All Bikers Are Hells Angels: Difference between revisions

 

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* Even in Anime, bikers are often seen as much more bark than bite. Yousuke Eguchi, hero of the old-school anime ''[[Shonan Bakusozoku]]'' has two loves, [[Real Men Wear Pink|bikes and knitting]].

* Ken Nakajima?s dad from ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' is a biker to the bone and tends to hang out with large groups of other bikers (much closer to the American version than the Japanese one). But he rides a Ducati.

* Averted... oddly, in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''. When the Devil Bats are on their [[Training from Hell|Death March across America,]] Sena gets separated and meets up with a thuggish trio of bikers. Turns out the trio are actually middle-aged adults who love Asian dramas and take a liking to Sena because he reminds them of a certain Korean film, and are more than glad to take them to where (they think) he needs to be.

 

* In ''Me and Joe Priest'', the bikers roving around [[After the End|infertile and slowly dying America]] are mostly former U.S. soldiers looking for "experiences". One of them is the narrator and co-protagonist (i.e., "Me").

* ''[[Lobo]]'' embraces this trope wholeheartedly, but in space!

* The main cast of ''[[Joe Bar Team]]'' are bikers, but definitely not Hells Angels. The opposite, in fact.

 

* In [[Manchester Lost]], the 4 Archangels form an impromptu biker gang to prevent the hordes of hell taking the world via Manchester. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

 

* The 1953 film ''[[The Wild One]]'', based on the events of the 1947 Hollister riot, is the movie credited with shaping the image of biker gangs for decades. Ironically, Marlon Brando?s character rode a Triumph, not a Harley.

* Subverted and played straight in the movie ''[[Wild Hogs]]'', where the titular group are all middle-aged urbanites who're riding to get away from their boring lives. They get into trouble with the Del Fuegos, who consider themselves "actual bikers" and are a stand-in for the Hells Angels. The makers of the movie originally planned to use the actual Hells Angels as the bad guys, but decided not to after the club protested.

{{quote|'''Edward:''' [looking around the restaurant] Money. Sex. Money. Sex. Money. Sex. [looks at heavily tattooed biker] Cat.}}

 

* Subverted in one of Clive Cussler's [[NUMA Series|Dirk Pitt]] novels, possibly ''Inca Gold'', in which Dirk and Loren run into a biker gang in Mexico, who turn out to be members of an American law firm who are on retreat.

* In ''[[Coyote Blue]]'', Calliope's ex-boyfriend is a member of a Hells Angel's-type biker group.

* [[Can YOU Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?]] allows you to meet and join up with the Hells Angels themselves.

 

* The PCHers from ''[[Veronica Mars]]''.

* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Northern Exposure]]'', where the elderly Ruth-Anne falls in with what appears to be a gang of Hells Angels, who are later revealed to be a bunch of middle-aged professionals.

* In ''[[The Straits]]'', the Montebello's main suppliers for drugs are a biker gang.

 

* The subject of the song "Leave the Biker" by Fountains of Wayne is described as a crass, unlettered thug . . . by the singer who envies him his attractive girlfriend.

* The Austrian bikers in the music video of Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" were the local chapter Hells Angels.

 

* The bikers who works as 'kidnappers for hire' in the ''[[Modesty Blaise (comic strip)|Modesty Blaise]]'' arc "Samantha and the Cherub".

 

* The ''[[Car Wars]]'' setting is [[After the End]] (sort of), when the roads are so dangerous that giant packs of bikers will group together for mutual protection.

 

* In the Lucas Arts adventure game ''[[Full Throttle]]'', the bikers mostly follow the Hells Angels variety, showing a great deal of disregard for traffic laws and personal property, and the main character is a wanted man. The Cavefish, however, are a bizarre subterranean biker cult riding crotch-rockets.

* ''[[Hitman]]'' (by Eidos Interactive)... lots of rather amusing biker stuff in ''Hitman: Contracts.'' The gang itself is Dutch, as many American biker gangs have spread their membership into Europe.

* The Vulture in ''[[StarCraft]]'' features two variants on this; in ''Starcraft'' the Vulture pilots were young, obnoxious punks with delinquent trappings, while in ''Starcraft II'' they were replaced with older, [[Danger Deadpan|more laid-back]] bikers; still trouble. They also give a nod with the "Hel's Angels", a [[Stealth Pun|group of Viking pilots]] who are [[Space Pirate|pirates]] and [[Hired Guns|mercenaries]].

 

* Subverted in ''[[Wapsi Square]]'', the young Monica encounters some bikers who turn out to be decent folks.

 

* [[Biker Babe]] Rojo and her gang in [[Ben 10]].

* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' where Dodgers justifies buying a hover-bike with Protectorate money by saying he's going to infiltrate a biker gang. The gang he chooses turns out to be a group of middle-class professionals, which he transformed into a criminal gang, and was then unable to stop.

* Averted in ''Scooby Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur.'' While the bikers are rough and rowdy when they first appear at an All-You-Can-Eat restaurant, the waitress says they won't cause any trouble unless provoked. Cue Shaggy to accidentally splatter them with food. By the end, {{spoiler|they save Mystery Inc. and other characters from a cave-in caused by the fake Phantosaur and danger-prone Daphne.}}

 

* Averted in real life by the overwhelming majority of motorcyclists who obey the law, as well as by a number of motorcycle organizations that do charity work.

** A notable example would be the "Patriot Guard," a group of riders who go to military funerals picketed by the odious [[The Fundamentalist|Fred Phelps]] and proceed to merrily picket ''him'', drowning out his group's rants with the sound of their engines.

* [[Truth in Television]] to the degree that outlaw motorcycle gangs do in fact exist and have spread across the world. Outlaw gangs are often highly active in the drug trade, well-armed, and very violent. Some of the more infamous incidents involving biker gangs include:

** The Altamont Free Concert, where Hells Angels provided security and have been blamed for agitating the crowd, which ultimately resulted in a young man drawing a gun and getting stabbed to death by an Angel.

** The [[wikipedia:Milperra massacre|Milperra massacre]] in [[Sydney]] in 1984.

** In 2006 six Canadian Bandidos and two associates were killed near Shedden, Ontario. Six other Bandidos were found guilty of the murders while a seventh testified against them. The six convicted bikers included a neo-Nazi, an ex-police officer and a black belt martial artist. The killings were an internal feud between the Toronto and Winnipeg chapters that escalated out of control, with the disarmed victims being executed one at a time.

** Rival Hells Angels and Mongols crossing paths in a Laughlin casino sparked a gunfight that left three dead.

 

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