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* In ''Webcomic/AlcatrazHigh'', we especially see this in Mike's case, but it's implied that every character is at least somewhat traumatized by Middle School. We get to see this firsthand in the short "Gatekeeping Poser", when the metalhead Jesse has a flashback to being beaten up and thrown in a trash can on the first day of 6th grade in Middle School for approaching a group of metalhead 8th graders while dressed like Kurt Cobain and admitting to liking the Goo Goo Dolls. Mt. Diablo Middle School proudly advertised itself as a "trauma factory" on the marquee in front of the school.
* ''Webcomic/HighSchoolLessons'': Nine Ring Middle School's regular drama is amplified by two mysterious forces known as The Dread and The Dumb. It was also built on the site where crazed mountain men performed blood rituals.
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* In ''Webcomic/AlcatrazHigh'', we especially see this in Mike's case, but it's implied that every character is at least somewhat traumatized by Middle School. We get to see this firsthand in the short "Gatekeeping Poser", when the metalhead Jesse has a flashback to being beaten up and thrown in a trash can on the first day of 6th grade in Middle School for approaching a group of metalhead 8th graders while dressed like Kurt Cobain and admitting to liking the Goo Goo Dolls. Mt. Diablo Middle School proudly advertised itself as a "trauma factory" on the marquee in front of the school.
* ''Webcomic/HighSchoolLessons'': Nine Ring Middle School's regular drama is amplified by two mysterious forces known as The Dread and The Dumb. It was also built on the site where crazed mountain men performed blood rituals.
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* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/AlcatrazHigh'', we especially see this in Mike's case, but it's implied that every character is at least somewhat traumatized by Middle School. We get to see this firsthand in the short "Gatekeeping Poser", when the metalhead Jesse has a flashback to being beaten up and thrown in a trash can on the first day of 6th grade in Middle School for approaching a group of metalhead 8th graders while dressed like Kurt Cobain and admitting to liking the Goo Goo Dolls. Mt. Diablo Middle School proudly advertised itself as a "trauma factory" on the marquee in front of the school.
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* The ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'': ''Swing It, Sunny'' has Sunny start middle school, which she doesn't like one bit -- there's math tests, [[ApatheticTeacher boring teachers]], the GymClassRopeClimb, and [[FoulCafeteriaFood terrible cafeteria food]]. When asked if she's learned anything by her Gramps, she [[FlashbackCut remembers seeing the track and field images from past years]] which include her older brother Dale, [[BrokenPedestal who has fallen out of grace with her due to his substance abuse]]. She later finds attending the [[HighSchoolDance Spring Fling]] awkward in ''Sunny Rolls the Dice.''
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' had already established a cynical outlook on the pubescent experience from the beginning, so naturally that continued in Season Five when the action moved to middle school with the InUniverse end of summer. Not only are the kids no nicer in the school halls than out, but the [[AdultsAreUseless teachers]] almost always look the other way, if they're not [[MisplacedRetribution punishing the wrong kids for the wrong infractions]], usually [[ButtMonkey Eddy]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' had already established a cynical outlook on the pubescent experience from the beginning, so naturally that continued in Season Five when the action moved to middle school with the InUniverse end of summer. Not only are the kids no nicer in the school halls than out, but the [[AdultsAreUseless teachers]] almost always look the other way, way -- if they're not [[MisplacedRetribution punishing the wrong kids for the wrong infractions]], usually [[ButtMonkey Eddy]].
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* Zig-zagged in ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger''. The marketing ''very'' much played into this trope. Several episodes play this straight in which the characters have a very hostile time in middle school dealing with issues such as SlutShaming and predatory behaviour by other girls. This is slightly subverted in that Ms. Zorski turned out to be a very good teacher to Ginger and even the principal can be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, showing that [[TropesAreTools not all people had a bad time in middle school]], though it's ''definitely'' a scary place.
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* Zig-zagged in ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger''. The marketing ''very'' much played into this trope. Several episodes play this straight in which the characters have a very hostile time in middle school dealing with issues such as SlutShaming and predatory behaviour by other girls. This is slightly subverted in that Ms. Zorski turned out to be a very good teacher to Ginger and even the principal can be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, showing that [[TropesAreTools not all people had a bad time in middle school]], though it's it can ''definitely'' be a scary place.
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* ''Literature/HowISurvivedMiddleSchool'': The title itself should be a dead giveaway of this. The first book starts with heroine Jenny [=McAfee=] being forced to deal with her best friend, Addie Wilson, abandoning her to join the AlphaBitch clique called the Pops, and the rest of the series is about her various ups and downs in navigating the drama and everyday stresses of middle school (usually caused by Addie and the other said Pops) with her friends.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' had already established a cynical outlook on the pubescent experience from the beginning, so naturally that continued in Season Five when the action moved to middle school with the InUniverse end of summer. Not only are the kids no nicer in the school halls than out, but the teachers almost always look the other way, if they're not [[MisplacedRetribution punishing the wrong kids for the wrong infractions]], usually [[ButtMonkey Eddy]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' had already established a cynical outlook on the pubescent experience from the beginning, so naturally that continued in Season Five when the action moved to middle school with the InUniverse end of summer. Not only are the kids no nicer in the school halls than out, but the teachers [[AdultsAreUseless teachers]] almost always look the other way, if they're not [[MisplacedRetribution punishing the wrong kids for the wrong infractions]], usually [[ButtMonkey Eddy]].
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* Zig-zagged in ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger''. The marketing ''VERY'' much played into this trope. Several episodes play this straight in which the characters have a very hostile time in middle school dealing with issues such as SlutShaming and predatory behaviour by other girls. This is slightly subverted in that Ms. Zorski turned out to be a very good teacher to Ginger and even the principal can be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, showing that [[TropesAreTools not all people had a bad time in middle school]], though it's ''definitely'' a scary place.
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* Zig-zagged in ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger''. The marketing ''VERY'' ''very'' much played into this trope. Several episodes play this straight in which the characters have a very hostile time in middle school dealing with issues such as SlutShaming and predatory behaviour by other girls. This is slightly subverted in that Ms. Zorski turned out to be a very good teacher to Ginger and even the principal can be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, showing that [[TropesAreTools not all people had a bad time in middle school]], though it's ''definitely'' a scary place.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' had already established a cynical outlook on the pubescent experience from the beginning, so naturally that continued in Season Five when the action moved to middle school with the InUniverse end of summer. Not only are the kids are no nicer in the school halls than out, but the teachers almost always look the other way, if they're not [[MisplacedRetribution punishing the wrong kids for the wrong infractions]], usually [[ButtMonkey Eddy]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' had already established a cynical outlook on the pubescent experience from the beginning, so naturally that continued in Season Five when the action moved to middle school with the InUniverse end of summer. Not only are the kids are no nicer in the school halls than out, but the teachers almost always look the other way, if they're not [[MisplacedRetribution punishing the wrong kids for the wrong infractions]], usually [[ButtMonkey Eddy]].
