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When you need a villain, look no further. All drug dealers are scum who [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer|cruise the playgrounds looking for kids (the younger the better) to sell dope to]]. If you need a [[Big Bad]], just make him the leader of the gang. Of course, most of the time he isn't an American, so you get to get two for one here.

* Also, since the eighties or nineties at least, American drug dealers are depicted as capable of terrifying, sociopathic violence, often for little cause. Well, the blacks and Latinos anyway—which is to say (in the voice of popular media), every last one of them.

=== [[Film]] ===

* ''[[Super]]'' zigzags this trope. The first thing the main character does once he becomes a Superhero is find some drug dealers and bash their heads with a wrench. At first, the media portrays him as a [[Deconstructed Trope|psychopath that's brutally assaulting people.]] Later in the movie, the fact that the people he attacked were criminals surfaces, and the media and the public [[Reconstructed Trope|start to see him as a force for justice.]]