History DarthWiki / OutlawStarr

** Spawned at least three spin off bands made up of band members who are fans of the sub-genre. One is called Century Starr, and covers mostly Steam, clock, raygun and diesel punk concepts and stories, Neo-Starr is primarily Cyber-Punk, and a little bit of bio-punk as well, Starr Gothic, is southern Gothic mixed with Gothic-Punk.

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* BoobsOfSteel: All the band members, most are fake (save for Doctor-X, the Starr sisters, Melyssa, and Sonja). They also all seem to have [[spoiler: long, thick erect nipples]]. According to Melyssa who was trying to be edgy and provocative during a Ellen interview of all places.

* ContractualPurity: Not really enforced on them by their label since they had unparalleled creative control. But more so by media outlets in the band's early years. Mostly because of the way they look (they're all attractive), and lets face it while black most look ambiguously brown, or fall into the ButNotTooBlack category. The band did take advantage of this at first to get promotion from these media outlets. The problem was that in essence they weren't quite MTV material, or mainstream entertainment news media friendly. Sure they had a marketable look, but their music style, tone, and subject matter were always dark, serious, gritty, and thought provoking. Completely different from the other early NuMetal bands they were lumped in with. But as one music critic puts it...they were "fool's gold". Eventually those media outlets start shunning them when they would never conform to what they wanted., Leading the band to help form the UNN mentioned below.

* ExploitedTrope: SexSells, and ButNotTooBlack to a lesser extent. Some members were uncomfortable with the latter. Both of the tropes that that they exploited have their own hang ups, But the latter has ''A LOT'' of baggage which made some band members uncomfortable.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: A lot of negative criticism towards the Outlaws seems to have roots in this trope. Basically detractors downplaying their musicianship and intelligence because of their looks (and probably race, and gender). Others say they're partly to blame with their self indulgent over the top Fan service overload image. Also Being made up of more than half of ButNotTooBlack women probably ties into this too. But that's a different can of worms.

* TakeThat: Towards things that irks them, including politicians, news & political pundits, even other artists & celebrities. One of their songs call Black Middle America was a very sarcastic punk/metal song that was partly a take that to Creator/BillCosby's "Pound Cake Speech". The video showed a very idealistic literal ButNotTooBlack family being impossibly perfect. While their white neighbors did the same....except their perfect family is a facade. There's also alot of creepy subtext in the video as well.

* FaceOfTheBand: Scorpion and Spyder aka Tarantula. The rest are debatable and are hard for casual fans, and the media to keep up with. Even with their successful solo careers. Even then Scorpion mostly just give magazine/internet interviews, and only does TV interviews every other blue moon but remain accessible to the fans though.

*** The thing about the porn vids is that the videos consisted mostly of extended band members. Most casual fans and people in general hardly know them by hard. The only ones that are known on a name basis is [[FaceOfTheBand Scorpion, Spyder]], and ''maybe'' Sonja. Sinnz, and angie was in one of the vids though, And scorpion appeared topless with a male fan while she teased the camera by winking her eye and seductively licking her lips. So PopCultureIsolation probably lessened the impact of the tapes since only a handful of band members are well known and most of them weren't even in the tapes.

* DoingItForTheArt: all of their music videos (save for a few performance videos), especially the elaborate videos for Gears Of The Starr. Which are reminiscent of films like ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow, Film/DarkCity, Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen, Film/{{Metropolis}}'', and ''Film/BladeRunner''. They also did it to show what you can do with practical effects, and a budget that wasn't through the roof.

* BoobsOfSteel: All the band members, most are fake (save for Doctor-X, the Starr sisters, and Sonja). They also all seem to have [[spoiler: long, thick erect nipples]]. According to Melyssa who was trying to be edgy and provocative during a Ellen interview of all places.

* ContraltoOfDanger: Most of the band actually. But especially Sonja, Layla, Kianna, Eryn, Noemi, Linda and Nkoyo. Having very sexy deep voices. Thelatter six being a sexy case of WhatTheHellIsThatAccent.

* {{Underboobs}}: A lot of band members wore a lot of tight tank tops, and short T-shirts that did more than BareYourMidriff.

* JiggleShow: Within and outside of music videos.

* ShesGotLegs: With heights ranging from 5'8 to taller this trope is definitely part of their sex appeal.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: Sonja Redd who is honey-complexioned with naturally honey blonde hair, Same with Goldie. Downplayed with Jodie, Gabrielle, and Below-Zero whom are fair skin with light blonde hair.
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Krimson, is naturally a red head, but has light brown skin with some freckles.

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* [[BikerBabe Biker Babes]]: Has a motorcycle club.

* HiddenBadass: Most of the band is accomplished martial artists, and fire arms users.

* FilkSong: Too many to list..

** Nkoyo, on reddit was described as Amber Valetta, and Cec Verell put into a blender, dipped in ''VERY'' dark chocolate and given Meg Foster's terrifying blue eyes.
** Tishauna Starr in the same reddit post was described as looking vaguely like a young Angelina Jolie (circa mid 00's) mixed with Adriana Lima, with bright pale green eyes. Most fans agree that Tishauna has her own look, but those two aforementioned women is the closest thing to describing her.

** Nailz has been described as looking like rapper/model Lil Mama, except way taller, and with a narrower nose.