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Basic Trope: Bullies severely injure their victims.

  • Straight: Marcus beats up Danny so badly that he is sent to the hospital.
  • Exaggerated:
    • Marcus injures Danny by beating him in the head, choking him, and breaking every bone in his body.
    • Practically every classmate beats up and tortures Danny to death.
    • Marcus runs Danny over with his car and posts the video on YouTube to humiliate him.
    • 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.
    • Marcus beats up Mr. Daniels, one of the teachers.
    • Marcus pushes Danny off a skyscraper and onto a massive pile of ignited tables.
    • Marcus rapes Danny.
    • Marcus rapes everyone in the entire school.
  • Downplayed: Marcus gives Danny a Dope Slap 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 happened once, they'll never forget it.
  • Justified:
  • Inverted:
  • 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.
  • Double Subverted: He walked into a pole because he was dizzy from what the school bullies did to him earlier.
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig Zagged: Danny and Marcus are fighting and one of them gets a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, 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 a story that Charlie is doing.
  • Averted:
    • 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.
    • No bullying takes place, physical or otherwise.
  • Enforced: The writers want the audience to despise Marcus and pity Danny.
  • Lampshaded: "Marcus is not a common bully, he will not dope slap you and make wedgies, he will you to a bloody pulp and maybe more. If you can, avoid him at all costs."
  • Invoked: Marcus talks about how bad will beat Danny
  • Exploited: Jhon makes Danny fight against Marcus to incapacite him.
  • 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.
  • Discussed: "God damn it Marcus! What did that kid do for a beat up as bad as that?!"
  • Conversed: "Hope Danny's OK. Marcus should rot in jail for nearly killing that poor kid!"
  • Deconstructed:
  • Reconstructed:
  • Implied: Marcus is going to attack Danny. Ambulance Cut with Danny extremely beaten.
  • Played For Drama:
  • Played For Horror: The Series Establishing Moment 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 Barbaric Bully.

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