The cruelty of children as depicted in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- In Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail there are two main examples:
- In the Pokémon world, there's Class 5-E of Vermillion International School, the class that Chloe and Goh are in. But while Goh can blissfully not have to deal with their bullying and insults because of his association being a research fellow and because he only goes to school for tests, the students are a Gang of Bullies on Chloe because they're envious on how she is the daughter of a Pokémon Professor and mock her for not liking Pokémon. Even when she runs away from home, they don't get the idea that it's because they insulted her and did other things ranging from giving her cruel nicknames like "Monster Lover", threw her book report to the trash and dumped their lunches on it, told her that her Childhood Friend Goh will never come to school or ever care about her unless she dressed up as Mew (the Pokémon that is basically the reason Goh decides to forgo social activities) and even pulled a Carrie and dumped her in red paint after having to cobble up a last-minute performance for the Talent Show. It takes them an Engineered Public Confession and Chloe's little brother unleashing the Unown for them to realized that they screwed up their lives, their parents lives and sank Vermillion City's reputation for jealousy, never realizing that their actions were going to haunt them.
- On the Infinity Train, there's the Apex: a bunch of kids who are a cult that worships the Conductor/Amelia, following the orders of Grace Monroe, the proud den-mother who would never admit that she didn't know how the Train worked and convinces them to injure Denizens, kill them and perhaps take their frustrations on anyone else — denizen or otherwise — who could get in the way of their fun. It culminates to when Chloe Cerise dies by Simon — who just turned into a dark dragon — they don't care that she died, except that she ruined their fun. Like Class 5-E, they are knocked off their haughty pedestals when they learn that many denizens they killed were presumably former passengers like themselves, one of their own drowned and became a monster known as the Phantom, and that time on the train is equivalent to time in real life, meaning that the years they spent on the Train is equal to the years that they were gone from their family and friends.
- Oni Ga Shiku Series: Izuku, even as a young child, thinks to himself that kids are cruel not because they really mean to cause harm but because they are afraid of things they don't know, and as kids they know very little. That said, even if Izuku can logic out the reason behind the bullying, that doesn't spare him the lasting trauma and psychological scars.
- Reinforced Magic
(Harry Potter & Lyrical Nanoha): Harry's cousin Dudley and his gang of bullies actually throw acid at Harry because Dudley wants to see if they can make him look like the half-rotting version of Hel depicted in the school's Norse mythology display.
- Calvin & Hobbes: The Series reveals that Calvin once drove his school psychiatrist mad.
- In Operation: S.O.U.L.M.A.T.E., the Splinter Cell carried out the Bojinka attacks successfully, resulting in thousands of dead adults.
- In the Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location fic Spoiled Rotten, Elizabeth Afton is revealed to be a budding Serial Killer who had killed seven children by luring them into the springlock suits.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Discussed by Dr. Brooks — he talks Mark Russell out of enrolling Madison in a public school by pointing out that due to her late mother's legacy coupled with how vicious kids can generally be, she'll be a pariah and might even be the target of one or two murder attempts by other teenagers if she's placed in such an environment.
- In The Consort Tournament some neighborhood boys once held Harry down while the rest of the gang killed the family Kneazle for being "too ugly to live." This marked the start of his belief that animals are better than people.
- In Footsteps Draco, Crabbe and Goyle bind Harry and Dean, leave them in the room with Fluffy the Cerberus and lock the door, despite being well aware that neither of their victims can cast an unlocking spell yet.
- In No Competition. Prudence Charnel left Hogwarts because some seventh-year students threw her over a railing and she would've died if one of the staircases hadn't moved. Mocking her appearance because of her being a hag didn't exactly help either.
- What Lies Beneath: Berk's children take a cue from their parents and use Hiccup's bad reputation as an excuse to bully Zephyr. Unlike Hiccup, Zephyr has the self-confidence to defend herself.
- In And Still He Stood, the skoolkids react to the news of Dib's death by cheering. Gaz is absolutely disgusted by this.
- Second Chance, an AU fic in which Sora grows up with Ventus's consciousness in his heart, the two coming to consider each other brothers. Ven can prove his existence when he needs to (by taking control of Sora's body and casting magic or summoning his Keyblade), but most of the people Sora tells about him assume he's an Imaginary Friend, and while some of his classmates are willing to play along with it, others such as Zenos choose to bully him over it. It comes to a head when Zenos pushes Sora into a swimming pool and mocks him for having a panic attack (Sora almost drowned two years ago), at which point Ven takes over to let Sora calm down and stands up to Zenos.
- The Boy Who Cried Idiot: When Martin holds up Lincoln's history book so Lincoln can't read it and later throws it out the window making Lincoln mad, all of their classmates except for Lincoln's closest friends start laughing and chanting, "Fight! Fight!". The narration even notes that it's apparently a common occurrence at schools. Later, at lunch, all the students in the entire school except for Lincoln's friends laugh at him when he's made to wear a horse costume.
- No Such Luck, No Such Love: When Lincoln gets hit in the face by a dodgeball, all the other kids laugh at his pain. Later, Chandler defies this by giving Lincoln his backpack and P.E. bag so that he doesn't have to enter the locker room, knowing that the other boys were planning to jump him.
- For His Own Sake: Sarah was already a Spoiled Brat before spending time at the Hinata Inn. After seeing how Naru, Motoko and most of the other residents treated Keitaro, she becomes convinced that she can get whatever she wants simply by loudly demanding it, turning violent when she doesn't get her way.
- In Angel's Egg, Izuku gets targeted by bullies for his feathers.
- Deku? I think he's some pro...: Izuku directly challenges this mentality in one of his online articles, pointing out that brushing off bullying this way results in cruelty going unpunished, as adults and teachers use this as an excuse to avoid stepping in.
- In If I Only Had A Heart, Izuku is frequently bullied and mocked by his peers not only for being Quirkless, but for legally being a cripple with his damaged spine and missing arm and eye. They constantly tell him that it's impossible for him to be a Hero and once stole his prosthetic arm from him just to see his reaction.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- The Twilight Child: Unlike what the Cutie Mark Crusaders go through, the main character was bullied as a child for having a cutie mark. And for not having wings like her mother.
- Played With in Androgyninja's A Drop of Poison. While Sasuke is incredibly cruel to Sakura, this cruelty stems from him mimicking the biases and attitudes of the adults around him. Having grown up hearing adults gossip and sneering amongst themselves about how civilian-born shinobi are 'naturally inferior', he doesn't pick up on the fact that they don't express those same views in public, and doesn't understand why Iruka is so outraged when he tells Sakura that she'll be lucky to end up Cannon Fodder.
- Ojamajo Doremi: Rise of the Shadows: The Shadow Ojamajos are the same age as their counterparts (read: ages 11-12 for the older girls, 8-9 for the Tagalong Kid, and 2-3-going-on-11-12 for their final member), but they show definite instances of malice. These instances include insulting their counterparts from behind their backs, outright attacking them when given permission, mocking them for expressing grief, and finally killing them in cold blood.
- In the prequel fic My Little Pumpkin, 7-year old Kyle Redfield is bullied for being a quiet bookworm. This sometimes results in physical assaults, more specifically bloody noses.
- In Memories Born of Fire, Spock shows Kirk a memory of being taunted by other Vulcan children over his half-blood ancestry.
- The beginning of the Star Trek (2009) fic Safe and Sound has the young Lucille Harewood confronted by two boys who accuse her of being a terrorist like her father - and proceed to beat her up for it. If she hadn't had Khan's blood in her, she would've been seriously injured.
- From the Gensokyo 20XX series, we have Yume Ni "Yu" Yakumo and it is to such a degree that the other kids prefer Reimu over her, especially, when she hits them. Apparently, she seems to have a Lack of Empathy, seeing as she tried to throw Reimu (attached to an IV) over a railing, the which of could have either killed or injured her, along with a nonchalant to eager tone about the other kids being her bitch.
