History KidsAreCruel / WesternAnimation

* In ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'', Marcia Mouse can sometimes be downright mean to Shifty Dingo.

* Angelica Pickles from ''WesternAnimation/RugRats''. No KidsAreCruel examples list would be complete without her. ''None whatsoever''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "The Cyber House Rules", Leela was mocked by the other kids for only having one eye as a child. Even the blind kid hated her ("At least I have ''two'' of them!"). It seems their favorite pastime was pointing at her and chanting "One eye! One eye!" Whatever torment they dished out on her, however, was probably preferable to what they would've done if they knew she was a sewer mutant and not an alien[[note]]aliens are automatically given civil rights, but all mutants are forcibly confined to the sewers, which is why in "Leela's Homeworld", Leela's parents left her at the orphanarium with a faked note in alien writing, hoping to give her a better life[[/note]]. Even as adults, they continue to taunt and tease her. Despite all growing up to be bums, drunks, and jobless lowlifes, they still feel superior to Leela despite her job as a ship's captain and laugh at the idea that she should feel sorry for them.
** On that same episode, the current orphans bullied Sally for having an third ear on her forehead.

** Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon from "Call of the Cutie" tease Apple Bloom mercilessly for being the last filly in her class to earn her "cutie mark".
** "Lesson Zero" seems to take an in-universe fear of this to poor Twilight Sparkle, who seems to fear being sent back to Magic Kindergarten because of the possibility of this trope.
** "One Bad Apple" has Babs Seed, a cousin of Apple Bloom, who picks on her and the other Cutie Mark Crusaders. [[spoiler:It turned out she was doing this to avoid being a target of bullying from Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.]]
** In "Cutie Mark Chronicles" and "Hurricane Fluttershy" it's shown that Fluttershy was mocked for being a weak flyer when she was a filly which still affects her as a grown-up.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'': In the episode "The Wrinklegruff Gals", the girls are the victims of this by their schoolmates at their K-8 school.

* The [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Bullwinkle's Corner]] segment "The Children's Hour" has our antlered hero as a babysitter to three little hellions. Bullwinkle turns the tide, using the book of the title poem itself to spank them.
* In a later season ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' short, the cast of ''Franchise/GIJoe'' realize that they are somehow being mutilated without remembering it, as evidenced by the fact that people suddenly have the wrong body parts or have been drawn on. At first they assume Cobra Commander is behind it until they discover he's ''missing the entire lower half of his body'' and screaming about a horrific, godlike being that has brought Judgment Day upon them. [[spoiler: It then cuts to a live-action kid mutilating another action figure with his bicycle wheel. The Joes then shoot him in the back, but then realize they just killed a kid.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': (pictured above) The titular characters are known for being disliked and harassed by just about every character on the show, except the Kanker sisters, though they tend to sexually harass the Eds. Even when Eddy scams people out of their money and makes his two friends help him, they always seem to get the short end of the stick. Hell, the kids sometimes attack each other when no one else is bothering them. Jonny, Jimmy, and the Kanker sisters aren't known for being liked that much either (though they actually fight back whenever someone messes with them).

** D.W. herself, particularly in episodes like "Arthur’s Big Hit" and "D.W.’s Very Bad Mood".

--->We created that magic raincloud with our Junior Woodchucks chemistry set...JUST TO RUIN YOUR DAY!

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': The titular characters are known for being disliked and harassed by just about every character on the show, except the Kankers, though they tend to sexually harass the Eds. Even when Eddy scams people out of their money and pressgangs his two friends into helping him, they always seem to get the short end of the stick. Hell, the kids sometimes attack each other when no one else is bothering them. Johnny, Jimmy, and the Kanker sisters aren't known for being liked that much either (though the Kanker sisters actually fight back whenever someone messes with them).

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has one episode where a pre-teen beats up Chris just to prove that he is Mr. Herbert's paperboy now and Chris can't do anything about it. The boy is joined in by his friends as they all pick on Chris and laugh at him as Chris gets a bloody nose from the fight. Even though the bully is forced to apologize, he reveals to Peter that bullying makes you feel like you have power and that the more you bully people, the better it feels. This causes Peter to become a bully to his neighbors until he realizes he is becoming the same bully that picked on him when he was in school.

** D.W. herself, particularly in episodes like "Arthur’s Big Hit" and "D.W.’s Very Bad Mood". However, [[TookALevelInJerkass Arthur himself isn't immune]] to this in "Arthur's Big Hit" at least, until he gets hit a peer-pressured Binky.

** D.W. herself, particularly in episodes like "Arthur’s Big Hit" and "D.W.’s Very Bad Mood".

** D.W.'s Cousin Cora from "D.W. Thinks Big". She is a SpoiledBrat who is really mean to D.W. for no reason at all, taking her personal possessions away and then breaking her own locket and attempting to frame D.W. for it, again for no reason. She also acts rude to Arthur when he's acting as the ringbearer at her aunt's wedding (she shouts at him to smile when he's trying to concentrate, making him accidentally toss the ring into a pipe organ). At the end, she gets hit with LaserGuidedKarma when her aunt has D.W. replace her as the flower girl for her wedding.

** D.W.'s Cousin Cora from "D.W. Thinks Big". She is a SpoiledBrat who is really mean to D.W. for no reason at all, taking her personal possessions away and then breaking her own locket and attempting to frame D.W. for it, again for no reason. She also acts rude to Arthur when he's acting as the ringbearer at her aunt's wedding. At the end, she gets hit with LaserGuidedKarma when her aunt has D.W. replace her as the flower girl for her wedding.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' was born of the suspicious belief parents hold about [[ThinkOfTheChildren how their children would behave without the presence of an authority figure]]. Even the main characters, aged eight to ten and already [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes foul-mouthed]], are, quite frankly, the most ''infamous'' example of this trope to date. Trey Parker and Matt Stone had gone on record saying that they wanted to portray a realistic portrayal of children, and the child characters have a sweetness despite their bratty behavior.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' gives us both bullies in Marinette's class, [[AlphaBitch Chloé Bourgeois]] and [[BitchInSheepsClothing Lila Rossi]]. They both of them have an insatiable dislike for Marinette and do everything in their power to bring her down. [[spoiler:And how cruel are these two girls? They are both perfectly okay with [[TheDragon becoming allies with]] [[BigBad Hawk Moth]], a well-known freaking ''terrorist'' who is constantly on the edge of destroying all of Paris, to get whatever they want.]]

** If [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Cozy]] [[TheChessmaster Glow]]]] isn't the most heartless child in Equestria, she's definitely in the running.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' was born of the suspicious belief parents hold about [[ThinkOfTheChildren how their children would behave without the presence of an authority figure]]. Even the main characters, aged eight to ten and already [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes foul-mouthed]], are, quite frankly, the most ''infamous'' example of this trope to date. It's safe to say that Trey Parker and Matt Stone [[ChildHater don't have a very high opinion of any child]], and it shows. Painfully.

%% ** Meg suffers this at the hands of Connie.
%% ** Stewie, too.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': As a child, Leela was mocked by the other kids for only having one eye. Even the blind kid hated her ("At least I have ''two'' of them!"). It seems their favorite pastime was pointing at her and chanting "One eye! One eye!" Whatever torment they dished out on her, however, was probably preferable to what they would've done if they knew she was a sewer mutant and not an alien[[note]]aliens are automatically given civil rights, but all mutants are forcibly confined to the sewers, which is why Leela's parents left her at an orphanage with a faked note in alien writing, hoping to give her a better life[[/note]]. Even as adults, they continue to taunt and tease her. Despite all growing up to be bums, drunks, and jobless lowlifes, they still feel superior to Leela despite her job as a ship's captain and laugh at the idea that she should feel sorry for them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow'' "Testimony of Terror", the League is tasked with protecting a young witness from The Mayor, who intends to off him. The kid does [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter everything horrible you could possibly imagine to his bodyguards]], and by the end the League is ''rooting'' for The Mayor to kill him. [[spoiler: Of course, The Mayor ends up becoming just another victim]].

** In "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E45Superdoo Superdoo]]", even Huey, Dewey and Louie aren't above making snide remarks about Doofus' slowness and weight.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': The titular characters are known for being disliked and harassed by just about every character on the show, except the Kankers, though they tend to sexually harass the Eds. Even when Eddy scams people out of their money and pressgangs his two friends into helping him, they always seem to get the short end of the stick. Hell, the kids sometimes attack each other when no one else is bothering them. Johnny, Jimmy and the Kanker sisters aren't known for being liked that much either (though the Kanker sisters actually fight back whenever someone messes with them).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy is often the receiving end of this, to the point where it crosses over to making Timmy the universe's ButtMonkey. The bully Vicky is more a force of nature than anything and barely has any characterization. This is actually what drives the show, as the reason for why Timmy got his fairies in the first place is because of the misery Vicky put him through.

%% ** Meg suffers this in the hands of Connie.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': As a child, Leela was mocked by the other kids for only having one eye. Even the blind kid hated her ("At least I have ''two'' of them!"). It seems their favorite pastime was pointing at her and chanting "One eye! One eye!" Whatever torment they dished out on her, however, was probably preferable to what they would've done if they knew she was a sewer mutant and not an alien[[note]]aliens are automatically given civil rights, but all mutants are forcibly confined to the sewers, which is why Leela's parents left her at an orphanage with a faked note in alien writing, hoping to give her a better life[[/note]]. Even as adults, they continue to taunt and tease her. Despite all growing up to be bums, drunks, and jobless lowlifes, they still feel superior to Leela despite her job as a ships captain and laugh at the idea that she should feel sorry for them.

* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': Just about every kid except for Dib are needlessly cruel, but also TooDumbToLive. However, this was {{subverted|trope}} in the pilot, where Zim passes off his green flesh as "a skin condition". One of Dib's classmates chews him out for picking on Zim for being different.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' gives us both bullies in Marinette's class, Chloé Bourgeois and Lila Rossi. They both of them have an insatiable dislike for Marinette and do everything in their power to bring her down. [[spoiler:And how cruel are these two girls? They are both perfectly okay with [[TheDragon becoming allies with]] [[BigBad Hawk Moth]], a well-known freaking ''terrorist'' who is constantly on the edge of destroying all of Paris, to get whatever they want.]]

* In a later season ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' short, the cast of ''Franchise/GIJoe'' realize that they are somehow being mutilated without remembering it, as evident by the fact that people suddenly have the wrong body parts or have been drawn on. At first they assume Cobra Commander is behind it, until they discover he's ''missing the entire lower half of his body'' and screaming about a horrific, godlike being that has brought Judgment Day upon them. [[spoiler: It then cuts to a live action kid mutilating another action figure with his bicycle wheel. The Joes then shoot him in the back, but then realize they just killed a kid.]]

'''Bart''': [[ExactWords We can? Thanks Mom!]]\\

* While some child characters in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' were often too young to understand what they were doing as wrong (such as Nibbles/Tuffy/whatever-his-name-is and the runaway baby Tom and Jerry sometimes had to rescue), a very straight example would the the three kittens in "Triplet Trouble" who attempt to injure Mammy-Two-Shoes when her back is turned and proceed to torment Tom in rather cruel ways as soon as she leaves, and when Jerry attempts to mess with Tom along with them, the kittens promptly begin to make his life a living you-know-what, too, simply because he was there. Eventually, Tom and Jerry decide they've had enough and teach the three kittens a lesson.

* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' had a group of mean, cynical orphans near the end who briefly convince Fievel to give up looking for his family, though they could be seen as [[JerkassWoobie Jerkass Woobies]] who were embittered after failing to find their families.
* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/AllenGregory'', who treats people around him like crap, even having a ''[[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior lustful obsession with his elderly principal]]''.

** Namely because Dash and his friends never found out about Danny's powers... well, they did twice -- one time he acted nicer, and the ResetButton was pressed, the second time was in the final episode, so we don't know for ''sure'' if the bullying stopped.
*** Hell, we don't even know if they ''ever'' found out. There was what, seventy people in that crowd when Danny changed back to human? The rest of the world may not have found out at all. They could have sworn secrecy for all we know.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' in particular are known for being disliked and harassed by just about every character on the show, except the Kankers, though they tend to sexually harass the Eds. Even when Eddy scams people out of their money and pressgangs his two friends into helping him, they always seem to get the short end of the stick. Hell, the kids sometimes attack each other when no one else is bothering them. Johnny, Jimmy and the Kanker sisters aren't known for being liked that much either (though the Kanker sisters actually fight back whenever someone messes with them).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** As a child, Leela was mocked by the other kids for only having one eye. Even the blind kid hated her ("At least I have ''two'' of them!"). It seems their favorite pastime was pointing at her and chanting "One eye! One eye!" Whatever torment they dished out on her, however, was probably preferable to what they would've done if they knew she was a sewer mutant and not an alien (aliens are automatically given civil rights, but all mutants are forcibly confined to the sewers, which is why Leela's parents left her at an orphanage with a faked note in alien writing, hoping to give her a better life).
** Even as adults they continue to taunt and tease her, despite all growing up to be bums, drunks, and jobless lowlifes they still feel superior to Leela despite her job as a ships captain and laugh at the idea that she should feel sorry for them.
** She responds to taunts with violence (having broken the blind kid's nose several times), a trait that has carried over into adulthood, where her response to many situations is to kick/punch someone. It was even a key focus of the third movie.

* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': Just about every kid except for Dib are needlessly cruel, but also TooDumbToLive. However, this is {{subverted|trope}} in the pilot, where Zim passes off his green flesh as "a skin condition". One of Dib's classmates chews him out for picking on Zim for being different.

* Joe in ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' is definitely this trope, [[spoiler:[[JerkassWoobie even if he's more sympathetic later on]]]]. The younger versions of Orel's friends in ''Beforel Orel'', even [[TheDitz Doughy]] also play this straight.

* The Lemonade Stand Gang in ''WesternAnimation/DanVs''. They get theirs in the end though, just like almost every other target of Dan's vengeance. Though they get sent to military school, instead of reform school like Elise suggested, so they might come back worse than before.

* Same goes for Timmy in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''.
** To the point where it crosses over from KidsAreCruel to making Timmy the universe's ButtMonkey. The bully Vicky is more a force of nature than anything and barely has any characterization. This is actually what drives the show, as the reason for why Timmy got his fairies in the first place is because of the misery Vicky put him through.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': As a child, Leela was mocked by the other kids for only having one eye. Even the blind kid hated her ("At least I have ''two'' of them!"). It seems their favorite pastime was pointing at her and chanting "One eye! One eye!" Whatever torment they dished out on her, however, was probably preferable to what they would've done if they knew she was a sewer mutant and not an alien (aliens are automatically given civil rights, but all mutants are forcibly confined to the sewers, which is why Leela's parents left her at an orphanage with a faked note in alien writing, hoping to give her a better life).

* Just about every kid in ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' except for Dib are needlessly cruel, but also TooDumbToLive.
** Subverted in the pilot, where Zim passes off his green flesh as "a skin condition". One of Dib's classmates chews him out for picking on Zim for being different.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': It's revealed that six-year-old [[SpoiledBrat Lola]] would sell or destroy her siblings' prized belongings if something even mildly annoying happened to her because of them. It's all PlayedForLaughs though, since said siblings' made that up.

* Nelson and his fellow bullies on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' certainly qualify here. In the hockey episode, where Bart tries to show up Lisa in school because she's playing well on the ice, he gets every single answer he volunteers wrong. Cut to him being beaten up by Nelson. "Here's for wastin' teacher's valuable time!". In a later episode, Nelson beat Bart up once for "Stealing credit from someone else", along with another bully concerned with church issues because "Not only am I a teenager, but the ''father'' of a teenager." Nelson also beat Bart up for "Besmirching a lady's good name". In summary: Nelson will use ''any'' excuse to hit someone.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "The Tallest Smurf", Nat, Snappy, and Sassette pick on Slouchy for being the shortest Smurfling. Of course, they end up eating humble pie when Slouchy makes a wish to be the biggest Smurf in the village, and Gourdy fulfills it by making all the other Smurfs bug-size.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Danny Fenton was more of a victim of bullying before he got his ghost powers and was able to teach JerkJock Dash a lesson. Still, the other kids, namely Dash and his group of friends, never do stop bothering him.
** Namely because Dash and his friends never found out about Danny's powers...well, they did twice--one time he acted nicer, and the ResetButton was pressed, the second time was in the final episode, so we don't know for ''sure'' if the bullying stopped.
*** Hell, we don't even know if they EVER found out. There was what, seventy people in that crowd when Danny changed back to human? The rest of the world may not have found out at all. They could have sworn secrecy for all we know.

* The Lemonade Stand Gang in ''WesternAnimation/DanVs''. They get theirs in the end though, just like almost every other target of Dan's vengeance.
** Though they get sent to military school, instead of reform school like Elise suggested, so they might come back worse than before.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': All the characters are children under thirteen, yet most of them are unspeakably cruel. The most prominent examples are [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]], who finds any excuse to hurt anyone (especially Quack Quack) in horrible ways, and [[AlphaBitch Pretty]], who is rude, snobbish, and looks down on people with less money or who are ugly.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Scaredy Pants", a group of kids dressed in their Halloween costumes were amongst the people who tease [=SpongeBob=] for being scared.

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