The Skinz

HUNTERS

“*The Skinz are an archetypas neo-Nazi white power gang. Overall, they tend to work as baboon packs, and are very aggressive and willing to attack rashly. They partake in the hunt mostly for the sadistic violence. The Skinz are disorderly, boisterous, and reckless.*”
―Official Strategy Guide
**The Skinz** are a hunter gang in *Manhunt*. They are the second gang the player encounters in the game.

## Background

Named after their skinhead culture, the Skinz are a Southern American hate group whose ideologies encompass a vast spectrum of white supremacist beliefs, which includes beliefs that are neo-Confederate, socially conservative, anti-immigrant, Aryanist, far-right and Christian Identitiarian. The Skinz carry out their very own political agenda by shouting hate speech and committing acts of brutal violence, be it against perceived anti-whites, mixed-race or nonwhite people or anyone simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. The Skinz are very diverse in their vitriolic hatreds but nonetheless do everything in pursuit of their vision of a purely white America.

Valiant Video's Winter / Spring Catalogue identifies the Skinz' signature art of killing runners as a brutal gang beating. For instance, six Skinz chase down their prey to a corner where they trap this fear-soaked wretch. The Skinz proceed to quickly bludgeon this runner to death while expressing their vitriol, venom and rancor with harsh language. The audience seems to take pleasure in watching the Skinz get angry over the fact that they didn't take their time with their unlucky victims.

## Members

Some of the Skinz mention that they are from the Southern American states. According to one of the Skinz, the gang is disorganized and leaderless.

According to one of the Skinz, there are rumors of members having scandalous affairs that compromise their beliefs by consorting with non-white women.

***Notable Members***
* Skin 1
* Skin 2
* Skin 3
* Skin 4
* Skin 5
* Skin 6

## Apparel

Just like with most other gangs in the game, there are three Skinz models in the game files and three textures for each model.

His tattoos include an unknown tattoo on his chest that's almost covered by his shirt, following on his left arm: a pair of fences wrapped around his bicep, a cross surrounded by four unknown letters and an unknown symbol that has an encircled T and a dot on his forearm, and a bunch of tattoos on his left arm: a bent and pointed arrow on his bicep, a symbol resembling the Elhaz rune with “NP FO” below it,

## Relationships

### With Valiant Video and the manhunt

Before the events of *Manhunt*, the Skinz had several gigs with Valiant Video Enterprises in the snuff films *Hittin the Skinz’*, *Skinz Skillz: Tactics 101*, and *White Trash Bash*. They seem to be a favorite among Valiant Video members because all of their films are rated 5 stars, including their recent film *White Trash*.

Lionel Starkweather hates everything about the Skinz with a passion, which he expresses in a rant that players can hear in Fuelled By Hate. Although he's pleased with just about anyone's death on tape, he feels a special satisfaction for the deaths of the Skinz. Just like what he did to the previous Hoods gang, the Director made easier for Cash his survival in the manhunt by compromising the positions of specific Skinz for Cash to exploit.

### Enemies

Unused dialogue suggests that the Hoods and the Innocentz are their rivals. All three gangs have unused voicelines where they're in contention with their territories. Also, the three gangs were supposed to dispute over claiming Cash's life in Starkweather's manhunt.

## History

### Events of Manhunt

#### White Trash

*Main article: White Trash*
The Skinz are first seen in the intro of White Trash where they are getting drunk just beside a trailer in their turf, the Dentons City Junkyard. Ramirez approaches the throng of Aryans who are slacking off, before they stop their drinking session to gang up on the non-white in front of them. One of them stands off with him and laughs, but before he could do any malice, Ramirez gets ahead of him as he grasps his skull and lifts him up before twisting his neck, somehow sobering the drunkards and intimidating them. He then walks over the body and pushes them around as he tells them to move out for Starkweather's snuff film. The Skinz can be heard cheering afterwards, but some of them can be seen looking at each other, probably confused by what happened a while ago.

Meanwhile, Cash is dropped off by the Cerberus at one of the entrances to the junkyard. He gets up to his feet and is immediately spoken to by the Director who admits that he broke his promise to set him free after killing the Hoods, but he believes that Cash is having fun regardless. He then instructs him to find and enter a double gate that will lead to the next area, where he faces the Skinz gang. Cash then finds what seems to be the exit gates, but he is informed by the Director that it is closed with an electric lock that must be unlocked by a release switch. Cash finds it (and a few Skinz on the way) and turns it on before going back to the opened gate to enter the next area.

#### Fuelled By Hate

*Main article: Fuelled By Hate*
Cash enters the second area of the junkyard in Fuelled By Hate while the Director rants in his ear about his contempt for the Skinz before being fervently told to do his worst to the Skinz. He does so with the patrolling Skinz in a small area, which earns him the Director's praise and the gate in that area being unlocked. Cash proceeds through and offs many Skinz on his way out of the junkyard with the help of several magnetic cranes that he refueled and used to remove certain obstructions (and perhaps murder some Skinz with heavy domestic appliance) on his way out. The gang is never seen or heard of again after this.

## Scenes of Appearance

The Skinz are second to the CCPD SWAT in having the least scene appearances.

***Manhunt***
* White Trash
* Fuelled By Hate
* Brawl Game

## Gallery

### Screenshots

Cash executing a Skin with the baseball bat.The Skinz in a shoot-out scenario.A Skin patrolling the Dentons City Junkyard.Cash executing a Skin with a wire.A Skin chasing Cash.
## Trivia

* The word “skin” is a shortened version of “skinhead” which is what the gang is composed of, hence they are called the Skinz.
* Various hate symbols were used as Skinz' iconography, all of which were modified as part of Rockstar Games setting boundaries on what they can depict in *Manhunt*.
	+ One of the most prominent symbols of the Skinz are modified versions of the Norse Odal rune, including symbols with added wings that are still used by right-wing groups. Some of its original meanings include “heritage”, “inherited estate”, or “noble lineage” which represents right-wing beliefs of securing their rightful land for generations of their kind and being proud of their own race which is composed of “superior-blooded people” whom they must respect and preserve.
	+ Some Skinz have red flags with a white circle containing a symbol on their clothing or as tattoos. This resembles the flag of Nazi Germany.
	+ Some Skinz also have tattoos of crosses that look like the Iron Cross. Although it wasn't a hate symbol at first, but rather a Prussian military decoration, it was once adopted by the Nazis who placed a swastika on the cross's center to distinguish it as a Nazi symbol and eventually a modern hate symbol.
	+ *SkiB1A* and *SkiB1B* have tattoos of an eagle, an animal commonly used in the symbols of Fascist, Nazi, and white supremacist groups, such as the *Reichsadler*.
	+ *SkiS1A* has a tattoo of an upright clenched fist on his left bicep, a possible reference to the Aryan Fist.
	+ *SkiS1A* also has a tattoo of an encircled boot. Steel-toed work boots are a common symbol among all sorts of skinheads, thus they can be found as their tattoos.
	+ *SkiS1B* has a tattoo that says “100%” on his right wrist. This stands for “100% White” or a hundred percent of anything white, which represents their utter purity.
	+ *SkiS1C* has a tattoo resembling the Norse Algiz rune on his right forearm. The rune in this context symbolizes life, creation, birth, renewal, etc. and was used by the Nazis in a SS project known as *Lebensborn* that had the goal of increasing the “Aryan” population through means of allowing Aryan women to give birth to worthy Aryan offspring among other methods, but eventually the project's means extended to kidnapping foreign children whom the Nazis deemed “Aryan” to be raised in German homes. Because of its association with the Nazis, it was used as a hate symbol long after the Nazis' fall.
* In contrast to the use of modified hate symbols as Skinz iconography, some Skinz have “NP FO” and “FIRST TO GO” on their clothing or as tattoos. These are references to the song *Nazi Punks Fuck Off* by the band *Dead Kennedys*, the lyrics referenced being its titular chorus and “In a real Fourth Reich you'll be the first to go!”
* The signature hockey masks of the Skinz were originally used by the Jury gang. The Jury were scrapped during development, but Rockstar thought that they could not drop the classic killer design of the hockey mask in their first horror game, so this design was given to the Skinz gang.
* Apart from being on the cover of *Manhunt*, *SkiM1A* was also used to represent Mr. Nasty as some sort of avatar.
* *SkiM1A* actually uses the textures of beta Cash, as comparing the texture of the "dead" Cash corpses and this particular Skinz member will reveal he reuses his textures, with his eyes being the most noticeable similarity.

## References

1. ↑ Skin 1 dialogue: *You wanna come over here, boy? Kiss your master's boots.*
2. ↑ Skin 1 dialogue: *Slave boy!*
3. ↑ Skin 6 dialogue: *Slave boy!*
4. ↑ Skin 1 dialogue: *Ain't no screaming liberals to save your pussy ass now!*
5. ↑ Skin 4 dialogue: *Damn bleeding heart liberals...*
6. ↑ Skin 1 dialogue: *Coming here and taking our jobs, our women. Who do they think they are?*
7. ↑ Skin 1 dialogue: *Your momma ran the border to whore her filthy ass!*
8. ↑ Skin 2 dialogue: *They take our land, our jobs, and they force their mongrel seed into our women!*
9. ↑ Skin 1 dialogue: *No match for Aryan might!*
10. ↑ Skin 2 dialogue: *Aryan sons! Help your brother!*
11. ↑ Skin 2 dialogue: *Call yourselves soldiers of the right? Move it!*
12. ↑ Everything about Skin 3
13. ↑ Skin 5 dialogue: *Half-breed savages are like animals. Vermin infesting our country, God's country!*
14. ↑ “Signature Moves of Starkweather's Hunters: Brutal Gang Beating” section, p.17
15. ↑ Skin 2 dialogue: *Get my hands on that tainted scum and I'll show him some Deep South hospitality!*
16. ↑ Skin 5 dialogue: *Your kind ain't never gonna get the better ol' Kentucky blood!*
17. ↑ Skin 4 dialogue: *These guys need a leader. Have no focus. No purity of will...*
18. ↑ Skin 6 dialogue: *Some of these boys ain't keeping it pure. Fraternizing with women of lesser blood...*
19. ↑ “Scenes: White Trash” and “SALE!!!” section, p. 6-7
“*These Skinz are boring me — dumb-assed supremacist bastards. Always blaming others for their inadequacies. Butcher them, Cash. Cut 'em up, beat 'em down and choke the fucking life out of them.*”
―The Director ranting about the Skinz in Fuelled By Hate

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“*Well, that's some of those bigots shut up forever!*”
―The Director providing commentary on skinhead murder

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“*Keep on going, pilgrim! Plenty more of these vermin to exterminate*”
―The Director

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“*You wiped these backward assholes out! I take my hat off to you, boy!*”
―The Director appreciating Cash's “liberal” efforts

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“*Not a white boy left standing. You're a credit to our tolerant society!*”
―The Director showing sick gratitude for Cash's path of purification

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“*Careful, there's a bigot guarding the gate. If he sees you he'll call his cheery buddies…*”
―The Director about the Skin standing guard

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“*There's a nailgun in that trailer — if you can stand the smell!*”
―The Director about the Skin dropping heat and his gun

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“*This shit seems content to watch porn and avoid all the action! If he won't switch it off himself, we'll have to do it for him!*”
―The Director showing Cash an opportunity for a bait kill

- ↑ Bonus Material: The Jury

- ↑ “Mr. Nasty sez:” section, p.5

- ↑ “Satisfaction Guarantee” section, p.22