History Main / TheQuincyPunk

* Duncan from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' is a modernized example, being an in-and-out-of-jail juvenile delinquent with numerous piercings, a green Mohawk, a fondness for punk rock and heavy metal, and an obsession with being seen as tough, masculine, and rebellious to the point where he gets offended when people accuse him of being nice.

* On the same network as the infamous ''Quincy'' episode, ''Series/RemingtonSteele'' had a episode with a brief scene where Laura and Steele walk into a punk rock night club and one of the kids in the mosh pit gets up in Steele's face for no reason and shouts "YOU STINK!" at him.

* One of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' {{Vignette Episode}}s features Lisa and Nelson as Film/SidAndNancy. Crator/SidVicious[=/=]Nelson and the Music/SexPistols (made up of the Springfield Bullies and Bart) are an AffectionateParody of punk on the cusp of the mainstream. The lyrics of their hit song "Education's Bollocks" just consist of Creator/JohnnyRotten[=/=]Bart loudly declaring things to be "bollocks".

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For actual information on Punk rock, see UsefulNotes/{{Punk}} or the PunkRock page. Nothing to do with President UsefulNotes/JohnQuincyAdams, unless some tell-all biography reveals his youthful radicalism. [[http://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Movies-Complete-Guide-Punks/dp/1606993631/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293676826&sr=8-1 There's now a book out that's a field guide to these sorts of portrayals, paired with the rare cases where the creators actually knew what the hell they were doing.]]

Every youth subculture gets its moment to be TheNewRockAndRoll -- [[GreaserDelinquents greasers]], [[ScooterRidingMod mods]], [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippies]], UsefulNotes/{{skinheads}}, {{goth}}s; hell, ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E15TheBeatniks proves]] that even the {{beatnik}}s got a [[Film/TheBeatniks good round of it]]. And when the late '70s and early '80s came around, the punks got it with both barrels. The subculture expressed their societal discontent and marginalization with strange spiky, colored hairstyles and a mix of ripped and provocative clothing that was often DIY, ripped, and edgy. Their [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth simple, raw-sounding, angry music]] was designed to shock. It was a veritable license to sow revulsion and [[MediaScaremongering moral panic]] among the MoralGuardians of the day. TV stations dutifully produced {{Very Special Episode}}s and newscasts about the punk movement's menace to [[{{Suburbia}} good suburbian society's]] peace, law and order. Hollywood's efforts to depict punks showed a lack of effort to research the actual subculture or music; instead, creators tended to use cartoonist, simplistic stereotypes.

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, [[HellBentForLeather studded leather jacket]], and very uncomfortable piercings. The music he listens to is distorted and raw, like hardcore on PCP, and 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 [[UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies any sort of rational opinion on Kropotkin's]] ''[[UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies Mutual Aid]]''. Oh. And he hates you. The Quincy Punk is most often used as [[WhiteGangBangers a stock mugger, thug, or street tough]] for superheroes or other urban vigilantes to beat the shit out of, allowing for an intimidating image in an urban setting while avoiding the UnfortunateImplications of Franchise/{{Batman}} (or some other SuperHero or ActionHero) beating up more “ethnic” or racially-oriented street criminals. A post-apocalypse setting [[TheApunkalypse will likely be infested with punks]] as a sign of how lawless and desperate the world has become.

Every youth subculture gets its moment to be TheNewRockAndRoll -- [[GreaserDelinquents greasers]], [[ScooterRidingMod mods]], [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippies]], UsefulNotes/{{skinheads}}, {{goth}}s; hell, ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E15TheBeatniks proves]] that even the {{beatnik}}s got a [[Film/TheBeatniks good round of it]]. And when the late '70s and early '80s came around, the punks got it with both barrels. The subculture expressed their societal discontent and marginalization with strange spiky, colored hairstyles and a mix of ripped and provocative clothing that was often DIY, ripped, and edgy. Their [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth simple, raw-sounding, angry music]] was designed to shock. It was a veritable license to sow revulsion and [[MediaScaremongering moral panic]] among the MoralGuardians of the day. TV stations dutifully produced {{Very Special Episode}}s and newscasts about the punk movement's menace to [[{{Suburbia}} good suburbian society's]] peace, law and order.

Every youth subculture gets its moment to be TheNewRockAndRoll -- [[GreaserDelinquents greasers]], [[ScooterRidingMod mods]], [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippies]], UsefulNotes/{{skinheads}}, {{goth}}s; hell, ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E15TheBeatniks proves]] that even the {{beatnik}}s got a [[Film/TheBeatniks good round of it]]. And when the late '70s and early '80s came around, the punks got it with both barrels. The subculture expressed their societal discontent and marginalization with strange spiky, colored hairstyles and a mix of ripped and provocative clothing that was often DIY, ripped, and edgy. Their [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth simple, raw-sounding, angry music]] was designed to shock. It was a veritable license to sow revulsion and [[MediaScaremongering moral panic]] among the MoralGuardians of the day. TV stations dutifully produced {{Very Special Episode}} about the punk movement's menace to [[{{Suburbia}} good suburbian society's]] peace, law and order.

Every youth subculture gets its moment to be TheNewRockAndRoll -- [[GreaserDelinquents greasers]], [[ScooterRidingMod mods]], [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippies]], UsefulNotes/{{skinheads}}, {{goth}}s; hell, ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E15TheBeatniks proves]] that even the {{beatnik}}s got a [[Film/TheBeatniks good round of it]]. And when the late '70s and early '80s came around, the punks got it with both barrels. The subculture expressed their societal discontent and marginalization with strange spiky, colored hairstyles and a mix of ripped and provocative clothing that was often DIY, ripped, and edgy. Their [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth simple, raw-sounding, angry music]] was designed to shock. It was a veritable license to sow revulsion and [[MediaScaremongering moral panic]] among the MoralGuardians of the day. TV stations dutifully produced {{Very Special Episode}} about the punk movement's menace to [[{{Suburbia}} good suburbian society's]] and law and order.

Every youth subculture gets its moment to be TheNewRockAndRoll -- [[GreaserDelinquents greasers]], [[ScooterRidingMod mods]], [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippies]], UsefulNotes/{{skinheads}}, {{goth}}s; hell, ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E15TheBeatniks proves]] that even the {{beatnik}}s got a [[Film/TheBeatniks good round of it]]. And when the late '70s and early '80s came around, the punks got it with both barrels. The subculture expressed their societal discontent and marginalization with strange spiky, colored hairstyles and a mix of ripped and provocative clothing that was often DIY, ripped, and edgy. Their [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth simple, raw-sounding, angry music]] was designed to shock. It was a veritable license to sow revulsion and [[MediaScaremongering moral panic]] among the MoralGuardians of the day.

But whereas the general societal backlash to a subculture tends to abate over time, there's ''still'' this idea, decades later, 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 [[Music/SexPistols Sid Vicious]] ruined it for everyone.

Not to be confused with the actual clan of Quincies from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Or one of the first suburbs {{Southies}} escaped to.

* ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': Chosovi, one of the new recruits at the evil WizardSchool known as Myth/TheScholomance, is depicted as this. She has torn clothes and a dyed mohawk, and she's also a sadistic monster who seems to enjoy violence and bloodshed far too much.

Every youth subculture gets its moment to be TheNewRockAndRoll -- [[GreaserDelinquents greasers]], [[ScooterRidingMod mods]], [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippies]], UsefulNotes/{{skinheads}}, {{goth}}s; hell, ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' proves that even the {{beatnik}}s got a [[Film/TheBeatniks good round of it]]. And when the late '70s and early '80s came around, the punks got it with both barrels. The subculture expressed their societal discontent and marginalization with strange spiky, colored hairstyles and a mix of ripped and provocative clothing that was often DIY, ripped, and edgy. Their [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth simple, raw-sounding, angry music]] was designed to shock. It was a veritable license to sow revulsion and [[MediaScaremongering moral panic]] among the MoralGuardians of the day.

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 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 [[UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies any sort of rational opinion on Kropotkin's]] ''[[UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies Mutual Aid]]''. Oh. And he hates you. The Quincy Punk is most often used as [[WhiteGangBangers a stock mugger, thug, or street tough]] for superheroes or other urban vigilantes to beat the shit out of, allowing for an intimidating image in an urban setting while avoiding the UnfortunateImplications of Franchise/{{Batman}} (or some other SuperHero or ActionHero) beating up more “ethnic” or racially-oriented street criminals. A post-apocalypse setting [[TheApunkalypse will likely be infested with punks]] as a sign of how lawless and desperate the world has become.

-->-- ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}''', ''ComicBook/BatmanFortunateSon''

-->-- Franchise/{{Batman}}, ''ComicBook/BatmanFortunateSon''

* ''Manga/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.

* Creator/DanBrown's ''Literature/DigitalFortress'' has a [[DanBrowned particularly ridiculous]] case of this. The punks David comes across in Spain are almost a parody of the stereotype in both appearance and behaviour. This holds even though there's at least a hundred of them- as far as the reader can tell, they all have identical personalities. They also seem to be cast as uneducated and/or criminal dropouts, as they're somehow the first punks the university lecturer has ever met.

-->-- ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}: Fortunate Son''

* Zed from ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw''. He's a loud, aggressive, foul-mouthed, and sexist zombie who dresses like a British punk and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals likes torturing small animals]]. He's also a Dark Purveyor who helped [[BigBad Swan]] unleash a ZombieApocalyse for no reason other than [[ForTheEvulz because he could]]. Fittingly, he's voiced by Jimmy Euringer of Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence, who's known for his screeching, intense, profanity-laden vocals.