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7->''"Lots of middle-class people are running around pretending to be cockney."''
8-->-- '''Creator/ChristopherEccleston''' on chavs
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10On one end of the social spectrum, we have TheUpperCrass, AristocratsAreEvil, and UpperClassTwit proving that money doesn't make good people. But that doesn't mean a lack of money does the same. [[{{Jerkass}} Coarse]], [[SirSwearsALot vulgar]], [[InsufferableImbecile ignorant]], [[AxCrazy violent]], [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain bigoted]], [[{{Schemer}} scheming]], [[StickyFingers theft-prone]], disproportionately proud of the few non-contemptible traits that they have to their names (most of which are [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency basic requirements for being considered a decent person]]), [[RedemptionRejection disdainful of any desire or attempt to better oneself]], and generally greatly at odds with propriety, they are not exemplary members of society by any stretch of the imagination. They will frequently live in a TrashyTrailerHome.
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12The representatives of this trope sometimes appear alone, but more frequently as gangs. They may be politically motivated (such as the fighting organizations of the communists, fascists, and Nazis), out of spite (such as the skinheads), to rebel against the (perceived) authorities such as the greasers and mods, or just [[ItAmusedMe for the kicks]]. The extremists may be there ForTheEvulz.
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14This trope deals with the various varieties of lout, hooligan, and delinquent that appear in various media. While these stereotypes are TruthInTelevision to some degree, it's debatable whether the stereotype comes from RealLife, or said real-life examples are [[MisaimedFandom imitating the stereotype]]. A typical Lower-Class Lout is a [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]] or young adult (it's very common for such examples to also be [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Manchildren]]), with the occasional EnfantTerrible, who embodies [[WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons the worst stereotypes of the working class]] (or middle class). One variant of this type would be the [[BlackShirt the Brownshirts]] of the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Party]] ''Sturmabteilungen'' (SA) and the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan, who were recruited from the lower layers of German and white American working classes respectively and who were used to terrorize the political opponents.
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16Because of what these stereotypes imply, [[PlayingWithATrope subversions/aversions/invocations etc.]] are almost as common as straight examples, with a snobby or elitist character being established as such by having them accuse a sympathetic character of being one of these.
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18Various parts of the world have their own individual versions. Indeed, it's an interesting fact of criminal-sociology that nearly every society in the world with urban and youth culture has a certain stratum of "difficult" young people, especially men, which draw attention in popular culture. Most of the time they are small fry compared to other villains and become mere BitPartBadguys, however, depending on the scale of the story, they can conceivably as well be the main antagonists.
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20Groups often stereotyped as Lower Class Louts with their own article include:
21[[index]]
22* AddledAddict
23* TheAggressiveDrugDealer
24* AllBikersAreHellsAngels
25* AngryWhiteMan
26* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores
27* BanditClan
28* [[FriendInTheBlackMarket Black Market Dealers]]
29* TheBogan
30* [[{{Eagleland}} Boorish Americans]]
31* BrooklynRage
32* [[BlackShirt Brownshirts]]
33* TheCartel
34* [[WrongSideOfTheTracks City Proles]]
35* CrassCanuck
36* [[BoxedCrook Criminals-Turned-Workers]]
37* CrookedContractor
38* CrazyHomelessPeople
39* Residents of the DeepSouth
40* {{Delinquents}}
41* DerangedTaxiDriver
42* DublinSkanger
43* FightingIrish
44* [[OnlyInFlorida Residents of Florida]]
45* FootballHooligans
46* [[HonestJohnsDealership Fraudulent Salesmen]]
47* GangBangers
48* GreaserDelinquents
49* HalfWittedHillbilly
50* HillbillyHorrors
51* HorrorHippies
52* HostileHitchhiker
53* [[HillbillyMoonshiner Illegal Brewers]]
54* TheIrishMob
55* JapaneseDelinquents
56* Residents of {{Joisey}}
57* JunkieParent
58* TheKlan
59* LondonGangster
60* Residents of [[OopNorth Northern England]]
61* NorthernIrishAndNasty
62* [[TheIdiotFromOsaka People from Osaka]]
63* [[FiveFingerDiscount Pickpocketers]]
64* {{Pirate}}s
65* PredatoryProstitute
66* [[InsaneEqualsViolent The Psychotic Prole]]
67* TheQuincyPunk
68* RoguishRomani
69* RuthlessForeignGangsters
70* RuthlessModernPirates
71* SatisfiedStreetRat
72* ScooterRidingMod
73* SingleMomStripper
74* UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}}
75* SmallTownTyrant
76* [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Soldiers for hire]]
77* SouthernFriedPrivate
78* {{Southies}}
79* [[TeenPregnancy Teenage parents]]
80* UglyAmericanStereotype
81* ViolentGlaswegian
82* [[TheStoner Violent Drug Addicts]]
83* VodkaDrunkenski
84* WhiteGangBangers
85* {{Yakuza}}
86* TheYardies
87[[/index]]
88
89Younger examples are almost always TheBully. Because of the class-based origins of the stereotype, expect the moral of any story they appear in to lean towards EatTheRich or KillThePoor. Contrast the UpperClassTwit, TheUpperCrass, and AristocratsAreEvil (for when the rich are vilified), WickedCultured and ManOfWealthAndTaste (for villains who are cultured and classy), and WorkingClassHero. NouveauRiche often overlaps with this when their financial situation changes for the better but their behavior doesn't. See also: FootballHooligans, {{Delinquents}}, LoserProtagonist, SlobsVersusSnobs.
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91!Examples:
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95[[folder: Advertising]]
96* Mucinex commercials tend to [[PeeveGoblins personify congestion]] as a rude, slovenly glob of mucus in a dirty wife-beater that willingly and knowingly annoys the person whose body it's occupying.
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99[[folder: Anime and Manga]]
100* While ''Manga/BlackLagoon'''s Roanapur is [[WretchedHive an entire city]] full of these, [[DarkActionGirl Revy]] stands out the most. She grew up in a poor trashy household with a violent, abusive drunkard for a father [[spoiler:whom she murdered]], has had a significant amount of contact with law enforcement prior to coming to Roanapur, and is homicidally violent, [[SirSwearsALot incredibly foul-mouthed]], rather racist, alcoholic, chain-smoking, and money-grubbing, on top of [[{{stripperific}} wearing revealing clothes]].
101* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' has a downplayed example with Rosehip of St. Gloriana Academy. [[PennyAmongDiamonds She's a commoner]] in an AristocratTeam and has a bit of difficulty in matching her upperclassmen's elegance and manners, though she certainly gives it her all. It's implied that the reason why she wasn't present during the practice match with Oarai was because the alumni didn't approve of her less-than-graceful temperament.
102* Jan Valentine from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' is pretty much your stereotypical chav... with vampiric abilities. This serves as a contrast to his brother Luke, who's a [[WickedCultured sophisticated]] [[TheDandy dandy]].
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105[[folder: Comic Books]]
106* [[ComicBook/TheFlash Captain Cold]] grew up poor white trash with a violent, abusive drunk of a father and a mother who enabled it. He sees his upbringing for what it was, but bringing it up around him and ''especially'' using it as an insult is a personal BerserkButton of his and is a great way to find yourself having a very bad day.
107* [[Characters/NewMutants Boom-Boom]] was from a shitty white trash family with an ignorant, bigoted, and physically abusive father who tried to beat the mutant out of her, and while Tabitha herself isn't as bad as her parents, she's still plenty trashy herself. Exaggerated in ''Comicbook/{{Nextwave}}'', in which she's depicted as uneducated and kleptomaniac.
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110[[folder:Fan Works]]
111* ''Fanfic/TheMisfitsWarhammer40000'': Sandy Shepherd (known to his friends as "Brother Nasty") a rather amusing example of what happens when one of these gets turned into a genetically enhanced SuperSoldier warrior monk. His Brother Sergeant one one occasion remarks:
112-->"I keep half expecting Nasty to come back dragging a sack of loot with him sometimes."
113* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3138345/1/Chavs-at-Hogwarts Chavs]] at [[Literature/HarryPotter Hogwarts]]'', which is pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
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116[[folder:Film]]
117* ''Film/HighStrung1991'': Thane is this in spades. He’s abrasive, lives in a sustainable but admittedly small apartment, works as an unappreciated children’s book author, and barely has a social life.
118* ''Film/TheBandsVisit'': Papi's friend Zelger is an ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_(slang) ars]]'', who has a shaved head, wears gaudy clothes and jewelry, and drives around in his car blasting music from the speakers.
119* In Creator/PeterJackson's Adaptation of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', all the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Orcs]] have cockney accents.
120* The villains in ''Film/HarryBrown'' are textbook chavs (although [[MoreDakka better armed than usual]]), played as monsters to make them acceptable targets for the VigilanteMan protagonist.
121* The 2007 reboot of ''Film/{{St Trinians|2007}}'' featured chavs as one of the school's cliques.
122* Most of the characters in ''Film/AttackTheBlock'' are youths in a South London street gang. In the first scene, they mug a woman, but get more sympathetic characterization later, when they're saving the world from aliens.
123* The cast of ''Film/{{Kidulthood}}'' and its sequel ''Film/{{Adulthood}}'' (Katy from the first film seems to have been more middle-class, but still behaved this way.)
124* British horror film ''Film/{{F}}'' is based around such characters going on a murder and torture spree at a school after being given failing grades by their teacher.
125* The title character from ''Film/DonJon'' is one of these, a Jersey guido who's addicted to porn.
126* Way too many Venezuelan movies have at least one ''malandro'' character. At one point, it was so common to do movies about thugs that the Venezuelan film industry developed the stereotype of "only having ''peliculas de Malandros''" almost to the point of backlash.
127* Creator/RebelWilson seems to have made a career out of playing these kinds of characters in films such as ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}'' and ''Film/PitchPerfect''.
128* Creator/MelissaMcCarthy, who was also in ''Bridesmaids'' (in her StarMakingRole, in fact), and who went on to play some particularly noxious examples in ''Film/IdentityThief'', ''Film/TheHeat'', and ''Film/{{Tammy}}''.
129* All five of the main characters in the ''Series/NewKids'' movies take the Dutch equivalent of this and run with it.
130* Eggsy from ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', looks and acts like one of these, but is actually a better person than he appears. Eggsy's stepfather and his gang, however, fit this trope to a T being violent and crude thugs without any redeeming qualities. Eggsy's friends don't get enough screen time to judge whether they fit or not.
131* ''Film/Aquaman2018'': Aquaman himself is a subversion. He is brash, loud, hard-drinking, and hard-brawling and seems most comfortable being the king of the pub crawl, and he isn’t above playing up these traits to mess with people who think this is unworthy of a prince of Atlantis. However, under the façade is a keen mind, cultivated by both his father (implied to be a voracious reader and keen autodidact by the look of his home) and his mother’s advisor Nuidis Vulko. By the time the film rolls around, he is conversant in at least five languages and able to tell who Roman statues are meant to be off at a glance.
132* Halley in ''Film/TheFloridaProject'', a short-tempered and irresponsible single mother who lives in a cheap motel in Kissimmee, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}, can't hold down a job, and frequently leaves her daughter Moonee (who she likely [[TeenPregnancy had as a teenager]]) [[ParentalNeglect unsupervised]]. That said, she does genuinely love her daughter and will go to great lengths to keep her safe.
133* The setting of ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' is a dystopian future in which Lower-Class Lout culture proliferated and took over, producing a world in which an [[TheEveryman average Joe]] from ThePresentDay would be [[NormalFishInATinyPond the smartest man alive by default]] because [[StupidFuturePeople everyone else is a brain-dead idiot]]. The aesthetic of the world can best be described as a {{cyberpunk}} trailer park.
134* In the lesbian romance film ''Film/MySummerOfLove'', Mona (Creator/NataliePress) doesn't have the manners or education of her friend-turned-lover Tamsin (Creator/EmilyBlunt).
135* Rachel's foster parents in ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'' are a pair of white-trash ingrates who only took her in because [[OnlyInItForTheMoney the foster system pays them $300 per month to do so]], and are about as neglectful with her as one can imagine given such motives. It's one of many reasons why she's [[CreepyLonerGirl an outcast at her school]].
136* ''Film/EdenLake'' is ''Lower Class Lout: TheMovie''. The kids are all portrayed as working-class at best with stereotypical hallmarks.
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139[[folder:Literature]]
140* The ''Literature/CherubSeries'' features quite a few teenagers that display chav-like characteristics.
141* By ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Dudley Dursley has basically turned into one of these. Ironically, his parents have been, throughout the whole series, a terrible example (more like a parody) of the lower end of middle-class who make a special effort to distinguish themselves from the working class.
142* The ''Diary of a Chav'' series. It's right there in the name.
143* Shad Ledue in ''Literature/ItCantHappenHere''. Even after rising up through the ranks of the Minute Men, his tastes and temperament remain coarse.
144* The Ewells from ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' are classic white trash, living in the city dump. While most of the kids are decent people just suffering from a combination of their horrible living situation and social isolation, father Robert "Bob" E. Lee Ewell is every negative stereotype about poor southern whites in one man- he's an AbusiveParent who's implied to [[ParentalIncest molest his oldest daughter]] Mayella, a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain even for the time and place, an alcoholic, and his hygiene is so bad that people are reluctant to even shake his hand. He mostly subsists on [[EvilPoacher poaching]], which is the only thing keeping his children from starving because he spends all his welfare checks on whiskey.
145* Jerry Cruncher in ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities''. He's a working-class moron whose abusive relationship with his wife is played for laughs. A RunningGag is his "spiky" hair, which suggests a disheveled appearance. Throughout the story, he's contrasted with the erudite main characters.
146* Some appear in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', including Juliet's brothers and Andy's posse. Can't have a book about football without the hooligans, can you?
147* Creator/StephenKing's novels tend to feature lower-class New England townies as stock characters, usually as lowlifes who are [[SortingAlgorithmOfMortality among the first]] to [[AssholeVictim get killed off by the villain]]. Butch Bowers in ''Literature/{{It}}'' is a particularly vile example, as he's a violent, racist, and abusive psychopath whose son, Henry, was pretty much doomed to follow in his footsteps from birth. Billy Nolan in ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' and James "Junior" Rennie in ''Literature/UnderTheDome'' are two more examples.
148* His day-job being doctor at a hospital in a very poor part of London, Theodore Dalrymple's writing is chock full of accounts of the people he treated, many of them for injuries incurred through their own bad decisions.
149* The Dickinson family from ''Literature/{{Run}}'' is this, with many of them being white trash and despised by the rest of Mursey. Bo and her brother Colt seem to be the only exceptions.
150* The Wild Wooders in ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'' are a bunch of [[WickedWeasel vicious mustelids]] who take over Toad Hall and behave like an unruly working-class mob.
151* A repeated theme in [[Creator/LarryNiven Niven]]/[[Creator/JerryPournelle Pournelle]] joint works (or maybe just Pournelle's); in their universes, when the going gets tough, the majority will turn to superstition and [[PersecutedIntellectuals leave intellectuals to rot]] even while they're working their asses off to save them.
152** In ''Literature/LucifersHammer'', the intellectuals go through seven colors of hell after the [[ColonyDrop comet impact]]. In end, the militarists are able to win a temporary reprieve for the world's last nuclear power plant -- at the cost of a brilliant scientist who made mustard gas to kill the attackers instead of insulin for his own diabetes -- but it's clear that unless a hard-line campaign to destroy the attackers begins ''immediately'', the plant will be destroyed. The survivors will have nothing of it until the last astronaut gives TheReasonYouSuckSpeech;
153--->'''Rick Delanty''': So. We'll live. Through this winter, and the next one, and the one after that. '''As peasants!''' But if we take the easy way this time, we'll take it next time. And the next, and the next, and in fifty years your kids will hide under the bed when they hear the thunder! The way everybody used to hide from the great thunder gods. Peasants always believe in thunder gods. And the comet. We know what it was. In ten more years, we'd have been able to push the damned thing out of our way! I've been in space. I won't go there again, but your children could! Hell yes! Give us that electric plant and twenty years and we'll be in space again. We know how, and all it takes is power, and that power's right there, not fifty miles from here, if we've just got guts enough to save it. Think about it. Those are the choices. Go on and be good peasants, safe peasants, superstitious peasants -- or have worlds to conquer again. To control the lightning again.
154** In ''Fallen Angels'', an eco-fundamentalist political party has had bipartisan support for almost a generation. The entire country is on the verge of [[TheFamine famine]] due to an ice age brought on by a ''lack'' of particulate matter in the atmosphere. Despite that, some intellectuals persevered for a time...
155--->'''Sherrine Hartley''': Gran was a plant geneticist before they outlawed it. Pop-pop was a farmer. They still do a little bootleg bioengineering in their basement. Developed a cold-resistant strain of wheat that let them bring in a crop for three years after their neighbors went under. They had to stop last year, though. Gran seeded a rust virus that killed off their crop. ...their neighbors -- their good, kindly, salt-of-the-earth neighbors -- were starting to talk about witchcraft. They couldn't imagine any other reason why my grandparents' wheat thrived while theirs died. Peasants always believe in witchcraft.
156* In Creator/AynRand's ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'', these people wind up rising to the top under the socialist regime that runs America. One story recounts how the unionized workers at the 20th Century Motor Company factory in Starnesville, Wisconsin turned into social parasites obsessed with ConspicuousConsumption as they constantly demanded more benefits from the company while the quality of their work went into freefall, secure in the knowledge that their union would never let the company fire them. The shrinking number of productive employees, meanwhile, eventually [[StoppedCaring stopped giving a damn about their work]] and grew to hate their loutish co-workers, ratting on them for claiming "necessities" that they didn't actually need and even celebrating when they died (and, it is implied, outright killing some of them). The downward spiral of having such people running roughshod over the company eventually drove it into bankruptcy. This turns out to be the origin story for John Galt, an engineer at the company who, after designing a revolutionary new engine only to see his accomplishments go to waste, told his boss and his co-workers to TakeThisJobAndShoveIt when they socialized the factory.
157* Creator/JRRTolkien used this extensively. His trolls spoke OopNorth and his orcs had Cockney accents.
158** As did Creator/CSLewis. His evil Dwarfs in ''Literature/TheLastBattle'' had working-class accents.
159** Both averted this for southern English forelock-tugging yeomen; they applied it to Northerners and Cockneys.
160** Averted by the Cabbie in ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'', who is praised by Aslan and goes on to become the first king of Narnia.
161* J. D. Vance's memoir ''Literature/HillbillyElegy'' is a scathing portrait of this trope, specifically as manifested in UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}}n "hillbilly" culture. Some highlights he describes of his upbringing in southern Ohio and Kentucky include watching welfare recipients talk on cell phones that he couldn't afford, a man who quit his job because he didn't like having to wake up so early and then ranted on social media about the "[[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]] economy", a co-worker with a pregnant girlfriend who would regularly skip work and ultimately lost a well-paying job with health insurance because of it, and his mother's problems with drug addiction and multiple failed relationships -- and through it all, a common thread of [[NeverMyFault refusal to take responsibility]] for their own problems, instead seeking out scapegoats. He describes hillbilly culture as one that has a lot to admire about it, but which is also characterized by fatalism, avoiding uncomfortable truths, [[TestosteronePoisoning hyper-aggressive masculinity]] in response to perceived slights, a Christian faith that is more interested in [[HeteronormativeCrusader culture war issues]] than moral teachings, and an extreme parochialism that [[AmbitionIsEvil discourages ambition]], and which easily slid into a cycle of social decay similar to the black inner cities during the crack epidemic once the economy went south.
162* Deconstructed in ''Literature/NoBeastSoFierce'' by Max Dembo. Max is a poor, crass, and foul-mouthed ex-convict and petty criminal, but he's actually a well-read, intelligent man who took advantage of his stay in prison to educate himself. Unfortunately, both the societal stigma against ex-cons like himself and the threat of homelessness force him to resort back to crime, and he's shown to be much more self-aware and slightly more moral than the upper class criminals and lawmen he frequently finds himself entangled with.
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165[[folder:Live-Action Television]]
166* The character of Vicky Pollard in ''Series/LittleBritain'' plays the British chav stereotype (as well as its prominence during the 2000s) for laughs.
167* Lauren Cooper from ''Series/TheCatherineTateShow'' ("Am I bovvered?").
168* Sketch show ''Tittybangbang'' had similar characters in the "Duck and Chips Family" and the pub darts team sketches.
169* Jocelyn Jee Esien's "Sharonisha" character from her TV series.
170* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' Cassandra invokes the "snob calling someone a chav" version towards Rose [[spoiler: while engaging in GrandTheftMe [[ShowingOffTheNewBody against her]]]]. This does invoke some FridgeLogic since she was supposed to be of Texan/Alaskan decent, not British.
171-->'''Cassandra [[spoiler:in Rose's body]]:''' Oh no! [[spoiler:I'm a]] ''chav!''
172** This line got a laugh from an audience of overseas buyers who [[InherentlyFunnyWords almost certainly didn't know the word "chav"]].
173* Kelly from ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' is one of the most realistic examples of a chav, portrayed sympathetically anyway.
174* The reality series ''Series/SceneStealers'' had an episode where two {{goth}}s had to impersonate chavs and they learned all the stereotypes associated with chav behaviour.
175* An episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'' explored the "Guido" culture, and Brennan herself said she followed [[Series/JerseyShore the TV "documentary" on them]].
176* That "documentary" would be {{reality show}} ''Series/JerseyShore'', and the cast seem to be fairly relaxed about being regarded as such.
177* The entire premise of both [[Series/ShamelessUK the UK original]] and [[Series/ShamelessUS American remake]] versions of ''Shameless''. They both center around the Gallagher family and later on (moreso in the UK version due to LongRunnerCastTurnover) their neighbors, who live in a rough neighborhood on the WrongSideOfTheTracks (the fictional Chatsworth Estate housing projects in Manchester for the UK version, south side Chicago for the US version). Thing is, they do try to better their station in life to varying degrees, and do make ''some'' progress, though their worse natures and occasional self-sabotage put a big damper in that.
178* The Timmins family on ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'' embodied the Australian "bogan" stereotype.
179* As do Series/KathAndKim.
180* Onslow, Hyacinth's brother-in-law on ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances'', is a subversion: while shabby and slovenly, Onslow is friendly and benign -- and [[HiddenDepths actually]] [[BrilliantButLazy really smart]] -- and deliberately makes a favorable contrast with the snobbish Hyacinth.
181* The Gang in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', despite the fact that both Dennis and Dee went to the [[UsefulNotes/IvyLeague University of Pennsylvania]] (Dee didn't graduate, though). They're all alcoholic scumbags.
182** [[TheSociopath Dennis]] and [[AttentionWhore Dee]] were born into a rich family. But due to the gang's failing business, they are currently broke. They think they're classy and justify it by saying class is something you're born into (ie. people born into money are classy), but for all their [[WickedPretentious pretensions]], they were clearly never classy to begin with.
183** Mac is a [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist Christian]] and a [[ArmouredClosetGay self-loathing homophobe]]. He used to deal drugs to his classmates. [[FreudianExcuse His father was a meth dealer who was in prison throughout his childhood while his mother was a negligent chain-smoking racist]].
184** Charlie is {{the ditz}}iest of the group. It's implied to be because his mom tried to have an abortion while pregnant with him (and [[MyBelovedSmother smothered him like crazy]]), combined with the various harmful substances he takes.
185** Frank {{invoked|trope}} this trope because he wanted to live the gang's depraved lifestyle.
186* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Even the Orcs of the Second Age speak with a Cockney accent, carried from the movies.
187* Most (though not all) of the characters on ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' fit this to some degree or another. Earl's ex-wife Joy particularly stands out.
188* Big Bud Roberts in ''Series/{{JAG}}'' is to some extent a retirement-aged example of this trope.
189* In the original version of ''Series/{{Survivors}}'', [[UnfortunateImplications any character]] who was lower class before the Death struck the world continues to display this attitude.
190* Many of the guests on ''Series/{{Maury}}'', especially the out-of-control teenage girls who try to have babies when they're 14, steal hundreds of dollars worth of items (often stuff for their potential babies), beat up people, treat their (almost always single) mothers like garbage, drink, do drugs, curse up a storm, and appear on the show in [[{{Stripperific}} ridiculously revealing clothing]]. To make things worse, they often ''gloat'' about their trashy behavior.
191* Venezuelan [[SoapOpera Telenovela]] ''Por Estas Calles'', given its social theme, has a pretty accurate portrait of ''barrio'' life in the early nineties, up to having ''malandros'' as important characters. The most popular (and memetic) character was Eudomar Santos, a not-quite thug but not very ethic either character who was very representative of the "shanty-in-the-head" mentality.
192* Israeli comedienne and actress Orna Banai often played a quintessential ''frekha'' named Limor, who later co-hosted a comedy show called ''Rak beYisrael'' ('Only in Israel'). Over time, her character became less and less of a ''frekha'' and more of an outgoing {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
193* ''Series/CoronationStreet'' being a working-class soap has played with this trope every possible way over the past 60 years. Most of the characters have at least some aspects of it, especially the men. Combine it with JerkWithAHeartOfGold and you get a Corrie "Hardman" (Len Fairclough, Jim [=MacDonald=], Peter Barlow) or a zany schemer give you the "Chancer" (Stan Ogden, Jack Duckworth, Tim Metcalf). Usually, the success of these characters depends on how well the character shows their HiddenDepths.
194* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' - in "Band Candy", cursed chocolate reverts responsible adults into addle-minded teen mentalities, including Giles, who goes from Queen's English speaking model of decorum to a consonant-dropping, impulsive, violent hood. Fandom speculates on how much of this he actually was in his youth.
195** This is how Spike acts, part punk rocker and part North London thug. Before being turned, he was an upper-class, sappy, artistic momma's boy, and took on the working-class tough guy persona after becoming a vampire.
196* Laneesha and Latanya from ''Series/AllThat'' fit the ratchet stereotype to a T - rude, shallow, materialistic, violent and aggressive, petty, and generally boorish, shrill, and obnoxious.
197* The [=McQueen=]s in ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}'' are a lower-class family known for their criminal, promiscuous, loud, and generally disruptive behavior. Eldest daughter Jacqui had many visual elements of the "chav" stereotype.
198* Jimmy's family on ''Series/YoureTheWorst'' are almost '''proud''' of being this, discouraging his younger sister Lily from going to university because they think it's pompous. Lindsay even {{lampshades}} it.
199-->'''Lindsay:''' I thought all English people were fancy, but these are like... ''Alabama'' English people.
200* Stanley Barber on ''Series/IAmNotOkayWithThis'' believes that all the men in his family are like this, and hopes that he can break the "Barber curse". His father is a JadedWashout who went from homecoming king in '91 to a truck driver who Stan would rather not have around; when we're introduced to him in the fourth episode, he's sitting on the couch watching football, drinking a beer, and telling Stan "you look like a faggot."
201* Roland Schitt from ''Series/SchittsCreek'' is not only the mayor of the town, his lack of manners and taste embodies the Rose family's worst fears about the town. Yet, Roland subverts the trope as he embraces people of all sexualities, is a genuinely good friend to Johnny, and wants the best for the town.
202* A Canadian example occurs in ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'' with pretty much all the inhabitants of Sunnyvale Trailer Park. They regularly abuse alcohol and/or cannabis, commit various crimes ranging from fraud to armed robbery to illegal drug dealing to earn a living, use casual profanity and regularly get into fights with each other. However, they also have various redeeming qualities such as trying to be GoodParents to their kids, TrueCompanions with each other, and even EnemyMine alliances against anyone who doesn't live in the park and gives its residents grief.
203* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' features the Bundys, especially patriarch Al. Al Bundy is a JadedWashout (even being the former TropeNamer for that) who's extremely bitter about being stuck in a SoulSuckingRetailJob instead of [[ICouldaBeenAContender playing pro football like he wanted to]], regularly insults the fat women he has to serve, regularly attends strip clubs, has a long-running feud with his StrawFeminist neighbor, constantly leers at attractive women young enough to be his daughters, and revels in his crude political incorrectness. His wife Peggy and their kids Kelly and Bud are no better, being just as crude and criminal as Al. Notably, they're all proud of this.
204* ''Series/AllInTheFamily'': Downplayed with Archie Bunker. While he's a crude, bigoted and argumentative blue-collar worker, his prejudices are more rooted in ignorance than genuine hatred, he sincerely tries to be responsible and respectable (even if he doesn't always succeed), and he really does care for his family and friends despite his issues with them.
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208* [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica South African]] performer Bok van Blerk stars in a video of one of his comic songs, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL9DzrmORGs Lemeone]]'', where he and an equally loutish colleague are playing two ''zef'' delivery drivers. Their loutish, sexist and disrespectful behaviour so incenses a lady greengrocer that she reaches for her rifle.
209* The Welsh group Music/GoldieLookinChain use chav personas as their gimmick.
210* Canadian performer Music/BAJohnston milks this image for all its worth, with songs about junk food and allusions to cheap Canadian stores like Dollarama and No Frills.
211* This was also the image of the boyband BlazinSquad who in reality only lasted a few singles, but nevertheless made quite an impact.
212* The Area 7 song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA8gJoT5yl4 Nobody Likes a Bogan]]" is based around the Australian "bogan" stereotype.
213* Rapper Music/TheStreets, aka Mike Skinner is widely considered a chav rapper as his lyrics, rapped in mockney, are about the day-to-day life of a lower-class person. He doesn't preach violence and wasn't really that bad off.
214* Lady Sovereign is an English rapper with a 'chav' image.
215* Plan B got accused of this so much that he wrote a song called "Ill Manors" attacking the stereotypes (inadvertently confirming them).
216* The entire Grime genre is based around lower-class accents.
217* The club song "Get Up (Rattle)"'s music video features a group of chavs being stalked and killed by a group of ducks.
218* Music/DireStraits "Money for Nothing" was about an ignorant, uneducated jackass who Mark Knopfler overheard in a department store, and the lion's share of the lyrics are direct quotes from him.
219* Music/TheKinks - Ray Davies wrote "Prince of the Punks" about a talentless musician who tried one persona after another until he found his niche - "He talks like a Cockney but it's all baloney/He's really middle class and he's just a phony".
220* Music/LambOfGod wrote "Again We Rise" as a [[TakeThat potshot]] at Southerners who [[StillFightingTheCivilWar celebrate the Confederacy]], saying that most of them are lower-class degenerates in search of a cause and that, if push ever came to shove and the South did rise again, they'd be the cannon fodder and the first to die.
221-->"Broken glass and a broken jaw\
222Lies are told in a southern drawl\
223Poor-house poverty's your shtick\
224The real thing would kill you quick"
225* The protagonist in Music/JoniMitchell's "Raised on Robbery" ''thinks'' she's a HookerWithAHeartOfGold, but she's really just an obnoxious lout who drives off a prospective john just by being herself.
226* Music/SlaughterToPrevail has deliberately cultivated a ''gopniki'' aesthetic circa ''Kostolom''.
227* The rockabilly music is strongly connected to GreaserDelinquents types, especially to the Teddy Boy subculture in the UK.
228* In a similar vein, ska is the typical music of the UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}}...
229* ...and PunkRock of TheQuincyPunk...
230* ...whilst HipHop and GangBangers have a strong connection. GangstaRap, in particular, is a genre deeply associated with inner-city "ghetto" stereotypes, and while many examples (especially [[UnbuiltTrope early on]]) were more {{deconstruct|ion}}ive of this trope in their criticisms of the cycles of poverty and violence in the inner cities, others were often accused, not without justification, of [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster celebrating such lifestyles]].
231* Music/{{Eminem}}'s whole persona is that he was a broke, underemployed, white trailer-trash outcast ([[RagsToRiches until he became a famous rapper]], anyway). Sometimes he plays this character in a more optimistic way, such as on his [[CanonDiscontinuity juvenilia]] album ''Infinite'' and his movie ''Film/EightMile'', but he's much more likely to parody it by rapping in-character as Slim Shady, an over-the-top parody of this kind of character - a StupidEvil SerialKiller and [[SerialRapist rapist]], GoingPostal in a HockeyMaskAndChainsaw while [[UndiscriminatingAddict swallowing handfuls of his mother's prescription pills]] and [[SelfHarm slitting his wrists]].
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235* Creator/KarlMarx did not handle the ''Lumpenproletariat'' with light hands. The Marxist Internet Archive [[https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/l/u.htm writes]] that the term "identifies the class of outcast, degenerated and submerged elements that make up a section of the population of industrial centers" which include "beggars, prostitutes, gangsters, racketeers, swindlers, petty criminals, tramps, chronic unemployed or unemployables, persons who have been cast out by industry, and all sorts of declassed, degraded or degenerated elements." He uses this term to describe "the layer of the working class that is unlikely ever to achieve class consciousness and is therefore lost socially". He saw the ''Lumpenproletariat'' as a reactionary class to be [[DeadlyEuphemism liquidated]] on revolution.
236* Later Marxist theorists, however, took a lighter approach to the ''Lumpenproletariat'', seeing them as victims of capitalism who had been kicked to the bottom of the ladder due to economic, cultural, and in some cases racial prejudice, and often had a very clear class consciousness. Some theorists of the "New Left" in TheSixties even argued that the ''Lumpenproletariat'' were, in fact, the only hope for true revolutionary change in the face of a "productive" working class that had been co-opted by the system and had thus lost its class consciousness -- precisely the opposite of Marx's perspective.
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240* While usually {{face}}s, The Briscoes have served as such more than a few times in their career, ironically their most iconic run being in the service of a rich man, Wrestling/JimCornette. Otherwise, their backwards ignorance is usually PlayedForLaughs or downplayed in favor of their [[ManlyMan manliness]].
241* This is Ann Thraxx's usual gimmick, with a special emphasis on her aversions to hygiene and sanitation.
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245* There's a game called "[[http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=68932 Chav: The Knifing]]".
246* Hilariously, the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orks]] of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are based on this stereotype. As the game was originally developed in Britain in TheEighties, Orks were based on British youth culture at the time - FootballHooligans, skinheads, [[RiceBurner boy racers]] and thugs in general. One of their war chants is "'''Ere We Go!''" for crying out loud. They also have a certain resemblance to Chavs, which is odd, since that variant of this trope is somewhat younger than the game. Maybe it's a case of LifeImitatesArt.
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250* ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'' and its musical adaptation ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' chronicle Eliza Doolittle's [[RagsToRoyalty transformation]] from this, an ill-mannered cockney flower girl, to a splendid lady worthy of dancing with a prince, under the tutelage of the [[SmugSnake pompous]] Professor Higgins. A more traditional example is given in her father Alfred, a lazy trash collector who happily sponges off anyone he can, to the point where characters will immediately address him with "Not a brass farthing." When he does get the money he immediately [[TheAlcoholic spends it on beer]]. It's also outright stated that he abandoned Eliza early on and is a lousy dad the sporadic times he is in her life. After a conversation, Higgins declares that Alfred's unconventional philosophy of amoral hedonism is actually ingenious and gets him in touch with an American millionaire interested in morality. After the American dies, he leaves Alfred enough money to move himself up to middle class, which Alfred resents because it obligates him to officially marry his common-law wife.
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254* The {{Meme}} character "Scumbag Steve", and his DistaffCounterpart "Scumbag Stacy."
255* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' portrays UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper as one.
256* Aunt Despair from WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic has been compared to Honey Boo Boo's mom. Her husband Uncle Lies is an UpperClassTwit.
257* Commonly featured on [[Website/{{Reddit}} r/trashy]] and related subreddits.
258* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opCeTx4bZ9o This video]] gained some minor notoriety for capturing one of what was apparently an almost-daily series of profanity-laden screaming matches that almost always spilled out into the street and frequently got physical from some ''unbelievably'' shitty and trashy neighbors.
259* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hr-2FhSbn0 This video]] and the other "Fall River Guy" videos from its creator achieved viral fame throughout New England for their depictions of the archetypal trashy New England townie: crude, vulgar, substance-addled and utterly dismissive of their issues, gleefully duplicitous and willing to scam virtually anyone who they think they can get money from, and unwilling to take any sort of responsibility for their many selfish and shitty acts.
260-->"But yeah, come pick me up, you know what I mean, we can go - just don't bring me to Rhode Island. Don't bring me theah, I got warrants in fuckin' Rhode Island, uh, I got warrants over in Connecticut - uh, I actually got warrants in Mass too, so it'd be good if we stayed off the streets, ya know?"
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264* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': This is the default view of people from Piltover on the people of the Undercity. The assumption is that everyone down there is a criminal. Of course, there are people like Deckard who really do fit the stereotype.
265* The Kankers from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. Three half-sisters raised by a single mother, living in a [[TrashyTrailerHome trailer park]] called "Park n' Flush", getting their kicks out of tormenting everybody else and sexually harassing the protagonists, with very little in the way of redeeming qualities.
266* A Canadian version is the cartoon ''WesternAnimation/KevinSpencer''. Kevin is a teenager with chronic substance abuse problems, serious mental health issues up to and including an ImaginaryFriend that [[ToxicFriendInfluence spurs him to commit crimes]], is TheSociopath and openly proud of it, and has a long criminal record which he commits partly for gain and partly ForTheEvulz. His parents are no better - his father Percy is a chronic jailbird and his mother Anastasia ReallyGetsAround, have the same substance abuse problems and criminal tendencies as Kevin, and laugh at his mental illness instead of getting him treatment.
267* Leanne Platter in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is a drunk, violent, abusive, promiscuous, irresponsible, childish, leeching, and overall repulsive white trash loser. The woman destroys everything she touches and leaves incredible amounts of chaos and strife wherever she goes, plays the victim whenever one of her many horrible acts blows up in her face, and gleefully exploits Bill's loneliness and Luanne's desperate desire to have some kind of relationship with her own mother for her own selfish, short-sighted gain so she can continue to live the same destructive and parasitic existence she's carried out since she was a teenager.
268* ''WesternAnimation/NeoYokio'' gives us Cousin Jeffrey Kaan. Despite living in the Hamptons, his conduct and manner of speech are decidedly less than classy. He dresses in ripped clothes, haphazardly drives an ATV around the property, and has a lowbrow vocabulary.
269* In a similar vein are the Gross sisters in ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'', who bully other kids and harass them for money. They are mostly poor and their mother forces them to do work, but they are still jerks to everyone.
270* Quite a few residents in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', especially in the earlier episodes when the town was much smaller and more conservative. Most notably, Kenny's family.
271* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Although most of Springfield's residents are middle-class or higher, there are a few of these.
272** Cletus and Brandine Spuckler are stereotypical hillbillies, living in a run-down shack with 26 children, and occasionally some other relatives as well. Speaking of relatives, they are (DependingOnTheWriter) either [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]] or [[KissingCousins cousins]]. Cletus is perpetually unemployed, while Brandine is (variously) a stripper, a Dairy Queen worker, or a soldier fighting in the UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror. Both are uneducated, as well.
273** Barney Gumble is an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]], never seems to hold down a job for very long, is perpetually single, and lives in [[LonelyBachelorPad a run-down apartment]].
274** In another episode, Lisa has an ImagineSpot of herself when she fears that she is getting dumber. In it, she is an adult, morbidly obese, and married to [[TheDitz Ralph Wiggum]], who works at a fast-food restaurant. They have several children, and Lisa spends all day in a hammock in a run-down trailer home watching {{Soap Opera}}s. She does ''not'' like what she sees, and freaks out when Homer calls her "angel-pie" in the "real" world, which was her pet-name for Ralph in her ImagineSpot.
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278* The word "villain" originally meant peasant in Medieval Europe. Due to this trope and its derogatory usage by the upper classes, over time it had evolved from "a rude and uncouth person similar to a peasant" to a morally depraved character. There ''is'' a reason why this trope itself is on the Villains index and why one of the proposed names for "Corrupt Hick" (since renamed to SmallTownTyrant, which is itself a related trope and could best be desribed as the ultimate example of this trope) was "Village Villain", true to the spirit of this trope.
279* Similarly, the word "vulgar" meant "common" or "pertaining to ordinary people" during the Medieval European era, usually in reference to a language by simply describing the common language or vernacular of a country. From the mid-seventeenth century onwards, it began to take on a pejorative aspect due to this trope and its derogatory usage by the upper classes: "having a common and offensively mean character, coarsely commonplace; lacking in refinement or good taste; uncultured; ill bred"
280* Similar to the above, the word "Burakumin" means "village/hamlet people" in Japanese but it was used as a derogatory term by the upper classes to describe people who performed menial labor tainted with death and filth and thus lied outside of the Tokugawa class system, such as butchers, slaughterhouse workers, entertainers, prostitutes, tanners, undertakers, executioners, and street cleaners. The continuous discrimination against such persons contributed to many of their descendants turning to crime and joining criminal organizations like the {{Yakuza}}, further reinforcing this trope.
281* Much like Burakumin, the etymological origin of the UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} people as well as the similar Lom and Dom peoples derives from the Sanskrit word ''ḍoma'', meaning "a man of low caste who gains his livelihood by singing and dancing". Perhaps rather true to that meaning, Romanis were stereotyped as being vagrants and criminals by Europeans, and, similar to the Burakumin, were continuously discriminated and even excluded from society, a practice that still goes on to this day.
282* Blue-collar crime refers to crimes that were commonly committed by blue-collar or lower social class people, such as drug production and distribution, rape, theft, burglary, assault and murder. These crimes (especially rape and murder) generally carry much higher penalties than white-collar crimes.
283* Many of the more unflattering parodies of former US President UsefulNotes/BillClinton (when they weren't celebrating him as a GoodOlBoy made good) took this route, focusing on his dirt-poor upbringing in Arkansas, his [[AndADietCoke love of junk food]], [[ReallyGetsAround his serial womanizing]], and later on, his ability to talk his way out of any scandal with his popularity intact through sheer RefugeInAudacity (the "Slick Willie" image). Creator/ToniMorrison famously [[https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/08/toni-morrison-wasnt-giving-bill-clinton-a-compliment/402517/ referred to Clinton]] as America's "first black President", comparing his treatment by the media and political establishment to the scorn heaped on black men for acting "ghetto". While Clinton was also a [[SouthernFriedGenius Rhodes scholar]] and a [[UsefulNotes/IvyLeague graduate of Yale]], he willfully embraced a "hillbilly" image to sell himself to the American people, most notably when he [[SexySaxMan played the saxophone]] on ''Series/TheArsenioHallShow''.
284* Conversely, going against this trope is a great way to doom one's Presidential campaign, as Mitt Romney learned the hard way in 2012 with his "47%" comments[[note]]In short, arguing that conservatism had an uphill battle in America since 47% of Americans didn't pay income tax, and would simply vote for whoever best promised to keep their welfare checks and food stamps coming[[/note]] and (ironically, given her aforementioned husband Bill) UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton did in 2016 with her "basket of deplorables" comments[[note]]Intended to criticize [[ANaziByAnyOtherName alt-right]] internet {{troll}}s, but the phrasing she used was interpreted by many blue-collar voters as a slam on them, calling them bourgeois bumpkins who would simply vote for whoever best pandered to their prejudices[[/note]]. Both were branded by voters and the media as [[UpperClassTwit Upper-Class Twits]] who looked down on [[FlyoverCountry Middle America]] as a land of Lower-Class Lout stereotypes, and lost close elections as a result. The Midwest, politically and culturally dominated by farmers and factory workers, is a key swing region in Presidential elections, and voters in those states ''[[BerserkButton do not]]'' like being tarred with this brush.
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