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== Anime & Manga ==
* Any protrayal of American or European street gangs in manga or anime. Examples include ''[[Banana Fish]]'', ''[[
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== Film ==
* The ''[[Spider-Man (
** The thugs he saves MJ from in the first one, just prior to the iconic upside-down kiss, seemed Hispanic, albeit pretty ''güero''.
* ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]''. There's also a [[Cosmopolitan Council]] for the organised criminals.
* Used to humorous effect in the [[So Bad It's Good]] Stephen Seagal vehicle ''Exit Wounds''. He beats up a multiethnic gang consisting of an Asian who [[I Know Karate|knows martial arts]], a Latino [[Knife Nut]], and a black guy holding his gun [[Gangsta Style]].
* The ''[[
* Several gangs from ''[[The Warriors (
* The Street Thunder gang in ''[[Assault
* ''[[Harry Brown]]''.
* ''[[
* A white supremacist gang plays an important role in ''[[American History X]].''
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[The Wire]]'' features a smattering of white drug dealers in the white neighborhoods of Baltimore, and they are mostly portrayed as posturing phoneys. "White Mike" is a higher level dealer who has contacts with the corrupt Stevedores Union.
* ''[[
* ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' had a group [[Fan Nickname|affectionately nicknamed]] the Candy Bandits. Yes, they are as lame as that implies - their modus operandi revolved around theft of candy and office supplies. There are two token minorities in the group, though.
* When a dead Hispanic girl is found in Detective Falco's apartment in ''[[Law and Order]]'', she is found to be a member of a multi-ethnic heist group. Notably, the members include an ex-skinhead, a ex-member of a Thai street gang and a ex-member (and the son of the founder of) an exclusively black gang. The details on how the diverse group got together are left unclear, but a connection is made to the black member's father's book about rehabilitation and racial unity (which turns out to be a [[Red Herring]]).
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*** In the first game, there was Los Carnales (drug runners, mostly Hispanic), the West Side Rollerz (car nuts, mostly Caucasian) and the Vice Kings (stereotypical gang bangers, African-American).
*** In the second game, there was the Brotherhood (the "dregs", mostly Caucasian), the Ronin (Japanese), and the Sons of Samedi (drug runners, mostly Haitian).
*** The Third Street Saints were the sole group whose diversity extended to the upper ranks: in the first game, there was Julius (African-American), Gat (Asian), Lin (Chinese), Troy (Caucasian) and Dex (Afro-Carribean). In the second game, there was Gat (again), Pierce (African-American), Carlos (Hispanic) and Shaundi (Caucasian), as well as whatever ethnicity was chosen for the player character from a choice of Caucasian, Asian, African-American, and Hispanic. [[Everything's Deader
* The ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series.
* The gangs of Paragon City in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' tend to be racially diverse, except The Family, which is essentially every [[The Mafia|mob boss and his cronies]] under one name, and the Tsoo, which is the [[Yakuza]] with magical tattoos.
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== Western Animation ==
* The Purple Dragons in the second ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Excellence in Broadcasting," Brian is confronted by a street gang consisting of several youths, each of them a different ethnicity.
{{quote| '''Gang Member:''' "Let's beat him up! But not because of his color, because that doesn't matter to us!"}}
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* The prison-based Aryan Brotherhood, Nazi Lowriders, Public Enemy Number 1, and similar prison gangs tend to be more this in real life than ideological white supremacists, at least in many states. The AB in California had a long-standing relationship with La Eme to sell drugs and to ally against the blacks, and NLR accepts light-skinned Latinos as members.
* Russian gopniki are mostly this. And the Russian racial minority with an attitude is actually Caucasian (as in, actual people from Caucasus, who are generally white but with darker complexion than most white people).
* Both members of [[
* Those chavs may be posers, but on occasion you get one that's a tad more psycho than usual. Watch out for that one.
* Maryland based gang Dead Man Inc. started out as a non-white supremacist prison gang for white inmates, and became a street gang as members were released.
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