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* NonActionGuy: Somewhat deconstructed. He was brought along into the gang at Swan's behest and was allowed to join because the fledgling Warriors was in desperate need of more members. However, his lack of physical ability means that he keeps getting put in situations where he gets beaten up. At the very least, he gets a mission where he shines in areas that require less brute strength and more deception and trickery.

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* NonActionGuy: Somewhat deconstructed. He was brought along into the gang at Swan's behest and was allowed to join because the fledgling Warriors was in desperate need of more members. However, his lack of physical ability means that he keeps getting put in situations where he gets beaten up. Exemplified during the fight with the Furies. He's too exhausted to keep running so when Ajax decides to stay with him and fight off the Furies rather than keep running, Cowboy gets knocked out in one blow. At the very least, he gets a mission where he shines in areas that require less brute strength and more deception and trickery.trickery.
** Subverted later during the fight against the Punks in the movie. He holds his own with a baseball bat on hand and even gets to be the one who knocks out their leader.
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* MisterBig: Leader of the Rogues and is clearly their shortest member.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Unlike in the movie, when Swan challenges Luther to a 1-on-1 bout, Luther actually agrees instead of calling him crazy and pulling out his revolver... at first anyway. After losing that fight, he retreats to an elevated position while calling him crazy and ''then'' starts shooting at Swan while a brawl breaks out between the other Warriors and Rogues. During the FinalBoss fight, the other Rogues will also come after Swan so that he can't just hide behind cover to avoid Luther's bullets.


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* DuelBoss: Defied in the movie but PlayedStraight in the game on single-player mode with Swan having no A.I. partner during his fight with Luther... for the first phase of that fight anyway.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the [[ShowWithinAShow Armies of the Night in-game arcade game,]] they kidnap Mercy for no given reason in the game's intro and are the main antagonists of the game.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the [[ShowWithinAShow Armies of the Night in-game arcade game,]] they kidnap Mercy for no given reason in the game's intro and are the main antagonists of the game.minigame.
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* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Due to Virgil heavily relying on molotov cocktails in the first phase of his boss fight, the warehouse they're in is engulfed in flames by the time of the third phase. This means the boss arena is surrounded by fire and burning debris [[DeathFromAbove rains down from the ceiling]] periodically.

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* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Due to Virgil heavily relying on molotov cocktails in the first phase of his boss fight, the warehouse they're in is engulfed in flames by the time of the third phase. This means the boss arena is surrounded by fire and burning debris [[DeathFromAbove [[CollapsingCeilingBoss rains down from the ceiling]] periodically.
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* ColorMotif: Orange vests.

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* ColorMotif: Orange [[RedIsHeroic Reddish-orange]] vests.



* FunctionalAddict: Perhaps uninentional but in the video game, their usage of [[FantasticDrug Flash]] in order to heal their wounds does very little to hinder them in any way shape or form despite how frequently they may have use them to survive. This in stark contrast to [[DrugsAreBad The Destroyers]] whose dependence on drugs and alcohol is shown to be outright crippling to them at times.

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* FunctionalAddict: Perhaps uninentional Probably unintentional but in the video game, their usage of [[FantasticDrug Flash]] in order to heal their wounds does very little to hinder them in any way shape or form despite how frequently they may have use them to survive. This in stark contrast to [[DrugsAreBad The Destroyers]] whose dependence on drugs and alcohol is shown to be outright crippling to them at times.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Gives a pretty damn good one to Virgil before finally burning him to death with a molotov cocktail.
-->'''Virgil''': Fuh-Fuck you copperhead. I'm the boss. You wuz nothin'... you wuz nothin' before me. Nothin'.
-->'''Cleon''': Open your eyes mothafucka, you ain't nothin' but ashes.
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* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Due to Virgil heavily relying on molotov cocktails in the first phase of his boss fight, the warehouse they're in is engulfed in flames by the time of the third phase. This means the boss arena is surrounded by fire and burning debris [[DeathFromAbove rains down from the ceiling]] periodically.


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* ClimaxBoss: The Destroyers are the Warrior's biggest rivals with their leader Virgil being a particularly personal ArchEnemy to Cleon and Virgil since it was his betrayal of them that led to them leaving the Destroyers and forming the Warriors. The fight against Virgil is a rather dramatic and climactic confrontation too being an intense three-phase boss fight that completely that concludes with his gruesome demise and the complete dismantlement of the Destroyers gang.


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* DirtyCoward: When the Warriors finally start an all-out war with The Destroyers to end them once and for all, Virgil's response to their losses is to have his top soldiers hold down the fort while he leaves to "check for supplies" in the nearby warehouse. He probably would have hid there until the Warriors relented on hunting him down if it wasn't for L.C. also being too cowardly to fight with the others and leading Cleon and Vermin right to Virgil's doorstep.
** Even during the boss fight against him, he keeps trying to avoid a straight up brawl with Cleon and Vermin. He spends the first phase on an elevated balcony tossing molotov cocktails at the Warriors. In the second phase, he tries to hide in the shadows until Cleon or Vermin walk by so he sucker punch them with either a fierce uppercut or a kick to the groin. It's not until the third phase that he's finally forced to take them on in a more standard fistfight, albeit with the warehouse burning down around them and debris raining from the ceiling.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: They're effectively the main antagonists but only for the first half of the game.


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* KillItWithFire: They're introduced throwing a molotov cocktail into the Warriors' hide-out and they seem to prefer it as a WeaponOfChoice. Fittingly enough after receiving the beating of a lifetime, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Virgil meets his end by being burned alive by one of those very same bottles]] he tried to use to kill Cleon and Vermin.
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* MusclesAreMeaningless: They're not particularly beefy-looking by any stretch of the imagination but in the game, they can still lift enemies off their feet with a bearhug strong enough to generate ''bone-snapping'' noises.

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* MusclesAreMeaningless: They're not particularly beefy-looking by any stretch of the imagination but in the game, they can still lift enemies off their feet with a bearhug strong enough to generate ''bone-snapping'' noises.a SickeningCrunch.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: While they refer to Sully by name in the game, he was never named in the original film. He's simply called "Orphan" in the credits.
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* ColorMotif: All denim, usually with lighter shades of blue.

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* ColorMotif: All denim, usually with lighter shades of blue.blue helping to contrast them with the darker colors of the Destroyers.

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* InformedAttribute: The Orphans hanging outside the clinic mention how brutal of a fighter a member named Jessie is. The man himself gets tossed out of the clinic by the doctor, before fleeing from The Warriors upon seeing how many there are. He doesn't put up much of a fight before giving up information on the boss of the Orphans and he never gets another opportunity for a real fight. Granted, in Rumble Mode he does have slightly better stats than most of the other Orphans but he's still pretty pathetic, likely meaning he's only [[NormalFishInATinyPond comparatively tough]] to Orphans.

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* ImprobableWeaponUser: In the movie, Sully threatens The Warriors by brandishing a straight razor. It's frankly rather pathetic especially since Swan's response is to blow up a nearby car with a molotov cocktail. While the game references this odd choice of weapon with one of Sully's character select quotes being threatening to show off his straight razor, he pulls out an actually dangerous-looking knife in that same scene in the game, presumably so they wouldn't have to model a straight razor just for one cutscene.
* InformedAttribute: The Orphans hanging outside the clinic mention how brutal of a fighter a member named Jessie is. The man himself gets tossed out of the clinic by the doctor, before fleeing from The Warriors upon seeing how many there are. He doesn't put up much of a fight before giving up information on the boss of the Orphans and he never gets another opportunity for a real fight. Granted, in Rumble Mode he does have slightly better stats than most of the other Orphans but he's still pretty pathetic, likely meaning he's only [[NormalFishInATinyPond comparatively tough]] compared to the other Orphans.


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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Inverted, The Orphans is a rather unimpressive name for a street gang and they're suitably the weakest, most pathetic gang that The Warriors ever encounter.
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* AntiVillain: After the murder of Cyrus with The Warriors framed for it, every gang they run into tries to hunt them as a means of retribution. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Except for The Orphans.]]

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* AntiVillain: After the murder of Cyrus with The Warriors framed for it, every gang they run into tries to hunt off them as a means of retribution. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge retribution.]] [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Except for The Orphans.]]
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* AntiVillain: After the murder of Cyrus with The Warriors framed for it, every gang they run into tries to hunt them as a means of retribution. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Except for The Orphans.]]


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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The only named gang in the game to not be invited to Cyrus' enclave. When The Warriors encounter them after the meeting, they have no idea what had transpired.
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* HeroKiller: Responsible for beating Cleon to death when the Rogues convince them that he's the one that shot and killed Cyrus. The Warriors don't seem to hold it against them since it was The Rogue's fault for deceiving them in the first place.


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* AllForNothing: The game in particular frames Cyrus as having spent at least 3 months ruminating and plotting over bringing all the gangs together to take over the city. When the time finally comes to share his grand ambitions with all of the biggest gangs around, just about everyone seems ready to support him. One gunshot later and it all comes crashing down, amounting to absolutely nothing.

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* AfroAsskicker: Virgil's a legitimately tough and unhinged fighter with a pretty prominent 'fro. Several other members of his crew have impressive afros as well.



* DarkIsEvil: All of their members wear black shirts except for Lemmy and Beansie.



* MookLieutenant: The generic Destroyer officers have distinctive cyan lines on their shirt sleeves and wear white and cyan baseball caps. Cleon himself used to wear the same shirt when he was a Destroyer.

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* MookLieutenant: The generic Destroyer officers have distinctive cyan lines on their shirt sleeves and wear white and cyan baseball caps. Cleon himself used to wear the same shirt when he was a Destroyer.Destroyer since he was Virgil's 2nd-in-command.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In the game, just about every gang leader also happens to be their gang's toughest, strongest member. The only exception to this rule is the leader of the Orphans.

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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In the game, just about every gang leader also happens to be their gang's toughest, strongest member. Even The only exception to this rule is the leader Orphans, though frankly it's not much of the Orphans.an accomplishment at all when individual members of that gang are so weak.
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* MookLieutenant: They're [[NoSell immune to getting knocked down]] and wear black baseball uniforms with white stripes. They also have the iconic yellow face paint with the left eye painted black like the one fury in the movie that knocked out Cowboy.

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* MookLieutenant: They're [[NoSell immune to getting knocked down]] and wear black baseball uniforms with white stripes. They also have the iconic yellow face paint with the left eye painted black like the one fury in the movie that knocked out Cowboy.Cowboy and then challenged Ajax in a dramatic stand-off.



* TheVoiceless: The Furies don't speak, making their first appearance very unsettling. Judging from the comic, they can talk all they want if they aren't in their paint.

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* TheVoiceless: The Furies don't speak, speak or even make that much noise when hurt, making their first appearance very unsettling. Judging from the comic, they can talk all they want if they aren't in their paint.
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* RhymesOnADime: The one member in the brightly colored longcoat that the Warriors meet in the mission "Boys in Blue" speaks entirely in rhymes after they gather enough money to pay him for information.
--> "Check it. Everybody lit for the [[BadGuyBar Red Devil]]
--> when that cop got leveled.
--> Now the streets
--> is crawlin' with the heat.
--> The sewers could get ya where ya need to go,
--> but they locked though.
--> You gonna need some cutters
--> to find yo' brothas."
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* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Their upper-ranking members like Ghost or the lieutenants prefer red and black clothes.

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->''"Can you dig it?"''



->''"Can you dig it?"''
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* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: They're an outlaw biker gang.

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* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: They're an outlaw biker gang. Even their gang name seems to be a parody of the Hell's Angels.
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* FunctionalAddict: Perhaps uninentional but in the video game, their usage of [[FantasticDrug Flash]] in order to heal their wounds does very little to hinder them in any way shape or form despite how frequently they may have use them to survive. This in stark contrast to [[DrugsAreBad The Destroyers]] whose dependence on drugs and alcohol is shown to be outright crippling to them at times.

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* BoisterousBruiser: A very skilled fighter and pretty loud about it too.



* NonActionGuy: Somewhat deconstructed. He was brought along into the gang at Swan's behest and was allowed to join because the fledgling Warriors was in desperate need of more members. However, his lack of physical ability means that he keeps getting put in situations where he gets beaten up. At the very least, he gets a mission where he shines in areas that require less brute strength and more deception and trickery.



* StealthExpert: As a scout this is one of his skills, best demonstrated during the game in one mission where he manages to stay ahead of a broad police search.

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* StealthExpert: As a scout this is one of his skills, best demonstrated during the game in one an early mission where he manages to stay ahead of a broad police search.




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* WorfEffect: One of the gang's strongest members but a group of cops manage to subdue and arrest him and Cowboy, demonstrating how threatening they are and the importance of avoiding combat with them.
** Later on in the game, Cochise finds him and Fox beaten to a bloody pulp in an alley. Snow reveals that they were jumped by the Turnbull AC's, one of the heaviest sets in the entire city.

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* AffablyEvil: He's rather friendly and amicable for a street thug.




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* WeakButSkilled: Has some decent combat skills and was initially allowed to join because The newly formed Warriors was in need of some extra muscle. However a quick look at his stats show that he's one of the weakest members of the gang and is better suited for the more subtle, dextrous tasks that call for brains rather than brawn.
** Suitably enough, he's called upon Cleon to act as the ambassador of The Warriors to reach out to The Saracens and form the connections to make both of their gangs stronger. The ensuing mission involves using more subtle, indirect methods to cripple the rival Jones' Street Boys rather than brute strength. There's also a large amount of hiding spots around the level encouraging Cowboy to take a more stealthy approach.
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* BigBad: Of the [[ShowWithinAShow Armies of the Night]] minigame, kidnapping Mercy and being fought at the end of the last level. [[spoiler:However, he's not quite the FinalBoss.]]
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* IronicNickname: One of their co-Warchiefs is a huge guy named Tiny. [[SarcasmMode Never saw that before.]]



* NonindicativeName: One of their co-Warchiefs is a huge guy named Tiny. Never saw that before.
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* StrongAndSkilled: In the game, they combine rather large health bars and [[NoSell immunity to knockdowns]] with powerful martial arts, comparable to the weaker Savage Huns. They might just be the most statistically formidable gang, which reflects their overall position in the gang scene rather nicely.

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* StrongAndSkilled: In the game, they combine rather large health bars and [[NoSell immunity to knockdowns]] with powerful martial arts, comparable to the weaker Savage Huns. They might just be the most statistically formidable gang, which reflects their [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority overall position in the gang scene scene]] rather nicely.
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* ShoutOut: Being a gang of spoiled rich kids from prominent families and having a feud with with a poorer gang is makes them very similar to The Socs from ''Literature/TheOutsiders''. Rockstar took heavy influence from the book and film for their game {{VideoGame/Bully}} so it's unlikely this was a coincidence.

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* ShoutOut: Being a gang of spoiled rich kids from prominent families and having a feud with with a poorer gang is makes them very similar to The Socs from ''Literature/TheOutsiders''. Rockstar took heavy influence from the book and film for their game {{VideoGame/Bully}} ''{{VideoGame/Bully}}'' so it's unlikely this was a coincidence.

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