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-->--'''{{Batman}}''', ''[[SoBadItsGood Fortunate Son]]''

* The mohawk-wearing, murderous kidnapping [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels biker gangs]] of HokutoNoKen. No music though.
* LiarGame subverts this - a character who dresses and is initially assumed to be this way turns out to be one of the nicest people in the cast.

* The Sarutobi siblings and Molly in {{One Piece Parallel Works}}.

* In a first-season episode of ''PowerRangers'', "Power Ranger Punks," the villains had a scheme to slip Billy and Kimberly some "punk potion" before unleashing the MonsterOfTheWeek on Angel Grove. Needless to say, the potion turned them into Quincy Punks who didn't give a shit about the monster.

* Vyvyan on TheYoungOnes. His main motivation is destroying things around the house. Not especially egregious, because the show paints all its characters in broad strokes.

* The shortlived cartoon version of ''Teen Wolf'' had an unusual aversion. The straitlaced main characters are freaked out by the appearrance of some stereotypical-looking mohawked punks in their neighborhood, assuming the worst. But when they attend a punk club, the cast ends up having a huge amount of fun dancing, dressing up in punk gear, and rocking out with the punk crowd... to the point that the ''punks'' are the ones politely lecturing the main characters that the party eventually needs to be cut short, so that people can get home safely, do their homework, and get to school the next day.

* Averted hilariously by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-TjiL3Ualw this Chips Ahoy! ad.]] "Jam-packed with chocolate / We’re really neat / All the mommies love us ’cuz we’re nice and sweet!"

Hence, the Quincy Punk. The Quincy Punk looks for all the world like a stereotypical punk -- mohawk in all the colors of the Kool-Aid rainbow, studded leather jacket, and very uncomfortable piercings. The music he listens to is distorted and raw, like hardcore on PCP, and [[DidNotDoTheResearch often doesn't much resemble actual punk rock]]. He's an anarchist, but it's more about [[BombThrowingAnarchists setting fire to a police station]] than any sort of rational opinion on Kropotkin's ''Mutual Aid''. Oh. And he hates you. The Quincy Punk is most often used as a stock mugger, thug, or street gang member for superheroes or other urban vigilantes to kick the crap out of, allowing for [[WhiteGangBangers an intimidating image in an urban setting while avoiding]] the UnfortunateImplications of {{Batman}} beating the crap out of more racially-oriented street criminals.

Hence, the Quincy Punk. The Quincy Punk looks for all the world like a stereotypical punk -- mohawk in all the colors of the Kool-Aid rainbow, studded leather jacket, and very uncomfortable piercings. The music he listens to is distorted and raw, like hardcore on PCP, and [[DidNotDoTheResearch often doesn't much resemble actual punk rock]]. He's an anarchist, but it's more about [[BombThrowingAnarchists setting fire to a police station]] than any sort of rational opinion on Kropotkin's ''Mutual Aid''. Oh. And he hates you. The Quincy Punk is most often used as a stock mugger, thug, or street gang member for superheroes or other urban vigilantes to kick the crap out of, allowing for an intimidating image in an urban setting while avoiding the UnfortunateImplications of {{Batman}} beating the crap out of more racially-oriented street criminals.

-->''"Punk (music) is nothing but death and crime and the ''rage of a beast!''"''

* The TropeNamer is an infamous episode of ''{{Quincy}}'' called "Next Stop, Nowhere," where the titular M.E. tries to save the youth of Los Angeles from the moral scourge that is punk rock. For years, "Quincy punk" came to be used in Southern California's scene to describe a punk who cares more about the rebellious image than anything else.

But where the general societal backlash to a subculture tends to abate over time, there's still the idea that punk is violent and nihilistic. Maybe it's the pervasive nature of the imagery. Maybe it was the hardcore seeding of memetics that painted punks as people who wanted to tear the system down and piss on the ashes. Or maybe it was because Sid Vicious fucked it all up for everyone else.

* There was also an episode of ''{{CHIPS}}'' about the rivalry between a violent band of punks and a peaceful band of new wave kids.

Every youth subculture gets its moment to be TheNewRockAndRoll -- greasers, mods, hippies, thugs, goths, hell, ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' proves the beatniks got a good round of it. And when the late '70s and early '80s came around, the punks got it with both barrels. The subculture relied on brilliant and strange hairstyles, a growing feeling of societal discontent, and stripped-down, often angry music. It was like a license to sow moral panic.

For actual information on Punk rock, see UsefulNotes/{{Punk}} or the PunkRock page. Nothing to do with [[JohnQuincyAdams the president]], unless some tell-all biography reveals his youthful radicalism.

But where the general societal reaction to a subculture tends to abate over time, there's still an idea that punk is violent and nihilistic. Maybe it's the pervasive nature of the imagery. Maybe it was the hardcore seeding of memetics that painted punks as people who wanted to tear the system down and piss on the ashes. Or maybe it was because Sid Vicious fucked it all up for everyone else.

* As [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] has covered, there was an infamous ''{{Batman}}'' graphic novel called "Fortunate Son" about Batman's strange relationship with rock and roll. In flashback, Bruce Wayne reveals that as an angry young man, he went to Europe and fell in with the punk scene -- here represented by paper-thin [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. You can probably guess how this ended.

* As [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] has covered, there was an infamous ''{{Batman}}'' graphic novel called "Fortunate Son" about Batman's strange relationship with rock and roll. In flashback, Bruce Wayne reveals that as an angry young man, he went to Europe and fell in with the punk scene -- here represented by paper-thin [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spurgen. You can probably guess how this ended.

* As [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] has covered, there was an infamous ''{{Batman}}'' graphic novel called "Fortunate Son" about Batman's strange relationship with rock and roll. In flashback, Bruce Wayne reveals that as an angry young man, he went to Europe and fell in with the punk scene -- here represented by paper-thin [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. You can probably guess how this ended.

Hence, the Quincy Punk. The Quincy Punk looks for all the world like a stereotypical punk -- mohawk in all the colors of the Kool-Aid rainbow, studded leather jacket, and very uncomfortable piercings. The music he listens to is distorted and raw, like hardcore on PCP. He's an anarchist, but it's more about [[BombThrowingAnarchists setting fire to a police station]] than any sort of rational opinion on Kropotkin's ''Mutual Aid''. Oh. And he hates you. The Quincy Punk is most often used as a stock mugger, thug, or street gang member for superheroes or other urban vigilantes to kick the crap out of, allowing for an intimidating image in an urban setting while avoiding the UnfortunateImplications of {{Batman}} beating the crap out of more racially-oriented street criminals.

* Just about ''everyone'' from ''NothingNiceToSay'' is either TheQuincyPunk, {{Goth}}, EmoTeen or SmugStraightEdge, with very few [[MuGgles boring normal people]] around.
** Later averted- Chris, the original off-the-shelf punk, was later established to be a vegan and a left-wing political activist, representing a more accurate picture of the traditional anarchopunk.
** Blake and Fletcher themselves avert this- while not exactly typical Americans, they're a far cry from the stereotypical "fuck the world" punk represented by this trope.