History Main / TheBogan

In Australia itself, "bogan" is the local term for LowerClassLout (or people being compared to them). Examples from media made in other countries tend to have less focus on socioeconomic class, with Australians ''in general'' being portrayed as brutish and crass. This is potentially due to Australia's status as being founded originally as a British penal colony, therefore giving rise to the idea that every non-indigenous man, woman and child born there is descended from criminals.

In Australia itself, "bogan" is the local term for LowerClassLout (or people being compared to them). Examples from media made in other countries tend to have less focus on socioeconomic class with Australians ''in general'' being portrayed as brutish and crass. This is potentially due to Australia's status as being founded originally as a British penal colony, therefore giving rise to the idea that every non-indigenous man, woman and child born there is descended from criminals.

In Australia itself, "bogan" is the local term for LowerClassLout (or people being compared to them). Examples from media made in other countries tend to have less focus on socioeconomic class with Australians ''in general'' being portrayed as being brutish and crass. This is potentially due to Australia's status as being founded originally as a British penal colony, therefore giving rise to the idea that every non-indigenous man, woman and child born there is descended from criminals.

In Australia itself, "bogan" is the local term for LowerClassLout (or people being compared to them). Examples from media made in other countries tend to have less focus on socioeconomic class, and just portrays Australians ''in general'' as brutes. This is potentially due to Australia's status as being founded originally as a British penal colony, therefore giving rise to the idea that every non-indigenous man, woman and child born there is descended from criminals.

* Australian-based content series KeepEtClassy is known for usually bringing bogans into conversations, often with anecdotes and quotes

In Australia itself, "bogan" is the local term for LowerClassLout (or people being compared to them). Examples from medium made elsewhere tend to have less focus on socioeconomic class, and just portrays Australians ''in general'' as brutes. This is potentially due to Australia's status as being founded originally as a British penal colony, therefore giving rise to the idea that every non-indigenous man, woman and child born there is descended from criminals.

This is potentially due to Australia's status as being founded originally as a British penal colony, therefore giving rise to the idea that every non-indigenous man, woman and child born there is descended from criminals.

* Barry Humphries' first comedy character, [[AssInAmbassador Australian cultural attache]] Sir Les Patterson, was an example of this, perpetually drunk, foul-mouthed and obnoxious. In real life, Humphries is known for despising bogan culture, and much of his work is dedicated to mocking it.

* Barry Humphries' first comedy character, [[AssInAmbassador Australian cultural attache]] Sir Les Patterson, was an example of this, perpetually drunk, foul-mouthed and obnoxious.

If it moves, root'' [[note]]highly profane Australian slang for sexual intercourse[[/note]]\\
''If it quacks, shoot''

* Michael Cusack's animation often includes a host of bogan characters. ''Recap/RickAndMortyBushworldAdventures'', for instance, features an alternate version of Rick who's been metaphorically pushed through a bogan-esque filter.

* The Bruces Sketch in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' features a group of stereotypical aussies who are all wearing identical safari outfits, exchanging dirty jokes, drinking heavily, eating raw meat, are against "pooftas", give patriotic accolades at the drop of a hat and are all named Bruce. They are all members of the philosophy department of a university, and when they introduce a philosophy teacher that had just transferred from England, they ask if they could call him "Bruce" because calling him anything else would "cause a little confusion", and that he can teach anything about socialist-philosophy as long as he clarifies that they were wrong. The characters even wrote a song based on famous philosophers ("Bruce's Philosophers Song") and all it's about is those philosophers drinking.

* ''Series/AgentsOfShield'': JT James, aka "Hellfire," an Inhuman who can [[HavingABlast make things explode]] by touching them. Before he is introduced, he was invited to live in Afterlife, but pissed them off by snooping around and was kicked out. When he is introduced, he's a slovenly hermit living in a trailer and pointing a shotgun at anyone who approaches. After undergoing terrigenesis and gaining his powers, he is [[BrainwashedAndCrazy taken over by Hive]], but actually seems to enjoy doing the HYDRA God's bidding moreso than Hive's other thralls. After being freed from Hive, he ends up joining [[FantasticRacism The Watchdogs]] having come to believe [[BoomerangBigot Inhumans should not be allowed to exist]], and tries to kill Daisy and Simmons before [[ComicBook/GhostRider Robbie]] [[BigDamnHeroes shows up in the nick of time]].

->''It's a comfy bloody country''
->'''Cos we know what's in our heart''
->''It's beer and boots, not wine and suits''
->''Cricket - not art!''
-->--''Theatre/KeatingTheMusical''

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* ''Film/TheCastle'': The Kerrigan family are depicted as being unsophisticated and having poor taste, but downplayed in that they are nowhere near as crass or rude as many on this list, lacking the casual racism of the stereotypical bogan (the daughter is married to a Greek Australian who is fully welcome in the family, and they also get along quite well with their Lebanese neighbour).
* ''Film/{{Commando}}'': Bennett. Australian, AxeCrazy, foul-mouthed, and [[HairTriggerTemper in need of anger management therapy]]. His own men seem [[BadBoss terrified of him]].
* Played with in ''Film/CrocodileDundee'': Mick "Crocodile" Dundee is a KnightInShiningArmor to his LoveInterest and overall a nice guy, but most of the series' comedy lies in the fact that, as a man who lives in the Australian Outback, he is very direct, blunt, and on a few occasions even violent when all of the city folk are overly sensitive at best and two-faced at worst.
* ''Film/OngBak'': Big Bear, the white Australian fighter who Ting confronts in his first underground fight, is an unhygienic, obnoxious lout who thinks [[AsianHookerStereotype all Thai women are for sale]].
* ''Film/PacificRim'': The Australian Jaeger ''Striker Eureka'' is piloted by father+son team Hercules and Chuck Hansen. Herc is actually alright, but Chuck is haughty, brash and so full of himself that he gets on everyone's nerves to the point that they only put up with him because he is very good at killing Kaiju. He actively antagonises Raleigh throughout the film. But, he does get in a HeroicSacrifice in the end, so [[RedemptionEqualsDeath maybe he's not so bad]].
* ''Film/SuicideSquad'': In a cast full of criminals and supervillains, Captain Boomerang manages to be even more crass, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe self-serving]] than the rest. {{Enforced|Trope}}, since Creator/JaiCourtney was told to tap into his "Inner Bogan" and play the character as nasty as possible

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* ''Literature/TheLastContinent'': A meta example, in that the book is about a fantasy version of Australia that exists on Discworld called Fourecks; ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlemaine_XXXX named for a popular brand of beer]]'' in Australia.
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''
** Once Jack 'Razorback' Carlyle was brought in from [[EverythingTryingToKillYou going feral for two years and hiding out in the Outback]], he became the Detention King of his freshman year, and was still considered one of the most dangerous ultra-violent students afterwards. When not provoked into a lethal frenzy ("clawed, whirlwind of death" is one description), he's a bully basher, incorrigible prankster, and all-around irreverent bloke.
** Spider(Koala) hates her code name, hates that her mutation makes her look like one of the 'verse's [[OurElvesAreBetter super-elves]], and is very touchy about both. She can become destructively inventive when provoked. Good friends with Jack.
--->''"No Spider you're right, Ninimeth is absolutely a poncy name that sounds like a bad Tolkien reference. Calm down, and let's think rationally... no, you can't force-ration oxygen to arrogance. It's not legal Spider! No, Caitlin is not loaning you her sidearm collection!"''
---->--'''''Book of Darwin'''''
** Played with in ''Reinforce: Don't Call Me a Pretty''. Jack's younger brother, Adam Carlyle, has a devil-may-care attitude towards most things, but stands his ground when it comes to authorities or aggressors. Tossing him into the deep end of a pool isn't recommended.

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* ''Webvideo/DragonballZAbridged'': Jeice of the Ginyu Force is an inversion. He's actually the ''least'' antagonistic member of the Ginyus, bordering on AffablyEvil. Though he does like to mention hes from "Space Australia" (Space ''Brisbane'' to be precise).
-->--'''"[[SeriousBusiness/{{Sports}} Go, Space Broncos!]]"'''

** Michael Cusack's animation often includes a host of bogan characters. ''Recap/RickAndMortyBushworldAdventures'', for instance, features an alternate version of Rick who's been metaphorically pushed through a bogan-esque filter.

* The scrapped Dreamworks film ''Larrikins'' (later reworked into ''WesternAnimation/{{Bilby}}'') would have had one of its antagonists, Howard the crocodile, act like a crude xenophobe. In test footage showing a snippet of his VillainSong, he refers to the bilby protagonist as an "illegal alien" and says that letting them into his territory would be "quite un-Australian."

This should go without saying, but '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease'''

* The Bruces Sketch in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' features a group of stereotypical aussies all wearing identical safari outfits, exchange dirty jokes, all drink heavily, eat raw meat, are against "pooftas", give patriotic accolades at the drop of a hat and are all named Bruce. They are all members of the philosophy department of a university, and when they introduce a philosophy teacher that had just transferred from England, they ask if they could call him "Bruce" because calling him anything else would "cause a little confusion", and that he can teach anything about socialist-philosophy as long as he clarifies that they were wrong. The characters even wrote a song based on famous philosophers ("Bruce's Philosophers Song") and all its about is those philosophers drinking.

This is potentially due to Australia's status as being founded originally as a British penal colony, therefore giving rise to the idea that every non-indigenous man, woman and child born there are descended from criminals.

If there's a character from a LandDownUnder, chances are they're the most crass character present. Basic concepts of decorum and "good manners" don't seem to matter to fictional Australians. Just as the continent is depicted as entirely composed of it's famous wilderness, the people themselves are portrayed as lacking any semblance of sophisticated culture, consisting mostly of beer-drinking and "knife"-measuring contests.

Compare AwesomeAussie.

If the character is heroically-inclined, they'll still be [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero casually politically incorrect]], prone to personal antagonism of everyone around them and dropping ClusterFBombs. If the character is a villain, expect them to go off the deep end and be a drooling, [[AxeCrazy psychotic]] brute lacking anything close to resembling a filter.

If the character is heroically-inclined, they'll still be [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero casually politically incorrect]] and prone to personal antagonism of everyone around them. If the character is a villain, expect them to go off the deep end and be a drooling, [[AxeCrazy psychotic]] brute lacking anything close to resembling a filter.

For the Quotes page:

->''Because Australians are difficult to offend, they are not sensitive to causing offence in others. To outsiders, Australians often appear very blunt and rude. They tend to call a spade a spade when perhaps more tact is required.''
%% Quote source: http://www.convictcreations.com/culture/socialrules.htm

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Haiku for the page:

Aussies are right cunts.//
Blow it out yer arse, ya cunt!//
Straya, cunt! Straya!

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* NationalStereotypes (under Australia)
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