Bully Hunters in Live-Action Films.
- The Aggression Scale: According to his medical file, Owen was confined to a secure mental facility after her crippled two bullies who pushed him too far.
- In The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Peter Parker is one of these before getting his spider-powers, despite having no fighting skill. He saves another kid from being bullied by Flash Thompson, by making himself Flash's target instead. He seems to realize what a bad idea it was right before he gets his ass kicked.
- Deconstructed in Angus (1995), as the young title character, who has long suffered from bullying at school, is perfectly capable of taking on Jerk Jock Rick mano-a-mano (he pretty much spent his early childhood breaking Rick's nose at least once a grade). However, that's not going to help Angus' situation outlined in the film. In fact, it never really helped him in times past.
- Subverted in Bad Times at the Battle Royale. Johnson mentions at the start of the movie how he would much prefer getting even with Jason, but Hélène tells him not to do so unless it was in self-defense. Sure enough, come the final battle, Johnson does indeed fight back...in self-defense.
- The title character of Bumblebee happily destroys Tina's car after witnessing her bully Charlie. The fact that Tina stooped so low as to make fun of Charlie's dead father makes this extra rewarding.
- In Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve Rogers' motivation for wanting to join the Army and volunteering for the Super Soldier Experiment: "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies. Don't care where they are from."
- Richard in Dead Man's Shoes goes on a hunt to take revenge for the awful things been done to his brother.
- Stan in Death and Cremation is this and works with high school outcast Jarod Leary to rid Crest Point of what he believes to be a great social epidemic.
- Dick Tracy: The Kid snatches wallets and other valuables for Steve the Tramp, a hideously ugly bum who lives in a shack on the edge of town. After bringing Steve a stolen watch, the Kid tries to help himself to some of Steve's roasted chicken — and gets viciously backhanded to the floor. That's when the titular detective (whose watch the Kid stole) shows up unexpectedly, orders Steve to let the Kid have some chicken, and knocks Steve around with surprisingly powerful punches that eventually cause the entire shack to collapse (fortunately, after all three characters have cleared out). The police soon show up and arrest Steve, whom Tracy says is getting what he deserves for daring to abuse a child. (He then asks the kid if Steve is his father, but the Kid just sneers and tells Tracy to "go suck an egg".)
- The title character of Drillbit Taylor. At first, he refuses to fight Filkins because he is a minor, though upon learning he is a legal adult, he wastes no time in kicking his ass.
- The outcasts in The Final, who lure all of the popular kids to a party so that they can drug them and torture them.
- Exaggerated with both Pamela and Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th series. Jason drowned due to his ignorant camp owners being busy having sex, which made Pamela go nuts and kill them both for not saving her son. However she didn't stop there, she wound up killing ANYONE that set foot in Camp Crystal Lake since it reminds her of her son's drowning. However once Pamela is killed, Jason takes over her role and carries out his mother's endless desire for revenge as well.
- Played with in a flashback-nightmare from Freddy vs. Jason, which suggests that young Jason had actually been chased into the lake by bullying young campers. With no adult witnesses, Pamela only thought it was solely the councilors' fault, and Jason himself followed her example in targeting horny teens, suppressing the memory that other kids had been just as culpable for his drowning.
- Godzilla himself on a few occasions:
- In Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Godzilla stands up to the titular dragon when he starts ragdolling Mothra with his Gravity Beams. Doubles as a Heel–Face Turn since at the time, Godzilla was still undergoing a change of heart in order to protect the Earth from evil, while fighting with Rodan, who was also undergoing the same change of allegiance.
- Son of Godzilla and All Monsters Attack features a combo of this and Papa Wolf instincts kicking in, with Godzilla saving his son from Kamacuras and Kumonga (whom were attacking his son for protecting humans from being eaten by the giant insects themselves). Played more straight in the case of Gabara when he sees the bully monster electrocuting his son and steps in by blasting him with his atomic ray, and when said bully tries to take a cheap shot at the Monster King himself.
- Godzilla vs. Gigan, anytime Godzilla sees Anguirus being attacked by Ghidorah and Gigan (and vice versa with Anguirus). Initially it's due to the space monsters being controlled, but once the aliens are killed and their control is cut off, both space monsters act like bullies by attacking Godzilla and Anguirus while they are both beaten and bloodied by their attacks. Regardless, they manage to fend them both off with ease after receiving a second wind.
- Godzilla vs. Megalon continues this in the case of Gigan using Jet-Jaguar as a hostage to stop Godzilla from attacking him only to forget about Godzilla's atomic ray, and Megalon surrounding Godzilla and the robot in a literal ring of fire, with the duo not only escaping thanks to Jet-Jaguar's flying ability, but also Godzilla subsequently blasting them with his atomic ray as payback.
- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla features a case more akin to Enemy Mine, but seeing as M.O.G.U.E.R.A. was physically weaker than Spacegodzilla and was forced to retreat and re-strategize, allowing Godzilla to step in. In a way, this could qualify as an example of this as well.
- In The Guest, the uncanny proficiency in both physical combat AND administrative jargon / legalese of the titular anti-hero means that he is able to work his violence with an unfortunate group of bullies with very little consequence — twice!
- In Heathers, JD murders the Alpha Bitch and a Jerk Jock pair at his highschool. This emboldens to cross the Moral Event Horizon and attempt to blow up the whole school during a pep rally under the misguided belief that the only place popular and unpopular kids can coexist peacefully is in heaven.
- The short film Hitmen for Hire
is about two hitmen who protect a student from bullies using violent means, killing them off of school grounds in exchange for a few grand. It becomes a lot scarier once you get past the No Budget production values and realize who made the film — Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the Columbine High School killers, who did it for a class project just five months before the massacre. I'm Not Ashamed, a Christian film about one of the victims of the shooting, features its own version of Hitmen for Hire, which Harris and Klebold present as a class project about how they'd "change the world" that horrifies the teacher and their classmates. - In Madea's Family Reunion, the school bully should've checked to see who's the foster mother of his target and hope the title character isn't the one, which he learns the hard way.
- The title character of Roald Dahl's 1996 film adaptation of Matilda becomes an example of this after her father tells her 'bad people get punished'. She starts by playing pranks on her abusive father. Then she meets Agatha Trunchbull, the sadistic headmistress of her school, and promptly directs her attacks to her.
- In Max Keeble's Big Move: Max spends the movie getting back at Dobbs, Troy, and Jindrake before moving away. It's deconstructed since it only angers the people he bullied, and since he was supposedly moving away, he made his two best friends targets of the former two and caused Jindrake's Revenge by Proxy. After speaking with the janitor, he realizes all he did was hit and run rather than deal with the people who bullied him in a constructive manner.
- Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase: Nancy helps one of her friends who's constantly humiliated by a bully getting revenge on said bully with a prank. The prank involves putting blue paint in his shower. It doesn't end that well for Nancy, as she's punished by way of community service (that is, picking up trash on public lawns).
- What Bastian does with Falkor at the end of The Neverending Story.
- Played with in A Night at the Opera when Otis P. Driftwood (Groucho) defends Tomasso (Harpo) after seeing Lasparri whipping him."Hey you big bully, what's the idea of hitting that little bully?"
- Power Rangers (2017):
- Jason, on his first day of Saturday morning detention, slaps a bully named Cole Wallace in the face for messing with Billy, who has autism. Jason warns said bully not to sit next to him or Billy for the duration of their time in detention.
- Like Peter in Spider-Man 1, Billy also becomes an accidental bully hunter. Cole attempts to break Billy's wrist to get payback, but is unsuccessful in doing so and decides to headbutt him, only to knock himself out, and it makes Billy look like the one who did, and instantly makes him popular among his peers. This happened due to Billy's newfound powers making his body stronger.
- In Prom Night (1980), a little girl is bullied by a few classmates to the point that she falls out a window and dies, and the classmates agree to keep their involvement in her death a secret. Years later, a serial killer is picking them off one by one and is revealed to be the girl's twin brother, an unknown witness to the crime, avenging his sister.
- Downplayed in Spider-Man, where Peter Parker manages to take out school bully Flash Thompson completely by accident. Peter accidentally launches a lunch tray into the back of Flash's head because Peter couldn't control his new powers. Cue Flash cornering Peter against a row of lockers and fruitlessly throwing a series of punches, which Peter effortlessly dodges before throwing a single punch of his own that knocks Flash halfway down the school hallway, all without meaning to do any of it.
- Subverted in Three O'Clock High: The burly jock Craig Mattey is known for pummeling a bully, but he later admits that the bully's victim paid him to do it. The main character hires Craig's services against his own bully but doesn't get his money's worth.
