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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 Ofof Thethe Action|A Piece of the Action]]" does this in satirical form.
 
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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.
 
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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 totoo old to be skillfulskilful criminals. The funny thing was that this was Portland, which is hardly 1930's1930s Shanghai. But well, things happen.
* 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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