Line #128 Main/Fratbro


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20	[[caption-width-right:350:Brolaf, Lord of Bromacia.]]
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22	->''"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."''
23	-->-- ''WebVideo/DerrickComedy'', "Bro Rape"
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25	The Fratbro is a male college student or alumnus depicted as a stereotypical [[UsefulNotes/StudentSocietiesAndFraternities member of a "Greek" group in university]], which will usually be a FiendishFraternity. They're almost always [[PopularIsDumb unintellectual]] and usually want to [[TwentyFourHourPartyPeople party and drink all day]], try to get laid all night, and will likely engage in WackyFratboyHijinx, such as pranks and hazing freshmen. Despite the name, they don't have to be (or to have been) in a fraternity. If they aren't in a fraternity, they nevertheless still often go to fraternity parties.
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27	As far as academics go, they live by the motto "C's get degrees," and the more well-off bros are often guaranteed a job under one of their parents' companies or through family friend connections, regardless of school performance. For this reason they often study straightforward, business-related majors like accounting, marketing, real estate, etc. Rare is the fratboy studying to be a scientist or teacher, where they'd ''have'' to rely on their own skills and not personal connections. They're in college to ''party'' and hook up with [[AllGuysWantSororityWomen sorority girls]].
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29	In a lot of ways this character is an evolution of the DumbJock stereotype as they often fulfill the same role, although the Fratbro will not necessarily be an athlete (he will at least be a big ''follower'' and fan of sports, however, especially when kegs of beer are involved). Also unlike the traditional jock, the Fratbro will often be a very big fan of soft drugs (particularly cannabis), and be portrayed as being pretty much harmless in comedic works, but darker examples will frequently throw in a proclivity towards DateRape and using rape drugs to incapacitate victims (GHB, Rohypnol). As well, since they are usually from upper-middle-class/upper-class backgrounds, the family will attempt to use family connections to get them out of legal trouble.
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31	This is a subtrope of MenAreUncultured, specifically designed around the idea that it's "normal" for young men to behave this way and sow their depraved wild oats before stepping foot in the real world. The ones who can't let go of this phase in their lives may grow up to be a JadedWashout or TheStoner all through their 30s.
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33	Fratbros are usually mocked in pretty much any work not aimed at this demographic, but to their credit, most fratbros aren't above [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales self-deprecating humor]]. Often used as a BromanticFoil to the male lead. 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 Should Not Do This Cool Thing]].
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35	Compare LifeOfTheParty and WackyFratboyHijinx. Also compare and contrast with HardDrinkingPartyGirl, TheLadette, and AllGuysWantSororityWomen, the rough {{Distaff Counterpart}}s. A Frat Bro who is intelligent enough to land a tech job or start a computer or software company is a TechBro.
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38	!! Examples
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43	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': Etta Candy's sorority sisters known as the Hollday Girls were a genderswapped example during the UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks. They pretty much constantly wore college-labelled clothing, spent way more time partying than studying or going to class, got in fights, sang bawdy songs about men, and were all required to have experience in at least one sport in order to get into the sorority in addition to the InitiationCeremony. They are pretty constantly engaged in [[WackyFratboyHijinx Wacky Sororitygal Hijinx]].
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47	* ''Fanfic/GuysBeingDudes'': Arlo used to dress and behave as one of these while dating Candela including casually misogynistic behavior, attempting to behave as the "ultimate cishet guy" as her boyfriend, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking wearing shirts with popped collars]], which he's deeply embarrassed about.
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51	* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'': James Sullivan's first semester at the titular institution is spent partying and playing with the Roar Omega Roar Fraternity as well as being popular with the ladies. All the while disregarding the BookSmart part of his studies. He initially succeeds by virtue of his natural talent (he looks scary) and family name (his father is a famous Scarer) but he quickly stagnates and is ultimately [[spoiler: expelled from the Scaring Major]]. During his first final exam, he's more concerned about winning a silent scaring competition against his [[TheRival rival]] than reviewing. It's only after bonding with the Oozma Kappa Fraternity members (a bunch of uncool, nonscary losers) that [[CharacterDevelopment he stops being biased jerk]] and starts trusting Mike's superior planning skills.
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55	* ''Film/AmericanPie'': Even before he went to college, Stifler fits the stereotype perfectly by being a boisterous party animal focused on partying and getting laid. It's rather telling that his CharacterDevelopment in the sequel is "becoming comfortable enough with his sexuality to kiss a dude in order to have a threesome with lesbians."
56	* ''Film/AnimalHouse'': John "Bluto" Blutarsky is the TropeCodifier. Frequently drunk, and always on the lookout for mischief, he neglects his studies to the extent of receiving a grade point average of exactly 0.0. His many fratboy activities include starting a cafeteria FoodFight, spying on women students changing, and smashing someone's guitar in the middle of a song. When the dean expels him and his frat brothers, Bluto rallies them to commit one last act of mayhem at Homecoming. In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, it's revealed that Bluto has become a Senator. And in the sequel, he is TheUnseen... because he's ''[[TakeThat The President of the United States]].''
57	* The title character in ''Film/VanWilder'' is a mix between this trope and a BigManOnCampus. Ironically, the film's main antagonist is the actual president of a fraternity but he does not fill this role and is instead portrayed as a JerkJock and a (male) AcademicAlphaBitch.
58	* 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.
59	* Initially Subverted but later Enforced in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. Curt is introduced as a generally intelligent and sensitive character, but needing him to fit a stereotype, the Controllers begin manipulating him with drugs until he fits this trope perfectly. Forms a plot point as well: it is so out of character that it makes Marty suspicious.
60	* ''Film/SororityBoys'' is about three members of the "KOK" fraternity who dress up in drag to infiltrate a rival sorority. The film serves to deconstruct frat bro antics, especially regarding their treatment of women. The climax takes place on a party cruise with KOK alumni, including main character Dave's father, and all the older men ''still'' act like fratbros despite their age and careers.
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64	* One of the entries in ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'' tells of the Author's encounter with the "Abominable Bro-Man", a [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Sasquatch]] who dresses and acts like a stereotypical frat boy.
65	* In ''Literature/TheMarkAndTheVoid'', the team of bankers the Caliph of Oran sends to make a deal are all 18-year-olds who are interested only in drinking, drugs, and making lewd jokes. Being English, they all have somewhat ridiculous cockney accents.
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69	* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
70	** 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 to come to a party. Ted confiscates their beer... but not their hard lemonade. The girl even laments that dumb frat guys invite her to a kegger every single week.
71	** 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.
72	* Sam leaps into a Fratbro in an episode of ''Series/QuantumLeap'', and has trouble getting the GirlOfTheWeek to listen to him because she knows him to be a jockish ass. His fratty mates keep appearing and trying to embroil him in wacky high jinks, including raiding the office of "[[ActorAllusion Dean Stockwell]]".
73	* In ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', Andy was a former Frat Bro at Cornell and was in an a capella group. He often gives his co-workers silly nick names and even has several of his own ("Nard Dog" being the most common). It seems he was pretty popular at college but not so much in the workplace.
74	* Troy from ''Series/{{Community}}'' begins the show somewhere between this and DumbJock, having injured himself performing a "keg flip" but he's open to WackyFratboyHijinks. He quickly [[CharacterDevelopment evolves]] past this, becoming a much more rounded character.
75	* ''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.
76	* "Captain Awesome" from ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' is a somewhat more nuanced, mature version of the fratbro. His mode of speech is very reminiscent of the archetype (including a fondness for the word "awesome" which provides his nickname), but rather than being a shallow party animal, he's a compassionate doctor.
77	** It helps that he's more SurferDude than Bro, and drawing on that archetype has a lot fewer negative associations to begin with.
78	* Eric & Jeremy from ''Series/TheAmazingRace 9'', who even earned themselves the nickname "The Fratboys" despite never having gone to college. They were a couple of slackers who hit on every woman they came across in an overly douchey fashion. Eric would return for All-Stars with a woman he met on Season 9.
79	-->'''Jeremy''': We want to win. Whatever it takes to win.
80	-->'''Eric''': It's like trying to get into girls' pants, y'know, lie, cheat, steal. You know, whatever you can.
81	** Joey & Danny in Season 20 played this in a more likable and humorous vein as theirs was more subdued and clearly done in jest.
82	* In one episode of ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', the gang attempts to reclaim their dominance in "Flipadelphia", a local version of the Flip Cup game. With their old bar rivals now refusing to play them, they instead end up challenging a group of fratboys from Dennis' old college fraternity.
83	* Vernon from ''Series/YoureTheWorst'' still behaves much like an [[ManChild especially immature]] one of these despite being almost 40 years old - he constantly spews juvenile humor and insists on making [[GargleBlaster highly alcoholic "trash juice" punch]] for parties. His wife Becca even calls him a "talking penis in a clown wig".
84	* In the ''Series/BroadCity'' episode "Citizen Ship," Jaimé says "I love hamburgers and I love [=DUIs=]!" in an exaggerated American accent. This catches the attention of an actual fratbro, who says "Do I know you from Michigan State? Were you Delta Sig?" and then does a SecretHandshake with Jaimé
85	* This pops up several times in ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', particularly after its move to the US, with Brad Sherwood and Wayne Brady the most recurring offenders; which naturally confused the hell out of Josie Lawrence from the UK version when she made a guest appearance.
86	* A skit in ''Series/TheJewsAreComing'' shows '''UsefulNotes/DavidBenGurion''' and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi studying together in university in late Ottoman Constantinople. Ben-Zvi makes it very clear they're there to blend into Ottoman politics and promote Zionist ideas among its leadership. Ben-Gurion is mostly concerned with partying and making out.
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90	* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin's father, ''the'' poster boy for MiseryBuildsCharacter, is often alluded to have been one [[FormerTeenRebel when he was younger]], with his son pulling out old pictures of him from college where he apparently did headstands on beer kegs with the "Party Naked" t-shirt.
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94	* Creator/DaneCook was often seen by fans and critics alike as an archetypal example of Fratbro comedy, with much of his material focusing on telling long anecdotes about drunken antics and dating[=/=]relationship issues. Perhaps unsurprisingly, his fanbase during the peak of his success largely consisted of teens and young adults and he would often perform in college towns during his stand-up tours.
95	* Cook's spiritual predecessor Creator/AndrewDiceClay could be considered an example as well, as he cultivated a macho "guido" image and focused on similar subject matter (drinking, sex, and other debauchery) in his jokes.
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99	* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Pictured above is the Champion Olaf in his alternate skin: "Brolaf". Usually, Olaf is a berserk Viking BloodKnight who is a DeathSeeker and generally rage-filled. Equip the skin, and his personality goes a 180, into an immature dude who likes hot babes, chugging beers, makes YourMom jokes, and his BattleCry being a parody of an existing meme, being... '''BROMACIA!!!'''
100	* Not to be outdone, ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'' also released a skin for He Bo, the God of the Yellow River... into "He Bro", who turns the Chinese sage into a combination of this trope and SurferDude.
101	* ''VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma'': Kagura Mutsuki has this as his mindset of least resistance - that is to say, give him enough time without inhibitions and he will party with a hot babe (or several) with alcohol for everyone. This usually lasts until Hibiki or Makoto find out - the former [[OnlySaneEmployee will lecture him at great length about not taking his job seriously]], while the latter [[PervertRevengeMode literally beats it into him]]. That he is introduced suffering from a hangover after a floozy runs out on him doesn't help his case - Noel even points out that the room "reeks of alcohol". [[BunnyEarsLawyer His Fratbro personality does not in any way stop him from being]] a ColonelBadass, however.
102	* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'': The Frat Orcs combine traditional fantasy orcs with this trope and many other frat-boy stereotypes. For example, they drink [[BlandNameProduct Swiller beer]] and use frat paddles as weapons.
103	* ''VideoGame/PaperChase'': Bluto is a member of a fraternity and encourages you to have a strong drink to prove yourself worthy of the pledge pin.
104	* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell'' has ''demon'' fratbros as one faction of demons for Johnny Gat and Kinzie to contend with during their time in Hell.
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108	* Obviously ubiquitous in ''VisualNovel/BeingADIK'', given its focus on WackyFratboyHijinx. Almost every member of Delta Iota Kappa qualifies, with the most obvious example being Derek, who straight-up declares that he has come to college to drink, party, and have sex.
109	* Steve from ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'' loves drinking and partying, he used to ogle other girls while on dates with Melody, and he can’t even remember if he did in fact sleep with MC’s (made-up) daughter (implying that he ReallyGetsAround).
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113	* In ''WebComic/QuestionableContent'' there is a trio of background bros who appear and chant "BROS!" whenever someone says the word. Between the three of them, they demonstrate fratbro-attire quite well, wearing college-labelled clothing, hoodies, and pastel polo shirts. No surprise that they first showed up at a bar.
114	* [[http://druidcitycomic.com/comic/volume-1-page-142/ Chapter 7]] of Volume 1 of ''ComicBook/DruidCity'' is full of fratbros. Two serve as the antagonists of the chapter, four others serve as charmless rubes, and many others appear as copy-paste versions of themselves in a dance sequence.
115	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has the aptly-named Bro Strider (also known as [[spoiler:Dirk Strider]] in an alternate universe). He outright says that he aspires to be the ultimate "bro". He's obsessed with baseball hats (if he can't wear one, he does the next best thing and wears a t-shirt with a picture of a hat on it), rap music, video games, unhealthy snack foods, extreme sports, and video games about extreme sports and unhealthy snack foods. Bro's brother, Dave, copies many of these interests to an extent, but he's doing it [[SoBadItsGood "ironically"]] while Bro's {{irony}} is so far gone that it's completely indistinguishable from sincerity.
116	* ''Webcomic/VGCats'': [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=285 Bro Gamers.]]
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120	* Yahtzee from ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' characterizes Platform/{{Xbox 360}}'s target audience as being largely this trope, largely due to the popularity of their multiplayer shooters appealing to them.
121	* The WebVideo/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, watching TV shows like ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick getting raped by big black dildos]]. Incidentally, the sketch also stars a young Donald Glover, who plays the aforementioned Troy in ''Series/{{Community}}''.
122	* A few of Cecil and Kain's lines in the Playstation version's translation of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' are like this. Website/LegendsOfLocalization [[http://legendsoflocalization.com/final-fantasy-iv/intro/ refers to this]] as "Cecil and Kain, who are super-high ranking knights, talk[ing] like college bros or something".
123	-->'''Kain:''' Hey, 500 Gil says I slay that beast tomorrow.
124	-->'''Cecil:''' Alright, you're on.
125	* In the early mid-2000s, many critics classified Creator/TuckerMax 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]].
126	* [[Creator/{{Dropout}} CollegeHumor / Dropout]]:
127	** Played with in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaS6mlUS5Kw "If I were a Bro"]], wherein Sarah dresses up as a stereotypical frat boy [[OneOfTheBoys hanging out with the rest of the dudes]].
128	** Also appears in "Brohemian Rhapsody." He closely resembles the above-mentioned Bluto, and partakes in activities with his "bros," such as casual sex with girls from school, drugs and alcohol, video games, and beer pong. He also has a PottyFailure at a party, knocks over a lamp and gets hurt, and gets himself arrested.
129	* In [[https://youtu.be/gziP8x1Nu8g "MMA Fighters Try Women's Self-Defense: episode #10 Wrist Control!"]] (a video series debunking and satirizing flawed self-defense techniques that are marketed toward women but don’t actually work against a resisting opponent), Coach Ramsey Dewey seeks help strengthening his biceps because the grab-defense technique he learned from Pure Motion Fitness isn’t working for him. To do this he enlists the help of Curl Bro, a dude at the gym who wears a baseball cap, constantly calls Ramsey "bro", and teaches people to only perform curls no matter what gym equipment they're using. Tricep dips? Curl the dip station! Squat rack? Take the bar off the rack and curl it! Heavy punching bag? Curl the bag!
130	* ''Podcast/PretendingToBePeople'' features Brett, a science experiment in the [[TheMafia Glass]] compound. For some reason, he sports a puka shell necklace, frosted tips, and a douchey demeanor.
131	* In ''Literature/ShadowrunStorytime'', the player of Trout decided to not meet up with the rest of the players and wandered off to find his own job. The GM responded by introducing Terrence Jackson, an orc fratbro who is constantly drunk, constantly watching porn on his AR glasses, and wears two polo shirts with both collars popped. He's on last chance after beating up too many nerds, so instead he hires Trout, a professional killer, to beat one up for him.
132	* ''Website/TheOnion'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgXObaM9i2Q "Most College Males Admit to Regularly Getting Stoked."]] The joke is that the panel's hosts are treating WackyFratboyHijinx as though it were a dangerous drug or youth trend that could [[TooDumbToLive get them killed]], but towards the end, one of the hosts reveals that he himself is a fratbro at heart, and gets stoked in the middle of the studio by jumping on the desk while screaming "I'm on ''TV!!!''".
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136	* In spite of ([[TakeThatAudience or perhaps because of]]) ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s reputation of being popular with teenage[=/=]college males (as exemplified in the page quote), the show has frequently taken potshots at fratboys. In one particular example, Stewie develops a PrecociousCrush on his college-aged babysitter but becomes heartbroken when he discovers that she already has a Fratbro-type boyfriend, prompting him to launch into an epic rant that hits on nearly every stereotype of the trope:
137	--> '''Stewie:''' Ha! I got your hat! Take that, hatless! Now go back to the quad and resume your hackey sac tourney! I'm not gonna lay down for some frat boy bastard with his damn Teva sandals and his Skoal Bandits and his Abercrombie and Fitch long-sleeved, open-stitched, crew neck Henley smoking his sticky buds out of a soda can while watching his favorite downloaded Simpsons episodes every night! Yes, we all love "Mr. Plow"! Oh, you've got the song memorized, do you? SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE! That is exactly the kind of idiot you see at Taco Bell at 1 in the morning! The guy who just whiffed his way down the bar skank ladder!
138	* 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 befriends a trio of nerds and attempts to teach them how to "par-tay."
139	* Rocko from ''WesternAnimation/{{Undergrads}}'' is a walking fratbro stereotype. He's big, muscular, dumb, prone to drinking copious amounts of beer and unsuccessfully propositioning everything with breasts that crosses his path, and he joined a fraternity ''specifically'' to get up to WackyFratboyHijinks like in the movies. He does not let the fact that his frat otherwise consists entirely of sweater-vest-wearing preppy guys who find his antics annoying stop him, to the point that he hazes ''himself'' when his frat won't.
140	%%* On ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', Numbuh Four finds a whole tribe of them living under his couch.
141	%% so "fratboys appear in this work"... what do they do? is this just some one-off gag? indicate it then.
142	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' portrays musical theatre creators Music/StephenSondheim, Creator/StephenSchwartz, Creator/AndrewLloydWebber and Music/EltonJohn as all being beer-swilling bros in secret.
143	** Season 19 features stereotypical frat bros who are all obsessed with [[PoliticalOvercorrectness enforcing Political Correctness to the extreme]], with one of them being the new principal of South Park Elementary.
144	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', "Attack of the Clowns", while Mandy and Grim are trying to help Billy conquer his fear of clowns, Billy goes to his happy place in his mind where he encounters his imaginary "Inner Frat Boy" who helps Billy conquer his fear by giving him [[SpoofAesop some pretty sound advice]]. "Just because somebody's different from you doesn't mean you should be afraid of them... It means you should be '''angry''' at them."
145	* ''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).
146	* ''WesternAnimation/CodeMonkeys'' features Dean, the college-aged son of Game-A-Vision's CEO Bob "Big T" Larrity, who fits the stereotype to a T. In one episode when he becomes the acting head of the company, Dean hires several of his college friends, who are members of the [[FunWithAcronyms Alpha Sigma Sigma]] fraternity.
147	* ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'': "What If... Thor Were An Only Child?" suggests that without Loki around to inadvertently teach Thor some life lessons in responsibility, Thor would basically become one of these. He dubs himself "God of Parties" and is more concerned with drunken debauchery than studying to be the next Asgard ruler. The only thing that stops him is Jane tattling on him to his mother Frigga.
148	* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Adam, despite being the leader of the Exorcists and Biblical first man, is a walking Fratbro stereotype--being an obnoxious, vulgar, and sexist hedonist who loves to party and sleep around when he isn't mass-murdering Sinners.
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152	* Even as far back as TheMiddleAges in England and continental UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, there are records of university students being condemned for drunkenness, getting into violent brawls, throwing people in rivers, and engaging in all sorts of mistreatment of women, including rape. Therefore making this OlderThanPrint.
153	* The infamous Bullingdon Club is basically a cross between this trope and a BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats. The club got some rather unfavourable media attention after allegations were made that [[UsefulNotes/DavidCameron a fratbro who went on to become Prime Minister of Great Britain]] had to perform an indecent act with the severed head of a pig as part of the InitiationCeremony.
154	* The video game company Creator/ActivisionBlizzard was rocked by a large scandal in late July 2021, following the suicide of a female employee. The incident made way for a grand-scale reveal that the company had massive systematic issues with a toxic workplace culture and a slew of allegations about widespread sexual harassment and sexism against employees. The "work ethics" (or lack thereof) of a number of male employees and higher-ups who were responsible for the toxic workplace environment were described as a "frat boy culture" (they would drink, party and play video games all day while the harassed employees, often female, would endure humiliations, do all the work and not get paid fairly for it).
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