History Main / ViolentGlaswegian

A connected stereotype is the "ned" (according to incorrect folk etymology, short for [[FunWithAcronyms Non Educated Delinquent]]) -- a young Glaswegian hooligan who wears tilted-up baseball caps, lots of gold bling and tracksuits, travels in packs, drinks [[BoozeBasedBuff Buckfast]][[note]]A tonic wine, popular among binge drinkers in the west of Scotland - one bottle contains as much caffeine as 8 cans of cola, and known as 'Buckie' .[[/note]] by the gallon, and is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNLfr1EP08 impossible to understand.]] This is a counterpart to the English "[[LowerClassLout chav]]" stereotype and the Irish DublinSkanger.

[[caption-width-right:350:"I just wanted to borrow a cup of sugar."]]

* Jamie and Malcolm from ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' and ''Film/InTheLoop'' epitomise this trope. Other characters refer to them and their henchmen as the 'Caledonian Mafia', a term [[TruthInTelevision actually used]] to describe Scots in the Blair/Brown government.

* On a [=BBC=] travelogue show where he was tasked with making sense of UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} for British people, Creator/FrankieBoyle spent time with the UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}}. His hosts demonstrated their sword-skills to him, and gave the impression that they'd be very surprised if any non-Cossack, let alone a non-Russian, would even know which end to hold a sabre by. Allowed to try and replicate one of their feats of swordsmanship, with the expectation he would prove to be amusingly inept at it, Frankie took a swing and managed it first go. Then a second time on the backswing. As he said afterwars, he was aware he'd just completely failed to dispel a lingering cultural prejudice concerning Scotsmen with sharp blades.

* In 2017, the Creator/{{BBC}} produced and broadcasted a series of plays commemorating the centenary of the UsefulNotes/RussianRevolution. In a dramatisation of the life of UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin, it is very noticeable that [[AccentAdaptation characters have been given a range of British regional accents]] to symbolise when they are from other parts of Russia and not natives of St Petersburg/Moscow [[note]] City natives get London/RP English accents of various sorts according to their social class[[/note]]). Lenin's personal driver, for instance, is broad Welsh. And when a thuggish Georgian bank-robber called [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin J.V. Djugashvili]] enters the play, ''his' accent is Violent Glaswegian, no doubt to symbolise that UsefulNotes/GeorgiaEurope is a different country and separate from Russia... Though when one considers the stereotype of the Georgian in RussianHumor (peculiar accents, "highlander" honor, violent tendencies, etc.), this may actually be an inspired casting choice.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Groundskeeper Willie, whose belligerence and sociopathy leads to him declaring Scots to be the natural enemies of Englishmen, Welshmen, Japanese, and even ''other Scots'', in the page quote above. Willie has been identified as a Glaswegian ("...the ugliest man in Glasgow...") on at least one occasion, but has an accent of indeterminate origin and had been, at various points in time, [[NegativeContinuity said to hail from]] Edinburgh, Loch Ness, and "North Kilt-Town", before Willie himself finally cleared things up by declaring that he was ''actually'' from Kirkwall in Orkney.

After UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the old problems faded, while new ones sprang up in their place. 60s planners cleared away the original slums, but the tower blocks and other developments that were built [[UrbanHellscape aged badly]]. The former "Workshop of the [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire Empire]]" was hit hard by industrial decline, perhaps the worst case of any major city in Britain. Factories and once world-famous shipyards closed. Unemployment and crime rose, a new street gang scene emerged and the trope stayed alive. Though some neighbourhoods remain deprived to this day, the city as a whole has done much to recover and its crime rates have fallen greatly. Once the 'Murder Capital of Western Europe', [[https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/06/glasgow-murder-rate-knife-gang-crime-police its murder rate is less than half it was at its height]].[[note]]You tryin' tae say we're saft or summat? Yer gettin' chibbed fir that![[/note]]

A connected stereotype is the "ned" (according to incorrect folk etymology, short for [[FunWithAcronyms Non Educated Delinquent]]) -- a young Glaswegian hooligan who wears tilted-up baseball caps, lots of gold bling and tracksuits, travels in packs, drinks [[BoozeBasedBuff Buckfast]][[note]]A tonic wine, popular among binge drinkers in Scotland - one bottle contains as much caffeine as 8 cans of cola, and known as 'Buckie' .[[/note]] by the gallon, and is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNLfr1EP08 impossible to understand.]] This is a counterpart to the English "[[LowerClassLout chav]]" stereotype and the Irish DublinSkanger.

* Donald from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' is probably the most family-friendly example out there. He didn't hold back giving [[{{Jerkass}} The Spiteful Brake Van]] a fierce bump for delaying Douglas' trains. This made the brake van behave better, although temporarily until it was Douglas who ''unintentionally'' breaks him into pieces.
-->'''Donald:''' Spite Douggie, would ye?! TAKE THAT! (''crushes the Spiteful Brake Van apart'')

** In ''The Name of the Doctor'', it is revealed that Strax, having discovered the concept of the weekend off, has taken to traveling up to Glasgow in order to get into bar fights with the only people in the universe able to equal [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the Sontarans]] for [[BloodKnight sheer bloody-minded aggression]].

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** The [[Creator/SylvesterMcCoy Seventh]] and [[Creator/PeterCapaldi Twelfth]] Doctors both have Scottish accents. Seven and his English companion Ace are arguably an inversion, with Seven as the cool-headed [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] (although he's still one of the more ruthless Doctors) and Ace as the MadBomber. The Twelfth Doctor, on the other hand, plays this trope for all it's worth. His accent is far more noticeable than Seven's, and he's the dourest and angriest Doctor since the [[Creator/WilliamHartnell First]]. He rarely gets physical, though, and he's still a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Still, he's the first [=NewWho=] Doctor to have gotten violent with someone outside self-defence. In "Thin Ice", when Lord Sutcliffe starts shouting racist and sexist abuse at his companion Bill, the Doctor [[HeyYouHaymaker taps his shoulder, then slugs him in the face as soon as he turns back around]].

** In ''The Name of the Doctor'', it is revealed that Strax, having discovered the concept of the weekend off, has taken to traveling up to Glasgow in order to get into bar fights with the only people in the universe able to equal the Sontarans for sheer bloody-minded aggression.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' has Sheogorath, the God of Madness, who speaks with an exaggerated ScotIreland accent and is fond of using [[WeaponizedTeleportation weaponised teleportation]] to get rid of people who annoy him (or simply [[ItAmusedMe because it's funny]]). He returns in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' more or less the same, albeit with a difference appearance [[spoiler: justified that this is actually the second Sheogorath, who is canonically the hero from the last game, who replaced the original after saving his realm of Oblivion]]

* In ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'', Iselmyr, with her Hylspeak, [[TheLadette ladette tendencies]], and penchant for picking fights for fun or honor, very much qualifies. [[spoiler:She's also the LiteralSplitPersonality of the {{elfeminate}}, [[TheComicallySerious dour]] CowardlyLion Aloth, and is constantly getting him in trouble.]]
* [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent Although he doesn't actually have the accent]], the first things the player learns about Gilbert [=McLane=] in VideoGame/GodEater2 are: He's from Glasgow, he was charged with murdering a superior officer, and the first thing he did upon transferring to the player's unit was to punch one of his new teammates in the face. It's pretty quickly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] once you talk to him though, as, outside of some BloodKnight tendencies, he's actually a pretty affable guy. He punched his new teammate because the guy was asking some intrusive questions and unwittingly hit his BerserkButton. As for the killing a superior officer thing: [[spoiler: it was a MercyKill, at her request, to prevent her from succumbing to an [[ZombieInfectee Aragami Infection]] ([[DarkAndTroubledPast Something he's still broken up over]]) and all charges against him were dropped.]]
* ''VideoGame/Payday2'' has Bonnie, who is explicitly mentioned as coming from Glasgow. Bonus points in that one of her weapons happens to be [[GrievousBottleyHarm a whiskey bottle]].
* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'': PlayerCharacter John "Soap" [=McTavish=] turns out to have this accent in the second game. He's a hero and friendly to his teammates, but as a SAS operative, certainly violent.
* ''VideoGame/FarCry3'': Callum, one of the four castaways in the Co-Operative mode, is a young Glaswegian who grew up in poverty and got a job as a cook on the ship. He's cynical, foul-mouthed, and is first introduced chopping up meat for the crew's dinner- then throwing one of his knives into a Rook Island pirate who boards the ship. Then he teams up with DirtyCop Leonard, SassyBlackWoman Tisha, and Mikhail, a former Russian hitman, in order to get revenge on the captain who ratted them out to the pirates. And in the hands of a competent player, he can be a OneManArmy.
* The Conductor from ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' is a temperamental {{Jerkass}} with a thick Scottish accent and who constantly throws around the word "Peck", which is [[InformedObscenity considered offensive among birds]]. He also drinks heavily, according to the Seal the Deal DLC. Depending on whose side you take in the Battle of the Birds, [[StaticRoleExchangeableCharacter you can end up fighting him]] over he wanting to keep the Time Piece to [[EvilIsPetty undo the one loss he had against DJ Grooves]]. However, if you end up fighting DJ Grooves instead of the Conductor, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he will show up to save you from Grooves' bomb.]]
* The {{Space Pirate}}s of ''VideoGame/VoidBastards'' are, as far as can be determined, all violent Scottish [[AmazonBrigade women]] who shoot first and ask questions... well, never. It's all just the shooting.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': Captain Padraig and the other Ardainian Soldiers are voiced with a heavy Scottish accent in the English dub, and their battle quotes are very boisterous, rowdy and aggressive.

* Agent 300 in ''Webcomic/{{Niels}}'', despite being raised as a high society gentleman, is more than capable of lapsing into this from time to time. His accent meets the requirement only when he's drunk (and he's a silly drunk, not a mean drunk), and his most notable act of violence is when he went on an offscreen RoaringRampageOfRevenge against [[spoiler: Niels for shooting Agent 250]]. He also threatened to break 250's arm if 250 started [[ForeignFanservice stuffing dollar bills into his kilt]].

* Alluded to in [[https://notalwaysright.com/should-have-called-it-a-night/80311/ this story]] from Website/NotAlwaysRight, when the submitter mentioned her manager's Glaswegian accent while describing his intimidation of a creepy customer.

* Given that ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' is a FantasyCounterpartCulture of the UK, [[https://safebooru.donmai.us/pools/16495 it's become a meme to portray female player character Gloria]] as a violent/hard-drinking/belligerent/semi-intelligible Scotswoman.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Groundskeeper Willie, whose belligerence and sociopathy leads to him declaring Scots to be the natural enemies of Englishmen, Welshmen, Japanese, and even ''other Scots'', in the page quote above. Willie has been identified as a Glaswegian ("...the ugliest man in Glasgow...") on at least one occasion, but has an accent of indeterminate origin and had been, at various points in time, [[NegativeContinuity said to hail from]] Edinburgh, Loch Ness, and "North Kilt-Town", before Willie himself finally cleared things up by declaring that he was ''actually'' from Kirkwall in Orkney.
-->'''Groundskeeper Willie:''' Ach! [[FootballHooligans They call this a soccer riot? Come on, lads, let's take 'em to school!]]\\
''(gets up with a couple of other obviously Scottish men and a lead pipe)''
* Donald from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' is probably the most family-friendly example out there. He didn't hold back giving [[{{Jerkass}} The Spiteful Brake Van]] a fierce bump for delaying Douglas' trains. This made the brake van behave better, although temporarily until it was Douglas who ''unintentionally'' breaks him into pieces.
-->'''Donald:''' Spite Douggie, would ye?! TAKE THAT! (''crushes the Spiteful Brake Van apart'')
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'':
** The Scotsman is more or less this trope's personification. Naturally, the first time he and Jack meet, he turns a minor issue that Jack was willing to compromise on into a full-on sword fight to the death that lasted a third of the episode and obliterated most of the surrounding landscape right up until it was interrupted by [[BigBad Aku]]. He has a machine gun in place of a prosthetic leg, and a [[{{BFS}} Scottish claymore]] that has similar magical properties to Jack's own sword.
** And such a man would have to have an equally violent wife... which he does. She's just as much of a BoisterousBruiser as her hubby is, but she manages to do just as much damage as him WHILE UNARMED (that is, [[BerserkButton once somebody calls her fat]]). How she was captured in the first place is anyone's guess. Though after finishing off the army, she has calmed down so perhaps she can be calmer than her husband, yet shorter to infuriate and angrier.
* The ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' villain Duff Killigan, a golfer who was banned from every golf course in the world for his temper tantrums. Yes, even mini-golf courses.

* WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'s mentor and driving instructor, Roddy [=McStew=]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': Haggis [=McHaggis=]. Oh, sweet Mother [=MacCree=], ''Haggis''.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Sandor Clegane has shades of this. He claims to greatly enjoy violence and killing — the guilt-free killing of fighting other soldiers who are trying to kill you first. He will only fight someone once given an excuse, though once given an excuse he will happily rip your guts out. Still, instead of a hair-trigger temper, he's much more TranquilFury. Of course, his actor Rory [=McCann=] is ''actually from'' Glasgow.
* In the episode "Hard Men" of ''Series/TheSweeney'', one Glasgow gangster kills another (who had, admittedly, kidnapped the first man's daughter) by shooting him with A FLARE PISTOL; the victim goes up in a ball of flame and dies horribly, screaming; causing the dead man's friend to tell a policeman, "Did ye see that? Did ye? That was DIABOLICAL!"
* Russ Abbott's "Jimmy" character.
* ''Series/RabCNesbitt.''
* Black Jock [=McLaren=] from ''Series/{{Porridge}}'' (also a ScaryBlackMan and a ScaryMinoritySuspect), though he's actually from Greenock, 27 miles from Glasgow.
* Creator/RobbieColtrane is a Glaswegian who often plays tough, but not necessarily violent, characters. Sometimes he plays against type: In ''The Fruit Machine'', he's a CampGay transvestite with a Glasgow accent, and in the Film/HarryPotter films, he plays GentleGiant (well, [[HalfHumanHybrid half-giant]], anyway) Hagrid, and speaks with a Westcountry accent. On the other hand, he had the title role in the LiveActionAdaptation of ''The Bogie Man'' (see Comic Books, above).

* An episode of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' portrayed Louis [[strike:XIV]] [[strike:XV]] XVI of France this way. Needless to say, [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensued]]. [[spoiler: As it turns out, it wasn't Louis XVI, just a Violent Glaswegian impersonating Louis XVI.]]

* [[Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace "Scotch Mist."]] The Scotsmen are portrayed as violent enough to come back from the dead to murder people, and when they are engaged in conversation, subtitles are helpfully provided.
* Most of the jokes that Creator/FrankieBoyle makes on ''Series/MockTheWeek'' invoke this trope.
** ''How often are police in Glasgow called out to deal with a pregnant woman attacking a rottweiler with a sledgehammer?''

* ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' has a visiting Glaswegian journalist who manages to be cheerfully violent despite being [[PregnantBadass heavily pregnant]]. In defiance of all TV traditions, she also manages to get through the entire episode without giving birth.
* The homeless man ''Series/TheInbetweeners'' meet in London: while he isn't violent, he speaks with a Scottish accent, and Will claims that he 'really scares' him.
* Jamie and Malcolm from ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' and ''Film/InTheLoop'' epitomise this trope. Other characters refer to them and their henchmen as the 'Caledonian Mafia', a term [[TruthInTelevision actually used]] to describe Scots in the Blair/Brown government.

* Chibs from ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy''.

* On a ''Series/GoodEats'' episode on oats, Alton Brown dresses like a fourth-string extra from ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' to demonstrate how to make haggis. He reinforces his instructions with the admonition "Or I'll give ye the back o' my ''HAND!''"
* Kenny [=McBlane=] from ''Series/TheFallAndRiseOfReginaldPerrin''.
* ''Brighton Belles'', the short-lived TransatlanticEquivalent to ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', made Sophia's character a Glaswegian, Josephine.[[note]]Actually, she grew up in the Highlands, but she had a Glaswegian accent.[[/note]] Not only did Josephine have a nasty temper herself, but her late husband was implied to have been a Glaswegian criminal (in the same way as Sophia's was implied to have been a New York gangster).
* Callum Finnegan in ''Series/{{Brookside}}''. A huge shock to the Scottish audience, who associated Gerard Kelly with mildly camp comedy roles.
* Flynn from ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''...maybe. He's TheBigGuy, uses "This is how we do it Glasglow style!" as a battle cry in one episode, and bellows "I'm SCOTTISH!" when asked what his role in the FiveManBand is by Tenaya 7. On the other hand, he has perhaps the least issues of anyone on the team, and is a GeniusBruiser, fitting the "inventive" trope mentioned above.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The [[Creator/SylvesterMcCoy Seventh]] and [[Creator/PeterCapaldi Twelfth]] Doctors both have Scottish accents. Seven and his English companion Ace are arguably an inversion, with Seven as the cool-headed [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] (although he's still one of the more ruthless Doctors) and Ace as the MadBomber. The Twelfth Doctor, on the other hand, plays this trope for all it's worth. His accent is far more noticeable than Seven's, and he's the dourest and angriest Doctor since the [[Creator/WilliamHartnell First]]. He rarely gets physical, though, and he's still a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Still, he's the first [=NewWho=] Doctor to have gotten violent with someone outside self-defence. In "Thin Ice", when Lord Sutcliffe starts shouting racist and sexist abuse at his companion Bill, the Doctor [[HeyYouHaymaker taps his shoulder, then slugs him in the face as soon as he turns back around]].
** Jamie, a companion of the Second Doctor, is a kilt-wearing, simple-minded Scot who primarily resorts to brute strength and violence to solve problems. Possibly justified in Jamie's case; he was picked up straight from the battlefield of Culloden, after all, and soldiers in general, let alone Scottish ones, are not very well known for being shrinking violets.
*** Ironically, in the tie-in novel ''The Wheel of Ice'' by Stephen Baxter, Jamie has trouble warming up to a Scots-accented robot ''because'' it claims its origins are Glaswegian. He calls Glaswegians "lowland jessies" who sided against the Jacobites.
** In "Asylum of the Daleks", when Amy slaps Rory for [[AskAStupidQuestion asking a stupid question]], Oswin asks if Amy seems more angry than usual ([[spoiler:since that would indicate the Dalek conversion was further along than they thought]]).
--->'''Amy:''' Well, ''somebody's'' never been to Scotland!
** In ''The Name of the Doctor'', it is revealed that Strax, having discovered the concept of the weekend off, has taken to traveling up to Glasgow in order to get into bar fights with the only people in the universe able to equal the Sontarans for sheer bloody-minded aggression.
** Creator/MichelleGomez uses her natural Glaswegian accent when playing TheMaster, and Gomez's [[TheNthDoctor/DoctorWho incarnation]] (nicknamed "Missy") is at least as psychopathic as her predecessors. The InUniverse explanation is that Missy took a liking to Twelve's accent and copied it.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxB1gB6K-2A This]] UsefulNotes/ComicRelief sketch featuring Creator/DavidTennant and Creator/CatherineTate. As Mr. Logan's anger at [[Series/TheCatherineTateShow Lauren Cooper]] builds, he starts slipping into his (and Tennant's) natural Scottish accent before finally snapping [[spoiler:and pulling [[Series/DoctorWho a sonic screwdriver]] on Lauren, [[AndIMustScream turning her into a Rose Tyler action figure]]]].
* Mr. Gold a.k.a. Rumplestiltskin from ''Series/OnceUponATime'' is actually from an alternate fantasy world but played by Scottish actor Creator/RobertCarlyle. Though he prefers using magic and manipulating people through [[DealWithTheDevil deals]], it doesn't take much to get him to break out the CaneFu.
* In general, English crime dramas like to throw in the odd Violent Glaswegian as an obvious suspect -- usually as a RedHerring. This is particularly the case in more genteel settings, such as Oxford (in ''Series/InspectorMorse'' and ''Series/{{Lewis}}'') and [[Series/MidsomerMurders Midsomer]] (even though those settings usually involve crime rates that make Glasgow's look downright mellow). Said Glaswegian is usually loud, hostile, and obstructive to the police, (or alternatively, dour, taciturn, and obstructive to the police) but seldom the actual killer. That is if they're men; Glaswegian women are generally less confrontational in such series.
* Johnny Red in ''Series/KeenEddie'', who won't hesitate to brawl with his brother-in-law over the slightest thing.
** To a lesser extent, Cecil Barrett in the episode "Citizen Cecil," who goes on a borderline rampage against the crew who robbed his boss' casino just to recover the soccer playoff tickets they stole from him during the robbery, due to sounding Scottish.
* Creator/JohnOliver's bit about the Scottish independence vote in ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'' had him bring up how Scotland's national flower is the thistle and that, if the vote succeeded, their currency would be "sheep and threats" after losing the British pound sterling.
* One episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'' featured a [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]] expy rather pointedly called "Glasgowman".
* SPG from ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' is a violent Glaswegian hamster, who once launched an unprovoked headbutt assault on an upper-class teddy bear.
* ''Series/{{Burnistoun}}'': Discussed in the voice-activated elevator sketch. The American-voiced machine urges the two very aggravated men (both Scotsmen) to stay calm, to which one of them responds that obviously, they had to add this, since they knew they were selling it to Scotsmen who were bound to lose their temper. The show takes place in the Glasgow area.
* Largely defied by Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott (Scotty) in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', even when he's been drinking. But if it's a bonnie good donnybrook you're itching for, then go ahead and [[BerserkButton make fun of his ship]], we dare you.

* ''Series/TheHauntingOfBlyManor'': Peter Quint. According to WordOfSaintPaul, [[https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a34348004/haunting-of-bly-manor-oliver-jackson-cohen-interview/ he is from Glasgow]] where he had an extremely abusive upbringing. While he appears to be well dressed and can fit in with the upper classes, he's also an extremely violent boyfriend to Rebecca, emotionally abusing her and [[spoiler:causing her death so they can be TogetherInDeath.]]
* On a [=BBC=] travelogue show where he was tasked with making sense of UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} for British people, Creator/FrankieBoyle spent time with the UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}}. His hosts demonstrated their sword-skills to him, and gave the impression that they'd be very surprised if any non-Cossack, let alone a non-Russian, would even know which end to hold a sabre by. Allowed to try and replicate one of their feats of swordsmanship, with the expectation he would prove to be amusingly inept at it, Frankie took a swing and managed it first go. Then a second time on the backswing. As he said afterwars, he was aware he'd just completely failed to dispel a lingering cultural prejudice concerning Scotsmen with sharp blades.

* Singer Alex Harvey (of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band) was notorious for singing cover versions in a menacing Glaswegian accent. When he sang "Delilah" he sounded demented enough to have actually committed the murder the song talks about.

* Music/EricBogle, who was born in Peebles, does not shy away from his Scottish heritage and has used this stereotype for songs both comic (e.g. "English Arse Kissing Blues") and serious (e.g. "Glasgow Lullaby").

* [[https://youtu.be/_iYva-JPzLY?t=2m15s "Trouble (The Evil Scotsman Song)"]] by The Rockin' Jock.

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* In ''Series/RolandRatTheSeries'', Fergie the Ferret is Glaswegian, and an alleged handyman who generally uses a large mallet to apply PercussiveMaintenance to everything. "Everything" definitely includes people.
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* [[PunnyName General Mayhem]], the lawn gnome general in ''[[Website/GaiaOnline zOMG!]]''[='s=] Village Greens area, is a Violent Glaswegian ''lawn ornament''.

* Video Gaiden's ''VideoGame/GodHand'' review played with this trope: [[MemeticMutation "The genius of]] ''VideoGame/GodHand'' [[MemeticMutation is that it's just a game about punching people!"]]

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* Hilarious customer-made "Mockumercial" for Utilikilts "[[https://youtu.be/4dK0cnL9uLg Excuse me. Are you wearing a skirt?"]]

* [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/01/labour-gordon-brown-hard-man A spoof election campaign]] by British newspaper The Guardian portrays then-prime minister Gordon Brown in this way. Brown is Scottish (though not actually Glaswegian) and was often nicknamed 'Irn Broon' after the drink mentioned above ('Broon' representing the way 'Brown' would be pronounced in a thick Scottish accent). Despite being an April Fools' joke, the poster caught on, and many people considered it to be superior to the real election campaign.

* A more PG-13 version exists in the form of Johnny [=McGregor=], the Scottish member of the European "Majestics" team in the dub of ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade''. He's got the red hair and the attitude and is described as being from the Highlands, plays tennis and golf, and by his own words, he's even called "The Gladiator of Glasgow".[[note]]The original Japanese never identifies his origins as more specific than being from the UK, and there are both details in favor of English heritage and Scottish heritage.[[/note]]

* Francis Clunie, ''The Bogie Man'', is a mad and violent Glaswegian, but he speaks with a FakeAmerican accent due to his delusion that he is Creator/HumphreyBogart.
* Cameron Spector in ''ComicBook/TheFilth'' is a violent Glaswegian whose speech is written in phonetic Glaswegian dialect, thus making her indecipherable to many of the comic's readers.

* In the comic ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', one of the minor antagonists is Alistair Harper, a violent Scot - who, while he prefers killing with knives - is also an arms dealer, strangely enough (given the above description).
** Not only that. The comic makes several references to Scotland not being entirely under the control of the Norsefire government. Just think about that for a second. The comic has the UK surviving nuclear war, the subsequent environmental disaster, and the rise of a totalitarian government, and you still can't keep this trope down.

* [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]], [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 in]] [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 any]] [[Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck incarnation]]. Interestingly, while his father was Scottish (and Scrooge was raised in Glasgow and the Highlands) his mother was actually Irish, so he also has some of the FightingIrish inside him.
* Wee Hughie from ComicBook/TheBoys is an inversion: at the beginning of the comic he doesn't fight anyone, and only actually starts to fight once he's been injected with the SuperSerum. And even then, he's still less violent than the Frenchman and the Female. When asked about this trope he mentions that it does exist, but it's [[StopBeingStereotypical mostly the stupid ones.]]
* The Piper from ''ComicBook/AdventuresInTheRifleBrigade''. More than a century old, lives in a well from which he is summoned by means of haggis on a fishing line, and his [[EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes bagpipe causes ear bleeding]] on non-Commonwealth people and is made with the skin of the last guy who tried to take it from him. Thankfully, he doesn't speak, he just ''stares'' at you. Needless to say, this is a Creator/GarthEnnis comic.
* The [[http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Minor_or_one-shot_characters_in_Belch_Dimension_Comics#Drunken_Scotsman Drunken Scotsman]] (real name Duncan [=McTavish=]) from ''The Belch Dimension Comics''. He's an apologetic Groundskeeper Willy {{Expy}}, from the top of his head to the tartan of his kilt, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin likes to drink]], fool around, and fight, in that order.

* ''LetsPlay/AScotsmanInEgypt'' is the tale of how Scotland conquered the world, thanks in large part to its inhabitants being, well, Scottish. The sight of insane men in kilts and huge swords is enough to scare enemies, and that's ''before'' they charge. Others are badass in other ways as well. The Scottish system of spies and assassins is never once defeated (and that includes the one where the spymaster was ''dead''), their kings fight, plot and plan like no one else, and while there are the odd exceptions like [[AfraidOfBlood Prince David]], it's because their badassery was instead combined into Angus the Mauler, a man who terrified Russians (up to then, the ''only'' people to stand up to the Scots in close combat) and singlehandedly killed an elephant. Highlander infantry outnumbered two to one, facing infantry, cavalry, catapults... and still win. Doesn't stop there either. The Timurids tried to invade Europe, bringing 9,000 men with them. Truly, an unmatchable force... except for the ''15,000'' Scots waiting for them. Turns out Scots are just as good at fighting as they are making more Scots.
* In ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'', Derpy Hooves speaks with a Scots accent and believes firmly in solving her problems with violence. Her biggest role in the series is when she decides on a whim to kill everyone in Ponyville.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fanfic-ist Creator/AAPessimal broke out of an adherence to canon to introduce the mysterious land of Hyperllamedos, out of the perfectly good supposition that if Llamedos is Wales and neighbouring Hergen is Ireland, there has to be an adjoining region, on the mysterious and ill-defined Hubland borders of both, that completes the third member of the Celtic triad. Hyperllamedos, therefore, is a land of heather, thistle, lake monsters, strong distilled liquid, haggis, argumentative people who call other people "Jimmy", and the fabled land of origin of the [=NacMacFeegle=].
* If [[AscendedFanon later quotes are any indication]], [[LightIsNotGood Galeem]] in ''[[https://incorrectsmashbrosquotes.tumblr.com Incorrect Smash Bros Quotes]]'' [[AdaptationalNationality is Scottish]], and while his [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]], [[OnlySaneMan rather more sane]] exterior might make you think he's a subversion, he has a ''very'' hot temper and is prone to screaming threats and throwing punches whenever the Smashers or Dharkon do something stupid.

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* ''Film/TheSuppressor'' does not shy away from the angry Scottish stereotype.
** Blake Bradley himself is a bitter recovering alcoholic who attacks criminals.
** Billy Hunter is a vicious drug dealer who doesn't take flak from anyone.
* ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'': Begbie. Although this violent sociopath is from Leith, Creator/RobertCarlyle portrayed him as (in his words) "a cartoon caricature of a Glasgow hard man." Renton explains the psychology of the Violent Glaswegian in the ''Trainspotting'' novel. He says that Begbie is like that because "he believed his own - and it must be said, our - propaganda about him being a total psychopath".
* ''Film/TheWindThatShakesTheBarley'': A sadly TruthInTelevision example. Many of the most brutal acts of sheer psychotic sadism are perpetrated by Black & Tan soldiers with noticeable thick Scottish accents. And averted thoroughly with the conscientious Johnny Gogan, [[spoiler:who frees the IRA protagonists... [[WarIsHell and dies later at the hands of the very same men.]]]]
* Fat Bastard from ''Film/AustinPowers'', though he's more [[FatBastard obnoxious]] and [[FatSlob crude]] than violent.

* Creator/GerardButler's role in ''Film/ThreeHundred'', due to his Scottish accent. The Spartans all speak in a broad British accent, and it's interesting to note that some translations of Ancient Greek literature give Spartans a Scots dialect, due to similarities in the way Spartans and Scots have been portrayed.

* Many of the Scots in ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', most specifically Hamish, the huge BoisterousBruiser who likes to show people his affection by ponching them in th' heid. His elderly dad's an even tougher nutter.

* ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'': Whenever the Mad Hatter started getting a tad more intense, Creator/JohnnyDepp's accent changes to Scottish, which he based on ''Series/RabCNesbitt''.
* ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' has a bunch of tough Scotsmen who challenge Bond to a game of catch with stone cannonballs, a Highland marching band that roughs up Peter Sellers in a programmed hallucination, and Scots henchmen in Woody Allen's underground lair. Also, French police officer Mathis speaks with a Scots accent, which worries him.
** He may have lost the accent working for [=MI6=], but ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' established beyond a doubt that Bond is Scottish, and Creator/DanielCraig's tenure inaugurated a much DarkerAndEdgier period for the character. Craig's portrayal of a harder-edged, more ruthless 007 underneath the suave charm has also been described as a throwback to the films that predated the franchise's LighterAndSofter (and in some [[AudienceAlienatingEra less fondly-remembered installments]] DenserAndWackier) period between TheSeventies and TheNineties, drawing comparisons to the films that starred the very Scottish Creator/SeanConnery.
* The Scottish animal pen designer in ''Film/WeBoughtAZoo'' wears traditional Scottish attire, gets drunk at the zoo bar, and has to be physically restrained from attacking his nemesis.
* Gimli is this in the film version of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' because Dwarves, in general, were portrayed to have Scottish accents.
* For the same reason, Dwalin and Dáin Ironfoot (the latter played by Creator/BillyConnolly, natch) are this as well in the film version of ''Film/TheHobbit''.
* The punk cannibal savages in ''Film/{{Doomsday}}'' (albeit with some excuse, given their situation). Eden is superficially more civilized but has strong tendencies toward this trope herself.
* Davy Jones from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''. Very Scots, very violent. Interestingly enough, he was originally supposed to have a Dutch accent- but Creator/BillNighy refused categorically, tried for Welsh, and ended up [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent somewhere]] in Scotland. Expanded universe material says [[PsychoForHire Mercer]] is also supposed to be Scottish, but he sounds more Mancunian than anything else.

* ''Film/CloudAtlas'': Cavendish and his co-conspirators manage to throw off their captors for good in a pub in Scotland [[ExploitedTrope by appealing to this trope]]. The Scots Rugby team have just lost a televised match against England, and the escapees turn the patrons' built-up anger against the mostly English hospital staff by saying that the [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical latter are trying to claim "dominion" over them]].
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': Charlie and the excessively violent man he gets in a bar fight with are the only Scottish characters in the film, and both have a propensity towards getting in brawls.

* Irvine Welsh has his novels filled with Violent Glaswegians. A few examples: Dozo Doyle from ''Literature/{{Glue}}'' (tortures guard dogs to death), Alex Setterington from ''Literature/MarabouStorkNightmares'' (ringleader of a horrific gang-rape), and, of course, the aforementioned Begbie.
* Author Creator/ChristopherBrookmyre, who sets many of his books in Scotland, uses this one frequently.
** Interestingly, probably his most violent Glaswegian - in full neck-snapping, brain-shooting, eye-gouging glory - is an extremely petite South Asian woman. Glasgow has a large South Asian community, which contributes some of the local [=MPs=]

* In ''Literature/TheBigOne'', it's mentioned that Scotland was never really pacified by the Nazis to the same extent as England, and in Glasgow, the straight razor became as much a symbol of Scottish resistance as the Claymore had been.

* Alex Kilgour from the ''Literature/{{Sten}}'' series is a more...focused version. He's a very highly-trained military operative and prefers to do the violence with [[StuffBlowingUp explosives]]. He's from a [[HeavyWorlder heavy-gravity world]] though, so when he does hit things, they tend to die painfully.
** Alex tells a joke about the days when the Romans were trying to hold Hadrian's Wall, and one newbie was terrified of his first encounter with some heavily armed, scowling, cursing Scots. But they passed by without killing him, and he commented to a veteran that the Scots weren't so bad after all. The older Roman replied, "But later tonight when their ''men'' get done drinking, we may have some trouble."
* Then there's the fearsome Angus [=McAllister=], head gardener at Literature/BlandingsCastle, who has a Clydeside accent and a face like a dissipated potato. 'It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine,' [[Creator/PGWodehouse Wodehouse]] observed.

* Creator/RobertWestall's ''Literature/TheMachineGunners'' had "Clogger" Duncan, a Glaswegian lad relocated to Garmouth due to his dad being in the Navy and his mother having been killed on UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront. Clogger ends up "[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown doin' someone proper"]] for someone.
* Creator/GeorgeMacDonaldFraser's semi-autobiographical ''Literature/McAuslan'' series is, in many ways, a paean to a post-war Highland battalion comprised largely of these characters.
--> Religion in the Scottish mind -- or in the Glaswegian mind, anyway -- is inextricably bound up with sport, to such an extent that I have seen an amicable dispute on the offside rule progress, by easy stages, through Rangers and Celtic, to a stand-up fight over the fate of some ancient martyr called the Blesséd John Ogilvie, in which Private Forbes butted a Catholic comrade under the chin.
** He also notes that tribal Arabs who would happily fight a vicious no-holds-barred war with the French Foreign Legion would pause and allow the Scots a bye, being moved to a thoughtful reflective silence by the intimidating sight of men in kilts playing bagpipes.
* In the Literature/HonorHarrington novel ''Shadow of Freedom'', a character reflects on the rather violent history of his homeworld, originally settled by ethnic scots.
--> [=MacNaughtan=]'s grandmother had always claimed that no one else in the entire Ante Diaspora history of the human race had been able to hold a grudge, cherish a feud, or cling to a lost cause like the Scots. Except, perhaps, she'd added thoughtfully, the Irish. Apparently, some things changed even less than others.
* The literary Literature/JamesBond is Scottish, as confirmed in his "obituary" in ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice''.
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'':
** Zigzagged in a ''really'' weird and spoilerrific way. [[HighTurnoverRate This year's]] Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher is a BraveScot and a veteran Auror named Alastor "[[MadEye Mad-Eye]]" Moody. From the outset, he's gruff, paranoid, and occasionally violent and unhinged. He also apparently enjoys terrorizing his students, as seen when he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG4XLZUAot4 demonstrates the three Unforgivable Curses in front of them]] and when he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HobPkv5TELA torments Draco Malfoy after transmogrifying him into a ferret.]] Nonetheless, he seems to be a genuinely good guy and an invaluable mentor to Harry. Near the end of the book, though, [[spoiler:he ultimately reveals himself to be the mastermind behind Voldemort's return]]. But ''then'' [[spoiler:he turns out to be an impostor]]. In the later books, Mad-Eye Moody is noticeably less of a loose cannon.
** In TheFilmOfTheBook, Mad-Eye Moody is played by Brendan Gleeson with Gleeson's natural Irish accent, whereas [[spoiler:Moody's impersonator]] is played by Scotsman Creator/DavidTennant with a fake English accent.

* The TropeCodifier is probably the 1935 novel ''No Mean City'' by H.Kingsley Long and Alexander [=MacArthur=], an account of razor gangs in the Gorbals which became the popular image of Glasgow for decades afterwards.