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* Happens in ''[[Heat Guy J]]''. The head of the Wei family is ''not'' happy that Clair has been made head of the Leonelli family (One, it interferes with the Wei family's power, and two Clair is [[Ax Crazy|nucking futz]].) He tries to absorb the Leonelli family into his own, and when that fails, slights Clair (and attempts to poison him) at a luncheon/dinner. An all-out fight ensues, with great losses on both sides. Clair responds by sending a tanker truck full of napalm to the Wei family's district. {{spoiler|Daisuke stops him, though.}} (In the manga, he dispenses with the napalm and has his girlfriend build a sexy gyndroid to seduce and strangle Wei. There is also no explicit mention of an all-out [[Mob War]], though that could simply be because the manga is so short.)

* 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.

* 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''.

* 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]].

* Steven Brust's [[Dragaera|Dragaeran]]n novel ''Yendi'' is about an all-out Mob War between Vlad's organization and a neighboring Jhereg crime boss.

* In ''[[The Dresden Files|Small Favor]]'', the possibilty of a [[Mob War]] breaking out in Chicago is the ''least'' of the problems caused by the disappearance of Marcone, albeit still one of great concern to Dresden, and something which he uses to secure cooperation and a vital clue from one of Marcone's employees.

** Marcone's rise to power was caused by a power vacuum from the aftermath of a [[Mob War]].

** 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.

* ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]'' occurs to the backdrop of public unrest due to a [[Mob War]] going on between gangs controlled by Mewtwo, Ganondorf, King Dedede and Bowser. Also slightly subverted by the fact that {{spoiler|Neither Dedede or Bowser were trying to fight a war}}. {{spoiler|Ganon}} eventually brings down all the mobs, only to be killed themselves.

* Occurs in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''' "City at War" arc, with three factions--thefactions—the local branch of The Foot, The Purple Dragons, and the generically-named "Mob" -- fighting—fighting for control of the New York City underworld.