History Main / BullyBrutality

* In the fifth episode of ''LightNovel/{{Battery}}'', a group of boys sneak up on Takumi after school, pull his shirt up, and start whipping him with a belt. One of them pulls out scissors and threatens to "give him a haircut", but he's stopped by his friends because the scars would be easy to see.

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* Nacho from the Spanish film ''Bullying'' is a particularly depraved example. He starts by forcing Jordi to drink alcohol and wet himself on camera, and then moves on to fracturing Jordi's dog's leg. Finally, he moves on to trying to rape and murder Jordi.

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* ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'': Araya initially just resorts to bullying Haruyuki, extorting him into giving him lunch. After Kuroyukihime gets him expelled, he jumps right into brutal territory by trying to [[CarFu run Haru and Kuroyukihime over with his car]].

** [[TheSociopath Eric Cartman]] has beaten up multiple students in school, at one point dismembering a student ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''-style [[DisproportionateRetribution just for calling him chubby]]. It's only due to the [[ArtisticLicenseEducation ineptitude of the school staff]] that he has never been expelled or arrested for his actions.

* ''Film/ThreeOClockHigh'': The main character runs afoul of the new kid in school, Buddy, who turns out to have a BerserkButton about [[HatesBeingTouched being touched]] and tells him he's going to beat the shit out of him after class. The kid spends the rest of the day trying to find some way to save his neck, including buying the services of a BullyHunter. Buddy kicks the ass of the BullyHunter, beats up an school security guard, and pummels the main character within an inch of his life before the kid turns the tables him. Somehow, Buddy shows up for school the next day instead of getting thrown in jail and tried as an adult for multiple counts of battery.

* There's a story arc in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' where at a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors, dozens of students return from the dead -- including a trio of bullies who attended the school back before the First World War (for reference, this story takes place during the UsefulNotes/GulfWar). It turns out that these bullies killed one of their fellow students decades earlier as part of a Satanic ritual (and this unfortunate lad is also back from the dead). Displeased with the way that the ritual failed to gain them any special attention from Satan, and generally unhappy about being back at their old school, they decide to resume being bullies and inflict their tortures on one of the few live students left at the school. The poor kid ends up dying from the wounds they inflict upon him after several agonizing days without medical care.

* Troy from ''Series/StrangerThings'' at first starts off as a simple bully, going no worse than giving Mike a small cut on his chin. However, he makes an incredibly disrespectful comment about Will during his memorial service, which leads to Eleven making him wet his pants. [[DisproportionateRetribution As retaliation, he threatens to stab Dustin if Mike doesn't jump off a cliff.]]

* In ''Franchise/TheKarateKid'' franchise pretty much rubs on this trope aside from the multiple severe beatings bullies inflict, we have the following:

* In ''Franchise/TheKarateKid'', every one of the nasty karate students Daniel runs into (the Cobra Kai, Chozen) gives him sound beatings:
** In ‘’Film/TheKarateKid’’, Johnny and his goons not only beat up Daniel but at one point, run him over with motorbikes. And certainly, the beating they give Daniel at Halloween looks like attempted murder.

‘’ Film/TheNextKarateKid’’ has a different protagonist: a female highschool student who is confronted by what is essentially bullied by hall monitors who have an unhealthy obsession with her, complete with UnfortunateImplications. Oh, and they blow up her boyfriend’s car.

* In ''Film/TheKarateKid'', every one of the nasty karate students Daniel runs into (the Cobra Kai, Chozen) gives him sound beatings. The continuation series ''Series/CobraKai'' follows up by making the first students of the resurrected titular ThugDojo victims of modern methods such as cyber-bullying that become (by the end of the first season) brutal bullies themselves of the old-school "beat the living shit out of your target" kind.

** In "[[https://youtu.be/mhM0QGva0gc Finally Accepted for Being Albino]]", Lulu got shoved into the pool by an AlphaBitch and nearly drowned to death. The AlphaBitch ''[[LackOfEmpathy laughs]]'' as this happens.

** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTouZN7c9z4 I Was Homeless]]", Tony got brutally pummeled by [[BigSisterBully his two older sisters]] through most of his life. It got so bad that he had to move away to escape their wrath.
** In "[[https://youtu.be/mhM0QGva0gc Finally Accepted for Being Albino]]", when Lulu is accepted to an AlphaBitch's party, the AlphaBitch deliberately shoves her in the pool against her will and ''[[LackOfEmpathy laughs it off]]''. Lulu nearly drowns to death because of this, but doctors thankfully brought her back to health.
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWU0ZvsssR4 So What If I Love Anime]]", Kodi is shown with her anime merchandise at school. Some bullies ''pelt her with rocks as retaliation''. Makes you wonder why they haven't been ''arrested'' for this.

** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWU0ZvsssR4 So What If I Love Anime]]", Kodi is shown with her anime merchandise at school. Some bullies ''pelt her with rocks as retaliation''. Makes you wonder why these bullies haven't been ''arrested'' for this.

Often in media, TheBully is portrayed as a typical {{Jerkass}} whose biggest threat to their victim is a wedgie or fist in the face. Aside from that, [[SchoolBullyingIsHarmless they are mostly harmless in the grand scheme of things]]. [[TitleDrop Bully Brutality]] takes the typical bully UpToEleven by having him do things that could actually seriously hurt or even kill their victim, though the bully may or may not actually ''want'' to commit murder. Of course, knowingly using violence that can result in serious injury or death isn't any better than premeditated murder. Where the typical bully just wants to give their victim a black eye, the brutal bully wants to beat them to a bloody pulp, if not even worse. The fact that the bully is capable of inflicting such harm is usually lampshaded by the characters. It becomes clear that these bullies have no limits. It also becomes clear that because of that, they have crossed all lines, which makes it a great example of crossing the MoralEventHorizon.

* Inverted in Creator/BenElton's book ''Past Mortem''. A bunch of school bullies are killed by a serial killer, [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp years after the bullying took place]], usually in an IronicDeath. While the serial killer takes it UpToEleven, however, several of the various misdeeds perpetrated by the bullies in the past touch on this trope.

* Manami from ''Manga/{{Life}}'' and her GirlPosse can be very violent. It gets to the point where one character ''throws herself off the school balcony'' to avoid their wrath. Early on, they attempt to shove a handful of needles down Ayumu's throat in a reference to taking the Japanese PinkySwear rhyme seriously. Manami outright attempts to get Ayumu and Miki murdered outside of school.

* ''Webcomic/{{Bastard}}'': Jin's classmate Beau Park beats him so severely after Jin steals his wallet that the artificial valves in his heart stop working, and he nearly dies. Fortunately, new transfer student Kyun Yoon happens upon the scene and calls an ambulance, which kickstarts the whole plot.

** [[TheSociopath Eric Cartman]] has beaten up multiple students in school, at one point dismembering a student ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''-style [[DisproportionateRetribution just for calling him chubby]]. It's only due to the [[ArtisticLicenseEducation ineptitude of the school staff]] that he has never been expelled.

* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': Saki Hanajima was a victim of this in the past. She nearly killed a male bully with her PsychicPowers after he [[ForceFeeding force fed her]] a life newt, and later, several girls went so far as to ''burn her with a match'' just to see if she'd react and use her waves on them.

Often in media, TheBully is portrayed as a typical {{Jerkass}} whose biggest threat to their victim is a wedgie or fist in the face. Aside from that, [[SchoolBullyingIsHarmless they are mostly harmless in the grand scheme of things]]. [[TitleDrop Bully Brutality]] takes the typical bully UpToEleven by having him do things that could actually seriously hurt or even kill their victim, though the bully may or may not actually ''want'' to commit murder. Of course, knowingly using violence that can result in serious injury or death isn't any better than premeditated murder. Where the typical bully just wants to give their victim a black eye, the brutal bully wants to beat them to a bloody pulp. The fact that the bully is capable of inflicting such harm is usually lampshaded by the characters. It becomes clear that these bullies have no limits. It also becomes clear that because of that, they have crossed all lines, which makes it a great example of crossing the MoralEventHorizon.

* In ''Yume Miru Kusuri'', Aeka Shiraki is being continuously harshly bullied to the point of breaking, and everyone turns a blind eye. The bad end of her arc is past that point and has her jump off the school roof in a suicide attempt. Good end? That one has her and the supportive-of-her protagonist quit the crapsack school after she snaps and retaliates at the bullies, near-strangling the instigator to death among other things.

* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': Shake constantly acts as such with Meatwad, doing such crazed actions as [[MicrowaveTheDog stuffing Meatwad's pets in the microwave]] and trying to dupe him into using a [[BeeAfraid beehive]] as a replacement brain.

Often in media, TheBully is portrayed as a typical {{Jerkass}} whose biggest threat to their victim is a wedgie or fist in the face. Aside from that, [[SchoolBullyingIsHarmless they are mostly harmless in the grand scheme of things]]. [[TitleDrop Bully Brutality]] takes the typical bully UpToEleven by having him do things that could actually kill their victim, though the bully may or may not actually ''want'' to commit murder. Of course, knowingly using violence that can result in serious injury or death isn't any better than premeditated murder. Where the typical bully just wants to give their victim a black eye, the brutal bully wants to beat them to a bloody pulp. The fact that the bully is capable of inflicting such harm is usually lampshaded by the characters. It becomes clear that these bullies have no limits. It also becomes clear that because of that, they have crossed all lines, which makes it a great example of crossing the MoralEventHorizon.