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** Bob is actually a BullyHunter. All his victims are people who have bullied dorks ForTheEvulz, and Bob’s bullying of them is his way of giving them ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine.



** Turns out, Bob has legitimate grievances against Charlie, possibly [[NiceJobBreakingItHero of his own making]], and that why he bullies him.
** Bob is a popular and aggressively-mean NerdyBully.
** Bob is handsome and mean, but this makes him the least popular guy in school instead of the most.
** It’s all a front. Bob’s confidence and jerkiness is to hide his insecurities.



** But Charlie only did that to get back at Bob for an even worse thing Bob did to them in the past.
** Then Bob gets into sports and/or music, and becomes a traditional Big Jerk.
** Then Bob brainwashes the school into adoring him and continues being a jerk.
** But it’s [[BitchInSheepsClothing all an act]] by Bob [[WoundedGazelleGambit to get people’s sympathy]].



* '''Averted''': The school doesn't have any kids who are popular.
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* '''Averted''': Bob is of normal temperament.
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** It’s a show about HighSchool, and the LoserProtagonist is male. So the enemy has to be apart of High School and male, too.
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The school doesn't have any kids who are popular.
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author was bullied by a popular guy in high school, so they create Bob’s character to [[TakeThat stick it to their old bully]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "Jeez, Bob! What’s your deal? You’re such a jerk."



* '''Reconstructed''': Then Danny and Erica, two new students, become the new popular kids, thus, the PopularityCycle continues, and [[StatusQuoIsGod Carol and Charlie get bullied again]].

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* '''Reconstructed''': Then Danny and Erica, two new students, become the new popular kids, thus, the PopularityCycle continues, and [[StatusQuoIsGod Carol and Charlie get bullied again]].'''Reconstructed''':

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** Bob and Alice, the popular kids, are actually nice.
** Carol and Charlie are the most unpopular kids because they're mean to everybody except themselves.
** Bob and Alice are evil, but instead of boosting their popularity, their meanness actually hurts their social life, making them unpopular with their schoolmates.
* '''Subverted:''' Bob and Alice are popular at school, but instead of being a JerkJock or an AlphaBitch, they’re nice to everyone, even dorks like Carol and Charlie.
* '''Double Subverted:''' Bob and Alice are popular and nice...until someone becomes a threat to their power. Then they become evil and bully the person until that threat is extinguished.

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** Bob and Alice, the popular kids, are actually nice.
** Carol and Charlie are the most unpopular kids because they're mean to everybody except themselves.
** Bob and Alice are evil, but instead of boosting their popularity, their meanness actually hurts their social life, making them unpopular with their schoolmates.
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* '''Subverted:''' Bob and Alice are popular at school, but instead of being a JerkJock or an AlphaBitch, they’re nice to everyone, even dorks like Carol and Charlie.
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* '''Double Subverted:''' Bob and Alice are popular and nice...until someone becomes a threat to their power. Then they become evil and bully the person until that threat is extinguished.Subverted:'''



* '''Enforced:''' "We need a believable bully for our protagonist. How about the popular kids?"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Don't go anywhere near those people. They're popular and popular people will kill you."

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* '''Enforced:''' "We need a believable bully for our protagonist. How about the popular kids?"
'''Enforced:'''
* '''Lampshaded''': "Don't go anywhere near those people. They're popular and popular people will kill you."



* '''Deconstructed''': Bob and Alice learn that their popularity will cost them everything. After crossing the line one times too many, they fail their classes, they are respectively kicked out of the football team and the cheerleading squad, the students eventually abandon them and side with Carol and Charlie, they're are expelled from school, and their parents punish them severely.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob and Alice learn that their popularity will cost them everything. After crossing the line one times too many, they fail their classes, they are respectively kicked out of the football team and the cheerleading squad, the students eventually abandon them and side with Carol and Charlie, they're are expelled from school, and their parents punish them severely.'''Deconstructed''':



Only popular people can click on the [[PopularIsEvil main page]]! Not nerds like you!

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Only popular people can click Hey, loser! Click on the [[PopularIsEvil [[BigJerkOnCampus main page]]! Not nerds like you!page]], or I’ll make you sorry!
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'''Basic Trope''' The most handsome and popular guy in HighSchool. He’s also the a huge {{Jerkass}} to those less popular than he is.
* '''Straight:''' Bob is the meanest and most popular guy in school, who bullied poor Charlie mercilessly.
* '''Exaggerated:''' Bob is a [[HateSink despicable]], [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic]] {{Sociopath}}ic BarbaricBully who is [[DisproportionateRetribution willing to downright murder those who so much as insult him]], [[VillainWithGoodPublicity but everyone stills adores and envies him]], and his bullying is actually seen as compliments that he even knows of your existence.
* '''Downplayed:''' Bob doesn’t bully anyone, he just snubs and scoffs at the losers and acts like they don’t exist.
* '''Justified:'''
** Bob’s good looks and natural talents meant he’s had everything handed to him on a silver platter, and never learned how to be nice to people to get them to like him, since they’ve always automatically liked him because of his looks and skills.
** Bob’s dad is an even bigger brute to Bob, leading him to take out some of his frustrations on his classmates.
** Bob was bullied by the last BigJerkOnCampus. Now that he’s on top of the totem pole, it’s his turn to reap it’s benefits.
** Bob honestly believes that those without talent and good looks are worth less than himself and his own fellow popular kids, and sees himself and his popular, good-looking friends as proof.
* '''Inverted:'''
** Bob and Alice, the popular kids, are actually nice.
** Carol and Charlie are the most unpopular kids because they're mean to everybody except themselves.
** Bob and Alice are evil, but instead of boosting their popularity, their meanness actually hurts their social life, making them unpopular with their schoolmates.
* '''Subverted:''' Bob and Alice are popular at school, but instead of being a JerkJock or an AlphaBitch, they’re nice to everyone, even dorks like Carol and Charlie.
* '''Double Subverted:''' Bob and Alice are popular and nice...until someone becomes a threat to their power. Then they become evil and bully the person until that threat is extinguished.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': The school doesn't have any kids who are popular.
* '''Enforced:''' "We need a believable bully for our protagonist. How about the popular kids?"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Don't go anywhere near those people. They're popular and popular people will kill you."
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': The school staff takes action to teach children equality and acceptance to prevent them from letting popularity go to their heads.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob and Alice learn that their popularity will cost them everything. After crossing the line one times too many, they fail their classes, they are respectively kicked out of the football team and the cheerleading squad, the students eventually abandon them and side with Carol and Charlie, they're are expelled from school, and their parents punish them severely.
* '''Reconstructed''': Then Danny and Erica, two new students, become the new popular kids, thus, the PopularityCycle continues, and [[StatusQuoIsGod Carol and Charlie get bullied again]].
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Only popular people can click on the [[PopularIsEvil main page]]! Not nerds like you!
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

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