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11	[[caption-width-right:350:''Jelem, Jelem...'']]
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13	->''"In Romani, there is the saying that ''kon mangel te kerel tumendar roburen chi shocha phenela tumen o chachimos pa tumare perintonde'', 'he who wants to enslave you will never tell you the truth about your forefathers.'"''
14	-->-- '''Ian Hancock''', Romani scholar
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16	The '''Romani''' (or '''Roma''') have been a popular subject in media due to the many colorful stereotypes associated with the culture. In many media portrayals, they are referred to by the more commonly known name of "Gypsies", but it is important to note that to many Romani, that word is a racist term sometimes considered analogous to the N-word. Not all feel this way, [[NWordPrivileges and are fine with using the word to describe themselves]] as either a neutral term or as an act of reclamation, though they may differ on whether or not it's okay for ''non''-Romani to refer to them as "Gypsies". A British study found that many Romani feel it's a term of pride. It's a legal term under English law and it's used officially in the names of some Romani organizations.
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18	In fiction, Romani are usually depicted as [[RoguishRomani dishonest]]: thieves, pickpockets, [[ConArtist con artists]], trespassers, and [[TheTrickster tricksters]] who wouldn't think twice about taking everything you own that isn't nailed down, and a few things that are. The danger of children being kidnapped by Romani was a common old wives' tale. The stereotype for dishonesty may or may not be where the term "gypped" probably comes from.[[note]]The origin of "gypped" is not really known. One reason to doubt this explanation is that the term seems to have originated in the United States, which although it does have one of the largest Romani populations, if not the largest, in the world, American Roma tend to be assimilated and settled to the point that they're indistinguishable from the larger population.[[/note]] In Europe, there are a number of Romani criminal organizations, both street gangs and mafias, but they are no more representative of all Romani than TheMafia is of all Italians. Not helping the perception is that Romani often [[HidingYourHeritage hide their heritage]] to avoid discrimination, meaning that non-Romani (''gadjo'') often don't recognize the law-abiding Romani they encounter ''as'' Romani.
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20	Romani are almost always shown as [[WanderingCulture universally romantic nomads]]. They're mysterious and {{magical\|Romani}} people, as the sheer number of Romani {{Fortune Teller}}s and {{Gypsy Curse}}s demonstrates. They're also associated with [[TarotMotifs Tarot cards]], and sometimes credited with inventing them. Their women are [[HotGypsyWoman fiery-tempered temptresses]] or wise old crones. They dance in flamenco outfits to Hungarian music. They wear brightly colored clothes and travel in brightly decorated caravans. They have dark skin and speak with an {{Uberwald}} accent, regardless of where they are and where they're supposed to be from.
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22	In reality, the Romani-diaspora is a collection of ethnic groups found throughout Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. They originally emigrated from UsefulNotes/{{India}} but were mistaken for Egyptians by Medieval Europeans, which is how the term "Gypsy" originated (and why it should be capitalized, like Indian or Japanese). Though they were originally moderately dark of skin, several hundred years of intermarrying with other ethnic groups have allowed many modern Romani to pass as White, Middle Eastern, Indian, or even African if they so choose. The bright outfits and wagons are Eastern European and used to be TruthInTelevision. Part of the reason they dressed that way was advertising. Nomadic Romani were certainly a historical fact, but the majority of modern Romani live in standard housing and are every bit as tech-savvy as their neighbors.
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24	In addition to perpetuating stereotypes about the Romani, the media are largely blasé about slurs against them, using insulting terms like "gyppo" without much concern; and to many Romani today, the word "gypsy" itself is an offensive slur, though (see paragraph above) there is evidence that British Romani actually encouraged the term, as a supposed Egyptian origin gave their fortune-telling schtick more credibility -- the same goes for the German word for Gypsy, "Zigeuner". It is considered to be unacceptable today and "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinti Sinti]] und Roma" (technically, the Sinti are a subgroup of the Roma -- which is just another word for Romani -- but the Sinti do not use the term for themselves and speak a different dialect of the Romani language) is used instead. Apparently, the Romani are still targets of mockery -- another holdover from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiziganism previous]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porajmos centuries,]] when the Romani were one of the Western world's {{Butt Monkey}}s. Between half a million and 1.5 million Romani were [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust killed by SS Einsatzgruppen and in SS concentration, death-through-work, and extermination camps]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. [[note]] It's hard to get definite numbers, because Romani were often shot on sight by the death squads, instead of bothering to capture and ship them to camps.[[/note]] The Roma Holocaust is known by ethnic Romani as ''Porajmos'' ("the Devouring"). Creator/JRRTolkien noted that Nazi persecution of Romani was rather ironic considering they are direct descendants of the historical Aryans (i.e. the Indo-European settlers of ancient India).
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26	Persecution of Romani is sometimes called antiziganism, though this term is controversial because it derives from the aforementioned term "Zigeuner," which--like "Gypsy"--is often considered derogatory. Historically, very widespread (one of the crimes punishable by death in the [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfHanover 18th-19th century]] "[[DisproportionateRetribution Bloody]] [[AllCrimesAreEqual Code]]" in England was "spending more than one month in the company of Gypsies"[[note]]Given the times, it may have not included only Romani but also all transients, particularly the Irish Travellers[[/note]]), it still continues today. As recently as 2010, Paris had come under fire from Amnesty International for [[http://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/french-authorities-must-stop-stigmatizing-roma attempting to deport several hundred French Roma]] to Bulgaria and Romania, without regard of where they were actually from or whether they lived in the much-maligned "camps" -- in 2013 there was another polemic episode called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibrani_case "Leonarda case".]] Several other countries have also come under fire from the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations and Amnesty International for segregationist policies.
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28	One of the very few exceptions to the treatment of Romani as social pariahs can be found in UsefulNotes/SovietUnion, and in modern Russia. Contrary to the case in Western Europe, although ''Ruska Roma'' are certainly subject to prejudice and bigotry, there's been a huge co-opting of Romani culture in Russia since the 19th, but especially in the 20th century -- particularly poetry, music, dance, and theater, all of which were considered a form of "high folk culture" in the USSR. Though some Roma were targeted during the Purges and the whole population suffered enormously during the Second World War, it also cemented many components of Roma culture into Soviet folklore, particularly entertainment. Combined with a more serious attempt to assimilate Romani communities, and their status as a small but legitimate Soviet nationality, the Iron Curtain divide between Communist and Capitalist Roma was [[http://mail.geobiz.net/sr-www/files/Virtual%20library/USSR.PDF unusually reversed]], with the image of affluent, socially-accepted Romani living in the USSR compared to the outcast Romani living in Western Europe--indeed, unlike the case in the West, the stereotype of Roma in the former-USSR more closely resembles the longstanding American stereotype of Jews: clever, frugal, well-traveled and with an assumed talent towards entertainment and music. Some of the most successful Romani musicians and playwrights were made People's Artists of the USSR, and some enjoyed such a degree of fame and success, like Jazz Vocalist Valentina Ponomaryova, to even have their [=LP=]s distributed in the United States in the same period. The [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell collapse of the USSR]] has seen a decline in institutional Romani arts (now often seen as outdated or old-fashioned, not unlike other examples of Soviet culture), but the legacy of national promotion has endured: the largest Roma theater in the world [[https://www.moscovery.com/romen-gipsy-theatre/ still operates in Moscow]], and its performances are considered on par with other institutions like the [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Red Army Choir]] (the two groups have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=213&v=FCZNfeWGTkQ shared the stage on no less than Eurovision]], and the Choir's dance ensemble practices Romani dance), and Romani performances are still popular for holidays, birthdays, and public celebrations.
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30	Despite generally avoiding assimilation in most ways, Romani do generally follow whatever faith is dominant where they live. Originally they were Hindu; few practice it today but some trace elements survive syncretically. In Western Europe they are mostly Catholic, in Eastern Europe, they are usually Orthodox, in the Middle East primarily Muslim, and in the Balkans, they are divided between Islam and Orthodoxy. A growing Pentecostal movement is also found in Roma communities in the United States and Spain. The Patron Saint of Christian Romani is St. Sarah, also known as Sara-la-Kali. She hasn't been formally canonized by any church and many anthropologists believe she is a [[HijackedByJesus Christianized]] version of the Hindu goddess Kali. The Romani, particularly in Eastern Europe and Russia, also bear some less clearly defined syncretic beliefs in the [[TheFairFolk Keshali]] and very complex demonology. See Myth/RomaniMythology for details.
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32	There is no significant relation (ethnic or etymological) to the Romans or the Romanians. The term "Roma" is actually derived from the Hindu god Rama, harkening back to their origins as Hindus from Western India. Sometimes the two are confused, which is probably because the "â" used in the native name for Romania gets lost in the English translation.[[note]]And just to confuse things further, Romania does have a large Romani minority.[[/note]] There is also no connection between the Romani and UsefulNotes/IrishTravellers beyond a historical reputation for a nomadic lifestyle and skill at boxing.
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34	!!Depictions of Romani in fiction:
35	[[index]]
36	* [[Romani/LiveActionFilms Films -- Live-Action]]
37	* Romani/{{Literature}}
38	* Romani/LiveActionTV
39	* Romani/TabletopGames
40	* Romani/VideoGames
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42	[[/index]]
43	[[foldercontrol]]
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45	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
46	* ''Anime/BloodPlus'': [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Haji/Hagi]] is implied to be a Romani in childhood, but he never actually identifies as one after he is adopted by the first Joel Goldschmidt.
47	* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': Faye deliberately plays into the stereotypes (for ''whatever'' reason) in an attempt to get Spike to let her go. Since she's actually from UsefulNotes/{{Singapore}}, it's a miracle he buys it in the first place.
48	* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'': Ed meets several Romani (including [[spoiler:Scar and Lust's alters in a quick shot at the end]]) who are being persecuted in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany. He becomes best friends with a mystical dream-reading Romani, Noah. Incidentally, she's not all that honest, either, though her dishonesty stems from being persecuted. Noah tells Edward that the proper term for her people is "Roma"/"Rom".
49	* ''Manga/KazeToKiNoUta'': Serge Battour, the protagonist, is half Romani from his mother Parva's side and avoids all the associated stereotypes. He is probably the most sympathetic and endearing character in the entire series.
50	%%* ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'': Gypsy.
51	* ''Manga/KurobaraAlice'': [[spoiler:The lead character Dimitri is half Romani and half Polish; his mother is mentioned to have German blood as well. He spent his early years with his mother's Romani group until he's "discovered" by a rich Austrian family and taken in as a boarding student.]]
52	* ''[[Manga/PrincessKnight The Twin Knights]]'': Emerald is the free-spirited Queen of the Gypsies. She wears a tiny dress, dances wildly, and hates the thought of living by rigid social rules. There's also Mercedes, a hag-like fortuneteller and potion maker, and various other stereotypically-dressed types. Of note is that Emerald claims "Gypsies are above all else devout!"
53	* ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'': The CanonForeigner Camilla is implied to be Roma, but the word itself isn't said. She has the archetypal looks/wardrobe and the OP shows her looking into a CrystalBall, but she's more of a mix of CoolBigSis and BrokenBird.
54	[[/folder]]
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56	[[folder:Comic Books]]
57	* ''ComicBook/CastleWaiting'': "Gypsies" are introduced as horse thieves, murderers, and scoundrels with ties to people who buy babies. It fits with the fairy tale themes, but still has bad implications. Thus, the next one is honest, upstanding, and likable, and every indication is that the band he comes from is generally nice people.
58	* Franchise/DCComics:
59	** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': A plotline in the comic strip of the 1940s had a Gypsy lad framed for murder. The Gypsy is dressed in colorful clothing, hot-tempered, especially when it comes to the honor of his sister, and distrustful of the police and legal system.
60	** ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost'': In an issue, Ice suddenly has been retconned to be a member of a Scandinavian Romani offshoot that is all con men and thieves except for her immediate family, who fled the lifestyle to prevent her grandfather from using her ice powers for robbery. This flatly contradicts everything we know about Ice's past, including previous appearances of the immediate family.
61	** ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': Gypsy is sometimes Romani, sometimes not, DependingOnTheWriter. She did start as basically a street thief.
62	** ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} was revealed to be half Romani during the Devin Grayson run. ''Comicbook/{{Grayson}}'' confirms it's still canon as of the New 52.
63	* "Kiekeboe": In one issue, most Gypsies are actually honest people whose worst crime is begging, though there is one who gives the rest a bad name by stealing.
64	* "Klezmer", by Joan Sfar: One of the main characters is a gypsy who ends up joining the other protagonists in forming a klezmer band as klezmer and Romani music have enough similarities for him to fake it.
65	* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:
66	** ComicBook/DoctorDoom is a Rom from [[{{Uberwald}} Latveria]]. He's unambiguously villainous, but mostly averts the Gypsy stereotypes; he's a technical genius. He still grew up amongst superstitious folk living in horse-drawn caravans though. And let's not even get ''started'' on his mother, the demon-summoning sorceress. He's also a sorcerer himself, although he learned from Tibetan Monks (and later on, [[Characters/ArthurianLegend Morgan LeFay]]). On the other hand, Doom is a vocal activist for Romani rights, and they are some of the few people associated with a villain who are treated sympathetically in Creator/MarvelComics.
67	** ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} was raised by gypsy sorceress Margali Szardos. His ComicBook/{{Excalibur}} teammate Meggan [[spoiler:AKA Gloriana]] is Romani too. In ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13 Annual'' #1, a flashback of her childhood shows her and her family running into some bigoted Englishmen and [[EmpathicShapeshifter she shapeshifts into a hideous Gypsy stereotype]].
68	** ComicBook/ScarletWitch and her twin ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, depending on when in time we check their backstory (not counting some months at the beginning where they were thought to be the children of Miss America and the Whizzer), are either:
69	*** Half-Romani, half-Jewish. They were raised in a pretty stereotypical Gypsy caravan [[ItMakesSenseInContext by an anthropomorphic cow]]. Their father ComicBook/{{Magneto}} was retconned as being a Gypsy, rather than Jewish, in the early 90s. Apparently, when Marvel decided to build him up as a major villain in the ''Fatal Attractions'' crossover, they worried about the negative response to having a clearly Jewish villain. However, Gypsies were still targets of mockery and derision. Fortunately, a later AuthorsSavingThrow returned Magneto to his Jewish roots.
70	*** Or fully Romani, raised by their aunt and uncle, because they have a RetroactiveLegacy and bringing children into the life of the Scarlet Witch is [[GiveHimANormalLife weird and dangerous]]. This backstory doesn't answer where Magneto's twins went though.
71	** Minor villain and one-time ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} member Skein is of Romani descent, even originally going by the codename Gypsy Moth. She's largely characterized as a FemmeFatale who only joined the Thunderbolts [[ItAmusedMe because it seemed fun]], and left as soon as it stopped interesting her.
72	* ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'': The Romani make a brief appearance, with Anja seeking the services of a fortune teller who says Vladek is still alive. In tune with the rest of the book's {{Funny Animal}}s theme, the fortune teller is portrayed as a [[StealthPun gypsy moth]].
73	* ''ComicBook/TheScorpion'': Mejaï provides the page picture for HotGypsyWoman. She is not a thief, but a MasterPoisoner and the only people she seems to care about are [[BelligerentSexualTension Scorpion himself]] (after she pulls a HeelFaceTurn) and her black cat.
74	* ''Tales of the Franchise/GreenLantern Corps'': One story has [[InSpace a close-knit society of space-travelers, whose ships resembled caravans]]. Since they refuse to take help from outsiders, the local GL empower one of their number with a power ring. There is a bit of Romani stereotyping involved: the temp-Lantern is a self-aggrandizing hothead and his grandmother a wise woman.
75	* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': ''Recap/TintinTheCastafioreEmerald'' has a camp of Gypsies setting up in a dump just downwind from Marlinspike. Captain Haddock then generously lets them camp out closer to his house, to the objection of his butler. Things soon go missing from the manor, which leads to everyone looking at the gypsies suspiciously. [[spoiler:It turns out a magpie did it.]] It's actually a much more sympathetic portrayal of the Romani people than a lot of others.
76	* ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'': A comic strip titled "The Thieving Gypsy Bastards" features a family of gypsies, who look like stereotypical Romani but have an Irish name, suggesting they were intended to be UsefulNotes/IrishTravellers. They move into a middle-class area and steal and vandalise everything in sight. The next issue contains a cut-out apology to all Romani and travelers, subtitled "what every gypsy's been waiting for!"
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79	[[folder:Eastern European Animation]]
80	* ''Animation/GypsyTales'' is based on collections of Romani folk tales by Magda Szécsi, Ágnes Daróczi, and Károly Bari.
81	* ''Animation/MireBalaKaleHin'' is about Maruska, a Romani girl whose father and grandmother tell her stories and fairy tales about their people.
82	[[/folder]]
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84	[[folder:Fan Works]]
85	''[[AC:Franchise/{{Batman}}]]''
86	* ''Fanfic/AngelOfTheBat'': As in canon, Dick Grayson/Nightwing is of Roma descent. He considers himself a Christian, but mentions traveling with the circus never permitted him much time to study his faith. His first scene also shows him to be a trickster, playing off the stereotypes of Roma being superstitious to grill an enemy which ironically is a DoubleSubversion, considering Roma are also stereotypically connected to deceit.
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88	[[AC:{{Crossover}}]]
89	* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'': Wanda Maximoff is half-Romani as per usual and was raised by her mother's clan after her father abandoned her as a newborn baby (in fairness, he had excellent reason to think that she was dead, along with her mother) though her brother, Pietro, probably isn't, since he's her half-brother instead of her twin (and a brat, apparently). Aside from her vast magical power and being stunningly beautiful, she shows no signs of the traditional stereotypes. Part of Wanda's antagonism towards her father comes from the fact that, although she gets perfectly well where he's coming from on how mutants will be hated, feared, and persecuted, having been raised Romani and experienced it herself, she thinks that he's no better than them or the Nazis who persecuted him (he was in his megalomaniac phase).
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91	''[[AC:Franchise/HarryPotter]]''
92	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6020438/1/A-Different-Future A Different Future]]'': Harry is adopted by a family of wizarding Gypsies when the Dursleys try to abandon him on the steps of a church. They give him a potion to make him look more like one of the family and the name Alex, pretending that he is the twin brother of their daughter, Beth. The author has clearly done some research on the Romani and shows them in a good light, and it's mentioned that Harry's adoptive grandparents survived UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.
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94	''[[AC:WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic]]''
95	* ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'' casts the character Pinkie Pie as an orphan Gypsy who apparently lost her parents in a citywide fire and grew up in an OrphanageOfFear.
96	[[/folder]]
97
98	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
99	* "Animation/CreationOfTheWorld" ("Stworzenie świata") is a Polish short animated film based on one of the Romani fairy tales collected by Jerzy Ficowski in ''Sister of the Birds and Other Gypsy Tales''.
100	* Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon:
101	** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}'': The stereotyped depiction of the Gypsies is somewhat justified by the setting, and the group as a whole are presented as sympathetic victims of [[KnightTemplar Frollo's overzealous desire for religious purity in Paris]]. Basically, the bad guys in the film think the Gypsies are thieves, but they're really just extremely colorful and eccentric people. There's also one scene where Esmeralda reads Quasimodo's palm, but this is mostly an entire fabrication she uses to conceal the {{Aesop}} she's trying to teach him. This may seem to be perpetuating the stereotype of the Roma as con men, particularly with Quasimodo's extreme naivete, except she's only doing it to help him. Quasimodo himself is Romani, but he was raised by Frollo without much knowledge of his past.
102	** ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'': The titular fox disguises himself as a Romani fortune teller to rob from Prince John.
103	[[/folder]]
104
105	[[folder:Music]]
106	* Music/BrokenIris' "Gypsy" compares an alluring and mysterious woman to a Romani woman.
107	* Music/{{Cher}}'s "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" may or may not be about actual Romani.
108	* Music/{{Donovan}}'s songs are full of references to gypsies, especially to his friend "Gypsy Dave" Mills. Mills is blood, by Dono's description, and he has other Romany and Irish Traveler friends.
109	* The traditional British folk ballad "The Gypsie Laddie" tells the story of a Romani who seduces a gentlewoman. A lord pursues her, either her husband or father, but she refuses to return with him, preferring the company of her gypsy lover to the comforts of her estate. The song has many different variations and titles.
110	%%* Gypsy Kings
111	* Heather Alexander and her Heir, Music/AlexanderJamesAdams, have a few songs that play off "The Gypsy Laddie": "Black Jack Davy" and "The Rogues Return" supposedly tell the "real" tale about how the gypsy lad leaves the noble woman the next day to run off, and she pursues him to get revenge as The Black Jacks Lady.
112	* Music/JenniferLopez's "Ain't it Funny": In the video, the singer makes friends with some Romani women and meets and dances with a ''very'' handsome Romani man.
113	* Kendji Girac, the Season 3 winner of the French version of Series/TheVoice, proudly embraces his Spanish Romani roots throughout the season in his flamenco guitar renditions of all his personal song choices. His first official single was "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63K5VMx2BZM Color Gitano]]" (''Gypsy Color'').
114	* Music/{{Mecano}}'s "Hijo de la Luna" features a Romani woman so desperate for a husband she offers her first child to the moon. When the child is born pale of skin and hair, the father flips out [[MistakenForCheating thinking she's had an affair]] and murders her before abandoning the baby in the mountains to die. The moon takes in the child as her own.
115	* Creator/RudyardKipling's ''The Gipsy Trail'' in a loose Russian translation and complemented with music (by Andrei Petrov) was used in a Soviet classic film "[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090368/ A Cruel Romance]]". The song immediately became a big hit on its own right. The movie itself got five export releases.
116	* Music/WovenHand's "Oil on Canvas" features the line "Roma, Roma, where is my country?" Your guess is as good as mine [[WordSaladLyrics what it has to do with the rest of the song]].
117	[[/folder]]
118
119	[[folder:Radio]]
120	* Radio/TheShadow: The villain of "[[Recap/TheShadowPulpsS305Malmordo Malmordo]]" uses prejudice against "Gypsies" to frame them as accomplices in his crimes. The Romani in the story are actually pretty law-abiding sorts, although they play to the fortune-telling and violinist stereotypes to make a living. The Shadow himself speaks fluent Romani.
121	[[/folder]]
122
123	[[folder:Theatre]]
124	* ''Theatre/{{Brand}}'': The Romani are quite prominent, and it is clearly stated that Gerd is one of them. The harsh way they are treated by the lawmen in the play indirectly causes [[spoiler:the death of Agnes, the wife of the eponymous character]].
125	%%* ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'', of course, along with TorosYFlamenco.
126	[[/folder]]
127
128	[[folder:Toys]]
129	* G1 ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' has an orange pony with a tambourine symbol named "Gypsy".
130	[[/folder]]
131
132	[[folder:Webcomics]]
133	%%* ''Webcomic/TheCobraDays'': The Fear.
134	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': The "Goonmanji" story. The [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday Shop Monster]] appears like a stereotypical Romani.
135	* ''Webcomic/TheGlassScientists'': Rachel Pidgley, one of the main secondary characters, is Romani. She's best friends with Dr. Jekyll (and Mr. Hyde) and works as the cook at Jekyll's Society for Arcane Sciences. She also has a major crush on a werewolf named Jasper.
136	* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': Anja Donlan is Romani. She has impressive [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=554 magic abilities]], whereas her husband (who's a Scotsman) is a GadgeteerGenius, though she's also tech-savvy enough to be a science teacher and he ''somehow'' got an AmplifierArtifact he gave her. Together, they found [[{{Magitek}} the common ground]] quickly enough and made a "computer" that runs on magic and provides a lot of useful effects. Evidently, she also has [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=521 some skill with tattooing]]. Their daughter Kat takes entirely after her father, and so far has no magic. Instead, she's a gadgeteer prodigy who invents antigravity and builds robots in her spare time, and [[ArbitrarySkepticism still doesn't believe in magic]] despite her best friend's very obvious magic powers.
137	* ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'': One of Llewellyn's ancestors falls in with 'Gypsies' in a short arc, and his falling out is used as an explanation of Ozy's fur always falling out at some point. Notably, the Rom he meets plays up the stereotype for a living, and the 'curse' she gives to his family (how many dragons have hair?) ends up redundant once you get to know Millie.
138	* ''Webcomic/RasputinBarxotka'': Much of the action takes place in the fictional Romani settlement of Nicotash. Most of the lead characters are either Calo or Ruska Romani. Tsar Rasputin, a Russian-born Chechen is also part Kalderash Rom.
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141	[[folder:Web Original]]
142	%%* [[http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Electro+Gypsy/ This]] is related to the Roma... but a little hard to classify. Not sure where synthesizers and robotic horses fit into any of the usual portrayals.
143	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
144	** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-983 SCP-983 ("The Birthday Monkey")]]. The person who sold SCP-983 warned that it shouldn't be touched by anyone on their birthday, but that the warning might be just a Gypsy legend.
145	** Though the proudly Russian [[Website/SCPFoundation Captain Dmitri Arkadeyevich Strelnikov]] has a particular hatred for Chechens, he also uses "gypsy" as an insult. Behold some of his Rules For Make Live by:
146	--> 5) Despite what Dr. Dumount says, Cigarettes are healthy. Smoking is good. Dr. Dumount is just a gypsy and is lying to you.\
147	6) Never trust Gypsy. ([[TakeOurWordForIt The subsequent advice is entirely censored]])\
148	[On using calibers other than Soviet standards:] Is simply bullshits made up by Gypsy westerner to makes you believe that Soviet-design weapon is inferior to western complicated bullshits like AR-15.
149	* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' Gypsy is a Romani who owns ancestral Tarot deck. However, she is shy (at first), honest, and has mutant powers. She cures the shyness with a literal DealWithTheDevil.
150	[[/folder]]
151
152	[[folder:Western Animation]]
153	* ''WesternAnimation/AngelinaBallerina'': Anya Mousezauski is part of a migrant family from 'Dacovia' (which seems to be vaguely Eastern European) working through the harvest season. She and the other harvest mice seem to be the show's FantasyCounterpartCulture to the Romani.
154	* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': Shirley the FortuneTeller (who is a chihuahua). Though she can occasionally act as an antagonist, this is either due to "the Stupid One" (read: "[[{{Jerkass}} Eustace]]") invoking her wrath, or circumstances beyond her control. She is often willing to help... for a fee. Her magical tool of choice? A ''saxophone''.
155	-->"I see... ''I see...'' A yo-yo. It is under de sofa."
156	* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'': Madame Why, a heroic example. Her crystal ball was often a useful source of exposition.
157	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Romani FortuneTeller robot was also a ConArtist.
158	* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': An episode focusing on Romani portrays them as living exclusively in caravans and being very festive.
159	%%* The WesternAnimation/MightyMouse short "Gypsy Life".
160	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'': In "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts", the gang meets a Gypsy FortuneTeller who gives them dire warnings. She turns out to be the episode's villain in disguise.
161	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
162	** On one Treehouse of Horror episode, a Romani fortune-teller places a curse on the Simpsons after Homer ruins her business (and expresses a fear of police), and later in the episode the rest of her family seems to match up with the "filthy, hairy transient" stereotype, [[LampshadeHanging as Marge comments]].
163	** In another episode, Roma have taken over the playground of Springfield Elementary and are seen stealing a frisbee from a small child.
164	** Milhouse once claimed to be a gypsy so he'd be allowed to wear an earring at school. He doesn't succeed, effecting the [[VampireVords wrong stereotype]], but Skinner notes that vampires are also exempt.
165	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': In an episode, the Turtles travel back in time to medieval Transylvania, where they team up with a Romani father and daughter to stop Savanti Romero from recruiting Dracula.
166	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': Cyborg explains that he bought a pie with an evil witch trapped inside it from "this old gypsy" who was selling "mystical items at reasonable prices", including a [[Literature/TheMonkeysPaw monkey's paw]].
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Context UsefulNotes / Romani