![]() The promo for the episode shows a good example of Quincy punk in its natural habitat. For years, "Quincy punk" came to be used in Southern California's scene to describe a punk who cares more about the rebellious image than anything else. tries to save the youth of Los Angeles from the moral scourge that is punk rock. called "Next Stop, Nowhere," where the titular M.E. The Trope Namer is an infamous episode of Quincy, M.E. A post-apocalypse setting will likely be infested with punks as a sign of how lawless and desperate the world has become. The Quincy Punk is most often used as a stock mugger, thug, or street tough for superheroes or other urban vigilantes to beat the shit out of, allowing for an intimidating image in an urban setting while avoiding the Unfortunate Implications of Batman (or some other Super Hero or Action Hero) beating up more “ethnic” or racially-oriented street criminals. And he hates you and the rest of society. He's an anarchist, but it's more about setting fire to a police station than any sort of rational opinion on Kropotkin's Mutual Aid. ![]() The music he listens to is distorted, noisy and raw, like hardcore on PCP, and often doesn't much resemble actual punk rock. The Quincy Punk looks like a stereotypical punk - mohawk in all the colors of the Kool-Aid rainbow, studded leather jacket painted with band names, t-shirts with offensive slogans, and uncomfortable piercings. Or maybe it was because Sid Vicious' crashing and burning ruined punk's reputation for everyone. Maybe it was the hardcore seeding of memetics that painted punks as angry rebels who wanted to tear the system down and piss on the ashes. Maybe it's the pervasive nature of the admittedly shocking album and lyrical imagery, which aimed to "épater les Bourgeois" note French for "shock the bourgeois". Hollywood's efforts to depict punks showed a lack of effort to research the actual subculture or music instead, creators tended to use cartoonish, simplistic stereotypes of punks as violent, nihilistic and dangerous.īut whereas the general societal backlash to a subculture tends to abate over time, there's still this idea, decades later, that punk is violent and nihilistic. TV stations dutifully produced Very Special Episodes and newscasts about the punk movement's menace to good suburbian society's peace, law and order. It was a veritable license to sow revulsion and moral panic among the Moral Guardians of the day. Their simple, raw-sounding, angry music was designed to shock. ![]() The subculture expressed their societal discontent and marginalization with strange spiky, colored hairstyles and a mix of ripped and provocative clothing that was often DIY, ripped, and edgy. And when the late '70s and early '80s came around, the punks got it with both barrels. Every youth subculture gets its moment to be The New Rock & Roll - greasers, mods, hippies, skinheads, goths hell, Mystery Science Theater 3000 proves that even the beatniks got a good round of it.
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