History Main / BullyHunter

* ''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.)
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Mario's spent his whole life (literally, going by the flashback to when the Bros were babies) standing up to bullies to protect his little brother, and this likely informs his decision to stand up to Bowser after arriving in the Mushroom Kingdom, seeing him as another bully that's going after people weaker than him including Luigi and the entire Mushroom Kingdom.
* In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', Ralph scares the absolute crap out of a bunch of racers who are bullying Vanellope von Schweetz. They deserved it.

** Elliot [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2013-03-07 admits]] that he used to have a bad habit of looking for bullies to fight. In fact, Tedd and Justin both met Elliot when he rescued them. However, this is portrayed as a character flaw, and Elliot isn't proud of his actions back then, as he found himself enjoying causing the bullies pain far too much for comfort.

There is an adult example if the person is standing up to bullies in the workforce. If you punch out the guy at work who is tormenting his underlings, that comes under the grown-up version of this trope. If you're out fighting muggers, however, you're looking at a VigilanteMan. And if you take this to the extreme, you can end up as a SerialKillerKiller. Not to be confused with BountyHunter, unless of course, TheBully somehow landed APriceOnTheirHead.

There is an adult example if the person is standing up to bullies in the workforce. If you punch out the guy at work who is tormenting his underlings, that comes under the grown-up version of this trope. If you're out fighting muggers, however, you're looking at a VigilanteMan. And if you take this to the extreme, you can end up as a SerialKillerKiller.

** Elliot [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2013-03-07 admits]] that he used to have a bad habit of looking for bullies to fight. In fact, Tedd and Justin both met Elliot when he rescued them.

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* [[MeaningfulName Karma]] of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' was placed in Class E for bully-hunting the wrong bully -- a top honor student who was beating up a student with poorer grades. The Chairman at their school has some out-of-order priorities. Even now, Karma's favorite pastime is to seek out and make the lives of people who pick on others miserable.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Ichigo Kurosaki takes a dim view of bullies and has an outstanding ability to fight them even before his transformation into a {{Shinigami}}. He takes down three bullies with extreme prejudice to defend a [[ISeeDeadPeople ghost]], of all things, and it's later shown in a flashback that he [[spoiler:defended Sado from an attack by groups of thugs, who was more than capable of defending himself but didn't due to his ActualPacifist nature.]]
*** Ichigo continues doing this after [[spoiler:he is depowered at the end of the Hueco Mundo arc]], this time with the help of [[VitriolicBestBuds not-friend]] Uryuu Ishida [[spoiler:who has taken up his duty to defend Karakura of supernatural threats]].
** Tatsuki Arisawa, who became Orihime's best friend after protecting her from the bullies [[TraumaticHaircut who cut her hair forcibly]].
* Hideri of ''Manga/BlendS'' is more accurately a {{Troll}} Hunter. The manga reveals he used to run an idol online community but got in trouble for flaming against trolls in a live chat instead of just reporting them. What made him so furious is that he finds those who harass and attack people for their passions "unforgiveable".
* Heavily implied in the cause of [[AntiAntiChrist Rin Okumura]] from ''Manga/BlueExorcist''. Aside from our introduction to our hero is of him beating up a bunch of delinquents for killing/torturing ''pigeons'', he used to always protect his younger brother [[CuteBookworm Yukio]] and we later get a few flashbacks that show a lot of the time he got in trouble for jumping to attack others who hurt or mocked those weaker than them. This most likely plays into his choice of being an Exorcist; not much bigger of a "bully" you can get than a powerful demon who attacks and hurts the much weaker humans.
* Sonoko Suzuki from ''Manga/CaseClosed'' 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.
* Mikoto "[[RedBaron Railgun]]" Misaka of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has been known to put herself in situations where the city's sizable delinquent population can attack her... and lose. She also makes it clear in [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun her own series]] that she was looking for a WorthyOpponent, which she found in [[TheHero Touma]].
* Alice of ''Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally'' starts defending Nunnally's honour by pantsing anyone who bullies her.
* [[spoiler:Yoshitake]] of ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'' is strongly suggested to be one for [[spoiler:Hidenori]], and the "rubber band shooter" continued to be the latter's major inspiration... until TheReveal.
** The girls' {{backstory}} make this a far more SeriousBusiness; a certain bully caused ten Bully Hunters from four elementary schools to form TheAlliance and engage in warfare against the former. They barely made a draw.
* ''Manga/DearBrother'': In the "Seiran High School", no one should ''ever'' mistreat [[TheCutie Nanako Misonou]] or [[{{Bifauxnen}} Rei Asaka]] in the vicinity of one [[{{Tomboy}} Kaoru Orihara]]. The ones who invoke this the most are [[AlphaBitch Aya Misaki]] or [[spoiler: [[ManipulativeBastard Fukiko Ichinomiya]].]]
* Teru Mikami of ''Manga/DeathNote'' was a highly kind and admirable version of this in high school. Unfortunately, he became a real VigilanteMan[=/=]HeWhoFightsMonsters as an adult.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** ''Manga/DragonBall'' shows that one of the types of people Goku dislikes the most are those who abuse their power. When Krillin is put down by one of his former temple classmates for being a weakling, Goku tells Krillin to go all out when he fights him, reversing course from when he said to hold back to keep from hurting people. He also despises the Saiyans for being {{Space Pirate}}s who wipe out people weaker than them and wants nothing to do with his own race. Although Goku doesn't grow stronger necessarily to protect others, he does believes that being powerful gives you certain responsibilities, like not terrorizing those weaker than you.
** During ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Gohan inherited his father's hatred for bullies. He doesn't want to fight to grow stronger or to test himself against strong enemies like Goku, but he will fight to protect and save people from enemies who abused their strength like the Saiyans, Frieza, Cell, and Buu. He even takes it a step further in becoming Saiyaman, a superhero who goes out of his way to hunt down criminals, aka bullies.
* In the ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' world, picking on the weak and defenseless is [[TemptingFate calling a painful, gory death upon you]]. Kenshiro and the other heroes in the series do NOT take kindly to abuse of the innocent.
* Takeshi Sendoh from ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'' became a {{delinquent}} only to protect others from bullies and other crooks, going so far as to make his own gang. When his grandma calls him a scumbag, sportswriter Mari answers "But he never bullied the weak, right? He was a righteous scumbag."
** This is explained by his backstory. He once was brutally beaten up by high schoolers when he was in primary school, and [[HeroicSelfDeprecation he hated himself for not being able to protect his friends]]. The next day, little Sendoh grabbed his baseball bat and ambushed the bullies, beating them back as punishment. And one thing led to another soon...
* This is the entire premise of ''Manga/{{Holyland}}''. Though Yuu's initial purpose in going to the city at night isn't to beat up anyone, but to find his place in the world, he ends up confronting and fighting many bullies and gangsters. Initially for self-defense, but he eventually progresses to justice. He even makes friends with a few of his defeated foes.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'': The earliest record of Nanoha shows her being one of these, who caught [[{{Tsundere}} Arisa]] bullying [[ShrinkingViolet Suzuka]] and slapped her. Naturally, this ended up flowing into her career in {{Magical Girl}}dom and the military.
** Rinne Berlinetta in ''Anime/VividStrike'' does a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on a group of bullying girls, in a level of violence shocking for ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' series.
* ''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.
** In that same episode, Mitsuo, the bullied kid, later decided he would show them what being picked on by somebody bigger than you feels like when an unknown lady showed up all of sudden and offered him borrowing her HumongousMecha to take revenge ([[TooDumbToLive and he agreed.]]) Of course, that went as well as you would expect.
* Seiji Sawamura of ''Manga/MidoriDays''. Strong as he is, he only fights with bad people (i.e. other delinquents, who are mostly shown to be real scum) and he protects the weak. [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] in that the other gangs start to target the people around Seiji just to challenge him, something Seiji is aware and not proud of.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** As revealed in Chapters 54 and 71, Sakura was bullied in her childhood because of [[InformedDeformity her large forehead]]. Ino protected and defended her, which led to the girls becoming lifelong best friends.
** As revealed in Chapter 498, Kushina was bullied in her childhood because of her round face and red hair. She protected and defended herself, which led to her earning the nickname of "The Red HotBlooded Habanero."
** As revealed in the {{canon}} movie ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'', Hinata was bullied in her childhood because of her Byakugan eyes. Naruto protected and defended her, [[RescueRomance which led to her falling in love with him]].
* Spoofed in ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'': Mahiro asks Cuuko why she's in love with Nyarko despite their races being mortal enemies. She explains that in [[SpaceX Space]] Preschool, the other kids talked her into playing pretend, but had her be the villain so they could beat her up. Eventually, Nyarko came in and trounced the bullies, winning Cuuko's affection. Later on, Mahiro asks Nyarko if she remembers this, and she responds that all she remembers from Space Preschool is playing a "game" called [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex Imagine Breaker]] where ran around [[ComedicSociopathy beating up anyone she saw playing pretend]] -- which included Cuuko.
* The Straw Hat Pirates of ''Manga/OnePiece'' fame are essentially an entire BadassCrew of these. [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything They do little]] in the way of actual [[RapePillageAndBurn pira]][[PirateBooty ting]] and are basically just sea-faring adventurers, it's just that the "bullies" they often run across are allied in some way with the ''very'' corrupt government.
* Both [[BattleCouple Asuka and Ryou]] of ''Manga/{{Otomen}}'' have this tendency. In fact they [[EstablishingCharacterMoment met]] when [[WaifFu Ryou]] was protecting a guy from bullies and [[BigManOnCampus Asuka]] decided to step in. It gets to a point where not only the school bullies, ''but the neighbourhood yakuza'' turn tail and run at the sight of Asuka.
* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'':
** Ryoma Echizen doesn't show much emotion about it, but he ''really'' doesn't like it when his friends and teammates are bullied. The beginning of the Yamabuki arc is one of the biggest examples: when ''a whole tennis team'' started bullying his delicate friend Sakuno, Ryoma stepped in and ''defeated everyone in the team'' as punishment. [[spoiler:The only exception was when Kachirou had a fight with Arai, but that was because he wanted Kachirou to prove his own strength. And he did.]]
** Ryoma wouldn't have even been ''born'' if not for [[LikeFatherLikeSon his father Nanjirou]] being a BullyHunter too. He actually [[RescueRomance got the appreciation]] of Ryoma's soon-to-be mother Rinko (who was {{Tsundere}} [[LoveAtFirstPunch for him beforehand]]) after he saved her and a little boy from being beaten up by her tennis coach.
** An and Tomoka, too. Both girls detest seeing abusive situations and will call out the culprits even if they're at risk for it.
* Being a Deconstruction of the FightingSeries PlayedForLaughs, ''Manga/RamenFighterMiki'' deconstructs this trope with their protagonists: They are all {{Bully Hunter}}s, but for the wrong reasons, or making thing worse for everyone.
** Miki always hunts delinquents and Yakuza underlings… but not ForGreatJustice, but because she loves violence and to slack at his job.
** Makiko stops Miki’s bullying, only because she needs Miki to work for her, or when Miki is being a true JerkAss.
** Megumi has been bullied practically all her life by Miki, and as the {{Hypocrite}}, she cannot recognize that she has a case of [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Bullies]]... and that Miki is the only bully she seeks revenge on.
** Kankuro was bullied by Miki in the past, and he has come back to his old town trying to stand up for himself. Unfortunately, he is trapped in a CycleOfRevenge that didn’t let him get his desired CharacterDevelopment.
** Kayahara Sensei is a teacher who is actively seeking to stop any bullying and the CycleOfRevenge... only because she wants to avoid her own self-esteem issues. [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny She is easily distracted from her quest by her]] TrademarkFavoriteFood.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** Ranma does this occasionally -- for example, she stopped Kodachi from beating up the Furinkan gymnastic team further, rescued Gosenkugi from a group of masked kids trying to rob him, and sought a direct fight with Mariko Konjou when Akane and the volleyball team were defeated ''and'' humiliated by her tricks.
** Ryoga too, most notably for defending a BroughtDownToNormal Ranma from the rest of the males on the Nerima Wrecking Crew, since he thought that it was not fair to have them gang up on him in such circumstances.
** Akane is also a good example. More than once, she has tried to defend Ranma from the Nerima Wrecking Crew too and kept trying to help Ranma fight off Ryoga during their first fight. And she's not this ''only'' towards Ranma: she also steps in to defend her friends when Happosai is around, and right after Ranma saved the gym team, she accepted to fight Kodachi for their sake -- despite not being good at more artistic gym styles.
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
** Makoto Kino was expelled from her old school for fighting bullies, and her first appearance in the [[Anime/SailorMoon original anime]] has her beating up a group of delinquents who are harassing Usagi on her way to school.
** [[Manga/CodenameSailorV Back in her days as Sailor V]], Minako Aino would often stop whatever she was doing to transform into Sailor V and deal with bullies she stumbles upon, no matter how urgent whatever she was doing before was (and in fact getting late to school at least once).
** Like the other Senshi, Usagi Tsukino often goes out of her way to defend those getting picked on. In the first episode, she told off a bunch of [[KidsAreCruel little brats]] for assaulting Luna. And this was ''before'' becoming Sailor Moon.
* Sora of ''Manga/{{Shitsurakuen}}'' is a female KnightInShiningArmour who fights to stop the boys from bullying the girls which they claim as their own. Sadly, the odds are pretty much against her.
* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Main lead Kirito is this full stop. Case in point, when a greedy woman threatens a young girl to steal a rare item from her, he quickly puts his sword to her neck. Heaven help you if you victimize the weak in front of him.
** Kirito's girlfriend Asuna is no slouch on this department either. A bunch of greedy players force a group of children to strip off their equipment as payment. Asuna quickly steps up and draws her rapier on them to give them a lesson.
* Shota Oruha in ''Manga/{{Takamagahara}}'' uses his powers to fight bullies, presumably. However, what he considers a "bully" is incredibly skewed to where he just attacks anybody who isn't as low on the social ladder as he is, along with the protagonist simply because he was seen in the company of an actual bully and the bully didn't attempt to harm him.
* Rinka Urushiba from ''Manga/TokyoESP'' also qualifies for this. Even before she got her special powers, she was already [[ActionGirl a good fighter]]. She has beaten three gangsters who wanted to rob Kyotaro Azuma. That's what made him become a hero after he got his [[PsychicPowers special powers]].
* Satou from ''LightNovel/WelcomeToTheNHK'' attempted to be one of these. In order to impress an older female student he tried to save a middle schooler from bullies. Satou got beat up himself.
* ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches'': Urara Shiraishi is an ExtremeDoormat honor student who gets tormented by Rin Sasaki and her GirlPosse often. When {{Delinquent}} Ryu Yamada [[FreakyFridayFlip switches bodies with her]] and finds out first hand about the bullying, he decides to give Rin "the scare of her life" with a pulled punch.
* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Tetsu Ushio/Trudge first presents himself as one, but turns out to be a bully far worse than those he beats up. He [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds later]] became a cop, with little tolerance of bullies (but still one himself towards homeless Satellite residents). Yami Yugi pre-Duel Monsters was this, doling out penalty games to the MonsterOfTheWeek bullies (occasionally to KnightTemplar extremes).
* In the first episode of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', Kamille gets beaten up by Titan's military police. Later in the episode, he comes back in a Gundam and tells the MP, "Wanna know how it feels to be picked on by somebody bigger than you?", before taking off to join LaResistance.
* Since she was a child, Towa Higurashi from ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon'' has been beating up bullies on a regular basis to help others who are bullied by them. As a [[{{Youkai}} hanyou]], she is superhumanly strong but mostly holds back her true strength very much.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/AQUATheFirstStep'': At one point, Amber comes across a group of people bullying a dog Faunus and beats the ever-loving crap out of them.
* Ragna in ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'' is shown to have a ''massive'' hatred for bullies, relentlessly beating them down and threatening them for their actions. However, it gets deconstructed in Chapter 20 where, after stopping Team CRDL from bullying Velvet, his actions almost get Cardin killed and he's punished alongside Team CRDL for his actions. Though he acknowledges that he went too far and promises not to do so again.
* 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]].
* The titular group in ''Fanfic/TheCosmosMiraculousLadybug'' got their start this way. In fact, the three founding members met when Marinette saved Chloé from a kidnapping attempt, with Rose witnessing the whole thing and finding it badass. The other two members, meanwhile, met them when the PowerTrio saw Alix repeatedly harassing Nathaniel and mistook it as more meanspirited than she meant it to be, going after ''her'' full-force.
* 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 ''Franchise/FairyTail''/''Franchise/OnePiece'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheDragonThatWillPierceTheHeavens'', protagonist Hikari shows a deep hatred for anyone who would use their strength or influence to hurt or oppress those weaker than themselves. This comes up in the very first chapter, where she attacked Alvida over her poor treatment of Koby.
* 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 the ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8619924/35/Epistolary-The-50-Years-Before-We-Were-Born Epistolary: The Fifty Years Before We Were Born]]'', Rory, in a letter to River Song, reflects on how he met Amy. During primary school years, Rory was being hogtied by two school bullies, when a sudden [[FieryRedhead red-haired hurricane]] took down the two bullies and untied Rory, thus bringing about the beginning of one of the great love stories in ''Doctor Who'' history.
-->"My point is, when a demanding, headstrong, bully-thrashing Scottish girl rescues you, you kinda know what you're in store for."
* 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.
* In the ''Manga/ElfenLied'' fic ''Fanfic/FamilySticksTogether'', [[OriginalCharacter Alex]] ends up befriending Kaede after he stands up to Tomoo and his gang on her behalf.
* ''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 the ''Literature/{{Worm}}''/''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'' 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.
* ''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.
* ''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/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.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fanfic ''Fanfic/OnceUponAFarmhouse'', Spock first meets Kirk when the latter jumps on a classmate who is beating Spock up.
* 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.]]
* ''Fanfic/APossibleEncounterForAPhantom'': Kim Possible personally manhandles Dash Baxter for harming Danny Fenton. Him hitting on her only makes her hurt him more.
* In AlternateUniverse ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Quicken}}'', when Emma suspects that her best friend Taylor is being bullied, she is NOT amused (ironically since in the canon story she was a bully).
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/RequiemForALoud'', Ronnie Anne adopts this attitude and defends Lucy against a boy bullying her.
* 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/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.
* 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.
* In ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheUndiscoveredSwords'', Kikkō openly defends Kiriha from Ishida's bullying.
* 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.
* 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 ''Fanfic/XMenTheEarlyYears'', [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]] won't put up with bullies.
-->'''Bruno:''' While Little-Miss-Goodie-Two-Shoes is gone, I'm going to make myself perfectly clear. Make sure you keep yourself and your pet away from me. Mess with me, and you're both going to regret it.\\
'''Bobby:''' Hey, jerk!\\
'''Scott:''' Bobby. Let me handle this. Since we are making ourselves perfectly clear, Bruno, let me tell you how it is. You're going to be polite and respectful to everyone going on this trip. You're also going to leave Bobby and me alone.\\
'''Bruno:''' Or?\\
'''Scott:''' Or I'm going to wipe the ground with you, punk. I'm tired of your insult throwing, bad attitude, delinquent wannabe, whiney-ass, momma's boy, country-music-reject, self, already. If you don't behave, I'm going to take the nearest blunt object, something close to the size of Warren, Hank, and their tents and stuff it up your largest body crevice. I don't like bullies and I won't tolerate them. Bullies tend to bring out the worst in me. Did I make myself perfectly clear to you Bruno?\\
'''Bruno:''' I'm supposed to be worried about that threat?\\
'''Scott:''' Try me.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''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.
* 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.
* The title character of ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' happily destroys [[AlphaBitch Tina's]] car after witnessing her bully Charlie. The fact that Tina stooped so low as to [[SpeakIllOfTheDead make fun of Charlie's dead father]] makes this extra rewarding.
* 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."
* Richard in ''Film/DeadMansShoes'' 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.
* ''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"]].)
* 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.
* The outcasts in ''Film/TheFinal'', 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 ''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.
* 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.
* 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/{{Heathers}}'', JD murders the AlphaBitch and a JerkJock pair at his highschool. [[spoiler: This emboldens to cross the MoralEventHorizon 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 ''[[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.
* 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.
* The title character of Roald Dahl's 1996 film adaptation of ''Film/{{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 [[BigBad Agatha Trunchbull]], the sadistic headmistress of her school, and promptly directs her attacks to her.
* 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.
* ''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).
* What Bastian does with Falkor at the end of ''Film/TheNeverendingStory''.
* Played with in ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'' when [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers 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?"
* ''Film/PowerRangers2017'':
** 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 ''Film/PromNight1980'', 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 [[spoiler: and is revealed to be the girl's twin brother, an unknown witness to the crime, avenging his sister]].
%% * 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.

[[folder:Literature]]
* 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 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.]]
* ''Literature/AlexRider'' has a few examples in his limited downtime at school. One being tracking down a pair of drug dealers and using a crane to dump their lab-boat in a police station car park.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* [[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.
* In ''Literature/TheEyesOfKidMidas'', when Kevin gains RealityWarper powers, he uses them to get revenge on the bullies who picked on him.
* 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.
* 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]].
* Annie in ''Twister on Tuesday'' of ''Literature/TheMagicTreehouse'' when her brother is being picked on.
* In ''Literature/TheMarvellousLandOfSnergs'', Miss Gribblestone bludgeons Joe's abusive father.
* An example of a child standing up to a SadistTeacher is Creator/RoaldDahl's ''Literature/{{Matilda}}''. When you intend to make the lives of a helpless class of young children a living hell, [[FantasticAesop be aware of the possibility that one of your victims may have latent magical powers]].
* 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.
* 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.
* ''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.
* Kel in Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'' quartet. She's eventually able to persuade her peers to join her, and the victory is not that they are able to beat up the bullying pages, but that her group of people who believe it's not acceptable for older pages to torment and hurt younger ones is big enough that the bullies just ''stop''.
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/SalemsLot'' has Mark Petrie.
* ''Literature/SecretSanta2007'': When Charlie and Noelle were in elementary school, he stood up to a boy who hit her for using the monkey bars because she was a girl. [[RescueRomance This caused Noelle to fall madly in love with Charlie]], even though she CannotSpitItOut and he only dates older girls.
* This is the premise behind Neal Shusterman's ''The Shadow Club''.
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', it seems that Lyanna Stark was one, beating the living shit out of three squires who were bullying crannogman Howland Reed. [[spoiler: And if she later posed as the Knight of the Laughing Tree, as the popular theory goes, the revenge went even further to chastising those squires' lords.]] It must run in the family, as several of her nieces and nephews share this trait:
** Jon Snow is particularly eager to show up some of the nastier recruits like Rast during his training at The Wall. And even goes on to menace everyone who bullies Sam Tarly.
** [[RuleOfThree Carries through with his little sister]] -- and incidentally favorite sibling -- Arya, who just about cuts down Joffrey when he is bullying a butcher's boy, threatens to gut Hot Pie when he's being an ass, and is prepared to execute captive rapists when they threaten her. She later goes from bully hunter to full-on executioner, carrying around a list of people she wants to kill, who are all in some way...you got it, bullies.
* 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.
* 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/TheTribe'': The Titular Tribe are made up of this, coming to Spencer's aid in "Homeroom Headhunters" whenever Riley Callahan is about to do something cruel and humiliating to him.
* Armando "Commando" Rivera 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.

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** Buffy has a habit of doing this, once pinning Larry to the wall when he was about to beat up Xander. Helps that she has SuperStrength. Also [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld saves the world]].
** She also gets a group persecuting witches to back down [[PsychoticSmirk by smiling at them.]] The fact she is known as a pyromaniac (her old school gym), possible murderer (Ted, Kendra), borderline psychotic (thanks [[AlphaBitch Cordy]]), or any combination of the above helps.
** In a scene late in TheMovie, Buffy is already in a bad mood when a lecherous male student grabs her rear end. Within seconds, she's judo-flipped him into the lockers and reduced him to a cringing coward who instantly apologizes. The other students at Hemery High just look on in shock, since Buffy has never been seen doing anything like this before.
** And yet again during a self-defense class when Larry the JerkJock is leering at a female student and wanting to get his hands on her. Buffy bounds right up to her side and sweetly offers to be his partner instead, the implication that she will kick his ass six ways from Sunday very clear. Willow then intervenes, leaving Buffy to pout about ruining her fun. Said jock then makes the mistake of groping her behind...
** Buffy also defends Willow whenever people attempt to pick on her.
** Season 7 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.
* MTV Show ''Series/BullyBeatdown'' is this trope manifested, with professional mixed martial artists as the bully hunters.
* 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.
* 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.
* The ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Elephant's Memory" had a brilliant but deeply troubled student who was the victim of truly horrific bullying hunt down and kill all of his previous tormentors. Reid, a victim of bullying, is sympathetic to him.
** Considering that Reid's day job is hunting down sadistic serial killers, he probably qualifies as a bully hunter himself. Other members of the BAU like Hotch and Morgan chose their careers as a catharsis for the abuse they suffered during their childhood, and Rossi's barely veiled rage toward serial killers (he wrote in one of his bestselling books that the death penalty is not about justice but revenge, and [[PayEvilUntoEvil that it is a good thing]]) [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation may show]] that the BAU Unit the show is centered on is a team of [[BullyHunter Bully Hunters]] who treat their job as a [[ItsPersonal personal crusade]].
** The episode "The Anti-Terror Squad" is named for a group of bully victims who formed the titular squad as more of a self-help group for dealing with bullies, helping each other avoid their tormentors and such. One of the members decides to take things to the next level and target the bullies' families (since he fells it will instill more fear in the bulies than targetting them directly).
* 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.
* [[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]] becomes this for one episode, when he has to face his super-powered childhood bully Tony Woodward (known as Girder in the comics). Being able to turn his skin into iron makes him Flash-proof. Thanks to Cisco's calculations, Barry appears to run away, but stops at the 5.3-mile mark and runs back as fast as he can, breaking the sound barrier and punching out Tony (although, for some reason, Tony hears the boom before being punched out, which is physically impossible). Cisco suggests that Barry go beat up his school bully.
* ''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".
* In Season 2 of ''Series/{{Glee}}'' Santana blackmails [[ArmouredClosetGay bully]] Karofsky into forming the Bully Whips so they can win Prom King and Queen.
* Tucker had this reputation in ''Series/GrangeHill''.
* 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.]]
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': In the 11th season episode "Run for the Money", Winchester witnesses a captain berating one of his men who speaks with a stutter, and threatens to put the captain on report if he does so again. His expression when confronting the captain is a classic example of TranquilFury. Turns out the situation hits Winchester close to home; at the end of the episode he is listening to a recorded message from his sister Honoria, who also stutters.
* ''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.
* The eponymous Ned of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' becomes this during his brief stint as "The Revenger"
* Deconstructed in ''Series/NorthernRescue'': When Taylor is getting cyber-bullied her older sister's friend Gwen goes to confront the (12-year-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.
* In ''Series/{{Person of Interest}}'', John Reese tells his therapist, "My school didn't have bullies; I kept them in line."
* 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.
* 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.]]
* 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.
* Steve Wilkos, the eponymous host of ''Series/TheSteveWilkosShow''.
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'' is a complicated example. She does on occasion do some vigilante non-pay bully hunting (this is the initial basis of her friendship with Wallace), but she also at times takes on bullies for a fee. The main point of ambivalence is that she often gets mad at the people she helps for not sticking out for themselves.
** Another partial example is Weevil, who prefers hunting strictly rich, 09er bullies. However, he is a violent bully himself.
* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': A particular BerserkButton point for Walker, upon learning that a bully is intimidating or hurting people weaker than they are, will immediately step in and make the bully regret it. This was particularly true in an episode where a kid who was bullied by a gang of jocks killed himself and Walker intervened.

[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* A typical bread-and-butter trope in the days of kayfabe, where the all-American babyface played the role of Bully Hunter, taking on the Monster Heel (the bully).
* Stephanie La Maravillosa and Keta Rush, [[TagTeam The Bully Busters]] of Wrestling/WOWWomenOfWrestling. The brand was in fact {{reviv|al}}ed partially for the purpose of promoting anti-bullying programs, Rush herself running one such non-profit.

[[folder:Roleplay]]
* In ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'', Josephine has a strong hatred for bullies after being victim to them in her childhood. However, she's hesitant to act on her feelings, since she believes that violence isn't the answer. This becomes ironic when the first person she befriends at Rogers High, Nadine, is a bully and leader of a girl gang.

[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'': Cyrano is now an adult who undoubtedly has suffered from bullying all his life given his enormous nose, but he proclaims himself a bully hunter at Act I Scene V by challenging anyone to bully his enormous nose threatening (and dispensing) DisproportionateRetribution:
-->'''Cyrano:''' Take notice, boobies all,
-->[[TheGrotesque Who find my visage's center ornament]]
-->[[TheGrotesque A thing to jest at]] -- that it is my wont--
-->[[DisproportionateRetribution An if the jester's noble--ere we part]]
-->[[DisproportionateRetribution To let him taste my steel, and not my boot!]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]
* 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.
** 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 they waged a war to free the orphans of Northern London from a short life of legalized slavery in Templar-owned factories.
---> '''Jacob:''' ''These people... are tired of living under your bootheel! You're a bully, Mr Strain... and I find [[{{Understatement}} I'm not overly fond of bullies.]]
* 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."
* Jimmy Hopkins of ''Videogame/{{Bully}}'' is the epitome of this trope, and can also fall afoul of the HeWhoFightsMonsters aspect of it. His treatment of the school's AlphaBitch was particularly over-the-top, even if he didn't actually put the posters of her up and despite his trying to patch things up later. He's prone to other mean-spirited actions as well. And as for what the player may do with him... [[WhatTheHellPlayer so, it sure is fun to run over, wedgie, and otherwise traumatize the hell out of little kids, isn't it?]]... [[VideogameCrueltyPunishment why are all these prefects suddenly after me?]] Then again everyone, from student to prefects to teachers are bullies in some way or another so Jimmy by default can only fight bullies.
* Keisuke was one of these before you met him in ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor''. [[spoiler:Then it backfired on him one day. ''[[BreakTheCutie Horribly.]]'']]
* In the first two ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' games, your character becomes one... that is, if you don't decide to be the bully in the first game. ''VideoGame/FableII'' is pretty much compulsory due to Rose having a LeeroyJenkins moment.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', you have the option of saving your childhood friend from Butch and the other tunnel snakes before an exam. Cue some clever talking or a hard fistfight if your strength is low.
** More [[KarmaMeter evil]] oriented characters can also simply murder him while leaving the vault a few scenes later.
*** You can also murder his mother, if you're going for maximum evil.
* 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.
* Shirou from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', when he was younger.
** 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. While Shirou never seems to realize it himself, to the player it is hilariously obvious that said rival was actually Rin.
* 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.
* According to one of the mangas, Kyo Kusanagi from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' began his streetfighting career by defending his elementary school friends from bullies.
* This is the original premise of ''[[VideoGame/KunioKun Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun]]'', where the protagonist beats up gangs of school bullies who have tormented his friend. The Western release (''Renegade'') [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore changed the storyline entirely to be more "badass"]], and the protagonist now fights criminal gangs in order to save his girlfriend.
* 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/serial killer that targets bullies who drove people to suicide who has helped parents of the victims get bloody vengeance]].
* PlayedForDrama and Defied in ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' when Sunny and Kel confront their estranged childhood friend Aubrey - who has since become the leader of a gang of {{delinquents}} - over her bullying of another former childhood friend, Basil. However, Aubrey's aggression is a direct result of a combination of [[spoiler:trauma over the death of Sunny's sister Mari]], belief that her friends abandoned her in trying times, and ParentalNeglect, with a bit of PoorCommunicationKills thrown in. While she has obviously gone too far and eventually admits as such, some of Sunny and Kel's actions - such as [[spoiler:clashing with Aubrey '''[[HiddenDepths while she's at church]], in the middle of a sermon no less''']] - come off as no less excessive, and she harshly chastizes them, not without reason, for sticking their nose where they don't belong. When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wKWwUzgCE8 It Means Everything]] starts playing, '''you''' will feel like the asshole.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** The [[BearsAreBadNews bear-like]] Pangoro won't tolerate bullies, demonstrating that DarkIsNotEvil.
** The elderly dragon Drampa has been known to burn bullies' houses down.
* 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.]]
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* So did Asuka Kazama in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}''. Joining the tournament is her way of going pro.
* Kiryu from the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series is one of these, due to the fact that some random enemy encounters take the form of random thugs mugging and harassing bystanders, and the player has the option of coming to their rescue.
** Basically all protagonists in the series count, with many sidequests having you come across all kinds of bullies, [[CurbStompBattle typically educating them the hard way]]. Even Majima, arguably the most ruthless playable character, has a sidequest where he [[FriendToAllChildren wins a lonely little girl a stuffed toy]] only to find her crying later with the toy torn up. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge It ends badly for the bullies]].
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* 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.
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''
** Elliot [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2013-03-07 admits]] that he used to have a bad habit of looking for bullies to fight. In fact, Tedd and Justin both met Elliot when he rescued them.
** One of Nanase's former boyfriends was a dark subversion of this: he [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2011-08-30 picked fights with other bullies]] because they were acceptable targets.
* 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.
* This is pretty much the profession of Shorty from ''[[http://theinfamous.comicgenesis.com/ The Infamous]]'' (not to be confused with the game ''VideoGame/InFamous'').
* ''Webcomic/KarateBears'' are often bullies themselves but also [[http://www.karatebears.com/2011/12/protector-guy.html hate bullies]].
* In ''Webcomic/PeterParkerForeignExchangeStudent,'' Peter takes every opportunity he can to piss off [[TheBully Katsuki]] and pick a fight with him. He gets away with it thanks to his SpiderSense. It's clear that this behavior is in no small part thanks to Peter's past as a BullyMagnet, and he can't understand why Izuku is so interested in remaining Katsuki's friend.
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* 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 ''WebAnimation/{{Xin}}'', the eponymous character basically makes this his "hobby", second only to his overall goal of reforming the corrupt school system.
-->'''Xin:''' "Everywhere I go I run into idiots like you, who think they can do whatever they want, just because they know how to throw a punch. [[BadassBoast I'm just here to make sure they know how to take a few as well]]."
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* Sonic the Hedgehog is known for standing up to his animal friends and believing in fighting bullies both big and small. This is more apparent in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' where he stops Robotnik's robot thugs from victimizing the population of Mobius as much as stopping Robotnik's much grander "bullying".
* On ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Stan starts bullying Steve in an attempt to make the boy more assertive. After weeks of being beaten senseless, Steve does learn a lesson on taking action for himself, but not the one Stan hoped. Steve hires Stelio Kantos, Stan's former high school bully, off of Facebook to beat the ever-living daylights out of Stan until he agrees to leave him alone.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': This fuels the climax of the episode "[[VillainEpisode Zuko Alone]]". While [[AntiVillain Prince Zuko]] can at times be unnecessarily harsh to those subordinate to him and has entitlement issues, they come exclusively from his determination to regain his [[BigBad father's]] love and his trauma from said father's [[AbusiveParents abuse]]. Having seen the cruelty of both his father and his younger sister, he has nothing but contempt for those who pick on others weaker than themselves just for the sake of cruelty and/or a feeling of power, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech as he tells to the soldiers]] that kidnapped a boy whose brother was just captured right before fighting them to free the boy. [[spoiler:This adds further fuel to his eventual HeelFaceTurn, as he comes to see the larger picture of his father leading a bullying Fire Nation in a war of conquest against the other, weaker nations]].
* {{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/Ben10'': Ben is shown to be this during his EstablishingCharacterMoment in the very first episode, as part of his general ChronicHeroSyndrome. He tries to intervene when he sees local bullies Cash and JT picking on a helpless kid but unfortunately, he lacks the strength to back up his heroism and gets hung by his underwear ''alongside the kid he was trying to help''. At end of the episode, however, Ben uses his newfound alien powers to pay the bullies back in the exact same way.
* 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/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.
* 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.
* ''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.
* ''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.
* {{Deconstruction}} on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Peter enlists Chris's help in scheming against a bully who had tormented him many years ago; the former bully is now a reasonable adult who [[ButForMeItWasTuesday doesn't really remember what he used to do as a kid]] and is now disabled due to suffering from multiple sclerosis (which Peter misinterprets as "monkey scrotum"). When they finally track the guy down, Peter threatens and taunts the other guy before ordering Chris to take him out. And then Chris.... beats the living snot out of ''Peter'', driving him to tears. Peter demands to know why his son has beat him. Chris replies, in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, that "you taught me to stand up to a bully -- ''and I'm standing up to you."''
** Just so this makes sense to those who don't understand, Chris was being bullied by this kid who was stealing customers from his paper round, insulted and humiliated him, etc. When Peter confronted the little punk, the kid [[MuggingTheMonster starts insulting and cracking jokes about Peter, a fully grown man who]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext gets into glorious fistfights with a giant chicken,]] when he was trying to be civil, resulting in Peter beating him into unconsciousness. When he apologizes, the kid convinces him that it's fun to hurt people, so Peter started bullying everyone, from his family to his friends to his ''paraplegic cop neighbor''. He decided to hunt down his own former tormentor when he realized it was his fault for why he was acting so dickish, only to find out he now has MS and is unable to walk by himself. Peter doesn't know what that is (confusing it for a Monkey Scrotum) and attacks the man on crutches so Chris beats him up to stop him.
** In another episode, [[PapaWolf Peter]] tracks down Connie D' Mico, Meg's AlphaBitch high school bully, and ''smashes her face repeatedly through a fire extinguisher''. In yet another episode, [[MamaBear Lois]] does the same thing.
* 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.
* Creator/AdamWest did this in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo''.
* 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 4-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...]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Rainbow Dash]] will stick up for others if they're being picked on. For example, in flight camp, she defended [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]] from a duo of bullies after the latter tripped while trying to fly through a cloud ring.
** The aesop of "One Bad Apple" was that one should stand up to, and otherwise deal with, bullies without stooping to their level. It failed abysmally, instead implying that ''fighting back made you as bad as the bully.''
* ''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.
* [[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.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E5BartTheGeneral 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** [[TheCowl Mysterion]] beats the crap out of a [[WouldHitAGirl girl]] who was about to beat up [[BigBrotherInstinct Karen McCormick]].
** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "[[Recap/SouthParkS16E5Butterballs Butterballs]]". Stan creates an anti-bullying video but uses it to attain fame instead of helping people. The type of bullying in his movie revolves around bullying at school, not general bullying like DomesticAbuse or bullying in the workplace. Several people who [[{{Hypocrite}} 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 hardly anyone is any better than a real bully.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Though Squidward can be a bit of a bully himself at times, he can be this to [=SpongeBob=] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold on his better days]]. In one episode, when [=SpongeBob=] is cruelly insulted by an UnsatisfiableCustomer simply because his pizza didn't come with a drink, Squidward immediately confronts the customer and slams the pizza in his face.
-->'''Customer:''' Another one?! Look, I told your little buddy I ain't paying for that!
-->'''Squidward:''' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Well, this one's on the house!]] ''([[PieInTheFace knocks the customer out cold with the pizza box]])''
* Various characters of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' 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").
* 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.
* 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.
* The only reason the violent, foul-tempered [[BloodKnight Dinobots]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' are loyal to the Autobots is that the only thing they hate more than weaklings are those who abuse their strength.
* 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).
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** 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.

* ''Series/MASH'': In the 11th season episode "Run for the Money", Winchester witnesses a captain berating one of his men who speaks with a stutter, and threatens to put the captain on report if he does so again. His expression when confronting the captain is a classic example of TranquilFury. Turns out the situation hits Winchester close to home; at the end of the episode he is listening to a recorded message from his sister Honoria, who also stutters.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': This fuels the climax of the episode ''[[VillainEpisode Zuko Alone]]''. While [[AntiVillain Prince Zuko]] can at times be unnecessarily harsh to those subordinate to him and has entitlement issues, they come exclusively from his determination to regain his [[BigBad father's]] love and his trauma from said father's [[AbusiveParents abuse]]. Having seen the cruelty of both his father and his younger sister, he has nothing but contempt for those who pick on others weaker than themselves just for the sake of cruelty and/or a feeling of power, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech as he tells to the soldiers]] that kidnapped a boy whose brother was just captured right before fighting them to free the boy. [[spoiler:This adds further fuel to his eventual HeelFaceTurn, as he comes to see the larger picture of his father leading a bullying Fire Nation in a war of conquest against the other, weaker nations]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': This fuels the climax of the episode ''[[VillainEpisode Zuko Alone]]''. While [[AntiVillain Prince Zuko]] can at times be unnecessarily harsh to those subordinate to him and has entitlement issues, they come exclusively from his determination to regain his [[BigBad father's]] love and his trauma from said father's [[AbusiveParents abuse]]. Having seen the cruelty of both his father and his younger sister, he has nothing but contempt for those who pick on others weaker than themselves just for the sake of cruelty and/or a feeling of power, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech as he tells to the soldiers]] that kidnapped a boy whose brother was just captured right before fighting them to free the boy. [[spoiler:This adds further fuel to his eventual HeelFaceTurn, as he comes to see the larger picture of a bullying Fire Nation launching a war of conquest against the other, weaker nations]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': This fuels the climax of the episode [[VillainEpisode Zuko Alone]]. While [[AntiVillain Prince Zuko]] can at times be unnecessarily harsh to those subordinate to him and has entitlement issues, they come exclusively from his determination to regain his [[BigBad father's]] love and his trauma from said father's [[AbusiveParents abuse]]. Having seen the cruelty of both his father and his younger sister, he has nothing but contempt for those who pick on others weaker than themselves just for the sake of cruelty and/or a feeling of power, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech as he tells to the soldiers]] that kidnapped a boy whose brother was just captured right before fighting them to free the boy. [[spoiler:This adds further fuel to his eventual HeelFaceTurn, as he comes to see the larger picture of a bullying Fire Nation launching a war of conquest against the other, weaker nations]].

* PlayedForDrama and Defied in ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' when Sunny and Kel confront their estranged childhood friend Aubrey - who has since become the leader of a gang of {{delinquents}} - over her bullying of another former childhood friend, Basil. However, Aubrey's aggression is a direct result of a combination of [[spoiler:trauma over the death of Sunny's sister Mari]], belief that her friends abandoned her in trying times, and ParentalNeglect, with a bit of PoorCommunicationKills thrown in. While she has obviously gone too far and eventually admits as such, some of Sunny and Kel's actions - such clashing with Aubrey '''[[HiddenDepths while she's at church]], in the middle of a sermon no less''' - come off as no less excessive, and she harshly chastizes them, not without reason, for sticking their nose where they don't belong. When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wKWwUzgCE8 It Means Everything]] starts playing, '''you''' will feel like the asshole.

* 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/serial killer that targets bullies who drove people to suicide who has helped parents of the victims get bloody vengeance]].

** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "[[Recap/SouthParkS16E5Butterballs 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 [[{{Hypocrite}} 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.

* 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.
* 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.

* 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.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's version of Franchise/{{Superman}} in [[ComicBook/ActionComicsNew52 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.

* 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/serial killer that targets bullies who drove people to suicide by offering the victim's parents a chance at revenge]].

** Ryoga too, most notably for defending a BroughtDownToNormal Ranma from the rest of the males on the [[FanNickname Nerima Wrecking Crew]], since he thought that it was not fair to have them gang up on him in such circumstances.

** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "[[Recap/SouthParkS16E5Butterballs 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': Ben is shown to be this during his EstablishingCharacterMoment in the very first episode, as part of his general ChronicHeroSyndrome. He tries to intervene when he sees local bullies Cash and JT picking on a helpless kid but unfortunately, he initially lacks the strength to back up his heroism and gets hung by his underwear ''alongside the kid he was trying to help''.

-->''"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!''"

Also goes in hand-in-hand with WifeBasherBasher when an adult bully hunter is dealing with [[DomesticAbuse spousal abusers]], especially abusive husbands. See also TheDulcineaEffect.

[AC: Note]: Keep in mind this trope applies only when the abuse was perpetrated by kids or teenagers. If the offender is an adult, then the crime is no longer school bullying but something worse and our Bully Hunter has been upgraded to a VigilanteMan.

* 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.