Trevor Larkin’s dad practically runs their hometown, so Trevor can bully anyone he wants and get away with it every time… until one day, he bullies the wrong person.
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- And There Was Much Rejoicing: In the new reality where Trevor is no longer in a position to terrorize anyone, everyone is said by the narrator to be much, much happier.
- Awful Wedded Life: Trevor's dad seems happy with all his privilege, but his wife Kendra, who's clearly a much younger Trophy Wife, is miserable. She avoids kissing him with the excuse that she doesn't want to mess up her makeup, and meekly tries to suggest that they be less horrible and abusive to others in town. In the new reality she's happily married to a busker, who's now rich.
- Big Jerk on Campus: Since his dad controls the whole town, Trevor can bully everyone at school, even the teachers, and never receive any punishment, unless someone wants to get fired or lose their school funding.
- Bullying the Disabled: Trevor considers Evan an easy target partially because he has a prosthetic leg.
- The Dog Bites Back: Once people recognize Trevor in his new, wimpy body, they immediately decide to seek physical retribution for his years of terrorizing them and begin to mob them.
- Exact Words: The witch assured Trevor that when he woke up in the morning, the world would be as it should. Note the very specific word choice: "As it should be", not "As it was before."
- For the Evulz: Trevor bullies everyone in town just for laughs.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: The only episode that focuses on a jerk who doesn't get his lesson and instead we get a Karmic Twist Ending.
- If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Trevor is only saved from an angry mob by the grace of the last kid he bullied, because as he says if they go through with it they'll all be no better than him.
- Ignored Epiphany: Trevor promised to be nicer if things were set back to the way they were before. When they seem to have been restored, Trevor immediately casts aside what he promised and declares its payback time. Too bad the world has been changed to strip him on his "get out of jail free" card.
- Ironic Hell: Trevor relied on his money and status as the son of the founding family to let him get away with whatever he wanted. In the new reality, he’s no longer rich or part of a powerful family.
- Jerkass: Trevor. In spades.
- Karmic Transformation: Trevor Larkin is a large bully who gets turned into a small, wimpy kid as punishment for physically abusing others.
- Karmic Twist Ending: Trevor gets his body back, believing that everything is back to the way it was before, and gets ready to go back to his normal routine of bullying the town… until he finds his dad working as a gardener. The sign for the town now says Burgerville instead of Larkinville, meaning now Evan’s family runs the town. This means that Trevor no longer has a fortune to inherit, or the power to get away with bullying.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Trevor makes everyone’s lives in Larkinville a living hell, even the adults, and gets away with it because his family founded the town. Evan’s grandmother punished him by making him small and weak and removing everyone’s fear of him. When Trevor has an Ignored Epiphany, the witch resets the world so that his family is no longer rich or important.
- Reality Warper: Throughout the story, Evan’s grandmother turns Trevor into a small wimp, removes the people of Larkinville’s fear of Trevor’s dad, turns Trevor back to normal, and even changes history so that the Burger family founded the town instead of the Larkins, with the town now being called Burgerville.
- Scars Are Forever: Trevor has a distinguishing scar on his chin which is the sole thing people recognize him by after he's transformed.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: The Larkins control all of Larkinville. They provide school funding, run the companies that give people jobs, and own the buildings where others live. As such, Trevor Larkin is free to bully anyone and everyone unlucky enough to cross his path. A mom who tried to stand up for her son who got his nose hurt by Trevor got fired and evicted.
- Sycophantic Servant: At school, Trevor has a toady who both constantly sucks up to him and encourages him to abuse others. He isn't seen after the first day.
- Villain Protagonist: Trevor, the main character of the story, is a bully.
