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9[[KidsAreCruel The cruelty of children]] as depicted in WesternAnimation
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11* In ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow'' "Testimony of Terror", the League is tasked with protecting a young witness from The Mayor, who intends to off him. The kid does [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter everything horrible you could possibly imagine to his bodyguards]], and by the end, the League is ''rooting'' for The Mayor to kill him. [[spoiler: Of course, The Mayor ends up becoming just another victim]].
12* ''WesternAnimation/AllenGregory'': The titular character treats people around him like crap, even having a ''[[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior lustful obsession with his elderly principal]]''.
13* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has a few examples.
14** D.W.'s Cousin Cora from "D.W. Thinks Big". She is a SpoiledBrat who is really mean to D.W. for no reason at all, taking her personal possessions away and then breaking her own locket and attempting to frame D.W. for it, again for no reason. She also acts rude to Arthur when he's acting as the ringbearer at her aunt's wedding (she shouts at him to smile when he's trying to concentrate and is [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom indirectly responsible for having the ring flung into a pipe organ]]). At the end, she gets hit with LaserGuidedKarma when her aunt has D.W. replace her as the flower girl for her wedding.
15** D.W. herself, particularly in episodes like "Arthur's Big Hit" and "D.W.'s Very Bad Mood".
16** [[TricksterTwins Timmy and Tommy Tibble]] are little hellions who constantly cause trouble for each other and other people, and to make matters worse, [[SpoiledBrat their grandmother is almost never willing to discipline them for their actions]].
17** The [[GangOfBullies Tough Customers]], of course. [[spoiler:But subverted come "The Last Tough Customer", where they all [[TookALevelInKindness take a level in kindness]]]].
18** Francine and Muffy can fall into this occasionally, the former by virtue of being a JerkJock, and the latter by virtue of being a RichBitch.
19** [[BitchInSheepsClothing Portia Demwiddy]] from "Little Miss Meanie" definitely qualifies. She callously tells Muffy and Lydia, her opponents in the Little Miss Crocus pageant, that they should drop out because they have the unfair advantages of being rich and [[BullyingTheDisabled handicapped]] respectively, and later throws a tantrum and demands that somebody be fired when the spotlight breaks during her performance.
20* ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheOutback'': Chazzie shows shades of this when he threatens to thump another kid if he doesn’t tell him where the escaped zoo animals are, but given his actions later, it’s likely he was just putting on a "tough guy" attitude to try and impress his father.
21%%* In ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'', Marcia Mouse can sometimes be downright mean to Shifty Dingo.
22* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts:
23** ''Elmer Elephant'', in which a GangOfBullies led by Tuffy Tiger pick on the NiceGuy title character for having a trunk for a nose. They change their tune as soon as they see Elmer save [[NiceGirl Tilly Tiger]]'s life by putting out a house fire with his trunk.
24** A rare {{Deconstruction}} of this trope occurs in ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath'', wherein Little Hans [[UsedToBeASweetKid starts out as a nice kid]], but, growing up in the CrapsackWorld that is Nazi Germany, he and all the other kids are brainwashed by their PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher into becoming mindless, cruel Hitler Youths with no room for their former kindness. The short in turn reconstructs tropes like UsedToBeASweetKid.
25* ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'': The Crumpet kids have varying levels of cruelty, but the most notable ones are Triceps (who disciplines with violence), Caprice (who is impolite and an occasional bully), the TricksterTwins Bother and Blister, and the show's original protagonist Li'l One who plots to get rid of his siblings in some episodes.
26* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'':
27** 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.
28** There is also Sidney Poindexter, a kid who was so ruthlessly bullied in his years at Casper High that as a ghost he haunts the school avenging tormented bullying victims. He ends up targeting Danny because he sees him locking Dash in a locker as revenge and misunderstands the situation.
29* ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'': The Lemonade Stand Gang. 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.
30* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'':
31** In "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E5NothingToFear Nothing to Fear]]", Scrooge's greatest fear is being told by Huey, Dewey, and Louie that they secretly can't stand him and only want his money.
32--->We created that magic rain cloud with our Junior Woodchucks chemistry set...JUST TO RUIN YOUR DAY!
33** In "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E45Superdoo Superdoo]]", even Huey, Dewey, and Louie aren't above making snide remarks about Doofus' slowness and weight.
34* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' (pictured above): The titular characters are known for being disliked and harassed by just about every character on the show, except the Kanker sisters, though they tend to sexually harass the Eds. Even when Eddy scams people out of their money and makes his two friends help him, they always seem to get the short end of the stick. Hell, the kids 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 they actually fight back whenever someone messes with them).
35* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy is often the receiving end of this, to the point where it crosses over to making Timmy the universe's ButtMonkey. The bully [[BabysitterFromHell Vicky]] is more a force of nature than anything and barely has any characterization. This is actually what drives the show, as the reason why Timmy got his fairies in the first place is because of the misery Vicky put him through.
36* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has one episode where a preteen 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.
37* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E9TheCyberHouseRules The Cyber House Rules]]", Leela was mocked by the other kids for [[{{Cyclops}} only having one eye]] as a child. 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[[note]]aliens are automatically given civil rights, but all mutants are forcibly confined to the sewers, which is why in "Leela's Homeworld", Leela's parents left her at the orphanarium with a faked note in alien writing, hoping to give her a better life[[/note]]. Even as adults, they continue to taunt and tease her. Despite all growing up to be bums, drunks, and jobless lowlifes, they still feel superior to Leela despite her job as a ship's captain and laugh at the idea that she should feel sorry for them. In that same episode, the current orphans bullied Sally for having an third ear on her forehead.
38* Most of the kids in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' depending on the episode.
39* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': Just about every kid except for Dib is needlessly cruel, but also TooDumbToLive. However, this was {{subverted|trope}} in the pilot, where Zim passes off his green flesh as "a skin condition". One of Dib's classmates chews him out for picking on Zim for being different.
40* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': The majority of the residents of Smileyland, all of whom are children range from [[BitchInSheepsClothing jerks who try to act nice most of the time]] to [[JerkAss jerks who are openly horrible people and have no qualms with being mean]], with very few exceptions.
41* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
42** It's revealed that six-year-old [[SpoiledBrat Lola]] would sell or destroy her siblings' prized belongings if something even mildly annoying happened to her because of them. It's all PlayedForLaughs though, since said siblings' made that up.
43** Played much more seriously in "Middle Men"; Lynn reveals that, during her sixth-grade year, [[spoiler: most of her schoolmates frequently picked on her and pulled mean-spirited pranks on her]].
44* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' gives us both bullies in Marinette's class, [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugChloeBourgeois Chloé Bourgeois]] and [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugLilaRossi Lila Rossi]]. They both of them have an insatiable dislike for Marinette and do everything in their power to bring her down. [[spoiler:And how cruel are these two girls? They are both perfectly okay with [[TheDragon becoming allies with]] [[BigBad Hawk Moth]], a well-known freaking ''terrorist'' who is constantly on the edge of destroying all of Paris, to get whatever they want.]]
45* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'': Joe is definitely this trope, [[spoiler:[[JerkassWoobie even if he's more sympathetic later on]]]]. The younger versions of Orel's friends in ''Beforel Orel'', even [[TheDitz Doughy]] also play this straight.
46* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'':
47** [[SpoiledBrat Todd]] [[TheGrinch Sweeney]], who uses Jenny to deliberately ruin ''every single holiday'' for ''everyone''.
48** Britt and Tiff. Their treatment of Jenny can just be downright brutal at times.
49** While Tuck can be quite abrasive towards other people, [[TheChewToy he]] [[ButtMonkey himself]] is ''far'' more likely to be bullied and abused, both by kids roughly his own age and [[TeensAreMonsters at the hands of the three teen protagonists]] (i.e., ''his own brother and friends'').
50* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' doesn't shy away from this.
51** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie Call of the Cutie]]", Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon tease Apple Bloom mercilessly for being the last filly in her class to earn her "cutie mark".
52** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]", it's shown that Fluttershy was mocked for being a weak flyer when she was a filly which still affects her as a grown-up.
53** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]" implies that poor Twilight Sparkle has an in-universe fear of this, as she seems to fear being sent back to Magic Kindergarten because of the possibility of this trope.
54** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple One Bad Apple]]" has Babs Seed, a cousin of Apple Bloom, who picks on her and the other Cutie Mark Crusaders. [[spoiler:It turns out that she's doing this to avoid being a target of bullying from Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.]]
55** If [[spoiler:[[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicCozyGlow Cozy Glow]]]] isn't the most heartless child in Equestria, she's definitely in the running.
56* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'': In the episode "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirls2016S01Ep12TheWrinklegruffGals The Wrinklegruff Gals]]", the girls are the victims of this by their schoolmates at their K-8 school.
57* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': Mostly averted with the main six, but the rest of the student body can show shades of this at times. The most notable examples:
58** "Mama's Girl": Spinelli accidentally calls Miss Grotke "Mama" while saving her from stepping in a puddle. This causes ''all'' the kids to tease her for it. Even TJ, Vince, Gretchen, Mikey, and Gus are NotSoAboveItAll. Towards the end of the episode, Miss Grotke calls the class out on it, implying that [[DarkAndTroubledPast she herself suffered a similar experience when she was a little girl]].
59** "The Lost Ball": Gus accidentally kicks a "Spirit of '76" kickball over the fence into the house next door, and his peers give him a hard time about being unwilling to do it. Even ''[[GentleGiant Mikey]]'' [[JerkassBall bullies him for it]].
60* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': The Bullwinkle's Corner segment "The Children's Hour" has our antlered hero as a babysitter to three little hellions. Bullwinkle turns the tide, using the book of the title poem itself to spank them.
61* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
62** In a later season short, the cast of ''Franchise/GIJoe'' realize that they are somehow being mutilated without remembering it, as evidenced by the fact that people suddenly have the wrong body parts or have been drawn on. At first, they assume Cobra Commander is behind it until they discover he's ''missing the entire lower half of his body'' and screaming about a horrific, godlike being that has brought Judgment Day upon them. [[spoiler: It then cuts to a live-action kid mutilating another action figure with his bicycle wheel. The Joes then shoot him in the back, but then realize they just killed a kid.]]
63** The "Sunny Muffins" sketch features a little girl who cuts off the wings of a {{Pegasus}}, drugs and abducts him, paints him to look like a ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'', and then whips him until he agrees that his name is "Sunny Muffins". The end of the sketch shows she also did the same thing to a griffin she named "Honey Flake".
64%%* Angelica Pickles from ''WesternAnimation/RugRats''. No KidsAreCruel examples list would be complete without her. ''None whatsoever''.
65* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
66** Nelson and his fellow bullies 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.
67** 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 is then driven up to eleven in "Lisa Goes Gaga".
68** 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.
69** Homer recalls an incident from his childhood where another group of kids formed the "No Homers Club" to keep him out. Marge paraphrases this, but unfortunately Bart overhears...
70--->'''Marge''': Kids can be so cruel.\
71'''Bart''': [[ExactWords We can? Thanks, Mom!]]\
72'''Lisa''': (in the other room) Ow ow ow! Stop! MOOOOOMMMMM!!!
73** Even ''[[NiceGuy Ned Flanders]]'' wasn't immune to this. His parents were beatniks who didn't believe in discipline, turning him into a rather crazed brat. He was subjected to a radical form of child therapy (basically getting spanked by the doctor for an entire year) to rein in his destructive behavior, turning him into the nice guy we know. Unfortunately, the treatment worked too well, making it impossible for Ned to express any frustration, leading to him bottling up all his anger until it boiled over at the worst possible moment.
74* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "The Tallest Smurf", Nat, Snappy, and Sassette pick on Slouchy for being the shortest Smurfling. Of course, they end up eating humble pie when Slouchy makes a wish to be the biggest Smurf in the village, and Gourdy fulfills it by making all the other Smurfs bug-size.
75* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' was born of the suspicious belief parents hold about [[ThinkOfTheChildren how their children would behave without the presence of an authority figure]]. Even the main characters, aged eight to ten and already [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes foul-mouthed]], are, quite frankly, the most ''infamous'' example of this trope to date. Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone had gone on record saying that they wanted to portray a realistic portrayal of children, and the child characters have a sweetness despite their bratty behavior.
76* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
77** In the episode "Scaredy Pants", a group of kids dressed in their Halloween costumes were amongst the people who tease [=SpongeBob=] for being scared.
78** In "WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfBooKiniBottom", a couple of kids proceed to egg the unconscious bodies of Squidward and Mr. Krabs after the Flying Dutchman steals their souls, along with the Krusty Krab.
79* The kids in the academy in Galaluna in the WholeEpisodeFlashback of ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan''. 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.
80* While some child characters in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' were often too young to understand what they were doing as wrong (such as Nibbles/Tuffy/whatever-his-name-is and the runaway baby Tom and Jerry sometimes had to rescue), a very straight example would be the three kittens in "Triplet Trouble" who attempt to injure Mammy-Two-Shoes when her back is turned and proceed to torment Tom in rather cruel ways as soon as she leaves, and when Jerry attempts to mess with Tom along with them, the kittens promptly begin to make his life a living you-know-what, too, simply because he was there. Eventually, Tom and Jerry decide they've had enough and teach the three kittens a lesson.
81* In ''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'', the title character is often ridiculed and mocked by the human children at his school. Even his three closest friends Socks, Cubey, and Mitch can be hurtful at times, like when they tease him over his crush on Shannon Westerburg in "Embarrassment" or taunt him over being unable to grow hair in "Hair".

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