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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'': ''The Animated Series'' episode "Split Personality", a high school bully, Chet Bozzack, who tormented Stanley Ipkiss, to the point that he was expelled from the school, gets empoyed in the same bank where Stanley works. He initially seems to have mellowed out, with occasional moments of Jerkassery here and there. Then the mask gets split in half and ''then'' Chet finds one half and puts it on, releasing his repressed personality, which is a big bully. He ends up challenging Stanley (who still has the other half of the mask) for a fight in their old high school campus, as an act of revenge for [[NeverMyFault getting him expelled]]. Unfortunately for Chet, while Stanley's normal self is still afraid of his former school bully, his repressed half (i.e The Mask) isn't and he is far more experienced with the powers of the mask. The resultant fight is almost one sided (though Chet does get his occassional moments), before things take a murderous turn and even Chet is horrified by his masked half's actions and manages to fight his inner demons, meanwhile, Stanley's masked half reveals [[IAmNotLeftHanded he was only pretending to be helpless]] [[ItAmusedMe for fun]]. The episode ends with Chet [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realising he still needs help]] and deciding to start a new life in a new city.
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* Luz Noceda from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is prone to this, [[BigSisterInstinct especially in defense]] of her [[FriendlessBackground (few)]] friends and often in a [[DidntThinkThisThrough somewhat ill-considered manner]]:
** In "Covention", [[AcademicAlphaBitch Amity's]] treatment of King prompts Luz to challenge her to a Witches Duel. Amity is [[WizardingSchool at the top of the class in her track]] while Luz has at this point figured out to, with preparation, create a ball of light.
** "Wing It Like Witches" sees Luz demand [[JerkJock Boscha]] face her in grudgby match over the latter's ongoing harassment of Willow, Gus, and herself. Boscha is the captain of the school's top-ranked grudgby team, while Luz is not quite sure how to even play.
** In "Covention", [[AcademicAlphaBitch Amity's]] treatment of King prompts Luz to challenge her to a Witches Duel. Amity is [[WizardingSchool at the top of the class in her track]] while Luz has at this point figured out to, with preparation, create a ball of light.
** "Wing It Like Witches" sees Luz demand [[JerkJock Boscha]] face her in grudgby match over the latter's ongoing harassment of Willow, Gus, and herself. Boscha is the captain of the school's top-ranked grudgby team, while Luz is not quite sure how to even play.
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-> ''“Deep in the recesses of my brain, a tiny red-hot flame began to grow. Something had happened. A fuse blew, and I had gone out of my skull.”''
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'''Steve Rogers:''' You start running, they’ll never let you stop. You stand up, push back.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "[[Recap/SouthParkS12E9BreastCancerShowEver Breast Cancer Show Ever]]", Wendy Testaburger, after getting fed up with Eric Cartman mocking breast cancer, challenges him to a fight after school. Cartman does everything he can to weasel out of the fight without openly apologizing, from bribery to telling his mother, but eventually cedes. Cue a devastating NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Wendy that leaves Cartman lying in a puddle of his own blood.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "[[Recap/SouthParkS12E9BreastCancerShowEver Breast Cancer Show Ever]]", Wendy Testaburger, after getting fed up with Eric Cartman mocking breast cancer, challenges him to a fight after school. Cartman does everything he can to weasel out of the fight without openly apologizing, from bribery to telling his mother, but eventually cedes. Cue a devastating NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Wendy that leaves Cartman lying in a puddle pool of his own blood.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "[[Recap/SouthParkS12E9BreastCancerShowEver Breast Cancer Show Ever]]", Wendy Testaburger, after getting fed up with Eric Cartman mocking breast cancer, challenges him to a fight after school. Cartman does everything he can to weasel out of the fight without openly apologizing, from bribery to telling his mother, but eventually cedes. Cue a devastating NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Wendy that leaves Cartman lying in a puddle of his own blood.
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* In ''Webcomic/WeakHero'', once it becomes clear that the class bully Phillip is full of hot air, Teddy challenges him to a fight in the middle of the classroom. As expected, when Teddy throws the first punch, Phillip flinches away and proves that he doesn't have anything beyond his bravado.
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* In ''Webcomic/WeakHero'', once it becomes clear that the class bully Phillip is full of hot air, Teddy challenges him to a fight in the middle of the classroom. As expected, when Teddy throws the first punch, Phillip flinches away and proves that he doesn't have anything beyond his bravado.
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* One game on ''Website/ItsMyLife'' involves writing a story where a kid confronts a bully.
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* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip, Linus complains about always having to watch whatever Lucy wants to watch on tv. Lucy then threatens to slug him, but instead of backing down, or taking the hit like usual, Linus just walks over to the tv, changes the channel, and then looks Lucy directly in the eye and says, "You don't frighten me one bit." Linus gets to watch his show while Lucy just stands there and cries.
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Results may vary. In most cases the protagonist wins, either thanks to their hard work preparing and the bully's overconfidence, the BewareTheNiceOnes factor, or because the bully was BullyingADragon. In some cases, this will lead to DefeatMeansFriendship in works that avert StatusQuoIsGod. However, it most often doesn't lead to anything, and the bully will remain their usual selves come next episode. Sometimes, however, the bully ends up the victor regardless, often with a CurbStompBattle.
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Results may vary. In most cases the protagonist wins, either thanks to their hard work preparing and the bully's overconfidence, the BewareTheNiceOnes factor, or because the bully was BullyingADragon. In some cases, this will lead to DefeatMeansFriendship in works that avert StatusQuoIsGod. However, it most often doesn't lead to anything, and the bully will remain their usual selves come next episode. Sometimes, however, [[TheBadGuyWins the bully ends up the victor regardless, regardless]], often with a CurbStompBattle.
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* In ''Manga/{{Kakegurui}}'', after Yumeko loses a fortune gambling against her classmates, she gains the right to challenge members of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil to matches. She takes advantage of this right in order to confront each of council members about their various dirty secrets, ensuring that even the ones who win have to spend the rest of their time at the academy worrying that they'll be betrayed.
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-> ''“Deep in the recesses of my brain, a tiny red-hot flame began to grow. Something had happened. A fuse blew, and I had gone out of my skull.”''
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* ''Film/AChristmasStory'': Ralphie ends up challenging ([[CurbStompBattle and thrashing!]]) the local bully Farkus after Farkus hits him in the face with snowball. Ralphie was already having a bad day, [[RageBreakingPoint and this was the final straw]].
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* ''ComicBook/UltimateDaredevilAndElektra'': When Elektra saw Trey abusing of a female student with his gang, he forced him to return her her folder. First she told him, then he took him down and humilliate him.
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* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'': Thanks to his newfound powers, Will's friends decide he'd be able to defeat the two bullies, Speed and Lash, in a game of Save The Citizen. Though he spends the conversation insisting he has no interest in competing with them, the challenge is made anyway, with the stakes being a year without bullying or his friend's head being dunked in the toilet every day.
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* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'': Thanks to his newfound powers, Will's friends decide he'd be able to defeat the two bullies, Speed and Lash, in a game of Save The Citizen. Though he spends the conversation insisting he has no interest in competing with them, the challenge is made anyway, with the stakes being a year without bullying or his friend's head being dunked in the toilet every day.
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* ''Film/ThreeOClockHigh'': Double subverted. Most of the film's plot follows Jerry Mitchell's increasingly insane attempts to ''escape'' the fight challenge that school bully Buddy Rydell has given him, but on the third act Buddy pisses Jerry off by calling him a coward and thus Jerry accepts Buddy's challenge for real.
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* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku stands up to Cardin Winchester during his eighth week at Beacon, challenging him to a fight in sparring class in front of everyone else. Cardin, being the SmugSnake he is, agrees. But Izuku has been actively [[TookALevelInBadass grinding as many levels of badass as he could]] since they met in his first few weeks at Beacon, including developing [[SuperMode One For All: Full Cowl]]. Cardin's complacency proves to be his undoing when Izuku utterly [[CurbStompBatle curb-stomps him]] without taking any damage, destroying Cardin's reputation and forcing him to stop bullying others.
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* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku stands up to Cardin Winchester during his eighth week at Beacon, challenging him to a fight in sparring class in front of everyone else. Cardin, being the SmugSnake he is, agrees. But Izuku has been actively [[TookALevelInBadass grinding as many levels of badass as he could]] since they met in his first few weeks at Beacon, including developing [[SuperMode One For All: Full Cowl]]. Cardin's complacency proves to be his undoing when Izuku utterly [[CurbStompBatle [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps him]] without taking any damage, destroying Cardin's reputation and forcing him to stop bullying others.
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* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku stands up to Cardin Winchester during his eighth week at Beacon, challenging him to a fight in sparring class in front of everyone else. Cardin, being the SmugSnake he is, agrees. But Izuku has been actively [[TookALevelInBadass grinding as many levels of badass as he could]] since they met in his first few weeks at Beacon, including developing [[SuperMode One For All: Full Cowl]]. Cardin's complacency proves to be his undoing when Izuku utterly curb-stomps him with three punches, destroying Cardin's reputation and forcing him to stop bullying others.
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* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku stands up to Cardin Winchester during his eighth week at Beacon, challenging him to a fight in sparring class in front of everyone else. Cardin, being the SmugSnake he is, agrees. But Izuku has been actively [[TookALevelInBadass grinding as many levels of badass as he could]] since they met in his first few weeks at Beacon, including developing [[SuperMode One For All: Full Cowl]]. Cardin's complacency proves to be his undoing when Izuku utterly [[CurbStompBatle curb-stomps him with three punches, him]] without taking any damage, destroying Cardin's reputation and forcing him to stop bullying others.
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* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku stands up to Cardin Winchester during his eighth week at Beacon, challenging him to a fight in sparring class in front of everyone else. Cardin, being the SmugSnake he is, agrees. But Izuku has been actively [[TookALevelBadass grinding as many levels of badass as he could]] since they met in his first few weeks at Beacon, including developing [[SuperMode One For All: Full Cowl]]. Cardin's complacency proves to be his undoing when Izuku utterly curb-stomps him with three punches, destroying Cardin's reputation and forcing him to stop bullying others.
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* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku stands up to Cardin Winchester during his eighth week at Beacon, challenging him to a fight in sparring class in front of everyone else. Cardin, being the SmugSnake he is, agrees. But Izuku has been actively [[TookALevelBadass [[TookALevelInBadass grinding as many levels of badass as he could]] since they met in his first few weeks at Beacon, including developing [[SuperMode One For All: Full Cowl]]. Cardin's complacency proves to be his undoing when Izuku utterly curb-stomps him with three punches, destroying Cardin's reputation and forcing him to stop bullying others.
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*** The fight was reimagined in the first arc of ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''. Peter orders Flash to stay away from [[DamselInDistress Mary Jane]], and this led to an after school fight, but Peter simply tries to elude his attacks. At one point, he manages to stop one of his punches with his hand, and that broke Flash's hand. He spent many later issues with the hand bandaged, and had to be removed from the basketball team.
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*** The fight was reimagined in the first arc of ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''. Peter orders Flash to stay away from [[DamselInDistress Mary Jane]], and this led to an after school fight, but Peter simply tries to elude his attacks. At one point, he manages to [[PunchCatch stop one of his punches with his hand, hand]], and that broke Flash's hand. He spent many later issues with the hand bandaged, and had to be removed from the basketball team.
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* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku stands up to Cardin Winchester during his eighth week at Beacon, challenging him to a fight in sparring class in front of everyone else. Cardin, being the SmugSnake he is, agrees. But Izuku has been actively [[TookALevelBadass grinding as many levels of badass as he could]] since they met in his first few weeks at Beacon, including developing [[SuperMode One For All: Full Cowl]]. Cardin's complacency proves to be his undoing when Izuku utterly curb-stomps him with three punches, destroying Cardin's reputation and forcing him to stop bullying others.
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* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku stands up to Cardin Winchester during his eighth week at Beacon, challenging him to a fight in sparring class in front of everyone else. Cardin, being the SmugSnake he is, agrees. But Izuku has been actively [[TookALevelBadass grinding as many levels of badass as he could]] since they met in his first few weeks at Beacon, including developing [[SuperMode One For All: Full Cowl]]. Cardin's complacency proves to be his undoing when Izuku utterly curb-stomps him with three punches, destroying Cardin's reputation and forcing him to stop bullying others.
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*** The fight was reimagined in the first arc of ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''. Flash defies Peter for an after school fight, but Peter simply tries to elude his attacks. At one point, he manages to stop one of his punches with his hand, and that broke Flash's hand. He spent many later issues with the hand bandaged, and had to be removed from the basketball team.
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*** The fight was reimagined in the first arc of ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''. Peter orders Flash defies Peter for to stay away from [[DamselInDistress Mary Jane]], and this led to an after school fight, but Peter simply tries to elude his attacks. At one point, he manages to stop one of his punches with his hand, and that broke Flash's hand. He spent many later issues with the hand bandaged, and had to be removed from the basketball team.
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* In an early issue of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' while Peter was still in high school, he gets [[ValuesDissonance forced by a teacher]] to challenge his bully, Flash Thompson, to a boxing match. This, of course, puts Peter in the situation of how to resolve things without giving away that he's Spider-Man. Eventually, he just pops Flash in the jaw hard enough to leave Flash dazed and unable to keep fighting, and tells the crowd that obviously Flash is throwing the fight, since wimpy Peter Parker couldn't possibly hit hard enough to knock him out in one blow. The crowd is quick to jump on this as evidence that Flash must be Spider-Man, throwing the fight so as to avoid revealing his superpowers.
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** In an earlyissue of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' issue, while Peter was still in high school, he gets [[ValuesDissonance forced by a teacher]] to challenge his bully, Flash Thompson, to a boxing match. This, of course, puts Peter in the situation of how to resolve things without giving away that he's Spider-Man. Eventually, he just pops Flash in the jaw hard enough to leave Flash dazed and unable to keep fighting, and tells the crowd that obviously Flash is throwing the fight, since wimpy Peter Parker couldn't possibly hit hard enough to knock him out in one blow. The crowd is quick to jump on this as evidence that Flash must be Spider-Man, throwing the fight so as to avoid revealing his superpowers.superpowers.
** Subverted in one of the earliest issues. Peter has enough of Flash's bullying, and grabs him to start a fight. Then he remembers that he has superpowers, and may seriously harm or even kill Flash if they fight (and reveal his identity), so he let him go.
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** Subverted in one of the earliest issues. Peter has enough of Flash's bullying, and grabs him to start a fight. Then he remembers that he has superpowers, and may seriously harm or even kill Flash if they fight (and reveal his identity), so he let him go.
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* In ''Literature/TheSongOfTheLioness'' Ralon is a petty bully, constantly picking on main character Alanna secure in the knowledge that she (though he thinks she's [[SweetPollyOliver a boy]]) can't report him without losing honor. So, for the next few months she spends her nights training in hand-to-hand combat and then challenges him in the practice yard in front of everyone. And totally kicks his ass.
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* In ''Literature/TheSongOfTheLioness'' Ralon is a petty bully, constantly picking on main character Alanna secure in the knowledge that she (though he thinks she's [[SweetPollyOliver a boy]]) can't report him without losing honor. So, for the next few months she spends her nights training in hand-to-hand combat and then challenges him in the practice yard in front of everyone. And totally kicks his ass.
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* In an early issue of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' while Peter was still in high school, he gets [[ValuesDissonance forced by a teacher]] to challenge his bully, Flash Thompson, to a boxing match. This, of course, puts Peter in the situation of how to resolve things without giving away that he's Spider-Man. Eventually, he just pops Flash in the jaw hard enough to leave Flash dazed and unable to keep fighting, and tells the crowd that obviously Flash is throwing the fight, since wimpy Peter Parker couldn't possibly hit hard enough to knock him out in one blow. The crowd is quick to jump on this as evidence that Flash must be Spider-Man, throwing the fight so as to avoid revealing his superpowers.
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* In ''Manga/YuGiOh'', this is the M.O. of [[TheHero Yugi Muto]] -- or, more accurately, his SuperpoweredEvilSide. Because of Yami Yugi's shadow magic, this typically ends with the bully coming down with a bad case of MindRape. This also happens in [[Anime/YuGiOh the anime]], but with more card games and less mental punishment for Yugi's opponents.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Cutie Mark Chronicles", it's revealed that Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were both bullied by three colts who first appeared in "Sonic Rainboom". Rainbow Dash stood up for Fluttershy and in the process ended up in a public race against the three bullies, fighting "for Fluttershy's honor".
* In the ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' special "He's a Bully, Charlie Brown", Charlie Brown finds himself standing up to a marble stealing bully named Joe after spending days learning to play. They have a public match and Charlie Brown talks him into playing a game for all the marbles, which Joe arrogantly accepts, then loses.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' special "He's a Bully, Charlie Brown", Charlie Brown finds himself standing up to a marble stealing bully named Joe after spending days learning to play. They have a public match and Charlie Brown talks him into playing a game for all the marbles, which Joe arrogantly accepts, then loses.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Cutie "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles", Chronicles]]", it's revealed that Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were both bullied by three colts who first appeared in "Sonic Rainboom". Rainbow Dash stood up for Fluttershy and in the process ended up in a public race against the three bullies, fighting "for Fluttershy's honor".
* In the ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' special "He's a Bully, Charlie Brown", Charlie Brown finds himself standing up to amarble stealing marble-stealing bully named Joe after spending days learning to play. They have a public match and Charlie Brown talks him into playing a game for all the marbles, which Joe arrogantly accepts, then loses.
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* Given that wrestling is, in and of itself, a fighting contest, and many {{Heel}}s are bullies, this is one of the most common storylines.
* In Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling, the feud between the Crush Gals (Lioness Asuka and Chigusa Nagayo) and Dump Matsumoto's Atrocious Alliance in the mid-80s is a famous example. The Atrocious Alliance ran rampant through AJW, and the Crush Gals were the underdog {{Face}}s standing up to them. The heat generated from the audience was comparable to what Wrestling/HulkHogan was getting at the same time in the US.
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* Given that wrestling is, in and of itself, a fighting contest, and many {{Heel}}s are bullies, this is one of the most common storylines.
* In Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling, the feud between the Crush Gals (Lioness Asuka and Chigusa Nagayo) and Dump Matsumoto's Atrocious Alliance in the mid-80s is a famous example. The Atrocious Alliance ran rampant through AJW, and the Crush Gals were the underdog {{Face}}s standing up to them. The heat generated from the audience was comparable to what Wrestling/HulkHogan was getting at the same time in the US.
* In Wrestling/{{WWE NXT}}, Shayna Baszler exploited this by bullying other wrestlers to get champ Wrestling/EmberMoon to put her title on the line against her.
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* ''Film/SkyHigh'': Thanks to his newfound powers, Will's friends decide he'd be able to defeat the two bullies, Speed and Lash, in a game of Save The Citizen. Though he spends the conversation insisting he has no interest in competing with them, the challenge is made anyway, with the stakes being a year without bullying or his friend's head being dunked in the toilet every day.
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[[TheBully Bully characters]] in fiction often seem to use very similar tactics with similar motivations. Beyond just beating up or tormenting their victim, they like humiliating them more than anything- and what a better way than to publicly beat them at a challenge or watch them back down as a coward?
As such, this plot occurs when a bully and their victim- who is often the protagonist- face off in a challenge. Sometimes it's a traditional fight, which often results in the victim getting a BoxingLesson. Other times it's an actual contest in a field the bully believes the protagonist will have no talent in. Sometimes someone will set up the challenge for the protagonist in the assumption that they'll win, or the protagonist themselves will make the declaration, but there must be an actual challenge offered for this trope to occur. If the protagonist is the one to make the declaration, they're usually fighting for someone other than themselves. Or, the bully themselves will challenge the protagonist.
These challenges are almost always public (even if it wasn't meant to be, a la SpontaneousCrowdFormation). They can occur as the climax of the story, but it's not a requirement, as they can also happen at any other point.
Results may vary. In most cases the protagonist wins, either thanks to their hard work preparing and the bully's overconfidence, the BewareTheNiceOnes factor, or because the bully was BullyingADragon. In some cases, this will lead to DefeatMeansFriendship in works that avert StatusQuoIsGod. However, it most often doesn't lead to anything, and the bully will remain their usual selves come next episode. Sometimes, however, the bully ends up the victor regardless, often with a CurbStompBattle.
Compare NotAfraidOfYouAnymore; May overlap with TookALevelInBadass. This challenge may involve a GameOfChicken.
'''Please note that for an example to fit this trope a challenge of some form must be present or implicit. A character standing up to their bully without a challenge being made is not this trope.'''
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!!Examples:
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* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': In one chapter, Doraemon has to go back to the 22nd century because his duty has been "fulfilled" (i.e making Nobita happy), but he's reluctant because he comes to care about Nobita too much. Nobita tries to prove that he doesn't need Doraemon anymore, one of the methods being challenging the local bully, Giant. While Nobita is badly beaten, he keeps coming after Giant, who ended up getting scared of him because he just won't back down. This at least convices Doraemon to go back "home".
* In ''Manga/{{Kakegurui}}'', after Yumeko loses a fortune gambling against her classmates, she gains the right to challenge members of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil to matches. She takes advantage of this right in order to confront each of council members about their various dirty secrets, ensuring that even the ones who win have to spend the rest of their time at the academy worrying that they'll be betrayed.
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[[folder: Film]]
* ''Film/SkyHigh'': Thanks to his newfound powers, Will's friends decide he'd be able to defeat the two bullies, Speed and Lash, in a game of Save The Citizen. Though he spends the conversation insisting he has no interest in competing with them, the challenge is made anyway, with the stakes being a year without bullying or his friend's head being dunked in the toilet every day.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/SkippyDies'' combines this with CockFight. Skippy and Carl are both rivals for Lori's affection, but Skippy is a quiet nerd who is frequently bullied, while Carl is a psycho who bullies younger kids and sometimes pushes Skippy around. After being repeatedly threatened, Skippy challenges Carl to a fight. Surprisingly, Skippy is able to land a punch on Carl and "win" the fight, by [[IKnowMortalKombat visualizing attacks from his favorite video game.]]
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'':
** Draco Malfoy challenges Harry to a duel at night in, but this is a SubvertedTrope because Draco doesn't actually show up and just wanted to get Harry into trouble.
** Malfoy steals a Rembrall from Neville, a frequent target of his bullying, and mocks him for injuring himself. Harry gets tired of this and rises on his broomstick, challenging Malfoy to a contest of flying skills. Harry is able to retrieve the Rembrall through a tricky broomstick maneuver, defending Neville's honor and coming out on top.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': The pilot episode features Josh getting challenged to fight a bully who believes he was dating his girlfriend (when, in reality, it was Drake). Josh spends the episode learning karate and eventually gets really good at it... but still loses the fight after one single blow.
* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': In "Guide to Your Body", Ned gets roped into a weightlifting contest against Loomer thanks to an attempt by Coach Dirga to defend him. Though he and everyone else believes he'll fail, Dirga teaches him the proper technique to lifting weights, and he ends up defeating Loomer in front of the entire school.
*In "After School Special", the season 4 episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', we see in a flashback that, in a desire to blend in and be normal, Sam will ignore bullies that pick on him personally, but woe to anyone who picks on people Sam considers to be a friend or under his protection. When bully Dirk decides to beat up Sam's new friend Barry, even kicking him when he's already down. Sam tells Dirk to leave Barry alone, but Dirk cockily challenges the diminutive Sam to a fight. Sam proceeds to lay a [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp beatdown]] on the bully, despite Dirk being easily twice Sam's size. He also crowns the bully Dirk the Jerk, a nickname that would follow the bully the rest of the way through school.
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[[folder:Music]]
* The premise of the ''Music/NinjaSexParty'' song "[[https://youtu.be/-tW0G9XWaj0 Cool Patrol]]" is Danny Sexbang teaching a high school boy getting picked on how to deal with bullies. The training consists of learning a silly dance, but gives the kid enough confidence to approach the bullies with an implicit challenge... before he's promptly beaten up and possibly killed.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Cutie Mark Chronicles", it's revealed that Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were both bullied by three colts who first appeared in "Sonic Rainboom". Rainbow Dash stood up for Fluttershy and in the process ended up in a public race against the three bullies, fighting "for Fluttershy's honor".
* In the ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' special "He's a Bully, Charlie Brown", Charlie Brown finds himself standing up to a marble stealing bully named Joe after spending days learning to play. They have a public match and Charlie Brown talks him into playing a game for all the marbles, which Joe arrogantly accepts, then loses.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': "Raging Bully" introduces the character of Buford, who is shown as a stereotypical bully when he challenges Phineas to a fight after the latter spills ice-cream on him. The fight turns out to be a thumb war treated like a boxing match, and Buford almost wins until Phineas gets icecream on his own shirt thanks to Perry and Doofenshmirtz. Buford calls off the fight, seeing as he and Phineas are even, and they become friends.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Bart the General" has Bart defending Lisa from school bully Nelson Muntz (making his debut), and gets beat up for his efforts. This leads to a final confrontation between the two, which becomes a pastiche of WWII movies.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E44HeroHamton Hero Hamton]]", Hamton accidentally hits Montana Max with his locker door. When he tries to apologize, Monty threatens to beat him up, and Plucky makes the situation worse by telling Monty that Hamton could easily beat him in a fight. Monty then challenges Hamton to a fight after school, with Plucky charging people admission to see the fight. Much of the episode involves Hamton first trying to get out of the battle before eventually accepting it and being trained by his friends for the inevitable showdown.
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As such, this plot occurs when a bully and their victim- who is often the protagonist- face off in a challenge. Sometimes it's a traditional fight, which often results in the victim getting a BoxingLesson. Other times it's an actual contest in a field the bully believes the protagonist will have no talent in. Sometimes someone will set up the challenge for the protagonist in the assumption that they'll win, or the protagonist themselves will make the declaration, but there must be an actual challenge offered for this trope to occur. If the protagonist is the one to make the declaration, they're usually fighting for someone other than themselves. Or, the bully themselves will challenge the protagonist.
These challenges are almost always public (even if it wasn't meant to be, a la SpontaneousCrowdFormation). They can occur as the climax of the story, but it's not a requirement, as they can also happen at any other point.
Results may vary. In most cases the protagonist wins, either thanks to their hard work preparing and the bully's overconfidence, the BewareTheNiceOnes factor, or because the bully was BullyingADragon. In some cases, this will lead to DefeatMeansFriendship in works that avert StatusQuoIsGod. However, it most often doesn't lead to anything, and the bully will remain their usual selves come next episode. Sometimes, however, the bully ends up the victor regardless, often with a CurbStompBattle.
Compare NotAfraidOfYouAnymore; May overlap with TookALevelInBadass. This challenge may involve a GameOfChicken.
'''Please note that for an example to fit this trope a challenge of some form must be present or implicit. A character standing up to their bully without a challenge being made is not this trope.'''
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!!Examples:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': In one chapter, Doraemon has to go back to the 22nd century because his duty has been "fulfilled" (i.e making Nobita happy), but he's reluctant because he comes to care about Nobita too much. Nobita tries to prove that he doesn't need Doraemon anymore, one of the methods being challenging the local bully, Giant. While Nobita is badly beaten, he keeps coming after Giant, who ended up getting scared of him because he just won't back down. This at least convices Doraemon to go back "home".
* In ''Manga/{{Kakegurui}}'', after Yumeko loses a fortune gambling against her classmates, she gains the right to challenge members of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil to matches. She takes advantage of this right in order to confront each of council members about their various dirty secrets, ensuring that even the ones who win have to spend the rest of their time at the academy worrying that they'll be betrayed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Film]]
* ''Film/SkyHigh'': Thanks to his newfound powers, Will's friends decide he'd be able to defeat the two bullies, Speed and Lash, in a game of Save The Citizen. Though he spends the conversation insisting he has no interest in competing with them, the challenge is made anyway, with the stakes being a year without bullying or his friend's head being dunked in the toilet every day.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/SkippyDies'' combines this with CockFight. Skippy and Carl are both rivals for Lori's affection, but Skippy is a quiet nerd who is frequently bullied, while Carl is a psycho who bullies younger kids and sometimes pushes Skippy around. After being repeatedly threatened, Skippy challenges Carl to a fight. Surprisingly, Skippy is able to land a punch on Carl and "win" the fight, by [[IKnowMortalKombat visualizing attacks from his favorite video game.]]
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'':
** Draco Malfoy challenges Harry to a duel at night in, but this is a SubvertedTrope because Draco doesn't actually show up and just wanted to get Harry into trouble.
** Malfoy steals a Rembrall from Neville, a frequent target of his bullying, and mocks him for injuring himself. Harry gets tired of this and rises on his broomstick, challenging Malfoy to a contest of flying skills. Harry is able to retrieve the Rembrall through a tricky broomstick maneuver, defending Neville's honor and coming out on top.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': The pilot episode features Josh getting challenged to fight a bully who believes he was dating his girlfriend (when, in reality, it was Drake). Josh spends the episode learning karate and eventually gets really good at it... but still loses the fight after one single blow.
* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': In "Guide to Your Body", Ned gets roped into a weightlifting contest against Loomer thanks to an attempt by Coach Dirga to defend him. Though he and everyone else believes he'll fail, Dirga teaches him the proper technique to lifting weights, and he ends up defeating Loomer in front of the entire school.
*In "After School Special", the season 4 episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', we see in a flashback that, in a desire to blend in and be normal, Sam will ignore bullies that pick on him personally, but woe to anyone who picks on people Sam considers to be a friend or under his protection. When bully Dirk decides to beat up Sam's new friend Barry, even kicking him when he's already down. Sam tells Dirk to leave Barry alone, but Dirk cockily challenges the diminutive Sam to a fight. Sam proceeds to lay a [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp beatdown]] on the bully, despite Dirk being easily twice Sam's size. He also crowns the bully Dirk the Jerk, a nickname that would follow the bully the rest of the way through school.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* The premise of the ''Music/NinjaSexParty'' song "[[https://youtu.be/-tW0G9XWaj0 Cool Patrol]]" is Danny Sexbang teaching a high school boy getting picked on how to deal with bullies. The training consists of learning a silly dance, but gives the kid enough confidence to approach the bullies with an implicit challenge... before he's promptly beaten up and possibly killed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Cutie Mark Chronicles", it's revealed that Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were both bullied by three colts who first appeared in "Sonic Rainboom". Rainbow Dash stood up for Fluttershy and in the process ended up in a public race against the three bullies, fighting "for Fluttershy's honor".
* In the ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' special "He's a Bully, Charlie Brown", Charlie Brown finds himself standing up to a marble stealing bully named Joe after spending days learning to play. They have a public match and Charlie Brown talks him into playing a game for all the marbles, which Joe arrogantly accepts, then loses.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': "Raging Bully" introduces the character of Buford, who is shown as a stereotypical bully when he challenges Phineas to a fight after the latter spills ice-cream on him. The fight turns out to be a thumb war treated like a boxing match, and Buford almost wins until Phineas gets icecream on his own shirt thanks to Perry and Doofenshmirtz. Buford calls off the fight, seeing as he and Phineas are even, and they become friends.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Bart the General" has Bart defending Lisa from school bully Nelson Muntz (making his debut), and gets beat up for his efforts. This leads to a final confrontation between the two, which becomes a pastiche of WWII movies.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E44HeroHamton Hero Hamton]]", Hamton accidentally hits Montana Max with his locker door. When he tries to apologize, Monty threatens to beat him up, and Plucky makes the situation worse by telling Monty that Hamton could easily beat him in a fight. Monty then challenges Hamton to a fight after school, with Plucky charging people admission to see the fight. Much of the episode involves Hamton first trying to get out of the battle before eventually accepting it and being trained by his friends for the inevitable showdown.
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