicity. | |
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Cyberpunk 2077: The Scavengers' members are composed of stereotypical Russian Gopniks dressed in tracksuits. Played With as they also include some disturbing holographic smiley face masks. | |
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The Jets gang from West Side Story. There's some Values Dissonance at work (the play is set in the late '50s), as the Jets are a gang made of Polish, Italian, and Irish-Americans who, while considered white by that point, were still targeted by Anglo-Americans at the time partly because most of them were Catholics. The Sharks, on the other hand, are Puerto Rican. Amusingly, though, theatrical groups will often cast a Latino as a Jet or a white man as a Shark if they have too many actors from one of those groups. One of the Shark girls, Consuela, is sometimes portrayed by a blonde actress. In The Film Ofthe Play, a couple of the Puerto Rican Jets are played by African-American actors. This makes some sense, as Puerto Rico has an Afro-Caribbean minority. In the script of the play, The Jets' Noo Yawk accents are carefully rendered phonetically, while the Puerto Rican Sharks, most of whom are fairly new to the United States and generally portrayed with accents, are written in standard English (except for the occasional Spanish word.). |
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The gangs of Paragon City in City of Heroes tend to be racially diverse, except The Family, which is essentially every mob boss and his cronies under one name, and the Tsoo, which is the Yakuza (except ethnically Hmong, not Japanese) with magical tattoos. | |
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