History Main / LowerClassLout

* Residents of [[OopNorth Northern England]]

* HillbillyHorrors

* The word "villain" originally meant peasant in Medieval Europe. Due to this trope and its derogatory usage by the upper classes, over time it had evolved from "a rude and uncouth person similar to a peasant" to a morally depraved character. There ''is'' a reason why this trope itself is on the Villains index and why one of the proposed names for "Corrupt Hick" (since renamed to SmallTownTyrant, which is itself a related trope) was "Village Villain", true to the spirit of this trope.

* Many of the more unflattering parodies of former US President UsefulNotes/BillClinton (when they weren't celebrating him as a GoodOlBoy made good) took this route, focusing on his dirt-poor upbringing in Arkansas, his [[AndADietCoke love of junk food]], his serial womanizing, and later on, his ability to talk his way out of any scandal with his popularity intact through sheer RefugeInAudacity (the "Slick Willie" image). Creator/ToniMorrison famously [[https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/08/toni-morrison-wasnt-giving-bill-clinton-a-compliment/402517/ referred to Clinton]] as America's "first black President", comparing his treatment by the media and political establishment to the scorn heaped on black men for acting "ghetto". While Clinton was also a [[SouthernFriedGenius Rhodes scholar]] and a [[UsefulNotes/IvyLeague graduate of Yale]], he willfully embraced a "hillbilly" image to sell himself to the American people, most notably when he [[SexySaxMan played the saxophone]] on ''Series/TheArsenioHallShow''.

* The setting of ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' is a dystopian future in which Lower-Class Lout culture proliferated and took over, producing a world in which an [[TheEveryman average Joe]] from ThePresentDay would be the smartest man alive by default because [[StupidFuturePeople everyone else is a brain-dead idiot]]. The aesthetic of the world can best be described as a {{cyberpunk}} trailer park.

* Creator/StephenKing's novels tend to feature lower-class New England townies as stock characters, usually as lowlifes who are among the first to get killed off by the villain. Butch Bowers in ''Literature/{{It}}'' is a particularly vile example, as he's a violent, racist, and abusive psychopath whose son, Henry, was pretty much doomed to follow in his footsteps from birth. Billy Nolan in ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' and James "Junior" Rennie in ''Literature/UnderTheDome'' are two more examples.

* A repeated theme in [[Creator/LarryNiven Niven]]/[[Creator/JerryPournelle Pournelle]] joint works(or maybe just Pournelle's); in their universes, when the going gets tough, the majority will turn to superstition and leave intellectuals to rot even while they're working their asses off to save them.

** In ''Fallen Angels'', an eco-fundamentalist political party has had bipartisan support for almost a generation. The entire country is on the verge of famine due to an ice age brought on by a ''lack'' of particulate matter in the atmosphere. Despite that, some intellectuals persevered for a time...

** [[TheSociopath Dennis]] and [[AttentionWhore Dee]] were born into a rich family. But due to the gang's failing business, they are currently broke. They think they're classy and justify it by saying class is something you're born into (ie. people born into money are classy), but clearly, they were never classy, to begin with.

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' features the Bundys, especially patriarch Al. Al Bundy is a JadedWashout (even being the former TropeNamer for that) 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.

* [[Comicbook/TheFlash Captain Cold]] grew up poor white trash with a violent, abusive drunk of a father and a mother who enabled it. He sees his upbringing for what it was, but bringing it up around him and ''especially'' using it as an insult is a personal BerserkButton of his and is a great way to find yourself having a very bad 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 by Europeans, and, similar to the Burakumin, were continuously discriminated and even excluded from society, a practice that still goes on to this day.

* The word "villain" originally meant peasant in Medieval Europe. Due to this trope and its derogatory usage by the upper classes, over time it had evolved from "a rude and uncouth person similar to a peasant" to a morally depraved character.

* Blue-collar crime refers to crimes that were commonly committed by blue-collar or lower social class people, such as drug production and distribution, rape, theft, burglary, assault an murder. These crimes (especially rape and murder) generally carry much higher penalties than white-collar crimes.

* {{Juggalo}}es

* The villains in ''Film/HarryBrown'' are textbook chavs (although [[MoreDakka better armed than usual]]), played as monsters to make them {{Acceptable Target|s}} for the VigilanteMan protagonist.

* While usually {{face}}s, The Briscoes have served as such more than a few times in their career, ironically their most iconic run being in the service of a rich man, Wrestling/JimCornette. Otherwise, their backwards ignorance is usually PlayedForLaughs or downplayed in favor of their [[RatedMForManly manliness]].