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* SuddenNameChange: The story begins with Reuben watching Monk Greenberg kill a man for failure to repay his loans. However, when Ruby starts working for Monk, his name is given as Monk Shapiro instead. Either there are [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals two burly men named "Monk"]] in the Jewish mob, or Joe Kubert made a mistake in the script.
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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: [[TheDon The Big Guy]] tells Ruby to stay in line by warning him not to endanger his mother or sister.
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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: [[TheDon The Big Guy]] tells Ruby to stay in line by warning him not to endanger protect his mother or sister.family.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Played with; after Monk kills the Italian baker, he lets the baker's young son leave, but warns that he will return [[FamilyExtermination for the rest of the family]] if the son tells anyone about the shooting.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Played with; after Monk kills the Italian baker, a baker in front of his young son, he lets the baker's young son boy leave, but warns that he will return [[FamilyExtermination for the rest of the family]] if the son tells anyone about the shooting.
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* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Monk]] is killed by getting stabbed in the eye with a broken pool cue.
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* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Monk]] is killed by getting gets stabbed in the eye with a broken pool cue.
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The story follows Reuben "Ruby" Kaplan, a young Jewish man adrift in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood during the Depression-riddled 1930s. Desperate for a better life, Ruby ignores the admonitions of his immigrant parents and soon falls in with a local mobster named Monk Shapiro. As Ruby gets deeper into the criminal underworld, he begins to develop feelings for Monk's wife Molly, while his lawless activities tests and threatens his family and friends.
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The story follows Reuben "Ruby" Kaplan, a young Jewish man adrift in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood during the [[TheGreatDepression Depression-riddled 1930s.1930s]]. Desperate for a better life, Ruby ignores the admonitions of his immigrant parents and soon falls in with a local mobster named Monk Shapiro. As Ruby gets deeper into the criminal underworld, he begins to develop feelings for Monk's wife Molly, while his lawless activities tests and threatens his family and friends.
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* TheGreatDepression: The story is set in the middle of the Great Depression, and characters wonder if it will ever end.
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''Jew Gangster'' is a 2005 graphic novel written and drawn by famed ComicBook artist Creator/JoeKubert. Originally published by John Colby's ibooks imprint, it was later picked up by Creator/DCComics and reprinted as part of their re-releases of Kubert's works.
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''Jew Gangster'' is a 2005 black-and-white graphic novel written and drawn by famed ComicBook artist Creator/JoeKubert. Originally published by John Colby's ibooks imprint, it was later picked up by Creator/DCComics and reprinted as part of their re-releases of Kubert's works.
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* TheMafia: The main rivals of the Jewish mob are the Italian mafia. When a member of the Jewish mob wanders into the wrong Brooklyn neighborhood, he is attacked and killed as a warning.
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* TheMafia: The main rivals of the Jewish mob are the Italian mafia. When a member of the Jewish mob wanders into the wrong Brooklyn neighborhood, he is attacked and killed as a warning.
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--->"This ain't personal. Strictly a tab fer a tab. So we're even."
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* NothingPersonal: Invoked by Monk after he kills one of the Italian gangsters as [[MakesUsEven equalization]] for their killing of a Jewish gangster.
* PragmaticVillainy: When Monk learns from Gino, the boss of the Italian mob, that their gangs are on opposite sides of a sweatshop unionization conflict, he proposes that they become FriendlyEnemies to mutually profit without hurting each other.
* PragmaticVillainy: When Monk learns from Gino, the boss of the Italian mob, that their gangs are on opposite sides of a sweatshop unionization conflict, he proposes that they become FriendlyEnemies to mutually profit without hurting each other.
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* NothingPersonal: Invoked first by the Italian mob for killing one of the Jewish gangsters, because they were hired by the Union to do so. Invoked right afterward by Monk after he kills one of the Italian gangsters as [[MakesUsEven equalization]] for their killing of equalization]].
-->"This ain't personal. Strictly aJewish gangster.
tab fer a tab. So we're even."
*PragmaticVillainy: PragmaticVillainy:
** When Monk learns from Gino, the boss of the Italian mob, that their gangs are on opposite sides of a sweatshop unionization conflict, he proposes that they become FriendlyEnemies to play both sides and mutually profit without hurting eachother.other.
** Ruby justifies his criminal behavior as this, seeing a life of crime as the only way to make enough money to take care of himself, his mother, and his sister Rifke.
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** When Monk learns from Gino, the boss of the Italian mob, that their gangs are on opposite sides of a sweatshop unionization conflict, he proposes that they become FriendlyEnemies to play both sides and mutually profit without hurting each
** Ruby justifies his criminal behavior as this, seeing a life of crime as the only way to make enough money to take care of himself, his mother, and his sister Rifke.
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The story follows Reuben "Ruby" Kaplan, a young Jewish man adrift in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood in during the Depression-riddled 1930s. Desperate for a better life, Ruby ignores the admonitions of his immigrant parents and soon falls in with a local mobster named Monk Shapiro. As Ruby gets deeper into the criminal underworld, he begins to develop feelings for Monk's wife Molly, while his lawless activities tests and threatens his family and friends.
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* MakesUsEven:
** After the Jewish Mob and the Italian Mob agree to be FriendlyEnemies and mutually profit from the sweatshop-union feud, Monk shoots one of the Italian gangsters as equalization for them killing one of the Jewish gangsters.
--->"This ain't personal. Strictly a tab fer a tab. So we're even."
** Monk invokes this to justify him [[spoiler:raping Ruby's sister Rifke, in response to Ruby sleeping with his wife Molly]].
--->"We're pals, ain't we? Share 'n share alike. What's yours is mine an' what's mine is yours."
** After the Jewish Mob and the Italian Mob agree to be FriendlyEnemies and mutually profit from the sweatshop-union feud, Monk shoots one of the Italian gangsters as equalization for them killing one of the Jewish gangsters.
--->"This ain't personal. Strictly a tab fer a tab. So we're even."
** Monk invokes this to justify him [[spoiler:raping Ruby's sister Rifke, in response to Ruby sleeping with his wife Molly]].
--->"We're pals, ain't we? Share 'n share alike. What's yours is mine an' what's mine is yours."
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* NothingPersonal: Invoked by Monk after he kills one of the Italian gangsters as [[MakesUsEven equalization]] for their killing of a Jewish gangster.
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* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Monk]] is killed by getting a broken pool cue jabbed in his eye.
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* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Monk]] is killed by getting stabbed in the eye with a broken pool cue jabbed in his eye.cue.
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* InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl: Molly, Monk's wife, throws herself at Ruby, and he soon reciprocates in kind, despite the risks. [[spoiler:When Monk eventually finds out, he rapes Ruby's sister Rifke in retaliation]].
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* InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl: Molly, Monk's wife, throws herself at Ruby, and he soon reciprocates in kind, despite the risks. [[spoiler:When Monk eventually finds out, he rapes Ruby's sister Rifke in retaliation]].
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* KarmicRape: When Ruby's sister Rifke is raped by a stranger, he tries to gather up the gang and [[RapeAndRevenge get revenge]]. Then he learns that [[spoiler:Monk raped Rifke as retaliation for Ruby sleeping with his wife Molly]].
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* KarmicRape: When Ruby's sister Rifke is raped by a stranger, raped, he tries to gather up the gang and [[RapeAndRevenge get revenge]]. Then he learns that [[spoiler:Monk raped Rifke as retaliation for Ruby sleeping with his wife Molly]].
* NoEnding: The story ends with Ruby taking Rifke home after he's further ingrained with the Jewish mob. What happens next to any of the characters is anyone's guess.
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* ARealManIsAKiller: Monk congratulates Ruby for being "in the big leagues" after he participates in the shooting of the Italian baker, and gives him a gun as a gift.
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* ARealManIsAKiller: Monk congratulates Ruby for being "in the big leagues" after he participates in the shooting of the Italian baker, and gives him a gun as a gift.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: On the way to drive off some pro-union picketers, Monk tells Ruby, "When people make trouble or do you wrong, there's always a payback." This foretells [[spoiler:Monk raping Ruby's sister in retaliation for Ruby sleeping with his wife]].
* GoodHairEvilHair: [[TheDon The Big Guy]] has a messy, unkempt beard and a head of hair to match.
* GoodHairEvilHair: [[TheDon The Big Guy]] has a messy, unkempt beard and a head of hair to match.
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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: [[TheDon The Big Guy]] tells Ruby to stay in line by warning him not to endanger his mother or sister.
-->"We live in a dangerous world at a perilous time, Reuben. Anything can happen... to your sister, your mother. Do not put them in peril."
-->"We live in a dangerous world at a perilous time, Reuben. Anything can happen... to your sister, your mother. Do not put them in peril."
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* ProtectionRacket: Monk's gang is hired by the owner of a garment sweatshop to drive off some union organizers who are planning to protest in front of his business.
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* SexForSolace: After he returns from his father's funeral, Ruby finds Molly and has sex with her.
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** The story begins with Ruby and his friends spying on several mobsters [[MakeAnExampleOfThem killing a delinquent loaner.]]
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* ARealManIsAKiller: Monk congratulates Ruby for being "in the big leagues" after he participates in the shooting of the Italian baker, and gives him a gun as a gift.
* TheRunaway: Ruby, determined to quit school and become a full-time gangster, runs away from home in the dead of night. He still stays in touch with his family, but lives at the pool hall.
* TheRunaway: Ruby, determined to quit school and become a full-time gangster, runs away from home in the dead of night. He still stays in touch with his family, but lives at the pool hall.
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* SharpDressedMan: As he ascends in the mob, Ruby goes around dressed in a tailored suit, tie, and hat.
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* {{Fingore}}: After Ruby promises to repay a delinquent butcher's loan, the enforcer settles for chopping off one of the butcher's fingers as a "down payment".
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* InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl: Molly, Monk's wife, throws herself at Ruby, and he soon reciprocates in kind, despite the risks. [[spoiler:When Monk eventually finds out, he rapes Ruby's sister Rifke in retaliation]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ruby may be a hardened criminal without any regrets, but he'll occasionally intervene on behalf of others, such as promising to repay a loan on behalf of a delinquent neighborhood butcher.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ruby may be a hardened criminal without any regrets, but he'll occasionally intervene on behalf of others, such as promising to repay a loan on behalf of a delinquent neighborhood butcher.
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The story follows Reuben Kaplan, a young Jewish man adrift in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood in the Depression-riddled 1930s. Desperate for a better life, Ruby ignores the admonitions of his immigrant parents and soon falls in with a local mobster named Monk.Monk Shapiro. As Ruby gets deeper into the criminal underworld, he begins to develop feelings for Monk's wife Molly, while his lawless activities tests and threatens his family and friends.
* TheCorrupter: Ruby becomes this to his friends Heshel and Hymie, recruiting them into the gang's various criminal activities when they need a few extra hands.
* EvilMentor: Monk is this to Ruby, teaching him the ways of the gangster life, along with ancillary skills such as driving (and stealing) cars.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Monk]] is killed by getting a broken pool cue jabbed in his eye.
* HarmfulToMinors:
** The story begins with Ruby and his friends spying on several mobsters [[MakeAnExampleOfThem killing a delinquent loaner.]]
** Monk shoots an Italian baker in the head in front of his young son.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Monk]] is killed by getting a broken pool cue jabbed in his eye.
* HarmfulToMinors:
** The story begins with Ruby and his friends spying on several mobsters [[MakeAnExampleOfThem killing a delinquent loaner.]]
** Monk shoots an Italian baker in the head in front of his young son.
* KarmicRape: When Ruby's sister Rifke is raped by a stranger, he tries to gather up the gang and [[RapeAndRevenge get revenge]]. Then he learns that [[spoiler:Monk raped Rifke as retaliation for Ruby sleeping with his wife Molly]].
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-->"I don't want your money, Reuben. Not ''this'' kind of money. ...I didn't bring my family to America for my son to be a gangster."
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-->"I don't want your money, Reuben. Not ''this'' kind of money. ...I didn't bring my family to America for my son to be a gangster.""
* WouldHurtAChild: Played with; after Monk kills the Italian baker, he lets the baker's young son leave, but warns that he will return [[FamilyExtermination for the rest of the family]] if the son tells anyone about the shooting.
* WouldHurtAChild: Played with; after Monk kills the Italian baker, he lets the baker's young son leave, but warns that he will return [[FamilyExtermination for the rest of the family]] if the son tells anyone about the shooting.
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* DisappointedInYou: With his dying breath, Isaac expresses disappointment that Ruby ignored his admonishment and became a gangster.
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* EthnicMenialLabor: Ruby's father works in a sweatshop as a fabric cutter, while his mother cooks for a small restaurant run from the front of their apartment.
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* EthnicMenialLabor: Ruby's father Isaac works in a sweatshop as a fabric cutter, while his mother cooks for a small restaurant run she runs from the front of their apartment.a rented storefront.
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* PragmaticVillainy: When Monk learns from Gino, the boss of the Italian mob, that their gangs are on opposite sides of a sweatshop unionization conflict, he proposes that they become FriendlyEnemies to mutually profit without hurting each other.
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* PragmaticVillainy: When Monk learns from Gino, the boss of the Italian mob, that their gangs are on opposite sides of a sweatshop unionization conflict, he proposes that they become FriendlyEnemies to mutually profit without hurting each other.other.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Ruby's father forcibly slaps him when Ruby offers to give him five dollars (several days' wages at the time) that he earned by being a courier for the mob.
-->"I don't want your money, Reuben. Not ''this'' kind of money. ...I didn't bring my family to America for my son to be a gangster."
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Ruby's father forcibly slaps him when Ruby offers to give him five dollars (several days' wages at the time) that he earned by being a courier for the mob.
-->"I don't want your money, Reuben. Not ''this'' kind of money. ...I didn't bring my family to America for my son to be a gangster."
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''Jew Gangster'' is a 2005 graphic novel written and drawn by famed ComicBook artist Creator/JoeKubert. Originally published by John Colby's ibooks imprint, it was later picked up by UsefulNotes/DCComics and reprinted as part of their re-releases of Kubert's works.
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''Jew Gangster'' is a 2005 graphic novel written and drawn by famed ComicBook artist Creator/JoeKubert. Originally published by John Colby's ibooks imprint, it was later picked up by UsefulNotes/DCComics Creator/DCComics and reprinted as part of their re-releases of Kubert's works.
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* EthnicMenialLabor: Ruby's father works in a sweatshop as a fabric cutter, while his mother cooks for a small restaurant run from the front of their apartment.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Even as Ruby gets mired further and further into the criminal underworld, he always makes sure to visit his mother and ensure she is financially taken care of.
* ImmigrantParents: Ruby's parents are Jewish immigrants from Poland who arrive in the United States via Ellis Island.
* KlingonPromotion: Ruby becomes TheDragon to The Big Guy after [[spoiler:he kills Monk in a bar brawl]].
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Even as Ruby gets mired further and further into the criminal underworld, he always makes sure to visit his mother and ensure she is financially taken care of.
* ImmigrantParents: Ruby's parents are Jewish immigrants from Poland who arrive in the United States via Ellis Island.
* KlingonPromotion: Ruby becomes TheDragon to The Big Guy after [[spoiler:he kills Monk in a bar brawl]].
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''Jew Gangster'' is a 2005 graphic novel written and drawn by famed ComicBook artist Creator/JoeKubert. Originally published by John Colby's ibooks imprint, it was later picked up by UsefulNotes/DCComics and reprinted as part of their re-releases of Kubert's works.
The story follows Reuben Kaplan, a young Jewish man adrift in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood in the Depression-riddled 1930s. Desperate for a better life, Ruby ignores the admonitions of his immigrant parents and soon falls in with a local mobster named Monk. As Ruby gets deeper into the criminal underworld, he begins to develop feelings for Monk's wife Molly, while his lawless activities tests and threatens his family and friends.
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!!''Jew Gangster'' demonstrates the following tropes:
* TheDon: The Jewish mafia is run by The Big Guy, a shadowy leader whose identity is only known to the top members of the gang.
* KosherNostra: The story follows Ruby as he goes from an overconfident teen delinquent to a hardened member of the local Jewish mafia.
* TheMafia: The main rivals of the Jewish mob are the Italian mafia. When a member of the Jewish mob wanders into the wrong Brooklyn neighborhood, he is attacked and killed as a warning.
* PragmaticVillainy: When Monk learns from Gino, the boss of the Italian mob, that their gangs are on opposite sides of a sweatshop unionization conflict, he proposes that they become FriendlyEnemies to mutually profit without hurting each other.
The story follows Reuben Kaplan, a young Jewish man adrift in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood in the Depression-riddled 1930s. Desperate for a better life, Ruby ignores the admonitions of his immigrant parents and soon falls in with a local mobster named Monk. As Ruby gets deeper into the criminal underworld, he begins to develop feelings for Monk's wife Molly, while his lawless activities tests and threatens his family and friends.
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!!''Jew Gangster'' demonstrates the following tropes:
* TheDon: The Jewish mafia is run by The Big Guy, a shadowy leader whose identity is only known to the top members of the gang.
* KosherNostra: The story follows Ruby as he goes from an overconfident teen delinquent to a hardened member of the local Jewish mafia.
* TheMafia: The main rivals of the Jewish mob are the Italian mafia. When a member of the Jewish mob wanders into the wrong Brooklyn neighborhood, he is attacked and killed as a warning.
* PragmaticVillainy: When Monk learns from Gino, the boss of the Italian mob, that their gangs are on opposite sides of a sweatshop unionization conflict, he proposes that they become FriendlyEnemies to mutually profit without hurting each other.
