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** Specifically, an all-out war against the Yakuza during the Fujiyama Gangster Paridise arc. However, it is noted that potential mob conflicts solve themselves once a third party gets involved: Roberta in the ''El Baille de la Muerte'' arc and Hansel and Grettel in the Vampire Twins arc.
* In the ''[[Gungrave]]'' anime, the out-of-town Lightning organisation's attempt to take power from [[The Syndicate|Millennion]].
* ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano]]!'' has several, most notably the one between the Gandors and the Runoratas in the ''Drugs and Dominoes'' arc. Likewise, there's serious bad blood between Jacuzzi's [[Delinquents|street gang]] and the Russo mafia family set up in Chicago, and part of the reason Jaccuzi's hitched a ride on a transcontinental train to New York is to escape their interest.
* Essentially the plot of the second season of ''[[Durarara]]'', and also a part of the back story for several characters.
* Several arcs of ''Tokyo Crazy Paradise'' center on potential or actual mob wars, sometimes with [[Psycho Serum]]-fueled monsters.
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* ''[[Sin City]]'' occasionally features this, most notably with the Old Town Girls once resisting attempts from the mob to invade their turf and later striking back at [[The Mafia]] for the death of one of their own when she had been just an [[Innocent Bystander]].
* If a hero operates in a city and the series lasts more that 60 issues, this WILL be a storyline. [[Batman]] and [[Spider-Man]] have both had ''multiple'' [[Mob War|Mob Wars]] in their respective series.
** Batman's most notable was [[War Games]] which is a [[Mob War]] started by [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|his own planning used by Stephanie Brown.]] [[Spider -Man]] 's was most likely when the [[Kingpin]] was thought to be dead and all of [[New York]] was crawling over each other to replace him.
* An early ''[[Savage Dragon]]'' storyline featured a mob war among superpowered criminals.
* ''[[The Punisher]]'s'' origin came when his family was killed in a botched mob hit during one of these.
* The inspiration of the 2003 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003]]'' storyline "City At War" harks back to the one done for the original ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage (Comic Book)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage]]'' comics, concluding its run. However, here, the storyline involved splinter factions of the Foot attempting to gain supremacy in New York before Karai took over.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* This happens in ''[[The Godfather (Film)|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,
* ''[[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 (Film)|Romeo Must Die]]'' featured a [[The Triads and Thethe Tongs|Chinese Mob]] and an African-American [[The Syndicate|Syndicate]] on the edge of war.
* Chicago was being torn apart by the violence between different mobs in ''[[The Untouchables]]''. (And in real life).
* B-movie ''Hollow Point'' featured a Syndicate with [[The Mafia|Italian]], [[The Mafiya|Russian]] and [[The Triads and Thethe Tongs|Chinese]] wings that all distrusted each other and, after being pushed by the protagonists, collapsed into fighting each other.
* There are many yakuza movies dealing with [[Mob War]], some outstanding ones are Kinji Fukasaku's ''Yakuza Graveyard'' and the ''Battles Without Honor Or Humanity'' series and Takeshi Kitano's ''Sonatine''.
* ''[[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 (Filmfilm)|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|Akira Kurosawa's]] ''[[Yojimbo]]'', did it in Japan.
**** Which in turn may also have been based on the [[Dashiell Hammett]] novel ''[[Red Harvest]]'': See the Literature example below.
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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: theThe Original Series]]'' episode ''A Piece Of The Action'' does this in satirical form.
 
== [[Music]] ==
* Gang wars are a [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be Aa Gangster!|common theme of hip-hop]], and some think the massive Bloods-Crips war for Southern California may have led to the murders of Notorious B.I.G. and [[Tupac Shakur]].
* [[Michael Jackson]]'s "Beat It" music video.
** Hilariously parioded in [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s video for his "Beat It" parody, "Eat It".
* The 1974 Paper Lace song "The Night Chicago Died" is a [[Real Person Fic|fictional account]] of Al Capone's gang going to war with the Chicago police.
* The Genesis song Battle of Epping Forest, describing a London East End gang war.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate]] 2'' features a war between the local thieves' guild and an upstart guild of vampires.
* ''[[Mafia: theThe City of Lost Heaven]]'' is primarily about the mob war between Salieri and Morello families (except the last missions {{spoiler|after Morello were defeated}}).
* The plot of ''[[Def Jam Series|Def Jam: Fight For New York]]'' is about the battle between two gangs competing for control of New York's [[Fight Clubbing|illegal underground fighting circuit]].
* ''[[Max Payne (Video Gameseries)|Max Payne]]'' has the Punchinello mob and Vladimir's Russian syndicate going to war, with the title character caught in the middle of it.
* And the [[John Woo]] game ''Stranglehold'' has the Golden Kane and a Russian syndicate joining forces against Dragon Claw, an established triad, with Tequila, the main character, caught in the middle of it.
* A common plot device of most of the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games, as well as being the whole point of ''[[Saints Row]]''. Even gangs that are at war with yours won't open fire unless you attack first in most of these games, with GTA3 being the notable exception. Some of the gangs become so hostile eventually that it's nearly impossible just to drive a car through their neighborhood without having it blown up by shotgun fire.
* In ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'', the Red Dragon triad is a war with the Luminous Path triad. Rather than a eliminating one side, the objective is to encourage a peace between the two.
* Basically the point of X-rated PC game ''Daiakuji'', where the player character is a gangster who fights other gangs and the authorities for control of a weird alternate reality version of 1930s Osaka.
* In ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: From The New World'', you end up in Chicago... and the game is set in the 1920s. One of your party members is a capo in Capone's mob, while another is in love with Capone's sister. Add some dark magic and the mob war gets ''weird''.
** Oh, and said capo is also a [[Mega Neko]]. [[Widget Series|Yeah]].
* Recurrent in the ''[[Way of the Samurai]]'' series.
* ''[[The Godfather (Film)|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/To Shakespeare|imply]] [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|otherwise]].
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' with a conflict between [[The Mafia]] (who are backing Marge's pretzel making business) and the [[Yakuza]] (who are hired by the other ladies in town).
* One of the "Goodfeathers" bits on ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' did a spoof of [[West Side Story]].
* Occurs in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''' "City at War" arc, with three factions--the local branch of The Foot, The Purple Dragons, and the generically-named "Mob" -- fighting for control of the New York City underworld.
* Occurs in the ''[[Gargoyles]]'' episode "Turf", between crime groups led by Tony Dracon and Tomas Brod, as both groups fight for control of the New York City underworld.
* Occurs in ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'''s "Criminology 101" arc, with characters such as Silvermane and his daughter [[Silver Sable]], Doctor Octopus, and Roderick Kingsley (the latter only in the first episode of the arc) fighting The Big Man for control of... well, you can probably guess.
** A much smaller scale version appeared in the second season of ''[[Spider -Man: theThe Animated Series]]''. Here, the aged Silvermane thought the Kingpin was weak (for failing to eliminate Spider-Man, natch) and not fit for his position. The two sides were determined to dispose of the other, though their conflict didn't engulf the whole city.
 
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