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* The DerrickComedy skit "[[BlackComedyRape Bro Rape]]" is about bros being, well, raped by other bros. It's styled like a "[[Series/{{Dateline}} To Catch a Predator]]" segment, luring the predator-bros into police sting operations with an online profile named "Chad" who professes to enjoy bro-related activities such as drinking beer, playing video games, and watching TV shows like ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.

Compare LifeOfTheParty and WackyFratboyHijinx. Also compare and contrast with HardDrinkingPartyGirl and AllGuysWantSororityWomen, the rough {{Distaff Counterpart}}s.

The Fratbro is a character depicted in a stereotypical fratboy-ish manner. They're almost always [[PopularIsDumb not very intelligent]] and usually want to [[TwentyFourHourPartyPeople party and drink]] all day (and try to get laid) and will likely engage in WackyFratboyHijinks. Despite the name, they don't have to be (or have been) in a fraternity in college. In a lot of ways it's an evolution of the DumbJock stereotype as they often fulfill the same role, although the Fratbro will not necessarily be an athlete (they will be big followers of sports, however).

* Teddy Sanders and the rest of his fraternity brothers from ''[[Film/Neighbors2014 Neighbors]]'' all fit this stereotype. The film actually serves as a DeconstructiveParody of frat boy comedies, showing the worst aspects of the immaturity displayed by Fratbro characters when surrounded by reasonable people.

* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': The Brolaf skin turns the viking character into an immature dude who likes hot babes and chugging beer.

* In the early-mid-2000s, many critics classified Tucker Max and, to a lesser extent, [[Website/TheBestPageInTheUniverse Maddox]] into a new subgenre of humor literature known as "Fratire" after the rise in popularity of their personal websites and subsequent books, which frequently focused on [[RatedMForManly manly subjects]] such as drinking and partying exploits. Subverted by the fact that neither Max nor Maddox were ever members of fraternities in college and both later [[CreatorBacklash criticized the label]].

Compare WackyFratboyHijinx. Also compare and contrast with HardDrinkingPartyGirl and AllGuysWantSororityWomen, the rough {{Distaff Counterpart}}s.

Compare HardDrinkingPartyGirl, the rough DistaffCounterpart.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Homer Goes To College", Homer attempts to cultivate this image when he attends Springfield University to take a course in Nuclear Physics. Unfortunately, he learned all of his stereotypes about college from watching raunchy 80s comedy films and soon [[WrongGenreSavvy learns that real college is nothing like what was depicted in fiction]]. He eventually ends up befriending a trio of nerds and attempts to teach them how to "par-tay."

* In ''WesternAnimation/The Simpsons'' episode "Homer Goes To College", Homer attempts to cultivate this image when he attends Springfield University to take a course in Nuclear Physics. Unfortunately, he learned all of his stereotypes about college from watching raunchy 80s comedy films and soon [[WrongGenreSavvy learns that real college is nothing like what was depicted in fiction]]. He eventually ends up befriending a trio of nerds and attempts to teach them how to "par-tay."

%%explain how Sully is a fratbro, and how CharacterDEvelopment changed him into somthing else

* The DerrickComedy skit "[[BlackComedyRape Bro Rape]]" is about bros, well, being raped by other bros. It's styled like a "[[Series/{{Dateline}} To Catch a Predator]]" segment, luring the predator-bros in with an online profile named "Chad."

->''"What is a bro? A bro is a eighteen to twenty-four year old male who wears birkenstock sandals, watches ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', plays Ultimate Frisbee, and wears an upside down visor or a baseball cap with a pre-frayed brim. You know, a bro."''\\
--'''DerrickComedy''', "Bro Rape"

->''What is a bro? A bro is a eighteen to twenty-four year old male who wears birkenstock sandals, watches Family Guy, plays Ultimate Frisbee, and wears an upside down visor or a baseball cap with a pre-frayed brim. You know, a bro.''
-->-- ''DerrickComedy'', "Bro Rape"

* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' has the "Frat Aliens" (Donkey Puncher and Skeeter), who are aliens that behave like stereotypical fratboys, except [[RecycledInSpace From Space]]. Their very names are lewd sexual terms ("Donkey Punch" means to punch someone in the back of the head during doggystyle coitus, and "Skeet" means to ejaculate on someone).

** Ted (currently a college professor) "saves" a girl who is being hit on by a pack of these. The leader (dubbed "Boomer" by the girl, the kind of nickname a fratbro would have) tries to convince her to join them for drinks on the quad. Ted confiscates their beer... but not their hard lemonade.

%%* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
%%** Ted (currently a college professor) "saves" a girl who is being hit on by a pack of these. The girl considers one of the bunch to be the kind of guy to be named "Boomer."
%%the example is talking about Ted, who is not a fratbro. reformat this to forcus on the fratbros, that is, how they act because they are considered fratbros
%%** Recurring character Brad is a GeniusDitz version of this. He's first seen hosting a wild college party (though as law students, he made everyone sign a waiver before they could "FREAKING RAGE"), his later appearances that season included a bromance with Marshall, and disappearing during Marshall's bachelor party only to reappear at the end, [[NoodleIncident naked and wandering the streets]]. He also speaks like a bro, almost to the point of a verbal tic.
%%this example is just calling a character "bro" "bro" "bro" without actually explaining why he's a bro, or how a bro talks.

%%* In ''WebComic/QuestionableContent'' there is a trio of background bros who appear and chant "BROS!" whenever someone says the word.
%% So are they fratbros or what? they just work like a PhraseCatcher. why put a not-an-example here?

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* James Sullivan starts out this way in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', before CharacterDevelopment ensues.

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** Ted (currently a college professor) "saves" a girl who is being hit on by a pack of these. The girl considers one of the bunch to be the kind of guy to be named "Boomer."
** Recurring character Brad is a GeniusDitz version of this. He's first seen hosting a wild college party (though as law students, he made everyone sign a waiver before they could "FREAKING RAGE"), his later appearances that season included a bromance with Marshall, and disappearing during Marshall's bachelor party only to reappear at the end, [[NoodleIncident naked and wandering the streets]]. He also speaks like a bro, almost to the point of a verbal tic.

* In ''WebComic/QuestionableContent'' there is a trio of background bros who appear and chant "BROS!" whenever someone says the word.

* On ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', Numbuh Four finds a whole tribe of them living under his couch.

-->"Bro Rape," '''DerrickComedy'''

Usually an AcceptableTarget in pretty much any work not aimed at this demographic. If they're a main character, they'll usually be a BromanticFoil (appropriately enough). One popular {{Aesop}} for this type of character is to become a LadyKillerInLove, especially if they CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest. Whether or not it works is a toss-up, as this sort of character can easily imply that the audience should DoNotDoThisCoolThing.

Usually an AcceptableTarget in pretty much any work not aimed at this demographic. If they're a main character, they'll usually be a BromanticFoil (appropriately enough). One popular {{Aesop}} for this type of character is to become a LadyKillerInLove, especially if they CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest. Whether or not it works is a toss-up, as this sort of character can easily imply that the audience DoNotDoThisCoolThing.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': They show up in the fourth season, when the gang goes to college. A group of them accidentally summon a fear demon while turning their frathouse into a haunted house.