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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[Film/TheDeparted Your F***in' family's dug into the Southie projects like ticks. Three-decker men at best.]]"]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"[[Film/TheDeparted Your ***in' family's dug into the Southie projects like ticks. Three-decker men at best.]]"]]

In fiction, this mostly [[{{Oireland}} Irish]]-[[UsefulNotes/TheIrishDiaspora American]] neighborhood and its [[HollywoodNewEngland still-distinct accent]] continue to be associated with hard-drinking [[LowerClassLout working-class thugs]], street fighting, bar brawling, [[TheIrishMob organized crime]] and dollar donations to "freedom fighters" in Ireland whose bombs happen out of sight and out of mind on the [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles other side of the Atlantic]]. Providence, Rhode Island is usually mentioned to suggest scope. It might be the base of a rival syndicate. As a general rule, they're put in opposition in fiction as Providence has a strong Italian-American background, so [[SarcasmMode obviously it's a hotbed for]] TheMafia.

* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'' depicts a pair of Southies who decide to "clean the place up" with a [[MoreDakka liberal application of gunfire.]]

* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' is set in the Boston area. Of course, some might not describe what's going on in that show fun...
* ''Series/RayDonovan'' is set in L.A., but the majority of the main characters hail from Boston and identify as Southies.
* ''Series/TheMcCarthys'' is a sitcom about a family of Southies.
* The ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Drive" takes place in Southie. They do note that the area's been gentrified and even if it hadn't, public display of headless bodies is out of the ordinary. The unsub turns out to be motivated by the hypocrisy of his Catholic upbringing, which can be Irish if you squint, but otherwise, the area itself doesn't play too heavily into the episode.

* The stereotypically brash and violent young Scout from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is from Southie, according to Valve. He has a [[BrooklynRage Brooklyn accent]] as part of StylisticSuck, though. These accents get exchanged fairly often, possibly because they're both poor neighborhoods with stereotypes set in the 1800s by Irish immigrants. Example: ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' has a bunch of cops with on-par-with-reality, unexaggerated, Boston accents.

* Diane's family in ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' sound and act like stereotypical Southies despite her parents being Vietnamese immigrants.

* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'': Zack and Ivy grew up in Southie. They're both somewhat rough and tumble, less cultured and rely more on brute force than Carmen, but they're also genuinely good, friendly people with a strong moral code. Their backstory episode reveals that they ''did'' have to resort to borrowing money from a loan shark in order to build a race car and follow their dreams, and an ill-timed crash caused them to resort to theft from a supposedly mob-owned (actually V.I.L.E.-owned) donut shop.

* In The ''Literature/BlackDaggerBrotherhood'' novels, Butch is an Irish-American cop from Southie who chain smokes, drinks scotch, consorts with whores, occasionally indulges in police brutality ([[KickTheSonOfABitch though few object]]) and otherwise tries to fulfill every applicable stereotype he can think of. Then [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie he finds out he's a vampire]].

In fiction, this mostly [[{{Oireland}} Irish]]-[[UsefulNotes/TheIrishDiaspora American]] neighborhood and its [[HollywoodNewEngland still-distinct accent]] continue to be associated with hard-drinking [[LowerClassLout working-class thugs]], [[TheIrishMob organized crime]] and dollar donations to "freedom fighters" whose bombs happen out of sight and out of mind on the [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles other side of the Atlantic]]. Providence, Rhode Island is usually mentioned to suggest scope. It might be the base of a rival syndicate. As a general rule, they're put in opposition in fiction as Providence has a strong Italian-American background, so [[SarcasmMode obviously it's a hotbed for]] TheMafia.

That said, we must ''strongly'' caution readers against wearing ''anything'' with a New York Yankees logo when visiting [[SeriousBusiness anywhere north of Hartford and/or or east of the Green Mountains]]. Wearing orange in South Boston, especially on St. Patrick's Day, is [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles also not a very smart thing to do]]. (Oh, you're free to wear it... just wear something else over it. Like [[FanDumb body armor]].) Also, if you see a lawn chair in a parking space, ''don't touch it''. As for the Irish bars, the shittier ones are also the more authentic ones; if it has a name like "Finnegan's" and has a dimly-lit entrance sign with a coffee can overflowing with cigarette butts out front and a bunch of patrons named Patrick, Sean, or Shane, you're a). looking at a very authentic Southie Irish bar and b). not getting very far unless you're Irish yourself.

In fiction, this mostly [[{{Oireland}} Irish]]-[[UsefulNotes/TheIrishDiaspora American]] neighborhood and its [[HollywoodNewEngland still-distinct accent]] continue to be associated with [[LowerClassLout working-class thugs]], [[TheIrishMob organized crime]] and dollar donations to "freedom fighters" whose bombs happen out of sight and out of mind on the [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles other side of the Atlantic]]. Providence, Rhode Island is usually mentioned to suggest scope. It might be the base of a rival syndicate. As a general rule, they're put in opposition in fiction as Providence has a strong Italian-American background, so [[SarcasmMode obviously it's a hotbed for]] TheMafia.

* Wiki/TVTropes: "Southies" has become something of an inside joke here, due to the YKTTW for "Southies" having had no text other than "Administrivia/SelfExplanatory". That led to the page "Administrivia/NotSelfExplanatory" and similar "it's not obvious to everyone" examples.