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* ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' and ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' are often considered [[Deconstruction]]s of this trope, [[Quentin Tarantino|but they're still ridiculously cool]].
* ''[[Casino]]'', with Robert DeNiro.
* [[Guy Ritchie]] movies in general, i.e. ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'', ''[[Snatch]]'', ''[[
* ''Gomorra'' aims to avert this. It's a rather gritty view of a Camorra clan's influence in Naples.
* The [[Trope Namer]] song was used to [[Crowning Music of Awesome|great effect]] in ''[[Office Space]]'' to signify the new level of cool that Peter was operating on after the hypnosis.
* ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]'' made it look so cool to be in such a club that it was pretty much inevitable that [[wikipedia:Fight Club (film)#Cultural impact|some people started their own]].
* ''[[Public Enemies]]''—Dillinger and his squad are filthy rich, helps out the common man caught in a financial bind, can woo and bed a different woman every night if they wish, and are generally seen having the times of their lives when they're not being mowed down by the feds. Melvin Purvis, his team, and [[Complete Monster|J. Edgar Hoover]] are depicted as asexual, aloof, and mechanically devoted to the task of catching crooks, often times descending into wanton destruction of civilian property and citizens.
* There's a bit of a cottage industry in averting this trope for more serious works.
** ''[[In Bruges]]''.
** ''[[Eastern Promises]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20101222092821/http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/6113/ as thoroughly described by Amanda Marcotte here]. It's made excruciatingly clear that the gangsters' power rests on an endless heap of raped, abused and eventually murdered women. Two of the gangsters given character development are a [[Complete Monster]] and an ineffectual drunk; the one unambiguous [[Badass]] {{spoiler|turns out to be the [[Reverse Mole]]}}.
* ''[[Angels with Dirty Faces]]'': James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan; he just makes being a gangster look so cool.
** In fact, [[Typecasting|most movies]] with [[James Cagney]] qualify.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' did it at the end of [[wikipedia:Bart the Murderer|this episode]].
* This example from ''[[Freaknik:
{{quote|'''Trap Jesus:''' You think when I was nine, I wanted to trap?
'''Sweet Tea Mob:''' Uh, nope, no...
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