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* The ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' titles, being ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' clones [[RefugeInAudacity without shame]], follow intentionally absurd variants of the color-coding scheme for the various street gangs. From the second game on, you can even ''choose'' the Saints' hat, though their color will always be purple.
** In [[VideoGame/SaintsRow1 the first game]], the Saints go up against the Carnales (Latin-American drug and arms dealers who wear red), the Vice Kings (a mostly-black collective of pimps, gamblers, and corporate sharks who wear yellow), and the Westside Rollerz (a mostly-white gang of [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy suburban wannabe-gangstas]] who traffic in auto theft and drag racing and wear blue.)

** Maelstrom are technophiles that want to eliminate the distinctions between man and machine, and undergo extreme body augmentations.
** The Valentinos are a gang with a predominantly Latino membership.
** 6th Street are a gang of vigilantes who scream about {{Eagleland}} and the Second Amendment, and are identified by their Star-and-Stripes motif and tan tactical vests.

** The Animals are a gang that focus melee combat and use steroid cocktails to grow obscene amounts of muscles. They also tend to be {{Punch Clock Villain}}s who get hired as bouncers or muscle on other people's behalf.
** The Tyger Claws are an Asian gang that tend to use Japanese weapons and martial arts.

** The Scavengers are an East-European gang focused on kidnapping people to harvest for their cybernetics.
** Finally, there is a loose collective of mercenaries, which includes the player character V, who operate out of the Afterlife bar. They are a gang in so much that they won't find membership with any of the others since they will work with anyone if the price is right.

*** Caesar's Legion is an attempt to recreate the Roman Empire [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in post-apocalyptic America!]]]], and as such its legionnaires have made their best attampt at Roman ''lorica'' using [[ImprovisedArmor scavenged sports equipment]].

*** The tribes from ''Honest Hearts'' have this to an extent. The Dead Horses beat people up with horse-shaped clubs, while the Sorrows hunt ''[[BearsAreBadNews yao guai]]'' and use their claws as hand weapons. Meanwhile the White Legs are all about appropriative racism, being descended from a bunch of idiot tourists who thought it would be cool to survive in the post-apocalyptic world by aping a bunch of [[TheSavageIndian Savage Indian]] stereotypes, and who later adopted dreadlocks as their official hairstyle after a black guy taught them how to use machine guns.

** In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', the Saints have to face off against the Morningstar (a combination between the Mafia, pimps, and BDSM enthusiasts) who run the Steelport sex trade, the Luchadors, who are all {{Masked Luchador}}s who run drugs and casinos, and the Deckers, who are a British hacker collective that dress like CyberPunk {{goth}}s. The Saints themselves are experiencing something of an identity crisis between the hats of pop culture celebrity sellouts and badass ubercriminals.

* A literal example in the ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'' game ''Infiltrating the Airship'' with the Toppat Gang, whose members all wear top hats.

* Alex and his droogs in ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' wear 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.

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* A lot of the {{pirate}} crews of ''Manga/OnePiece'' are like this. To name just a few examples, Buggy the Clown's crew dresses like circus performers, Captain Kuro's Black Cat Pirates all wear little cat ears, and Arlong's crew consists of humanoid sea creature "fishmen" dressed like Japanese street punks.
** Except for the Straw Hats, all of the 11 Supernovas are this. [[AxCrazy Eustass Kidd]] (and [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Killer]])'s are all Heavy Metal punks, [[HollywoodVoodoo Basil Hawkins']] are mystics, X. Drake's are musketeers, [[MrFanservice Trafalgar Law's]] are all kung fu jumpsuit guys (except himself), [[InstrumentOfMurder Scratchmen Apoo's]] are Chinese people, [[JabbaTableManners Jewelry Bonney's]] are all fat guys (except herself), [[BaseOnWheels Capone Bege's]] are mafia suits and [[WingedHumanoid Urouge's]] are priests.
** The Foxy Pirates all wear identical masks, except for Foxy himself. Implicitly, this "uniform" is one of the ways Foxy keeps order among his incredibly massive (and constantly growing) crew.
** A non-pirate crew example is the Tontatta dwarf tribe of which all members - even the ones who otherwise seem fairly intelligent - have extreme gullibility as their hat.
** Of the crews belonging to one of the Four Emperors, most key members of Kaido's Animal Kingdom Pirates use [[{{Animorphism}} Zoan]] Devil Fruits, including Kaido himself.

* In ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', Yakuza groups are differentiated by hairstyle, such as All-Back and Punch Perm.

* Several guilds in ''Manga/FairyTail''. For example, Blue Pegasus consists of beautiful/flamboyant/fashion-conscious people and Quatro Cerberus of physically strong but not very bright men. Fairy Tail's Hat is not as obvious as the others to outsiders, but certainly obvious to its members: Most members are very destructive and constantly get into fights with each other. Despite that, they are probably more caring and more like a family than any other guild.
* Most of the armies during the Golden Age Saga of ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' consist of this, each having an AnimalMotif and a uniform armor that went along with it in some way. Such examples included the Black Rams, White Tigers, and Purple Rhinos. The Band of the Hawk, which our protagonists belong to, downplays this by only their leader Griffith wearing bird-themed armor and the rest only wearing insignias.
* Most gangs in ''Manga/AirGear'' have some kind of theme seen in their helmets and/or emblems(Dogs, Skeletons, etc.) One scene in the manga showed scouts for several gangs all on the two page snapshot at once, each of the dozen or so with a different helmet.

* Many of the teams in ''Manga/Eyeshield21'' have some sort of theme or gimmick: the Ojou White Knights have a knight/royalty theme, the Seibu Wild Gunmen have a cowboy theme, the Zokugaku Chameleons are literally a gang of delinquents, the Taiyo Sphinx are obsessed with ancient Egypt, and so on.
* Similarly to the example above, a lot of the opposing teams in ''Anime/InazumaEleven'', especially in season 1, revolve around one gimmick. Occult is a team of kids based on monsters, Nose is a team of kids who look and behave like animals, Mikage Sennou is a team of brainwashed kids who rely on technology, Shuuyou Meitou is a team of {{Otaku}}s, Sengoku Igajima is a team of {{ninja}}s and Zeus is a team of [[AGodAmI wannabe-gods]].
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', Ghouls that organize into gangs typically have a theme that unites them. Examples include the mysterious [[MonsterClown Clowns]], the Black Dobers (black trenchcoats and doberman masks), the Apes (white parkas and kabuki-styled ape masks), the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin White Suits]], and the {{Gas Mask|Mooks}}s.

* While most of the criminal organizations in ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' are organized along [[GenericEthnicCrimeGang ethnic/national]] lines, the [[ChurchMilitant Church of Violence]] is a group of [[BadHabits fake nuns]] who are Roanapur's top {{Arms Dealer}}s. [[spoiler: They're also a CIA front.]]

* In ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'', the [[StrawFeminist Daughters of the Amazon]] (the core group at least, there are various wannabes) take this to the extreme with ritual mastectomies. Needless to say, having a mutilated/missing breast rapidly becomes a RedRightHand in post {{Gendercide}} North America.
** Velvet's group does not do the mastectomy, with the result that outsiders often will not believe she is a "real" Amazon.
* The real life Mods and Rockers are awesomely parodied as the Originals and Dirt in the graphic novel ''The Originals''.

* The Hellfire Club in the ''ComicBook/XMen''. What started out as a gentlemen's club was eventually turned into the mutant version of TheMafia. All of the major members of the club dress like 18th century British [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocrats]] and refer to each other as royalty with a [[ChessMotifs chess motif]].

* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' has lots of these, usually serving as {{Mooks}} and background color.
** The Sweet Adelines are a gang who dress like members of a barbershop quartet.
** The Dopple Gang are shapeshifters who commit crimes as celebrities.
** The Menagerie Gang are bank robbers who wear animal-head masks.
** The Dominos are mob enforcers who wear black full-body suits adorned with dots.
** The Robber Barons commit crimes while dressed in black robes and Victorian powder wigs.
** The Skullcrushers are a high-tech group of mercenaries in skull-shaped PoweredArmor.
* ''ComicBook/Marvel2099'' actually features a murderous band of {{Elvis Impersonator}}s! There's also the Fenris, who dress like cheap Conan the Barbarian impersonators (they apparently got the idea from all the Thor worship that's sprouted up in the year 2099).
* In ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'', gangs are usually shown as typical "punks" with leather jackets and shades and the like. But one issue has a fight between two gangs dressed like 50s rockabillies and Roman soldiers respectively. The leader of the latter band even dresses like Caesar.

* Frequently played for laughs in ''ComicBook/TheGoon''. The Goon himself and his sidekick Frankie are basic blue-collar thugs from an old comic strip, engaged in a mob war with The Nameless Priest's gang of zombies, hags, and assorted other monsters, though as the story goes on, the Goon's own side acquires more and more [[MonsterMash strange monsters of their own]]. There's also Fishy Pete's gang of FishPeople who control the docks, the [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Chinatown Celestials]], the CannibalTribe of hobos, the more classic Italian-American families of the Black Hand who appear in the backstory (of whom the Goon's gang are the last remnant), and others.
* The Big Jackets in ''ComicBook/TwentyFists'' wear... big jackets.

* Name any gang from ''Film/TheWarriors''. Each seems to have a gimmick. Also notable for the sheer number that were planned: for every gang you see in the movie there's another that only made it into [[VideoGame/TheWarriors the video game]], and three or four that only existed in the scripts (all of them have names). Some of the gangs downplay this trope just by wearing similar clothes (e.g. the Orphans all wear brown jeans and green t-shirts), others, such as the Baseball Furies, take the theme to an extreme.
* The films ''1990: The Bronx Warriors'' and ''Film/Escape2000'' borrow heavily from ''The Warriors'' (along with ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork''), and take the theming even further.

* The gangs in ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' show signs of this. In fact the gang name (and slang term) "plug ugly" comes from their hats. "Dead Rabbits" comes from a 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.
** 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. Old school gangsters did ''not'' fuck around.
* Alex and his droogs in ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' wear 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 ''Film/SpeedRacer'' movie all had themes (the Viking team, the snake team, the military team, etc.) and they even had [[NiceHat silly hats too]].

* In the original ''Film/DeathRace2000'', each car has a theme that is carried over to the driver and navigator's dress and persona. The {{remake}} used ethnic prison gangs instead, due to its TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture setting.

* The Mexican, partying Rojos and the European, dignified Baxters in ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''.
* In ''Film/KillBill'', O-Ren's gang The Crazy 88 all wear identical black suits and black domino masks. The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad counts to a much lesser extent, because they appear to only follow a [[ThemeNaming theme]] in their code names. Elle Driver, however, does use a black mamba snake as a murder weapon at one point.
* In ''Film/{{Dredd}}'', the three gangs that dominated Peach Trees before the Ma-Ma Clan's takeover each had a distinctive look of its own, including one - The Judged - that dressed in improvised Judge outfits. The others were the Peyote Kings (who liked psychedelic and voodoo imagery) and the Crimson Dragons (all about Chinese dragon tattoos).
* The Cleanheads in ''Film/RedHeat'' are a gang of [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Men]] with [[BaldOfEvil Balds of Evil]].

* There a group of Black Marketeers in Film/JingleAllTheWay where everyone is either dressed as SantaClaus or one of his elves. They make several other christmas references as well, even when under duress (when the cops show up, they refer to them as [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas the Grinch]]).
* In ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'', ComicBook/TheJoker's gang appears to wear an assortment of Halloween masks and costumes, including but not limited to: a baby, a goat, an eyeball, a panda, and even a cartoony Batman.
* In ''Film/TheLastDragon'' Sho'Nuff, the "Shogun of Harlem" leads a gang with overt Japanese influences. His people wear martial arts outfits with red and black coloring, and Sho'Nuff himself wears football padding set up to resemble samurai armor.

* In Bruce Bethke's novel ''Headcrash'', the protagonist runs into a gang dressed as high school athlete stereotypes, called the Letterjocks.
* The gangs seen in the last book of ''Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy'' 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 novel ''Aiki'' by John Gilbert includes a number of gangs based around martial arts themes as well as a gang of Drag Queen Warriors.

* ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise'' parodies this with the various overly-fancy, New Wave-ish hairstyles worn by New York street gangs during the early 20th century. The book also advises anyone with henchmen to get them all matching satin jackets with a picture of your face embroidered on the back.
-->My feeling is that if it is good enough for the Joker, it should be good enough for you.
* In ''Literature/TheWitchlands'', a gang by the name of Nines marks its members by cutting off their left pinky finger (hence the name). It has the added benefit of making things easier for anyone looking for an assassin who's missing his left pinky.
* In ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'', the Bears are a biker gang where every member has a bear-themed nickname, like Ursa, Panda or Yogi.
* The Basemen in ''Literature/TheWellOfMoments'', whose code names derive from the WhosOnFirst comedy routine. Except when they show up, [[OhCrap nobody laughs]]. They're {{Blood Knight}}s who live a strange ritualized combo of baseball and a wolf pack, and specialize in tracking down paranormal objects.

--> Crowds are looting the museums for weapons . . . Stone axes, Fijian war clubs, Samurai swords, crossbows, bolos, boomerangs . . . They put on costumes to match. Militant queens snatch up krises . . . "LET'S RUN AMOK DUCKS IT'S FUN." . . . They hit the street in loincloths.\\

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has a rather literal example of this; soldiers of honourable House Stark wear noseless bascinets, soldiers of the bellicose House Baratheon wear burgonets, rich House Lannister wears fancy custom helmets based off the Japanese kabuto, ruthless House Bolton wears cabassets, the oriental House Martell wears turban helmets, sea-raiding House Greyjoy wears cottonwool caps and light sallets, and Daeneris' Unsullied Army wears zischagges.
* The PCH Bike Club from ''Series/VeronicaMars''. All Latino bikers from the wrong side of the tracks, all high schoolers (or at least high school age).
* Witnessed in ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'', although, apart from the Mob that Ziggy once tried to join, they mostly seem like a bunch of sad sack clowns. Probably [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that most of the world was essentially nuked in the BackStory; powerful crime syndicates just wouldn't have the support structure they need in Corinth.

* The various teenage tribes on the post-apocalyptic soap opera ''Series/TheTribe'' are identifiable largely by costumes and color schemes (Locos wear red and black; Demon Dogs wear silver; Mozquitos are all female and dress like dominatrices with insect masks, etc.), except for the main tribe, the Mallrats, who all wear very individualistic costumes, being a RagTagBunchOfMisfits.
* The ''original'' PlanetOfHats, Sigma Iotia in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' doesn't draw attention to it, but if you pay attention one might notice that the three gangs shown wears ''different'' kinds of hats -- Oxmyx's gang all wear fedoras, Krako's gang all wear boaters, Mirt's gang all wear bowlers.
* ''Series/TheAmazingExtraordinaryFriends'' has the Gentlemen Callers; a street gang with tailored suits and excessive personal grooming.
* In ''Series/PeakyBlinders'', the eponymous gang's hat is literal hats with razor blades sewn into the brims. They also like Savile Row suits and penny collars.
** Alfie Solomons' [[KosherNostra gang]] tend to don traditional Jewish headwear and, on occasion, prayer shawls.
** The Italian gangs - the Sabini Organization and the Changretta Family - often sport pinstripes and silk suits. Luca Changretta, upon first meeting Tommy Shelby, boasts that his own suits are nicer.
** The Billy Boys are like a ViolentGlaswegian version of the Baseball Furies: a gang of murderous fascists who go around singing Rangers F.C. chants. They're actually really scary.
** The Ulster Volunteer Force guys who show up in the second series' finale all wear matching grey suits and flatcaps, and in a later scene, matching shirt-and-suspenders outfits, apparently reasoning that their iconic black-and-tan uniforms would stand out a bit too much.
** Refreshingly, the [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Chinese gangsters]] featured in the fifth series, lead by the HistoricalDomainCharacter Brilliant Chang, do ''not'' wear conical straw hats! Chang himself, as seems to be consistent with the actual history, favours a bowler hat and fur-collared coat.

*** Middenheimers are big, mean men who wear wolf pelts to identify themselves as worshippers of Ulric, the god of wolves and winter - by custom the wearer has to have killed the wolf himself, with his bare hands. You'll also be hard-pressed to find a Middenheimer who wears a helmet, preferring BaldOfAwesome and BadassBeard.

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' when the Canadian Mafia (run by an expy of [[DastardlyWhiplash Snidely Whiplash]]) sends an 'army of sixty' to tackle the assassin Oasis...when we actually see them, they're all in identical black outfits with "ARMY OF 60" written on them.
* Both the [[VillainProtagonist Midnight Crew]] and the Felt of ''Webcomic/{{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]], and actual hats with their NumericalThemeNaming's numbers (and ball colors) on them.
* Various urchin gangs in ''Webcomic/{{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).
* In ''Webcomic/AutumnBay'', there are various street gangs in Autumn Bay (evidenced by graffiti and dialogue), each of which has a theme, credo, or other distinguishing trait. Specifically, we have heard about the Unwanted (and their motto, "give me your poor, your tired, your broken, beaten, and damned") and the Morlocks (whose turf is the Elysium subway station).

* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' usually averts this with its gangs, even in the WretchedHive Denton where the gangs are literally everywhere. The only two gangs with a real "hat" are the evangelistic KnightTemplar Prophets, who dress in priest robes and terrorize the "unfaithful", and the AxCrazy Jackals who're collectively insane enough to make ComicBook/TheJoker shit himself, and at any one time just want to cause as much mayhem and chaos as they can. They're often said to be more like animals than men.
* In Machinima/RedVsBlue, the Red and Blue armies wear, respectively... red and blue. Big shock, right? The only characters with armor colors outside of this is the medic working for both armies (who wears purple), the colorblind recruit who accidentally goes to the wrong base at first (in yellow), and the Freelancers, who are... definitely not red ''or'' blue.

* The Gangreen Gang of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''. They all have inexplicable [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation green skin]].

* Every ''{{WesternAnimation/Motorcity}}'' gang sans the Burners have some sort of unique wardrobe motif: Excepting No. 2 and obviously Cyborg Dan, all of the Duke's grunts have sharp suits and hats, evoking the mafia boss motif of the Duke, the Skylarks wear formal suits with giant numbers on the back and sunglasses, the Amazons wear brightly-colored racing suits with matching helmets, the Momma's Boys wear overalls, the Electroblades all wear hockey uniforms (no one's been seen with their mask off), and the Weekend Warriors wear standard military garb.
* The Ant Hill Mob of ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop.''
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': "The Beagle Birthday Massacre!" introduces several themed variants on the "original classic" Beagle Boys including the Glam Yankees, [[FrenchJerk the Deja Vus]], the 6th Avenue Meanies, [[AffablyEvil the 6th Avenue Friendlies]], [[RunningGag the Deja Vus]], [[MonsterClown the Tumblebums]], and [[RuleOfThree the Deja Vus]].

* Numerous teams in the World Robattle tournament in ''Medabots,'' with the most obvious example being Team Mexico, which is made up of 3 guys that look exactly the same, and only say the word "amigo."
* Many of the teams in ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' have some sort of theme or gimmick: the Ojou White Knights have a knight/royalty theme, the Seibu Wild Gunmen have a cowboy theme, the Zokugaku Chameleons are literally a gang of delinquents, the Taiyo Sphinx are obsessed with ancient Egypt, and so on.

** The Mutants in ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' are very distinctive, multicoloured clothes, bald heads, bleached (or made-up) white skin and wraparound shades (at night!)

* The films ''1990: The Bronx Warriors'' and ''[[Film/{{Escape 2000}} Escape 2000]]'' borrow heavily from ''The Warriors'' (along with ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork''), and take the theming even further.

* The Basemen in ''Literature/TheWellOfMoments'', whose code names derive from the WhosOnFirst comedy routine. Except when they show up, [[OhCrap nobody laughs]]. They're [[BloodKnight Blood Knights]] who live a strange ritualized combo of baseball and a wolf pack, and specialize in tracking down paranormal objects.

* Exaggerated in the classic ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[DoctorWhoS24E2ParadiseTowers Paradise Towers]]", in which the color of their outfits and hair is the '''only''' distinguishable difference between the Red and Blue Kangs.
* ''Series/HighAndLow'' has at least 10+ gangs, and so to help everyone keep them straight they each have a very specific aesthetic. They often take the tropes associated with their groups and turn them UpToEleven, making them quite easy to differentiate.

* The various gangs of ''{{Manhunt}}'' (the Skins, the Smileys, etc.) are a less light-hearted example.

* ''VideoGame/ThisIsThePolice2'': The Neckties are a drug-dealing gang whose hat is... really expensive, high-quality business suits. This is deconstructed when one of the Neckties turns informant because he is sick of being relegated to ironing out suits every day instead of, you know, ''drug-dealing''.

** The Straw Hats themselves are a debatable example, with "Wackiness" as their hat; granted, the world itself is kind of wacky, but judging by peoples' reactions, the Straw Hat crew manages to stand out, with pretty much every crew member a GeniusDitz on some level. They also all have an animal theme (including an actual reindeer), which extends to their ships: A sheep, a lion (lion and lamb) and a shark sub.

** Except for the Straw Hats, all of the 11 Supernovas are this. [[AxCrazy Eustass Kidd]] (and [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Killer]])'s are all Heavy Metal punks, [[HollywoodVoodoo Basil Hawkins']] are mystics, [[TyrannosaurusRex X. Drake's]] are musketeers, [[MrFanservice Trafalgar Law's]] are all kung fu jumpsuit guys (except himself), [[InstrumentOfMurder Scratchmen Apoo's]] are Chinese people, [[JabbaTableManners Jewelry Bonney's]] are all fat guys (except herself), [[BaseOnWheels Capone Bege's]] are mafia suits and [[WingedHumanoid Urouge's]] are priests.

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Gang differentiation is pretty necessary if you've got inter-gang politics. Otherwise you've just got some guys beating up some other guys. The most simple (and realistic) might be a color scheme (the blue Crips vs. the red Bloods) or lifestyle group (Mods vs Rockers), but TV and video games often take this to ridiculous lengths, dressing in totally ridiculous outfits, or only using a specific weapon.

Compare PlanetOfHats (where it's more than just criminals looking this way) and CarnivalOfKillers (where the gangsters are not working together, and might even be in open competition). Not related to GangOfCritters. Incredibly, sometimes TruthInTelevision.

'''Disco Boys''': ''[[[RealityEnsues beat the shit out of the Mystery Men]]]''

* Name any gang from ''Film/TheWarriors''. Each seems to have a gimmick. Also notable for the sheer number that were planned: for every gang you see in the movie there's another that only made it into [[VideoGame/TheWarriors the video game]], and three or four that only existed in the scripts (all of them have names). Some of the gangs downplay this trope just by wearing similar clothes (e.g. the Orphans all wear brown jeans and green t-shirts), others, such as the Furies pictured above, take the theme to an extreme.

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* Half of the stables seen in ProfessionalWrestling. For example, WWE has had The Spirit Squad (a gang of male cheerleaders) and Wrestling/{{Demolition}} (whose uniform included facepaint and bondage gear), WCW had Wrestling/TheVarsityClub (a stable built like a high-school/college sports team) and The Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom (filled with ridiculous, horror-movie-style gimmicks), and TNA once had The Flying Elvises (a group of SpotMonkey Elvis impersonators).
* The original [[Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination Nation of Domination]] in the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] was very much an aversion, as its members were a black supremacist and his protege (Faarooq and [[Wrestling/DLoBrown D'Lo Brown]]), a white biker (Crush), a Puerto Rican (Savio Vega), and two PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy rappers (PG-13). However, after they broke up and each member other than the rappers formed their own stable (The New Nation, [[FunWithAcronyms Disciples of Apocalypse]], and Los Boricuas, respectively), each of those stables fit the trope to a T.

* Wrestling/DragonGate is known for dividing its roster into stables, with unique color schemes to identify them. Most follow pretty loose themes, but significant to this trope are Tozawa-Juku (cram school students), the Deep Drunkers (alcoholic miscreants), the Florida Brothers ({{Fake American}}s), Do FIXER (a dance troupe), and the Millennials (young Mexican luchadors who are mostly [[FakeNationality Japanese]]).

** The primates (Led by Scarlemagne) theme is classical music and dress in a Victorian era aristocratic style.

*** [[TheDon Black Mask’s]] mobsters wear [[SharpDressedMan black suits]] together with [[SkullForAHead skull-shaped masks]], similar to the one of their boss. Some of them speak with distinct Italian-American "wiseguy" accents.

*** Joker's thugs wear black suits together with clown masks, much like how they looked in The Dark Knight. His elites in multiplayer take the appearance of clowns crossed with punk rockers, though they can be customized to the tastes of their players.

* Both the Autobot and Decepticon factions in the various incarnations of ''franchise/{{Transformers}}'' have fielded numerous themed squadrons, from big names like the ever-popular Dinobots to relatively obscure teams such as the Rotor Force. This was at its most common in G1 and G2, but never vanished completely.

** There are also a gang of cyborgs in one episode, and a gang of splicers ([[LegoGenetics genetically-engineered]]) in another.