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Members of a youth street-gang whose behavior usually involves various criminal activities, including drug dealing, killing members of other groups, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|vandalizing buildings by painting graffiti tags]]. May or may not commit rapes,<ref>despite the other meaning of banging gangs</ref> as usually members of youth gangs have little trouble getting girlfriends who [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|like the excitement and danger]], some of whom are in girl gangs and killing their competitors too.
Gangbangers often fill the same role as [[The Mafia]], but fit into a different archetype. Gangbangers are usually poor criminals, disorganized mobs who patrol ghettos, selling crack and getting into fights with rival gangs just for the hell of it, whereas Mafias are intelligent, very wealthy, diplomatic, and more likely to plan assassinations and ambushes than just go around getting into fights. The two can overlap, but the distinctive dress will usually make the difference clear; Mafias wear suits, ties, sunglasses and fedoras, while Gangbangers wear head bandanas, wifebeaters and torn jeans.
[[The Irish Mob]] can be either depicted as period-appropriate '''Gang-Bangers''' or as a kind of [[The Mafia|Mafia]] (though don't ever call them that), depending on time period, location, and the creator's opinions. For instance, the Irish gangs (and all the other gangs, for that matter) in ''[[Gangs of New York]]'' were the 19th-century equivalent of today's Bloods and Crips. The Irish Mob in ''[[The Departed]]'', however, was much more Mafia-like.
Mafias will typically be composed of [[The Mafia|Italians]], [[The Mafiya|Russians]] ([[Ruritania|or some other post-soviet Ethnic nationality]]), or occasionally [[The Triads and the Tongs|Chinese]] or [[Yakuza|Japanese]], whereas as the Street Gang is made up of [[Scary Black Man|Blacks]] and [[Latin Land|Hispanics]], with [[Unfortunate Implications]] all around (although American producers can be forgiven, as this is often [[Truth in Television]] for the most infamous gangs, especially since an all white gang fitting this description would almost certainly be labeled as Skinheads or something similar instead). May occasionally overlap with [[All Bikers Are Hells Angels|Biker gangs]], though they usually fall into their own category.
As a nod to the lack of precision or training, they will typically use their weapons [[Gangsta Style]]. [[White Gang-Bangers]] is what happens when the [[Unfortunate Implications]] are avoided intentionally, though often unrealistically (unless it's not America but an all-white country with white gangbangers, like Russia).
Gangs separate themselves from each other with identifiers such as [[
See [[The Yardies]] for the British equivalent and [[Japanese Delinquents]] for [[Captain Obvious|the Japanese version]].
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** Subverted in that the gangs on ''[[The Wire]]'' are highly organized (even the lower-level guys are shown to be at least competent, if not intelligent), moderately disciplined, innovative, and tend to be run either by Machiavellian businessmen taking college courses in macroeconomics (Stringer Bell) or ruthless, power-hungry sociopaths ([[Complete Monster|Marlo Stanfield]]). [[Truth in Television|Oh, and they have white gangbangers shown in Season Two]], much to the disgust of the Polish community and Nick Sobotka in particular.
* Similarly for ''[[The Shield]]''.
* The History Channel has a semi-documentary series called ''Gangland'' devoted to Gang-Bangers.
* Seriously common in ''[[Southland]]''.
* In the ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'' episode "Vatos", at first the trope seems to be being played straight, but it turns out that {{spoiler|they're really just acting that way to protect an old folks home whose residents were abandoned by the staff when the zombie apocalypse hit}}.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* CJ and his crew, as well as most of the early antagonists in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''. Grove Street Families is loosely based on Crips, Ballaz is based on Bloods, Vagos on 18th Street Gang.
** Liberty City in ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' is occupied by a few street gangs along with larger, better-organized groups.
** The Red Jacks and Purple Nines in ''[[Grand Theft Auto III]]''. Who, though being stand-ins for the Bloods and Crips, happily walked around side by side and attacked the player if he attacked one of the other gang.
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