Line #44 PlayingWith/BullyBrutality


1	'''Basic Trope''': Bullies severely injure their victims.
2	* '''Straight''': Marcus beats up Danny so badly that he is sent to the hospital.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Marcus injures Danny by beating him in the head, choking him, and breaking every bone in his body.
5	** Practically every classmate beats up and tortures Danny to death.
6	** Marcus runs Danny over with his car and posts the video on [=YouTube=] to humiliate him.
7	** Marcus and his friends make it their personal mission to bully Danny for the rest of his life. By the time they escalate to actually lethal stuff, it is by pulling the cord of ninety-year-old Danny's life-support unit.
8	** Marcus beats up Mr. Daniels, one of the teachers.
9	** Marcus pushes Danny off a skyscraper and onto a massive pile of ignited tables.
10	** [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Marcus rapes Danny.]]
11	** [[CompleteMonster Mar]][[EnfantTerrible cus]] [[SerialEscalation rapes]] [[SerialRapist everyone in the entire school.]]
12	* '''Downplayed''': Marcus gives Danny a DopeSlap once, many months ago, and hasn't gone any further with physical bullying. It's still physical violence, so the narrative still says even though it's [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten happened once, they'll never forget it]].
13	* '''Justified''':
14	** [[{{Sadist}} Marcus thrives on violence on those who can't defend themselves]].
15	** Marcus is [[TheSociopath a sociopath]] and doesn't care if his actions cause other people serious harm.
16	** Marcus' parents actively taught him to be a BarbaricBully, delighting in watching their son brutalize other kids.
17	* '''Inverted''':
18	** SchoolBullyingIsHarmless
19	** [[BullyHunter Danny]] beats up Marcus to a bloody pulp.
20	* '''Subverted''': Danny comes home with a black eye and you expect him to say that the school bullies beat him, but instead he walked into a pole.
21	* '''Double Subverted''': He walked into a pole because he was dizzy from what the school bullies did to him earlier.
22	* '''Parodied''': ???
23	* '''Zig Zagged''': Danny and Marcus are fighting and one of them gets a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, but after the fight it's revealed that the one who got the beatdown was Marcus, but the fight happens after Marcus broke one leg of Danny's brother, but all is [[ShowWithinAShow a story that Charlie is doing]].
24	* '''Averted''':
25	** Marcus keeps his bullying of Danny limited to name-calling and playing harmless but humiliating pranks on him, and he never takes it further than that.
26	** No bullying takes place, physical or otherwise.
27	* '''Enforced''': The writers want the audience to despise Marcus and pity Danny.
28	* '''Lampshaded''': "[[{{TheUnfettered}} Marcus]] is not a common bully, he will not dope slap you and make wedgies, he will [[{{NoHoldsBarredBeatdown}}beat you to a bloody pulp]] and maybe more. If you can, avoid him at all costs."
29	* '''Invoked''': Marcus talks about how bad will beat Danny
30	* '''Exploited''': [[ManipulativeBastard Jhon]] makes [[TheHero Danny]] fight against Marcus to incapacite him.
31	* '''Defied''': Marcus knows he'll get in trouble if he beats up Danny too badly, so he doesn't... He opts for psychological abuse instead.
32	* '''Discussed''': "God damn it Marcus! What did that kid do for a beat up as bad as that?!"
33	* '''Conversed''': "Hope Danny's OK. Marcus should rot in jail for nearly killing that poor kid!"
34	* '''Deconstructed''':
35	** The beating was so brutal that [[EvenEvilHasStandards the other bullies who pick on Danny were disgusted with Marcus]]. Not only is he expelled from school, but he is also sentenced to juvenile jail.
36	** The school's reputation takes a nosedive once word gets out that they did nothing to stop Marcus, and many students are pulled out, while authorities investigate them for letting Marcus run rampant.
37	** The other students band together [[PayEvilUntoEvil and attack Marcus with full intent to maim/kill, thinking that he deserves it]].
38	** Marcus himself thinks he went too far into his bullying and gets [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone overwhelmed with guilt]].
39	* '''Reconstructed''':
40	** For a given value of it... the horror Marcus brought to Danny and that criminal record (and his demonstration that he gives zero fucks about going back to jail... [[NeverGoingBackToPrison if he allows the police to put them back there]]) means that he becomes TheDreaded amongst the student body. When the new student Jimmy is apparently turned into Marcus' new toy, all the other students can do is pray for the poor bastard's soul.
41	** Again for a given value of it... Marcus manages to [[TakingYouWithMe kill many of the students]] [[LastStand before going down]] or, worse yet, [[OneManArmy manages to successfully fend off the attack]]. Now knowing that his targets deserve whatever comes to them, and the rest of the student body now knowing that Marcus is an unstoppable badass, [[FromBadToWorse his brutality becomes even worse]] [[TheDreaded and people accept that, together or alone, he can kill them all any time he wants]].
42	* '''Implied''': Marcus is going to attack Danny. {{Ambulance Cut}} with Danny extremely beaten.
43	* '''Played For Drama''':
44	** Danny is left with head injuries at the hands of Marcus, and the students watch in delight. As he is in the hospital bed being treated for his injuries, he is contemplating revenge against Marcus. A few weeks later, Marcus is beating up another student, until [[BullyHunter Danny]] arrives with a steel pipe (or worse yet, a ''gun''), and [[OhCrap Marcus knows what's going to happen to him...]]
45	** Usually Marcus would be stopped as a bully if there is a moment wherein all of the "weaklings" stand up as an army and demonstrate that Marcus just cannot take them all on. But Marcus is such a psychotic BloodKnight that he '''will''' pummel or even kill as many members of this "army" as he can before going down, and has no problem demonstrating '''that'''. If the options are to be slaughtered alone or together, [[MortonsFork how the heck is it a good idea to stand up against him?]]
46	** If we use RapeAsDrama, then [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil the last two examples of exaggeration counts as this.]]
47	* '''Played For Horror''': The SeriesEstablishingMoment is Marcus picking up Danny and tossing him into a wood-chipper, feet first, and stomping down on his face and pushing him inside while laughing like the Joker as Danny tries in vain to stop it, even pleading for help. And thus Marcus establishes himself as something even more incredibly vile than your average BarbaricBully.
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