History Main / BullyHunter

* In the ''Literature/{{Worm}}''/''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'' crossover ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14104653/chapters/32498268 Glassbreaker: Superb Song of the Valkyries]]'', Taylor Hebert is a [[DownplayedTrope toned down]] example. She doesn't go seeking out bullies, but if she catches one in the act, she ''will'' stop them. Ironic, since in Worm canon, she was a massive BullyMagnet.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's version of Franchise/{{Superman}} in [[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsActionComics his run]] on ''ComicBook/ActionComics'', complete with falling afoul of HeWhoFightsMonsters. Among other things in the early issues he dangles people out of buildings, throws them from those buildings into rivers, and chokeslams Batman who was only attacking Superman at the time and demonstrably wasn't a threat to him.

* Mikhail of ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}} may be a wrestling fanatic and BloodKnight, but once he sees Maloof being picked on by Bobby, he steps in to make sure Bobby knows bullying is now forbidden. He then agrees to be Maloof's bodyguard, and the two of them are later seen [[AssholeVictim tormenting Bobby's toadie Benny.]]

* Commando Riviera is one of these in ''The Twinkie Squad'' by Creator/GordonKorman. He's actually quite nice, but unfortunately, he comes across to authority figures as a thug who starts fights for the heck of it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Bart the General", Bart doesn't just go bully hunting, he does it on a grand scale with the entire class ganging up on Nelson and his gang, complete with aid from Grandpa and Herman. He even goes far enough to get Nelson to sign a treaty saying he "respects Bart's right to exist."

** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "Butterballs". Stan creates a video about anti-bullying, but in turn uses it to attain fame instead of actually helping people. What's more, the type of bullying his movie revolves around bullying at school, not general bullying like DomesticAbuse or bullying in the workplace. Several people who claim to be against bullying have turned out to be bullies themselves, showing how anyone, not just children, can become one for whatever reason, and that hardly anyone is any better than a real bully.

* ''Fanfic/RoarOfTheLION'':
** Ovan is first introduced fighting off a group of anti-Faunus bullies who were harassing a dog Faunus.
** In chapter 10, when he sees Naomi being harassed by Cardin and his team, Leon personally steps in and threatens to shoot him with his arrows if he doesn't back off. Cardin proves to be a PaperTiger, and [[BringMyBrownPants wets his pants]] before fleeing.
** Immediately after his run-in with Leon, Coco gets in on the act, [[GroinAttack hitting Cardin in the crotch]] with her handbag before walking off, warning him not to torment Velvet or ''any'' other Faunus again.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Germany and Japan will hunt down ''anyone'' who tries to hurt Italy. God help you if you actually ''did'' hurt him. Just ask the homophobe and the bully.

* In ''Fanfic/PonyvilleGoesToTheDragons'': [[DarkAndTroubledPast Due to her upbringing]], Cynder absolutely ''[[BerserkButton hates]]'' people who pick on the weak, and comes to Sweetie Belle's aid when she hears her being picked on Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon by scaring them off. [[spoiler: Ends up coming back to bite her in the tail when Rarity uses her threats towards them as an example of the dragons being dangerous to bring the Canterlot royal guards to Ponyville in an attempt to get rid of Ember.]]

* In the ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' fic ''Fanfic/ShadowOfTheDragon'', Syaoran and Meiling beat up [[TheBully Satome]] and his goons in defense of their friends, with Syaoran explicitly warning Satome that if he does anything to hurt Sakura or the others, he will make sure they never find his body.

* Eva, of all people (given that one of her labels is "The Female Bully") has this attitude in ''Fanfic/TotalDramaUnderdogs'', as she shows zero tolerance for Heather's underhanded tactics (even if they're on different teams) or Duncan's relentless bullying.
* In the ''Fanfic/FacingTheFutureSeries'', much like her big brother, Danielle uses her ghost powers to strike a blow against bullies in her school, only to end up in worse trouble than when Danny did the same.
* Deconstructed in ''Fanfic/WhyAmICrying''; no thanks to Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, Scootaloo ''really'' hates bullies. However, she also believes that all bullies are born evil and are incapable of changing their ways, criticizes her father, who was bullied himself in school, for not standing up for himself, and even acts coldly to her kindhearted teacher Miss Cheerilee when she learns that she was her father's former bully. It takes learning of Cheerilee's past and Diamond Tiara's DarkAndTroubledPast to get Scoots to see that [[GrayingMorality bullies can change for the better]], and she is advised to let go of her hatred lest she become a bully herself when she enters middle school, where her best friends won't be with her to keep her in check.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, bullies at the Assassins' Guild School soon discovered [[BadassIsraeli Rivka ben-Divorah]] is not to be messed with. A slow-learning member of the upper classes, the Honourable Pamela Eorle, has to learn this repeatedly. School nurse Matron Igorina is kept occupied with "small medical tasks that combine a remarkably large amount of pain and discomfort with very little lasting physical damage". [[BerserkButton Do not impugn Rivka's ethnicity or religion]]. The title of ''Scary Mary'' for a female pupil who is not to be rendered angry could have been invented for her. At the current point on the cycle, Rivka has graduated, but a lower-school pupil with the name of Emma Roydes appears to have inherited the office of Scary Mary.
** And then [[{{Tykebomb}} Famke Cornelia Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons]] arrived. With a classmate called Cassandra Venturi - who discovered why School Bullying was not going to be her vocation. Ever. Within her first term, the eleven-year-old Tykebomb delivered several memorable and instructive beatdowns to would-be bullies.

* In ''Fanfic/RoanapurConnection'', Oboro mentions in her POV chapter, "[[https://www.deviantart.com/blackmambauk/art/Father-Son-and-the-Mother-Hen-768606229 Father, Son and the Mother Hen]]", that Natsumi Sumeragi is one of these, and is the reason why she and Haru are friends, having stood up for him when they were teenagers
* ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'':
** [[Manga/SailorMoon Makoto]] defends Danny from Dash and his pals, putting them through physical pain until they leave him alone.
** [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Kent]] hates bullies and restrained Dash when he tried to attack Danny. Also, when she learns about Mr. Lancer's DoubleStandard regarding his students, she calls him out for being a bad teacher and threatens to report on him.
** In the spin-off: WesternAnimation/KimPossible defends her boyfriend from his bullies.
* ''Fanfic/APossibleEncounterForAPhantom'': Kim Possible personally manhandles Dash Baxter for harming Danny Fenton. Him hitting on her only makes her hurt him more.
* ''Fanfic/KunoichisLikeUs'': Alex and Kasumi's friendship really kicks off when she helps him fight off a group of bullies in Chapter 2. Likewise, she's also beaten up Daisuke and his gang and threatened Ayane when the respective groups threaten him.
* ''Fanfic/{{Intrepid}}'': After stopping an abusive father during her first night acting as a hero, Madison states she can't stand bullies. Bitterly, she notes the irony that she used to be one.
* In crossover fanfiction ''Fanfic/EchoesOfYesterday'', [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] can't stand bullies, which is because she scares Sophia and her cronies away when she correctly identifies her as the person who shoved Taylor into the locker, and later she's more than eager to pounce on Hookwolf.
-->Earth Bet may have been in a different dimension, but it was still Earth. And just like on my Earth, I wasn't afraid of a so-called monster like this. This man, whoever he was, was a bully. More than likely he stood high in an organization that preached hatred and intolerance based on a person's skin color. What's more, it was clear he abused his power and position to force animals to kill each other for the entertainment of himself and others. A bully that happened to be made of knives, but a bully still.\\
And if there was one thing I couldn't stand, it was bullies. Which is probably why he was surprised when I charged at him, and leapt at his face, more than ready to rumble.
* In ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheUndiscoveredSwords'', Kikkō openly defends Kiriha from Ishida's bullying.
* In the ''Literature/{{Worm}}''/''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'' crossover ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14104653/chapters/32498268 Glassbreaker: Superb Song of the Valkyries]]'', Taylor Hebert is a [[DownplayedTrope toned down]] example. She doesn't go seeking out bullies, but if she catches one in the act, she ''will'' stop them. Ironic, since in Worm canon, she was a massive BullyMagnet.
* Deconstructed in ''Fanfic/CindersAndAshesTheChroniclesOfKamenRiderDante''. While Hoshi doesn't do the hunting himself, he writes a fanfic where [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue his OC]] is the one beating up caricatures of people who bullied a friend of his to suicide. Realizing his recent chapters were nothing but this (soon followed by realizing he modeled his OC's arch-nemesis after a friend who he hated at the time) put Hoshi into a HeroicBSOD and even had some people [[WhatTheHellHero call him out over it]].

* In ''Videogame/LostJudgment'' since school bullying and how are a major part of the plot the protagonist Yagami ends up becoming this when he investigates a murder tied to a teacher involved in driving a student to suicide, with the game also allowing him to kick the living shit out of some especially awful teenagers. Eventually it's revealed that [[spoiler:one of the main antagonists is an extreme example of this, being a former teacher who became a vigilante that targets bullies borne out of guilt for his inaction towards bullying that eventually led to a student committing suicide]].

* According to [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/king_of_fighters/v01/c002/115.html one of the mangas]], Kyo Kusanagi from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' began his streetfighting career by defending his elementary school friends from bullies.

** Jacob Frye of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' pursues this principle with a zeal that rivals that of Ezio Auditore and Connor Kenway. He formed the Rooks precisely to have an army to protect the everyman from the injustice and oppression of the Templar-corrupted London government. Both he and his sister Evie share a hatred of the despicable industry of Child Labor, and with Jacob's army of Rooks the waged a war to free the orphans of Northern London from a short life of legalized slavery in Templar-owned factories.

** Jacob pursues this principle with a zeal that rivals that of Ezio Auditore and Connor Kenway. He formed the Rooks precisely to have an army to protect the everyman from the injustice and oppression of the Templar-corrupted London government. Both he and his sister Evie share a hatred of the despicable industry of Child Labor, and with Jacob's army of Rooks the waged a war to free the orphans of Northern London from a short life of legalized slavery in Templar-owned factories.

* This is the ''Raisons D'être'' of the epynomous warriors of ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed; protectors of innocence that smites tyrants and oppressors of the weak from the shadows when society is too corrupt and cynical to oppose their cruelty. Being warriors of compassion, the best among Assassins such as Ezio Auditore, Connor Kenway, Jacob Frye and Bayek also endeavor to rebuild broken communities after slaying the tyrants that oppressed them. It is in fact Ezio Auditore's financial sponsorship of the formerly destitute states of Florence, Venice and Rome after slaying its tyrants that single-handedly allowed ''The Renaissance'' to '''begin''' in the ''Assasssin's Creed'' universe.

* In ''Videogame/LostJudgment'' since school bullying and how are a major part of the plot the protagonist Yagami ends up becoming this when he investigates a murder tied to a teacher involved in driving a student to suicide. Eventually it's revealed that one of the main antagonists is an extreme example of this, [[spoiler:being a former teacher who became a vigilante that targets bullies borne out of guilt for his inaction towards bullying that eventually led to a student committing suicide]].

* Sonoko Suzuki from ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' became Ran Mouri's friend by protecting her from bullies when they were little girls. Ironically, in the present Ran is the ActionGirl of the duo.
** Shinichi is shown as this in one of the OAV, where he devises a whole plan to force an apology out of a boy that mocked Ran for having divorced parents. The manga later officially confirms this: as soon as he meets Ran in kindergarten, he realizes that she's being bullied despite Sonoko's attempts to protect her, so he decides to help her out too. This finishes with him giving a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech '''and''' [[UseYourHead a headbutt]] to the bully leader.

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* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': AnnoyingYoungerSibling Shiro Kabuto did ''not'' tolerate bullies. In episode 20 he caught several classmates bullying a shy newcomer, and [[BadassAdorable Shiro wiped the ground with them in spite of they were bigger and outnumbered him]]. However he also exhorted the victims to learn to defend themselves.

* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}: In ''Adventure Comics #397'', villain Nasthalthia 'Nasty' Luthor begins a campaign of bullying students, hoping to lure Supergirl out. Supergirl gives her and her bully friends a ''very wild, very fast'' aerial ride before dumping them into a fountain and warning them that if she ever hears of them terrorizing anyone again... she will get mean.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Now hear this! If I '''ever''' hear of you terrorizing anyone again -- you'll find out you haven't seen anything yet!

* Jesse Custer from ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}''. It doesn't matter if you're a dirty cop, a rich pedophile, or even the head of a secret organization that has pulled society's strings from behind the scenes since biblical times; abuse the defenseless and he WILL put some serious pain on you.
* In one arc of ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'', the detectives re-open the unsolved cold case of the bloody bombing of the Gotham High School Hawks baseball team. One of the theories of the detective who had been investigating the crime when it was fresh was that two nerds who had been bullied by the popular jocks had thrown a pipe bomb into the locker room as vengeance, supported by the fact that the two of them had actually stood up and ''cheered'' at the memorial service. However, the two nerds, who by now have grown up to become wealthy software tycoons, emphasize that they would never have done such a thing, especially since some of the boys on the team had been nice to them. One of the jocks had actually been an unofficial member of their computer club. They recognize the man suspected of being behind the bombing and are able to point the current detectives on the right path.
* Even Steven was a short-lived comic strip, from the late 90s, in the British AnthologyComic ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' the strip involved a boy called Steven getting even with Bullies.

* One issue of ''ComicBook/IronMan'' focused on a group of schoolkids who dressed as their heroes, the Avengers, and who saved other kids from being picked on.
* Ironically on ComicBook/BullyWars this role is held by Hock, biggest bully in town, who is perfectly fine with coming after bullies who didn't ask his permission first.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Lio}}'' will sometimes go after bullies, also hunters as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'': Martin beats up ''three bullies by himself!'' (He thought he was going to die in a powerful explosion, so he figured he didn't have to be afraid anymore.)
* This is one of the reasons Hanuman reincarnated into Maruti in ''Animation/TheReturnOfHanuman'', especially for Minku. One time most of the students teased Maruti and Minku as they quickly become friends. Minku said that they cannot be friends because he's afraid that Maruti will also be teased if he befriended him. Maruti then got angry and lifted one of the teasing students' desk up on a ceiling fan.

* ''Film/DickTracy'': 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 [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome 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 [[WouldHurtAChild abuse a child]]. (He then asks the kid if Steve is his father, but the Kid [[UngratefulBastard just sneers and tells Tracy to "go suck an egg"]].)

** Like Peter in Spider-Man 1, Billy also becomes an accidental bully hunter. Cole attempts to break Billy's wrist to get payback, he finds he's unsuccessful in doing so and decides to headbutt him, only to knock himself out, and it makes Bully 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.

* Vince from ''Literature/SuperPowereds''. Camille is strongly influenced by his coming to the rescue when she is beaten up by bullies, and she later decided that she had to make it through hero certification because she knew his heroic behavior was going to get him hurt and she would need to be there to heal him.

* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': The titular character big time. His opening scene has him almost punching the resident bully, and only resisting because he'll be expelled if he gets into another fight with her. In the mortal world, he frequently makes friends with the kids who get picked on and makes it his personal mission to protect them - even if it means he's bullied as well. In the supernatural world, he stands up to abusive gods and magical creatures.

* In ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington Honor Among Enemies]]'', a major subplot ([[CastHerd essentially unrelated to Honor's doings]]) features a lowly enlisted man on his first crew being harassed and assaulted by some bad-apple coworkers. He [[TookALevelInBadass got some serious self-defense training]] and eventually winds up seeking out and ''ending'' the ringleader [[spoiler:after the thug tries to murder his best friend]].
* Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat was bullied in school, so he bribed the PE teacher into giving him martial-arts lessons. He became hugely popular among the wimps for his ability to send entire gangs of bullies fleeing in fear.
* In ''Literature/TheEyesOfKidMidas'', when Kevin gains RealityWarper powers, he uses them to get revenge on the bullies who picked on him.

* The town of Grantsville on a grand scale in ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' when they declare war on anyone who commits [[RapePillageAndBurn mayhem]] in their neighborhood.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', Ginny is this for Luna and to a lesser extent, the rest of the D.A. Even before her first year began she defended Harry against Malfoy.
* Annie in ''Twister on Tuesday'' of ''Literature/TheMagicTreehouse'' when her brother is being picked on.
* [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] fights for the muggles who refuse to believe in the magic he fights with/against for this reason. We don't learn how core it is to his pyromaniac-wizard persona until Ghost Stories, where we finally see his fight with [[EldritchAbomination He Who Walks Behind]].
** He's so well known for this, both in combat and in making fun of said monsters, that he jokes that if he didn't make fun of a particular EldritchAbomination, they might be offended.
* The plot of ''Past Mortem'' by Ben Elton is based around a detective hunting a serial killer whose victims are all bullies; initially former school bullies whom the killer finds via Friends Reunited, but then teen bullies whose victims had contacted a charity helpline.
* Tobias gets into this somewhat after becoming trapped as a hawk in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', mostly because he had been repeatedly bullied as a human. He sees a couple of bullies harassing Erek King before getting to know Erek, and was about to dive bomb them when something else happened instead.

* Commando Riviera is one of these in ''The Twinkie Squad'' by Creator/GordonKorman. He's actually quite nice, but unfortunately, he comes across to authority figures as a thug who starts fights for the heck of it.
* At the start of ''{{Literature/Dinoverse}}'' Janine Farehouse has taken on a role with shades of this. Her bullies are cruel gossipers and saboteurs, rarely lowering themselves to assault. Ever since her best friend betrayed her for popularity Janine has developed a piercing stare that intimidates her peers. They can't hurt her anymore. Whenever she shows up, they change topics and forget what they were discussing before.
* In Michael C. Bailey's ''Literature/ActionFigures - Issue One: Secret Origins'', Stuart. Even, eventually, on behalf of [[spoiler:the boy who had accidentally killed his younger brother.]]
* Vlad Taltos of the ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' novels was bullied as a young boy by bigger kids from House Orca. Said bigger kids didn't have much foresight, as being an Easterner, Vlad grew into an adolescent ''much'' faster than them, and took great satisfaction in picking fights with similar Orca youths so he could beat the crap out of them.
* In the novel ''Literature/TheNightGardener'', Kip hates seeing other people bullied, due to his own experience of being bullied for his bad leg most of his life. When he sees Alastair picking on his sister, he gets into a fight with him — despite the fact that Alastair is the son of the house and Kip is only the hired help.

* In ''Literature/TheMarvellousLandOfSnergs'', Miss Gribblestone bludgeons Joe's abusive father.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Jon and his little sister Arya demonstrate this early on. Jon insists on fighting back against the Night's Watch recruits who harass Samwell, while Arya defends the butcher's boy against the psychopathic Prince Joffrey.
** Gendry is introduced defending Arya from Hot Pie and Lommy, and calls them out for picking on the smaller "boy".
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Timothy [=McGee=]. He even mentions that he used to be bullied, and now he's the one with the badge and the gun. Probably a lot more in other CrimeAndPunishmentSeries.
* Adult example in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. Dr. Kelso does his absolute best to make Elliot's life a living hell. When he engages in a particularly brutal session (while Elliot was in the middle of her own personal TraumaCongaLine), Dr. Cox, the resident JerkWithAHeartOfGold, steps in and wallops Kelso so hard he has a squeak in his nose that makes him audible from a hallway away. And out of his shoes, don't forget that. He whacked him so hard his shoes stayed perfectly stationary while his feet came out of 'em.
* Tucker had this reputation in ''Series/GrangeHill''.
* Seth Bullock in ''{{Series/Deadwood}}'' hints at this background. When Hearst gets into a particularly loathsome rant, Bullock interrupts with barely contained rage, stating that bullies never know when to ''shut up''. Hearst takes the hint and leaves. Much earlier, Alma's father gives Seth a HannibalLecture that speculates about his driving motive:
-->'''Otis Garrett:''' Were you bullied, Mr. Bullock, when young and incapable? Now you see wrongs everywhere, and bullying you feel called to remedy? The bully who oppressed your youth isn't at the table with us -- perhaps he's long dead.
* MTV Show ''Series/BullyBeatdown'' is this trope manifested, with professional mixed martial artists as the bully hunters.
* Steve Wilkos, the eponymous host of ''Series/TheSteveWilkosShow''.
* Happens on ''Series/StepByStep'', of all shows. When the nerdy Mark is being bullied, he doesn't tell anyone about it because he's too humiliated at being beaten up by a girl. When his tomboyish stepsister Al finds out about it, she confronts the bully directly and gives her some very blunt threats about what she'll do if the bully ever picks on Mark again. The bully, remembering that Al beat the crap out of the toughest male bully in the school, immediately complies.

** Season Seven has Buffy working as school counselor. When Amanda tells her about an abusive boyfriend Buffy says she needs to stand up for herself. Amanda replies she already did and smashed his face into the pavement, she needs advice on whether she should do it more.

* In Season Two of ''Series/{{Glee}}'' Santana blackmails [[ArmouredClosetGay bully]] Karofsky into forming the Bully Whips so they can win Prom King and Queen.
* Jeff Winger in ''Series/{{Community}}'' is an odd example of this. On the surface, he's a self-involved {{Jerkass}} who is thoroughly reluctant to involve himself in anything outside his little bubble and isn't exactly shy about shooting nasty comments at people, whether they're his friends or not. However, he consistently appears to be unwilling and/or unable to let bullying go unchallenged; every time a bully or group of bullies has appeared, even if his friends aren't the direct victims (although especially if they are) Jeff has almost inevitably ended up challenging and getting into conflict with them. He'll usually frame it as challenging them for being an obnoxious, irritating dickhead rather than a bully, but it's a consistent trait of his. In one episode we learn he himself was bullied as a child, which might explain it.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Sliders}}'', "The Guardian," Quinn tries to coach a younger version of himself on an alternate world to stand up to school bullies, hoping to right a wrong that happened when he was a kid. [[spoiler: Partially subverted, as it turns out Quinn's goal is not to get back at the bullies but to prevent his younger self from permanently disabling one of them with a baseball bat. Instead he teaches the kid self-defense so he fights them with his hands.]]
* On ''Series/JudgeJudy'', if the case is about bullying expect Judy to make the bully break down in tears.
* In ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', one episode saw Reese realize what a jerk he'd been at school and turn into a pacifist. With the alpha jerk of the schoolyard gone, the entire school goes into chaos as over a dozen bullies all vie for the empty throne left vacant, multiple bullies harassing the same kids multiple times in a row (one of them gets his shirt and shoes taken after the first bully gets his lunch money). When several of them team up on Stevie, Reese is outraged that his wheelchair immunity is being ignored and rises up to perform a [[CurbstompBattle bully beatdown of epic proportions.]]
* The eponymous Ned of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' becomes this during his brief stint as "The Revenger"

* Parodied on ''Series/{{Burnistoun}}''. The Doberman is a masked, Batman-style superhero who's dedicated to making the city safe and protecting the weak so that no virgin will have to be forced to hump a pole ever again. In practice, this mostly involves targeting Johnny Wee Tollen's Boy, the guy who bullied him as a teen, and it's not very effective, as Johnny Wee Tollen's Boy's bullying tactics are still effective and get the better of The Doberman most of the time.

* Deconstructed in ''Series/NorthernRescue'': When Taylor is getting cyber-bullied her older sister's friend Gwen goes to confront the (12-yer old) bully and try to intimidate her into taking down the video. This ends up embarrassing Taylor when word of it gets out, and Maddie points out to Gwen that bullying a bully (especially one younger than you) doesn't magically make things right.

-->[[TheGrotesque A thing to jest at]] — that it is my wont—
-->[[DisproportionateRetribution An if the jester's noble—ere we part]]

* Haseo of ''[[VideoGame/DotHackGU .hack//G.U.]]'' may qualify, given Haseo's desire to hunt down and punish all Player-Killers in the game, the main bullies of the .hack universe.

* Keisuke was one of these before you met him in ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor''. [[spoiler:Then it backfired on him one day. ''[[BreakTheCutie Horribly.]]'']]
* Pretty much the ''only'' somewhat consistent good trait that [[JerkAss Makoto Itou]] shows in the ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' saga is his hate for school bullies. [[http://youtu.be/qQPhTCKdjlA One of the good endings with Kotonoha]] in the original game has Makoto defending her when he learns that [[AlphaBitch Otome]] and her GirlPosse are bullying her (he even stops one of the girls when she's about to slap poor Kotonoha); in ''Cross Days'', he also [[spoiler: steps in defense of his GayOption Yuuki after finding out he was gang-raped by other boys - including Makoto's own BromanticFoil Taisuke]], and in the VisualNovel/SchoolDays backstory, he [[RescueRomance gained Setsuna's appreciation]] by protecting her from other kids that bullied her for looking smaller and younger than she truly was.

* So did Asuka Kazama in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}''. Joining the tournament is her way of going pro.
* If both what we've seen of his personality and his official profile, which lists one of his dislikes as "those who prey on the weak", is anything to go by, Alex from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' is also one of these.
* Kiyo Tsukino of ''Rumble! @ The Campus'' is a well-known one (in her school, that is).
** So does Keiichi and Motoko, but the former is a bit of a coward and the latter is unaware of being one.
* ComicBook/TheRiddler in the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries''. After you solve enough Riddles in Arkham Knight, the man himself will mention "When I tested this on one of my childhood bullies, he simply could not solve it. Not even on the pain of death."

* Many of the interactions with Lafonda in the third episode of ''VideoGame/FarnhamFables'' mention that she tends to get into fights with bullies. Angelica and Janine, the class bullies, are said to fear her, while other students respect her for standing up for the weak. Her teacher, Mrs. Benheimer, sometimes has to step in to stop Lafonda from going too far, but she still acknowledges her strong moral compass.

* Antimony of ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' delivers a beautiful display of the trope when she takes down the class bully who was tormenting Kat. It cements their friendship.
** Overlaps with DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu at one point. When [[TricksterGod Coyote]] starts insulting Ysengrin at a meeting he specifically asked for with Antimony, Antimony calls him out on it and starts to leave the forest.

* The unnamed title character of ''Webcomic/TheBullysBully''. She is a MartialPacifist who tries her best to stop bullies from tormenting the helpless, and tries her best to settle things without violence, but is not afraid to kick ass when that fails. She also has a sixth sense in regards to people being bullied in general.

* There's a spoof video by Screen Junkies combining ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' with ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' in which Dexter hunts down school bullies [[SerialKillerKiller so he can gruesomely kill them]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Bart the General", Bart doesn't just go bully hunting, he does it on a grand scale with the entire class ganging up on Nelson and his gang, complete with aid from Grandpa and Herman. He even goes far enough to get Nelson to sign a treaty saying he "respects Bart's right to exist."
** The trope is even explicitly invoked in an earlier scene when Bart angrily confronts a {{Mook}} who has stolen his sister Lisa's cupcake. Despite Lisa trying to warn him that the Mook works for Nelson, Bart tries to pummel the thug into submission, gets hauled off the floor, throws a wild punch without looking -- and soon discovers that he has swung right at Nelson's face, ''bloodying it''! Once Nelson realizes that it's his own blood he's tasting and not that of a victim, he immediately burns with hatred for Bart and warns him that he's now as good as dead. But Lisa is proud of her brother for being so brave and points him out to the entire school as "Bart the Bully-Killer" -- a moniker that Bart would just as soon not have.
* Poindexter, the ghost of a bullied nerdy teen who lived in the '50s, in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', who now as a ghost targets him when he thinks Danny is bullying JerkJock Dash Baxter.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' had the safety patrol tracking down someone targeting bullies for humiliation, ending with AnAesop about there being better ways to deal with bullies.
* A cut scene from ''So The Drama'' has WesternAnimation/KimPossible comment that she could beat up on the AlphaBitch, but doing that is beneath her. Still, she teaches ''sensitivity training'' to boys picking on Ron and as a four-year-old beat up pre-K versions of Drakken, Killigan, and Monkey Fist. The one time it looked like she had been [[BullyingADragon pushed to the point of attacking Bonnie]], it ended up with Bonnie breaking down crying at the prospect of Kim justifiably thrashing her.
** In ''A Sitch In Time'', it is revealed that when Kim and Ron first met in kindergarten, Kim was tormented by bullies (actually de-aged versions of Drakken, Monkey Fist, and Duff Killigan [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight travelling back through time to demoralize her before she could become a heroine]]) but Ron came to her defense. When the kid villains turned their attention to Ron, Kim shouted "Hey, Bullies!" and proceeded to send them packing. In the wake of her taking on the bullies that plagued her and Ron, [[Heartwarming/KimPossible a friendship was born...]]
* Creator/AdamWest did this in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo''.

* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' establishes Scott as this, and the bulk of his rivalry with JerkJock Duncan is motivated out of Duncan's casual bullying (the rest is because Duncan is dating Jean, [[OfficialCouple Scott's best friend and eventual love]]), while his intense dislike of the Brotherhood comes down to their tendency to act like jerks to people. Later episodes give this trait to just about everyone once mutants are revealed (Though understandable since it's, you know, them who're being picked on). Special note should go to Rogue, who on two different occasions drives off bullies harassing one of her teammates because of their mutant status (first Scott, with the help of Kitty, [[CurbStompBattle though as Scott showed a few seconds ago, he didn't need it]], and secondly Evan, who also didn't need it but needed someone to drive them off before he did something stupid).
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'', {{Catfolk}} RebelPrince Lion-O gradually becomes this, as he disapproves of Thundera's FantasticRacism and sometimes sticks up for other species. This tends to get him in trouble, first attracting the ire of several thugs in the slums of Thundera after he witnesses them beating up a {{Dog|faces}}, then almost getting killed by an AngryMob after he tried to defend a pair of captured {{Lizard|Folk}}s from them. He eventually actively engages in bully hunting, taking up a predatory MasterSwordsman's challenge in hopes of defeating him.
* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny tended to be a fairly good-natured fellow who didn't actually seek out bullies, but if he was provoked, or if he saw it happening, he'd take it upon himself to put a stop to it. In fact, they even had to create a new character to avert the HeWhoFightsMonsters danger the trope often runs into; though Elmer Fudd versus Bugs Bunny is an iconic rivalry, the factors that made it famous meant that there were actually very few Bugs vs. Elmer cartoons: Bugs is simply so much smarter than his would-be murderer that Elmer's threat is completely defused and Bugs starts to look like the bully. So they created Yosemite Sam, who was (relatively speaking) much smarter than Elmer and far more belligerent so that Bugs could have someone to face off against who wouldn't take too much audience sympathy from Bugs. Yosemite Sam, however, had started gaining audience sympathy as he was never seen doing any actual bullying (just boasting and grandstanding), and Marvin the Martian was created to face Bugs, whose threat was actually shown onscreen and never underwent BadassDecay.
** The WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "Rabbit's Kin" plays this trope perfectly; when a frightened baby rabbit ducks into Bugs' hole to evade Pete Puma, Bugs rallies to the young rabbit's defense.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon "Neapolitan Mouse", while Tom pursues Jerry through the streets of Naples, an Italian mouse beats up Tom, clearly upset to see a big mean cat picking on a little mouse. He then takes down some mean dogs that were harassing Tom, for similar reasons.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': Though Sarah can be a bully herself, if you screw with Jimmy while she's around, she will make you pay. Jimmy even exploits this at times. A good example is in the episode "Ed In A Halfshell" when he lies to Sarah about how the Eds forced him to eat dirt all day.

* {{Deconstruction}} in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "Payback" features a masked VigilanteMan who specifically targets adults (parents/teachers/bosses) that bully various teenagers in Gotham City. [[spoiler: It is revealed that Payback is the son of a doctor at a local youth counseling center, who was depressed that his father was spending too much time counseling other teenagers and neglecting him]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold,'' this was apparently TheMusicMeister's origin story. Given that we see him attempt PsychicAssistedSuicide at one point, [[FridgeHorror this probably didn't end well for the bullies]].
-->''"Bullies used to pick on me because I sang in choir,''
-->''But something very strange occurred when I kept singing higher.''
-->''The ruffians around me quickly [[MindControlMusic fell into a trance]],''
-->''And it was then, [[CardCarryingVillain with wicked glee]], I made those puppets DANCE!''"
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** [[TheCowl Mysterion]] beats the crap out of a [[WouldHitAGirl girl]] who was about to beat up [[BigBrotherInstinct Karen McCormick]].
** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "Butterballs". Stan creates a video about anti-bullying, but in turn uses it to attain fame instead of actually helping people. What's more, the type of bullying his movie revolves around bullying at school, not general bullying like DomesticAbuse or bullying in the workplace. Several people who claim to be against bullying have turned out to be bullies themselves, showing how anyone, not just children, can become one for whatever reason, and that hardly anyone is any better than a real bully.
* [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]] gets a softer version of this in the special ''He's A Bully, Charlie Brown'', adapted from a series of strips. Rerun gets all his marbles stolen by Joe Agate, a classmate who didn't tell him until after the game was over that they were playing for "keeps". Charlie Brown gets them back in record time.
* Louise Belcher of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' has stood up to bullies who pick on weaker kids. For that matter, she's defended older sister Tina from mean girls.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': In one of the earliest episodes of the show, Timmy wants to be this when he's a grown-up, and after wishing himself adult, he tries to stop Francis from beating up AJ and Chester. Unfortunately, this backfires when Francis pulls a WoundedGazelleGambit and starts crying in front of two cops, who see a grown man harassing a kid and throw Timmy in jail.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': A flashback reveals Cole was this at school. His mother first seems exasperated when she learns he got into a fight, but she quickly asks him to promise that he will ''never'' stand down when others need defending.

** The trope is even explicitly invoked in an earlier scene when Bart angrily confronts a {{Mook}} who has stolen his sister Lisa's cupcake. Despite Lisa trying to warn him that the Mook works for Nelson, Bart tries to pummel the thug into submission, gets hauled off the floor, throws a wild punch without looking - and soon discovers that he has swung right at Nelson's face, ''bloodying it''! Once Nelson realizes that it's his own blood he's tasting and not that of a victim, he immediately burns with hatred for Bart and warns him that he's now as good as dead. But Lisa is proud of her brother for being so brave and points him out to the entire school as "Bart the Bully-Killer" - a moniker that Bart would just as soon not have.

* On ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark,'' [[TheCowl Mysterion]] beats the crap out of a [[WouldHitAGirl girl]] who was about to beat up [[BigBrotherInstinct Karen McCormick]].

* ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddparents'': In one of the earliest episodes of the show, Timmy wants to be this when he's a grown-up, and after wishing himself adult, he tries to stop Francis from beating up AJ and Chester. Unfortunately, this backfires when Francis pulls a WoundedGazelleGambit and starts crying in front of two cops, who see a grown man harassing a kid and throw Timmy in jail.

The appeal of this trope is obvious; everyone who has been bullied at some point in their lives will instantly sympathize with the urge to give a fictional tormentor a comeuppance. As such, this can be a good way to introduce a heroic character as a [[EstablishingCharacterMoment guy or gal you can trust.]] It can also be used to give a backstory to an anti-heroic character if the bully hunter takes things too far; HeWhoFightsMonsters can be hinted at. Bully Hunters ''can'' become a KnightTemplar in very extreme circumstances. All in the simple act of standing up to a bully.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, bullies at the Assassins' Guild School soon discovered [[BadassIsraeli Rivka ben-Divorah]] is not to be messed with. A slow-learning member of the upper classes, the Honourable Pamela Eorle, has to learn this ''repeatedly''. School nurse Matron Igorina is kept occupied with "small medical tasks that combine a remarkably large amount of pain and discomfort with very little lasting physical damage". [[BerserkButton Do not impugn Rivka's ethnicity or religion]]. The title of ''Scary Mary'' for a female pupil who is not to be rendered angry could have been invented for her. At the current point on the cycle, Rivka has graduated, but a lower-school pupil with the UnfortunateName of Emma Roydes appears to have inherited the office of Scary Mary.

* Various characters of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' are played this way if LaserGuidedKarma doesn't catch up to the rude and mean engines. Whenever there's an engine that is usually big and orders others around, there will be another engine to help the victim in playing tricks on the teasing engines (i.e. Duck helped Percy to get back at Gordon, Henry, and James for ordering them around in "Duck Takes Charge"). The Troublesome Trucks aren't safe from these engines either as they would mostly be in the receiving end of being bumped or broken if they tease the other engines (i.e. S.C. Ruffey in "Toad Stands By").

* A very violent example in ''Film/{{Sleepers}}''. During their time in a juvenile prison, John and Tommy were regularly beaten and sexually abused by Noakes (Kevin Bacon). Years later, after a chance encounter in a restaurant, the two men, now gangsters, violently shoot him to death.
* Downplayed in ''Film/SpiderMan1'', 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 [[HowDoIShotWeb 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 ''Film/ThreeOClockHigh'': 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.
* The short film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud8SGTZjRLQ 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 [[FridgeHorror a lot]] [[RealitySubtext scarier]] once you get past the NoBudget production values and realize [[HarsherInHindsight who made the film]] -- Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} Columbine High School killers]], who did it for a class project just five months before the massacre. ''Film/ImNotAshamed'', a Christian film about one of the victims of the shooting, features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFgfeLMURak&t=6m17s 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.
* ''Film/DickTracy'': 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 [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome 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 [[WouldHurtAChild abuse a child]]. (He then asks the kid if Steve is his father, but the Kid [[UngratefulBastard just sneers and tells Tracy to "go suck an egg"]].)

* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', 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."
* In ''Film/TheGuest'', 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 ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' (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 [[ThisIsGonnaSuck to realize]] what a bad idea it was right before he gets his ass kicked.
* Deconstructed in ''Film/{{Angus}}'' (1995), as the young title character, who has long suffered from bullying at school, is perfectly capable of taking on [[JerkJock 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.
* Richard in ''Film/DeadMansShoes'' goes on a hunt to take revenge for the awful things been done to his brother.
* The title character of ''Film/DrillbitTaylor''. At first, he refuses to fight Filkins [[WouldntHurtAChild because he is a minor]], though upon learning he is a legal adult, he wastes no time in kicking his ass.
* In ''Film/MadeasFamilyReunion'', 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.
* Exaggerated with both Pamela and Jason Voorhees in the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' 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. [[spoiler:However once [[OffWithHisHead 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 ''Film/FreddyVsJason'', 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.
* In ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove'': 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 RevengeByProxy. After speaking with the janitor, he realizes all he did was [[DirtyCoward hit and run]] rather than deal with the people who bullied him in a constructive manner.

* Franchise/{{Godzilla}} himself on a few occasions:
** In ''Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster'', Godzilla stands up to the titular dragon when he starts ragdolling Mothra with his Gravity Beams. Doubles as a HeelFaceTurn since at the time, Godzilla was still [[EvilerThanThou undergoing a change of heart]] [[NominalHero in order to protect the Earth from evil]], while fighting with Rodan, who was also undergoing the same change of allegiance.
** ''Film/SonOfGodzilla'' and ''Film/AllMonstersAttack'' features a combo of this and PapaWolf 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.
** ''Film/GodzillaVsGigan'', 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.
** ''Film/GodzillaVsMegalon'' continues this in the case of Gigan using Jet-Jaguar as a hostage to stop Godzilla from attacking him [[spoiler:[[TooDumbToLive 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.
** ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'' features a case more akin to EnemyMine, 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.
* 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.
* ''Film/TheAggressionScale'': According to his medical file, Owen was confined to a secure mental facility after her crippled two bullies who pushed him too far.
* ''Film/NancyDrewAndTheHiddenStaircase'': 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).

-->'''Squidward:''' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Well, this one's on the house!]] ''[[PieInTheFace (knocks the customer out cold with the pizza box)]]''

** In the Heaven's Feel route, going to the playground near the shopping district will cause Shirou to remember doing this as a kid there and that he had a [[TheRival childhood rival]], also a BullyHunter, who clashed with him over this and may have teamed up with him on occasion.