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* ''Film/WildHogs'' (2007) sees four regular middle-aged shmoes goes on rides with outlaw biker attires -- only to run afoul of actual outlaw bikers (and obvious stand-ins for the Hells Angels).

* ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' (1982), as well as its 1988 animated movie adaptation, are rarely considered as an example of biker media, but the story does focus on two [[JapaneseDelinquents (Japanese) biker gang]] members, Kaneda and Tetsuo, and is largely responsible for the proliferation of the CoolBike trope in the {{Cyberpunk}} genre, as well as for popularizing (via Kaneda) ''heroic'' bikers to dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction.

* ''Film/WildHogs'' (2007) sees four regular middle-aged shmoes abandon their urban lifestyle for an outlaw biker existences -- only to run afoul of actual outlaws (and obvious stand-ins for the Hells Angels).

* ''Film/HellsBloodyDevils'' (1970), a bikerploitation film.

* ''Film/MadMax'' (1979) features a biker gang as the primary villains, but rather than being a straight up exploitation of the biker image, it had established outlaw biker gangs as an obligatory feature of dystopian and post-apocalyptic settings.

* ''Film/{{Masters of Menace}}'' (1990) is a rare biker ''comedy'', presenting the outlaws as fun-loving, hard-drinking, but mostly harmless vagabonds.

* ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'' (1990), its prequel ''Manga/BadCompany'' (1996), and its sequel ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' (1997) focus on UsefulNotes/{{Bosozoku}} bikers Eikichi Onizuka and Ryuji Danma (Ryuji is DemotedToExtra in GTO). In GTO, Eikichi is no longer an active gang member, but he still rides a [[CoolBike custom motorcycle]] and is well-known in the biker gang community.

See also [[https://www.koveras.net/files/tvtropes/biker_narratives.pdf this chart]] for evolution and connections between these subgenres. Other common tropes in biker media include: AllBikersAreHellsAngels, BadassBiker, BikerBabe, CoolBike, BadGuyBar, MotorcycleDominoes. Usually absent: UsefulNotes/MotorcycleSafety. For more information on the history of the genre, see also our [[UsefulNotes/BikerMedia Useful Notes on Biker Media]] and Wiki/TheOtherWiki's article on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_biker_film Outlaw biker film]].

* ''VideoGame/RoadRash'' made waves when it came out for not just being a motorcycle racing game, but one where you could attack the other competitors with punches, kicks and weapons while avoiding the cops. Later installments play up the "rebel biker" angle more, coming to a head in 2000's ''Road Rash: Jailbreak''

* "Bikers are [[TheApunkalypse post-apocalyptic raiders]]": Since TheSeventies, thanks to both ''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 Dawn of the Dead]]'' (1978) and ''Film/MadMax1'' (1979), marauding biker packs have become an inextricable staple in [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] and {{dystopia}}n fiction as overarching and/or final antagonists.

* "Bikers are [[TheApunkalypse post-apocalyptic raiders]]": In TheSeventies, thanks to both ''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 Dawn of the Dead]]'' (1978) and ''Film/MadMax1'' (1979), roving biker packs have become an inextricable staple in [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] and {{dystopia}}n fiction as overarching or final antagonists.

* "Bikers are [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels ruthless criminal enterprises]]": After the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Biker_War Quebec Biker War]] (1994–2002)[[note]]which wasn't the ''first'' [[MobWar biker drug-trade war]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milperra_massacre not by]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennoxville_massacre a long]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Nordic_Biker_War shot]], but it was the largest in scale and the best publicized[[/note]], the "bestial horde" narrative was largely replaced as the default biker image by their portrayals as organized [[DrugsAreBad drug-pushers]] and/or [[ArmsDealer gun-runners]], best exemplified by ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' ([[TurnOfTheMillennium 2008]][[TheNewTens –14]])[[note]]although the series did pit this narrative against the romanticized biker image from ''Easy Rider'' and ''Full Throttle'' as the protagonist's main internal struggle[[/note]].

* The [[RussianVideoGames Russian developer/publisher Akella]] had been working on a biker-themed ActionGame ''Axle Rage'' (later rebranded as ''Rage Rider'') from 2002 to right up until its closure in 2012. The game took a lot of its inspiration from ''Full Throttle'', and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would have been]] a WideOpenSandbox set in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] CityOfAdventure that is carved up among several biker gangs, with the player belonging to one of them.

* The [[RussianVideoGames Russian developer-publisher Akella]] had worked on a biker-themed ActionGame ''Axle Rage'', later rebranded as ''Rage Rider'', from 2002 until its closure in 2012. The game took many inspirations from ''Full Throttle'', but would have been a WideOpenSandbox set in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] CityOfAdventure carved up among several biker gangs, with the player belonging to one of them.

!!Examples :

* ''VideoGame/FullThrottle'' (1995) follows the leader of an outlaw biker club trying to save his crew from fabricated murder accusations.

* "Bikers are [[TheApunkalypse post-apocalyptic raiders]]": In TheSeventies, thanks to both ''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 Dawn of the Dead]]'' (1978) and ''Film/MadMax1'' (1979), roving biker packs have become an inextricable staple in [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] fiction as overarching or final antagonists.

Other common tropes in biker media include: AllBikersAreHellsAngels, BadassBiker, BikerBabe, CoolBike, BadGuyBar, MotorcycleDominoes. Usually absent: UsefulNotes/MotorcycleSafety. For more information on the history of the genre, see also our [[UsefulNotes/BikerMedia Useful Notes on Biker Media]] and Wiki/TheOtherWiki's article on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_biker_film Outlaw biker film]].

* "Bikers are [[BadassBiker generic tough guys]]": The shift of the "evil biker" image from "an unstoppable force of nature" to this in TheNineties is perhaps best illustrated by T-800 [[TheWorfEffect beating up a bunch of bikers]] and seizes their hogs at the start of ''Film/{{Terminator 2|JudgmentDay}}'' (1991).

Common tropes include: AllBikersAreHellsAngels, BadassBiker, BikerBabe, CoolBike, MotorcycleDominoes. Usually absent: UsefulNotes/MotorcycleSafety. See also our [[UsefulNotes/BikerMedia Useful Notes on Biker Media]] and Wiki/TheOtherWiki's article on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_biker_film Outlaw biker film]].

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Common tropes include: AllBikersAreHellsAngels, BadassBiker, BikerBabe, CoolBike, MotorcycleDominoes. Usually absent: UsefulNotes/MotorcycleSafety. See also Wiki/TheOtherWiki's article on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_biker_film Outlaw biker film]].

* ''Film/EasyRider'' (1969) was likely the first sympathetic depiction of bikers as sentimental outcasts, a deliberate subversion of the violent biker archetype of the time.

* ''[[TabetopGame/OnePercenter 1%er - The Outlaw Motorcycle Game]]'' (2013) is a TabletopRPG where the players take on the roles of bikers belonging to the "nomad" chapter of an outlaw MC, meaning that they don't have a permanent base but ride around doing odd jobs (mostly of the criminal kind) for the club.

* ''[[TabetopGame/OnePercenter 1%er - The Outlaw Motorcycle Game]]'' (2013) is a TabletopRPG where the players take on the roles of nomadic outlaw bikers belonging to the same club.

* ''Series/TheLastChapter'' (2002) is a Canadian six-episode mini-series about the fictional Triple Sixers MC, loosely BasedOnATrueStory of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Biker_War Quebec Biker War]] (1994–2002).
* ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' (2008–14) tells the story of the eponymous (fictional) [[ArmsDealer gun-running]] outlaw MC.
** ''Series/MayansMC'' (2018–ongoing) is a spinoff series that focuses on the Sons' eponymous "frenemies".

* ''Series/GanglandUndercover'' (2015–ongoing) is based on the memoirs of Charles Falco, an undercover informant who infiltrated several outlaw biker gangs in service of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' (1993–96) was a kid-friendly take on the genre, featuring a trio of anthropomorphic alien mice as the remnant of a Martian outlaw biker club.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins'' (1993–94), similarly, casts anthropomorphic animals (penguins, in this case) as a kid-friendly biker club.