History Main / ViolentGlaswegian

->'''Groundskeeper Willie''': Brothers and sisters are natural enemies! Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and ''[[NoTrueScotsman other Scots!]]'' [[BoomerangBigot Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!]]

->'''Groundskeeper Willie''': ''[Bangs on Skinner's desk] [[IResembleThatRemark You just made an enemy for LIFE!]]''

** And such a man would have to have an equally violent wife...which he does. She's just as much of a BoisterousBruiser as her hubby is, but she manages to do just as much damage as him WHILE UNARMED. (That is, [[BerserkButton once somebody calls her fat.]] ) Still, how she was captured in the first place is anyone's guess.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxB1gB6K-2A This]] UsefulNotes/ComicRelief sketch featuring DavidTennant and Creator/CatherineTate. As Mr. Logan's anger at [[Series/TheCatherineTateShow Lauren Cooper]] builds, he starts slipping into his (and Tennant's) natural Scottish accent before finally snapping [[spoiler:and pulling [[Series/DoctorWho a sonic screwdriver]] on Lauren, [[AndIMustScream turning her into a Rose Tyler action figure]]]].

* Jamie and Malcolm from ''TheThickOfIt'' and ''InTheLoop'' epitomise this trope. Other characters refer to them and their henchmen as the 'Caledonian Mafia', a term [[TruthInTelevision actually used]] to describe Scots in the Blair/Brown government.

* Wee Hughie from TheBoys is an inversion: at the beginning of the comic he doesn't fight anyone, and only actually starts to fight once he's been injected with the SuperSerum. And even then, he's still less violent than the Frenchman and the Female.

Glasgow also had in the past groups of thugs called "razor gangs", who used razors to slice up people's faces in fights (this was a time when hanging was still in use, so using a firearm was a no-no). When the cheek is cut open from the mouth, this is called a GlasgowGrin. You might have seen one in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.

* The Scottish animal pen designer in ''Film/WeBoughtAZoo'' wears traditional Scottish attire, gets drunk at the zoo bar, and has to be physically restrainted from attacking his nemesis.

Glasgow also had in the past groups of thugs called "razor gangs", who used razors to slice up people's faces in fights (this was a time when hanging was still in use, so using a firearm was a no-no). When the cheek is cut open from the mouth, this is called a GlasgowGrin. You might have seen one in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Similarly, there's the "Glasgow Necktie" (also known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombian_necktie a Colombian Necktie]]), which is even ''worse''.[[note]]Slit the throat and pull the tongue out through the newly-made hole[[/note]]

Glasgow also had in the past groups of thugs called "razor gangs", who used razors to slice up people's faces in fights (this was a time when hanging was still in use, so using a firearm was a no-no). When the cheek is cut open from the mouth, this is called a GlasgowGrin. You might have seen one in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxB1gB6K-2A This]] UsefulNotes/ComicRelief sketch featuring DavidTennant and Creator/CatherineTate. As Mr. Logan's anger at [[TheCatherineTateShow Lauren Cooper]] builds, he starts slipping into his (and Tennant's) natural Scottish accent before finally snapping [[spoiler:and pulling [[Series/DoctorWho a sonic screwdriver]] on Lauren, [[AndIMustScream turning her into a Rose Tyler action figure]]]].

* A probably unintentional example is Yammy Rialgo from Manga/{{Bleach}}. He surely is violent, and got that red [[strike:hair]] pair of eyebrows to help the Violent Glaswegian image, but doesn't mean he's necessarily [[{{Scotireland}} Scottish or something similar]].

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxB1gB6K-2A This]] UsefulNotes/ComicRelief sketch featuring DavidTennant and CatherineTate. As Mr. Logan's anger at [[TheCatherineTateShow Lauren Cooper]] builds, he starts slipping into his (and Tennant's) natural Scottish accent before finally snapping [[spoiler:and pulling [[Series/DoctorWho a sonic screwdriver]] on Lauren, [[AndIMustScream turning her into a Rose Tyler action figure]]]].

* Glaswegian comedian BillyConnolly:

* Billy's dad from ''BillyElliot'', even though the rest of the village are all from County Durham.
* ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'': Begbie. Although this violent sociopath is from Leith, actor Robert Carlyle portrayed him as (in his words) "a cartoon caricature of a Glasgow hard man." Renton explains the psychology of the Violent Glaswegian in the ''Trainspotting'' novel. He says that Begbie is like that because "he believed his own - and it must be said, our - propaganda about him being a total psychopath".

* Sid from ''ChildrenOfMen'' is one of the many extremely violent policemen in the film's CrapsackWorld version of Britain. Early in the film, he likes to toy with and scare people, and eventually we see him turn quite psychotic.

* The mercenary Celts who attack Robin Hood and his Merry Men in ''RobinHood: Prince of Thieves'' are certainly violent and all red-haired.

* According to MikeMyers' character in ''SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer'', the Scots have their own form of martial arts called ''"Fuh'kew"'' which is comprised of "...mostly headbutts, and then kicking the other person when they're on the ground."

* Gimli is this in the film version of ''Film/LordOfTheRings'' due to the fact that Dwarves in general were portrayed to have Scottish accents.

->'''Groundskeeper Willie''': ''[Bangs on Skinner's desk] [[IResembleThatRemark You just made an enemy for life!]]''

* GerardButler's role in ''Film/ThreeHundred'', due to his Scottish accent. The Spartans all speak in a broad British accent, and it's interesting to note that some translations of Ancient Greek literature give Spartans a Scots dialect, due to similarities in the way Spartans and Scots have been portrayed.

* "Rowdy" RoddyPiper is one of the most popular ones in wrestling. He was even billed to come from Glasgow, Scotland (He's actually a Scot-heritaged Canadian).

* Robbie Coltrane is a Glaswegian who often plays tough, but not necessarily violent, characters. Sometimes he plays against type: In ''The Fruit Machine'', he's a CampGay transvestite with a Glasgow accent, and in the HarryPotter films, he plays GentleGiant Hagrid, and speaks with a Westcountry accent. On the other hand he had the title role in the LiveActionAdaptation of ''The Bogie Man'' (see Comic Books, above).

* Donald from ''ThomasTheTankEngine'' is probably the most family friendly example out there. Although he still ''killed'' a piece of rolling stock for getting his brother into trouble.

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* Jamie, companion of the Second Doctor of Series/DoctorWho, is a kilt-wearing, simple-minded Scot who primarily resorts to brute strength and violence to solve problems.
** Possibly justified in Jamie's case; he was picked up straight from the battlefield of Culloden, after all, and soldiers in general are not very well known for being shrinking violets, let alone Scottish ones.
** In "Asylum of the Daleks", when Amy slaps Rory for [[AskAStupidQuestion asking a stupid question]], Oswin asks if Amy seems more angry than usual ([[spoiler: since that would indicate the Dalek conversion was further along than they thought.]] Amy's response is "Well, somebody's never been to Scotland."

** In ''The Name of the Doctor'', it is revealed that Strax, having discovered the concept of the weekend off, has taken to travelling up to Glasgow in order to get into bar fights with the only people in the universe able to equal the Sontarans for sheer bloody-minded aggression.

** In ''The Name of the Doctor'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:Strax, having discovered the concept of the weekend off, has taken to travelling up to Glasgow in order to get into bar fights with the only people in the universe able to equal the Sontarans for sheer bloody-minded aggression.]]

* GeorgeMacDonaldFraser's semi-autobiographical ''Literature/McAuslan'' series is, in many ways, a paean to a post-war Highland battalion comprised largely of these characters.