History Main / GreaserDelinquents

* SkidRow 18 And life has Ricky with his friend wearing greaser jackets, then Ricky murders his friend. 18 And life got remade though Kevin Michael Lee replaces Ricky.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "Little Dude", there's a character named Ramon, AKA "Rocko" who dresses the part and even rides a motorcycle. He's a bit of a subversion since he's rather calm, polite and likes to keep himself out of trouble. Tommy quickly takes a liking to him.

Greasers were a common subculture of the 1950s and early 1960s, known for their rebellious attitude and love of Rockabilly music. Most greasers were working-class or lower-class, often coming from an Irish, Italian or Latino[[note]]This use of the word "greaser" is probably not related to the earlier use of the word in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Southwestern USA as an anti-Mexican ethnic slur.[[/note]] background. (Notice that a lot of greasers in fiction tend to have either Irish or Italian surnames, such as [[Series/HappyDays Arthur Fonzarelli]] or [[Literature/TheOutsiders Dally Winston]]. This is why.) The trend was big in the 1950s and most common in the Northeast, Midwest, Southwest, California and even parts of the upper South like in Maryland and Virginia that had sizable ethnic communities or contact with such. Many greasers formed street gangs, although the culture existed outside of gang life as well. Greasers began to fade out in the latter half of the 1960s and were pretty much gone by the mid-1970s.

* Creator/MarlonBrando plays a Greaser who's the leader of his own gang in ''Film/TheWildOne.'' Probably the most iconic film example out there.

** Floral Forte, the oldest member of the [[MagicalGirlWarrior Dazzling Divas]] group, prefers to dress like a Greaser, and this has transferred onto her "Magical Filly" outfit, which has a mix of Greaser attire and Scottish/Trottish-style clothing. Her entry notes that her outfit has led to a bit of joking between her and Blue Suede Heartstrings, who became the Dazzling Divas' patron deity and mentor figure. Personality-wise, she is also a JerkWithAHeartOfGold as typical for Greasers - she can be rather hot-tempered, confrontation, rude, and rebellious, which contrasts with the kind and motherly side she shows around her friends, and has often gotten in trouble at school for [[BullyHunter getting into fights with bullies]]. Despite this, she's a good person at heart and always tries to help others even when her own life is at risk.

* ''Webcomic/BadMachinery'': Mildred and Sonny's Granpa Joe [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20120112 was a rocker in his youth.]]

* The French "Blousons Noirs": literally "Black Jackets", urban, poor or working-class youth who had a fascination with American culture, mostly rock'n'roll and motorcycles. Caused riots in Paris in the early 1960s. In the 1980's, particularly in the Banlieue (the poor suburbs of the big cities), the culture got fragmented into a multitude of other similar subcultures, still with the greaser culture at heart. More about it can be found [[http://capsulewolf.tumblr.com/post/35482965418/loubards-sans-fards-odile-naudin-loubards-sans here]].

** Floral Forte, the oldest member of the [[MagicalGirlWarrior Dazzling Divas]] group, prefers to dress like a Greaser, and this has transferred onto her "Magical Filly" outfit, which has a mix of Greaser attire and Scottish/Trottish-style clothing. Her entry notes that her outfit has led to a bit of joking between her and Blue Suede Heartstrings, who became the Dazzling Divas' patron deity and mentor figure. Personality-wise, she is also a JerkWithAHeartOfGold as typical for Greasers - she can be rather hot-tempered, confrontation, rude, and rebellious, which contrasts with the kind and motherly side she shows around her friends, and has often gotten in trouble at school for [[BullyHunter getting into fights with bullies]].

* ''Fanfic/Codex'':

* ''Anime/SpaceDandy'', specifically the style and attitude of the main protagonist, Dandy. However, he's not a '50s delinquent, but a space captain styled like one.

** Charlotte Anglais is a kid [[PokeThePoodle who try]] to act like a greaser. He wears a Black jacket and ride a big caterpillar with Harley-Davidson handlebars for antennae. Due to his age, his idea of rebelling against authority is refusing to brush his teeth.

* Reggie is portrayed as a greaser in the ''ComicBook/ArchieComics2015'' reboot. He's a jerk, as he was in the [[ComicBook/ArchieComics original continuity]].

* A sidestory of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' features a character named Grayson "Gray" Bebop, who dresses the part and even talks using fifties slang.

* Creator/JamesDean is famous for playing Greasers. Oddly enough, his role in ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'', often considered the TropeCodifier of the portrayal of greasers in pop culture, was not a role as a greaser.
* Creator/MarlonBrando in ''Film/TheWildOne.'' Probably the most iconic film example out there.
* Mutt Williams from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''
* ''Film/SecondhandLions'' has the main characters get hassled by four greaser delinquents who don't realize they're messing with an old man who can kick their asses. [[Creator/TravisWillingham One of them]] even later plays a [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist Fire Toting Colonel Badass]]

* Greasers were of course regulars of exploitation films of the late 50s, particularly hot rod/car racing movies. They were quite different from the usual image of the greasers. Notable examples include ''Hot Rod Gang'' (who features legendary rockabilly singer and greaser idol Gene Vincent), ''Dragstrip Girl'' and ''Hot Rod Girl''.
* The Pharaohs from ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'' are a greaser gang.
* Johnny Callaway from the independent hot rod film ''Film/DeuceOfSpades'' is the quintessential greaser.
* Of course, Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptations of ''Film/TheOutsiders'' and ''Film/RumbleFish'' deal with greasers.
* Harvey Lembeck as Eric Von Zipper and his gang as a comedic take on greasers in the "Beach Party" film series.
* In ''Film/TheCarsThatAteParis'' (1974), the leader of the hoons is a stereotypical Bodgie with a ducktail, sideburns and leather jacket. As a day job, he works for the MadScientist town doctor as TheIgor.

* ''Literature/TheOutsiders'' is a novel, and later a movie, about Irish-American greasers in the Midwest during TheSixties.

* Squiggy from ''Series/LaverneAndShirley''.
* ''Series/TwinPeaks'', with its retro 50's aesthetic, has James Hurley. James, a lonesome biker outcast, has the looks with his slicked back hair, jeans and leather outfit, and he's often arrested throughout the series. In his broodiness and independence his personality he resembles, and [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous may be a reference to]] James Dean's character in ''Film/RebelWithoutACause''. Despite this, he actually gets into a lot less trouble than many other teens in the series (who sell drugs, murder people, lie to the police, etc).

* Music/ElvisPresley wasn't really a delinquent himself, but his sense of style and his music were seminal influences on greaser subculture. Well, not his dress sense so much, at least not later in his career when he became increasingly flamboyant.

* The Kings in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' are a hybrid of Greasers and {{Elvis impersonator}}s. Of course, they're generally a good group of people led by a ReasonableAuthorityFigure. There is also a raider gang actually called the Greasers inhabiting the North Vegas sewers.

* Deuce & Domino from Wrestling/{{WWE}} had this as their gimmick for quite a while.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa "Rosa"]], Krasko, a far-future time-travelling criminal up to villainy in 1950s USA, dresses and acts like a stereotypical period greaser. He also has a flash car and impersonates a mechanic as part of his plot.

* Squiggy from ''Series/LaverneAndShirley''

* ''VideoGame/MafiaII'': Greasers are the focus of the chapter "[[ShoutOut The]] [[Film/TheWildOne Wild Ones]]", where a gang of them [[SarcasmMode wisely]] decide to [[BullyingADragon pick a fight with the mafia]] and torch Vito and Joe's truck carrying a shipment of bootleg cigarettes because they were selling the cigs on "their turf" without their consent. The mobsters respond by [[DisproportionateRetribution killing their leader, trashing their bar,]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge massacring dozens of them in a shootout,]][[labelnote:*]]In all fairness to the mobsters, they were just planning to beat them up with baseball bats to teach them a lesson and were under orders not to kill anyone; it was the greasers who escalated it into a shootout.[[/labelnote]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and stealing their hot rods to compensate for the ruined shipment]].

** Billy Nolan in ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', a delinquent who doesn't hesitate to help his AlphaBitch girlfriend Chris to play a cruel prank on Carrie. [[spoiler:He later try to run her over when everything's gone to hell.]] The film adaptations tone down the specific greaser elements in favor of portraying him as more of a [[LowerClassLout white-trash burnout]], likely due to greasers being anachronistic by the late '70s or the 2000s. He still gets a CoolCar in each of the movies, though.

* Reggie is portrayed as a greaser in the ''ComicBook/ArchieComics2015'' reboot. He's a jerk, as he was in the [[Franchise/ArchieComics original continuity]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa "Rosa"]], Krasko, a far-future time-travelling criminal up to villainy in 1950s USA, dresses and acts like a stereotypical period Greaser Delinquent. He also has a flash car and impersonates a mechanic as part of his plot.

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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Rosa", Krasko, a far-future time-travelling criminal up to villainy in the 1950s USA, dresses and acts like a stereotypical period Greaser Delinquent. He also has a flash car and impersonates a mechanic as part of his plot.

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* Creator/AndrewDiceClay portrayed a DeconstructiveParody of this type of character with "The Diceman." Clay's character was meant to poke fun at how sexist, homophobic, and otherwise completely outdated such a character's way of thinking would be.

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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Rosa", Krasko, a far-future time-travelling criminal up to villainy in the 1950s USA, dresses and acts like a stereotypical period Greaser Delinquent.