History Main / ViolentGlaswegian

* The title character from ''Series/{{Blackadder}} III'' finds himself having to fight a duel with the psychotic Duke of Wellington, so he tries to recruit his equally psychotic, Glaswegian-esque cousin [=MacAdder=] (who looks [[UncannyFamilyResemblance uncannily like him]]) as his replacement.

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

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

* ''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 quote at the top of the page. 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.

** 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.

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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]]" were 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 half it was at its height]].[[note]]You tryin' tae say we're saft or summat? Yer gettin' chibbed fir that![[/note]]

** 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]].

* One Castrol motor oil ad campaign has a demented Scot flogging people with a dipstick while uttering his catchphrase "Think wi' yer ''dipstick,'' Jimmae!" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nel4qVTOgg No, really.]]

* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': O'Chunks is a large and aggressive bearded man who acts as the DumbMuscle to [[BigBad Count Bleck]]. In the English translation, O'Chunks speaks with a ''very'' thick Scottish accent and makes gratuitious use of Scottish slang in his speech.

* Interesting Aversion with Lowell from ''VideoGame/TheLastStory'' who despite being the only character in the game with a Scottish Accent, is actually portrayed as a charming lech. However, he IS the only mage type character who can use swords well, veering him more into BraveScot territory.
* ''VideoGame/MedievalIITotalWar'': A Dreaded ([[KarmaMeter read: evil]]) Scottish general will very much be this.
-->''*selecting your own general*'' "Can we ''finish'' them yet, sire!?"
-->''*laying siege to an enemy town/castle*'' "Those walls won't protect them for long!!"
-->''*winning a battle*'' "Your foes lie ''dead'' at my feet, sire!" "[[EvilLaugh Hahahaha!]] YES! Victorrryyyy!!"
-->''*selecting an enemy general*'' "I'LL CUT YER HEAD OFF AND SHHIIIT DOWN YER NECK!!"
* ''VideoGame/NosferatuTheWrathOfMalachi'': Gregory. While everybody else (apart from Wilfred, which can be justified by the fact that the manual says he moonlights as a burglar and has developed combat skills as a result) will act scared and call for help when monsters are in the room, he shouts "foul creatures, come and get it!" and starts punching them.

* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': O'Chunks; one of the villain's henchmen, is a large and aggressive bearded man who likes to brawl. In the English translation, O'Chunks speaks with a ''very'' thick Scottish accent and makes gratuitious use of Scottish slang in his speech.
* The Demoman from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is a self-proclaimed black Scottish cyclops psychopath. His weapons are grenades, bombs that stick to anything they touch called, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Stickybombs]], and an empty bottle of Scrumpy. See this in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=han3AfjH210 "Meet the Team" interview.]] His first three unlockable weapons; yet another kind of bomb, a massive [[CoolSword Claymore]] (which [[EvilWeapon is haunted and craves heads]]) and a shield which allows him to make berserker style charges. His other unlockable weapons include more swords and a high-yield pressure-activated explosive on a stick used as a melee weapon. You may notice a theme here.

* O'Chunks from ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' is one violent Scottish henchthug that works as the [[DumbMuscle brawn]] to [[BigBad Count Bleck's]] brain.
* [[PunnyName General Mayhem]], the lawn gnome general in ''[[Website/GaiaOnline zOMG!]]''[='s=] Village Greens area, is a Violent Glaswegian ''lawn ornament''.
* Jimmy Wilson in ''VideoGame/TheDarkness II'''s Vendettas mode is a walking, axe-throwing personification of this trope.

* In ''{{VideoGame/Darksiders}}'', this hat belongs to the Makers, a race of giant smiths who are effectively [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame fantasy dwarves]] in all but name and size.
** The first member of this race we encounter is Ulthane the Black Hammer, a big, Scottish BloodKnight that War meets on his second mission from Samael... and he is more than capable of handing your ass back to you unless you unleash War's Chaos Form on him.
* At first, you wouldn't think so given that she's a succubus, but Morrigan Aensland from {{VideoGame/Darkstalkers}} fits quite well in this trope due to her BloodKnight tendencies and ''actually'' coming from Scotland.

* 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/DragonQuestIV'': RAgnar [=McRyan=] is soldier born in Burland, a blatant expy of Scotland. He definitely is brutal violent in battle. Outside of it, he's a fairly nice guy.

* Fleetus from ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' looks and sounds the part, but as he only appears as a racing opponent he never actually has a chance to act violently.

* The Demoman from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is a self-proclaimed black Scottish cyclops psychopath. His weapons are grenades, bombs that stick to anything they touch called, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Stickybombs]], and an empty bottle of Scrumpy. See this in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=han3AfjH210 "Meet the Team" interview.]] His first three unlockable weapons; yet another kind of bomb, a massive [[CoolSword Claymore]] (which [[EvilWeapon is haunted and craves heads]]) and a shield which allows him to make berserker style charges. His other unlockable weapons include more swords and a high-yield pressure-activated explosive on a stick used as a melee weapon. You may notice a theme here.
* Magnus Armstrong from ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever''. Very Scottish, very violent, very drunk. True Glaswegian Icon. Kate herself is Scottish, although how violent she is depends on the player. Magnus does make her prove her "Scottishness" by [[DefeatEqualsFriendship besting him in a fistfight]].

* ''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 ''TabletopGame/{{Crimestrikers}}'', Arcana starts as the DraconicHumanoid equivalent of a this trope, but gradually evolves into a BraveScot thanks to CharacterDevelopment.

** He likes to spend a lot of his time playing merry hell with this one, both in and out of his stand-up acts. He's got a strong love of both history and travel, is quite soft-hearted, and tends to look slightly unusual, to say the least. For a significant proportion of his recent career, he's had a dyed-purple goatee, and he has a tendency to run around in the buff given the slightest opportunity. To date, locations for this include the Australian outback, a beach in New Zealand, Trafalgar Square in London, and the Arctic!

-->''"[[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Freud's]] theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost."''

* 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.

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

* In 2017, the Creator/{{BBC}} is producing and broadcasting a series of plays commemorating the centenary of the Russian Revolution. In a dramatisation of the life of Lenin, 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 Georgia 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.

* Shakespeare's well-known tragedy of Theatre/{{Macbeth}} has several characters: Macbeth, who murders King Duncan in his sleep, hires murderers to slay Macduff's wife and son as well as Banquo, but the murderers fail to kill Fleance or Macduff himself. [[LadyMacbeth Lady Macbeth [=/=] Gruoch]], who motivates her husband to slay Duncan and ascend to the throne, and Macduff, who avenges his slain wife and son by besting Macbeth in a duel.

* ''Film/VigilnateDiaries'': While tracking down Andreas' whereabouts, the Vigilante visits Glasgow and meets with a gang of local hardcases with whom he has had prior dealings. The tell him his no longer welcome and attempt to rough him up. They soon regret their life choices. For bonus points, their leader actually sports a genuine Glaswegian accent, which is given subtitles for the benefit of American viewers.

* ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'': Begbie. Although this violent sociopath is from Leith, actor Robert Carlyle 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/AliceInWonderland2010'': Whenever the Mad Hatter started getting a tad more intense, Johnny Depp's accent changes to Scottish.
* ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' has a bunch of tough Scotsmen who challenge David Niven 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 [[DorkAge less fondly-remembered installments]] DenserAndWackier) period between the Seventies and the Nineties, drawing comparisons to the films that starred the very Scottish Creator/SeanConnery.

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 it is known by nicknames like "Wreck The Hoose Juice"[[/note]] by the gallon, and is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNLfr1EP08 impossible to understand.]] This is a counterpart to the English "chav" stereotype and the Irish DublinSkanger.

The stereotype may have come from existing stereotypes about the Scots and also some TruthInTelevision about Glasgow. Any metropolis in 19th and early 20th century Britain had a lot of urban poverty and crime. But in Glasgow, it was compounded by sectarian tensions between the Irish Catholic immigrants and the native Protestants. In the interwar years, the city became notorious for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_razor_gangs "razor gangs,"]] (often sectarian) gangs that were armed with knife-like razors. Today, the main surviving case of sectarian tension is the rivalry between [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Rangers and Celtic]], one of the longest-running and [[FootballHooligans ugliest football feuds]], and violence still happens to at least some degree at every game between the two.

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 half it was at its height]].[[note]]You tryin' tae say we're saft or summat? Yer gettin' chibbed fir that![[/note]]

Glasgow also has a reputation for being one of the friendliest cities in Scotland (a cynic might call this GallowsHumor), especially in contrast to relatively aloof Edinburgers. It is also noticeably better run that most urban areas in the UK, especially, again Edinburgh, which columnist Alan Cochrane called "the worst run city in Europe." Given the [[EpicFail trams scheme]], he probably had a point...

Notably, there are at least two fighting tropes [[TropeNamer named after the city]]. [[UseYourHead The Glasgow Kiss]] is not to be confused with a GlasgowGrin, which is when somebody's cheek is sliced open from corners of the mouth, something the original razor gangs and later delinquents did to their enemies. It's worth mentioning that the royal motto of Scotland is "nemo me impune lacessit", Latin for "nobody attacks me with impunity".

A connected stereotype is the "Ned" ([[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 it is known by nicknames like "Wreck The Hoose Juice"[[/note]] by the gallon, and is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNLfr1EP08 impossible to understand.]] This is a counterpart to the English "chav" stereotype and the Irish DublinSkanger.

* Donald from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' 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.

** Mad Hamish, the oldest member of Ghengiz Cohen's gang of BarbarianHero {{Old Soldier}}s, who manages to kick serious amounts of ass despite being 105 years old, deaf and wheelchair-bound.

** 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, are not very well known for being shrinking violets, let alone Scottish ones.

* 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 VEREY (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!"

* ''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/Gaelic 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=].