The Bully / Western Animation

• Mooch on 101 Dalmatians: The Series. Less so with his gang - while Whizzer, Dipstick, and Two-Tone (until she left the gang in "Love 'Em and Flea 'Em") are very loyal to Mooch, they're on good terms with the other puppies when he's not with them.
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius has Butch Pakovski, one of Jimmy's classmates who often picks on the other kids (especially Carl) but seemingly makes an exception for Jimmy. The episode "Safety First" had Terry Finster, an even bigger bully who even Butch was afraid of which led to Jimmy creating the Monster of the Week in an attempt to protect himself.
• The Amazing World of Gumball featured Tina Rex, a bully who is literally a Tyrannosaurus rex. It should be noted though that Tina is actually the most sympathetic of the examples due possessing Hidden Depths (a crippling fear of the dark and loneliness) and a Freudian Excuse (she only acts like this because everyone expects her to be like her much scarier father).
  • There is also Jamie, who is a very tough mischief maker and one of Tina's friends. Her bullying, initially limited to mere verbal taunts and hanging around with Tina, escalated from Season 3 onwards, which was best shown in the beginning of "The Girlfriend, where she has the run of the school unopposed and even extends her treatment to the school's staff (except her mom). Thankfully, in "The Buddy", she began showing her softer side.
  • Julius, the leader of the Gang of Bullies, is always seen leading his fellow goons in beating up or insulting the students, such as in "The Weirdo", where he mocks Sussie and gives her used gum just to Kick the Dog. "The Sucker" reveals that he's done a lot more than mere bullying to his fellow students.
• Binky Barnes on Arthur was originally conceived as one, but his Real Men Wear Pink tendencies have been played up so greatly that nobody takes him seriously as a bully anymore, when he even still tries and by the end of thr series, he's more or less become just another member of Arthur's friend group.
  • Binky's gang, The Tough Customers, are a more straight example as they are more menacing, especially Molly. However, their bullying tendencies also eventually become downplayed and towards the end of the series, they decide to give up bullying altogether.
• Cash and JT fulfill this role in the original Ben 10 series, picking on Ben at and after school when he doesn't dare use his Omnitrix powers to fight back. Deconstructed in Ben 10: Alien Force, in which the characters are older and Ben publicly calls out Cash and JT's continued attempts to bully him as juvenile and embarrassing.
• Butch Magnus from The Boondocks isn't just a bully to little kids, he's a bully to adults as well. He was actually expelled from a Catholic school for assaulting a nun while getting punished, and he managed to beat up a drill sergeant on the Maury show. Any attempts by adults to control him always result in failure.
• Reggie Bullnerd on ChalkZone, a jerkish brat who often picks on Rudy and Penny.
• Like a lot of everyday kid problems, Codename: Kids Next Door loves to feature these and exaggerate them to insane levels. In "Operation Z.O.O." a school bully that is supposedly a cannibal appears as one of the caged exhibits; in "Operation: M.A.T.A.D.O.R.", there are bullies trapping adults and driving them into a rage with coffee to fight bullfight style; and "Operation: B.U.L.L.I.E.S." depicts bullies as dinosaur-like creatures living on a Jurassic Park-like facility.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog: Eustace Bagge generally loves to harass Courage for kicks. He often does so through scaring, insulting and even physically abusing him to a degree. He usually gets smacked by Muriel for tormenting Courage.
• Biffy T. Goldstein on Detentionaire is initially presented as this, but soon becomes a close ally to Lee and his friends, and shows himself to have a soft spot for cats and to be a major tech whiz. However, he chooses to maintain his reputation as A. Nigma High's resident bully, and will occasionally remind Lee of that in a very direct manner.
• Gary from Dexter's Laboratory was a very nasty one. He wanted to beat up Dexter and two of his friends because, well... He hated "kids with funny accents", as he claimed.
• Doug:
  • Roger, though he's is a very mild example. Sure, he isn't the most pleasant person, but he's more like the neighborhood jerk than an actual bully. He holds no ill feelings toward Doug, and is even commonly included in group activities as a friend.
  • Mr Bone's nephew Percy on the other hand was definitely a bully, and tormented both Doug and Roger as often as he could a day. He physically threatened them both, to the point Doug genuinely felt sorry for Roger when the latter pitifully begged him for help.
• Dragon Tales had "Bully for You", in which Spike is a bully because he's scared and doesn't have any friends. Cassie befriends him by fixing his broken yo-yo. There's another about a dragon-basketball team that bullies Emmy.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • The Kanker Sisters have a reputation of being bullies and are feared throughout Peach Creek.
  • Kevin sometimes acts this way, though a lot of the time it seems to be justified retaliation for something Eddy has done/is trying to do to him.
  • Big Brother Bully, Eddy's brother. That's actually why Eddy turned out to be a bit of a bully himself: He thought if he acted the way, his brother did and told amazing stories about him, he'd get the same kind of attention his brother had prior to the series... Until it's revealed that he made them all up from the start.
    Eddy: I made it all up, Double D. Everything about my brother... was a lie! I made things up so people would like me. Think I was cool. But boy was I wrong. The scam, my brother, this... when am I gonna learn, Double D?
    Edd: I think you just have, Eddy.
• The Emperor's New School featured Kavo, a bully who was featured in some first season episodes but later became sort of an ally in Season 2 due to Yzma from the movie being the primary antagonist.
• Francis on The Fairly Oddparents makes an adamant schedule out of beating the ever-loving crude out of all the guys in school, his primary target, of course, being Timmy.
• Both Family Guy and it's sister show American Dad! have episodes where the main character (a Bumbling Dad no less) turns into a bully to their own kids (cliche childish mannerisms and attire included) (though in the case of the latter at least, it's to toughen one of them up). Both of these shows have at least one schoolyard bully. Family Guy has, Connie, the Alpha Bitch at Meg's school. American Dad has Stelio Kontos, Stan's Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up and the reason Stan resorted to the Tough Love experiment with Steve in the first place, as well as Luis, one of Steve's own bullies.
• Futurama: The Horrible Gelatinous Blob's son Brett Blob from The Route of All Evil acts as one towards Dwight and Cubert, Hermes and the Professor's respective son and clone.
• Sperg from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, who is usually seen picking on Billy or Irwin, though even he knows to stay away from Mandy. However, Mandy as her own bully in Alpha Bitch Mindy, though it's more because Mindy isn't smart enough to realize one should not get on Mandy's bad side.
• Hey Arnold!!:
  • Harold starts off this way, but as the show develops he becomes too ineffectual and soft hearted to really pull it off anymore, which is likely why Wolfgang was introduced.
  • Wolfgang, of course, took over this role for the rest of the series, as unlike Harold and Helga, he has no redeeming qualities and takes great pleasure in tormenting the other 4th graders.
  • Helga similarly keeps up this role with great enthusiasm, but only to hide her real personality.
• Shannon from Home Movies is a surprisingly affable version. On the one hand, he's willingly admitted to breaking into cars, stealing, and beating people up to get his way. On the other hand, he always keeps a pleasant tone of voice, and seems to genuinely consider Brendon, Melissa, and Jason his friends (despite the fact that he's physically and verbally threatened them on occasion).
• In I Got a Rocket, the Duckies are a trio of siblings who terrorize the entire school, but most especially Vinnie Q.
• King has Cliff, the previous ruler of Under, who targets Russel as his victim because he wants that position again. He was also this to his subjects before Russel became the new king, to the point where his title was "the Grim"; his former second-in-command, Bob Wire, is even one of the primary antagonists.
• King of the Hill:
  • Bobby has dealt with three in the form of Dooley, Clark Peters, and Chane Wassanasong. Dooley is able to make everything he says an insult with his monotone voice and emphasis on the last word, and at one point harassed substitute teacher Peggy so badly (to the point of pantsing her in class) she actually spanked him. Dooley's parents had no ill will towards Peggy and a good idea that Dooley probably did something to deserve it. After that Dooley and Clark are similar to Roger Klotz in that they're just a couple of local jerks. Chane, on the other hand, is an egotistical jock and honors student who refers to himself as "The Chane Train" and is something of an Abhorrent Admirer to Connie, much to her revulsion and her parents' delight. At first quite willing to inflict physical abuse on Bobby, Chane has stuck to verbal abuse ever since Bobby kicked him in the groin.
  • Hank Hill once had to deal with a bully of his own, who was in fact a young child named Caleb. Said child was a totally spoiled brat whose parents wrote off everything he did as being "precocious and high-spirited" while he went about harassing Hank and calling him weird names like "White Shirt" and "Dusty Old Bones". All the while, there was little Hank could actually do since Caleb wasn't his child and Hank was a much bigger adult. When Hank had taken Caleb's bike after he tried to wreck his lawn, Caleb's parents called the police and Hank was depicted as the bully. Hank finally managed to get Caleb's parents to punish him by asking Bobby to act towards them the same way Caleb acted towards him.
  • Dale Gribble, yes, that Dale Gribble. Whenever Dale and Hank have a fight, Dale will bully Hank mercilessly, which is hilarious since Hank was popular jock in high school and Dale was a loser who made it through because he was friends with Hank and the other guys. Examples of Dale bullying Hank include the mooning episode, the diminished glute race, and the Tico’s Tacos adventure.
• Hilda the cat and her two unnamed friends provide a very rare all-female bully clique in Lenny And Sid's debut video "Love Thy Neighbor".
• Let's Go Luna!:
  • The Brawn Brothers, Crispy and Jumbo, from "Boomin' Boomerang", which is part of the reason why they're The Dreaded.
  Crispy: Hey, Fin, I didn't know you're babysitting newbies now!
  • Ace from "Fast Food" repeatedly bullies Tyrone for being "weak" and "slow". Like the Brawn Brothers, Ace is a sports champion, but unlike them, he actually has In-Universe fans for some reason.
• Littlest Pet Shop (2012) has had at least two: Wiggles McSunbask, a more stereotypical type who aggressively asserts himself upon everyone he knows and does so because he thinks this is how he should behave; and Tangier, a more realistic type who puts on a nice-guy act but psychologically disrupts Russell in secret. Russell and Zoe don't even attempt to get through to Tangier because they know it's impossible; they humiliate him instead. Both of them, however, do try to make themselves appear harmless and friendly when in the presence of authority figures so they don't suspect a thing, Tangier even going out of his way to show he's helpful so they side with him instead of Russell.
• Zigzagged in Little Wizards; Gump is aggressive and headstrong enough that he tries to boss the other monsters around when he thinks he can, but the only one who will listen to him is the timid, anxiety-riddled Boo... and even Boo will often find the courage to stand up to him.
• Jesse from Looped is Port Doover Elementary's resident bully. His favorite tactic is to stuff other kids into a box and then fart in said box to let his victim then gag on the fumes. Ironically, he's also a Friend to All Living Things who loves animals to the point of being a strict vegetarian.
• Chloé Bourgeois from Miraculous Ladybug is another good example. Being the daughter of the mayor of Paris, she is also known for bullying many students at Collège Françoise Dupont, including Marinette.
• Bradley Nicholson from Milo Murphy's Law is a complicated case as he is a jerkass who takes every opportunity to insult or deride Milo Murphy, his sitcom archnemesis though unlike other male examples, he’s never a physical bully towards him.
• Joe on Moral Orel. He's a brat and a jerk to Orel, often taking advantage of him, as well as teaching him to beat up two kissing boys.
• Virgil "Bull" Sharkowski from My Gym Partner's a Monkey, particularly towards Adam. It's incredibly appropriate how the bully of an all-animal school is a shark.
• Brit and Tiff Crust from My Life as a Teenage Robot are a pair of Alpha Bitches whose greatest joy is to make school as miserable as possible for Jenny/XJ-9.
• My Little Pony:
  • My Little Pony 'n Friends: Grogar's sidekick, the donkey Bray, enjoys mocking and pettily tormenting the heroes whenever they are captured, surrounded or helpless. However, as soon as they are in a position to fight back, he runs away.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "One Bad Apple", the Cutie Mark Crusaders meet Apple Bloom's visiting cousin from Manehattan, Babs Seed, who quickly turns on them when Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon start taunting them. After weeks of endless torment by Babs, the CMC plan their retaliation only to learn during its execution from Applejack that Babs is visiting to get a respite from terrible harassment she herself is suffering at home. Realizing that Babs was acting as she is to prevent being a target again, they save Babs. Afterward, the CMC make it clear that they understand Babs' situation and she is so moved at their generosity of spirit that they reconcile and even gives Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon what for when they keep harassing the CMC.
• Olliver's Adventures: At his school, Ollie has to put up with Cray and his friends. In one episode, Ollie finds a cardbouard cut-out of various characters, Cray included, that let other enter their bodies and control them. Needless to say, Craig gets put through the ringer in this episode. [[spoiler:It makes Ollie realize he's become like Cray.
• The Bully Brothers from The Perils of Penelope Pitstop aren't so much bullies as they are inept henchmen to the Hooded Claw. A comic book story, "The Great Space Chase" (Fun-In #2, Gold Key, May 1970) had the Claw identifying them as "my bullies."
• Pete from Mickey Mouse and other Disney cartoons. The extent of his bullying tendencies varies. Sometimes he's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, which only comes out in certain situations. In others, he's a straight-up kidnapper.
• Buford of Phineas and Ferb. However, he's actually a Punch-Clock Villain who spends far more time hanging out with the main characters than bullying them, falling somewhere between a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and a low-grade Token Evil Teammate. In some ways he could be considered a major subversion of the trope. His first appearance plays out much like a traditional "bully episode" ending with them coming to an understanding. Unlike most examples, where said bully is never mentioned again, he immediately became part of the core cast.
• Another all-female example are the Gross Sisters from The Proud Family, who often compel Penny and her friends to hand them their cash.
• Red Herring from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. He doesn't do much apart from confront the gang (mostly to Freddy) while they're on a case, only he's brushed aside as no more than a nuisance.
• Bash Johnson from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja is Norrisville High's resident Jerk Jock and bully who amuses himself by picking on all the other kids at school, especially freshman protagonists Randy and Howard, band geek Bucky Hensletter, and Perky Goth Julian. He also happens to be the stepson of the show's villain Hannibal McFist.
• Rick and Morty seems to have quite the hatred of this trope, as all of Morty's bullies seem to get killed in some way:
  • There is Frank from the pilot episode who has a very psychopathic exchange/threatening conversation with Morty before Rick promptly steps in and freezes Frank solid with an ice ray. A few seconds later Summer finds him and while thinking about how they'll get married Frank is knocked over and smashes into a billion pieces.
  • The season 4 premiere features bullies who challenge Morty to a fight after he gains power after learning he'll die with Jessica. He uses the power to create weapons out of thin air and has them all killed, and the police is promptly called (but also gets defeated).
• Angelica from Rugrats is definitely one of these, as she uses her slightly older age as an advantage in order to hold power above the babies as well as taunting and falsely scaring them.
• South Park:
  • Although nine times out of ten the children in the show are, to some extent, bullies (whether those of the physical variety, emotional variety, giving-you-a-Wedgie variety, or all three combined), later this trait is accentuated on Craig and Cartman.
  • Lessened for other kids however, as the show aimed for more sympathetic Character Development and restructured most of the kids into Only Sane Men. Most of the bullying traits have been placed and exaggerated onto Cartman (to monsterous levels), with even Craig acting as little more than a Deadpan Snarker in later seasons.
  • In "Butterballs" Butters is secretly bullied and beat up by his own grandma. She even follows him to school and bullies him in the bathroom. It's a running gag in the episode where people go to the bathroom to find a bully there waiting there for them. Even more so when Butters attempts to find inner strength by donning the costume of Professor Chaos, only to have Grandma show up in a costume of her own, complete with black cape.
• The Simpsons:
  • Nelson Muntz is Springfield Elementary resident bully. Originally depicted as Bart's brutish archnemesis, he has mellowed out a fair bit over the course of the series, thanks to Character Development, and is generally depicted as more of a friend of Bart who isn't above punching or mocking his classmates every so often.
  • Jimbo, Kearny, and Dolph, a trio of teenage (?) delinquents who are usually shown picking on the kids around Springfield Elementary (usually under the command of Nelson) or engaging in illegal activities. However, they've also shown a surprising amount of Hidden Depths throughout the show.
  • There's also Francine Rhenquist, who appeared in "Bye, Bye, Nerdie" to antagonize Lisa. In fact, her tormenting of Lisa motivates the latter to do research on why bullies pick on nerds, and she discovers that nerds emit a certain pheromone that causes bullies to go berserk in their presence.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • The character Bubble Bass, who was introduced in Season 1's "Pickles," was initially framed as a bully-ish sort of character as well as an arch rival to Spongebob (though in recent episodes he's been largely depicted as more of a snobbish Geek character than a straight-up bully).
  • An episode from Season 3 (which, fittingly enough, is literally called "The Bully") has a new student at boating school named Flats, a flounder who terrifies Spongebob by repeatedly threatening to "kick [his] butt".
  • SpongeBob's beefy cousin, BlackJack, was a relentless bully to Spongebob when they were both kids. He was so harsh towards his younger cousin that in the Season 5 episode of the same name, Spongebob suspects that he kidnapped his parents after finding them to be missing from their house. BlackJack appears later on at the end of the episode, although in a bit of a subversion of the trope it's revealed that he is now no longer even any bigger than Spongebob's feet, rendering him entirely harmless.
• Squirrel Boy:
  • Kyle and Salty Mike are a recurring duo of no-good bullies who persistently harass and torment Andy and Rodney for little to no good reason.
  • In "Bully for You", there's a bully squirrel named Butch who kicks Leon out of his tree.
• Total Drama has a few of these among its cast of teen stereotypes.
  • Eva, who is literally labelled as "The Female Bully". She is an aggressive and violent Jerk Jock with a Hair-Trigger Temper who takes her anger out on those who can't fight back. When brought back to the island halfway through Season 1, she immediately starts picking on the gentle and pacifistic Bridgette for getting her voted off the island the first time even though Heather was actually the one responsible.
  • Duncan is a tough and mean juvenile delinquent who enjoys stirring up trouble, tries to tick people off for the sake of getting reactions out of them, and is very mean towards nerds like Harold and Cody.
  • Jo of Revenge of the Island too. She shares Eva's tough, harsh, and merciless attitude, particularly towards those she sees as weaklings, like Cameron and Brick. She also frequently hurls insulting nicknames at others and humiliates them.
  • Heather also counts, being the show's take on the Alpha Bitch stereotype. Same with Amy from Pahkitew Island, although mainly towards her sister Sammy.
  • The 2023 reboot/revival introduces Ripper, a boorish and abrasive self-proclaimed “Alpha Male” who mocks the smarter members of his team as “nerds”, pushes others around (especially women), and is extremely confrontational. He’s first seen dutch rubbing an intern for fun, and in his audition tape, he boasts about pooping in someone’s purse as a prank.
• Steve Palchuck from Trollhunters is a jock and the school bully that does all of the various stereotypical things bullies do (stuff people into lockers, cheats at contests, etc.), though his intimidation factor is deflated after Jim knocks out his front tooth, giving his voice a slobbery tone with a whistle between his teeth.

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