History Main / SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp

* An episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' Chip Matthews, a guy who went to Monica and Rachel's high school, has apparently not changed at all in the intervening decade: he actually got a bunch of his high school friends together, tracked down another guy they used to go to high school with, and gave him a wedgie in the middle of a public street.

* Creator/{{NBC}} [=CEO=] Jeff Zucker is perhaps the prime person responsible for screwing ConanOBrien out of ''TheTonightShow''. Zucker and O'Brien headed up rival school newspapers when they went to Harvard together. [[http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2010/01/13/is-conan-the-victim-of-harvards-crimsonlampoon-rivalry.html No joke]].

** ''NeedfulThings'': Ace, who became a drug dealer and gunrunner, is employed by the story's BigBad, Leland Gaunt, [[spoiler: and eventually gets shot by a police officer.]]
** ''{{It}}'': Acting as a puppet for the book's titular character, Henry Bowers escapes from a mental institution to get revenge on the kids who kept escaping from him twenty-seven years ago.
* ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNineAStitchInTime'': A variation is found in Andrew Robinson's novel. The Cardassians that seem to delight the most in oppressing Bajorans during the Occupation are the same ones that bullied Garak while he attended the Bamarren Institute.

** Things like this tend to happen with ChrisClaremont: he ''loves'' to do [[KudzuPlot long-running elaborate storylines]] in every book he writes, but he's often replaced as the book's writer before he can get it all done. And his successors invariably take things off in a different direction. Sinister's planned origin was something he'd laid ''all'' the groundwork for, but his run as ''Uncanny X-Men'' writer ended before he could do TheReveal. Which probably would've happened within months had he stayed on as writer.

* Kron Stone was the bully at Miguel O'Hara's school in ''SpiderMan [[{{Marvel 2099}} 2099]]''. Since his dad was a CorruptCorporateExecutive who owned New York, he got steadily worse as a young adult, eventually killing Jake Gallows' family for the hell of it. Gallows became {{Punisher}} 2099, shot Stone and dumped the body in the sewers. This only led to him being "saved" by the Symbiote and confronting Miguel again, as [[EvilCounterpart Venom]] 2099.

* ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoWhiteCastle'': Kumar accuses a cop of being this, to which the cop happily admits.

** ''[[StandByMe The Body]]'': During the main character Gordon's narration of his childhood relationship with his friends, they were often bullied beyond mere sadism by Ace and his gang of thugs. Despite none of his friends surviving past young adulthood, there's a little satisfaction for the reader in the end when Gordon meets Ace, who has become a broken shell of a man and doesn't recognize him.

* Subverted in ''TheWishList''. One of the things Lowrie wants to do before he dies is get even with the guy who bullied him at school. However, when the two finally meet, the ex-bully is found to be a fairly likable person who really regrets the things he did in school.

* SammoHung used to beat up JackieChan while they attended the Peking Opera School, Years later, Jackie met him again and they wound up doing a number of movies together. However, they're no longer enemies as adults.

** He is also a bisexual, pedophile rapist. So he can rape both boys and girls. Sadly he doesn't get killed but he does [[spoiler:get his eye shot out by the son of the first person he raped. Also, he was raping the son as well.]]
*** A ''Hitler-worshipping'' bisexual pedophile rapist, just in case you weren't clear.
**** Hmm. . . I'm not sure, but [[SarcasmMode I think he might be a]] [[ObviouslyEvil bad guy]]
* ''SoonIWillBeInvincible'': This Superhero Pastiche has this motivation for Dr Impossible, who became a supervillain partially so he could take revenge against the JerkJock he was so envious of. This motivation is subject to some heavy lampshading towards the end, where one character points out at the end of a fist just how pathetic this is.

* Dan Piraro's Bizarro: "Just wait until our 25th high school reunion!" - http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=44639

* Mayor Augustus Maywho (Jeffrey Tambor) in TheMovie of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''. A JerkAss as both a kid and an adult.

* Deconstructed in ''MutekiKanbanMusume'', a hilarious deconstruction of the FightingSeries: Miki Onimaru, a KungFuKid who bullied boys four years older than her, has grown up into … a twenty year old {{Manchild}} TheBully ArrogantKungFuGuy. TheRival, Megumi, is also the same case.

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* Creator/{{NBC}} [=CEO=] Jeff Zucker is perhaps the prime person responsible for screwing ConanOBrien out of ''TheTonightShow''. Zucker and O'Brien headed up rival school newspapers when they went to Harvard together. [[http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2010/01/13/is-conan-the-victim-of-harvards-crimsonlampoon-rivalry.html No joke]].
* SammoHung used to beat up JackieChan while they attended the Peking Opera School, Years later, Jackie met him again and they wound up doing a number of movies together. However, they're no longer enemies as adults.
* Happens often in countries with conscription. The bullies have now become [=NCOs=] with system-justified power and licence to do what they will.
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* ''FunkyWinkerbean'': Bull Buskha, who during his high school days relentlessly taunted Les Moore. Although he shows his bravado at times yet today, it's averted; Bull is reformed, far more mellow and treats Les with respect – in fact, he's one of Les' closest friends.

* The {{ECW}} feud between Tommy Dreamer and Wrestling/{{Raven}} was based on the "classmate seeking revenge" version of the trope; Dreamer had bullied Raven and stole his girlfriend, Beulah, when they were kids, and, years later, Raven showed up in ECW looking to ruin Tommy's life. In the intervening years, Tommy had undergone a HeelFaceTurn and turned out to be a pretty decent guy, but Raven was so eaten up with hatred and anger that he didn't care.
* JohnBradshawLayfield admitted in a promo that he was this.

* TheMiz's [[BattleButler apprentice]] Alex Riley has this and being a JerkJock as his gimmick. He [[NarmCharm pulls it off very well]], because he's inherited his pro's mic skills and has a [[SoBadItsGood Letterman Jacket as part of his ring attire]]. It gets weird once you realize that his pro is a disrespected guy that [[FromNobodyToNightmare started]] as a bit of a loser, and was in fact bullied in RealLife by the aforementioned {{Jerkass}} JBL.

* ''TwentiethCenturyBoys'': The cheerfully sadistic, pro-wrestling-loving bullies Yanbo and Mabo grew up to be [[spoiler:charitable, good-natured people with a...somewhat ''rose-colored'' view of their 'playing' with the neighborhood kids. (They're also absurdly {{Bishonen}} in their first grown-up appearance, but went back to being fat after the next timeskip.)]] [[spoiler:Friend]] fits the DisproportionateRetribution part of the trope. [[spoiler: Particularly the second Friend, though he was also the target of bullying.]]

* A Manga/DetectiveConan case had one about a man who killed the now grown up guy who bullied his son into suicide. It is, however, more complicated-- the man was a child psychologist by trade, and was originally quite willing to not hold any grudge over the said bully. So that when the said ex-bully went to college and happened to live close with the said man, they were originally quite friendly. It was ''only'' after noticing this trope has been playing straight that he decided to kill the ex-bully.
* Deconstructed in MutekiKanbanMusume, a hilarious deconstruction of the FightingSeries: Miki Onimaru, a KungFuKid who bullied boys four years older than her, has grown up into … a twenty year old {{Manchild}} TheBully ArrogantKungFuGuy. TheRival, Megumi, is also the same case.

* The GainaxEnding of ''MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'' reveals that [[spoiler:[=LeChuck=] is Guybrush's brother, who put him through all that misery over Guybrush accidentally breaking one of his action toys]]. MindScrew doesn't even start to cover the way it is presented.

* ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'' When a cop appears out of nowhere to ticket Harold for jaywalking, Kumar accuses him of being this trope, to which the cop gleefully admits.
** He isn't Kumar's bully specifically, he is just a grown up bully.

* ''FunkyWinkerbean'': Bull Buskha, who during his high school days relentlessly taunted Les Moore. Although he shows his bravado at times yet today, Bull is reformed, far more mellow and treats Les with respect – in fact, he's one of Les' closest friends.

* ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' villain Mr. Sinister is known for his unethical genetic practices and his somewhat disturbing obsession with the Summers family. However, few people know his original intended origin: he was a young rival of Cyclops who couldn't age. By the time Cyclops was an adult, Kid Sinister was still stuck as an 8-year-old (physically and mentally), and he used his mutant powers to change his appearance into that of a gaudy, over-the-top supervillain: an 8-year-old's vision of a cool supervillain. When considering that origin, Mr. Sinister's corny appearance, unimpressive name, and stereotypical supervillain demeanor actually make sense. But, ThePowersThatBe decided not to go with that origin...

* In ''AngerManagement'' at one point Dr. Rydell takes Dave to the home of his childhood bully....only to discover he is now a Buddhist monk. Dave is reluctant to start anything until it turns out the bully still thinks that at least one of his pranks was genuinely funny. At his therapist's urging, they end up wrestling right there in the monastery.

* ''HarryPotter''
** Inverted with Severus Snape, when it's unequivocally revealed in ''Order of the Phoenix'' that Harry's dad was the bully and Snape, his victim.