History Main / LowerClassLout

This trope deals with the various varieties of lout, hooligan, and delinquent that appear in various media. While these stereotypes are TruthInTelevision to some degree, it's debatable whether the stereotype comes from RealLife, or said real-life examples are [[MisaimedFandom imitating the stereotype]]. A typical Lower-Class Lout is a teenager or young adult (with the occasional EnfantTerrible) who embodies [[WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons the worst stereotypes of the working class]] (or middle class). One UpToEleven variant of this type would be the [[BlackShirt the Brownshirts]] of the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Party]] ''Sturmabteilungen'' (SA), who were recruited from the lower layers of German working classes and who were used to terrorize the political opponents.

* CorruptHick

Younger examples are almost always TheBully. Because of the class-based origins of the stereotype, expect the moral of any story they appear in to lean towards EatTheRich or KillThePoor. Contrast the UpperClassTwit, TheUpperCrass, and AristocratsAreEvil (for when the rich are vilified), WickedCultured, and WorkingClassHero. NouveauRiche often overlaps with this when their financial situation changes for the better but their behavior doesn't. See also: FootballHooligans, {{Delinquents}}, LoserProtagonist, SlobsVersusSnobs.

Younger examples are almost always TheBully. Because of the class-based origins of the stereotype, expect the moral of any story they appear in to lean towards EatTheRich or KillThePoor. Contrast the UpperClassTwit, TheUpperCrass, and AristocratsAreEvil (for when the rich are vilified) and WorkingClassHero. NouveauRiche often overlaps with this when their financial situation changes for the better but their behavior doesn't. See also: FootballHooligans, {{Delinquents}}, LoserProtagonist, SlobsVersusSnobs.

* Much like Burakumin, the etymological origin of the Romani people as well as the similar Lom and Dom peoples derives from the Sanskrit word ''ḍoma'', meaning "a man of low caste who gains his livelihood by singing and dancing". Perhaps rather true to that meaning, Romanis were stereotyped as being vagrants and criminals, and similar to the Burakumin, were continuously discriminated and even excluded from society, a practice that still goes on to this day.

* Much like Burakumin, the etymological origin of the Romani people as well as the similar Lom and Dom peoples derives from the Sanskrit word ''ḍoma'', meaning "a man of low caste who gains his livelihood by singing and dancing". Perhaps rather true to that meaning, Romanis were stereotyped as being vagrants and criminals, and were even placed in a social standing and continuously discriminated similarly to that of the aformentioned Burakumin, a practice that still goes on to this day.

* The 2007 reboot of ''Film/StTrinians'' featured chavs as one of the school's cliques.

* Similar to the above, the word "Burakumin" means "village/hamlet people" in Japanese but it was used as a derogatory term by the upper classes to describe people who performed menial labor tained with death and filth and thus lied outside of the Tokugawa clas system, such as butcher, slaughterhouse workers, entertainers, prostitutes, tanners, undertakers, executioners, and street cleaners. The continous discrimination against such persons contributed to many of their descendants turning to crime and joining criminal organizations like the {{Yakuza}}, further reinforcing this trope.

* Leanne Platter in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is a drunk, violent, abusive, promiscuous, irresponsible, childish, leeching, and overall repulsive white trash loser. The woman destroys everything she touches and leaves incredible amounts of chaos and strife wherever she goes, plays the victim whenever one of her many horrible acts blows up in her face, and gleefully exploits Bill's loneliness and Luanne's desperate desire to have some kind of relationship with her own mother for her own selfish, short-sighted gain so she can continue to live the same destructive and parasitic existence she's carried out since she was a teenager.
* A Canadian version is the cartoon ''WesternAnimation/KevinSpencer''. Kevin is a teenager with chronic substance abuse problems, serious mental health issues up to and including an ImaginaryFriend that [[PoisonousFriend spurs him to commit crimes]], is TheSociopath and openly proud of it, and has a long criminal record which he commits partly for gain and partly ForTheEvulz. His parents are no better - his father Percy is a chronic jailbird and his mother Anastasia ReallyGetsAround, have the same substance abuse problems and criminal tendencies as Kevin, and laugh at his mental illness instead of getting him treatment.
* ''WesternAnimation/NeoYokio'' gives us Cousin Jeffrey Kaan. Despite living in the Hamptons, his conduct and manner of speech are decidedly less than classy. He dresses in ripped clothes, haphazardly drives an ATV around the property, and has a lowbrow vocabulary.

* While ''Manga/BlackLagoon'''s Roanapur is [[WretchedHive an entire city]] full of these, Revy stands out the most. She grew up in a poor trashy household with a violent, abusive drunkard for a father [[spoiler:whom she murdered]], has had a significant amount of contact with law enforcement prior to coming to Roanapur, and is homicidally violent, incredibly foul-mouthed, alcoholic, crude, chain-smoking, and money-grubbing, on top of [[{{stripperific}} wearing revealing clothes]].

* While ''Manga/BlackLagoon'''s Roanapur is [[WretchedHive an entire city]] full of these, Revy stands out the most. She grew up in a poor trashy household with a violent, abusive drunkard for a father [[spoiler:whom she murdered]], has had a significant amount of contact with law enforcement prior to coming to Roanapur, and is homicidally violent, incredibly foul-mouthed, alcoholic, chain-smoking, and money-grubbing, on top of [[{{stripperific}} wearing revealing clothes]].

* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' has a downplayed example with Rosehip of St. Gloriana Academy. [[PennyAmongDiamonds She's a commoner]] in an AristocratTeam and has a bit of difficulty in matching her upperclassmen's elegance and manners, though she certainly gives it her all. It's implied that this is why she wasn't present during the practice match with Oarai because the alumni didn't approve of her less-than-graceful temperament.

Younger examples are almost always TheBully. Because of the class-based origins of the stereotype, expect the moral of any story they appear in to lean towards EatTheRich or KillThePoor. Contrast the UpperClassTwit and AristocratsAreEvil (for when the rich are vilified) and WorkingClassHero. NouveauRiche often overlaps with this when their financial situation changes for the better but their behavior doesn't. See also: FootballHooligans, {{Delinquents}}, LoserProtagonist, SlobsVersusSnobs.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': This is the default view of people from Piltover on the people of the Undercity. The assumption is that everyone down there is a criminal. of course, there are people like Deckard who really do fit the stereotype.
* The Kankers from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. Three half-sisters raised by a single mother, living in a trailer park called "Park n' Flush", getting the kicks out of tormenting everybody else and sexually harassing the protagonists, with very little in the way of redeeming qualities.

** In another episode, Lisa has an ImagineSpot of herself when she fears that she is getting dumber. In it, she is an adult, morbidly obese and married to [[TheDitz Ralph Wiggum]], who works at a fast-food restaurant. They have several children, and Lisa spends all day in a hammock in a run-down trailer home watching {{Soap Opera}}s. She does ''not'' like what she sees, and freaks out when Homer calls her "angel-pie" in the "real" world, which was her pet-name for Ralph in her ImagineSpot.

* A Canadian version is the cartoon ''WesternAnimation/KevinSpencer''. Kevin is a teenager with chronic substance abuse problems, serious mental health issues up to and including an ImaginaryFriend that [[PoisonousFriend spurs him to commit crimes]], is TheSociopath and openly proud of it, and has a long criminal record which he commits partly for gain and partly ForTheEvulz. His parents are no better. Father Percy is a chronic jailbird, mother Anastasia ReallyGetsAround, have the same substance abuse problems and criminal tendencies as Kevin, and laugh at his mental illness instead of getting him treatment.

* The entire premise of [[Series/ShamelessUK both]] [[Series/ShamelessUS versions]] of ''Shameless''.

* Series/MarriedWithChildren features the Bundys, especially patriarch Al. Al Bundy is a JadedWashout who's extremely bitter about being stuck in a SoulSuckingRetailJob instead of playing pro football like he wanted to, regularly insults the fat women he has to serve, regularly attends strip clubs, has a long-running feud with his StrawFeminist neighbor, constantly leers at attractive women young enough to be his daughters, and revels in his crude political incorrectness. His wife Peggy and their kids Kelly and Bud are no better, being just as crude and criminal as Al. Notably, they're all proud of this.

* Music/{{Eminem}}'s whole persona is that he was a broke, underemployed, white trailer-trash outcast (until he became a famous rapper, anyway). Sometimes he plays this character in a more optimistic way, such as on his [[CanonDiscontinuity juvenilia]] album ''Infinite'' and his movie ''Music/EightMile'', but he's much more likely to parody it by rapping in-character as Slim Shady, an over-the-top parody of this kind of character - a StupidEvil SerialKiller and rapist, GoingPostal in a HockeyMaskAndChainsaw while [[UndiscriminatingAddict swallowing handfuls of his mother's prescription pills]] and [[SelfHarm slitting his wrists]].