Cockney Wanker
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Cockney Wanker is a character from VIZ based on a stereotype of the male Cockney (someone from East London). He is a thief, conman and charlatan who speaks in impossible rhyming slang and spends his days drinking, selling stolen or unworkable goods to passers-by on the streets and being violent to his wife. He wears lots of cheap gold jewelry or Argos Bling and East-end gangster dark glasses, and is often seen smoking a cigar.
His appearance is based on that of Mike Reid's 'Frank Butcher' character from BBC soap opera EastEnders.
His name, as it contains an obscenity, is 'spoonerised' whenever featured on the front page of an issue of VIZ, as it would be easily read by children whom are otherwise not entitled to buy the magazine. Hence he becomes 'Wockney Canker'.