Basic Trope: A character who targets people they perceive as weaker than them.
- Straight: In school, Bob harasses, intimidates, and humiliates Charlie each and everyday.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob humiliates and beats up Charlie, even when both are adults.
- Bob bullies not just Charlie, but everyone else including the other classmates, the school staff, his friends, his parents, his siblings (especially his younger brother Dave), and his cat.
- Bob's bullying of Charlie goes so far it veers into Kick the Dog territory.
- Bob engages in Bully Brutality that traumatizes his victims for life, beginning with breaking all of Charlie's limbs in the first day of school, both for bumping into him lightly in the hallway and to demonstrate to all of the other students the living hell he is going to inflict on them.
- Downplayed:
- Bob enjoys verbally abusing Charlie.
- Some version of the Class Clown, particularly those who enjoy Insult Comedy and Shock Jock humor.
- Justified:
- It's really how Bob is.
- Bob came from a rough neighborhood and had suffered some hardships. He thinks the best way to cope is by picking on other kids.
- Bob has Abusive Parents whose abuse resulted in him having a low self-esteem. He wants to feel powerful by picking on those weaker than him.
- Bob's parents were bullies themselves, and they taught him that preying on the weak is the sign of power and it's the most effective way to gain success.
- Bob thinks that Misery Builds Character. He thinks he's "helping" the other kids to toughen up by treating them like crap.
- Inverted: Bob is a scrawny nerd who mistreats and heckles other kids who are bigger and stronger than him.
- Subverted: Bob the Bully has a Heel Realization.
- Double Subverted: He eventually forgets about it and continues to bully others.
- Parodied:
- Too Kinky to Torture
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- Zig-Zagged: Bob will be a bully to some people, while other people he acts friendly towards.
- Averted: Bob doesn't bully Charlie.
- Enforced: The creator has faced a bully before and comes up with an idea for an antagonist.
- Lampshaded: "Here comes Bob. Run!"
- Invoked: The school's principal encourages Bob as well as some other students to pick on the students he doesn't like.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob refuses to be a bully to others.
- Discussed: "Someone needs to stand up to Bob to end the bullying."
- Conversed: "It seems that every show involving school will always have that particular kid who gets away with terrorizing the smaller and weaker kids."
- Deconstructed:
- Bob's bullying gets Charlie killed, either by him going too far, or by Charlie being Driven to Suicide. Bob realizes that he's crossed a line far too late, and everyone sees him as little more than a horrible sociopath. Any attempts to genuinely apologize and redeem himself are rebuffed as being Too Little Too Late. Bob also finds himself subjected to even worse bullying due to the horror of his actions, and no one is willing to speak on his behalf because they're disgusted of him.
- Bob's bullying stems from him having no idea how to socialize and when he eventually realizes how bad he treated everyone, no one is willing to forgive him.
- Charlie fights back against Bob, but not without the help of the other victims Bob victimized. Bob pays for his sins.
- Bob's bullying is bad enough that Charlie and all of Bob's other victims jump Bob before brutally murdering him, and covering up his corpse so that nobody will notice he's gone missing.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob then realizes that since the other students don't trust him, he'll remain a bully.
- Charlie and the other victims get punished for fighting back, but Bob, who didn't learn his lesson, gets off scot free (or at least receives a lighter punishment.) Afterwards, he continues to bully others.
- Played for Drama: Bob's bullying drives Charlie to suicide.
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