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A common reason for a MobWar is an outsider faction -- often TheCartel, TheMafiya, TheTriadsAndTheTongs, or the {{Yakuza}} -- attempting to gain foothold on new ground, stepping on the foot of a local gang. In these cases, the invading new criminals are generally seen as more ruthless and prone to break the local's code of honour.

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A common reason for a MobWar is an outsider faction -- often TheCartel, TheMafiya, TheTriadsAndTheTongs, or the {{Yakuza}} -- attempting to gain foothold on new ground, stepping on the foot of a local gang. In these cases, the invading new criminals are generally seen as more ruthless and prone to break the local's locals' code of honour.
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* [[TheMafiya The Chechen]] from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' is portrayed as more ruthless and morally ambiguous in comparison to Sal Maroni and Gambol, his respective [[TheMafia Italian]] and black counterparts in the Gotham City mob. Of note, he is much more eager to hire [[PsychoForHire The Joker]] to take out Batman than the other two mob bosses are, a fact that comes back to bite him.

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* [[TheMafiya The Chechen]] from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' is portrayed as more ruthless and morally ambiguous in comparison to Sal Maroni and Gambol, his respective [[TheMafia Italian]] and black counterparts in the Gotham City mob. Of note, Compared to them, he is much more eager to hire [[PsychoForHire The Joker]] to take out Batman than the other two mob bosses are, Batman, a fact that comes back to bite him.



* Invoked on ''Film/TheItalianJob1969'' when the British heist crew encounters the Mafia early on. Charlie Coker threatens that if the Mafia kills them, Mr. Bridger will demolish every single Italian venture over on England ("he'll drive them into the sea"). The Mafia, at least for the time being, backs off (although they destroy some of the crew's getaway cars for kicks).

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* Invoked on ''Film/TheItalianJob1969'' when the British heist crew encounters the Mafia early on. Charlie Coker Croker threatens that if the Mafia kills them, Mr. Bridger will demolish retaliate by demolishing every single Italian venture over on England ("he'll drive them into the sea"). The Mafia, at least for the time being, backs off (although they destroy some of the crew's getaway cars for kicks).



* ''Film/PremiumRush'': The Chinese Triad is so ruthless that [[DirtyCop NYPD Detective Robert Monday]], after accidentally murdering one of their members, immediately accepts to do a job for them to try to prevent them from killing him in revenge. [[spoiler:He doesn't accomplish the job and the Triad unhesitatingly [[BoomHeadshot put a bullet in his brain]] approximately five seconds later]].

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* ''Film/PremiumRush'': The Chinese Triad is so ruthless that [[DirtyCop NYPD Detective Robert Monday]], after accidentally murdering one of their members, immediately accepts to do a job for them to try to prevent them from killing him in revenge.as retaliation. [[spoiler:He doesn't accomplish the job and the Triad unhesitatingly [[BoomHeadshot put a bullet in his brain]] approximately five seconds later]].



* ''Film/TrainingDay'' has an unnamed Russian crime group that is out for Alonzo's head after he killed one of their people in UsefulNotes/LasVegas. Even though Alonzo is a corrupt cop with a lot of power in the underworld, he needs to get ''lot'' of money to pay them off, or they'll kill him.

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* ''Film/TrainingDay'' has an unnamed Russian crime group that is out for Alonzo's Alonzo Harris's head after he killed one of their people in UsefulNotes/LasVegas. Even though Alonzo is a corrupt cop with a lot of power in the underworld, he needs to get ''lot'' of money to pay them off, or they'll kill him.



** The Shelbys once again take this role on in the second season as they try to expand into London, although in this case it's more because they're from OopNorth rather than for any reasons of nationality, since the other two gangs are the Sabini Organization (Italians) and Alfie Solomons' [[KosherNostra Jewish gang]] that controls Camden Town. Both the first two seasons also occasionally feature the [[FightingIrish IRA]] as another important faction - they're treated unsympathetically, but come across as emphatically no worse [[TheHorseshoeEffect than their British imperialist enemies]]. However, the real villain at this point in the series isn't Sabini, Solomons, or anyone in the IRA, but the bitter, bigoted DirtyCop Inspector Cambpell.

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** The Shelbys once again take this role on in the second season as they try to expand into London, although in this case it's more because they're from OopNorth rather than for any reasons of nationality, since the other two gangs are the Sabini Organization (Italians) and Alfie Solomons' [[KosherNostra Jewish gang]] that controls Camden Town. Both the first two seasons also occasionally feature the [[FightingIrish IRA]] as another important faction - they're treated unsympathetically, but come across as emphatically no worse [[TheHorseshoeEffect than their British imperialist enemies]]. However, the real villain at this point in the series isn't Sabini, Solomons, or anyone in the IRA, but the bitter, bigoted DirtyCop [[DirtyCop Inspector Cambpell.Campbell]].



** The fifth season features ViolentGlaswegian the Billy Boys]], but the real thing that makes them so dangerous is that they serve as muscle for the newly-emergent Fascist party, lead by [[AristocratsAreEvil posh]] English SmugSnake Oswald Mosley. This is where the show's thesis - that the criminal gangs were small potatoes next to the atrocities committed within the systems of law and government - really comes through. The Shelbys also briefly skirmish with an Irish [[FromCamouflageToCriminal ex-military]] faction called the Titanic Gang and make deals with the Chinese opium baron Brilliant Chang, who is depicted as not much worse than they are.

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** The fifth season features ViolentGlaswegian [[ViolentGlaswegian the Billy Boys]], but the real thing that makes them so dangerous is that they serve as muscle for the newly-emergent Fascist party, lead by [[AristocratsAreEvil posh]] English SmugSnake Oswald Mosley. This is where the show's thesis - that the criminal gangs were small potatoes next to the atrocities committed within the systems of law and government - really comes through. The Shelbys also briefly skirmish with an Irish [[FromCamouflageToCriminal ex-military]] faction called the Titanic Gang and make deals with the Chinese opium baron Brilliant Chang, who is depicted as not much worse than they are.

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** ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' establishes that Madame Gao is a member of the Hand much like Nobu was, and much focus is given to her corrupt dealings with Harold Meachum and Rand Enterprises.

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*** During the first season we are also introduced to Bakuto, another member of the Hand who is Colleen Wing's sensei, and who uses her dojo to recruit and indoctrinate street kids into being soldiers for the syndicate.



** The fifth season features a ViolentGlaswegian gang called the Billy Boys, but the real thing that makes them so dangerous is that they serve as muscle for the newly-emergent Fascist party, lead by [[AristocratsAreEvil posh]] English SmugSnake Oswald Mosley. This is where the show's thesis - that the criminal gangs were small potatoes next to the atrocities committed within the systems of law and government - really comes through. The Shelbys also briefly skirmish with an Irish [[FromCamouflageToCriminal ex-military]] faction called the Titanic Gang and make deals with the Chinese opium baron Brilliant Chang, who is depicted as not much worse than they are.

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** The fifth season features a ViolentGlaswegian gang called the Billy Boys, Boys]], but the real thing that makes them so dangerous is that they serve as muscle for the newly-emergent Fascist party, lead by [[AristocratsAreEvil posh]] English SmugSnake Oswald Mosley. This is where the show's thesis - that the criminal gangs were small potatoes next to the atrocities committed within the systems of law and government - really comes through. The Shelbys also briefly skirmish with an Irish [[FromCamouflageToCriminal ex-military]] faction called the Titanic Gang and make deals with the Chinese opium baron Brilliant Chang, who is depicted as not much worse than they are.



* There are many criminal gang featured in ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', both local and foreign, but most are well-implanted in the region and, while violent, aren't excessively so. The exceptions are the two rival [[TheCartel Mexican cartels]] who bring their war to the region in season 4, and the [[TheRemnant True]] [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles IRA]] who show their true colors when their relationship with the Sons is compromised.

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* There are many criminal gang gangs featured in ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', both local and foreign, but most are well-implanted in the region and, while violent, aren't excessively so. The exceptions are the two rival [[TheCartel Mexican cartels]] who bring their war to the region in season 4, and the [[TheRemnant True]] [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles IRA]] who show their true colors when their relationship with the Sons is compromised.

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* ''Series/Daredevil2015'' and ''Series/TheDefenders2017'' do this with their villains. Wilson Fisk, the villain of Daredevil Season 1, is an exceptionally smart and capable criminal, but for all that a fairly ordinary gangster, trying to gain a monopoly on organized crime and use his power to remake his hometown of New York into something more to his liking. The Hand, the Asian-based crime syndicate that are the villains of Season 2 and The Defenders, are something else entirely, a cult whose ordinary criminal activities are just the tip of the iceberg, who can resurrect the dead for their own purposes, and are led by five immortal beings. Not surprisingly, even Fisk fears angering them.



** ''Series/FargoSeasonTwo'' has the Gerhardts, a ruthless family of German immigrants who've carved a trucking empire out of the upper mid-west of America.
** ''Series/FargoSeasonThree'' gives us [[EvilBrit VM Varga]], who runs a mysterious syndicate in the Midwest and forcibly takes over Emmit Stussy's parking lot company to launder illegal money. This also extends to his two main enforcers, the Russian brute Yuri Gurka, and the Japanese-rooted Meemo.

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** ''Series/FargoSeasonTwo'' has [[Series/FargoSeasonTwo The second season]] gives us the Gerhardts, a ruthless family of German immigrants who've carved a trucking empire out of the upper mid-west of America.
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** ''Series/FargoSeasonThree'' [[Series/FargoSeasonThree The third season]] gives us [[EvilBrit VM Varga]], who runs a mysterious syndicate in the Midwest and forcibly takes over Emmit Stussy's parking lot company to launder illegal money. This also extends to his two main enforcers, the Russian brute Yuri Gurka, and the Japanese-rooted Meemo.



* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'':
*** In season 1, Wilson Fisk conducts criminal business with foreign partners, including [[TheMafiya the Ranskahov brothers]], [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Madame Gao]], and [[{{Yakuza}} Nobu Yoshioka]]. The Ranskahovs end up posing as the first major threat for Matt Murdock until their feud with him leads to them angering Fisk, prompting Fisk to have them all wiped out. Meanwhile, Fisk fears angering Gao and Nobu because of the power their organizations have, and can't take them on directly when he begins to burn his bridges with them. When he and Nobu have a falling out, he gets Nobu out of the way by setting him up to ambush Matt in a duel to the death. Meanwhile, Gao ends up leaving town after Matt busts her drug operations, but not before conspiring with Leland Owlsley to have Fisk's girlfriend poisoned
*** In season 2, it is revealed that Nobu is a member of the Hand, an ancient criminal syndicate that goes back centuries. Their organized criminal activities are just the tip of the iceberg, and they can resurrect the dead for their own purposes (as is established with Nobu).
*** In season 3, Fisk schemes to manipulate the FBI into letting him out of prison by giving Ray Nadeem intel on an Albanian gang. This gang are described by Nadeem as having killed four cops, wounded 12 other cops, and killed over 107 civilians. This makes it easy for Fisk to get his hooks into Nadeem, and further convince Nadeem to push for Fisk to be moved to the Presidential Hotel [[FalseFlagOperation by paying Jasper Evans to shank him]], making it look like he's not safe remaining in prison. Incidentally, during the transfer, the Albanians make an attempt of their own on Fisk, and end up killing and wounding several of the FBI agents protecting Fisk before Dex fights back and takes them all out.
** ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'':
*** In season 1, Harlem has several minor gangs made up of Haitians, Koreans, Dominicans, and Cubans. Their four bosses are among those Mariah has Domingo summon for a secret meeting regarding the sale of Cottonmouth's assets. However, Diamondback crashes the meeting and kills all four of them, sparing Domingo to send a message to everyone else.
*** In season 2, Bushmaster is Jamaican (although he was born in Brooklyn), and runs a very ruthless branch of {{the Yardies}} who call themselves the Stylers. As one of Misty Knight's colleagues describes them, "If the Yardies are Al-Qaeda, the Stylers are ISIS." He starts the season by brutally murdering Yardie boss Nigel Garrison and taking over his gang, then proceeds to wage war on Mariah Dillard over past sins her family committed against his. He engages in moves like decapitating three of Mariah's associates and leaving their heads on pikes, kidnapping and decapitating her banker, and burning down her brownstone with her and her daughter Tilda inside. Ironically, as ruthless as Bushmaster and his crew are, when the tide turns and Mariah begins striking back against him, she proves to be far more willing to cross the line.
** ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' establishes that Madame Gao is a member of the Hand much like Nobu was, and much focus is given to her corrupt dealings with Harold Meachum and Rand Enterprises.
** ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' follows up on what was established of the Hand in ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' and ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'', and establishes the Hand are a syndicate of five gangs led by Alexandra, Gao, Bakuto, Murakami and Sowande. The five are shown to be members of K'un Lun's Order of the Crane Mother who were kicked out for wanting to use the bones of dragons to resurrect themselves.



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