Brooklyn Rage: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"Well, there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to ''try'' to invade."''|'''Rick Blaine''', ''[[Casablanca]]''}}

 

Compare [[Violent Glaswegian]] and [[Southies]]. ([[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|Place your bets now!]]) Contrast [[Minnesota Nice]].

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== Anime & Manga ==

* Liz and Patti from ''[[Soul Eater]]'' are from Brooklyn. Living Weapons and criminals, before they chose a [[Mugging the Monster|very]] [[Physical God|inappropriate]] [[The Grim Reaper|target]] and their lives took a turn for the better.

 

 

== Comic Books ==

* The Captain from ''[[Nextwave]]'' was a random drunken thug from Brooklyn until [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] decided he was [[The Chosen One]] and gave him superpowers. He's your hero!

* The phenomenon apparently crosses species barriers, because Dex-Starr the [[Ax Crazy|Red]] [[Green Lantern|Lantern]] is from Brooklyn. He's a cat.

* ''[[The Punisher]]''. While some men might seek vengeance on those who killed their family, Frank Castle doesn't settle that low. He wants to kill '''every criminal. Every single one.'''

 

 

== Film ==

* Tommy De Vito from ''[[Goodfellas]]'', which takes place in Queens.

* ''[[My Cousin Vinny]]'': Vinny is mocked by some local guys, and then they do it at the wrong time.

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* For some historical roots to this trope, Scorsese's ''[[Gangs of New York]]'' explores the violent gang culture of lower-class mid 19th century New York. Ok, that sounds like a documentary: also has visceral brawls, sex scenes and Daniel Day-Lewis being scary as all get out.

* Spot Conlon from ''[[Newsies]]''. He's the one in charge of every newspaper boy in Brooklyn, so you could almost call it Justified. Almost.

* The ''entire plot'' of ''[[Ghostbusters|Ghostbusters 2]]'' is about an evil spirit channeling New Yorkers' negative emotions, rage obviously being one of them. Futhermore, the Mayor claims that: "Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right." The film then plays on this trope when the Ghostbusters manage to ''weaponize'' New Yorker goodwill and patriotism by {{spoiler|turning Lady Liberty into a [[Humongous Mecha]].}}

* Buggin' Out from ''[[Do the Right Thing]].''

* ''Knockaround Guys'' gives us Taylor Reese, played by [[Vin Diesel]]. Witness his [[World of Cardboard Speech]] before [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|beating the everliving shit]] out of the toughest man in a small Midwest town:

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Leningrad Cowboys Go America]]''.

* The [[Blaxploitation]] classic ''[[Shaft]]'' focuses on a New York private eye who initiates a one-man battle against Da Mob in Harlem. The remake dials it [[Up to Eleven]] by casting Samuel L. Motherfu(shut your mouth!) Jackson as the detective.

* The wiseguy Irish private in ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' is from Brooklyn.

* In ''[[The French Connection]]'', the French heroin ring is running all smooth and flawless, until a couple of NYPD narcs decide to wreck their shit.

* In ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]'', the female leads assures her editor that she's tough enough to handle the Australian Outback because she's a New Yorker. It's subverted in that she's pretty helpless without Mick, while in comparison, Mick is a lot tougher than the local New York riff-raff.

* Bruce Willis (again) as [[Hudson Hawk]]. Let's see: accent, check; wise-ass, especially in the wrong situation, check; good in a fist fight, check; good in a GUN fight, check; simply won't stay down (without a goodly sized tranq dart in the neck anyway), check; just wants to be done with all this crazy crap and have a damn cup of coffee, double-check.

* Sergeant Siegle in the 1955 film ''Conquest of Space'', produced by George Pal.

* In the novel ''The Fall of a Nation'' by Thomas Dixon (author of ''The Klansman'', aka ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]''), the combined European armies (save neutral Britain) invade America. New York City turns out to be somewhat more difficult to take than anticipated, not just because the NYPD fights to the last man, but all the immigrant neighborhoods are adamantly opposed to the invaders. They left Europe for a ''reason''.

* In ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'', the last book: "You don't mess with New Yorkers."

 

 

* Referenced in the [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] short in which an angel and a devil argue over a bread delivery guy. Said deliveryman tells of his wayward days of being a bad deliveryman, where it is riffed "I had a Brooklyn accent and a different poissenality!"

** In ''[[Quest of the Delta Knights]]'', the skits portray Leonardi da Vinci like this.

* Many different characters on ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'', particularly [[Al Capone]].

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

** In the anniversary edition, Scott Adams explained that people from Los Angeles fear New Yorkers.

 

 

== Video Games ==

*** Luis Lopez is from Northwood (Washington Heights) and definitely has a tendency towards homicidal rage.

 

== Web Original ==

 

 

* One of [[Mel Blanc]]'s stock voices on [[The Jack Benny Program]] was an angry man with a Brooklyn accent who thinks Jack has slighted in some way.

** An even better example is Mel's [[Bugs Bunny]] voice, which [[Word of God|he described]] as the voice of a tough, street-smart guy that was mixed together from Brooklyn and Bronx accents. Of course, Bugs only displays elements of this trope when somebody does something to earn his wrath.

* The Gashouse Gorillas from the [[Bugs Bunny]] short ''Baseball Bugs'', even though they're a parody of the St. Louis Cardinals.

* [[The Simpsons]]: Homer met a lot of them in two different visits to New York in the episode: "Homer Simpson vs. The City of New York".

** Not to mention Raphael is usually this trope incarnate, aside from the 80's series.

** Casey Jones too.

* An episode of ''The Twisted Tales Of [[Felix the Cat]]'' featured a flood devastating New York. When the flood reaches Brooklyn, the residents ''beat it back''.

 

== Real Life ==

* Inverted with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6Tn0Ie-AQ this bawling Giants fan], played straight by everyone else, from the girl that stands behind him signaling that he's a pussy, to the girl arguing with him to calm down and accept it, and especially with his friend that pops in during the last ten seconds.

* Averted in the section of Brooklyn known as Williamsburg which was gentrified by starving artists, making it friendly for trendy people who like to pretend to be starving artists but actually have a lot of cash and made it one of the nicer, more upscale sections of the entire city. If someone says boldly "I'm from Brooklyn!" and then asked which part, they will usually much more sheepishly and quietly remark "Williamsburg..." and be immediately marked as as a posing hipster attempting to be streetwise. Feel free to insult their choice of berets and show them a newer iPad then their's and send them into a deep, deep depression.

* Larry Merchant, longtime sportswriter and boxing analyst. In 2011 at age 80 he did a postfight interview with [[It's All About Me|Floyd]] [[The Fighting Narcissist|Mayweather]] about the controversial ending to a Mayweather fight where Mayweather twice sucker punched an opponent. Mayweather began cursing at Merchant an calling him, in essence, a [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]], while Merchant merely responded by growling "I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass."

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