History Main / KidsareCruel

* KidsAreCruel/Other

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* Many 90's kid-aimed commercials glorified this trope, with kids joyfully behaving in ways that even most real-life kids would find repulsive.
** A good example is the Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats commercials of the mid-90's, which not only exemplified KidsVersusAdults but often had cartoonishly sassy children doing things almost no decently raised kid would even want to do in real life, such as squirting (reasonably nice) old ladies with garden hoses.
** [[CerealViceReward Kids in cereal commercials]] are especially cruel to mascots, with the most notorious examples being Lucky and the Trix Rabbit, who will never get to keep or have their respective cereals thanks to them.
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[[folder:Fan Fic]]
* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' reveals that ''Calvin once drove his school psychiatrist mad.''
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[[folder:Music]]
* Check out ''Girlfriend'' by Avril Lavigne for an example where the bully is the protagonist.
* GymClassHeroes' third album is called ''As Cruel as School Children''.
* TheWho's ''{{Tommy}}'' features cousin Kevin.
* The whole point of JohnPeel favorites Furious Pig's "I Don't Like Your Face."
* The video for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TsCud9QhU Mass Destruction]] by Faithless has kids engaging in fist fights.
* While Mark Wills' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVjbo8dW9c8&ob=av2e Don't Laugh At Me]] is about cruelty in different settings, the first verse covers examples of kid/teen cruelty very nicely.
* All BUT TaylorSwift's character in the video for "Mean" are bullied by other kids.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* ''{{Nebulous}}'':
-->'''Nebulous:''' At school... they called me "Nobulous"
-->'''Rory''': Ha ha ha ha... er... Ahem hem, er, kids can be so cruel.
* ''AdventuresInOdyssey'': Liz Horton was a rather nice girl, but you wouldn't know this from her first appearances. In two episodes, the first she repeatedly teases a girl about how ugly her clothes are, (([[CardCarryingVillain even informing her that she was talking about her]])), and in the other episode she is so mean at times, you just want to reach through the speakers and punch the ever living tar out of her.
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[[folder: Tabletop Games]]
* ''KidWorld'', from the somewhat obscure company of Vajra Enterprises, is a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] ''LordOfTheFlies'' on a global scale after a plague kills ninety percent of humanity and leaves all the adults blind. Earth is a giant shithole.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Tedd of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has been made fun of since he was small for being androgynous; his AU counterpart went nuts from the strain. Justin has been teased since early high school for being gay. Susan has always been considered a weird feminist, but she got really reamed for a few days after showing up at school in the boys' uniform.
* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', it seems that prior to Antimony's arrival, the entire Queslett North class made a point of ostracizing Kat Donlan, simply because she got good grades and had teachers for parents.
** Part of this newfound respect for Kat may be simple fear of Annie. Its shown that despite the class having respect for her, they're kind of freaked out by her EmotionlessGirl status at the same time. Ironically, this makes Kat the sociable one and Annie the quiet one, as the class tend to ask Kat to pass messages along to Annie. Kat, naturally, calls them on this.
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', the children aboard Castle Wulfenbach are noted by Tarvek in [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090914 this comic]] as tormenting and picking on each other all the time. Lineage, as he comments, was a favored excuse, with them taking any chance to "one up" each other and thusly claim a reason to bully their "lessers" around.
** This might be UnreliableNarrator, as Tarvek is not unbiased on the subject. Though they're old enough to mostly not be "kids" any more, only one of the Castle students (Princess Zulenna) goes out of her way to be cruel to Agatha when she's living with them, despite everyone at the time thinking Agatha is a commoner nobody.
*** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031215 As Sleipnir noted]], by this time active Sparks among them became more confident in their power, however much they have. And, ahem, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100906 found other things to do with their free time]].
* In ''WhatBirdsKnow'', this trope forms a major part of the [[{{Backstory}} backstories]] of the three girls during {{flashback}}s.
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[[folder: Web Original]]
* In the ''{{lonelygirl15}}'' episode "Poor Pluto", it is revealed that Bree was bullied by the other kids at school because she liked to ask questions about stars. However, in the following episode, "I Want to Take Bree to a Party", Daniel claims that [[strike:it was just teasing and that Bree takes things really seriously]] they were a bunch of mindless jerks who didn't give a crap about her feelings. Seriously, spreading rumors about her having an affair with her teacher?
* Adam from ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief''.
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* Majin Buu of ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' had the mentality of a child without a conception of right or wrong, so he quite cheerfully obliterated anything that wasn't entertaining. After Mr. Satan befriended him, Buu slowly began to evolve a sense of morality.
** Taken even further when Buu's pure form is revealed: Kid Buu. This form is hinted to only have as much power as Super Buu, but lacks any of the restraint displayed by his other incarnations. He's a complete psychopath, as demonstrated when he ''[[EarthShatteringKaboom destroyed the planet he was standing on]]''.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied''. Lucy gets a {{backstory}} like this, where she gets tormented by cruel kids because of her "cute little horns" and her [[EmotionlessGirl emotionlessness]]. Their [[MoralEventHorizon most despicable act]] was to [[spoiler: force her to watch as they beat the little puppy that she had started caring for to death, just to get any kind of reaction from her at all]]. Lucy [[spoiler:[[BewareTheNiceOnes snaps and]] [[YourHeadAsplode splatters everyone all over the room with her powers]]]].
* ''PeachGirl'': Momo is bullied by Sae throughout the course of the story, because Sae is jealous of her for getting more attention and hates her, though Sae often lies to people about this, trying to convince people that [[WoundedGazelleGambit it is * Momo* who is bullying her.]] And she succeeds for a while before she finally gets what's coming to her. Also Momo is put down by her classmates and other people for having tan skin and bleached blonde hair, because they believe that she is a major ''party girl'' who spends all her time tanning at the beach; they also sometimes insulted her by calling her a slut because Sae tricked them into thinking that Momo stole Toji from her when [[spoiler: it was really Sae who was trying to steal Toji from Momo]], which, in reality, is entirely wrong, as Momo is actually a really nice girl, it's Sae who's the ManipulativeBitch.
* Candy's step-siblings Eliza and Neil Reagan in ''CandyCandy''. They are so utterly cruel, that it's unthinkable to even feel a twinge of admiration or sympathy towards them. Worst is the RichBitch Eliza, whose motivation for making Candy's life hell is: ''[[ForTheEvulz because she can]]''. If that doesn't convince you enough, wait until you see the episode about Eliza getting temporarily grounded, whereas she will make up a monologue that explains that ''she really loves violence'', especially towards people that can be picked on, like Candy. So she not only did it because she can, she also LOVES and takes joy in doing it.
* Tetsuo from ''Manga/{{Akira}}''. In a scene after Tetsuo, in the full throes of his [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity psychic megalomania]], kills fellow gang member Yamagata, Kaneda reflects on how everyone in his school had teased Tetsuo and tried to make him cry.
* Sakura's classmates in ''[[LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan]]'' are an extreme example of this.
* ''{{Narutaru}}'' contains [[AlphaBitch Aki Honda]] and her GirlPosse, who manage the rather impressive feat of turning schoolyard bullying into a monstrous act when they [[spoiler:''rape'' one of the side characters, Hiroko, ''[[{{Squick}} with a test tube]]'']]; and as if that's not nasty enough, [[spoiler:the original plan was to ''kick Hiroko in the stomach'' while the test tube was inside her!]]. Once [[spoiler:Hiroko]] obtains her [[{{Mon}} dragonet]], she gets her revenge... in ''[[ItGotWorse very]]'' [[ItGotWorse bloody fashion]].
* Gaara of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. Yes, make the kid who contains a gigantic malevolent sand demon upset. That's definitely going to score points.
** This could've happened to Naruto as well (since Gaara is Naruto's EvilCounterpart), but he never actually did anything about it because he never knew ''why'' the adults were treating him like the plague. Thankfully, none of his classmates knew either.
* ''Manga/DeathNote'' has Teru Mikami, whose childhood involved having to deal with asshole kids. As a result, when Mikami gets his hands on the titular ArtifactOfDoom in the second half of the series, he develops the philosophy that past middle school, anyone who commits a cruel act is basically unredeemable and should be, to use his favorite term, "deleted." By the end of the anime, he's become the most psychotic of all the Kiras, with the much-contested title of "Craziest Character in the Series."
* ''{{Bokurano}}'' has several examples of this trope as well -- the major victim would be Mako Nakarai, who is bullied mercilessly because her mother is a prostitute.
** Kodama is a [[VillainProtagonist protagonist]] version. He cares little for other life (he says that if something dies it's their destiny, shoots cats regularly, and in the anime boils a crab alive using a firecracker), to the point where he kills dozens of people while driving the mecha. [[spoiler:He accidentally kills his father, sending him into a HeroicBSOD, right before he dies.]] Ushiro also counts, being easy to anger and quite violent toward his younger sister.
* ''FlameOfRecca'' is all over this trope. For most (if not all) of the characters with tragic pasts (such as Fuuko, Kaoru, Kurei, and many others), a good part of said past was being tormented by other kids, who take it to extreme heights for seemingly no reason other than the fun of being evil little bastards. One of the tormented kids ([[spoiler:Kaoru]]) was even driven to attempt suicide, and a few others considered it.
* ''LightNovel/KazeNoStigma'': Kazuma was born into [[WitchSpecies a prestigious family of fire users]] yet had no talent in the arts at all, not even the standard immunity to fire that even the weakest branch members had. Consequently, as a child, he was regularly beaten and tortured with fire by the other children, ranging from 5 year olds to teenagers. At least one time, they were ''seriously going to kill him''.
* Mad Pierrot from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has regressed to having a child's mind from sadistic experiments, and as Jet puts it, there's nothing as purely cruel as a child.
* Toyed with in ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]''; when [[TheRival Ryoga Hibiki]] and [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Ranma Saotome]] were kids, they went to the same all-boys Junior High, which had a policy of simply flinging out the stuff from the lunch shop and letting the students fight over it. Ranma would consistently beat Ryoga when they went after the same piece of food, but otherwise got on with him okay enough that he would regularly [[NoSenseOfDirection lead Ryoga to and from his home]], to the point Ranma still remembers where Ryoga lives better then Ryoga does. Eventually, Ryoga got sick of Ranma beating him in combat and challenged him to a duel; when he took four days to get there and found Ranma had left, he set off after him to try and get that match. Initially, however, he didn't seem to really be mad at Ranma, more wanting to settle the score. When he wandered into Jusenkyo, however, he fell into the Spring of Drowned Piglet in an incident involving a girl and a panda, and he promptly blamed Ranma for it, becoming much more furious and even declaring he wanted to kill Ranma. Things kind of peaked when he found out Ranma was actually at fault, but it quickly petered out; much as they squabble and bicker, the two watch each other's backs and save each other's lives on a regular basis.
* ''TheDriftingClassroom'' is a prime example of this. When the school is transported into a CrapsackWorld and the kids get more and more desperate they start doing horrific stuff such as killing each other with spears and knives for food, burning a fellow student on a cross, and even ([[spoiler:EATING A DEAD STUDENT'S REMAINS.]])
* ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'': This is Rosa's justification for her treatment of Maria (or what she tells people anyway; in Maria's backstory we find out that [[spoiler: Rosa hates her a good deal for just existing]]). Her excuse is basically, "All the children make fun of her! Don't you see?! Beating her will obviously make her stop whining!"
** [[spoiler: Bern and Lambda]] as well.
** Not to mention Ange's classmates.
* Episode 10 of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' had Menchi get chased by a mob of kids all trying to pelt her with rocks, apparently for no reason other than the fact that she was there. Not to mention that the only one that talks is a little potty-mouth.
* ''RosarioPlusVampire'': Moka Akashiya was teased and bullied because of her vampire origins when she was a kid.
* While usually not apparent in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' it appears a few times. Such as [[spoiler:in the "perfect world".]]
* ''DeadmanWonderland'': It must be something that in a world of super-powered sadists some the cruelest characters are ''{{muggle}} bullies'' whose victims later became the twisted un-powered (or at least not till recently) playthings/enforcers of the prison. Examples include kitten killing, possible rape, and playing Othello on a kid's back ''with thumbtacks''. And this is ''before'' the devastating earthquake that plunged the land into chaos.
** In terms of just plain AxCrazy, [[spoiler: Little Hibana killed a classmate while in kindergarten; Minatsuki killed her mom for abandoning her during the earthquake and her dad just to see if her brother was gullible enough to think their loving dad would try to rape her (he's not, he just has a huge BigBrotherInstinct, which she finds incredibly comforting). Minatsuki's current pastimes are sadism, {{Blood Sport}}s, and gardening.]]
* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', [[TheRival Kenny]] looks this way when we find out the backstory of "Dee Dee", the EmbarrassingNickname he hung on Dawn.
* LitchiHikariClub combines this with AmbiguousInnocence to produce nine [[{{Bishounen}} rather androgynous]] eighth grade boys who commit ColdBloodedTorture on a regular basis.
* in {{Redrum 327}} Hyeri. [[spoiler:At mere eight years old, Hyeri locked Gahui up in an abandoned safe in the middle of a forest, where Gahui ended up being trapped for four days while it rained, nearly drowning as a result.]]
* The children of Ohara were like this to Nico Robin in her tragic backstory in OnePiece.
* [[MeaningfulName Wrath]] from the first ''FullmetalAlchemist'' anime is an extreme embodiment of this; his childish, emotionally underdeveloped nature makes him a vicious tool of destruction, as seen when he sadistically kills [[spoiler: Lust]].
* Marie's classmates in HiganbanaNoSakuYoruNi call her a ''youkai'' to her face, boys flip her skirt up, and she's usually forced to do all the cleaning herself. One scene has a girl stab Marie's hand with a pencil for mumbling "Oh, really?" during a group discussion, [[SlasherSmile saying "Youkai shouldn't talk."]]
* The kids of {{Soil}} [[UncannyVillage New Town]] aren't as [[StepfordSmiler perfect]] as they appear. "She was our friend" is actually "we talked occasionally but she was a weird outsider and then [[spoiler: she fell into a narcoleptic sleep so we left her in the middle of the road to be almost raped]]" while another group of boys ID their mysterious leader from [[spoiler: the burn where they set his hair on fire]]. Then again the boys have an excuse, considering they're all [[spoiler: ''current'' victims of their pedophile rapist dentist (their real leader, a high schooler, is also a victim, as are the slightly older rapists who raped his friend), although they don't know the connection, they just want [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds to destroy this lame world]] ]].
* [[Manga/BlackLagoon Hansel]] [[CreepyTwins and]] Gretel. They kill everyone in a bar (even though they were just targeting two people), tortured a man to death, and being insane sociopaths in general. [[HarmfulToMinors They probably weren't always like this though]].
* In ''Manga/SangatsuNoLion'', Rei heavily implies that he was bullied in his younger years both in a passing statement about his school life in comparison to his home life and in his insistence to Hayashida-sensei to not spread the fact that he's a professional shogi player to his new classmates.
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Lelouch was often the victim of this from young Japanese kids in his earliest days there, including his would be best friend, Suzaku.
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[[folder: Comic Books]]
* The ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' in every incarnation displays this trope. X-Men being what they are, this is liable to fall under BullyingADragon.
* This plays into a notable event in Roschach's past in ''{{Watchmen}}''. [[spoiler: Rorschach was the son of a prostitute who often beat him. One day, when he was ten years old and sent out to get some milk, two fifteen-year-old boys accosted him and kept up the taunt of "whoreson" and demanded to be hooked up with Rorschach's mother. Rorschach, at age ten, partially blinded one boy with the boy's own cigarette, and swarmed the other one. Rorschach was taken into custody, and then put in state school when his home life was discovered.]]
* In the ''CalvinAndHobbes'' Tenth Anniversary Collection, Watterson muses a bit on the character of Moe, who was written as a bully from a child's perspective; which is to say that being a jerk is Moe's only purpose.
** Moe is, in fact, the only recurring character in the entire strip not intended to be treated with any sympathy whatsoever.
* The way Charlie Brown is treated in ''{{Peanuts}}'', most of the kids could count for this (except Linus and Marcie most of the time)
* The Plutonian, from {{Irredeemable}}, was forced to put up with bullying, as a child, because any retaliation could have killed the kids bullying him. After his FaceHeelTurn, he uses that to justify his willingness to murder children.

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* ''LittleSweetheart'' - Thelma is pretty much pure evil, tormenting adults and her only friend more and more as the movie goes on. Even her friend, Elizabeth, becomes pretty cruel [[spoiler:for a bit, but ends up redeeming herself. It almost equals death, instead becoming life in the last few seconds.]]
* ''[[LetTheRightOneIn Let the Right]] [[TheFilmOfTheBook One In]]'' - The three bullies can get pretty mean. Oskar, his victim, is clearly [[StartOfDarkness getting a little creepy]]. Then comes the big brother whose cruelty scares even the bullies, and of course, finally Eli.
* ''{{Carrie}}'' - A textbook example not just of Kids are Cruel, but of just what happens when you bully the character with telekinetic powers.
* ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' movie - Even after Matt is blinded, the kids still pick on him. Although to be fair, before Matt agrees to fight them, they turn away, presumably to leave. They may have physically hurt him when he could see, but it seems like they weren't about to cross that line anymore.
* ''TheButterflyEffect'' - Look at the nerd! He has no arms and no legs! Ha ha ha!
** It's played with, given how the bully can be a better or worse person depending on how the events are dealt with.
* ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' movie - Look at the freak, let's throw rocks at her! She doesn't talk, she's a freaky EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette, [[BullyingADragon weird fires keep starting arou]]-- (EarthShatteringKaBoom!)
* ''{{Unbreakable}}.'' [[spoiler: "They called me Mister Glass."]]
* This example was inspired by an old, long-forgotten LittlestCancerPatient movie where the main character was bullied when they found out he had cancer. (Which can happen in real life.)
* ''TheMonsterSquad''. Even the kids we like are vicious little creeps at times.
* Subverted and played straight in ''TheOrphanage''. [[spoiler: Let's be mean to the deformed kid! Damn it, now we're ghosts. Let's try to help this lady find her missing son! Damn it, now they're both ghosts.]]
* The protagonists in ''DrillbitTaylor'' are constantly menaced by two bullies, one of whom is completely psychopathic. Not only do they perform the normal bully tactics, but at one point the bullies chase the protagonists with a car, apparently in an attempt to ''murder them for trying to report their behavior''. What makes this even worse is that most of this is done in plain sight of the rest of the kids in school ''and they do absolutely nothing about it'', at least until the protagnists finally grow some backbone and kick some bully ass.
* The flashbacks in ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'' showed that it was, among other things, being relentlessly bullied by other children that drove Freddy Krueger to become a killer. Pretty horribly, the kids were shown teasing him about how he was conceived when his mother was raped by mental patients ("Son of a hundred maniacs! Son of a hundred maniacs!")
** Also revealed to be part of the inspiration for Jason Voorhees' rampages in ''Film/FreddyVsJason''. You'd think Freddy would have a ''little'' sympathy. Oh, wait, that's right, it's Freddy Krueger.
* In the 2009 ''Film/StarTrek,'' we discover that even Vulcan kids display this tendency towards HalfHumanHybrid Spock. Being Vulcans, they're quite stoic and formal about it.
** Spock: "Have you prepared more insults for me today?" - Vulcan boy: "Affirmative."
*** Of course, even the logical-as-hell Vulcan kids can't resist crossing the line by mentioning [[YourMom Spock's mother]]. [[BerserkButton Beatdown from Spock ensues]].
** This was actually established the TOS episode "Journey to Babel".
* The 1993 movie ''Film/TheGoodSon''. Although, Macaulay Culkin's character is more than just cruel...
* Used on a couple of occasions in ''SchindlersList'', such as the little girl screaming "Goodbye, Jews!" as they're being rounded up, and the boy who grins and makes a throat-slitting gesture at the cattle cars heading towards the extermination camp.
* The entire ''KarateKid'' series including the fourth one is filled with bullies that are mean to the point of over top idiocy; sometimes it's influenced by an adult who enforces this behavior. In the remake not only are they cruel but also racist.
* In ''KungFuHustle'', in a flashback to his childhood, the AntiHero protagonist attempted to protect a mute girl from a group of bullies who were ganging up on her. They then proceed to turn around and beat him up instead, and afterwards, they even ''pee'' on him. This is when the protagonist says he decided to turn to a life of crime.
* ''Film/RealGenius'' features a group of college students selected for early advancement due to their intelligence. Naturally, they tend to come from backgrounds where they were bullied for this. Mitch, the main protagonist, describes to his roommate Chris how he was once stuffed into a mailbox by the {{Jerk Jock}}s at his old school.
* From ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', we have Sid, Andy's next door neighbor, who decapitates his sister's dolls and crudely fixes them onto anything he finds. Oh yeah, he enjoys burning holes into toys and strapping them to rockets. Thankfully averted with Andy, who cares very much for his toys, even when he's a teenager and had outgrown, as shown in the third film.
** Played straight again in the third film with the daycare children, though excused in that they're too young to understand that some toys aren't designed for rough play.
* The protagonist's little sister in ''RememberMe'' is frequently a victim of bullying, but she says she can handle it...until towards the end of the film, where one of the bullies invites her to a, chaperoned by her mother, birthday party. The sister is nervous to go, but assumes the girls just want to be friends now...and then later we see her tearfully begging her father over the phone to pick her up, her pigtails chopped off. Apparently the girls ganged up on her out of sight of the parents, held her down and cut her hair off, and then told the parents she did it to herself--and, as her father reluctantly admits, it was off school grounds, so nothing can be done about it. The girls ''still'' mock her for her attempt at a decent hairdo the next week (she was too traumatized to leave her room) at school, in front of the teacher. Luckily, even if the teacher did nothing, the girl's [[BigBrotherInstinct older brother]] [[PapaWolf and father]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome certainly did.]] In fact, when said brother was sent to jail for doing something about it, the father bailed him out and then told him that he threatened all the girls' fathers if they don't transfer them to other schools straight away.
* Henry Bowers from {{IT}}. Not only is he cruel, he's also a psychopath, a racist, a sexist, and an all-around asshole. While he was bad enough as a kid, he eventually grows up into an even worse adult who tries to murder the protagonists on multiple occasions before finally getting his comeuppance.
* [[{{Gonk}} Those kids]] from ''FiftyFirstDates'' would laugh at a man having a fantasy dream.
* The Shorties from ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale''.
* Eric has shades of this in ''MysteryTeam''.
* The main plot of the Wrestling/{{WWE}} production ''That's What I Am'', where a kid gets paired with a intelligent student who gets made fun of due to his tall, wiry frame, red hair and big ears. The kid gets to learn his qualities and experiences the prejudice he faces.
* At the end of ''Film/{{Tomboy}}'', [[spoiler:the protagonists friends force her to take off her shorts, and force a female friend to check her pants, so that they can see if she's really a girl.]] There have [[TruthInTelevision been cases]] of kids actually doing this to transgendered or gender-variant kids too.
* Parodied in StepBrothers, where elementary schoolchildren attack Dale and Brennan and force them to eat dog poop. Dale and Brennan are at least 40 years old.
* The movie Chrissa Stands Strong, where three girls constantly bully Chrissa and her friend Gwen. They threw away Chrissa's clothes, gave Gwen a deliberately bad haircut, and even caused Chrissa's brother to become seriously injured.
* In ''{{Robocop}} 2'' not only is one of the villains of the film a child, but every kid who appears in the film is either a violent criminal (one scene involves a group of ''little leaguers'' mugging a man and beating him to death with their bats) or a foul-mouthed little brat who drops F-bombs so frequently that the cast of South Park would blush.

[[folder:Literature]]
* Oh God, Stephen King, what sadistic schoolkids inspired you to make such cruel children in your novels?
** Possibly the worst example is in "{{It}}", where the main bully is sadistic, and has sexually harassed and threatened his classmates. He does get killed later by the eponymous creepy clown though.
* "Please Stop Laughing at Me" by Jodee Blanco is a slightly fictionalized memoir of her childhood, which was full of utter sadists who threw her in the toilet, pelted her with rocks, and made her life a living hell. And that was just before [[TeensAreMonsters High School]].
* ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': Carmelita Spats and her groups of friends in the book "Austere Academy" played this trope to the hilt around the Quagmires and the Baudelaires especially. Unfortunately for the Baudelaires Carmelita returns later on in the series to torment them further.
* ''ALittlePrincess'': After Sara loses her money, RichBitch Lavinia wastes no time in treating her like she's less than trash.
* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book Hogfather was largely built on this trope.
* This happens a fair old bit in ''HarryPotter'', as well.
** Also,[[spoiler: James Potter was a JerkJock bully, growing out of it only when he was out of his teens]].
*** [[spoiler: Snape]]'s childhood is the epitome of this trope, since only [[spoiler: Harry's mother]] seemed to treat him like a human, while Harry at least is a hero for his House (well, most of the time).
** But played straight with Dudley Dursley, [[spoiler:at least at the beginning of the series]].
** [[BigBad Voldemort]] was this trope incarnate when he was a kid. He tormented the other orphans by forcing a bunny to hang itself and scaring two orphans by taking them to the cave that he later leaves a Horcrux in.
** The Slytherins that Harry learns with can be considered this. They enjoy bullying anyone whom they think aren't worthy, including all the Weasleys, Harry, [[FantasticRacism every Muggle-born,]] Neville, and all the Gryffindors. No wonder Harry finds them to be evil.
* Creator/StephenKing's ''{{Carrie}}'' was picked on since childhood, but it wasn't until she reached her teenage years that everything came to a head and she [[BewareTheNiceOnes snapped and went on a rampage]]. No one except her crazy religious fanatic mother (who was herself abusive to her) knew about her telekinetic powers until it was too late.
* [[AntiHero Edmund Pevensie]] from ''ChroniclesOfNarnia''. He constantly bullies his younger sister, Lucy, whenever he gets the chance and, in the movie version of ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'', his malevolent smiles clearly show that he enjoys doing it.
** Not to mention that he even goes after her in the dark, just to scare her... Which raised his MemeticMolester status, along with the scene in the third movie where he tries to convince her [[WeCanRuleTogether to gain power along with him]].
** When Lucy hopes he will back her up and tell their older siblings that he has been in Narnia, too, [[KickTheDog Edmund purposely lies, making her cry]].
** The most unambiguous Narnia example is probably the school bullies in ''The Silver Chair,'' who have been tormenting Jill in unspecified ways at the beginning of the book, and whose approach is what drives Eustace and Jill to blunder in a blind panic of terror into Narnia. There's a whole author aside about how horrible the kids are at their school, which is called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Experiment House]], and how the [[AdultsAreUseless adults do nothing to control them]]. It's pretty satisfying when in the end [[spoiler:Jill and Eustace beat the crap out of all the bullies, with Aslan's blessing]].
* This is a big part of the message of ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''. Of course, all HumansAreBastards.
* In MercedesLackey's HeraldsOfValdemar novel, ''Brightly Burning'', a troop of school bullies torment a boy who has the ability to [[PsychicPowers start fires with his mind]]. Needless to say, it ends badly for them (and leaves the Firestarter wracked with guilt for some time afterward.) Not an example of BullyingADragon, since no one knew he had the ability until it manifested when they pushed him over the edge.
** Partially justified in ''Arrows of the Queen'' where Talia Sensdaughter was involved. Yes a lot of the highborn kids outside of the Heraldic Trainees were displeased by some puny farmgirl from the borderlands receiving some of the best education in TheKingdom at the Collegium, and some of that could have been due to her being groomed to be the second most powerful person in Valdemar; but there was also an actual conspiracy reaching the highest levels of court that wanted the incoming [[HonestAdvisor Monarch's Own Herald]] driven off, driven mad, or just plain ''dead''.
* In Carlo Collodi's ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'', Pinocchio is a little hellion who runs around getting into all sorts of trouble before [[CharacterDevelopment he learns how to behave himself and]] BecomeARealBoy. Contrast with his depiction as a well-meaning but naive and easily-led CheerfulChild in Walt Disney's version...
* A small part of ''[[HisDarkMaterials The Subtle Knife]]'' discusses this: The protagonist's actions inadvertently cause the older brother of two kids from Cittágazze to be caught by the Specters. A few moments later, a big group of kids, many of them ''armed'' try to kill them. After they are rescued, Lyra is astonished at how kids are capable of doing such things. Will replies he already knew, due to having to deal with kid's reactions to his mentally ill mother.
** Lyra herself, though, had plenty of expose to kids being cruel before the start of the book, not as a victim, but as a leader. The beginning of TheGoldenCompass details some of the things children do in Oxford. It gave a simplified version of the systems of often very short alliances, as well as rivalries, and explained that kids from different colleges would attack each other, or gang up on kids from the town or the bricklayers' children. They have fist fights and throw stuff at each other, up to and including bricks, shove the bricklayers' kids viciously in the mud (that description was rather detailed), and tried to sink the a Gyptian boat. Lyra and the rest of the kids, of course, viewed it as a game, and the violence was mutual. It still sounded very vicious and far from innocent.
* Played with in EndersGame. Ender is picked on at his first school by the other kids for being so smart, and so small, and later for similar reasons at the Battle School, in a straight use of the trope. He shrugs it off. However, when his personal safety is threatened, he turns the tables on the bullies and [[MeaningfulName Ends]] the threat. [[spoiler: Permanently, by killing the bullies.]]
* BenElton's ''Past Mortem''.
* ''All Summer In A Day'', the short story by Ray Bradbury involves a kid being locked in a janitorial closet on an extremely rare sunny day on another planet simply because she originally came from earth and claimed to have seen things like the sun and flowers before.
* Eloise [=McGraw=]'s ''TheMoorchild''. The other children pick on Saaski because she's different, and their teasing often turns violent and she ends up injured. When a prank could have turned deadly (an older, stronger boy tries to push her in a deep pond), nobody helps her. The children's parents deliberately look the other way, and when they stop, [[ItGotWorse things get even worse for Saaski]].
* Robert Arryn and ''especially'' Joffrey Baratheon in ASongOfIceAndFire.
* ''{{Blubber}}'' by JudyBlume. Parents have been known to complain that no one gets punished at the end.
* This is the driving theme of MargaretAtwood's novel ''Cat's Eye'': the protagonist suffered severe and permanent psychological damage, including tendencies to self-harm, from being cruelly bullied as a child, and her later career as a painter reflects the pain from this period of her life. She's also depicted as terrified that her daughters will suffer similar abuse, or torment others, at that age. Atwood depicts a similar history a little more lightheartedly in ''Lady Oracle'', where a casual social encounter as an adult with a woman who used to bully her when they were both children (and now doesn't remember it at all) drives the protagonist, Joan, to retreat to a restroom and cry.
-->Little girls are small and cute only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
* ''WhiteFang''. But with puppies, and not human children. They make the canine protagonist the best fighter, and eventually the ringleader gets a dose of his own medicine.
* Pick a VCAndrews novel. ''Any'' VCAndrews novel. (Though yes, most of the books actually have TeensAreMonsters, a fair number of them have much younger bullies as well...special mention goes to young, frail Carrie's classmates, whose merciless bullying (even locking her out on the roof of the school once) played a part in her being DrivenToSuicide.)
* In ''UnderTheDome'', Julia tells a story from her childhood about how a gang of girls beat her up and stole her pants. Near the end of the novel, [[spoiler: it's revealed that the Dome is the product of EldritchAbomination "children" torturing the town in the same manner and attitude that kids torture insects]].
* Any of Leonard's childhood classmates in ''ThePaleKing''.
* Protagonists Emmeline and Adeline in ''Literature/TheThirteenthTale'' have zero empathy for other people and casually destroy things and endanger infants.
* In ''Inheritance'', the final book in TheInheritanceCycle, [[BigBad Galbatorix]] has a couple of children kidnapped, and states to the heroes that he's never believed that children are innocent, just that they usually lack the means to act on their cruel urges. He then tells them that if they believe that children are innocent and consider themselves virtuous, that he'll kill the children if they choose to act against him.
* Subverted in the children's book ''Angel Child, Dragon Child.'' Ut's family moves from Vietnam to America, and on her first day of school, she and her sisters are taunted by the other children. Finally, Ut snaps and gets into a fight with a boy named Raymond, and the principal makes them sit down and talk. Eventually, Raymond understands Ut's problem -- that her mother wasn't able to come to America with them -- and he and the other children organize a fair to raise the money needed to bring Ut's mother to her family's new home.
* Taken to an art form in Jerry Spinelli's ''Literature/{{Wringer}}''. Beans is ''nine'' when the book starts and he's a borderline sociopath. Mutto's just as nasty, and even the protagonist Palmer can be cruel if coerced into it.
* In ''TheEcho'' by J. Nagibin, local kids decide to bully the girl just because she was SkinnyDipping.

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* On ''LincolnHeights'', when Lizzie gets a basketball scholarship to an upper class boarding school the students initially appear to be welcoming, but it later turns out that they are racist, manipulative elitists who couldn't care less about her as a person and only care about her basketball skills. Basically, they expect her to act like "a girl from the hood." And the adults aren't much better.
* The main character of ''PushingDaisies'' was picked on at BoardingSchool, because of his introversion and his tendency not to retaliate. And when he ''did'' retaliate, the bullies waited until he was alone and then beat him up.
* A ''major'' factor in [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Warren Mears]] growing up to be a stone cold, woman hating, megalomaniacal '''PSYCHOPATH'''.
* Simon on ''[[FlashForward2009 Flash Forward]]'' was bullied as a child growing up in Canada because of his accent and for being a TeenGenius. Until one day, when he filled his lunchbox with rocks and beat the crap out of the bullies with it.
* ''MidsomerMurders'' likes this one; at least three episodes have children as murderers.
* The ''LawAndOrder'' episode "Killerz" involves a ten year old girl who casually murders a six year old boy for the fun of it, and receives a slap on the wrist for it. During her psychological evaluation, she casually admits to poisoning the neighbors pets, of enjoying having killed someone, and of having plans to kill again.
-->'''Dr. Emile Skoda:''' "She's a SerialKiller. We just caught her early."
** What's equally sad is the likelihood that the girl is a sociopath because of abuse she herself suffered -- her father's in jail and she has tolerate her promiscuous mother bringing numerous lovers home and not even bothering to close her bedroom door when she has sex with them -- it is implied that any number of these men has made advances to her as well. Is it any wonder that she's completely screwed up with a hatred of all things male?
* ''LawAndOrderSVU'' had a recent example of a very young-looking thirteen-year-old [[spoiler: date-rapist who was pushing his victim to get an abortion; his secret lovechild half-brother who had a crush on the victim killed him when it seemed (and I could be remembering wrong) like he was going to take matters into his own hands]]. There's also the two fourteen-year-old [[spoiler: girls who almost succeed in pinning the murder of an eight-year-old on a retarded neighbor -- actually one girl was "normal" and the other was the psycho/sociopath who tortured the kid because it was funny and strangled him because he was gonna tell]].
* ''KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'': Bandora's son Kai was chased off a cliff to his death by a dinosaur...because [[MamaBear the dinosaur]] caught him slashing its eggs open, dumping the insides out, and then throwing the shells in a river. Unfortunately, [[MamaBear Bandora]] didn't take her son's death well, and made a DealWithTheDevil for power to [[DisproportionateRetribution exact revenge]] [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery upon all of]] [[PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs dinosaur kind]].
* An episode of {{TheOffice}} had a gang of kids attack Pam and Andy, later when confronted and asked why they assaulted them and threw things at them the leader replies because Pam was fat and thought Andy was gay.

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* Check out ''Girlfriend'' by Avril Lavigne for an example where the bully is the protagonist.
* GymClassHeroes' third album is called ''As Cruel as School Children''.
* TheWho's ''{{Tommy}}'' features cousin Kevin.
* The whole point of JohnPeel favorites Furious Pig's "I Don't Like Your Face."
* The video for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TsCud9QhU Mass Destruction]] by Faithless has kids engaging in fist fights.
* While Mark Wills' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVjbo8dW9c8&ob=av2e Don't Laugh At Me]] is about cruelty in different settings, the first verse covers examples of kid/teen cruelty very nicely.
* All BUT TaylorSwift's character in the video for "Mean" are bullied by other kids.

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* ''{{Nebulous}}'':
-->'''Nebulous:''' At school... they called me "Nobulous"
-->'''Rory''': Ha ha ha ha... er... Ahem hem, er, kids can be so cruel.
* ''AdventuresInOdyssey'': Liz Horton was a rather nice girl, but you wouldn't know this from her first appearances. In two episodes, the first she repeatedly teases a girl about how ugly her clothes are, (([[CardCarryingVillain even informing her that she was talking about her]])), and in the other episode she is so mean at times, you just want to reach through the speakers and punch the ever living tar out of her.
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[[folder: Tabletop Games]]
* ''KidWorld'', from the somewhat obscure company of Vajra Enterprises, is a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] ''LordOfTheFlies'' on a global scale after a plague kills ninety percent of humanity and leaves all the adults blind. Earth is a giant shithole.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}''. Yeah, let's all go pick on the shaven-headed SociopathicHero who's already proven capable of beating down TheIncredibleHulk in a school uniform.
** And after he kicks our asses, [[BullyingADragon LET'S DO IT AGAIN!]]
*** Jimmy can choose to indulge in acts of cruelty as well. These can range from the mundane (wedgies and shoves) to the downright brutal (beating fellow students with baseball bats or repeatedly stomping on a fallen foe's head while the victim moans in pain). Taken to extremes when Jimmy chooses to torment adults, though the peril of bullying adults is significantly greater than picking on a nerd.
* The Red Crayon Aristocrats from ''RuleOfRose''.
* Once upon a time, before ''TheSuffering'' began, three Puritan children decided to start a WitchHunt just for fun. Eleven people were [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]], and three little girls were remade as [[UndeadChild immortal monsters]] by [[GeniusLoci the land itself]].
* ''OverlordII'' opens up with the son of the previous Overlord as a child being pelted with snowballs by some kids in his village. This is of course a case of BullyingADragon when the "Witch-Boy" returns to fulfill his duties as an EvilOverlord.
* Alessa's schoolmates in the first ''SilentHill'' game and the movie, another case of BullyingADragon.
* [[{{Jerkass}} Silver]], TheRival from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and the remakes, thanks to a FreudianExcuse revealed in the latter. [[CharacterDevelopment He gets better.]]
* Mewt Randell, a boy who is picked on by bullies, becomes overlord of his own fantasy world very early on in ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance''.
** Ritz also gets some bullying for her white hair. She's more confident than Mewt, but the events after Mission 14 indicate that she's taking it harder than she lets on.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''. Several of the kids in [[spoiler: [[ThereAreNoAdults Lamplight Caverns]]]].
** Butch, though you can retaliate easily enough against him.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' has Lance Vance, who got picked on in school due to his UnfortunateName.
-->'''Tommy Vercetti:''' Vance? Your name's Lance Vance?
-->'''Lance Vance:''' Hey, I got enough of that at school.
-->'''Tommy Vercetti:''' Lance Vance. Poor bastard.
* ''InazumaEleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen: Bomber'' starts by showing TheRival Rococo being bullied by bigger, stronger kids in his childhood.
* [[spoiler:Iris]], from {{Rosenkreuzstilette}}. [[spoiler:She disguises herself as an innocent girl to hide that from everybody.]]
* In ''KatawaShoujo'', Hanako, whose body was severely scarred in a house fire that killed both her parents, was bullied by her classmates for her appearance when she returned to school, including several of her former friends.
* RuleOfRose. Where to start? The game stars a group of unbelievably monstrous girls who torment the main character, forcing her to do their bidding and then rebuke her efforts every time. Then, [[spoiler:the one girl who was nice to you]] turns out to be the one behind it all along. Do note however, that from the perspective this is all told from, some of the girls' attitudes and behaviour may be a result of UnreliableNarrator.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Tedd of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has been made fun of since he was small for being androgynous; his AU counterpart went nuts from the strain. Justin has been teased since early high school for being gay. Susan has always been considered a weird feminist, but she got really reamed for a few days after showing up at school in the boys' uniform.
* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', it seems that prior to Antimony's arrival, the entire Queslett North class made a point of ostracizing Kat Donlan, simply because she got good grades and had teachers for parents.
** Part of this newfound respect for Kat may be simple fear of Annie. Its shown that despite the class having respect for her, they're kind of freaked out by her EmotionlessGirl status at the same time. Ironically, this makes Kat the sociable one and Annie the quiet one, as the class tend to ask Kat to pass messages along to Annie. Kat, naturally, calls them on this.
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', the children aboard Castle Wulfenbach are noted by Tarvek in [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090914 this comic]] as tormenting and picking on each other all the time. Lineage, as he comments, was a favored excuse, with them taking any chance to "one up" each other and thusly claim a reason to bully their "lessers" around.
** This might be UnreliableNarrator, as Tarvek is not unbiased on the subject. Though they're old enough to mostly not be "kids" any more, only one of the Castle students (Princess Zulenna) goes out of her way to be cruel to Agatha when she's living with them, despite everyone at the time thinking Agatha is a commoner nobody.
*** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031215 As Sleipnir noted]], by this time active Sparks among them became more confident in their power, however much they have. And, ahem, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100906 found other things to do with their free time]].
* In ''WhatBirdsKnow'', this trope forms a major part of the [[{{Backstory}} backstories]] of the three girls during {{flashback}}s.
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[[folder: Web Original]]
* In the ''{{lonelygirl15}}'' episode "Poor Pluto", it is revealed that Bree was bullied by the other kids at school because she liked to ask questions about stars. However, in the following episode, "I Want to Take Bree to a Party", Daniel claims that [[strike:it was just teasing and that Bree takes things really seriously]] they were a bunch of mindless jerks who didn't give a crap about her feelings. Seriously, spreading rumors about her having an affair with her teacher?
* Adam from ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief''.
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[[folder: Western Animation ]]
* ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' by Disney - Oh, my god, the freak! He used his super-strength to destroy the city! [[BullyingADragon Let's be openly hostile towards him!]]
* Nelson and his fellow bullies on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' certainly qualify here. In the hockey episode, where Bart tries to show up Lisa in school because she's playing well on the ice, he gets every single answer he volunteers wrong. Cut to him being beaten up by Nelson. "Here's for wastin' teacher's valuable time!". In a later episode, Nelson beat Bart up once for "Stealing credit from someone else", along with another bully concerned with church issues because "Not only am I a teenager, but the ''father'' of a teenager." Nelson also beat Bart up for "Besmirching a lady's good name". In summary: Nelson will use ''any'' excuse to hit someone.
** In fact many of the children at Springfield Elementary give Bart and Lisa a hard time when they face a dilemma of embarrassment, most notably Janey Powell and Sherri & Terri. It's even one of the three main "rules" of the Code of the Schoolyard. This trope however is especially driven UpToEleven in "Lisa Goes Gaga".
** While Bart gets bullied often, he is also far from innocent as he regularly terrorizes his family with his pranks (sometimes with big consequences) and mean spirited remarks and has tormented Homer enough to make him cry at least several times.
* ''AnAmericanTail'' had a group of mean, cynical orphans near the end who briefly convince Fievel to give up looking for his family.
** If you think about it, they're [[JerkassWoobie Jerkass Woobies]].
* [[EdEddnEddy Ed, Edd and Eddy]] in particular are known for being disliked and harassed by just about every character on the show, except the Kankers, though they tend to sexually harass the Eds. This is because Ed is a comic book geek, Edd is a nerd and Eddy scams people out of their money. Hell the Ed's sometimes attack each other when no one else is bothering them. Jonny, Jimmy and the Kanker sisters aren't known for being liked that much either (though the Kanker sisters actually fight back whenever someone messes with them).
** Can you blame the kids for not particularly liking Johnny? There's an entire episode devoted to him being a pest (and the Eds capitalizing on that).
** And on that note, although Edd doesn't deserve the bullying he gets, Eddy usually deserves at least some of it. Ed sometimes does if he decides to ignore Double D and go along with whatever Eddy does, as not only does he try to scam everyone, but he's a self-centered jerkass, which makes Kevin seem somewhat sympathetic by comparison.
** I don't think it's as black-and-white as that. With Kevin, he does get provoked by the Eds sometimes, but other times he's a straight-up Jerkass to them, and he and Eddy are actually somewhat arch-rivals in the show. Consider the episode "Your Ed Here", where Kevin finds Eddy's wallet and learns that his middle name is Skipper. He makes Eddy do embarassing stuff so he wouln't reveal Eddy's middle name to everyone. After making him do things like dress up like Jimmy, kiss Edd in front of Nazz, and act like a performing seal in front of everyone, Kevin ''still'' tells everyone Eddy's middle name. Who is the more sympathetic one mostly depends on the writer. Eddy is a self-centered con-artist, but I wouldn't go so far as to say he's THAT bad.
*** Eddy has a FreudianExcuse, though.
** Really, it's not focused on the Eds. The kids are just violent in general. Pretty much everyone, from the local BrainlessBeauty to the girly boy, has beaten up/caused some serious harm to another kid.
*** [[BewareTheNiceOnes ESPECIALLY the girly boy.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': As a child, Leela was mocked by the other kids for only having one eye. Even the blind kid hated her ("At least I have ''two'' of them!"). It seems their favorite pastime was pointing at her and chanting "One eye! One eye!" Whatever torment they dished out on her, however, was probably preferable to what they would've done if they knew she was a sewer mutant and not an alien.
** She responds to taunts with violence (having broken the blind kid's nose several times), a trait that has carried over into adulthood, where her response to many situations is to kick/punch someone. It was even a key focus of the third movie.
* Just about every kid in ''InvaderZim'' except for the main characters are needlessly cruel, but also TooDumbToLive.
** ''Except'' for the main characters? Zim is trying to ''take over and/or destroy Earth'' as well tortures and experiments on his classmates, and Dib's not the nicest guy either.
*** Actually, Dib ''is'' the nicest guy on this show. Although he's arrogant and at times selfish, at the end of the day, his intentions are to protect Earth from an Irken invasion and he has more than a few moments where he shows protectiveness of Gaz, [[LittleMissBadass not that she needs it.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Danny Fenton was more of a victim of bullying before he got his ghost powers and was able to teach JerkJock Dash a lesson. Still, the other kids, namely Dash and his group of friends, never do stop bothering him.
** Namely because Dash and his friends never found out about Danny's powers...well, they did twice--one time he acted nicer, and the ResetButton was pressed, the second time was in the final episode, so we don't know for ''sure'' if the bullying stopped.
*** Hell, we don't even know if they EVER found out. There was what, seventy people in that crowd when Danny changed back to human? The rest of the world may not have found out at all. They could have sworn secrecy for all we know.
* Same goes for Timmy in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''.
** To the point where it crosses over from KidsAreCruel to making Timmy the universe's ButtMonkey. The bully is more a force of nature than anything and barely has any characterization.
* Most of the kids in ''HeyArnold'' depending on the episode.
* The kids in the academy in Galaluna in the FlashbackEpisode of ''{{Sym-BionicTitan}}''. Especially Baron. Mocked Lance for not having a father, [[LackOfEmpathy after said father died no less]], and always got him into trouble, even endangering his life in the process. Constantly [[KarmaHoudini got let off the hook by comparison]]. If he ever got hit by a rocket, it wouldn't be too soon.
* In ''BlinkyBill'', Marcia Mouse can sometimes be downright mean to Shifty Dingo.
* The Lemonade Stand Gang in ''DanVs''. They get theirs in the end though, just like almost every other target of Dan's vengeance.
** Though they get sent to military school, instead of reform school like Elise suggested, so they might come back worse than before.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has one episode where a pre-teen beats up Chris just to prove that he is Mr. Herbert's paperboy now and Chris can't do anything about it. The boy is joined in by his friends as they all pick on Chris and laugh at him as Chris gets a bloody nose from the fight. Even though the bully is forced to apologize, he reveals to Peter that bullying makes you feel like you have power and that the more you bully people, the better it feels. This causes Peter to become a bully to his neighbors until he realizes he is becoming the same bully that picked on him when he was in school.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' doesn't shy away from this. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon from "Call of the Cutie" tease Apple Bloom mercilessly for being the last filly in her class to earn her "cutie mark", and in "Cutie Mark Chronicles" and "Hurricane Fluttershy" it's show Fluttershy was mocked for being a weak flyer when she was a filly.
** "Lesson Zero" seems to take an in-universe fear of this to poor Twilight Sparkle, who seems to fear being sent back to Magic Kindergarten because of the possibility of this trope.
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* ''{{Narutaru}}'' contains [[AlphaBitch Aki Honda]] and her GirlPosse, who manage the rather impressive feat of turning schoolyard bullying into a [[CompleteMonster monstrous act]] when they [[spoiler:''rape'' one of the side characters, Hiroko, ''[[{{Squick}} with a test tube]]'']]; and as if that's not nasty enough, [[spoiler:the original plan was to ''kick Hiroko in the stomach'' while the test tube was inside her!]]. Needless to say, once [[spoiler:Hiroko]] obtains her [[{{Mon}} dragonet]], she gets her revenge... in ''[[ItGotWorse very]]'' [[ItGotWorse bloody fashion]].

** Also revealed to be part of the inspiration for Jason Voorhees' rampages in ''Film/FreddyVsJason''. You'd think Freddy would have a ''little'' sympathy. Oh, wait, that's right, it's [[CompleteMonster Freddy fucking Krueger]].

* The 1993 movie ''Film/TheGoodSon''. Although, Macaulay Culkin's character is [[CompleteMonster more than just cruel...]]

* Robert Arryn and ''especially'' [[CompleteMonster Joffrey Baratheon]] in ASongOfIceAndFire.

* RuleOfRose. Where to start? The game stars a group of [[CompleteMonster unbelievably monstrous]] girls who torment the main character, forcing her to do their bidding and then rebuke her efforts every time. Then, [[spoiler:the one girl who was nice to you]] turns out to be the one behind it all along. Do note however, that from the perspective this is all told from, some of the girls' attitudes and behaviour may be a result of UnreliableNarrator.

* Adam from ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief'' is an [[CompleteMonster extreme example]].

* ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' by Disney - Oh, my god, the freak! He used his super-strength to destroy the entire city! [[BullyingADragon Let's be openly hostile towards him!]]

* The flashbacks in ''FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'' showed that it was, among other things, being relentlessly bullied by other children that drove Freddy Krueger to become a killer. Pretty horribly, the kids were shown teasing him about how he was conceived when his mother was raped by mental patients ("Son of a hundred maniacs! Son of a hundred maniacs!")

** Not to mention that he even goes after her in the dark, just to scare her... even though some fans [[IncestSubtext poked at the subtext]].

*** Jonny was once a bully on the episode "X Marks The Ed" when he got the other kids to pay to see Eddy's giant pimple and then laugh at him for it.

See also TeensAreMonsters, BigBrotherBully, and HumansAreBastards. Contrast ChildrenAreInnocent. RoyalBrat is a particularly disturbing take on this. AdultsAreUseless for when the majority, if not, all the bullying occurs all the time because the adults ignore it or are obvious.

* [[TheBully The Bullies]] that plague the main character of {{Literature/Worm}} are bad enough that they drive her to near suicidal recklessness and even [[spoiler:induced a complete mental breakdown that was traumatic enough to trigger her powers. A later point is made of how despite this, none of her classmates got involved other then to join in]].

* The flashbacks in ''[[NightmareOnElmStreet Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare]]'' showed that it was, among other things, being relentlessly bullied by other children that drove Freddy Krueger to become a killer. Pretty horribly, the kids were shown teasing him about how he was conceived when his mother was raped by mental patients ("Son of a hundred maniacs! Son of a hundred maniacs!")
** Also revealed to be part of the inspiration for Jason Voorhees' rampages in FreddyVsJason. You'd think Freddy would have a ''little'' sympathy. Oh, wait, that's right, it's [[CompleteMonster Freddy fucking Krueger]].

* From ''ToyStory'', we have Sid, Andy's next door neighbor, who decapitates his sister's dolls and crudely fixes them onto anything he finds. Oh yeah, he enjoys burning holes into toys and strapping them to rockets. Thankfully averted with Andy, who cares very much for his toys, even when he's a teenager and had outgrown, as shown in the third film.

* ''EdEddnEddy'': Ed, Edd and Eddy in particular are known for being disliked and harassed by just about every character on the show, except the Kankers, though they tend to sexually harass the Eds. This is because Ed is a comic book geek, Edd is a nerd and Eddy scams people out of their money. Hell the Ed's sometimes attack each other when no one else is bothering them. Jonny, Jimmy and the Kanker sisters aren't known for being liked that much either (though the Kanker sisters actually fight back whenever someone messes with them).

-->-- '''Jet Black''', ''CowboyBebop''

* Majin Buu of ''DragonballZ'' had the mentality of a child without a conception of right or wrong, so he quite cheerfully obliterated anything that wasn't entertaining. After Mr. Satan befriended him, Buu slowly began to evolve a sense of morality.

* ''ElfenLied''. Lucy gets a {{backstory}} like this, where she gets tormented by cruel kids because of her "cute little horns" and her [[EmotionlessGirl emotionlessness]]. Their [[MoralEventHorizon most despicable act]] was to [[spoiler: force her to watch as they beat the little puppy that she had started caring for to death, just to get any kind of reaction from her at all]]. Lucy [[spoiler:[[BewareTheNiceOnes snaps and]] [[YourHeadAsplode splatters everyone all over the room with her powers]]]].

* Mad Pierrot from ''CowboyBebop'' has regressed to having a child's mind from sadistic experiments, and as Jet puts it, there's nothing as purely cruel as a child.

* While usually not apparent in ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' it appears a few times. Such as [[spoiler:in the "perfect world".]]

* [[BlackLagoon Hansel]] [[CreepyTwins and]] Gretel. They kill everyone in a bar (even though they were just targeting two people), tortured a man to death, and being insane sociopaths in general. [[HarmfulToMinors They probably weren't always like this though]].

* ''GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' has Lance Vance, who got picked on in school due to his UnfortunateName.

* ''{{Futurama}}'': As a child, Leela was mocked by the other kids for only having one eye. Even the blind kid hated her ("At least I have ''two'' of them!"). It seems their favorite pastime was pointing at her and chanting "One eye! One eye!" Whatever torment they dished out on her, however, was probably preferable to what they would've done if they knew she was a sewer mutant and not an alien.

* ''DannyPhantom'': Danny Fenton was more of a victim of bullying before he got his ghost powers and was able to teach JerkJock Dash a lesson. Still, the other kids, namely Dash and his group of friends, never do stop bothering him.

* Same goes for Timmy in ''FairlyOddParents''.

* ''FamilyGuy'' has one episode where a pre-teen beats up Chris just to prove that he is Mr. Herbert's paperboy now and Chris can't do anything about it. The boy is joined in by his friends as they all pick on Chris and laugh at him as Chris gets a bloody nose from the fight. Even though the bully is forced to apologize, he reveals to Peter that bullying makes you feel like you have power and that the more you bully people, the better it feels. This causes Peter to become a bully to his neighbors until he realizes he is becoming the same bully that picked on him when he was in school.

* Gaara of ''{{Naruto}}''. Yes, make the kid who contains a gigantic malevolent sand demon upset. That's definitely going to score points.

* StephenKing's ''{{Carrie}}'' was picked on since childhood, but it wasn't until she reached her teenage years that everything came to a head and she [[BewareTheNiceOnes snapped and went on a rampage]]. No one except her crazy religious fanatic mother (who was herself abusive to her) knew about her telekinetic powers until it was too late.

* {{Rule Of Rose}}. Where to start? The game stars a group of [[CompleteMonster unbelievably monstrous]] girls who torment the main character, forcing her to do their bidding and then rebuke her efforts every time. Then, [[spoiler:the one girl who was nice to you]] turns out to be the one behind it all along. Do note however, that from the perspective this is all told from, some of the girls' attitudes and behaviour may be a result of UnreliableNarrator.

'''NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' This trope is TruthInTelevision, as if we needed to say it, but to list the examples would be asking for an EditWar.

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** Taken even further when Buu's pure form is revealed: Kid Buu. This form is hinted to only have as much power as Super Buu, but lacks any of the restraint displayed by his other incarnations. He's a complete psychopath, as demonstrated when he ''[[EarthShatteringKaboom destroyed the planet he was standing on]]''.

* ''{{Narutaru}}'' contains [[AlphaBitch Aki Honda]] and her [[GirlPosse girl posse]], who manage the rather impressive feat of turning schoolyard bullying into a [[CompleteMonster monstrous act]] when they [[spoiler:''rape'' one of the side characters, Hiroko, ''[[{{Squick}} with a test tube]]'']]; and as if that's not nasty enough, [[spoiler:the original plan was to ''kick Hiroko in the stomach'' while the test tube was inside her!]]. Needless to say, once [[spoiler:Hiroko]] obtains her [[{{Mon}} dragonet]], she gets her revenge... in ''[[ItGotWorse very]]'' [[ItGotWorse bloody fashion]].

** Kodama is a [[VillainProtagonist protagonist]] version. He cares little for other life (he says that if something dies it's their destiny, shoots cats regularly, and in the anime boils a crab alive using a firecracker), to the point where he kills dozens of people while driving the mecha. [[spoiler:He accidentally kills his father, sending him into a HeroicBSOD, right before he dies.]] Ushiro also counts, being easy to anger and quite violent toward his younger sister.

* ''LightNovel/{{Kaze no Stigma}}'': Kazuma was born into [[WitchSpecies a prestigious family of fire users]] yet had no talent in the arts at all, not even the standard immunity to fire that even the weakest branch members had. Consequently, as a child, he was regularly beaten and tortured with fire by the other children, ranging from 5 year olds to teenagers. At least one time, they were ''seriously going to kill him''.
* Mad Pierrot from ''{{Cowboy Bebop}}'' has regressed to having a child's mind from sadistic experiments, and as Jet puts it, there's nothing as purely cruel as a child.

* ''{{The Drifting Classroom}}'' is a prime example of this. When the school is transported into a CrapsackWorld and the kids get more and more desperate they start doing horrific stuff such as killing each other with spears and knives for food, burning a fellow student on a cross, and even ([[spoiler:EATING A DEAD STUDENT'S REMAINS.]])

* In ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'', [[TheRival Kenny]] looks this way when we find out the backstory of "Dee Dee", the EmbarrassingNickname he hung on Dawn.

* Marie's classmates in HiganbanaNoSakuYoruNi call her a ''youkai'' to her face, boys flip her skirt up, and she's usually forced to do all the cleaning herself. One scene has a girl stab Marie's hand with a pencil for mumbling "Oh, really?" during a group discussion, [[SlasherSmile saying "Youkai shouldn't talk."]]

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* At the end of ''Film/{{Tomboy}}'', [[spoiler:the protagonists friends force her to take off her shorts, and force a female friend to check her pants, so that they can see if she's really a girl.]] There have [[TruthInTelevision been cases]] of kids actually doing this to transgendered or gender-variant kids too.
* Parodied in StepBrothers, where elementary schoolchildren attack Dale and Brennan and force them to eat dog poop. Dale and Brennan are at least 40 years old.

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* The ''{{Discworld}}'' book Hogfather was largely built on this trope.

*** [[spoiler: Snape's]] childhood is the epitome of this trope, since only [[spoiler: Harry's mother]] seemed to treat him like a human, while Harry at least is a hero for his House (well, most of the time).

* In MercedesLackey's {{Heralds of Valdemar}} novel, ''Brightly Burning'', a troop of school bullies torment a boy who has the ability to [[PsychicPowers start fires with his mind]]. Needless to say, it ends badly for them (and leaves the Firestarter wracked with guilt for some time afterward.) Not an example of BullyingADragon, since no one knew he had the ability until it manifested when they pushed him over the edge.

* Eloise [=McGraw=]'s ''{{The Moorchild}}''. The other children pick on Saaski because she's different, and their teasing often turns violent and she ends up injured. When a prank could have turned deadly (an older, stronger boy tries to push her in a deep pond), nobody helps her. The children's parents deliberately look the other way, and when they stop, [[ItGotWorse things get even worse for Saaski]].

* This is the driving theme of {{Margaret Atwood}}'s novel ''Cat's Eye'': the protagonist suffered severe and permanent psychological damage, including tendencies to self-harm, from being cruelly bullied as a child, and her later career as a painter reflects the pain from this period of her life. She's also depicted as terrified that her daughters will suffer similar abuse, or torment others, at that age. Atwood depicts a similar history a little more lightheartedly in ''Lady Oracle'', where a casual social encounter as an adult with a woman who used to bully her when they were both children (and now doesn't remember it at all) drives the protagonist, Joan, to retreat to a restroom and cry.

* ''WhiteFang''. But with puppies, and not human children. They make the canine protagonist the best fighter, and eventually the ringleader gets a dose of his own medicine.

* Taken to an art form in Jerry Spinelli's ''Literature/{{Wringer}}''. Beans is ''nine'' when the book starts and he's a borderline sociopath. Mutto's just as nasty, and even the protagonist Palmer can be cruel if coerced into it.

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* The whole point of {{John Peel}} favorites Furious Pig's "I Don't Like Your Face."

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* The Red Crayon Aristocrats from ''{{Rule of Rose}}''.
* Once upon a time, before ''TheSuffering'' began, three Puritan children decided to start a {{witch hunt}} just for fun. Eleven people were [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]], and three little girls were remade as [[UndeadChild immortal monsters]] by [[GeniusLoci the land itself]].
* ''{{Overlord}} II'' opens up with the son of the previous Overlord as a child being pelted with snowballs by some kids in his village. This is of course a case of BullyingADragon when the "Witch-Boy" returns to fulfill his duties as an EvilOverlord.

-->'''Tommy Vercetti:''' Lance Vance. Poor bastard.

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** Part of this newfound respect for Kat may be simple fear of Annie. Its shown that despite the class having respect for her, they're kind of freaked out by her {{Emotionless Girl}} status at the same time. Ironically, this makes Kat the sociable one and Annie the quiet one, as the class tend to ask Kat to pass messages along to Annie. Kat, naturally, calls them on this.

** This might be UnreliableNarrator, as Tarvek is not unbiased on the subject. Though they're old enough to mostly not be "kids" any more, only one of the Castle students (Princess Zulenna) goes out of her way to be cruel to Agatha when she's living with them, despite everyone at the time thinking Agatha is a commoner nobody.

** In fact many of the children at Springfield Elementary give Bart and Lisa a hard time when they face a dilemma of embarrassment, most notably Janey Powell and Sherri & Terri. It's even one of the three main "rules" of the Code of the Schoolyard. This trope however is especially driven [[UpToEleven Up to Eleven]] in "Lisa Goes Gaga".

* ''{{Fallout 3}}''. Several of the kids in [[spoiler: [[ThereAreNoAdults Lamplight Caverns]]]].

'''NoRealLifExamplesPlease''' This trope is TruthInTelevision, as if we needed to say it, but to list the examples would be asking for an EditWar.

TruthInTelevision, as if we needed to say it. However, this doesn´t mean that every RealLife kid is a sociopath.

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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reena_Virk Reena Virk]] was brutally murdered by a mob of her peers led by one Kelly Ellard, who was not only heard afterwards bragging about "finishing her off," but rumored to have conducted tours of the murder scene.
* The most extreme case is serial killer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bell Mary Flora Bell]], who committed her first murder at age 10, and her similar-aged accomplice, Norma Bell.
* Bullying is a near universal childhood experience and is present in virtually every school in every country.
** And it has horrible long term consequences, as many studies have shown.
* Cyber Bullying. Take face-to-face bullying, apply the {{GIFT}}, and the results can literally be deadly. Not that normal bullying can't be, as the case of Phoebe Prince showed.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Witch_Trials The Salem Witch Trials,]] started because two girls got bored.
* Look up "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger James Bulger]]", then have fun trying to look at kids the same way ever again.
* Phoebe Prince, that poor Irish girl in Massachusetts that was bullied so much she took her own life. [[AdultsAreUseless And the adults who could have stopped it didn't.]]
* [[http://www.bullycide.org/ Bullycide]] happens more often than you might think...so often, in fact, that there's a special term for it.
* Such a thing can affect the course of history, apparently. As the story goes, Fidel Castro was often called "dirtball" in school, apparently because he smelled bad. [[{{Whos Laughing Now}} This led to him confiscating the school buildings when he rose to power.]]
* The book "Please Stop Laughing At Me" by Jodee Blanco is a heartbreaking account of her childhood, in which she was bullied to an extent that most people can scarcely imagine.
* [[http://anti-bullying.over-blog.fr/article-the-story-of-noelanie-sene-58673701.html Noélanie Sené]] had been regularly bashed and strangled at school. She actually wrote a letter to the police, saying (among others) "He's going to kill me" and "I hope you're going to protect me." [[PoliceAreUseless The police]] [[AdultsAreUseless didn't react]] and shortly afterwards, the bullying led to an epilepsy attack that was fatal. [[TearJerker The poor little girl was only eight and her bully was hardly older]].
* Some children that bully others may not always go after their peers, but after adults. [[http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57457628/bullied-school-bus-monitor-finds-online-support/?tag=cbsContent;cbsCarousel A bus monitor was verbally harassed for over 10 minutes by a group of middle school students on the bus]] for no particular reason other than to make her feel horrible. They made fun of her appearance, her weight, her purse, and said her family committed suicide because they didn't want to be near her (it hit the lady hard since her son had committed suicide years ago). The entire incident was recorded by another student and posted online to stir up support for the woman, and people have made an online group giving the monitor her support. People have even donated over $200,000 to the woman to give her a nice vacation. When the video of the verbal assault went online, the address of the students who were involved were posted for everyone to see, along with the names of the families and phone numbers. The father of one of the boys involved in the abuse of the woman gotten several death threats over this.
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* Some children that bully others may not always go after their peers, but after adults. [[http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57457628/bullied-school-bus-monitor-finds-online-support/?tag=cbsContent;cbsCarousel A bus monitor was verbally harassed for over 10 minutes by a group of middle school students on the bus]] for no particular reason other than to make her feel horrible. They made fun of her appearance, her weight, her purse, and said her family committed suicide because they didn't want to be near her (it hit the lady hard since her son had committed suicide years ago). The entire incident was recorded by another student and posted online to stir up support for the woman, and people have made an online group giving the monitor her support. People have even donated over $200,000 to the woman to give her a nice vacation.
** When the video of the verbal assault went online, the address of the students who were involved were posted for everyone to see, along with the names of the families and phone numbers. The father of one of the boys involved in the abuse of the woman gotten several death threats over this. Maybe that will teach the brats a lesson and get their lazy parents into doing their jobs of raising decent human beings, there are consequences for cruel actions.