Mob War: Difference between revisions

** 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]].

* 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.

* ''[[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.

* 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.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* 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.''

* Chicago was being torn apart by the violence between different mobs in ''[[The Untouchables]]''. (And in real life).

* 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 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.

** 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.

 

== [[Music]] ==

* [[Michael Jackson]]'s "Beat It" music video.

* 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.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* 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]].

* 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.

* 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.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

== [[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).

* 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.

 

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