History Main / CrazyHomelessPeople

In media, the homeless are portrayed generally as being alcoholics and drug addicts. They're usually terrible, immoral people, who would steal and kill anyone for the sake of a crusty old piece of bread. Some of them are so obnoxious they'll even refuse things like food in lieu of things like money. Presumably, this is so they can buy beer and get drunk, which us normals wouldn't approve of.

* In {{UHF}}, George gives change to a bum. [[ChekhovsGunman He later comes back to save the station from closing down.]]

* The ''Spawn'' animated show featured the titular hero often conversing with, protecting, and living with the homeless. The portaryal of them varied. Often they were alcoholics and drug addicts, or at least mentally unhinged, but basically good people. The irony being that the homeless were often more morally grounded than the show's other characters who lived in relative wealth and were often [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]].

* The ''Spawn'' animated show featured the titular hero often conversing with, protecting, and living with the homeless. The portaryal of them varied. Often they were alcoholics and drug addicts, or at least mentally unhinged, but basically good people. The irony being that the homeless were often more morally grounded then the show's other characters who lived in relitive wealth and were often [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]].

** Altogether Andrews, who has seven personalities, none of whom are named Andrews.

* ''AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' adaptation starring Jackie Chan has a crazy homeless played by Rob Schneider.

** There's also Musashi whose only response to anything is "Can you eat it

* ''Annie'', set in the Great Depression, has a scene and musical number in a Hooverville: "We'd like to thank you Herbert HOO-VER!"

* Hilariously parodied in an episode of ''SouthPark''. At first, the sudden influx of homeless into the town is treated as a ZombieApocalypse, though they moan for "change" rather than brains. Randy Marsh even kills one of his friends when it's revealed he lost his home, and [[ZombieInfectee is slowly turning into one of them]]. Later in the episode the boys go to a town that destroyed itself over the situation. You see, eventually some of them (somehow) amassed enough change to buy houses. The citizens of the town were freaked ("The person living right next door to you could be homeless and you wouldn't even know it!") and treating the homeless as something other than human, purged their town to devastation.

Ironically, this leads to UnfortunateImplications about homeless people at large- the ones who have an excuse we can feel sorry for. Heck, they might even have a bit of a MagicalNegro quality about them, being closer to earth and all that jazz. But the rest of them? They're just a bunch of lazy wankers who don't want to get a job. These implications may have come from a sharp rise in the homeless population in the socially conservative 1980s, coupled (at least in the US) with President Ronald Reagan first signing the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act into law (restricting involuntary commitment and attempting to encourage community-based mental health care) and then cutting overall federal funding for state mental programs-- resulting in more mentally ill people who had no place to go.

Ironically, this leads to UnfortunateImplications about homeless people at large- the ones who have an excuse we can feel sorry for. Heck, they might even have a bit of a MagicalNegro quality about them, being closer to earth and all that jazz. But the rest of them? They're just a bunch of lazy wankers who don't want to get a job.

* GarthEnnis' ''Punisher'' had quite a few. One storyline revolved around a homeless guy who lived in the New York sewers and [[spoiler: had people abducted, killed and kept in a huge pile [[NightmareFuel under which he lay in order to remind him of his obese mother]]]]. Another story began with a splash page of a homeless guy on the street, being ignored, screaming, "I JUST WANT TO GO HOME!!"

* One of the most famous people on the chinese internet in 2009~2010 is a handsome tramp whose picture got spread on the internet called "Brother Sharp". Brother Sharp become an internet meme and got photoshopped to fit nearly every star. He is now alledged to have gained a career of a [[Spoiler: professional male model]].

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* The Lost from ''CityOfHeroes'' are a villain group consisting of homeless people who are in varying stages of being mutated into [[spoiler:Rikti]]. In the lower levels, they talk like the typical portrayal, ranting about "the Change", but as their levels and rank increase, the Lost start to bear a closer resemblance to them in powers, weaponry, and speech patterns, and at about Lv. 30, the transformation is complete and the Lost faction is completely replaced by them.
* the {{Condemned}} games are all about beating up crazy homeless people.
* Several in ''GrandTheftAutoIV'' - one of whom lives well within earshot of your apartment.
* The hobos in ''KingdomOfLoathing''.
* Ollie the Bum from ''[[{{Ptitle467nuuba}} Tony Hawk's Pro Skater]]''.

->"Buggrit! Millennium hand and shrimp!"

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* [[IronMan Tony Stark]] spent several issues in the 80s on the streets constantly drunk after his company was bought, his personal accounts frozen, and his apartments taken away.

-->''[Cut to the homeless people running into the building screaming]]''