History Main / GangofBullies

* In Jodie Picoult's Nineteen Minutes, Peter is the favorite target of Bully Matt, who is often aided by Drew, Courtney, and the rest of his popular friends.
* The packs of Career tributes in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

* Taken UpToEleven in ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Thanks to [[ToxicFriendInfluence Sara]], nearly all of Class 5-E bullies Chloe.

* The [[TheDreaded Kanker]] [[BlondeBrunetteRedhead Sisters]] – [[TheLeader Lee]], [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Marie]], and [[DumbBlonde May]] – in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. They're the {{Distaff|Counterpart}} and {{Evil Counterpart}}s to [[ComicTrio the Eds]].

-->-- '''Mahatma Gandhi'''

Often related to KidsAreCruel, though the occasional adult can have a small gang of followers. Often, for no apparent reason other than the head honcho seems to be crueler and more sadistic than the rest.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4408 Li'l E was attacked by one when small.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'': Buffy used to be routinely bullied by AlphaBitch Cordelia, and her trio of friends until Cordelia ended up becoming something of a friend to Buffy. Then Cordelia would be the one to suffer at the hands of her former friends. Angel would later liken them to the {{KGB}}, but with nicer shoes.

* The Troublesome Trucks from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' regularly torment the engines and enjoy making things difficult for them.

** The Rowdyruff Boys are essentially this. They're the [[SpearCounterpart Spear]] and {{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Powerpuff Girls.

* The Gross Sisters – Nubia, Olei, and Gina – on ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily''.

** The Rowdyruff Boys are essentially this. They're the {{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Powerpuff Girls.

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* Sykes, Ernie and Bernie from ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale''

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It’s so much easier to get your way with one, two, or four chums who got your back and don’t mind joining in a little intimidation. Bullies seem to be a bit of a pack species when encountered in media. Oh sure, there’s always a [[TheBully leader]], but somehow he or she has often convinced or intimidated a few other characters to follow him or her around in his or her never ending quest to be a [[JerkAss douche-bag]] to the main characters. These side characters are considered of minor importance at best, and may not even serve any purpose other than to make the group look that much more intimidating, or to simply laugh at the leader's every insult and say "Good one". (As a rule, take down the leader and the rest will melt away, for AFriendInNeed they are not; also, they tend to end up [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abandoning their leader]] whenever a tougher bully comes around ([[IFightForTheStrongestSide and join him/her instead]]) and/or disappear completely if the leader undergoes a HeelFaceTurn and joins the protagonist's circle of friends).

Often related to KidsAreCruel, though the occasional adult can have a small gang of followers. Often, for no other apparent reason other than the head honcho seems to be crueler and more sadistic than the rest.

See also the GirlPosse, usually led by the AlphaBitch, for the female equivalent. However in recent years, actual all female gangs have appeared that are involved in violent crime and drug dealing, which often are just as bad as all male gangs.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' Sakura is picked on by Ami and two other girls during her ninja academy days, until Ino defends her.
* In the ''Manga/YuGiOh'' manga, Mokuba is introduced with a group of classmates like this. After his first appearance they are never mentioned again.

* An extremely large part of the cast of ''Manga/KyouKaraOreWa'' is part of one, usually linked to their respective schools. Bonus point for the ones of Akehisa High and Hokunei High: Akehisa's gang is composed by ''every single student'', and Hokunei's is not only also composed by every single student, but ''burned down their school''.

*** Of note, Rowling draws a connection between Dudley's gang and the Marauders. In Dudleys gang there's a rat faced member named Piers (a variant of Peter).

* In Jodie Picoult's Nineteen Minutes, Peter is the favorite target of Bully Matt, who is often aided by Drew, Courtney and the rest of his popular friends.

* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'': Buffy used to be routinely bullied by AlphaBitch Cordelia, and her trio of friends until the Cordelia ended up becoming something of a friend to Buffy. Then Cordelia would be the one to suffer at the hands of her former friends. Angel would later liken them to the {{KGB}}, but with nicer shoes.

** In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", the young Gus Rosenthal is chased by a gang of bullies led by Jack Wheeldon but he runs into his future self and the bullies immediately leave as they think that the older Gus might be a G-man. Later, the bullies attack the young Gus when he is on the swings and begin to beat him up until the present day Gus intervenes.

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* Ariel of ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' is very nearly murdered by a group of her fellow students after they discovered she is a girl pretending to be male to attend their school. The nature of drow society causes there to be extreme friction between females, who want to control all of drow society as the stronger gender and the men, who desperately cling to whatever hold they can keep. She spends the rest of her time at the school suffering abuse at their hands when they fail and don't have a chance to kill her again.

* The Gross Sisters – Nubia, Olei and Gina – on ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily''.

** Lawson was often seen with a gang of fellow fifth-graders: Cheay, Jocko, Buster, Chucko Kowalski and Koreo.

** Conrad Mundy, Greg Skeens, Sue Bob Murphy, Kurst the Worst and Lazy Kid also count, though they only rarely take an aggressive role towards the main characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' has Twister's [[BigBrotherBully brother Lars]] with his three lackeys Pi, Sputz and Animal, the latter of the three was introduced in the second season.

[[caption-width-right:300:Be careful. You may not know [[MuggingTheMonster what you're getting yourself into]].]]

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* Towa Higurashi from ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon'' has been [[BullyHunter beating bullies]] since she was a child. That got her into trouble with a really criminal gang of bullies. But after she showed them what power she really had as a [[{{Youkai}} half-demon]], they fled in fear.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', there's a group of four bullies in Springfield Elementary who often pick on Bart. They're composed of Dolph (the hunched-over redhead with the PeekABangs and the green T-shirt), Jimbo (the dim-witted one with the purple knit cap and the black skull T-shirt who kinda sounds like Milhouse [Milhouse and Jimbo share Pamela Hayden as their voice actor]), and Kearney (the bald, fat one who wears a punk version of Homer Simpson's white T-shirt and blue pants, and, in later episodes [[OlderThanTheyLook is heavily implied not to be a teenager, despite looking like one]]). Nelson ("haw! haw!"), the most recognizable bully of the series, also hangs out with them from time to time and is the leader of the group. He's more sympathetic than the others, having been granted many PetTheDog moments over the years.\\
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While Nelson is the gang's leader, Jimbo is the leader whenever he is absent, which is quite often. Nelson himself was introduced in the first season with a pair of color-swapped but otherwise identical lackeys, who also occasionally appear alongside the rest of the bullies, though much less often than Nelson.