Slumdogs

The Slumdogs (, Suramudoggusu) are a street gang featured in Yakuza 4.
== Background ==
The Slumdogs were formed by Reign, a former champion of the Purgatory Coliseum and foreigner from an unspecified country, who hated the way foreigners were mistreated in Japan, forced to take menial jobs or even turn to crime due to discrimination. He also found that, even in the criminal underworld, most foreigners were forced to stick to petty crime, as the xenophobic yakuza refused to let foreigners take part in more lucrative rackets.
Due to all this, Reign and several of his foreign petty criminal associates formed the Slumdogs, a gang for Tokyo's foreign criminals meant to pool their resources and their strength to compete against the yakuza.
== Yakuza 4 ==
By 2010, the Slumdogs had grown to the point that they actually became a presence in the streets of Tokyo and a problem for the increasingly unstable Tojo Clan. However, the gang's expansion was limited by the lack of more foreigners to join them, so Reign decided to start admitting young Japanese men into the gang to provide them with an alternative to the yakuza. Despite their best efforts, the Slumdogs found that young Japanese criminals still preferred joining the yakuza to them so, in an effort to boost their reputation, Reign decided to target Kazuma Kiryu, who had recently returned to Tokyo and made a splash by defeating three other gangs.
Multiple Slumdogs attacked Kiryu on the streets of Kamurocho as a result of Reign's bounty on him, leading Kiryu to seek help from the Kamurocho Guard to track down Reign. Eventually, a member of the Guard spotted Reign and a couple of his goons in an empty lot on Nakamichi Alley, so he sent word of it to Kiryu through Mamoru Akaishi. Kiryu traveled to said lot and confronted Reign, who recognized Kiryu immediately. Reign attempted to persuade Kiryu of the nobility of his gang's efforts, but Kiryu disagreed with him, believing that a gang headed by foreigners would only lure foreigners into more trouble with the law and make their lives in Japan even harder. The two men eventually fought and Kiryu came out victorious, forcing a humbled Reign to disband the Slumdogs, as he believed they wouldn't be able to overcome the humiliation of being beaten by Kiryu. However, Reign assured that would not give up on his quest to dominate the Tokyo underworld.
Category:Gangs