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The greasers are a group of gangs formed by poor and lower-middle-class teenagers and young adults in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the mid-1960s. While most of these gangs are involved in organized crime, some are not and exist more or less as a group of friends. They are the main protagonists of Wolverine Without a Cause.

Sodapop Patrick Curtis is the middle Curtis brother. Ponyboy describes Sodapop as "handsome as a movie star" and has silky dark blond hair (which he describes as very resilient) that he usually slicks back. He has bright, smiling dark brown eyes and a goofy grin that's irresistible (something Ponyboy notices after the Socs attack him). Sodapop Curtis dropped out of high school at sixteen, insisting it was because he was stupid. He works at the neighborhood DX gas station with his best friend, Steve, fixing cars and manning the pump. It's also said that he "attracts girls like flies to honey," and that girls—both Socs and Greasers—go there to get gas just to look at him.

His younger brother, Ponyboy, idolizes him, but he feels like an intermediary in a kind of "tug-of-war" between the two brothers.

In the book, Ponyboy also says that Soda enjoys dancing or participating in street races without ever going near alcohol, and that "it's rare to find a kid in our neighborhood who doesn't drink now and then. But Soda never touches a drop. He doesn't need to. He gets drunk just by living." Sodapop enjoys racing, fighting, dancing, and basically anything that allows him to let loose.

When his younger brother asked him why he liked to fight, he simply replied that it was fun and a challenge for him.

Ponyboy sees it as a funny freight train with legs.

Darrel "Darry" Shaynne Curtis Jr. is the eldest of the three Curtis brothers, one of the three deuteragonists of The Outsiders, and the head of the family since the death of their parents. Now, Darrel acts as both father and mother to his two younger brothers. Darry is a tall, muscular man, standing at 6'2" (1.88 m) with broad shoulders. His hair is said to be like his father's: dark brown, sticking up in the front of his head with a stray lock at the nape of his neck. His eyes "are like two pieces of pale blue-green ice." He is said to look exactly like his father, but with different eyes. He also looks older than his twenty years. Ponyboy says he would be more handsome if his eyes weren't so cold. In short, Darry is like a mother and father to his younger brothers. He loves them very much, although he has a rather peculiar way of showing it. Instead of being affectionate and understanding, he is stern and overprotective. However, this is solely because he doesn't want to lose them and have them end up in a reformatory. Furthermore, he has a very strong influence on the brothers.

He doesn't usually do silly things, although he has been seen bothering Soda on occasion; he doesn't like anyone making fun of him, except Soda. Pony says he'd rather bother a grizzly bear. The other Greasers call him "Superman" or "Muscles," but Steve once made the mistake of calling him "all brawn and no brains," and Darry nearly broke Steve's jaw.

Ponyboy describes him as a young man who matured too quickly and who faces situations that no one his age should have to face.

Darry is very intelligent and athletic, but Ponyboy says he only understands concrete facts. He wants Ponyboy to grow up well and go to college, since it's an opportunity he and Soda, the middle brother, didn't have. He wishes he could go to college, but he can't because of financial problems and because he doesn't want to be separated from his younger brothers.

Ponyboy is the youngest of the greaser gang. In the novel, Ponyboy has light brown hair and gray-green eyes. He is muscular for his size and runs very fast. At the beginning of the novel, Ponyboy has long, dark hair, but it is cut and dyed platinum blonde while he and Johnny are on the run. Several characters describe him as handsome and resembling Sodapop, though he disagrees. Ponyboy is a fourteen-year-old greaser who lives with his two older brothers, Sodapop and Darry, in the poor East Tulsa neighborhood of Oklahoma. His parents died in a car accident just eight months before the events of Outsiders. Ponyboy, like Sodapop, is under Darry's legal guardianship and must stay out of trouble to continue living with him.

He gets good grades in school and is an exceptional athlete (he competes in track and field), but he hangs out with the neighborhood gang members. His greaser gang consists of him, his brothers Soda and Darry, Steve Randle, Johnny Cade, Dally Winston, and Two-Bit Matthews. At the beginning of the story, he hates the Socs because they hate him, but his perspective on them changes by the end of the story.

Darry describes Ponyboy as lacking common sense. Ponyboy agrees with this assessment. He's smart in school, but sometimes he doesn't think clearly. These moments get him into trouble he could avoid. This aspect of his personality evolves throughout the story until he matures. He's quite quiet (though not as much as Johnny) and only opens up to a few people: the other greasers and Cherry Valance.

Cherry Valance describes Ponyboy as sweet and dreamy, much to Ponyboy's delight. He is more compassionate than some of the other greasers, feeling pity and even empathy for the Socs on several occasions throughout the novel and questioning the purpose of the fighting between the two social classes.

Ponyboy described Johnny as "smaller than the others, of a thin build. He has large black eyes in a brown face; his hair is jet black, very gelled and combed to one side, but it is so long that it falls in a shaggy fringe over his forehead. He always has a nervous and distrustful look."
Johnny reminds Ponyboy of a puppy that's been kicked too many times and gotten lost in a crowd of strangers. His hair is always greasy, and he wears a dark T-shirt with a light blue denim jacket and jeans. He has a scar on his left cheek from when a group of Socs attacked and brutally beat him; the wound was caused by the rings worn by one of the Socs who attacked him. Johnny is very quiet and rarely gets in the gang's way. This is because his mother constantly neglects and verbally abuses him, in addition to the beatings from his alcoholic father. He's capable of holding his own in a street fight, but he stays away from greaser racing and conflicts whenever possible, due to the stigma surrounding them. One night, a group of Socs nearly killed him when they attacked him while he was walking alone. From that day on, the gang always makes sure to keep an eye on Johnny, knowing they'd be less vulnerable if they at least went out in pairs. However, this proves not to be the case when Johnny and Ponyboy are attacked one night after running away from their neighborhood. While in the hospital, he tells Dallas that he thought street fights were pointless and served no purpose.

In the book, Dallas Winston is described as having an elven face with high cheekbones, a pointed chin, small, sharp teeth, and lynx-like ears. Dally disliked haircuts and hair oil, so his nearly white blond hair (probably platinum blonde) fell in clumps over his forehead. He stood 6'2" and had piercing blue eyes that Ponyboy describes as "cold and full of all the hatred in the world," and furthermore, "blond and shifty-eyed, Dally was anything but handsome. Yet in his hard face there was character, pride, and a savage defiance of the world," and he is also consistently described as having a wicked look. However, in the film, Dally has brown hair and hazel eyes.
He wears dark blue jeans and, in the first few minutes of the film in which he appears, a dark brown leather bomber jacket and a black shirt; he gives the jacket to Ponyboy when Ponyboy arrives in Dallas seeking help after Johnny kills Bob. After that, he reverts to wearing a dark blue denim jacket. He also wears a St. Christopher necklace that he retrieved from his girlfriend after she cheated on him while he was in jail. In the book, he had given her his skull ring. Dallas was hardened by adversity due to a difficult childhood. He spent three years in the slums of New York and was arrested at the young age of ten. His father's abuse also contributed to his toughness. His mother's condition is unknown. At one point, he tells Johnny, "My father doesn't care if I end up in jail, dead in a car accident, or drunk in the street. I don't care at all."

He's cruel to a lot of people, like Cherry, but you can tell he cares about his gang and treats them like family. For example, he told Johnny, "Now that I'm out [of jail], I'm going to find the guy who did that to your face."

He's the oldest and the biggest joker of the group. He's the second oldest, after Darry (who is 20), and is known for stealing. He makes people laugh and has a very funny personality, but he's also lazy, so he's often teased for not having a job. Two-Bit Mathews was about six feet tall, stocky, and very proud of his long, rusty-brown sideburns. He had gray eyes and always wore a wide smile. In the book, Two-Bit is six feet tall, just as Ponyboy Curtis describes him.
In the novel The Outsiders, Two-Bit's hair is described as rust-colored. In the film, however, his hair appears to be light brown or dark blond, rather than rust-colored, though he retains his signature long sideburns. The film also shows him wearing what appear to be square-toed brown cowboy boots. Two-Bit is a witty, funny, and somewhat crazy fellow. He's almost always smiling and can't stop talking back to the police. Ponyboy once says, "I really couldn't help it. Everything he said was so irresistibly funny, I just had to tell the cops to brighten their day" (which is how he told Ponyboy once). He gets drunk often, but it's difficult to tell when he's drunk from when he's sober. From what is shown in the film, Two-Bit enjoys watching Mickey Mouse, a Walt Disney cartoon, and wears two T-shirts with Mickey Mouse on the front: an orange one with sleeves and a gray one without. His best friend was Tim Shepard, his favorite gang member was Johnny, and the one he liked least was Dally.

Two-Bit is a witty, funny, and slightly crazy guy. He's almost always smiling and can't stop talking back to the police. Ponyboy once says, "I really couldn't help it. Everything he said was so irresistibly funny, I just had to tell the cops to brighten their day" (which is how he told Ponyboy once). He gets drunk often, but it's hard to tell when he's drunk from when he's sober. From what's shown in the movie, Two-Bit enjoys watching Mickey Mouse, a Walt Disney cartoon, and wears two T-shirts with Mickey Mouse on the front: an orange one with sleeves and a gray one without. His best friend was Tim Shepard, his favorite member of the gang was Johnny, and his least favorite was Dally.

Steve is seventeen years old. He's tall, thin, arrogant, and intelligent. He likes to style his thick, greasy hair in complicated, messy swirls, and he's been Sodapop's best friend since elementary school. He wears a sleeveless denim jacket. Steve's specialty is cars. He works at the DX gas station with Sodapop. Steve also considers Pony "an inseparable companion." Steve isn't described much in either the book or the movie.

According to Ponyboy, Darry is nicknamed "Superman" or "Muscles" by his fellow Greasers, but Steve once made the mistake of calling him "all brawn and no brains," and Darry nearly broke Steve's jaw. Although Steve sometimes acts rude and arrogant, he cares about all his friends/gang members, like when he told Johnny not to worry about the Socs coming to their neighborhood. Ponyboy said that if Sodapop were killed, Steve would still "fight and hate."

In the film, the role is played by Tom Cruise; in the television series, by Harold Pruett; in the Broadway cast, by Renni Anthony Magee; and on tour, by Brandon Mel Borkowsky.

The Socs are the rich kids from the south side, the nice part of town. They often fight with the Greasers, and many have a rivalry with them.