History Main / TheYardies

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Nowadays Yardies come from all backgrounds as immigration policies have allowed people of all walks of life the opportunity to come to England and live in low-income neighbourhoods. See GangBangers for their American counterparts.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'' have a rare American([[WeAllLiveInAmerica -set]]) version of this, with a Jamaican gang called the Uptown Yardies. Notably, their vehicles are the only ones in the game with hydraulics.

* In ''Film/Predator2'', the streets of Los Angeles are torn apart by the rivalry of the Jamaican Voodoo Posse, led by King Willie, and the Colombians, led by El Scorpio. The Voodoo Posse are pretty RuthlessForeignGangsters, as we see when they're ritualistically disembowelling someone who owes King Willie, and they're known to practice HollywoodVoodoo. That said, King Willie himself is AffablyEvil and willing to help [[CowboyCop Lieutenant Harrigan]] with finding the perpetrator of the murders carried out in the streets. He's also most likely a case of AsskickingEqualsAuthority, [[spoiler:because when the Predator comes for him, he puts up a good enough fight with his SwordCane that after the Predator kills him, it keeps his head as a trophy, which it would only do if he was a WorthyOpponent.]]

** There's also a Yardie gang in the PSP spin-off ''Gangs of London'' called the EC2 Crew.

* Literature/Yardie, appropriately enough.

Catch-all term for black gangsters in United Kingdom settings, although it originally applied to groups from the British West Indies (specifically UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}}). The name comes from the common area courtyards found in Trenchtown, the impoverished housing project in West Kingston, Jamaica. While the term was originally used for all residents of Trenchtown, it later applied only to the large number of criminals and gang members that also lived there.

* Arguably most of the main characters from ''Film/{{Kidulthood}}'' and the sequel ''Adulthood'', and definitely Trife's uncle, Curtis.

Catch-all term for black gangsters in United Kingdom settings, although it originally applied to groups from the British West Indies (specifically UsefulNotes/Jamaica). The name comes from the common area courtyards found in Trenchtown, the impoverished housing project in West Kingston, Jamaica. While the term was originally used for all residents of Trenchtown, it later applied only to the large number of criminals and gang members that also lived there.

Catch-all term for black gangsters in United Kingdom settings, although it originally applied to groups from the British West Indies (specifically Jamaica). The name comes from the common area courtyards found in Trenchtown, the impoverished housing project in West Kingston, Jamaica. While the term was originally used for all residents of Trenchtown, it later applied only to the large number of criminals and gang members that also lived there.

* In ''Film/Predator2'', the streets of Los Angeles are torn apart by the rivalry of the Jamaican Voodoo Posse, led by King Willie, and the Colombians, led by El Scorpio. The Voodoo Posse are pretty RuthlessForeignGangsters, as we see when they're ritualistically disembowelling someone who owes King Willie, and they're known to practice HollwoodVoodoo. That said, King Willie himself is AffablyEvil and willing to help [[CowboyCop Lieutenant Harrigan]] with finding the perpetrator of the murders carried out in the streets. He's also most likely a case of AsskickingEqualsAuthority, [[spoiler:because when the Predator comes for him, he puts up a good enough fight with his SwordCane that after the Predator kills him, it keeps his head as a trophy, which it would only do if he was a WorthyOpponent.]]