History Main / BalkanBastard

* ''[[FanFic/TheConversionBureau The Conversion Bureau: Palladium Wings]]'' has a rare Greek example in Nikolaos Drakonakos, the [[RedBaron Dragon of the Skies]]. He's vicious SkyPirate captain with a [[ItsPersonal blood feud]] against Princess Celestia. In line with this trope, the narration describes him as "a Maniot Greek, piracy and bloodshed is in his blood". In addition, the majority of crew of his ship also appear to be of Balkan descent.

* ''[[FanFic/TheConversionBureau The Conversion Bureau: Palladium Wings]]'' has a rare Greek example in Nikolaos Drakonakos, the [[RedBaron Dragon of the Skies]]. He is a vicious pirate captain with a [[ItsPersonal blood feud]] against Princess Celestia. The crew of his ship also appear to be of Balkan descent as well.

People from Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the ex-Yugoslav countries of Southeastern Europe (and their [[Ruritania]] counterparts) in fiction tend to be bloodthirsty gangsters, mercenaries, and/or war criminals. If they aren't any of those things, they'll be [[SavageSouth uncouth]], rude, [[DirtyForeigner slovenly]], thieving and/or [[SmallTownTyrant corrupt]]. They'll be absolutely ruthless, pick fights with anyone who looks at them funny, revel in chaos, and have no qualms about massacring innocent civilians. While Greece is also a part of the region, the Greeks are usually the exception to this stereotype, despite their long history of warfare.

People from Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the ex-Yugoslav countries of Southeastern Europe in fiction tend to be bloodthirsty gangsters, mercenaries, and/or war criminals. If they aren't any of those things, they'll be [[SavageSouth uncouth]], rude, [[DirtyForeigner slovenly]], thieving and/or [[SmallTownTyrant corrupt]]. They'll be absolutely ruthless, pick fights with anyone who looks at them funny, revel in chaos, and have no qualms about massacring innocent civilians. While Greece is also a part of the region, the Greeks are usually the exception to this stereotype, despite their long history of warfare.

People from Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the ex-Yugoslav countries of Southeastern Europe in fiction tend to be bloodthirsty gangsters, mercenaries, and/or war criminals. If they aren't any of those things, they'll be [[SavageSouth uncouth]], rude, [[DirtyForeigner slovenly]], thieving and/or [[CorruptHick corrupt]]. They'll be absolutely ruthless, pick fights with anyone who looks at them funny, revel in chaos, and have no qualms about massacring innocent civilians. While Greece is also a part of the region, the Greeks are usually the exception to this stereotype, despite their long history of warfare.

* ''Manga/{{Jormungand}}'' has it's "Dragon Shooter" arc set in a thinly disguised Serbia know as Republic T, with the Koko's attempting to muscle in on the arms market of a local war criminal that is an {{Expy}} of Željko Ražnatović.

* ''Anime/BlackLagoon'': "Hansel and Gretel", the "Vampire Twins", are a pair of ambiguously-aged ([[EnfanteTerrible early-teen, at their oldest]]) mercenaries that are horrifying psychopaths who torture and kill for fun, even killing their employer when he doesn't lets them "play". Their backstory involves them being orphans of the Ceaucesçu regime who were driven crazy by being forced to work in [[SnuffFilm snuff films]].

* ''Series/Numb3rs'' has a Serbian war criminal, Slobodan Radovic (Creator/MichaelKhmurov) who [[spoiler: not only stabs Don but he is also wanted for war crimes due to ethnic cleansing]], which is why [[spoiler:he was being targeted by four armed robbers, who survived him wiping out their Croatian village]].

* French action movie ''The Nest'' is about a multinational special forces team besieged inside a warehouse by Albanian mafia thugs.

* ''Literature/EncryptionStraffe'': Three of them are protagonist's employer and commanders: Dr. Prishtina, Captain Walther Volk and Major Bishop all fought in UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, not specified on whose side. Volk is actually German while the other two are Croatian.

People from Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the ex-Yugoslav countries of Southeastern Europe in fiction tend to be bloodthirsty gangsters, mercenaries, and/or war criminals. If they aren't any of those things, they'll be [[SavageSouth uncouth]], rude, [[DirtyForeigner slovenly]], thieving and/or [[CorruptHick corrupt]]. They'll be absolutely ruthless, pick fights with anyone who looks at them funny, revel in chaos, and have no qualms about massacring innocent civilians. While Greece are also a part of the region, they are usually the exception to this stereotype, despite their long history of warfare.

* ''Film/ASerbianFilm'', which features extreme TorturePorn, has been described by its director Srđan Spasojević, as an allegory for the corrupt government of Serbia, post-Cold War.

* ''Film/ASerbianFilm'', which features extreme TorturePorn, has been described by its director Srđan Spasojević, as an allegorical of the experience of the Yugoslav Wars.

* ''Film/ASerbianFilm'', which features extreme TorturePorn, has been described by its director Srđan Spasojević, as an allegorical of the experience of the Balkans War.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': The fourth book introduces the Bulgarian national quidditch team. The beaters in particular, Vulchanov and Volkov, are portrayed as rude and thuggish, yelling and swinging their bats at the referee at the slightest provocation and later even hitting players with them. One of the chasers, Dimitrov, also plays dirty, trying to knock an Irish player off her broom. WordOfGod states that Rowling based those characters on the Bulgarian football team when they made it to the 1994 World Cup 1/4 finals,who were then infamous for such behaviors.

* ''Series/{{Bones}}'', :

** In "Angelgrove", one of the initial suspects in the murder of a controversial filmmaker is an Albanian gangster (played by the same actor who played the Albanian gangster in "Enemy", in fact.)

* ''[[Series/Undercover2011 Pod Prikritie]]'' is centered around Bulgarian crime groups, which are this by default, but later an Albanian gang is introduced as even more violent. Even Ivo Andonov, one of the most ruthless mob bosses, has had it with Balkan petty brutality and wants to work with more "civilised" gangsters, like Italians.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has the J'avo, C-Virus infectees whose' name is Serbian for devil, speak Serbo-Croatian, have no problem killing civilians or taking them hostage and are the main combat force of Neo-Umbrella. The game also has a rare heroic example in Jake Muller, a BloodKnight mercenary from a fictional Serbo-Croatian speaking country known as Edonia who has the antibodies for the C-Virus in his blood due to being [[spoiler:Albert Wesker's son]].

* In the 2008 ''Film/GetSmart'' movie, part of the plot revolves around Max and Agent 99 following Kristic, a Bosnian national, and one [=CHAOS'=] top operatives, to Russia where he is running a secret nuclear weapons factory.

People from Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the ex-Yugoslav countries of Southeastern Europe in fiction tend to be bloodthirsty gangsters, mercenaries, and/or war criminals. If they aren't any of those things, they'll be [[SavageSouth uncouth]], rude, [[DirtyForeigner slovenly]], thieving and/or [[CorruptHick corrupt]]. They'll be absolutely ruthless, pick fights with anyone who looks at them funny, revel in chaos, and have no qualms about massacring innocent civilians. While Greece are also a part of the region, they to be the exception to this stereotype, despite their long history of warfare.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'', Brennan and Booth discover that a murdered girl had come from South Central Europe, and when they track down the place where she had been staying, they discover a den filled with [[SexSlave sex slaves]] who were smuggled in from Eastern Europe and the Balkan region. They soon arrest her pimp, an Albanian human trafficker.

* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': Irina Jelavic, a South Slavic [[ProfessionalKiller professional assassin]] and Class 3-E's foreign language teacher, is a rather benign example (she's not evil, just rather bitchy and temperamental) whose career began when she was orphaned and traumatized during the Yugoslav Wars.

* Irina Jelavic of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' is a [[ProfessionalKiller professional assassin]] from Serbia, whose career began when she was orphaned and traumatized during the Yugoslav Wars.

* French action movie ''Film/TheNest'' is about a multinational special forces team besieged inside a warehouse by Albanian mafia thugs.

People from Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the ex-Yugoslav countries of Southeastern Europe in fiction tend to be bloodthirsty gangsters, mercenaries and/or war criminals. They'll be absolutely ruthless, pick fights with anyone who looks at them funny, revel in chaos, and have no qualms about massacring innocent civilians. While Greece are also a part of the region, they to be the exception to this stereotype, despite their long history of warfare.

People from Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the ex-Yugoslav countries of Southern Europe in fiction tend to be bloodthirsty gangsters, mercenaries and/or war criminals. They'll be absolutely ruthless, pick fights with anyone who looks at them funny, revel in chaos, and have no qualms about massacring innocent civilians. While Greece are also a part of the region, they to be the exception to this stereotype, despite their long history of warfare.

* ''Literature:HarryPotter'': The fourth book introduces the Bulgarian national quidditch team. The beaters in particular, Vulchanov and Volkov, are portrayed as rude and thuggish, yelling and swinging their bats at the referee at the slightest provocation and later even hitting players with them. One of the chasers, Dimitrov, also plays dirty, trying to knock an Irish player off her broom. WordOfGod states that Rowling based those characters on the Bulgarian football team when they made it to the 1994 World Cup 1/4 finals,who were then infamous for such behaviors.

People from Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the ex-Yugoslav countries of Southern Europe in fiction tend to be bloodthirsty gangsters, mercenaries and/or war criminals. They'll be absolutely ruthless, pick fights with anyone who looks at them funny, revel in chaos, and have no qualms about massacring innocent civilians. While Greece are also part of the region, they to be an exception to this stereotype.