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== [[Film]] ==
* This happens in ''[[The Godfather]]'' when Sonny decides to "go to the mattresses" after the attempt on his father's life, although there is remarkably little violence seen on-screen. The story of the mob war is told through newspaper headlines while Tessio plays on an out of tune piano.
* Disney's The Rescuers,{{context}}
* ''[[Gangs of New York]]'' - In the movie it's immigrant Irish gangs vs. native-born Americans. In the book, it's basically every immigrant group vs. every other one. One memorable passage is about a street in the Lower East Side where all the Irish immigrants lived across the street from all the English immigrants. They'd go to work, go to their various pubs, get hammered, and then spill into the street and brawl ''almost every day.''
* ''[[Romeo Must Die]]'' featured a [[The Triads and the Tongs|Chinese Mob]] and an African-American [[The Syndicate|Syndicate]] on the edge of war.
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* ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'', the first film of the [[Man With No Name Trilogy]], features this with the Baxters and the Rojos, two families vying for control in a small town.
** And the remake ''[[Last Man Standing (film)|Last Man Standing]]'' does this again, except with Italian and Irish mobs replacing them.
*** And the film which both of them are remakes of, [[Akira Kurosawa
**** Which in turn may also have been based on the [[Dashiell Hammett]] novel ''[[Red Harvest]]'': See the Literature example below.
* In ''[[Scarface]]'', mob war is part of what allows Tony Montana to rise to the top of the Miami drug trade. Later when [[Even Evil Has Standards|Tony's standards]] get in the way of him doing business with [[The Cartel]], his group gets wiped out in what is not so much a Mob War as a [[Curb Stomp Battle|Mob Curb Stomping]].
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* The title character of ''[[Lucky Number Slevin]]'' becomes the pawn of two mob bosses hostile to each other.
** The key plot element is that it is still a Mob [[Cold War]] and neither is willing to start a shooting war yet. The protagonist is useful since it can be made to look like he acted on his own and not on the orders of one of the mob bosses.
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** Keeping the Sons out of a Mob War is a recurring theme in the series. They are quite satisfied with the status quo and an open conflict with any of the other factions is likely to severely weaken the club or even destroy it. They are very good at finding out the weakness of an enemy and striking a mutually beneficial deal to avoid a war.
** The Sons were involved in a bloody Mob War years before the series began and although they won, they came out of it very weak and still feel the effects of it.
* The ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S2/E17 A Piece
== [[Music]] ==
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* ''[[The Godfather]]'' game lets us see the mob war between The Corleone family and the other mob families up close. It's pretty brutal.
* Noctis' family vs. Stella's family in ''[[Final Fantasy Versus XIII]]'', in which they compete for the Crystal that Noctis holds. There's a confirmation that there will be a major plotline battle between them, but the trailers [[Shout-Out/To Shakespeare|imply]] [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|otherwise]].
* One occurs on Nar Shaddaa in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic II]]'' near the end of its quest line, when the planet sized bounty for a Jedi is (seemingly) collected causing an end to the truce between the various families trying to collect on it. This is mostly off-screen in the original release, but you get to see some sides in open warfare on the streets with the officially endorsed (by the lead writer and the studio responsible for porting to Mac/Linux/Android/iOS and updating the PC port) restored content mod. The Hutts vs. Exchange that goes on in the background and the Serroco vs. Exchange fight you can provoke also count.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* This Troper heard a weird story from a missionary at his Church that collects blankets for homeless people in Portland, Oregon. While the missionary was busy working a local hitman came up and gave him a hat to wear to signal neutrality in gang feuds [[Hitman with a Heart|because]] [[Even Evil Has Standards|no one wanted]] to fire on charity workers, and [[Pragmatic Villainy|perhaps because]] no one wanted the extra heat and everyone knew gangsters would likely end up among the homeless when they were
* The chariot racing fans in the [[Byzantine Empire]] formed themselves into something resembling a [[The Mafia|Mafia]]. They had regular riots against each other, terrorized the populace, and at times got into politics.
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