Cool Frat Bro Cartoon Drawing
"What is a bro? A bro is a eighteen to twenty-four yr old male who wears birkenstock sandals, watches Family Guy, plays Ultimate Frisbee, and wears an upside downwards visor or a baseball cap with a pre-frayed brim. You lot know, a bro."
The Fratbro is a male college student or alumnus depicted in a stereotypical fratboy-ish manner. They're almost always unintellectual and usually want to party and beverage all 24-hour interval, try to go laid all night, and will likely engage in Wacky Fratboy Hijinx. Despite the name, they don't accept to be (or take been) in a fraternity.
Every bit far as academics go, they alive by the motto "C's get degrees," and the more well-off bros are often guaranteed a chore under ane of their parents regardless of school performance. For this reason they often written report straightforward, business-related majors like bookkeeping, marketing, real estate, etc. Rare is the fratboy that is studying to be a teacher or physician where they'd have to rely on their own skills and not personal connections. They're in college to party.
In a lot of means this graphic symbol is an evolution of the Dumb Jock stereotype as they often fulfill the same function, although the Fratbro will not necessarily exist an athlete (he volition at least be a big follower of sports, however). Also different the traditional jock, the Fratbro volition often exist a very large fan of soft drugs (particularly cannabis), and exist portrayed as being pretty much harmless in comedic works, but darker examples will frequently throw in a proclivity towards Engagement Rape and a trend (since they are unremarkably from upper-centre-form/upper-class backgrounds) to effort to use family connections to go them out of trouble.
This is a subtrope of Men Are Uncultured, specifically designed around the thought that information technology'southward "normal" for young men to behave this manner and sow their depraved oats before stepping pes in the real world. The ones who tin can't let become of this phase in their lives may grow up to be a Jaded Washout or The Stoner.
Fratbros are usually Adequate Targets in pretty much any work not aimed at this demographic, only to their credit, almost fratbros aren't above self-deprecating humor. Often used every bit a Bromantic Foil to the male lead. One popular Aesop for this type of graphic symbol is to get a Ladykiller in Love, especially if they Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest. Whether or non it works is a toss-upward, as this sort of grapheme can easily imply that the audition Should Not Do This Cool Matter.
Compare Life of the Party and Wacky Fratboy Hijinx. Likewise compare and contrast with Hard-Drinking Party Daughter, The Lad-ette, and All Guys Want Sorority Women, the crude Distaff Counterparts. A Frat Bro who is intelligent plenty to land a tech job or start a tech company is a Tech Bro.
Examples
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Comic Books
- Wonder Adult female: Etta Candy's sorority gals known as the Hollday Girls were a genderswaped instance during the The Golden Age of Comic Books. They pretty much constantly wore college-labelled clothing, spent way more time partying than studying or going to course, got in fights, sang bawdy songs nearly men and were all required to have experience in at to the lowest degree one sport in social club to go into the sorority in addition to the Initiation Ceremony. They are pretty constantly engaged in Wacky Sororitygal Hijinx.
Moving-picture show - Live Action
- Stifler in American Pie. Even before he went to college, he fit the stereotype perfectly being a boisterous party animal focused on partying and getting laid. It'southward rather telling that his Grapheme Development in the sequel is "becoming comfortable enough with his sexuality to kiss a dude in order to have a threesome with lesbians."
- John "Bluto" Blutarsky of Animate being House is the Trope Codifier. Frequently drunk, and always on the lookout for mischief, he neglects his studies to the extent of receiving a course point average of exactly 0.0. His many fratboy activities include starting a cafeteria Food Fight, spying on women students irresolute and smashing someone's guitar in the center of a vocal. When the dean expels him and his frat brothers, Bluto rallies them to commit one last deed of commotion at Homecoming. In the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, it's revealed that Bluto has get a Senator. And in the sequel, he is The Unseen...considering he'due south The President of the Usa.
- The championship character in Van Wilder is a mix betwixt this trope and a Large Man on Campus. Ironically, the film'south primary antagonist is the actual president of a fraternity merely he does non fill this role and is instead portrayed as a Jerk Jock and a (male) Academic Alpha Bitch.
- Teddy Sanders and the balance of his fraternity brothers from Neighbors all fit this stereotype. The film actually serves as a Deconstructive Parody of frat boy comedies, showing the worst aspects of the immaturity displayed by Fratbro characters when surrounded by reasonable people.
- Initially Subverted but afterwards Enforced in The Motel in the Woods. Curt is introduced as a mostly intelligent and sensitive character, simply needing him to fit a stereotype, the Controllers brainstorm manipulating him with drugs until he fits this trope perfectly. Forms a plot point besides: it is so out of character that information technology makes Marty suspicious.
- Sorority Boys 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, specially regarding their handling of women. The climax takes place on a political party cruise with KOK alumni, including chief grapheme Dave'south male parent, who all however act like fratbros despite their historic period and careers.
Literature
- One of the entries in Gravity Falls: Periodical 3 tells of the Author's meet with the "Abominable Bro-Man", a Sasquatch who dresses and acts like a stereotypical frat male child.
- In The Marker and the Void, the squad of bankers the Caliph of Oran sends to make a bargain are all xviii-year-olds who are interested simply in drinking, drugs, and making lewd jokes. Being English language, they all have somewhat ridiculous cockney accents.
Live Action Telly
- How I Met Your Female parent:
- 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... merely not their hard lemonade. The girl fifty-fifty laments that dumb frat guys invite her to a kegger every single week.
- Recurring character Brad is a Genius Ditz version of this. He'southward kickoff seen hosting a wild college party (though equally 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 simply to reappear at the terminate, naked and wandering the streets. He also speaks like a bro, almost to the point of a verbal tic.
- Sam leaps into a Fratbro in an episode of Quantum Leap, and has trouble getting the Girl of the Week to listen to him because she knows him to exist a jockish ass. His fratty mates keep appearing and trying to embroil him in wacky high jinks, including raiding the office of "Dean Stockwell".
- In The Office (US), Andy was a former Frat Bro at Cornell and was in an a capella grouping. He often gives his co-workers silly nick names and fifty-fifty has several of his own ("Nard Dog" being the most common). It seems he was pretty popular at college merely not so much in the workplace.
- Troy from Community begins the evidence somewhere betwixt this and Impaired Jock, having injured himself performing a "keg flip" but he's open to Wacky Fratboy Hijinks. He quickly evolves past this, becoming a much more rounded character.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: They bear witness upward in the quaternary season, when the gang goes to college. A grouping of them accidentally summon a fearfulness demon while turning their frathouse into a haunted house.
- "Helm Awesome" from 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), merely rather than being a shallow party beast, he's a compassionate doctor.
- It helps that he's more than Surfer Dude than Bro, and drawing on that archetype has a lot fewer negative associations to begin with.
- Eric & Jeremy from The Amazing Race 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 render for All-Stars with a woman he met on Season ix.
Jeremy: We desire to win. Whatever information technology takes to win.
Eric: Information technology's like trying to get into girls' pants, y'know, lie, cheat, steal. You know, whatever you can.
- In ane episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the gang attempts to reclaim their dominance in "Flipadelphia", a local version of the Flip Loving cup game. With their former bar rivals now refusing to play them, they instead end up challenging a group of fratboys from Dennis' former college fraternity.
- Vernon from You're the Worst however behaves much like an particularly immature 1 of these despite being almost 40 years old - he constantly spews juvenile humor and insists on making highly alcoholic "trash juice" punch for parties. His married woman Becca even calls him a "talking penis in a clown wig".
- In the Broad City episode "Citizen Transport," Jaimé says "I dearest hamburgers and I love DUIs!" in an exaggerated American accent. This catches the attending of an actual fratbro, who says "Do I know you from Michigan State? Were yous Delta Sig?" and then does a Hugger-mugger Handshake with Jaimé
- This pops upwards several times in Whose Line Is It Anyway?, especially subsequently its move to the Us, with Brad Sherwood and Wayne Brady the nearly recurring offenders; which naturally confused the hell out of Josie Lawrence from the Britain version when she made a guest appearance.
- A skit in The Jews Are Coming shows David Ben-Gurion 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 amid its leadership. Ben-Gurion is more often than not concerned with partying and making out.
Newspaper Comics
- In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin'southward father, the poster boy for Misery Builds Character, is often alluded to have been one when he was younger, with his son pulling out sometime pictures of him from college where he plain did headstands on beer kegs with the "Political party Naked" t-shirt.
Stand up-Upwards One-act
- Dane Melt was often seen by fans and critics alike every bit an archetypal example of Fratbro comedy, with much of his material focusing on telling long anecdotes about drunken antics and dating/relationship issues. Mayhap unsurprisingly, his fanbase during the peak of his success largely consisted of teens and young adults and he would frequently perform in higher towns during his stand-up tours.
- Melt'southward spiritual predecessor Andrew "Dice" Clay could exist considered an example as well, as he cultivated a macho "guido" image and focused on like bailiwick thing (drinking, sex, and other debauchery) in his jokes.
Video Games
- League of Legends: Pictured to a higher place is the Champion Olaf in his alternate skin: "Brolaf". Unremarkably, Olaf is a berserk viking Blood Knight who is a Death Seeker and generally rage-filled. Equip the skin, and his personality goes a 180, into an immature dude who likes hot babes, chugging beers, makes Your Mom jokes, and his Battle Weep being a parody of an existing meme, beingness... BROMACIA!!!
- Non to be outdone, Smite likewise 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 Surfer Dude.
- Kagura Mutsuki from BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma has this as his mindset of least resistance - that is to say, requite him enough time without inhibitions and he will party with a hot babe (or several) with alcohol for anybody. This normally lasts until Hibiki or Makoto observe out - the quondam volition lecture him at great length nearly not taking his chore seriously, while the latter literally beats it into him. That he is introduced suffering from a hangover afterwards a floozy runs out on him doesn't help his case - Noel fifty-fifty points out that the room "reeks of booze". His Fratbro personality does not in any way stop him from being a Colonel Badass, however.
- The Frat Orcs of Kingdom of Loathing combine traditional fantasy orcs with this trope and many other frat-boy stereotypes. For example, they drink Swiller beer and utilise frat paddles as weapons.
- Paper Chase: Bluto is a member of a fraternity and encourages you to accept a potent drink to bear witness yourself worthy of the pledge pin.
- Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell has demon fratbros every bit i faction of demons for Johnny Gat and Kinzie to contend with during their time in Hell.
Visual Novels
- Steve from Melody loves drinking and partying, he used to ogle other girls while on dates with Melody, and he tin can't even call up if he did in fact sleep with MC'south (made up) girl (implying that he Really Gets Around).
Webcomics
- In Questionable Content at that place is a trio of background bros who appear and chant "BROS!" whenever someone says the give-and-take. Between the three of them they demonstrate fratbro-attire quite well, wearing college-labelled wearable, hoodies, and pastel polo shirts. No surprise that they beginning showed upwards at a bar.
- Chapter vii of Book ane of Druid Urban center is full of fratbros. Two serve as the antagonists of the chapter, four others serve as charmless rubes, and many others appear as re-create-paste versions of themselves in a trip the light fantastic sequence.
- Homestuck has the aptly-named Bro Strider (also known as 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 tin can't wear ane, he does the side by side best thing and wears a t-shirt with a moving-picture show of a hat on it), rap music, video games, unhealthy snack foods, extreme sports, and video games well-nigh extreme sports and unhealthy snack foods. Bro'south brother, Dave, copies many of these interests to an extent, but he's doing it "ironically" while Bro's irony is so far gone that it's completely indistinguishable from sincerity.
- VG Cats: Bro Gamers.
Web Original
- Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation characterizes Xbox 360'due south target audience every bit being largely this trope, largely due to the popularity of their multiplayer shooters appealing to them.
- The Derrick Comedy skit "Bro Rape" is nearly bros being, well, raped by other bros. Information technology's styled like a "To Take hold of a Predator" segment, luring the predator-bros into police sting operations with an online profile named "Republic of chad" who professes to bask bro-related activities such equally drinking beer, playing video games, watching TV shows similar Family Guy, and getting raped by big black dildos. Incidentally, the sketch too stars a immature Donald Glover, who plays the aforementioned Troy in Community.
- A few of Cecil and Kain's lines in the Playstation version's translation of Final Fantasy Iv are like this. Legends of Localization refers to this as "Cecil and Kain, who are super-high ranking knights, talk[ing] like college bros or something".
Kain: Hey, 500 Gil says I slay that beast tomorrow.
Cecil: Alright, yous're on.
- In the early-mid-2000s, many critics classified Tucker Max and, to a lesser extent, Maddox into a new subgenre of humor literature known equally "Fratire" later the rise in popularity of their personal websites and subsequent books, which frequently focused on manly subjects such every bit drinking and partying exploits. Subverted by the fact that neither Max nor Maddox were e'er members of fraternities in higher and both later criticized the label.
- CollegeHumor:
- Played with in "If I were a Bro", wherein Sarah dresses upwardly as a stereotypical frat boy hanging out with the residue of the dudes.
- Too appears in "Brohemian Rhapsody." He closely resembles the above-mentioned Bluto, and partakes in activities with his "bros," such as casual sex activity with girls from school, drugs and booze, video games, and beer pong. He likewise has a Potty Failure at a party, knocks over a lamp and gets hurt, and gets himself arrested.
- In "MMA Fighters Endeavor Women's Self-Defense: episode #x Wrist Control!", Coach Ramsey Dewey seeks assist strengthening his biceps because the grab-defense technique he learned from Pure Motility Fitness isn't working for him (the video series debunks and satirizes flawed cocky-defence force techniques that are marketed toward women, merely don't actually work confronting a resisting opponent). 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 merely perform curls no matter what gym equipment they're using. Tricep dips? Coil the dip station! Squat rack? Have the bar off the rack and ringlet it! Heavy punching bag? Curl the pocketbook!
- Pretending to Be People features Brett, a science experiment in the Glass compound. For some reason, he sports a puka shell necklace, frosted tips, and a douchey demeanor.
Western Animation
- In spite of (or maybe because of) Family Guy'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 instance, Stewie develops a Precocious Crush on his college-anile 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:
Stewie: Ha! I got your chapeau! Have that, hatless! At present get back to the quad and resume your hackey sac tourney! I'yard 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 tin can while watching his favorite downloaded Simpsons episodes every night! Yeah, nosotros all beloved "Mr. Plow"! Oh, you've got the song memorized, do you? SO DOES Anybody ELSE! That is exactly the kind of idiot yous see at Taco Bell at ane in the forenoon! The guy who only whiffed his way down the bar skank ladder!
- In The Simpsons episode "Homer Goes To College", Homer attempts to cultivate this image when he attends Springfield University to take a form in Nuclear Physics. Unfortunately, he learned all of his stereotypes about college from watching raunchy 80s comedy films and presently learns that real college is nil like what was depicted in fiction. He somewhen befriends a trio of nerds and attempts to teach them how to "par-tay."
- Rocko from Undergrads is a walking fratbro stereotype. He's big, muscular, impaired, prone to drinking copious amounts of beer and unsuccessfully propositioning everything with breasts that crosses his path, and he joined a fraternity specifically to become up to Wacky Fratboy Hijinks like in the movies. He does not permit the fact that his frat otherwise consists entirely of sweater-belong-wearing preppy guys who observe his antics annoying end him, to the signal that he hazes himself when his frat won't.
- An episode of Southward Park portrays musical theatre creators Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Elton John every bit all being beer-swilling bros in secret.
- Season xix features stereotypical frat bros who are all obsessed with enforcing Political Definiteness to the extreme, with one of them being the new principal of Southward Park Elementary.
- In The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, "Attack of the Clowns", while Mandy and Grim are trying to help Billy conquer his fear of clowns, Baton goes to his happy place in his heed where he run across his imaginary "Inner Frat Boy" who helps Baton conquer his fearfulness past giving him some pretty sound advice, "Just because somebody's dissimilar from you doesn't mean y'all should exist agape of them... It means yous should be angry at them."
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force has the "Frat Aliens" (Donkey Puncher and Skeeter), who are aliens that behave like stereotypical fratboys, except From Space. Their very names are lewd sexual terms ("Ass Punch" means to punch someone in the back of the head during doggystyle coitus, and "Skeet" means to ejaculate on someone).
- Code Monkeys features Dean, the college-anile son of Game-A-Vision's CEO Bob "Large 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 Blastoff Sigma Sigma fraternity.
- What If...? (2021): "What If...Thor Were An Merely Kid?" suggests that without Loki effectually to inadvertently teach Thor some life lessons in responsibleness, Thor would basically get ane of these. He dubs himself "God of Parties" and is more concerned with drunken immoderacy than studying to be the next Asgard ruler. The only thing that stops him is Jane tattling on him to his mother Frigga.
Real Life
- Even as far back as The Eye Ages in England and continental Europe, at that place are records of university students being condemned for drunkenness, getting into violent brawls or throwing people in rivers, and engaging in all sorts of mistreatment of women including rape, making this Older Than Print.
- The infamous Bullingdon Guild is basically a cross between this trope and a Brotherhood of Funny Hats. The club got some rather unfavourable media attention afterward allegations were fabricated that a fratbro who went on to become Prime number Minister of Great Britain had to perform an indecent human activity with the severed head of a pig as part of the Initiation Ceremony.
- The video game company Activision Blizzard was rocked by a big scandal in belatedly July 2021, following the suicide of a female employee. The incident made manner for a grand-calibration reveal that the visitor had massive systematic problems with a toxic workplace civilization and a slew of allegations about widespread sexual harassment and sexism against employees. The "work ethics" (or lack thereof) of the employees and higher ups who were responsible for the toxic workplace surroundings were described as a "frat boy culture" (they would drink, party and play video games all day while the harrassed employees, often female, would suffer humiliations, do all the work and not become paid adequately for it).
Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Fratbro
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