History Trivia / Bully

* ImageSource:
** TheBully

* QuoteSource: For NouveauRiche.

** Trevor Moore is also the name of an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Moore_(comedian) actor]] who wrote a song about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbq2v5tYJo bullies]].

* QuoteSource: For Nouveau Riche.

* HostilityOnTheSet: In a case of sad irony, in 2017, Daniel Franzese, who played Derek Dvirko in ''Film/{{Bully}}'' which was based off of the real-life murder of Bobby Kent who was killed due to his alleged bullying, revealed that co-star Bijou Phillips, who played Ali Willis, subjected him to a lot of homophobic and fat-shaming bullying while they were on the set, saying that she kept trying to goad him into admitting that he was gay[[note]]which he later came out as over a decade later, but he just reluctantly said he was bisexual at the time to get her off his case[[/note]] and that she laughed at his appearance when he removed his shirt at a pool party and had even twisted one of his nipples. Even more troubling, he said the producers just looked the other way on the behavior (potentially due to the fact that she came from a famous family; her father was "Papa" John Phillips from ''Music/TheMamasAndThePapas'' and her older half-sisters were actress Mackenzie of ''Series/OneDayAtATime'' fame and singer Chynna of Wilson Phillips fame and he was just an up-and-coming actor) but said that his fellow co-stars Creator/BradRenfro, Creator/MichaelPitt and Creator/NickStahl (who portrayed Kent himself) openly and repeatedly defended him and the latter, who was dating Phillips at the time, even tried to convince her to apologize to him. After going public with his story, Phillips subsequently reached out to Franzese and apologized, which he accepted.

* HostilityOnTheSet: In a case of sad irony, in 2017, Daniel Franzese, who played Derek Dvirko in ''Film/{{Bully}}'' which was based off of the real-life murder of Bobby Kent who was killed due to his alleged bullying, revealed that co-star Bijou Phillips, who played Ali Willis, subjected him to a lot of homophobic and fat-shaming bullying while they were on the set, saying that she kept trying to goad him into admitting that he was gay[[note]]which he later came out as over a decade later, but he just reluctantly said he was bisexual at the time to get her off his case[[/note]] and that she laughed at his appearance when he removed his shirt at a pool party and had even twisted one of his nipples. Even more troubling, he said the producers just looked the other way on the behavior (potentially due to the fact that she came from a famous family; her father was "Papa" John Phillips from ''Music/TheMamasAndThePapas'' and her older half-sisters were actress Mackenzie of ''Series/OneDayAtATime'' fame and singer Chynna of Wilson Phillips fame and he was just an up-and-coming actor) but said that his fellow co-stars Brad Renfro, Creator/MichaelPitt and Nick Stahl (who portrayed Kent himself) openly and repeatedly defended him and the latter, who was dating Phillips at the time, even tried to convince her to apologize to him. After going public with his story, Phillips subsequently reached out to Franzese and apologized, which he accepted.

* BasedOnATrueStory: The side mission [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFZNsxnpV00 "Character Sheets"]] was inspired by a real life event of head ''Bully'' producer Jeronimo Barerra, in which a bully stole some gaming books from a paraplegic friend of his and Barerra tried to retrieve the stolen good back.

* CrossCastRole: Surprisingly, many of the black characters in the game were actually voiced by white actors. For example, Damon was voiced by Ben Curtis, while Bo was voiced by Jason Fuch. Even some of the white characters were voiced by black actors, with Tad's voice being [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Baron Vaughn]] and Christy's voice being the (biracial) Maine Anders.

* RecycledInSpace: It's pretty much ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' in high school, with less outright violence and with cliques and school bullies in place of criminal gangs.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: In the Geography class, borders and flags (Eastern Europe has post-Cold War borders, there's no [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudan South Sudan]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar Myanmar uses the pre-2010 flag]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Afghanistan Afghanistan has the post-Taliban flag]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Libya Libya has the plain green flag]]) explicitly shows that the game was developed [[TurnOfTheMillennium in the mid 2000s]]. This was later averted in the Anniversary Edition by updating the flags.

* DummiedOut: Bob only appears in one scene in the game - the cutscene at the beginning of The Gym is Burning. Despite this he has a unique fighting style and a full set of dialogue programmed. More curiously, his dialogue set contains the same lines as ''clique leaders'' rather than regular students.

* {{Jossed}}:
** Contrary to popular belief, the Boys Dorm is not a mirrored version of the Girls Dorm. Unlike the latter, none of the inaccessible rooms in the Boys Dorm were ever intended to be entered.
** There's a popular rumor that Gary was originally [[spoiler: going to have a DisneyVillainDeath]] at the end of the game, which was why he was so unresponsive after the boss fight, and that it was changed so that the game could keep its T rating. However, this was later revealed to be a hoax.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/Bully See here]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The game's graphic style was drastically different during development. Originally, the style was very cartoon-like and was heavily exaggerated. This is shown in the early designs for the Nerds (all of whom were stereotypical {{Gonk}}s), the Greasers (with Peanut having an exaggerated pompadour and the beta Johnny obviously being inspired by Music/ElvisPresley), Zoe (who originally had a skinbyrd hairstyle and much more shorter outfit), and other minor characters (the school's nurse barely looked human).
** The Townies went through various changes. They were introduced as a punk-inspired clique early on, before being named the Dropouts, and ended up as the Townies. Three known members were Russell (who is still listed as the Dropouts leader in the game files), Zoe, and Sid. While Russell and Zoe were later developed into their own characters, Sid was scrapped entirely.
** The Bullies clique as a whole originally wore blue vests. This was likely changed to not confuse players who would mistake them as being a friendly clique at the beginning of the game [[spoiler:and foreshadow how they're the only clique who are completely loyal to Jimmy.]]
** Bullworth Academy's uniform color was originally maroon rather than blue. In addition, almost all of the students in the beta wore the blue featured on Jimmy and Pete's uniforms that was eventually changed into green.
** There was going to be an actual Grottoes and Gremlins minigame based on ''Videogame/{{Gauntlet}}'' that was cut due to time constraints.
** Dr. Crabblesnitch was originally going to have been the BigBad of the game.
** Gloria was originally one of the girls Jimmy could kiss. While her dialogue still remains in the game, it is DummiedOut, because Gloria is one of the younger kids in the game.
** Unused dialogue for humiliating or giving female students swirlies exist.
** There are unused dialogue for students tattling to prefects. The vast majority of them go unused as only six students in the game (the five little kids and Constantinos) tattle.
** The Boys Dorm had a second floor that would have been where the bathroom and Gary and Pete's room was, alongside a staircase. In addition, many clique members could be seen at once instead of just Bullies, Nerds and non-cliques. Furthermore, both the Prefects and Mr. Burton would act as hall monitors. The mini-map thankfully still exists, alongside a few screenshots of what it would have looked like.
** There is an unused sound effect for the Boys' Dorm ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN8RieiKE1w found here from 0:07-0:38]]) that appears to be a beta recording of the introduction cutscene for Pete, where Jimmy sounds very different and Pete makes a line about Jimmy's room being "in the room downstairs". According to Gerry Rosenthal, Jimmy's voice actor, he was the replacement of the voice actor who did the lines in the unused sound effect.

** Prototype screenshots posted on character artist Jared Fry's blog show, among other things, character models for five of the female characters[[note]]Zoe, Lola, Mandy, Beatrice, and Pinky[[/note]] in nothing but underwear. While most of them aren't noteworthy beyond that, Beatrice's unused model is particularly jarring, with her wearing a [[OfCorsetsSexy small, lacy corset]] and a red thong. Interestingly enough, character models labeled "UW", presumably for "underwear", still exist in the game; however, these are simply their "pajamas" models in the final version, indicating that the original "underwear" models were overwritten fairly late in development.
** DummiedOut voice clips suggest that Jealous Johnny was supposed to be a very different and much more risqué mission than what we ended up getting. While the mission that made it into the game is a fairly dull, uneventful affair in which Jimmy simply snaps a few photos of Gord and Lola together, the mission as it was originally designed involved tailing the pair all around town, including to a shack on the beach and Gord's house. It also involved a scene at the end where Lola would have stripped down to her underwear, with Gord trying to undo her bra, only for Lola to leave at that moment in the ultimate tease move. Considering that the game was already pushing its "T" rating, most of the mission content was likely scrapped so as not to risk tipping it over to an "M" rating.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Immediately after the game was announced, MoralGuardians took to everywhere to try get the game cancelled. This was due to the belief that it would actually ''promote'' and ''justify'' school bullying at best (which it does not, although the title was what caused this stigma, to the point the game was given the title ''Canis Canem Edit'' in Transatlantic regions), or be a "Columbine simulator" at worst (while Jimmy can knock people out, murder is impossible). When the shock value died down, the game has since grown past the controversy.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: In the Geography class, borders and flags (Eastern Europe has post-Cold War borders, there's no [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudan South Sudan]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar Myanmar uses the pre-2010 flag]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Afghanistan Afghanistan has the post-Taliban flag]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Libya Lybia has the plain green flag]]) explicitly shows that the game was developed [[TurnOfTheMillennium in the mid 2000s]]. This was later averted in the Anniversary Edition by updating the flags.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://bully.wikia.com/wiki/Bully_Wiki The Bully Wiki]].

* HostilityOnTheSet: In a case of sad irony, in 2018, Daniel Franzese, who played Derek Dvirko in ''Film/{{Bully}}'' which was based off of the real-life murder of Bobby Kent who was killed due to his alleged bullying, revealed that co-star Bijou Phillips, who played Ali Willis, subjected him to a lot of homophobic and fat-shaming bullying while they were on the set, saying that she kept trying to goad him into admitting that he was gay[[note]]which he later came out as over a decade later, but he just reluctantly said he was bisexual at the time to get her off his case[[/note]] and that she laughed at his appearance when he removed his shirt at a pool party and had even twisted one of his nipples. Even more troubling, he said the producers just looked the other way on the behavior (potentially due to the fact that she came from a famous family; her father was "Papa" John Phillips from ''Music/TheMamasAndThePapas'' and her older half-sisters were actress Mackenzie of ''Series/OneDayAtATime'' fame and singer Chynna of Wilson Phillips fame and he was just an up-and-coming actor) but said that his fellow co-stars Brad Renfro, Creator/MichaelPitt and Nick Stahl (who portrayed Kent himself) openly and repeatedly defended him and the latter, who was dating Phillips at the time, even tried to convince her to apologize to him.

** [=YouTuber=] [[https://www.youtube.com/user/SWEGTA SWEGTA]] managed to record some footage from an old version of the game on an RVTH before it got bricked by a glitch. He has been doing analyses of plenty of beta features that are not featured in the final version, such as an unused [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7OF8JNGpQE tow truck]].
** The player was originally able to buy weapons from classmates. Remnants of this remain in That Bitch, where you can buy stink bombs from Fatty.
** The prefects originally carried police batons in concept art. In a beta, they were seen carrying paddles. There was even a mission where Jimmy had to steal a paddle from Crabblesnitch's office and planting it on a Jock. A clip of that mission was seen in the Christmas previews for the game, which had Gary making a lewd doggy-style position while saying "spank me" in a suggestive voice.

* CrossCastRole: Surprisingly, many of the black characters in the game were actually voiced by white actors. For example, Damon was voiced by Ben Curtis, while Bo was voiced by Jason Fuch. Even some of the white characters were voiced by black actors, with Tad's voice being [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Baron Vaughn]] and Christy's voice being the (biracial) Maine Anders.

* CrossCastRole: Surprisingly, many of the black characters in the game were actually voiced by white actors. For example, Damon was voiced by Ben Curtis, while Bo was voiced by Jason Fuch. Even some of the white characters were voiced by black actors, with Tad's voice being Baron Vaughn and Christy's voice being the (biracial) Maine Anders.

* RecycledInSpace: It's pretty much ''Grand Theft Auto'' in high school, with less outright violence and with cliques and school bullies in place of criminal gangs.

* HostilityOnTheSet: In a case of sad irony, in 2018 Daniel Franzese, who played Derek Dvirko in ''Film/{{Bully}}'' which was based off of the real-life murder of Bobby Kent who was killed due to his alleged bullying, revealed that co-star Bijou Phillips, who played Ali Willis, subjected him to a lot of homophobic and fat-shaming bullying while they were on the set, saying that she kept trying to goad him into admitting that he was gay[[note]]which he later came out as over a decade later, but he just reluctantly said he was bisexual at the time to get her off his case[[/note]] and that she laughed at his appearance when he removed his shirt at a pool party and had even twisted one of his nipples. Even more troubling, he said the producers just looked the other way on the behavior (potentially due to the fact that she came from a famous family; her father was "Papa" John Phillips from ''Music/TheMamasAndThePapas'' and her older half-sisters were actress Mackenzie of ''Series/OneDayAtATime'' fame and singer Chynna of Wilson Phillips fame and he was just an up-and-coming actor) but said that his fellow co-stars Brad Renfro, Creator/MichaelPitt and Nick Stahl (who portrayed Kent himself) openly and repeatedly defended him and the latter, who was dating Phillips at the time, even tried to convince her to apologize to him.

* RecycledInSpace: It's pretty much ''Grand Theft Auto'' IN HIGH SCHOOL, with less outright violence and with cliques and school bullies in place of criminal gangs.
** The story of this game could be considered a T-Rated version of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas.'' Both Jimmy and CJ are thugs with a history of criminal activity. They try keeping their noses clean, but the situation calls for them to do otherwise. Part of their arc involves controlling the warring factions in their respective environments. The both [[spoiler: get betrayed by one of their friends, and said friend is the final boss (Tenpenny technically was TheUnfought)]]. The climax of both games involve [[spoiler: a riot breaking out]]. It would have gone even further if Crablesnitch was the game's BigBad like he was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen early in development]], because then, he would have shared Officer Tenpenny's role as a BigBad corrupt authority figure.

** The player was originally able to buy weapons from classmates. Remnants from this remain in That Bitch, where you can buy stink bombs from Fatty.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: If his stream of playing the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 version of the game is to go by, Gerry Rosenthal is definitely a nice guy compared to Jimmy.

** Players were originally able to buy weapons from classmates. Remnants from this remain in That Bitch, where you can buy stink bombs from Fatty.

** DummiedOut voice clips suggest that Jealous Johnny was supposed to be a very different and much more risqué than what we ended up getting. While the mission that made it into the game is a fairly dull, uneventful affair in which Jimmy simply snaps a few photos of Gord and Lola together, the mission as it was originally designed involved tailing the pair all around town, including to a shack on the beach and Gord's house. It also involved a scene at the end where Lola would have stripped down to her underwear, with Gord trying to undo her bra, only for Lola to leave at that moment in the ultimate tease move. Considering that the game was already pushing its "T" rating, most of the mission content was likely scrapped so as not to risk tipping it over to an "M" rating.