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13[[caption-width-right:350:"I just wanted to [[MayIBorrowACupOfSugar borrow a cup of sugar]]."]]
14->'''Groundskeeper Willie:''' Brothers and sisters are natural enemies, like Englishmen and Scots, or Welshmen and Scots, or Japanese and Scots, or Scots and ''other'' Scots. ''[shakes fist]'' Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!\
15'''Principal Skinner:''' You Scots sure are a contentious people.\
16'''Groundskeeper Willie:''' ''[gets right up in Skinner's face]'' You just made an enemy for ''life''!
17-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
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19A violent or menacing character on British television, especially if [[TheAlcoholic a raving drunk]] and/or a [[CrazyHomelessPeople mad homeless man]], will often have a UsefulNotes/{{Glasgow}} [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents accent]], since Glaswegian is a very good accent and dialect for uttering threats.
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21The character often uses [[UseYourHead headbutts]] (also called "The Glasgow Kiss"), [[GroinAttack knees in the crotch]], {{improvised weapon}}s and [[CombatPragmatist other unsportsmanlike fighting methods]]. The "Angry Scotsman" occasionally makes an appearance in American media, ([[FightingIrish though the Irish]] sometimes get a similar treatment, since as far as the HollywoodAtlas is concerned, they all come from {{Scotireland}} anyway). By the 21st century, the Angry Scot archetype has receded, to the point where Groundskeeper Willie of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is probably the most popular and well-known character to fit this stereotype on British TV today, despite the show itself being American.
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23A connected stereotype is the "ned" (according to incorrect folk etymology, short for [[AcronymsAreEasyAsAybeecee 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.
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25The 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.
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27After 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 [[DyingTown 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]]
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29Glasgow also has a reputation for being one of the friendliest cities in Scotland, especially in contrast to relatively aloof Edinburgers. It is also noticeably better run than most urban areas in the UK.
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31Notably, 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 "No-one attacks me with impunity", loosely rendered in Scots as "Wha daur meddle wi' me?" or in Glaswegian as "Nae messin'".
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33Mostly overlaps with FieryRedhead since Scottish people are [[PhenotypeStereotype known to have red hair]].
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35See also BraveScot, BrooklynRage, {{Southies}}, DublinSkanger. The Irish, or at least {{Oir|eland}}ish, counterpart to this (assuming there is [[{{Scotireland}} a difference]]) is FightingIrish. The rural, or at least [[DeepSouth Southern American]] or UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}}n, counterpart is SouthernFriedPrivate. Ironically, NoTrueScotsman is often used to ''defy'' this trope. Overlap with TheScottishTrope is not unheard of, though.
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44* 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=Mj5ms9PJDNY No, really.]]
45* [[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.
46* Irn-Bru, a Scottish beverage that glows an unusual shade of orange, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHFWq-YIOk&fmt=18 knows and loves this trope.]] Watch to the end for a Glasgow Kiss [[spoiler: ''from a vending machine'']].
47** As mentioned in the video, Irn-Bru is said to be made from girders, and actually does contain ammonium ferric citrate.
48* Hilarious customer-made "Mockumercial" for Utilikilts "[[https://youtu.be/4dK0cnL9uLg Excuse me. Are you wearing a skirt?"]]
49* One very, VERY weird ad for chewing gum features, of all things, a [[LetsMeetTheMeat talking piece of gum with a Scottish accent]] who is rather ticked off about someone not wanting to chew him and spit him out.
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53* 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]]
54* Anime dub/manga translation example: English language interpretations of violent ChurchMilitant Alexander Anderson from ''Anime/{{Hellsing}}'' have conferred a Scottish accent on him even though he has no official nationality and works at an Italian orphanage. "Anderson" ''is'' a Scottish clan, so it's not like they pulled the concept out of thin air, but it's ''also'' an English and Scandinavian name entirely separate from the Scottish Andersons.
55* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', Scotland is an unseen character who was said to bully England, his younger brother (though England may be an UnreliableNarrator). A popular OriginalCharacter took this reference and ran with it (see [[FanWorks/HetaliaAxisPowers Fan Works]]). Years later, however, Scotland was described by WordOfGod as "friendly and [[BraveScot brave]]" and a [[KindheartedCatLover cat lover.]] When he finally appears in the anime, he's serving as an Allied spy and gives advice to England to blend in with the locals as he tries to escape from Italy in [=WW2=].
56* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': Kitty Shearer is from Scotland, and she is an AlphaBitch who has a nasty attitude to everyone she meets. One day, her negligence causes her horse to become frenzied and run away. Sandybell notices him, calms him down and starts riding him to comfort him. When Kitty's butler tells her that her horse has been found, Kitty instantly {{Bitch Slap}}s Sandybell for riding her horse.
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60* ''Animation/{{Dreamkix}}'' features Byrne, a surly sheep and football player who has the accent and definitely the attitude at times.
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64* Glaswegian comedian Creator/BillyConnolly:
65** He is popular for acting like the "Glasgow hard-man" most of the time, his comedy acts often being outrageous and offensive (such as his comments during the Ken Bigley hostage situation, in which he called on the terrorists to "get on with it"). He also wrote and sang a song called "Evil Scotsman" (written by Rockin' Jock) with such lyrics as "I'm a mean motherfucker, I was born that way/And just because I wear a skirt, don't think I'm fucking gay!"
66** 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 UsefulNotes/NewZealand, Trafalgar Square in UsefulNotes/{{London}}, and the Arctic!
67** He also developed a reputation for punching journalists if they asked him prying questions about his [[MissingMom absent mother]]. Also, he once chased a reporter the length of a street and tackled him over an article he had written.
68** One memorable subversion was on ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'' where he burst into a pub, and demanded (in a typical Violent Glaswegian voice) to know if a number of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast hard men]] were there. Upon finding out they weren't, he ordered a Campari and Soda in a CampGay voice.
69* Glasgow audiences on the stand-up comedy circuit always had a reputation for being ''savagely'' difficult. Old-school (but surprisingly well-read) British comedian Creator/KenDodd used it in his discussions of the art of comedy.
70-->''"[[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Freud's]] theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvelous 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."''
71* Glasgow native Creator/CraigFerguson has joked about this in his stand-up, claiming that after living there for awhile, you stop even noticing all the violent crime, comparing it to how you stop registering the sound of airplanes taking off after you've lived by the airport long enough.
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75* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
76** Middenface [=McNulty=] from ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' was raised in the Glasgow ghetto and has been on the lam since he turned fourteen. Middenface's resumé includes time spent as a BountyHunter, terrorist, RebelLeader and criminal enforcer. His hobbies include drinking and brawling.
77** ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'':
78*** Stories have, on occasion, featured a [[WriterOnBoard Scottish comic book artist]] Kenny Who? (yes, the question mark is part of his name) who, in his first appearance, is driven to violence by his frustration with life in Mega-City-One [[AuthorTract and the comic book industry]].
79*** One story featured a day of celebration in the Big Meg that completely parodies this trope complete with Synthi-Buckie, DeepFriedWhatever and mass riots as a result.
80* 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.
81* The [[http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Minor_or_one-shot_characters_in_Belch_Dimension_Comics#Drunken_Scotsman Drunken Scotsman]] (real name Duncan [=McTavish=]) from ''ComicBook/TheBelchDimensionComics''. 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.
82* Francis Clunie, ''ComicBook/TheBogieMan'', is a mad and violent Glaswegian, but he speaks with a FakeAmerican accent due to his delusion that he is Creator/HumphreyBogart.
83* 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.]]
84* 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.
85* Header from the ComicBook ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''.
86* Similarly, in the AlternateHistory ''ComicBook/ScarletTraces'', following on from ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', Scotland (and much of the north of England) has been reduced to a starving industrial hellhole by the south, causing mass civil unrest. In the third book, a Scottish [[SuicideAttack suicide bomber]] fighting for Scottish Independence blows up Creator/TheBBC.
87* [[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.
88* In one issue of the ''[[ComicBook/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' comic, the family is on vacation in Scotland and runs across Creator/GrantMorrison and Creator/MarkMillar, who fight to the death over who was the better ''ComicBook/XMen'' writer.
89* 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).
90** 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.
91* ''ComicBook/XMen'' character Proteus was a psychotic Scottish shape-changing villain. Not technically from Glasgow, but the island he came from was fictional so it doesn't matter a whole lot.
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95* ''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=].
96* 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.
97* An ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' OriginalCharacter [[AnthropomorphicPersonification representing]] [[SailorEarth Scotland]] gained popularity on Website/{{pixiv}} [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltfntpkQ9y1r2zebxo1_250.jpg and over half of]] [[http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt5duzvkAo1r4jk25o1_500.jpg the fanart for him]] [[http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrc3eraQ8u1r2zebxo1_500.png is him]] beating up [[http://fuckyeahscoteng.tumblr.com/post/10371055131 and maybe]] [[http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrbeb81Smb1r2zebxo1_500.jpg even raping]] [[http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrc318PGPV1r2zebxo1_500.jpg his]] [[http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrqrnlOVoC1r2zebxo1_250.jpg little brother]] [[http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/11623930521/1/tumblr_lsquj1qpK01r2zebx England.]] (Unless he is shown as France's super ally and HoYay partner). However, this seems unrelated to the stereotype, and is simply to make him a stereotypical {{Seme}} or FetishizedAbuser to be shipped with England. Needless to say, many western fans weren't very pleased with it.
98** However, other fanarts of him subvert this as Scotland portrayed as more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold / BruiserWithASoftCenter and despite him picking endlessly on England, he does care for his little brother. [[http://www.zerochan.net/270742 Quite]] [[http://www.zerochan.net/253551 a]] [[http://www.zerochan.net/268771 few]] [[http://www.zerochan.net/250283 fanarts]] depicts him being quite gentle with England (both in the past and present). [[{{Tsundere}} When nobody was around that is.]] (And not to mention, the few times that [[GenderFlip Nyotalia!England]] is used, Scotland treats her FAR better.)
99* As soon as the female trainer from ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', Gloria, was first revealed wearing a tam o'shanter and tartan socks, along with her starting town being in the region's equivalent of Scotland, fans pretty much unanimously latched onto depicting her in FanArt and fan-vids such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgi2Hchf5cs this one]] as [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/scottish-pokemon-trainer/photos an angry, foul-mouthed Scot]]. Curiously, although the male trainer comes from the same town, he typically averts this in fanon depictions, often being shown with a milder temper.
100** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5kRW54Bbe4 This]] animatic combines the above meme with the audio from a vid recorded by an ''actual'' foul-mouthed Scot as she struggled with an Alexa that couldn't understand her accent. The animatic substitutes the recorder and the Alexa with Gloria and a Rotom, respectively, and ends with [[spoiler:Gloria punching the Rotom after she ''finally'' gets it to work... by speaking with a ''Cockney English'' accent]].
101** Deconstructed with Gloria in ''Fanfic/PokemonLightAU''. She has ''too'' much of a temper, which eventually pushes away her friends. Gloria only begins acting worse before she hits her breaking point and is DrivenToSuicide because she fears she's like her [[AbusiveParents abusive father]]. It's implied her temper stems from the past abuse.
102* ''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.
103* 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.
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107* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' features the Dingwall, Mcguffin, and Macintosh clans, whose feud for the right to marry Princess Merida threatens to divide Scotland. Fortunately, Merida convinces the clans' heads to let their sons marry in their own time to whomever they choose and manages to reunite the clans and mend the relationship between her mother and herself.
108* [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', since Shrek doesn't resort to such stereotypical actions as throttling someone, laying siege to the fortress, grinding someone's bones to make bread, decapitating entire villages, putting their heads on a pike, or cutting out their spleens and drinking their fluids, since villagers tend to misjudge Shrek when they run away and call him a big, stupid, smelly ogre, and when Shrek mishears Fiona's conversation with Donkey [[spoiler:about Lord Farquaad,]] he thinks that Fiona is talking about him when she mentions falling in love with an ugly, hideous creature.
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112* 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.
113* ''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''.
114* Fat Bastard from ''Film/AustinPowers'', though he's more [[FatBastard obnoxious]] and [[FatSlob crude]] than violent.
115* Billy's dad from ''Film/BillyElliot'', even though the rest of the village are all from County Durham.
116* 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.
117* ''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.
118* Syd from ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' is one of the many extremely violent policemen in the film's CrapsackWorld version of Britain. Early in the film, he likes to toy with and scare people, and eventually, we see him turn quite psychotic.
119* ''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]].
120* 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.
121* ''Film/JamesBond'': 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.
122* Gimli is this in the film version of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' because Dwarves, in general, were portrayed to have Scottish accents.
123** 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''.
124* 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.
125* The mercenary Celts who attack Robin Hood and his Merry Men in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' are certainly violent and all red-haired. In particular, Mortianna recommends that Nottingham recruit "the beasts that share our god...from the north," to which Nottingham says "You mean Celts. They drink the blood of their dead."
126* According to Mike Myers' character in ''Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer'', the Scots have their own form of martial arts called ''"Fuh'kew"'' which is comprised of "...mostly headbutts, and then kicking the other person when they're on the ground." While the character himself isn't particularly violent, his father (also played by Myers) definitely fits the trope.
127* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
128** [[EvilOverlord Emperor Palpatine]] is played by Scottish actor Ian [=McDiarmid=], and you can occasionally hear hints of his natural accent. [[https://youtu.be/dATuq8O3920 "My mentor taught me everything about the Force, even the nature of the Dark Side."]] Usually, though, [=McDiarmid=] does a good job of making his accent ambiguous -- just compare [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05dT34hGRdg how he]] [[https://youtu.be/dATuq8O3920 sounds in]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DI8kkR9G0Q the movies]] with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBtbwhyBibI how he]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaXrL77mHQg sounds while]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKejfm2X5f0 giving interviews.]] Moreover, even when Palpatine ''does'' sound Scottish, he still isn't your stereotypical Violent Glaswegian. Unless he's DrunkOnTheDarkSide, he's a ponderous, scheming [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] and ManipulativeBastard, not a hot-headed hooligan.
129** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' gives us [[OneSceneWonder Bala-Tik]] (played by Scottish actor Brian Vernel) as the ruthless leader of the Guavian Death Gang.
130* ''Film/TheSuppressor'' does not shy away from the angry Scottish stereotype.
131** Blake Bradley himself is a bitter recovering alcoholic who attacks criminals.
132** Billy Hunter is a vicious drug dealer who doesn't take flak from anyone.
133* ''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".
134* ''Film/VigilanteDiaries'': 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.
135* 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.
136* ''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.]]]]
137* ''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.
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141* 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.
142* 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.
143* Author Creator/ChristopherBrookmyre, who sets many of his books in Scotland, uses this one frequently.
144** 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=]
145* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' equivalents: Wee Mad Arthur and the Nac Mac Feegle, who almost literally squeeze six feet of violence into a six-inch package. This fits the general impression that the shorter a Scotsman is, the more dangerous he is.
146** Also referenced in ''The Discworld Companion'' (emphasis added):
147--> "[Ankh-Morpork and Klatch are] the kind of inveterate cultural enemies like England and France, the North and South of the United States, Western Australia and the rest of Australia, ''Scotland and Scotland'', etc..."
148** 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. Even ''dying'' can't stop him.
149-->'''I ain't dead!' roared Mad Hamish. “I'll knock any man doon as tells me a'm dead!''"
150* ''Literature/GoodOmens'' describes the Scots as being locked in eternal war with their archenemy, the Scots.
151* Malakai Makaisson in the ''Literature/GotrekAndFelix'' novels has the accent down pat (the author William King is a native of Stranraer). Plus he's a [[DeathSeeker Slayer]], and the type of guy who invents things like Airships, Rocket Launchers, and a rapid-fire axe-thrower.
152** The inventive Scotsman is a real-life trope, interestingly enough.
153* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'':
154** 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.
155** 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.
156* In the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' novel ''Shadow of Freedom'', a character reflects on the rather violent history of his homeworld, originally settled by ethnic scots.
157--> [=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.
158* The literary Literature/JamesBond is Scottish, as confirmed in his "obituary" in ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice''.
159* 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.
160* 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.
161--> 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.
162** 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.
163* In Creator/{{Ken MacLeod}}'s ''Newton's Wake'', one of the main power blocs is the 'Bloody Carlyles', a family of Glaswegian [[spoiler:junk-men, drug dealers, and assorted petty criminals who lucked into a way of travelling to the stars after the Singularity]].
164* The TropeCodifier is probably the 1935 novel ''Literature/NoMeanCity'' 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.
165* In ''Notes From a Small Island'', Creator/BillBryson reminisces about his days as a journalist for ''The Times'' in the mid-1980s, describing the editor as "a terrifying Scotsman" and gives this rendition of his typical speech:
166--> "We're sending ye tae Wapping, ye soft English nancies, and if ye wairk very, very hard and if ye doonae get on ma tits, then mebbe I'll not cut off yer knackers and put them in ma Christmas pudding. D'ye have any problems with tha'?"[[note]]That Editor can actually be identified and named. It is known the same man, Charles Wilson, once took great exception to an unflattering story in Magazine/PrivateEye concerning his management of the ''Times''. Rather than take out an expensive libel action, he sought ought then-editor of PE, Richard Ingrams, lifted him bodily by about three feet, and hooked the collar of Ingrams' jacket onto an ornamental, and very sharp, piece of street ironwork. He then informed Ingrams that the next time he wrote any shite like that, the spike goes through your ''neck'', laddie, you hearing me? He then left the hapless satirical journalist suspended in the air with his feet dangling three feet above the ground, and walked away. [[/note]]
167** In the chapter that actually deals with Glasgow, he regards a Glaswegian thanking him for holding the door open in terms of a terrifying death-threat, and Glasgow as a depressing and menacing city. It's not quite clear if he genuinely finds Glaswegians/Scots this scary and hostile, or he's playing up his own American-English "nancy" stereotype for humour. However, he certainly doesn't spend much time in Scotland (or Wales) - the majority of the book concerns his travels in England.
168* Angus [=McDougal=] from ''Literature/NuklearAge'' is a dwarven Scotsman outfitted with a medieval suit of armor and a huge club, who stomps around town and goes in and out of bars. [[BerserkButton Mention a single word related to height around him and you're dead.]]
169* ''Literature/RobRoy'': Most of Scottish characters are quick-tempered, irascible and prone to draw their swords out when someone gets them annoyed.
170* 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.
171** 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."
172* Creator/IrvineWelsh 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.
173* At least one translation of Classical Greek quotations opted to render the Lacedemonian (you know, Sparta) quotes as Scottish.
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177* 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.
178* Russ Abbot's "Jimmy" character.
179* ''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.
180* In the ''Series/{{Blackadder}} III'' episode "[[Recap/BlackadderS3E6DuelAndDuality Duel and Duality]]", Blackadder 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.
181* 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 afterwards, he was aware he'd just completely failed to dispel a lingering cultural prejudice concerning Scotsmen with sharp blades.
182* ''Series/BrightonBelles'', 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).
183* Callum Finnegan in ''Series/{{Brookside}}''. A huge shock to the Scottish audience, who associated Gerard Kelly with mildly camp comedy roles.
184* ''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.
185* The "Neds" from the Glaswegian sketch show ''Series/ChewinTheFat'', and its SitCom SpinOff ''Series/StillGame''.
186* [[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]]]].
187* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
188** 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 "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E3ThinIce 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]].
189** 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.
190*** 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.
191** 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]]).
192--->'''Amy:''' Well, ''somebody's'' never been to Scotland!
193** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor 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]].
194** 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.
195* Trevor, Little Mo's psychopathic abusive husband in ''Series/EastEnders''.
196* Kenny [=McBlane=] from ''Series/TheFallAndRiseOfReginaldPerrin''.
197* ''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.
198* ''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.
199* 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!''"
200* Sue White from ''Series/GreenWing''.
201* ''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.]]
202* 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.
203* The British GameShow ''Series/{{Interceptor}}'' had Sean O'Kane, from just outside Glasgow, playing a madder than a box of frogs, black leather-coated villain with a line in gratuitous insults and a clear desire to headbutt someone if he'd been allowed to.
204** He once requested his helicopter pilot "Mikie" to land a helicopter on a contestant's head (he did not do so) and on another occasion, Mikie stated he would mine a stretch of river for him.
205* Johnny Red in ''Series/KeenEddie'', who won't hesitate to brawl with his brother-in-law over the slightest thing.
206** 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.
207* 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.
208* One episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'' featured a [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]] expy rather pointedly called "Glasgowman".
209* Desmond on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' fits for a while, before CharacterDevelopment. He spends most of his first two centric episodes drinking and raving, and a third flashback episode mentions a past as something of a drunken soccer hooligan.
210* Hengist and the Mercians in ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}''. Yes, Hengist was the leader of the Germanic tribes in England, and Mercia is the modern English Midlands. It's '''''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'''''.
211* Most of the jokes that Creator/FrankieBoyle makes on ''Series/MockTheWeek'' invoke this trope.
212** ''How often are police in Glasgow called out to deal with a pregnant woman attacking a rottweiler with a sledgehammer?''
213* 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.]]
214* 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.
215* Black Jock [=McLaren=] from ''Series/{{Porridge}}'' (also a ScaryBlackMan and a ScaryMinoritySuspect), though he's actually from Greenock, 27 miles from Glasgow.
216* 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.
217* ''Series/RabCNesbitt.''
218* 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.
219* Roughly every third Creator/MikeMyers character in ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.
220** One episode had Creator/PatrickStewart as a Scottish therapist, who does [[WordAssociationTest word association]] with Mike Myers' character, an angry Scottish man. Every response is violence ("Mother?" "Headbutt!" "Father?" "Kick in the jimmy!") until Stewart says "Brother?", to which Myers responds "Seagull". When Stewart asks him to explain, [[RefugeInAudacity Myers says that his brother used to tie heavy weights to seagulls and throw them into the loch]].
221* ''Series/SeriouslyWeird'': Even though he is supposedly the Greek god of chaos, Steve speaks with a Scottish accent and comes across as a violent Glaswegian.
222* Chibs from ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy''.
223* 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.
224* 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!"
225* Jamie and Malcolm from ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' and ''Film/InTheLoop'' epitomise this trope (although Jamie is actually from Motherwell, which is 28 km from Glasgow proper, he certainly counts; and this very much applies to Malcolm, who apparently grew up in the Gorbals, a very rough area of Glasgow indeed). 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.
226* SPG from ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' is a violent Glaswegian hamster, who once launched an unprovoked headbutt assault on an upper-class teddy bear.
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230* 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").
231* Brutal death metal act Cerebral Bore plays this trope for all it's worth; not only do they hail from Glasgow, but their lyrics make heavy use of Glaswegian slang and frequently read like the disjointed, incoherent rantings of an angry ned.
232* Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine with their "Sealed with a [[UseYourHead Glasgow Kiss]]".
233* The founding of Music/FranzFerdinand subverts this. Nick [=McCarthy=] drunkenly stole Alex Kapranos' bottle of vodka at a drunken party in (where else?) Glasgow. On the edge of a fight, Kapranos asked [=McCarthy=]: "Can you play the drums"? It turned out he really couldn't, but they switched things around, and a band was born.
234** There are rumours that there was an actual fight for a bit, and then there was the question, and then the fight segued into a makeout session.
235* 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.
236* Music/PinkFloyd's album ''Music/TheWall'' has a SadistTeacher like this, who terrorises the students during "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" and "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2":
237-->''You! Yes, you! Stand still, laddie!''\
238''Wrong, do it agin! Wrong, do it agin! Wrong, do it agin!''\
239''If yeh doon't eat yer meat, yeh can't have any pudding! How can yeh have any pudding if yeh doon't eat yer meat?''\
240''You! Yes, you, behind the bike sheds!''\
241''Stand '''STILL''', laddie!''
242* [[https://youtu.be/_iYva-JPzLY?t=2m15s "Trouble (The Evil Scotsman Song)"]] by The Rockin' Jock.
243* "Skull the Cat" shows that in Glasgow even the ''kitties'' are psychotically violent.
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247* Myth/CelticMythology: In the Ulster Cycle, [[FightingIrish Cu Chulainn]] went to Dunscaith Castle in Northern Scotland to be given his TrainingFromHell from the warrior maiden [[ActionGirl Scathach]]. This would eventually result in Scathach giving him her signature weapon Gae Bolg, which would, in turn, become ''his'' weapon.
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251* "Rowdy" Wrestling/RoddyPiper was one of the most popular ones in wrestling. He was even billed to come from Glasgow, Scotland (He's actually a Scot-heritaged Canadian born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan).
252* Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre, a Scottish wrestler depicted in {{Kayfabe}} as having an explosive temper and a bit of a sadistic streak.
253* [[Wrestling/NikkiCross Nikki Storm/Cross]], best known to American fans for popping up in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}[==]SHINE and Wrestling/{{WSU}}, although she has a big bite, [[ChewingTheScenery her bark is that much bigger.]]
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257* 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.
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261* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech''
262** Planets such as Caledonia and Northwind are among the planets settled by Scots. The latter has a mercenary unit to its name, the Northwind Highlanders, who fall under the trope of the BraveScot, especially in the latter portion of the post-Jihad timeline. They are also some of the [[BloodKnight most passionate Mechwarriors]] in the series, especially the novels. This includes a scene where two Highlanders with a grudge [[GoodOldFisticuffs fight it out]] in a bar while the other Highlanders, including command officers, drink, officiate, and bet on the outcome of the two-man bar brawl. Later pieces demonstrate that in more extreme cases of internal strife, they can and will [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen fight fair against their own]] (they take to the field in their [[HumongousMecha Battlemechs]] and use live ammo, but intentionally aim low to avoid hitting the other pilots), but are [[TheCombatPragmatist bloody wicked scrappers]] against anyone else they see as an outsider.
263** The Royal Black Watch were the personal bodyguard regiment of the Cameron ruling family of the Star League. When their liege was assassinated, their response was to dispatch jetpack infantry the Royal palace and begin bombarding the place--not with grenades, but ''{{satchel charge}}s''. When the usurper Amaris nuked the regiment, the eight surviving warriors destroyed more than ''three times'' their own number before a desparate Amaris nuked them ''twice more''. The Black Watch were hellraisers through and through, and amazingly there were actually survivors, whose response to being nuked thrice was to start finding and killing whatever usurper troops and officers they could find. [[MemeticMutation You can't kill the goddamned Black Watch]].
264** Early pilots of ''Highlander''-class 'Mechs, including a disproportionate number of actual Scots, discovered that it was big enough enough to [[DeathFromAbove jump onto enemy 'Mechs]] and crush them underfoot, heedless of the damage it might do to their own leg structures. The designers--which also included a number of actual Scots--decided that, instead of cautioning pilots against such violence, they would just reinforce the legs further and downright ''encourage'' future ''Highlander'' pilots to jump on people as a solution to their problems.
265* In ''TabletopGame/{{Crimestrikers}}'', Arcana starts as the DraconicHumanoid equivalent of this trope, but gradually evolves into a BraveScot thanks to CharacterDevelopment.
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269* Creator/WilliamShakespeare'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.
270--> And in 2013 [[Creator/JamesMcavoy a real Glaswegian]] played the Scottish thane on stage in London.
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274* Though the game takes place in the Forgotten Realms, [[BloodKnight Korgan]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bloodaxe]] from ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGate Baldur's Gate 2]]'' seems to fit the role well.
275* 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.
276** In {{Western RPG}}s with voice acting, dwarves with the stereotypical hard-drinking hard-fighting tough-as-nails demeanor are often portrayed with a Scottish accent.
277*** This also appears in ''[[VideoGame/WarCraft WarCraft 2]]'', where the dwarven engineers all say things such as "Ah like tae blow things up!" in thick Scots accents.
278* Jimmy Wilson in ''VideoGame/TheDarkness II'''s Vendettas mode is a walking, axe-throwing personification of this trope.
279* 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.
280** 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.
281* 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.
282* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': Ragnar [=McRyan=] is a 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.
283* ''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:which is justified in that it's heavily implied that he's actually the ''second'' Sheogorath, once called the Hero of Kvatch and Champion of Cyrodiil in ''Oblivion'', who took over the station of the original Sheogorath at the end of the ''Shivering Isles'' expansion.]]
284* ''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.
285* The Scottish accent in ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' was allocated to Cait Sith, of all characters. Whilst it technically makes sense due to his name being a reference to Scottish and Irish fairy tales, it is still hilarious funny to hear him say "YOU'RE THE CHIPS AND GRAVY" in an overblown accent.
286* The [[LizardFolk Bangaas]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' speak with thick Scottish accents, a [[CharacterizationMarchesOn character trait that was kept on following games]], namely [=FFXII=]'s sequel ''Revenants Wings'' as well as ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2''. The Bangaas' description in the latter reads as follow: ''"Their violent tempers, powerful physique, and love of the battle make them at home on the front lines."'' You could easily consider them a race of Violent Glaswegians.
287* [[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.]]
288* 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!"]]
289* 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.]]
290* 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.
291* ''VideoGame/MedievalIITotalWar'': A Dreaded ([[KarmaMeter read: evil]]) Scottish general will very much be this.
292-->''*selecting your own general*'' "Can we ''finish'' them yet, sire!?"
293-->''*laying siege to an enemy town/castle*'' "Those walls won't protect them for long!!"
294-->''*winning a battle*'' "Your foes lie ''dead'' at my feet, sire!" "[[EvilLaugh Hahahaha!]] YES! Victorrryyyy!!"
295-->''*selecting an enemy general*'' "I'LL CUT YER HEAD OFF AND SHHIIIT DOWN YER NECK!!"
296* ''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.
297* ''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.
298* 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]].
299* ''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]].
300* 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.]]
301* ''VideoGame/SpaceColony'' has 'Nailer' Mc Bride a football hooligan with a bad habit of punching tourists and staff.
302* ''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 an exaggerated Scottish accent and makes gratuitious use of Scottish slang in his dialogue. His LargeHam tendencies further add to this.
303* 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.
304* ''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'' has Grim, a Scottish cook on the Endurance. He's a friendly guy, he enjoyed fishing until an incident in the Loch and he supports Lara when they meet up in the game, however, when the Cultists take him hostage, he gives a reverse [[UseYourHead headbutt]] to the captor holding him, took his machete and killed his second captor and tackled his third captor off the platform in a [[DyingMomentOfAwesome Dying Moment of Awesome]].
305* 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.
306* Fergus Reid from ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' is this trope to a T. He is even stated as being from Glasgow and completely batshit crazy. His introduction is keeping a shot-to-hell cargo plane flying long enough for him and BJ to jump to a new plane, ''in mid-air''. He later sings ''My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean'' in the middle of a heated firefight, shouting orders in between lines.
307* ''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.
308* [[PunnyName General Mayhem]], the lawn gnome general in ''[[Website/GaiaOnline zOMG!]]''[='s=] Village Greens area, is a Violent Glaswegian ''lawn ornament''.
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312* 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]].
313* Dougie [=McCummings=] in ''Webcomic/WhatTheFu''.
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317* Invoked in ''LetsPlay/HoboBros'', Kevin sometimes tries to imitate a Scottish accent when he gets angry at a game.
318* 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.
319* 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.
320* Pretty much everyone in ''LetsPlay/AScotsmanInEgypt'' ends up blurring the line between this one and BraveScot at some point, but Angus the Mauler is the purest example thanks to having [[FlatCharacter almost no other discernable personality traits]] besides his HairTriggerTemper, love of strong drink and violence and [[TheBerserker absurd lack of self-preservation instincts]] once he gets stuck into a fight. He still ends up being [[BunnyEarsLawyer one of Scotland's best generals]] thanks to pure RefugeInAudacity.
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324* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': Molly [=MacDonald=] is Scottish-American, and is one of the Tough Customers, the gang of fourth-grade bullies. ZigZagged in that she actually has a nice side as well. [[spoiler:She acts like this because she was bullied by two older kids for her hair, and became a bully herself: it's only when her brother starts acting like her that she realizes what she becomes.]]
325* Cecil Stink from ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins''. Odd, since his brothers don't appear to have inherited his accent.
326* Numbuh 86 from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', a rare female example (although [[{{Scotireland}} it's zigzagged]] if she's this or {{Oireland}}). She's a bossy, violent little brat of a kid, bossing around every agent save for her own superiors. It doesn't help that her own father is Mr. Boss, the arch-nemesis of Sector V.
327* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'''s mentor and driving instructor, Roddy [=McStew=].
328* The [[ScoutOut Campfire Lasses]] in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', but only when you make them mad, as Helga found out by attacking their leader and stealing her uniform in the episode "Helga Blabs It All".
329** The [[FieryRedhead red-headed leader]] also got angry at Arnold and Gerald after telling her that they quit at the end of "Chocolate Turtles".
330* 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.
331* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': Haggis [=McHaggis=]. Oh, sweet Mother [=MacCree=], ''Haggis''.
332* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'':
333** 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.
334** 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.
335* ''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", and is a fan of Aberdeen football, before Willie himself finally cleared things up by declaring that he was ''actually'' from Kirkwall in Orkney.
336-->'''Groundskeeper Willie:''' Ach! [[FootballHooligans They call this a soccer riot? Come on, lads, let's take 'em to school!]]\
337''(gets up with a couple of other obviously Scottish men and a lead pipe)''
338* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'':
339** Donald, the older of the Scottish Twins, 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.
340-->'''Donald:''' Spite Douggie, would ye?! TAKE THAT! (''crushes the Spiteful Brake Van apart'')
341** Duncan is the only Scottish narrow-gauge engine. He's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who loves to complain about everything and "rock and rolls" through tunnels.
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