History Main / BarbaricBully

** Tsubasa Kowase is a rather downplayed version of this, but he's just as cruel and brutal as the rest of the gang. One of his favorite past times is [[SexualExtortion sexually extorting]] Yajima and basically torturing her whenever he's not bullying Kiritaka himself.

** First off, [[TheBrute Tsuyoshi Kinugawa]], who's the most aggressive, [[HairTriggerTemper volatile]], and physically dominating of the bunch. Ironically, [[VillainousFriendship he's the only person who actually cares about another bully of the group, Kowase]].

* Buggs from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' will demand that the protagonist hand over half of his money at the start of the school day, and can even ''beat him to death'' if sufficiently provoked. He also throws slop at Nugget during lunchtime. He [[TookALevelInKindness gets a bit nicer to the protagonist]] in ''VideoGame/Kindergarten2'', but he's still a troublemaker who's more than happy to start a FoodFight.

** First off, [[TheBrute Tsuyoshi Kinugawa]], who's the most aggressive, [[HairTriggerTemper volatile]], and physically dominating of the bunch. Ironically, [[VillainousFriendship he's the only person who actually cares about another bully of the group, Nowase]].
** Tsubasa Nowase is a rather downplayed version of this, but he's just as cruel and brutal as the rest of the gang. One of his favorite past times is {{sexual extort|ion}}ing Yajima and basically torturing her whenever he's not bullying Kiritaka himself.

** A flashback shows that Homer himself was this, as when he reminisced about his experiences with bullying he fondly thought about beating up a young Smithers to the song "Kung Fu Fighting" while Barney played the flute.

** Eric Cartman is a FatBastard example. He takes pleasure in tormenting others (mainly [[NoRespectGuy Kyle]] and [[ExtremeDoormat Butters]]), [[HairTriggerTemper has anger issues]], and [[InsufferableImbecile can be rather simple-minded]].

This is on its way to becoming a DiscreditedTrope with the recent rash of cyberbullying and bullying-related suicides making news, but it only makes the few works that cling to this misconception stick out like a sore thumb. With tighter security in schools in the post-Columbine era, fistfights in crowded high school hallways in full view of crowds are also far less believable that they once were. For this reason, it also tends to be far more common in works that are at least a decade old. However, due to ValuesDissonance, it is still TruthInTelevision in the United Kingdom, especially as there have been well-publicised reports of teachers being unable to control their students there -- so it is still an OmnipresentTrope in British educational programmes (e.g. ''Series/WaterlooRoad'') and a CyclicTrope elsewhere in British society, despite cyberbullying being common.

In fictional works involving young characters, school bullying is commonly used to create conflict and/or build sympathy for a [[TheWoobie Woobie]] protagonist, but it is often limited to physical bullying, with comparatively few works acknowledging or depicting psychological and social bullying. The ideal "Hollywood Bully" is invariably a physically imposing, thuggish, ObviouslyEvil bigot who terrorizes victims through overt, obvious physical force that can easily be recognized by anyone.

* In ''Webcomic/JupiterMen'', Rick abuses his stature to bully younger students into doing his bidding, never getting punished for his actions [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections thanks to his influential mother.]] He's quick to resort to violence over minor slights and feels entitled to get whatever he wants.

* Susie in ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' smashes Kris against the lockers of their school, and threatens to [[TearOffYourFace bite their face off]] in her introductory scene. She spends much of the game trying (with variable success) to solve her problems with violence or fear, even resorting to a FaceHeelTurn over how "lame" she finds the more pacifistic Ralsei's options. She mellows out by the end.

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* ''Literature/TheBadUnicornTrilogy'': Ricky [[RedBaron "the Kraken"]] Reynolds. In one of his first appearances, ''[[WouldHitAGirl he provokes a fight with a girl]]''[[note]][[ActionGirl Good thing she completely whoops his butt]][[/note]]. Taken further when he [[spoiler:is turned into a monster]].

* Creator/StephenKing has a very, ''very'' long list of examples, like [[GenderInvertedTrope Chris Hargensen]] from ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', but his crowning example is without a doubt Henry Bowers from ''Literature/{{It}}'', the poster boy of this trope. Some of his misdeeds include trying to carve his name into Ben's belly with a knife, killing Mike's dog by feeding it poisoned meat, and smearing snow in Stan's face until he bleeds. And this was way before Pennywise took over his mind.

* Skinner, Barrow, and Cheeseman from ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' story "Charles Rowland Concludes His Education" are a particularly dark spin on this. When they were alive, their bullying involved murdering another student as part of a Satanic ritual. When they're brought back as ghosts, their bullying of the titular protagonist extends to them [[spoiler:torturing him to death]].

* As with everything childhood related, ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerates]] this to epic proportions, depicting bullies as equivalent to [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]] in {{Homage}} to ''Franchise/JurassicPark''. Named species of bully include the Noogieraptor, Spitballosaurus, Wet Willie Mammoth, and the fearsome [[TRexpy Wedgiesaurus Rex]]. Though they're used sparingly throughout the series, since the protagonists ''are'' a pack of [[PintsizedPowerhouse pintsized powerhouses]] who publicly fight ''adult'' supervillains on a daily basis.

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* At the beginning of ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'', Araya's EstablishingCharacterMoment is to force Haruyuki Arita to buy him and his gang lunches or else he will beat the crap out of Haru. Not only that, but he uses an illegal program in his neurolinker that will let him know when the security cameras are watching so he can get off scot-free. Even Haru's friends don't bother reporting Araya's bullying to the school's staff. Eventually, Kuroyukihime pulls a BatmanGambit to get Araya and his gang arrested and expelled, which helps Haru get back his sense of self-worth.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' makes plenty use of slapstick, bullying included, although it's never been resolved by fighting back. Notably, both prominent bullies at Elmore Junior High, Tina and Jamie, are girls, and [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender physically torment students of both genders]]:

** Eric Cartman is a FatBastard example. He takes pleasure in tormenting others (mainly [[NoRespectGuy Kyle]] and [[ExtremeDoormat Butters]]), [[HairTriggerTemper has anger issues]], and [[InsufferableImbecile has his moments of being simple-minded]].

** Hiro Mikoshiba, the person whose death kicks off the main plot, had the appearance of a model student when he was in high school. Out of sight, however, Mikoshiba severely tormented one of his fellow students, Toshiro Ehara, beating him up and stealing his lunch money day after day. It eventually got to the point where Toshiro killed himself, but Mikoshiba got away scot free and eventually became a student teacher, where he was seen using similar tactics to turn the basketball team against one of their newer recruits, Mami Koda. [[spoiler: Then he got kidnapped by a KnightTemplar BullyHunter and brutally murdered by Toshiro's father]].
** A seemingly minor plot point revolves around a missing man named Shinya Kawai, a sleazy bar owner who disappeared five years prior to the story. [[spoiler: As it turns out, he was the ringleader of a band of bullies that brutally harassed a smaller student, Mitsuru Kusumoto, beating him black and blue on a daily basis until Mitsuru attempted suicide. Kawai was scapegoated by his "friends" and had to change schools, but a chance meeting years later between him and Mitsuru's mother Reiko revealed that he was completely unremorseful about what happened, even proud to some extent. this led to Reiko accepting an offer from Kawai's former teacher Jin Kuwana (who is the aforementioned extremist BullyHunter) to kidnap and murder Kawai for his crimes]].

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic finds this InUniverse to be a PetPeeveTrope, partly because the bullies tend to be so one-dimensional, and partly because they never seem to be having fun with their bullying (just doing it because [[ForTheEvulz they're evil]]).

* Skinner, Barrow, and Cheeseman from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' story "Charles Rowland Concludes His Education" are a particularly dark spin on this. When they were alive, their bullying involved murdering another student as part of a Satanic ritual. When they're brought back as ghosts, their bullying of the titular protagonist extends to them [[spoiler:torturing him to death]].

** [[spoiler:[[PsychopathicManchild Eddy's Brother]]]] in TheMovie is the crowning example. [[spoiler:He takes pleasure in [[BigBrotherBully beating and belittling his little brother]], which he has been doing ''throughout most of his life''. Given he works at an amusement park, it's heavily implied he beats other children as well.]] Even the other kids, who were [[TorchesAndPitchforks out to get the Eds in retaliation for one scam attempt too many]], are [[EveryoneHasStandards horrified]]; they [[HeelFaceTurn immediately]] decided to cut Eddy and his friends some slack and save them, tossing [[spoiler:Eddy's Brother]] at the Kankers for a little LaserGuidedKarma.

** [[spoiler:[[PsychopathicManchild Eddy's Brother]]]] in TheMovie is the crowning example. [[spoiler:He takes pleasure in [[BigBrotherBully beating and belittling his little brother]], which he has been doing ''throughout most of his life''. Given he works at an amusement park, it's heavily implied he beats other children as well.]] They are a pretty notable example because once they brutalize the Eds in front of everybody else for kicks [[spoiler:the rest of the cul-de-sac kids, who were [[TorchesAndPitchforks out to get the Eds in retaliation for one scam attempt too many]], are [[EveryoneHasStandards horrified]], [[HeelFaceTurn immediately]] decide to the cut Eddy and his friends some slack and save them, tossing Eddy's brother at the Kankers for a little LaserGuidedKarma]].