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* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
** Strong Bad was abusive to his little brother Strong Sad, going as far as drilling a hole in his stomach for a belly button. He and Strong Mad still pummel Strong Bad "every hour on the hour".
** One ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' has Strong Bad introducing Edga Jr., a filter for long emails. The splash screen has an angry kid with the caption "[[FelonyMisdemeanor Indent and Die]]!"
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* Jan from ''Webcomic/GiftsOfWanderingIce'' was known to be very cruel to his little sister. Also, [[spoiler: at the age of 16 he killed her mentor and, when asked for the reason for this at the trial, said that "it was fun"]].
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* ''TabletopGame/KidWorld'', from the somewhat obscure company of Vajra Enterprises, is a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' on a global scale after a plague kills ninety percent of humanity and leaves all the adults blind. Earth is a giant shithole.
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* ''KidWorld'', from the somewhat obscure company of Vajra Enterprises, is a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' on a global scale after a plague kills ninety percent of humanity and leaves all the adults blind. Earth is a giant shithole.

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* ''KidWorld'', ''TabletopGame/KidWorld'', from the somewhat obscure company of Vajra Enterprises, is a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' on a global scale after a plague kills ninety percent of humanity and leaves all the adults blind. Earth is a giant shithole.
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** In ''Schulz and Peanuts'', David Michaelis recounts that when one of Charles Schulz's mistresses said "I do not want to be the woman who ruined the innocence of the ''Peanuts'' characters", Schulz replied "You're so naive to think they're innocent. Children are not innocent at all. Children are cruel."
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* In the ''{{lonelygirl15}}'' episode "Poor Pluto", it is revealed that Bree was bullied by the other kids at school because she liked to ask questions about stars. However, in the following episode, "I Want to Take Bree to a Party", Daniel claims that [[strike:it was just teasing and that Bree takes things really seriously]] they were a bunch of mindless jerks who didn't give a crap about her feelings. Seriously, spreading rumors about her having an affair with her teacher?

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* In the ''{{lonelygirl15}}'' ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}'' episode "Poor Pluto", it is revealed that Bree was bullied by the other kids at school because she liked to ask questions about stars. However, in the following episode, "I Want to Take Bree to a Party", Daniel claims that [[strike:it was just teasing and that Bree takes things really seriously]] they were a bunch of mindless jerks who didn't give a crap about her feelings. Seriously, spreading rumors about her having an affair with her teacher?
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** [[CerealViceReward Kids in cereal commercials]] are especially cruel to mascots, with the most notorious examples being Lucky and the Trix Rabbit, who will never get to keep or have their respective cereals thanks to them.

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** [[CerealViceReward Kids in cereal commercials]] are especially cruel to mascots, with the most notorious examples being Lucky and the Trix Rabbit, who will never get to keep or have their respective cereals thanks to them. The kids in the Coco-Puff commercials did the opposite, tempting Sonny with the cereal until he lost his self control and went "coco for Coco Puffs".
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* ''AdventuresInOdyssey'': Liz Horton was a rather nice girl, but you wouldn't know this from her first appearances. In two episodes, the first she repeatedly teases a girl about how ugly her clothes are, (([[CardCarryingVillain even informing her that she was talking about her]])), and in the other episode she is so mean at times, you just want to reach through the speakers and punch the ever living tar out of her.

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* ''AdventuresInOdyssey'': ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey'': Liz Horton was a rather nice girl, but you wouldn't know this from her first appearances. In two episodes, the first she repeatedly teases a girl about how ugly her clothes are, (([[CardCarryingVillain even informing her that she was talking about her]])), and in the other episode she is so mean at times, you just want to reach through the speakers and punch the ever living tar out of her.



* DonaldGlover discusses this in one of his stand-up routines, describing children as "tiny Hitlers". He says that walked by two kids fighting over a basketball, and the fight ended with one of them saying, "And that's why your mom's in a fucking wheelchair!". Donald was so shocked he dropped the food he was carrying, and wonders how someone can say that without exploding.

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* DonaldGlover Creator/DonaldGlover discusses this in one of his stand-up routines, describing children as "tiny Hitlers". He says that walked by two kids fighting over a basketball, and the fight ended with one of them saying, "And that's why your mom's in a fucking wheelchair!". Donald was so shocked he dropped the food he was carrying, and wonders how someone can say that without exploding.
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** Calvin himself can be this when he's not the victim; he's quite the {{Jerkass}} towards Susie.
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* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic got bullied for most of his childhood, and while we mostly just hear about it, in ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'' we get to see depressing flashbacks of it.

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* Many 90's kid-aimed commercials glorified this trope, with kids joyfully behaving in ways that even most real-life kids would find repulsive.

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* Check out ''Girlfriend'' by Avril Lavigne for an example where the bully is the protagonist.



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* All BUT TaylorSwift's character in the video for "Mean" are bullied by other kids.

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* In the ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' Tenth Anniversary Collection, Watterson muses a bit on the character of Moe, who was written as a bully from a child's perspective; which is to say that being a jerk is Moe's only purpose.
** Moe is, in fact, the only recurring character in the entire strip not intended to be treated with any sympathy whatsoever.

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* The way Charlie Brown is treated in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', most of the kids could count for this (except Linus and Marcie most of the time).
** Lampshaded especially hard in [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1958/02/23 this strip]].

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* Tedd of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has been made fun of since he was small for being androgynous; his AU counterpart went nuts from the strain. Justin has been teased since early high school for being gay. Susan has always been considered a weird feminist, but she got really reamed for a few days after showing up at school in the boys' uniform.

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* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', it seems that prior to Antimony's arrival, the entire Queslett North class made a point of ostracizing Kat Donlan, simply because she got good grades and had teachers for parents.
** Part of this newfound respect for Kat may be simple fear of Annie. Its shown that despite the class having respect for her, they're kind of freaked out by her EmotionlessGirl status at the same time. Ironically, this makes Kat the sociable one and Annie the quiet one, as the class tend to ask Kat to pass messages along to Annie. Kat, naturally, calls them on this.

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* NewTransferStudent Danny from ''Webcomic/TheBoyInPinkEarmuffs'' gets called homophobic slurs by the local boys for being CampGay and ignorant of "boy stuff".
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** After Moe shoves him face-down in the dirt, Calvin ruefully remarks how adults tend to gloss over this trope.
-->'''Calvin:''' [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/10/19 People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.]]
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* Rigel from ''{{Webcomic/DNA}}'' bullies the other X's younger than him very cruelly. In Segment: Tooth, Rigel mocks Orion's SpeechImpediment and throws him into mud puddle and tells him to eat the mud, and then begins drowning Orion in the mud when Orion insults him, which shocks even Leon, who was helping Rigel with his bullying. In Segment: Mud, the first thing he does upon meeting Lukas is boss him around for breaking the rules and then ruins Lukas's drawing, making him cry. but this time it turns out he was BullyingADragon.
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* Cardin Winchester in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' is this trope, pushing [[ButtMonkey Jaune]] around just because he was an easy target. He's also seen bullying [[AscendedExtra Velvet]] for her Faunus heritage.
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* Cardin Winchester in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' is this trope, pushing [[ButtMonkey Jaune]] around just because he was an easy target. He's also seen bullying [[AscendedExtra Velvet]] for her Faunus heritage.
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* GymClassHeroes' third album is called ''As Cruel as School Children''.

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* GymClassHeroes' third album is called ''As Cruel as School Children''. There are also several songs on that album, as well as their other albums, that are about this trope. For example, "Face in the Hall" is about homophobic bullying that escalates and ends up killing the victim.
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** Elliot feared he may have enjoyed fighting bullies too much in his past. He thinks it might turn him into something of a bully's bully.
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* Sid from ''WebAnimation/TheresAManInTheWoods''.

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* Sid from ''WebAnimation/TheresAManInTheWoods''.''WebAnimation/TheresAManInTheWoods'', who tells a rumor that causes a teacher to be fired, just because he doesn't want to share the honeysuckle with the other kids.
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* Sid from ''WebAnimation/TheresAManInTheWoods''.
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* In the ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' Tenth Anniversary Collection, Watterson muses a bit on the character of Moe, who was written as a bully from a child's perspective; which is to say that being a jerk is Moe's only purpose.
** Moe is, in fact, the only recurring character in the entire strip not intended to be treated with any sympathy whatsoever.
* The way Charlie Brown is treated in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', most of the kids could count for this (except Linus and Marcie most of the time).
** Lampshaded especially hard in [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1958/02/23 this strip]].
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* ''KidWorld'', from the somewhat obscure company of Vajra Enterprises, is a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] ''LordOfTheFlies'' on a global scale after a plague kills ninety percent of humanity and leaves all the adults blind. Earth is a giant shithole.

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* ''KidWorld'', from the somewhat obscure company of Vajra Enterprises, is a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] ''LordOfTheFlies'' ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' on a global scale after a plague kills ninety percent of humanity and leaves all the adults blind. Earth is a giant shithole.
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* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' reveals that ''Calvin once drove his school psychiatrist mad.''
* The beginning of the ''Film/StarTrek'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9694363/1/Safe-and-Sound Safe and Sound]]'' has the young Lucille Harewood confronted by two boys who accuse her of being a terrorist like her father - and proceed to beat her up for it. If she hadn't had Khan's blood in her, she would've been seriously injured.
* From the FanFic/Gensokyo20XX series, we have Yume Ni "Yu" Yakumo and it is to such a degree that the other kids prefer Reimu over her, especially, when she hits them. Apparently, she seems to have a LackOfEmpathy, seeing as she tried to throw Reimu (attached to an IV) over a railing, the which of could have either killed or injured her, along with a nonchalant to eager tone about the other kids being her bitch.
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* From the FanFic/Gensokyo20XX series, we have Yume Ni "Yu" Yakumo and it is to such a degree that the other kids prefer Reimu over her, especially, when she hits them. Apparently, she seems to have a Lack of Empathy, seeing as she tried to throw Reimu (attached to an IV) over a railing, the which of could have either killed or injured her, along with a nonchalant to eager tone about the other kids being her bitch.

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* In ''WhatBirdsKnow'', this trope forms a major part of the [[{{Backstory}} backstories]] of the three girls during {{flashback}}s.

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* In ''WhatBirdsKnow'', ''Webcomic/WhatBirdsKnow'', this trope forms a major part of the [[{{Backstory}} backstories]] {{backstor|y}}ies of the three girls during {{flashback}}s.



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* The beginning of the ''Film/StarTrek'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9694363/1/Safe-and-Sound Safe and Sound]]'' has the young Lucille Harewood confronted by two boys who accuse her of being a terrorist like her father - and proceed to beat her up for it. If she hadn't had Khan's blood in her, she would've been seriously injured.
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* DonaldGlover discusses this in one of his stand-up routines, describing children as "tiny Hitlers". He says that walked by two kids fighting over a basketball, and the fight ended with one of them saying, "And that's why your mom's in a fucking wheelchair!". Donald was so shocked he dropped the food he was carrying, and wonders how someone can say that without exploding.
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* In ''Manhwa/{{Redrum 327}}'' Hyeri. [[spoiler:At mere eight years old, Hyeri and the other kids locked Gahui up in an abandoned safe in the middle of a forest, where Gahui ended up being trapped for six days while it rained, nearly drowning and half frozen as a result.]]
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* Many 90's kid-aimed commercials glorified this trope, with kids joyfully behaving in ways that even most real-life kids would find repulsive.
** A good example is the Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats commercials of the mid-90's, which not only exemplified KidsVersusAdults but often had cartoonishly sassy children doing things almost no decently raised kid would even want to do in real life, such as squirting (reasonably nice) old ladies with garden hoses.
** [[CerealViceReward Kids in cereal commercials]] are especially cruel to mascots, with the most notorious examples being Lucky and the Trix Rabbit, who will never get to keep or have their respective cereals thanks to them.
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* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' reveals that ''Calvin once drove his school psychiatrist mad.''
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* Check out ''Girlfriend'' by Avril Lavigne for an example where the bully is the protagonist.
* GymClassHeroes' third album is called ''As Cruel as School Children''.
* TheWho's ''{{Tommy}}'' features cousin Kevin.
* The whole point of JohnPeel favorites Furious Pig's "I Don't Like Your Face."
* The video for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TsCud9QhU Mass Destruction]] by Faithless has kids engaging in fist fights.
* While Mark Wills' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVjbo8dW9c8&ob=av2e Don't Laugh At Me]] is about cruelty in different settings, the first verse covers examples of kid/teen cruelty very nicely.
* All BUT TaylorSwift's character in the video for "Mean" are bullied by other kids.
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* ''{{Nebulous}}'':
-->'''Nebulous:''' At school... they called me "Nobulous"
-->'''Rory''': Ha ha ha ha... er... Ahem hem, er, kids can be so cruel.
* ''AdventuresInOdyssey'': Liz Horton was a rather nice girl, but you wouldn't know this from her first appearances. In two episodes, the first she repeatedly teases a girl about how ugly her clothes are, (([[CardCarryingVillain even informing her that she was talking about her]])), and in the other episode she is so mean at times, you just want to reach through the speakers and punch the ever living tar out of her.
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* ''KidWorld'', from the somewhat obscure company of Vajra Enterprises, is a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] ''LordOfTheFlies'' on a global scale after a plague kills ninety percent of humanity and leaves all the adults blind. Earth is a giant shithole.
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* Tedd of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has been made fun of since he was small for being androgynous; his AU counterpart went nuts from the strain. Justin has been teased since early high school for being gay. Susan has always been considered a weird feminist, but she got really reamed for a few days after showing up at school in the boys' uniform.
* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', it seems that prior to Antimony's arrival, the entire Queslett North class made a point of ostracizing Kat Donlan, simply because she got good grades and had teachers for parents.
** Part of this newfound respect for Kat may be simple fear of Annie. Its shown that despite the class having respect for her, they're kind of freaked out by her EmotionlessGirl status at the same time. Ironically, this makes Kat the sociable one and Annie the quiet one, as the class tend to ask Kat to pass messages along to Annie. Kat, naturally, calls them on this.
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', the children aboard Castle Wulfenbach are noted by Tarvek in [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090914 this comic]] as tormenting and picking on each other all the time. Lineage, as he comments, was a favored excuse, with them taking any chance to "one up" each other and thusly claim a reason to bully their "lessers" around.
** This might be UnreliableNarrator, as Tarvek is not unbiased on the subject. Though they're old enough to mostly not be "kids" any more, only one of the Castle students (Princess Zulenna) goes out of her way to be cruel to Agatha when she's living with them, despite everyone at the time thinking Agatha is a commoner nobody.
*** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031215 As Sleipnir noted]], by this time active Sparks among them became more confident in their power, however much they have. And, ahem, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100906 found other things to do with their free time]].
* In ''WhatBirdsKnow'', this trope forms a major part of the [[{{Backstory}} backstories]] of the three girls during {{flashback}}s.
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* In the ''{{lonelygirl15}}'' episode "Poor Pluto", it is revealed that Bree was bullied by the other kids at school because she liked to ask questions about stars. However, in the following episode, "I Want to Take Bree to a Party", Daniel claims that [[strike:it was just teasing and that Bree takes things really seriously]] they were a bunch of mindless jerks who didn't give a crap about her feelings. Seriously, spreading rumors about her having an affair with her teacher?
* Adam from ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief''.
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