History Main / TheAggressiveDrugDealer

* Somewhat to the surprise of law enforcement trying to catch them, modern dealers of heroin would actually give free doses to certain customers if they didn't have the money to pay at that time. Notably, though this is only ''partly'' to keep them addicted (see ''Dreamland''); it's also because severe withdrawal symptoms can be fatal, and dealers are very much interested in keeping their customers alive, and also because particularly desperate customers who don't want to be dope sick are far more likely to try and steal from or rob their dealers.

%%* Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers: Yoshi is this.

* One anti-smoking comic featuring ComicBook/LukeCage, ComicBook/{{Storm}}, and Franchise/SpiderMan, averted this. The people supplying a high school athlete with cigarettes pretend to be his friends. Their goal is to make sure he loses a race that their supervillain boss has bet a lot of money on, and they believe smoking will reduce his performance.

* The two {{corrupt hick}}s in ''Film/FoxyBrown'' hold the title character hostage and deliberately get her addicted to heroin. Or, at least, they try to.

* In ''Hip Choice'', a shady shade wearing puppet in an alleyway offers two other puppets a handful of needles, joints, and pills. They make the hip choice and say no. Then he reveals his horrible eye condition.

* Parodied by Progressive Insurance, which has one commercial in which spokesperson Flo hangs out in a dark alley and aggressively sells insurance in a manner that copies the standard '80s portrayal of the aggressive drug dealer.

* ''Advertising/SupermanVsNickOTeen'' pitted ComicBook/{{Superman}} against a villain called [[PunnyName Nick O'Teen]] who acted like this in trying to get kids to smoke cigs. He had a top hat coloured to look like a cigarette butt and yellow teeth. Nick O'Teen tries to get children to smoke cigarettes because... he's evil! Note that he never sells the cigarettes or demands money for them, he just hands them over.

* The Terraist Church from ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'' spikes the food and drinks of pilgrims with Thyoxin, a highly addictive drug that can be used for brainwashing, to effectively enslave them. And if the pilgrims catch on before they are fully addicted, they are brought to the infirmary and forcefully addicted there.

* One of the [[MerchandiseDriven deservedly]] [[{{Anvilicious}} obscure]] ''ComicBook/TandyComputerWhizKids'' comics took this to absolutely ridiculous levels. The villains are completely focused on getting kids hooked, apparently ForTheEvulz -- profit doesn't even seem to be a factor; apparently they just want to addict people to drugs.

%%* In ''Film/KissOfTheDragon'', Jessica is forced into heroin addiction by Richard.

* The main antagonists of ''Film/LovelyButDeadly'' are drug dealers who specialize in minors and control entire schools.

* After the protagonist of ''Literature/GoAskAlice'' tries to go clean, her drug-using ex-friends start bullying her and threatening her in order to get her back on drugs.

--> Drug dealers don't really sell drugs. Drug dealers ''offer'' drugs. ...You say "no", that's it! Now Jehovah's Witnesses, on the other hand...

* In ''Series/IZombie'', Blaine was a regular drug dealer (sleazy, but not too pushy) before becoming [[OurZombiesAreDifferent an intelligent zombie]], but afterward, he pairs this trope with the PoisonAndCureGambit, deliberately infecting rich people and then charging them through the nose for the [[BrainFood only substance that can prevent them from progressing to the mindless shambling stage]]. He also infected bodybuilders to serve as TheBigGuy, and the city's police chief to help cover up the suspiciously high number of disappearing homeless people and troubled teens. Given that the "drug" he's selling is the product of murder, he certainly sells the aggressive part.

%%* Kendo in ''Series/MyMadFatDiary''.

* Inspiring an alt-title for this page, Hoyt Axton's song "The Pusher", made famous by Music/{{Steppenwolf}}, is about the evils of drug-pushers which featured the lyric "God Damn the Pusher Man".
* Early appearances of Music/{{Eminem}}'s Slim Shady [[AlterEgoActing alter ego]] parody this moral panic (especially in the way it coalesced around GangstaRap) by making Shady a drug dealer who desperately tries to push his products on children, but is so StupidEvil and [[AntiRoleModel not even cool]] that he's impossible to take seriously. The best example of this is in "I'm Shady", in which Slim is portrayed as a rather mediocre drug dealer who sells weed, psychedelics, [[FakeHigh mislabelled aspirin]] and [[GRatedDrug legal ephedrine supplements]], but is successful because if people don't buy his drugs, [[DisproportionateRetribution he murders them and their family]]:
-->I just wanna scare somebody with a gun threat\\
When they high off of drugs they haven't even done yet\\
So bring the money by tonight\\
'Cause your wife said this the biggest knife\\
She ever saw in her life (Help me, help me)\\

* President George H.W. Bush, in his first address from the Oval Office, held up a bag of crack cocaine which had been seized from a drug deal which took place just across the street from the White House. The incident was used as an example to show how aggressive drug dealers had become, although it later turned out that the deal had been a deliberate setup so Bush could claim that dealers were "selling next to the White House" (although, in the late 80's/early 90's, DC really was [[WretchedHive crack central]] and the claim wasn't ''that'' far-fetched).

* The Terraist Church from ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'' spikes the food and drinks of pilgrims with Thyoxin, a highly addictive drug that can be used for brainwashing, to effectively enslave them. And if the pilgrims catch on before they are fully addicted, they are brought to the infirmary and forcefully addicted there.

* One of the [[MerchandiseDriven deservedly]] [[{{Anvilicious}} obscure]] ''ComicBook/TandyComputerWhizKids'' comics took this to [[UpToEleven absolutely ridiculous levels]]. The villains are completely focused on getting kids hooked, apparently ForTheEvulz -- profit doesn't even seem to be a factor; apparently they just want to addict people to drugs.

* In ''Series/IZombie'', Blaine was a regular drug dealer (sleazy, but not too pushy) before becoming [[OurZombiesAreDifferent an intelligent zombie]], but afterward, he pairs this trope with the PoisonAndCureGambit, deliberately infecting rich people and then charging them through the nose for the [[BrainFood only substance that can prevent them from progressing to the mindless shambling stage]]. He also infected bodybuilders to serve as TheBigGuy, and the city's police chief to help cover up the suspiciously high number of disappearing homeless people and troubled teens. Given that the "drug" he's selling is the product of murder, he certainly takes the aggressive part UpToEleven.

* [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]] was derived from the 1983 ''Film/{{Scarface}}'' movie and Razor was clearly meant to be one of the criminals released from UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}}'s jails and dumped on Miami's shores as part of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift Mariel boatlift]].
* Darren "Droz" Drozdoff lead a ''very'' short-lived stable with his piercing artist [[Wrestling/MattBloom Prince Albert]] and Key. Key (played by Vic Grimes) was implied to be the stable's coke dealer - he wore all white, and even his name was a reference to kilos (the standard unit of measurement for cocaine). Key lasted under a month with only one match to his name.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' adventure ''Send in the Clones''. When the {{PC}}s meet Hall-Y-Wud-5, he'll try to hook them on the drug he pushes, co-cola. He'll persuade them to try it with a sales pitch, and will offer them a free taste ("First hit is no charge.").

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', [[TheSyndicate the Guild]] imposes trade embargoes on any nation that dares to try to keep itself drug-free. Since the Guild basically controls all international commerce in Creation, this is usually enough to bring a government to its knees fairly quickly. If it isn't, the Guild is not above hiring a mercenary army or two to invade the offending nation, depose its rulers, and install a Guild-backed puppet on the throne.

* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' supplement ''The Book of Vile Darkness'' describes a demon who managed to [[DemonicPossession possess]] a blue dragon. The first thing the demon did was force its new host to take some luhix, a viciously addictive drug made from Abyssal plants. Each day one of the demon's subordinates planeshifts to the dragon's lair with another dose of luhix, so even if the dragon succeeded in freeing itself from the demon, it would then be cut off from a means of sating its addiction and staving off the brutal withdrawal symptoms.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'':
** There is A Suspicious Looking Guy, who gives you a free sample of [[GRatedDrug "Goofballs"]], which boost your stats for a while, but [[DrugsAreBad make your parents worry about you]]. If you don't keep taking them, you suffer Goofball Withdrawal, which for a long time was one of the worst StatusEffects in the game.[[note]]Eventually the withdrawal penalty was severely reduced, [[http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/showthread.php?p=4250247#post4250247 having been deemed]] rather against the spirit of the game.[[/note]] Each time you go back for more, the price goes up. Aside from getting you addicted, and then price-gouging you, he's not particularly aggressive. And spoofed roughly five times a year, when because it's "Halloween" and you knocked on his door looking for "sweet treats" he's giving out free "candy" (meaning "sugar" and "artificial flavors" to get you all "buzzed") all night! (They're Rock Pops, and perfectly fine for you if you don't follow up by drinking cola.)
** There's also [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Mind_the_Fine_Print a guy]] in Bad Moon that will forcefully shove a pill down your throat for free, which gives you so-so [[NightmareFuel spooky]] resistance, but make you super weak to [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and [[NauseaFuel stench]] damage. [[invoked]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', Jet was specifically engineered to be extremely addictive but only produce a short high, so customers would need to buy more frequently. However, the dealers aren't particularly pushy, since the client base in the three areas it can be found (New Reno, The Den, and Redding) are well-established. However, if you take on the quest to solve the Jet-overdose murder of Chris Wright, his father will insist that the boy was forced to take the drug; he's vehemently anti-drugs, has made his stance clear to his whole family, and refuses to even consider the alternative of his son doing it voluntarily. It eventually turns out that it was actually an assassination, as completing the quest reveals that the victim was poisoned and that the initial suspects (the mob family that controlled the Jet supply) weren't behind it, it was actually a different family that was trying to provoke a war between the two (which would, of course, leave both badly weakened to the point that the third family could fairly easily take over both of their territories).

* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', drug dealer Dixon comes across as this to the denizens of Freeside, a slum right next to a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. He proves perfectly willing to sell a special "concoction" to the player, which ends up just being a mixture of Jet and whisky.

* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} and the Holograms'' episode "Alone Again", with Bobby Braddock, a sweet-talking drug dealer, though it's still used to the same effect. Bobby, a high schooler, wants the main girl of the episode, Laura, to start using drugs and get hooked on them, giving her a few bags of free pills and then charging her $30 for new ones after he successfully gets her hooked. When she can't pay, he ditches her and her new addiction and finds someone else. While more cold than aggressive, he absolutely fits this trope.

* Spoofed, skewered, and danced on in the ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' episode "Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Acts". The ''eeeevil'' "Pusher" causes the entire student body to get addicted to (wait for it) ...''smoking raisins''. Ironically, he's actually far LESS pushy (at least directly) than examples that are played straight. Beyond using a bit of ReversePsychology to create a demand, all he really does is [[ObviouslyEvil sit in the shadows]] and quietly sell his wares to a willing customer base.
-->'''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I CAN TASTE THE SUN!!!]]'''
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}'' episode "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS2E1MindPollution Mind Pollution]]", the villain Verminous Skumm was a dealer of a highly addictive drug called "bliss", had some people resort to stealing to get the drug, and he encouraged them to take it and wouldn't accept no for an answer. One of his clients turns out to be Linka's cousin, Boris, who [[spoiler:he convinces at one point to get Linka addicted as well by spiking her food with the drug in return for "enough bliss to last you the rest of your life", and eventually dies from overdosing on it]]. Of course, Skumm's motivation was to wipe out humanity in order to create a world for rats, [[ForTheEvulz so profit wasn't really a concern for him]]. Not surprisingly, after his helicopter crashes, Skumm pulls out a slice of pizza from his pocket (with a bliss pill stuck to it), and gobbles it down. When he sees how his eyes totally bloodshot, Skumm [[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply realizes]] [[IAteWhat that he]] [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard doped himself up]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'': The episode "[[Recap/BravestarrS1E26ThePrice The Price]]" has a drug dealer who is pushing a drug called "spin," which starts with causing feelings of intense euphoria but can later lead to extreme paranoia and even death. He is extremely suave and persuasive but insists on targeting people with very little (or no) money, apparently just so he can persuade them to steal what they owe, suggesting he's more interested in corrupting people rather than actually earning a profit. Also, he actually manufactures the drug himself rather than getting it from a supplier, and once Bravestarr takes out his factory, New Texas is freed from the devastating influence of spin, tying everything up in a neat little bow. [[spoiler:Sadly, not before a young boy has died from the drug.]]

* Mocked, as early as 1967, in ''Literature/FromTheMixedUpFilesOfMrsBasilEFrankweiler''. A small boy finds a chocolate bar on the ground and his twelve-year-old sister tells him that it was probably put there by a drug dealer and full of "dope" to get him hooked. Even allowing that it was a more innocent time, it was partly used to illustrate the character of the sister as someone less worldly-wise than she thought, and extremely prone to pointless worrying.
* Parodied in the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel, ''Literature/FeetOfClay'', where dealers try to sell the drug 'slab' to troll-children. The troll watchman Detritus runs his own version of the 'Drugs -- Just say no' posters, aimed at the ''dealers'': "Slab: Just say [=AarrghaarrghpleasennononoUGH=]". Considering the reputation of Detritus and his [[{{BFG}} converted siege-crossbow]] 'The Piece-Maker', it's probably one of the more effective methods of [[ScareEmStraight scaring 'em straight]].
* In Creator/HalClement's novel ''Iceworld'', the protagonist is sent to infiltrate a criminal syndicate that has discovered a drug vapor that addicts those who inhale it with one dose. [[spoiler:The story takes place among aliens who live at very high temperatures, and the drug is tobacco, acquired via robot probe from a human who has no idea why the aliens are willing to trade gold for cigarettes.]]

* In Creator/GlenCook's ''Literature/GarrettPI'' series, the crime syndicate has been known to use drug addiction as a method of recruiting and controlling underage prostitutes. [[KnightInSourArmor Garrett]] is not happy about this.
* [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in Harry Turtledove's ''Literature/WorldWar'' series: Humanity discovers that [[GRatedDrug ginger]] is a powerful and highly addictive narcotic to the aliens trying to invade Earth. Thus they try to spread it to as many of the aliens as possible in order to disrupt their invasion, not just by turning soldiers into useless drug addicts but because it compounds the war weariness that they'd been feeling as a result of their invasion not being the CurbStompBattle they expected it to be. Since it also [[AlienCatnip activates their mating instincts]], it also disrupts the aliens' society by introducing them to formerly foreign concepts like romantic love, marriage, [[TheOldestProfession prostitution]] and (more worryingly) rape.

* Wayne Brady is on on the ''Series/ChappellesShow'' episode with him, with scenes right out of ''Series/TrainingDay''. "This ain't no damn after-school special! SMOKE IT!"
* Jesse in ''Series/BreakingBad'' turns into one of these when he needs to persuade a shy young girl cashier to accept payment in meth for the gas he just pumped. Though she's never done meth before, she's apparently not opposed to drugs in principle (she mentions she's smoked pot "a lot") and after some initial reluctance ("That's stuff's really addictive, right?") she seems to mainly be afraid she'll get caught. Which, if you squint just right, seems a lot like one of the writers believes in the "gateway drug" theory.
%%* Kendo in ''Series/MyMadFatDiary''.
* Parodied in an episode of ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger''. Gunpei offers a child a suitcase full of candy in exchange for his missing Engine Cast, but his [[ConspicuousTrenchcoat trench coat and sunglasses]] lead the child to mistake him for this trope and run away screaming.
* Parodied in ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' when Jake meets up with Isaac, an informant of his and a former drug dealer who gets offended when the cops refer to him as a drug pusher:
-->'''Isaac:''' Dude, drugs don't need pushing. They push themselves. People ''love'' drugs.
* Parodied on ''Series/GoodEats'', in the episode "Live and Let Diet" with a guy dressed as a milk carton trying to tempt Alton into eating cookies. (Which Alton cites as the reason he's stopped drinking milk.)
* ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'': The two-parter "A Small War" has a gang of these coming from the "big city" of Jackson (the state capital of Mississippi) and setting up shop in Sparta, especially among the high school kids.
* In ''Series/TrueBlood'', the werewolf JD Carsons tells his pack to drink vampire blood (it greatly enhances physical attributes and gives a HealingFactor, but is highly addictive and has nasty withdrawal symptoms). When some refuse, he beats them up and force-feeds them the blood. His goal was to make them stronger and make them addicted so they can not leave and obey him more easily.
* In ''Series/IZombie'', Blaine was a regular drug dealer (sleazy, but not too pushy) before becoming [[OurZombiesAreDifferent an intelligent zombie]], but afterward, he pairs this trope with the PoisonAndCureGambit, deliberately infecting rich people and then charging them through the nose for the [[BrainFood only substance that can prevent them from progressing to the mindless shambling stage]]. He also infected bodybuilders to serve as TheBigGuy, and the city's police chief to help cover up the suspiciously high number of disappearing homeless people and troubled teens. Given that the "drug" he's selling is the product of murder, he certainly takes the aggressive part UpToEleven.
* Subverted in ''Series/SantaClaritaDiet''. When newly-zombified Sheila tries to limit her cannibal diet to monsters whom nobody will miss, she overhears her daughter Abby's friend talk about her ex-boyfriend, a "pedophile who sells drugs to children". The perfect choice? Not quite. It turns out Abby's friend had lied to him about her age and he promptly broke up with her when he found out. And "selling drugs to kids" sounds far more sinister than the more accurate description of selling pot to teenagers. And the primary reason he got into it in the first place was to help his sister financially when she got divorced.
* Averted in ''Series/FridayNightLights'', [[FarmBoy Luke]] injures his hip, and becomes reliant on painkillers to play at his usual level. He quickly blows through his prescription and heads into [[WrongSideOfTheTracks East Dillon]] to get more, however, the dealers he approaches take one look at the clean-cut white stranger dressed like a ranch hand and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome immediately clam up]], likely assuming he is a very inept undercover cop.
* ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'': Mouse simply won't take "no" for an answer when offering Rue fentanyl. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as she's already a drug user, and he wants to make a sale (she either gives him the money or sex). Fezco thankfully rescues her by paying for it.
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': When the PCH bikers are selling drugs for the Fitzpatricks, the Fitzpatricks are not happy with how little they are selling. The bikers say it's a matter of supply and demand, to which Liam replies "You have to create demand. It's called drug ''pusher'' for a reason."

* "Iron" Goldie Musou of ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' is a mafia capo version of this. If she wants you as a "pet", she is going to send her thugs to get you, drag you to her, drug you... and then she will brainwash you into committing an atrocity horrible enough (like killing your entire family) that you are going to willingly ''remain'' a junkie because it's either that or the grief driving you insane. Her practices for getting control of distribution are no less brutal.

* This strange species of drug dealer turns up in the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' anti-drug specials (produced as part of the "Just Say No" initiative). The fact that [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Speedy (Roy Harper)]] [[VerySpecialEpisode was absent]] from those is rather telling...

* ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'' provided a {{Justified}} example, with the drug dealers forcefully addicting [[spoiler: inspector Ginko]] to heroin to [[FateWorseThanDeath completely ruin his life]] in revenge for him busting too many mob operations.

* Frankie Lideo, the villain of ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'''s "Smooth Criminal" segment. It's a particularly egregious example since, unlike your average Aggressive Drug Dealer who's in it to get kids hooked so as to keep a healthy flow of customers, he appeared to be in it [[ForTheEvulz for the sheer malicious joy]] of getting kids hooked on drugs.
* This was the Evil Scheme in the Franchise/JamesBond movie ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' -- Mr. Big intends to flood the US with free heroin, driving the Mob out of the market, then cornering it at a highly inflated price to the multitudes of new addicts.
* In ''Film/{{Pusher}} 3'', Kurt insists on giving Milo some of his heroin. Kurt knows that Milo is a recovering addict, and he has a beef with Milo for his actions in the second film.

* In ''Film/KissOfTheDragon'', Jessica is forced into heroin addiction by Richard.
* Jason makes up this story about Leo in ''Film/MysteryTeam''.
* Chris-R, the ruthless drug dealer from ''Film/TheRoom'', who is willing to sneak into Johnny's apartment while he and ''three other people'' (Lisa, Mark, and Claudette) are inside, and then work his way up to the roof and force Denny at gunpoint to give him the money, but [[ClusterFBomb can't wait five minutes for it to arrive]].
* Inverted in ''Film/WalkHard'', as each time Dewey stumbles upon Sam doing drugs, the conversation starts with Sam saying "You don't want ''no part'' of this shit." The first one (marijuana) in particular is hilarious, as Dewey keeps guessing reasons why it's so bad, only to be corrected each time that it doesn't give you a hangover, it's not habit-forming, you can't OD on it, it makes sex even better, and it's not only not expensive but ...
-->'''Sam:''' It's the ''cheapest drug there is.'' You don't want it!\\
'''Dewey:''' I ''think'' I kinda want it.

* ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenArm'': Louie the heroin dealer is awfully aggressive in trying to get former addict Frankie to use again. Justified in that Louie is also involved with a lucrative illegal underground poker game, Frankie is a skilled dealer, and the heroin is a means of control to bind Frankie to Louie and get him into the poker game.

* ''Film/TheCrowCityOfAngels'': Judah Earl specifically pushes drugs that are manufactured to kill the user. When his more business-minded underling objects to this, Judah orders him killed.
* The main antagonists of ''Film/TheBlackGodfather'' are a heroin ring willing to start a MobWar to keep their product flowing.
* ''Film/EnterTheDragon'': Turns out that Mr. Han can afford his private island fortress and ThugDojo by making cocaine in a laboratory concealed within said island and selling it (he even invited Roper in the hopes that he would become his agent in his planned expansion to the States)... and abducts women from the streets of Hong Kong and gets them forcibly hooked in order to "create demand".

* Slick in ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'', who gleefully maims a kid who owes him money, but then ''shoves the poor kid's face into a pile of cocaine''. That Slick would casually wander around with such a big pile of cocaine is, of course, yet another of the over-the-top touches that make this film what it is.

* This trope is part of the reason for the disappearance and decommissioning of {{Pay Phone}}s, besides them being [[TechnologyMarchesOn superseded by cell phones]]. According to UrbanLegend, drug dealers would loiter around public telephones, both waiting for "customers" to call them, and trying to lure in new customers by offering drugs. However, there are [[DeadUnicornTrope no reliable reports of dealers ever having done this]], even back in the days before cell phones were widely available, and it certainly wouldn't make much sense. Loitering around a payphone for hours and hours each day does, after all, look suspicious, and (this being the thing everyone apparently missed) looking suspicious is exactly what drug dealers ''don't'' want.

In this day and age, if a drug dealer is represented as "aggressive" in media, he will most probably be of the "[[AxCrazy shoot it out with the police and anybody who pisses him off]]" variety instead... who are, quite unfortunately, TruthInTelevision and have always been (e.g. Pablo Escobar etc). Although even that can be exaggerated, as many drug dealers prefer to live, obviously -- something that kind of behavior doesn't really encourage (if this happens, they're usually cornered like Escobar, preferring death over prison, or high themselves-[[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply possibly on their own drug]]).

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}'', the villain Verminous Skumm was a dealer of a highly addictive drug called "bliss", had some people resort to stealing to get the drug, and he encouraged them to take it and wouldn't accept no for an answer. One of his clients turns out to be Linka's cousin, Boris, who [[spoiler:he convinces at one point to get Linka addicted as well by spiking her food with the drug in return for "enough bliss to last you the rest of your life", and eventually dies from overdosing on it]]. Of course, Skumm's motivation was to wipe out humanity in order to create a world for rats, [[ForTheEvulz so profit wasn't really a concern for him]].
** Not surprisingly, after his helicopter crashes, Skumm pulls out a slice of pizza from his pocket (with a bliss pill stuck to it), and gobbles it down. When he sees how his eyes totally bloodshot, Skumm [[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply realizes]] [[IAteWhat that he]] [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard doped himself up]].

In this day and age, if a drug dealer is represented as "aggressive" in media, he will most probably be of the "[[AxCrazy shoot it out with the police and anybody who pisses him off]]" variety instead... who are, quite unfortunately, TruthInTelevision and have always been (e.g. Pablo Escobar etc). Although even that can be exaggerated, as many drug dealers prefer to live, obviously -- something that kind of behavior doesn't really encourage (if this happens, they're usually cornered like Escobar, preferring death over prison, or high themselves-possibly on their own products).

In this day and age, if a drug dealer is represented as "aggressive" in media, he will most probably be of the "[[AxCrazy shoot it out with the police and anybody who pisses him off]]" variety instead... who are, quite unfortunately, TruthInTelevision and have always been (ex. Pablo Escobar, Al Capone, etc.). Although even that can be exaggerated, as many drug dealers prefer to live, obviously -- something that kind of behavior doesn't really encourage.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}'', the villain Verminous Skumm was a dealer of a highly addictive drug called "bliss", had some people resort to stealing to get the drug, and he encouraged them to take it and wouldn't accept no for an answer. One of his clients turns out to be Linka's cousin, Boris, who [[spoiler:he convinces at one point to get Linka addicted as well by spiking her food with the drug in return for "enough bliss to last you the rest of your life", and eventually dies from overdosing on it]]. Of course, Skumm's motivation was to wipe out humanity in order to create a world for rats, so profit wasn't really a concern for him.

* In a Patreon only strip of ''WebComic/DumbingOfAge'', Joyce's parents (who, it should probably be noted, are very fundamentalist Christian) have raised her to be in fear of these people, and she expects Carla to be one when Carla mentions she does weed. Joyce is ''very'' shocked when an indignant Carla declares she doesn't share her weed and Joyce can find her own.

* ''WesternAnimation/COPSAnimatedSeries'' has a one-off villain called Addictum, who uses this as his modus operandi. During his only episode, called "The Case of the Lowest Crime," he is seen harassing a pair of teenage girls into taking a free sample of his drugs. Unfortunately for him, his aggressive behavior (and possibly the fact he looks like a walking corpse) led to these girls calling the C.O.P.S., who subsequently arrest him.

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* Occasionally, the villain of the day in ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger.'' Since the focus of the show is Walker kicking ass, the theme seems to be "If You Just Say No, Drug Dealers will Kill You, Unless Creator/ChuckNorris is There To Protect You."
* Justified in ''Series/TheWire'', when Police Captain Colvin cruises up to a corner crew of drug dealers, causing a dealer to mistake him for a hesitant customer. The shocked Colvin gives increasingly less subtle clues that he's a cop, but the dealer keeps trying to make a sale. Finally, when Colvin puts on his police cap, the kid [[OhCrap figures it out]] and scampers off. This trope was TruthInTelevision for Baltimore, at least, at the time. Dealers would scatter free heroin along the sidewalk to fish for new customers and keep junkies hooked.
** ''The Wire'' also shows the various crews handing out free samples, called 'testers' in the show, at fixed intervals. This is not only to keep the addicts around but apparently to demonstrate how strong (or weak) the current package is.

* Kendo in ''Series/MyMadFatDiary''.

* In ''{{Series/iZombie}}'', Blaine was a regular drug dealer (sleazy, but not too pushy) before becoming [[OurZombiesAreDifferent an intelligent zombie]], but afterward, he pairs this trope with the PoisonAndCureGambit, deliberately infecting rich people and then charging them through the nose for the [[BrainFood only substance that can prevent them from progressing to the mindless shambling stage]]. He also infected bodybuilders to serve as TheBigGuy, and the city's police chief to help cover up the suspiciously high number of disappearing homeless people and troubled teens. Given that the "drug" he's selling is the product of murder, he certainly takes the aggressive part UpToEleven.

* ''{{Series/Euphoria}}'': Mouse simply won't take "no" for an answer when offering Rue fentanyl. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as she's already a drug user, and he wants to make a sale (she either gives him the money or sex). Fezco thankfully rescues her by paying for it.

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* Mocked as unnecessary by Creator/ChrisRock.
--> Yo man, drug dealers don’t sell drugs. Drugs sell themselves. It’s crack. It’s not an encyclopedia. It’s not a fucking vacuum cleaner. You don’t really gotta try to sell crack, OK? I’ve never heard a crack dealer go, “Man, how am I going to get rid of all this crack? It’s just piled up in my house."
* Comedian Richard Sarvate says that the impression he got from programs like D.A.R.E. was that he would leave school and immediately he would have to dodge an assault of flying needles. The complete absence of drug pushers made him think he must be doing something wrong. He learned later in High School, "They only offer drugs to the cool kids. I was in no danger."
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* Closely related - the Bad Idea Bears in ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' exist solely to try to push other characters into having more sex and alcohol.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout New Vegas}}'', drug dealer Dixon comes across as this to the denizens of Freeside, a slum right next to a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. He proves perfectly willing to sell a special "concotion" to the player, which ends up just being a mixture of Jet and whisky.

* In a Patreon only strip of ''WebComic/DumbingOfAge'', Joyce's parents (who, it should probably be noted, were very fundamentalist Christian) had raised her to be in fear of these people, and she expects Carla to be one when Carla mentions she does weed. Joyce is ''very'' shocked when an indignant Carla declares she doesn't share her weed and Joyce can find her own.

* This was the Evil Scheme in the movie ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' -- Mr. Big intends to flood the US with free heroin, driving the Mob out of the market, then cornering it at a highly inflated price to the multitudes of new addicts.

* President George H.W. Bush, in his first address from the Oval Office, held up a bag of crack cocaine which had been seized from a drug deal which took place just across the street from the White House. The incident was used as an example to show how aggressive drug dealers had become, although it later turned out that the deal had been a deliberate setup so Bush could claim that dealers were "selling next to the White House".

Problem was, an anti-peer pressure approach to [=PSAs=] would wind up contradicting the prevailing theory held by MoralGuardians at the time: that deviant behavior arose from [[LonersAreFreaks anti-social tendencies]], and since surely such "bad kids" are a shunned minority, bowing to peer pressure must if anything be a ''[[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong good thing]]''! Not only that, any such [=PSAs=] would also break the illusion any child might have had that their parents are a bastion of safety and morality. In the strict household hierarchy of yesteryear, that last point in particular was a ''no-no''.

** There is A Suspicious Looking Guy, who gives you a free sample of [[GRatedDrug "Goofballs"]], which boost your stats for a while, but [[DrugsAreBad make your parents worry about you]]. If you don't keep taking them, you suffer Goofball Withdrawal, which for a long time was one of the worst (Non-) StandardStatusEffects in the game.[[note]]Eventually the withdrawal penalty was severely reduced, [[http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/showthread.php?p=4250247#post4250247 having been deemed]] rather against the spirit of the game.[[/note]] Each time you go back for more, the price goes up. Aside from getting you addicted, and then price-gouging you, he's not particularly aggressive. And spoofed roughly five times a year, when because it's "Halloween" and you knocked on his door looking for "sweet treats" he's giving out free "candy" (meaning "sugar" and "artificial flavors" to get you all "buzzed") all night! (They're Rock Pops, and perfectly fine for you if you don't follow up by drinking cola.)

* ''Series/SixFeetUnder:'' One of the many torments David is subjected to in "That's My Dog" was to be forced by his captor Jake to walk through a park in a ''very'' dangerous part of town in search of some crack to buy. Jake passes over one dealer for looking too crazy and buys from a different one. The "crazy" one does not take this well at all.

* Early appearances of Music/{{Eminem}}'s Slim Shady [[AlterEgoActing alter ego]] parody this moral panic by making Shady a drug dealer who is so StupidEvil and [[AntiRoleModel not even cool]] that he's impossible to take seriously. The best example of this is in "I'm Shady", in which Slim is portrayed as a rather mediocre drug dealer who sells weed, psychedelics, [[FakeHigh mislabelled aspirin]] and [[GRatedDrug legal ephedrine supplements]], but is successful because if people don't buy his drugs, [[DisproportionateRetribution he murders them and their family]]:

* Early appearances of Music/{{Eminem}}'s Slim Shady [[AlterEgoActing alter ego]] parody this moral panic, due to Shady being over-the-top StupidEvil and [[AntiRoleModel not even cool]], and therefore impossible to take seriously. The best example of this is in "I'm Shady", in which Slim is portrayed as a rather mediocre drug dealer who sells weed, psychedelics, [[FakeHigh mislabelled aspirin]] and [[GRatedDrug legal ephedrine supplements]], but is successful because if people don't buy his drugs, he murders them:

** In most or all alleged cases, the supposed recipient found the drugs [[OffingTheOffspring a lot closer to home]], and trick-or-treating was just [[NeverMyFault a convenient scapegoat]] (more tragically, this also applies to [[TrickedToDeath poisoned candy]]).

** In most or all alleged cases, the supposed recipient found the drugs a lot closer to home, and trick-or-treating was just [[NeverMyFault a convenient scapegoat]] (more tragically, this also applies to [[TrickedToDeath poisoned candy]]).