History Main / GangOfHats

* Various urchin gangs in ''Guttersnipe'', including the Junior Repunchicans (a gang of young conservatives), the Skunk Tops (who all sport black and white mohawks)and the Vajazzlers (apparently an all-female roller derby based gang).

**** The Jets are made up of various white ethnicities, while the Sharks are all Puerto Ricans. Aside from that (and the fact that the Jets seem to favor jazz music while the Sharks dance to salsa), there doesn't seem to be much difference between the two gangs - which is rather the point of the play.

* ''FistOfTheNorthStar'' has a fair amount of these at large, especially in the early story arcs. More notable ones include the [[KnightTemplar Golan]] [[ArmiesAreEvil army]] and the [[BigBadassWolf Fang Clan]].

** Their rivals are the "T"s, who all have tattoos of the letter T on their faces and names that end in "ty". Considerably lamer in comparison.

* Both the [[VillainProtagonist Midnight Crew]] and the Felt of ''{{Homestuck}}'' have ''[[ThemeTable very]]'' specific themes for each group, but both gangs mainly stick to gambling motifs (card suits, slang terms for billiards and dice, etc). The Felt also all have specific abilities related to [[TimeMaster time travel or manipulation.]]

* The Hellfire Club in the {{X-Men}}. What started out as a Gentleman's club was eventually turned into the mutant version of the mafia. All of the major members of the club dress like 18th century British aristocrats and refer to each other as royalty with a chess motif.

* The gangs seen in the last book of the ''NightsDawn'' trilogy are good examples of this. Banded together to defend London from the possessed, there are Blairs (in business suits, named for Tony Blair), macho lesbians with silver eyes and some others.

** The leader was a ContinuityNod to the Joker, though. In the movie, he's replaced with the real deal.

* Witnessed in PowerRangersRPM, although, apart from the Mob that Ziggy once tried to join, they mostl;y seem like a bunch of sad sack clowns, probably Justified in that most of the world was essentially nuked in the BackStory, powerful crime sydicates just wouldnt have the support structure they need in Corinth.

* Half of the stables seen in ProfessionalWrestling. For example, WWE has had The Spirit Squad (a gang of male cheerleaders) and Demolition (whose uniform included facepaint and bondage gear), WCW had The Varsity Club (a stable built like a high-school/college sports team) and The Dungeon of Doom (filled with ridiculous, horror-movie-style gimmicks), and TNA once had The Flying Elvises (a group of SpotMonkey Elvis impersonators -- ).

** Much more disturbing is the fact that the Hell-Cat Maggie character (that girl in the film with the teeth filed into points and who would fight with iron talons tied to her fingers ?)... is almost straight TruthInTelevision. She didn't routinely bite patrons' ears off and keep them in a jar behind the bar, though. That would be [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallus_Mag Gallus Mag]]'s schtick. Older School gangstas did ''not'' fuck around.
* Alex and his droogs in ''AClockworkOrange'' wears identical outfits, including codpieces, bowlers, and canes. This is intended to be the current fashion of his lifestyle group, as evidenced by fellow patrons of the Korova Milk Bar. Billy Boy's gang wears Nazi regalia and ruffled silk dress shirts. In the films used for Alex's treatment, we see a number of other gangs wearing strange and identical uniforms.
* While not gangs ''per se'', the various racing teams in the new SpeedRacer movie all had themes(the Viking team, the snake team, the military team etc) and they even had [[NiceHat silly hats too]].

* The gangs in ''GangsOfNewYork'' show signs of this. In fact the gang name (and slang term) "plug ugly" comes from their hats. "Dead Rabbits" comes from an gaelic word that means something around the lines of "tough guy", but someone misheard it and it stuck. It's also TruthInTelevision (or literature and (later) film) -- the gangs in the novel are {{Flanderization}}s of actual gangs from the 19th Century. The Dead Rabbits would actually carry a dead rabbit on a stick when they invaded a rival gang's turf. That's how you knew they were there for blood.

* ''Twisted Toyfare Theater'' parodied this when they showed the Warriors in the modern world as Wall Street traders. The traders all unite under the leadership of Alan Greenspan, who is murdered by Gordon Gecko, who pins the crime on the Warriors. They run afoul of such groups as the Mutually Assured Destruction Fund (Communists; capitalism is "but one of the MANY positive aspects we are experiencing under Perestroika), the Bear-Stearns Stern Bears, the Voodoo Economists, the ninja Night Traders, the Closing Belles...

->'''Disco Boys''': [beats the shit out of the Mystery Men]

*** And guns.

** Except for the Straw Hats, all of the 11 Supernovas are this. [[AxCrazy Eustace Kidd]] (and [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Killer]])'s are all Heavy Metal punks, [[HollywoodVoodoo Basil Hawkins']] are mystics, [[TyrannosaurusRex X. Drake's]] are musketeers, [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Trafalgar Law's]] are all kung fu jumpsuit guys (except himself), [[InsrumentOfMurder Scratchman Apoo's]] are ChinesePeople, [[JabbaTableManners Jewelry Bonney's]] are all fat guys (except herself), [[BaseonLegs Capone Bege's]] are mafia suits and [[WingedHumanoid Urogue's]] are priests.

** Except for the Straw Hats, all of the 11 Supernovas are this. [[AxCrazy Eustace Kidd]] (and [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Killer]])'s are all Heavy Metal punks, [[HollywoodVoodoo Basil Hawkins']] are mystics, [[TyrannosaurusRex X. Drake's]] are musketeers, [[EstrogenBrigaideBait Trafalgar Law's]] are all kung fu jumpsuit guys (except himself), [[InsrumentOfMurder Scratchman Apoo's]] are ChinesePeople, [[JabbaTableManners Jewelry Bonney's]] are all fat guys (except herself), [[BaseOnLegs Capone Bege's]] are mafia suits and [[WingedHumanoids Urogue's]] are priests.