History Main / GenericEthnicCrimeGang

* GangBangers: Varies; at least in U.S. settings, they're often either African-Americans and/or Mestizo Hispanics. In other countries, it's any local ethnic group that is mostly concentrated in poor urban ghettos.

* TheMafia: Italians (or Italian-Americans).

* GangBangers: Varies; at least in U.S. settings, they're often either African-Americans and/or Mestizo Hispanics. In other countries, just substitute them for any local ethnic group that is mostly concentrated in poor urban ghettos.

* TheCartel: Latin Americans (Mexico, Central, and South America).
* GangBangers: Varies; at least in U.S. settings, they're often either African-Americans and/or Mestizo Hispanics. In Brazil, they're likely to be Black or mixed-race Pardos.

* WhiteGangbangers: At least in U.S. settings, they're European-Americans (of unspecified ethnic descent, but probably non-Hispanic). For settings in Europe, it's usually Europeans.

* GangBangers: Varies; at least in U.S. settings, they're often either African-Americans and/or Mestizo Hispanics.

* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': Being set in Kentucky, most of ''Justified'''s gangsters, major and minor, were Southern, and ranged in scope of operations from local {{bandit clan}}s and {{hillbilly moonshiner}}s on up to the Dixie Mafia proper, controlled by real estate mogul Emmett Arnett, and PsychoForHire Wynn Duffy.

[[folder: Non-Mafia Italian gangsters]]
The Mafia isn't the only Italian criminal syndicate. There are other organizations that are similar to Cosa Nostra sharing its rituals, hierarchy, and geographic origins such as the Ndrangheta, the Camorra, and Sacra Corona Unita. These groups have some notable differences from their well-known Sicilian counterparts, and most media depictions are more likely to have them be confined to Italy.
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* ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "Commendator" has Tony meet Annalisa Zucca, a rare female example of TheDon and the leader of a Camorra crime clan to boot.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' has the titular character and ISIS save the Pope from an assassination plot by Camorra goons.
* The main antagonist of ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' is Santino D'Antonio, a member of the Camorra.
* The Martillo family from the light novel and anime series ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' is unusual amongst Italian gangs in America for being affiliated with the Camorra as opposed to La Cosa Nostra.


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See RuthlessForeignGangsters. In terms of AlikeAndAntitheticalAdversaries, these guys fall on the "homogeneous" side of the scale.

* In ''Film/{{Friday}}'' Craig and Smokey owe money to a black gang led by Big Perm.

* ''Series/{{Power}}'' focuses on the exploits of black mobster and nightclub-owner James 'Ghost' St.Patrick who sees his nightclub, Truth, as his way out of the NYC drug game and into legitimacy.

* Despite being Irish American, Frank Reynolds was a bookie for one on ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''.

* Real-life mobster Bumpy Johnson, as portrayed in 'Godfather of Harlem'.

* TheCartel: Latin Americans (Mexico, Central or South America).

The classier, more organized version of GangBangers (who frequently despair at the latter and wish they'd StopBeingStereotypical). Stereotypically deal either in gambling rackets or in drugs. They show up often in {{Blaxploitation}} flicks. Compare with TheYardies, who are British/West Indian, in real life, these groups often feud with each other.

* TheCartel: Latin Americans (from Mexico, Central or South America).
* GangBangers: Varies; at least in U.S. settings, they're often either African-Americans, and/or Mestizo Hispanics.

* WhiteGangbangers: At least in U.S. settings, they're European-Americans (of unspecified ethnic descent, but probably non-Hispanic).

* GangBangers: Varies; at least in U.S. settings, they're often either African-Americans, and/or (mestizo) Hispanic-Americans.

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* TheCartel: Latin Americans
* GangBangers: African-American and/or Mestizo Hispanic
* TheIrishMob: Irish (or Irish-Americans)
* KosherNostra: Jews (including Israelis)
* LondonGangster: British (especially English)
* TheMafia: Italians (or Italian-Americans)
* TheMafiya: [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Various Soviet nationalities]] (especially Russians)
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Chinese (or Chinese-Americans)
* WhiteGangbangers: Whites
* {{Yakuza}}: Japanese
* TheYardies: Jamaicans (especially Jamaican British)

Basically, they are The Mafia [[RecycledInSpace but Corsican!]]. The organization is also a major part of Le Milieu otherwise known as the French Mob. Unione Corse is the standard representation of the Corsican mafia in fiction since they are the largest and most influential group.

[[folder:Corsican mobsters]]

* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': Being set in Kentucky, most of ''Justified'''s gangsters, major and minor, were southern, and ranged in scope of operations from local {{bandit clan}}s and {{hillbilly moonshiner}}s on up to the Dixie Mafia proper, controlled by real estate mogul Emmett Arnett, and PsychoForHire Wynn Duffy.

* ''Series/{{Elementary}}''[='s=] season 2 finale arc has the cast encounter the Corsican mafia. * ''Fanfic/TheHeadhunt'' has an offhand mention that the [[SpacePolice Ver Eshalakh]] (alien military police) have "had … encounters with the Milieu which did not end in their favor".

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* ''Series/{{Elementary}}''[='s=] season 2 finale arc has the cast encounter ''le Milieu'', a.k.a. the Corsican mafia.
* ''Fanfic/TheHeadhunt'' has an offhand mention that the [[SpacePolice Ver Eshalakh]] (alien military police) have "had … encounters with ''le Milieu'' (French gangsters of Corsican or North African origin) which did not end in their favor".

* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' gave us the Sons of Samedi, an [[TheYardies Afro-Caribbean]]-led gang controlling drug trade, particularly, that of the fictional [[UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}} Loa]] Dust. That said, because their primary selling and recruiting grounds are the Stilwater University campus, plenty of WhiteGangBangers fill out their lowest rungs.
* ''VideoGame/WatchDogs2'' features the Bratva, a street gang of [[KosherNostra Jewish]] [[TheMafiya Russians]].

** Several other such groups and gangs have made appearances in expanded universe works from both the current and Legends canon. A few notable examples include the Pyke Syndicate, a [[CallARabbitASmeerp spice cartel]] that runs the spice mining operation on [[PenalColony Kessel]], the White Worms gang of Corellia, which has an ethnically diverse membership in the lower ranks but is primarily run by a race of [[StarfishAliens four-meter long sunlight-sensitive worms]] and the Droid Gotra, which as the name suggests is made up entirely of criminal [[RoboticPsychopath droids]].

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' the planet Granicus is run by gangsters. There are three main syndicates, two of which consider it [[NothingPersonal just business]] and have no particular ethnic associations. The third however is a Solomani-supremist cult.

[[folder: Non-Mafia Italian gangsters]]
The Mafia isn't the only Italian criminal syndicate. There are other organizations that are similar to Cosa Nostra sharing its rituals, hierarchy, and geographic origins such as the Ndrangheta, the Camorra, and Sacra Corona Unita. These groups have some notable differences from their well-known Sicilian counterparts, and most media depictions are more likely to have them be confined to Italy.

* ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "Commendator" has Tony meet Annalisa Zucca, a rare female example of TheDon and the leader of a Camorra crime clan to boot.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' has the titular character and ISIS save the Pope from an assassination plot by Camorra goons.
* The main antagonist of ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' is Santino D'Antonio, a member of the Camorra.
* The Martillo family from the light novel and anime series ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' is unusual amongst Italian gangs in America for being affiliated with the Camorra as opposed to La Cosa Nostra.

[[folder:Latin American gangsters]]
Some can overlap with TheCartel, but TheCartel tends to be strictly based on drugs and has a physical base in South America.

[[folder:Dixie Mafia]]
Where the ethnicity is white, Southern, and rural. May overlap with BanditClan or hate groups like TheKlan in some cases.

* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': Being set in Kentucky, most of ''Justified'''s gangsters, major and minor, were southern, and ranged in scope of operations from local {{bandit clan}}s and {{hillbilly moonshiner}}s on up to the Dixie Mafia proper, controlled by real estate mogul Emmett Arnett, and PsychoForHire Wynn Duffy.
* ''Series/{{Claws}}'' has the Husser family, a branch of the local Dixie Mafia, as major antagonists, headed by "Uncle Daddy" Clay Husser.
* ''VideoGame/MafiaIII'' features the Dixie Mafia, led by Ritchie Doucet, as associates of the Marcano mafia family. They're portrayed as a gang of neo-Confederates who traffic in heroin and black prostitutes while being unabashedly racist. There's also the Southern Union, essentially a more upscale Klan with ties to Cosa Nostra.

[[folder:Haitian gangsters]]
A more specialized variant of Yardies, and more likely to operate in the Americas, particularly the Southeastern United States. HollywoodVoodoo being the [[HollywoodGeography one thing everyone knows about Haiti]], expect them to practice it.
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* Mr. Big in both the literary version of ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'' is a Haitian-American whose organization consists mostly of black GangBangers (the films gave him a fictional but barely-disguised ethnicity).
* Feature in the backstory of Solomon Grundy in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse. In life, he worked alongside them, but they betrayed him fatally and cursed him, leading him to rise from the dead.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' has them as the main enemies of the Cubans.
* In ''VideoGame/MafiaIII'' there's a group haunting the bayou outside of New Bordeaux, with plans on muscling in on Delray Hollow. Lincoln smashes their operation in an early chapter, then takes over the remnants for his feud with the Marcanos.
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[[folder:Corsican mobsters]]
Basically, they are The Mafia [[RecycledInSpace but Corsican!]]. The organization is also a major part of Le Milieu otherwise known as the French Mob. Unione Corse is the standard representation of the Corsican mafia in fiction since they are the largest and most influential group.
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* Both the [[Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService book]] and [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService movie]] versions of ''On Her Majesty's Service'' are set in Corsica so naturally the mob is going to show up. Both Tracy di Vicenzo and Marc-Ange Draco are part of the Corsican Mafia.
* ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'' in both fiction and real-life has the group traffic drugs into the United States during the 1970s.
* ''Film/AmericanGangster'' has the Corsican mob attempt to kill Frank Lucas after putting them out of business in New York.
* Mireille Bouquet of ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' is the sole survivor of a powerful Corsican crime family that was wiped out by brutal mobsters.
* ''Manga/BananaFish'' has Corsican gangster Dino F. Golzine as the main antagonist of the story.
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* TheMafiya: Former [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviets]] (especially Russians)

The Mafia isn't the only Italian criminal syndicate. There are other organizations that are similar to Cosa Nostra sharing its rituals, hierarchy, and geographic origins such as the Ndrangheta, the Camorra, and Sacra Corona Unita These groups have some notable differences from their well-known Sicilian counterparts, and most media depictions are more likely to have them be confined to Italy.

* Mireille Bouquet of ''Anime/Noir'' is the sole survivor of a powerful Corsican crime family that was wiped out by brutal mobsters.

* TheMafiya: [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Various Soviet nationalities]] (especially Russians)

* ''VideoGame/MafiaIII'' features the Dixie Mafia, led by Ritchie Doucet, as associates of the Marcano mafia family. They're portrayed as a gang of neo-Confederates who traffic in heroin and black prostitutes while being unabashedly racist. There's also the Southern Union, essentially a more upscale Klan with mafia ties.

* Feature in the backstory of Solomon Grundy in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse. In life he worked alongside them, but they betrayed him fatally and cursed him, leading him to rise from the dead.

* TheMafiya: Former [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviets]] (especially Russians)

* TheMafiya: Former [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn USSR]] (especially Russians)
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Chinese
* {{Yakuza}}: Japanese
* TheYardies: Jamaicans

* [[TheClan Family oriented]], and headed by [[TheDon a patriarch]] (or a matriarch).

* ''WesternAnimation/Archer'' has the titular character and ISIS save the Pope from an assassination plot by Camorra goons.