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* ''Literature/{{Rainwater}}'': In school, Conrad Ellis was a bully and a spoiled brat whose parents never told him no, and whose teachers wouldn't discipline him because his parents were rich. As an adult, he's still a violent bully and troublemaker as well as a murderer and attempted rapist, but [[DirtyCop Sheriff Anderson]] won't arrest him because Conrad's parents bankrolled Anderson's election.
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS7E2 Bad Tiidings]]", Cully asks Joyce if she remembers any of her old "friends" from school - Cassie Woods and her brother Noel, Lynn Spearman, and Rachel Rose. She does not remember any of them except Lynn - "didn't she used to bully you?" Cully shrugs it off, saying she was just "oversensitive." Cully is organizing a reunion with all of her old "friends" as they had made a promise to meet up in 10 years and celebrate. At the end of the spisode, Lynn is revealed as the killer and it is shown that she hasn't really changed at all:
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS7E2 Bad Tiidings]]", Cully asks Joyce if she remembers any of her old "friends" from school - Cassie Woods and her brother Noel, Lynn Spearman, and Rachel Rose. She does not remember any of them except Lynn - "didn't she used to bully you?" Cully shrugs it off, saying she was just "oversensitive." Cully is organizing a reunion with all of her old "friends" as they had made a promise to meet up in 10 years and celebrate. At the end of the spisode, episode, Lynn is revealed as the killer and it is shown that she hasn't really changed at all:
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS7E2 Bad Tiidings]]", Cully asks Joyce if she remembers any of her old "friends" from school - Cassie Woods and her brother Noel, Lynn Spearman, and Rachel Rose. She does not remember any of them except Lynn - "didn't she used to bully you?" Cully shrugs it off, saying she was just "oversensitive." Cully is organizing a reunion with all of her old "friends" as they had made a promise to meet up in 10 years and celebrate. At the endof the spisode, Lynn is revealed as the killer and it is shown that she hasn't really changed at all:
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS7E2 Bad Tiidings]]", Cully asks Joyce if she remembers any of her old "friends" from school - Cassie Woods and her brother Noel, Lynn Spearman, and Rachel Rose. She does not remember any of them except Lynn - "didn't she used to bully you?" Cully shrugs it off, saying she was just "oversensitive." Cully is organizing a reunion with all of her old "friends" as they had made a promise to meet up in 10 years and celebrate. At the endof end of the spisode, Lynn is revealed as the killer and it is shown that she hasn't really changed at all:
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* ''Literature/ForbiddenSea'': In the first book, Adrienne is tormented by a group of bullies that includes Marcus Stebbs. In the sequel, set over a decade later, Marcus is a poor fisherman who beats his wife, former AlphaBitch Cora Lynn.
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* ''Literature/WhatHappenedToLaniGarver'': The Clementi brothers' dad was a school bully who went on to beat his wife and kids. One night he drunkenly fell off a dock. [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing His family doesn't miss him.]] Unfortunately his sons, especially Tony, are as bad as he was.]]
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* ''Literature/WhatHappenedToLaniGarver'': The Clementi brothers' dad was a school bully who went on to beat his wife and kids. One night he drunkenly fell off a dock. [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing His family doesn't miss him.]] Unfortunately his sons, especially Tony, are as bad as he was.]]
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* ''Literature/WhatHappenedToLaniGarver'': The Clementi brothers' dad was a school bully who went on to beat his wife and kids. One night he drunkenly fell off a dock. [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing His family doesn't miss him.]] Unfortunately his sons, especially Tony, are as bad as he was.]]
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* In the ITV version of ''Literature/TheWorstWitch'', Hecate Broomhead, the head of OfWitch and a school inspector so hard nosed and strict she terrifies Miss Hardbroom, is revealed to have been a horrid little brat called Wilhelmina Wormwood. She was know for turning her fellow students into ice sculptures and was an all around terror while at school. Sybil's spell and Miss Cackle's exposition revealing this fact enables the latter to blackmail Miss Broomhead into giving the school a glowing review.
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS7E2 Bad Tiidings]]", Cully asks Joyce if she remembers any of her old "friends" from school - Cassie Woods and her brother Noel, Lynn Spearman, and Rachel Rose. She does not remember any of them except Lynn - "didn't she used to bully you?" Cully shrugs it off, saying she was just "oversensitive." Cully is organizing a reunion with all of her old "friends" as they had made a promise to meet up in 10 years and celebrate. At the endof the spisode, Lynn is revealed as the killer and it is shown that she hasn't really changed at all:
-->''Remember when I used to hurt you when we were small? It was because you used to tell on me. And nobody does that, not to me. So now...I'm going to hurt you again.''
-->''Remember when I used to hurt you when we were small? It was because you used to tell on me. And nobody does that, not to me. So now...I'm going to hurt you again.''
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* Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield admitted in a promo that he was this.
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* Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield admitted in a promo that he was this. And there are many allegations of him bullying wrestlers in real life.
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* This happens in chapter 3 of ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany'' where Kromer, whom Sinclair remembered from high school as a girl who became his bully, ends up being the boss of the chapter. She's lost none of her sadistic tendencies from back then, but now also leads a {{Cult}}, for all that entails.
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* ''WebAnimation/GossipCity'':
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHvlWkZ6Z2Y Kenya]] bullied Hanako in elementary school. Years later, after his company merged with the Ugumori group and becoming Hanako's subordinate, he still bullied and looked down on her. Hanako fired them and got them arrested for fraud.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRl6_5DgZho Kana]] bullied Hanako in elementary school. Years later, she invited Hanako to a school reunion but told her the wrong location to humiliate her. However, karma strikes as Leon rescinded her job offer at the Ugumori Brothers company and the other students apologized for bullying Hanako.
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* ''WebAnimation/GossipCity'':
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHvlWkZ6Z2Y Kenya]] bullied Hanako in elementary school. Years later, after his company merged with the Ugumori group and becoming Hanako's subordinate, he still bullied and looked down on her. Hanako fired them and got them arrested for fraud.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRl6_5DgZho Kana]] bullied Hanako in elementary school. Years later, she invited Hanako to a school reunion but told her the wrong location to humiliate her. However, karma strikes as Leon rescinded her job offer at the Ugumori Brothers company and the other students apologized for bullying Hanako.
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* A bullied man confronted his alleged childhood bully, a school district superintendent, 35 years later, according to [[https://abc13.com/3239268/ this story]] by ABC13 Houston, and [[https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2020/02/27/after-the-allen-isd-superintendent-left-to-lead-his-hometown-district-the-wheels-came-off-his-career/ here]] by the Dallas Morning News. Following this, more witnesses came to testify about the event.
* According to the New York State Police Department, a DownplayedTrope version of this is TruthInTelevision: 1 in 4 schoolyard bullies will get a criminal record for a felony before he turns 30. Not quite supervillain material, but still notable.
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* A bullied man confronted his alleged childhood bully, a school district superintendent, 35 years later, according to [[https://abc13.com/3239268/ this story]] by ABC13 Houston, and [[https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2020/02/27/after-the-allen-isd-superintendent-left-to-lead-his-hometown-district-the-wheels-came-off-his-career/ here]] by the Dallas Morning News. Following this, more witnesses came to testify about the event.
* According to the New York State Police Department, a DownplayedTrope version of this is TruthInTelevision: 1 in 4 schoolyard bullies will get a criminal record for a felony before he turns 30. Not quite supervillain material, but still notable.
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* Korean drama series ''Series/TheGlory'' runs with this, with the main antagonists consisting of the protagonist Moon Dong-eun's former childhood bullies who have gone to see varied levels of success, yet it's clear that part of their teenage behavior has stuck through adulthood. The plot runs along how Dong-eun gets her revenge against said bullies who have wronged her.
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* In ''Film/CentralIntelligence'', Trevor is a JerkJock who picks on overweight loser Robbie, including a prank of having him be naked in front of the school. 20 years later, Robbie is now Rob, a well-muscled and elite CIA agent. He and Calvin (the former jock hero who was kind to Robbie back then), reunite with Trevor as part of a case. Trevor is kind and apologetic at first, then reveals it's an act, and he resumes his bullying ways.
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* In ''Film/CentralIntelligence'', ''Film/CentralIntelligence'': Trevor is a JerkJock who picks on overweight loser Robbie, including a prank of having him be naked in front of the school. 20 years later, Robbie is now Rob, Bob, a well-muscled and elite CIA agent. He and Calvin (the former jock hero who was kind to Robbie back then), then) reunite with Trevor as part of a case. Trevor is kind and apologetic at first, then reveals only to reveal it's an act, act and he resumes resume his bullying ways.
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* ''Film/{{Benchwarmers}}'': Subverted by protagonist Gus Matthews as it turns out he was a schoolyard bully that used stinging insults (rather than fists) to torment other kids. That's why he's standing up against bullies as an adult; he hates who he was and what he did, and thinks that if there is any karma in the world, his own kid will be either picked on mercilessly or an even worse bully than he was, unless he can make up for some of what he did by helping out against bullies now.
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* ''Film/{{Benchwarmers}}'': ''Film/TheBenchwarmers'': Subverted by protagonist Gus Matthews as it turns out he was a schoolyard bully that used stinging insults (rather than fists) to torment other kids. That's why he's standing up against bullies as an adult; he hates who he was and what he did, and thinks that if there is any karma in the world, his own kid will be either picked on mercilessly or an even worse bully than he was, unless he can make up for some of what he did by helping out against bullies now.
