History VideoGame / Bully

* UngratefulBastard: Not only do the Nerds generally [[DudeWheresMyRespect treat Jimmy like hired help]] and have to be challenged before they'll admit Jimmy to their clubhouse, but when they think they don't need him anymore, they abruptly cut ties with him for no apparent reason and have to be reined in the old-fashioned way.

%%** Troy's crush on Russell.

* HundredPercentCompletion: There are a bunch of things the player has to do in order to accomplish this. Some are these are obvious, while others are require a guide.

* HundredPercentCompletion: A load of achievements to achieve.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The basement tunnels under Bullworth are big enough to hold an entire fighting pit, complete with chain link walls and an announcer's booth.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Pete is accused of homoerotic leanings, such as when Gary asks him if he's watching the swim team for the girls or boys (and the only answer he can muster is a lame "shut up"), and when he made a ''really'' awkward joke about Jimmy becoming a male stripper.

** The Black Ninja Outfit (which you get for completing the School Yearbook) and Green Ninja Outfit (2,000 successful hits with ranged weapons) both give you bonuses (Black makes you invisible to authorities to an extent, and Green increases damage, range, and hit ratio for ranged weapons).

* ArtificialAtmosphericActions: Several random NPC dialogues can sound very artificial to say the least. Not to mention, you can have a ''lot'' of fun with Kick-Me signs, sometimes even the ''prefects'' or the ''gym teacher'' will run over and kick a student with them. This also borders on the funny side of this. Because everyone "resets" when you do something like go to class or enter a building, it's possible someone you beat up a couple hours earlier to ask you to run an errand for them. And the prefects ''never'' remember the swirlie you gave them unless they witnessed you giving one.

** To quote Jimmy:

* EasilyForgiven: Gurney's setting the school gym on fire should have, realistically, landed him in actual prison for ''years''. Once the fire's out it's never mentioned again, and Jimmy doesn't seem to hold the fact that he nearly killed three people against him.

* EnemyDetectingRadar: Jimmy has one that rivals [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Solid Snake's]]. No explanation, just for ease of gameplay.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: While the jocks are the reigning popular kids who are happy to beat up anyone weaker than themselves, they are enraged when they discover the nerds have taken erotic pictures of Mandy against her consent and attack the observatory while calling them "sickos".

* GayOption: Well, it doesn't really affect the overall storyline, but Jimmy can kiss one member of each clique if the player chooses to. And it's more like bi option anyway. Getting girlfriends is a mandatory part of the game. Boyfriends are strictly optional - unless you're playing the Xbox 360 version and want all the achievement points. Then you ''[[ButThouMust must]]'' kiss 20 boys for the achievement "Over the Rainbow."

** On one mission you can see Trent, a bully, and Kirby, a jock, holding hands in line at the movie theater.
** During the mission where Jimmy has to protect Earnest while he gives a speech, Earnest goes into unnecessary detail about how good-looking Ted is, with an odd, longing tone in his voice.

* {{Jerkass}}: Apart from a few exceptions, ''everybody''. The [[JerkJock Jocks]] are bullies who pick on anyone who isn't athletic enough. The Bullies are, obviously, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bullies]] who pick on anyone weaker than they are. The Greasers are violent delinquents who'll bully or attack anyone who crosses their path, enters their territory or just looks at them funny. The Preps are all stuck-up rich kids who think all other people are inferior to them simply because they have less money and aren't above telling them so. The Townies will insult and fight any Bullworth Academy student and can be seen insulting or even fighting adults, which, in this game, is a major offense. The Townsfolk are pretty much grown-up Preps, and will treat you like shit simply for being underage. Even the ''Nerds'', who are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain, act pretty rudely to anyone who isn't one of them and will happily bully anyone weak enough for them to get away with doing so. The most jerkass characters in the game, though, would have to be [[Manipulative Bastard Ga]][[Sociopath ry]], [[RichBitch De]][[SmugSnake rby]], [[FatBastard Mr.]] [[ScaryBlackMan Hatt]][[SadistTeacher rick]] and [[AllMenArePervertsMr.]] [[Ephebophile Bur]][[DrillSergeantNasty ton.]]

** Jimmy, totally. Edgar counts as this too. He helps Jimmy [[spoiler:quell the riot]] during the final mission despite the fact that he hates Bullworth and most of the students therein.
** Dr. Crabblesnitch is one of these too, especially in ending when he has a big PetTheDog moment.

* SharedUniverse: With Rockstar's ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' and by extension ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}''- though in this case it seems to span two different continuities! It came out after the final ''GTA III''-era game was released (and hence [[PropRecycling shares certain props with them]], mainly cars); but Bullworth Academy was sighted in the ShowWithinAShow ''I'm Rich'' in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''. ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' also has a few references to this game (a movie called ''Sequel II'' (''Sequel: The Movie'' originated here), and the occasional sighting of someone wearing a jacket marked "Hopkins" at the Vanilla Unicorn).

* SpiritualSuccessor: Find a review of this game in a British magazine that doesn't mention the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum classic ''VideoGame/SkoolDaze''.

* VideogameCrueltyPotential: Quite a bit, as you might gather:

* WorldOfJerkass: YES. IN School, The Jocks are bullies who pick on anyone who isn't athletic enough. The Bullies are, obviously, bullies who pick on anyone weaker than they are. The Greasers are violent delinquents who'll bully or attack anyone who crosses their path, enters their territory or just looks at them funny. The Preps are all stuck-up rich kids who think all other people are inferior to them simply because they have less money and aren't above telling them so. The Townies will insult and fight any Bullworth Academy student and can be seen insulting or even fighting adults, which, in this game, is a major offense. The Townsfolk are pretty much grown-up Preps, and will treat you like shit simply for being underage. Even the Nerds, who are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain, act pretty rudely to anyone who isn't one of them and will happily bully anyone weak enough for them to get away with doing so. The most jerkass characters in the game, though, would have to be [[Manipulative Bastard Ga]][[Sociopath ry]], [[RichBitch De]][[SmugSnake rby]], [[FatBastard Mr.]] [[ScaryBlackMan Hatt]][[SadistTeacher rick]] and [[AllMenArePervertsMr.]] [[Ephebophile Bur]][[DrillSergeantNasty ton.]]
** Zig-zagged more later. At the end of the game, pretty much everyone is nice to Jimmy, but people are still rude towards each other, at least in [[GameplayStorySegregation gameplay.]]

** In-game Jimmy can bully and hit younger students just as older ones, however trying to do that will give him full red trouble meter.
** Townies by Gary's request burn the gym down, hurting students in the building.

*** Zoe is another example, Mr. Burton is shown to be ephebophile as he instructs Jimmy to collect girls underwear under the pretence of doing laundry for them. According to Zoe, Mr. Burton harassed her at some point and managed to turn the conviction around by getting Zoe expelled. [[spoiler:Mr. Burton is only fired in the end because Jimmy reported him after defeating Gary and restoring order to the school.]]

** The Townies are students who have been expelled from Bullworth Academy and hang around the town instead.

* SeriouslyScruffy: During "Complete Mayhem", Johnny and Ted's outfits are tattered and dirtied because of the riot, whereas Earnest swaps out his uniform for military fatigues. The sole exception is Derby, [[WhileRomeBurns who isn't part of the riot and dresses up to watch it]].

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* GoodIsNotNice: Jimmy embodies this.

* {{Jerkass}}: Apart from a few exceptions, ''everybody''. The [[JerkJock Jocks]] are bullies who pick on anyone who isn't athletic enough. The Bullies are, obviously, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bullies]] who pick on anyone weaker than they are. The Greasers are violent delinquents who'll bully or attack anyone who crosses their path, enters their territory or just looks at them funny. The Preps are all stuck-up rich kids who think all other people are inferior to them simply because they have less money and aren't above telling them so. The Townies will insult and fight any Bullworth Academy student and can be seen insulting or even fighting adults, which, in this game, is a major offense. The Townsfolk are pretty much grown-up Preps, and will treat you like shit simply for being underage. Even the ''Nerds'', who are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain, act pretty rudely to anyone who isn't one of them and will happily bully anyone weak enough for them to get away with doing so. The most jerkass characters in the game, though, would have to be Gary, Derby, Mr. Hattrick and Mr. Burton.

** Jimmy, totally. Edgar counts as this too. He helps Jimmy [[spoiler:quell the riot]] during the final mission despite the fact that he hates Bullworth and most of the students therein. Dr. Crabblesnitch is one of these too.

* KickTheDog: The Nerds do a bit of this during Stronghold Assault. Algie taunts Petey for having no friends and being "weird" and calls you a useful idiot, and all throughout they deride Jimmy's intelligence.

* IdiotBall: Apparently, Gary carries a bunch of these around and hands them out to people before he talks to them. All he has to do is tell them that Jimmy said or did something, and they believe him.

* IKnowMaddenKombat: Some of the Jocks use football tackles when they fight. Also, Jocks and Bullies can be seen using baseball bats as weapons.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Jimmy helps Edna slip sedatives to Dr. Watts; she then takes him into an hourly rates motel with the strong implication she intends to have sex with him. This would rightfully be seen as date rape if it were a male doing this to a female; instead it's played for comedy.

** Discretion Assured: Revenge porn is not justice, no matter horrible someone is to you, paying them back by violating their privacy and dignity that way will only make you a villain as well.

** The game goes out of its way to show that popularity isn't worth it in the end since it can be destroyed within seconds and [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion how public opinion can ruin a life]]. As long you have a few good people on your side then it should be good enough:

** Russell is the single toughest random fight in the game, and is capable of beating up a pro boxer like Bif. He's also your first boss fight. Post-HeelFaceTurn, we see him do such things such as hold a shopkeeper in Old Bullworth Vale off the ground by the neck with one arm, ''steals a police motorcycle'', something not even Jimmy can do, and chase off two prefects. [[spoiler:His simple-mindedness also makes him [[TooDumbToFool the only person largely immune to Gary's manipulations]].]]

* BullyTurnedBuddy: Jimmy's plan is to invoke this by subjugating the leaders of the school's gangs to defeat [[BigBad Gary]] by beating them up and declaring them his friend. For some reason, this works.

** Russell is the single toughest random fight in the game, and is capable of beating up a pro boxer like Bif. He's also your first boss fight. Post-HeelFaceTurn, we see him doing such things as holding a shopkeeper in Old Bullworth Vale off the ground by the neck with one arm, chasing off two prefects, and ''stealing a police motorcycle'', something not even Jimmy can do. [[spoiler:His simple-mindedness also makes him [[TooDumbToFool the only person largely immune to Gary's manipulations]].]]

* AnAesop:

** A somewhat weird example. Ammo for your weapons is dropped in fights, so the only thing you really use your money for is getting a haircut and expanding your wardrobe. The clothes don't really provide any benefits, and if you wear anything but your uniform on school grounds, the prefects yell but do nothing else at you for breaking dress code.
** The Black Ninja Outfit (which you get for completing the School Yearbook) and Green Ninja Outfit (2,000 successful hits with ranged weapons) both add bonuses to your character (Black makes you invisible to authorities to an extent, and Green increases damage, range, and hit ratio for ranged weapons).

Our protagonist, James "Jimmy" Hopkins, is a 15-year-old boy with a checkered past who has major issues with authority. He's just been dropped off at a so-called "prestigious" school in New England while his serial divorcée of a mother and fourth stepfather depart for their honeymoon cruise. This is Bullworth Academy and far from being a respected seat of learning, it is in reality the worst school in the entire country. Having been repeatedly expelled from past schools for various counts of vandalism, violence and insubordination, Bullworth is the last stop for Jimmy before he is landed on juvenile detention. Naturally, trouble finds him the moment he steps on campus, in the shape of delinquents always on the lookout for [[NewTransferStudent new kids]] to dunk into the toilet.

* ArtificialAtmosphericActions: Several random NPC dialogues can sound very artificial to say the least. Not to mention, you can have a ''lot'' of fun with Kick-Me signs, sometimes even the ''prefects'' or the ''gym teacher'' will run over and kick a student with them. This also borders on the funny side of this. Because everyone "resets" when you do something like go to class or enter a building, it's possible someone you beat up a couple hours earlier to ask you to run an errand for them. And the prefects ''never'' remember the Swirlie you gave them unless they witnessed you giving one.

Our protagonist, James "Jimmy" Hopkins, is a 15-year-old boy with a checkered past, a face like a bulldog chewing on a wasp and major issues with authority. He's just been dropped off at a so-called "prestigious" school in New England while his serial divorcée of a mother and fourth stepfather depart for their honeymoon cruise. This is Bullworth Academy and, far from being a respected seat of learning, it is in reality the worst school in the entire country. Having been repeatedly expelled from past schools for various counts of vandalism, violence and insubordination, Bullworth is the last stop for Jimmy before he is landed on juvenile detention. Naturally, trouble finds him the moment he steps on campus, in the shape of deliquents always on the lookout for [[NewTransferStudent new kids]] to dunk into the toilet.

* ArtificialStupidity: Put down a volcano firework. No matter how many times you blew people up during the previous days, people will still gather around it and act surprised until it explodes in their faces.

* FatBastard: Mr. Hattrick, the only real obese teacher in Bullworth, is also the meanest, as the plotline shows. Mr. Burton, while just being [[HollywoodPudgy somewhat overweight]], also counts.

*** Zoe is another example, Mr. Burton is shown to be ephebophile as he instructed Jimmy to collect girls underwear under the pretence of doing laundry for them. According to Zoe, Mr. Burton harassed her at some point and managed to turn the conviction around by getting Zoe expelled. [[spoiler:Mr. Burton is only fired in the end because Jimmy reported after defeating Gary and restoring order to the school.]]

** Discretion Assured: Revenge porn is not justice, no matter horrible someone is to you, paying them back by violating their privacy and dignity that way will only make you a villain as well.
** The game goes out of its way to show that popularity isn't worth it in the end since it can be destroyed within seconds and [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion how public opinion can ruin a life]]. As long you have a few good people on your side then it should be good enough:
*** [[spoiler:The greasers only turn on Jimmy in Chapter 3 because Derby told Jimmy to spray insults in their territory, the nerds betray Jimmy in Chapter 4 because they thought Jimmy was mocking them, and in Chapter 5, all the cliques betray him. After helping every clique with their problems and earning their trust to stop the fighting, all the cliques turn on Jimmy because of problems caused by Gary. They all blamed Jimmy because they expected him to do everything for them and it eventually gets Jimmy expelled after Gary reports him for vandalising the town hall. Jimmy was expelled because Dr. Crabblesnitch read the reports from the other students and heard complaints from Mr. Burton about Jimmy's alleged crimes of releasing rats into the library and setting fire to the gym, something they had no evidence for other than word of mouth.]]
*** Zoe is another example, Mr. Burton is shown to be ephebophile as he instructed Jimmy to collect girls underwear under the pretence of doing laundry for them. According to Zoe, Mr. Burton harassed her at some point and managed to turn the conviction around by getting Zoe expelled. [[spoiler:Mr. Burton is only fired in the end because Jimmy reported after defeating Gary and restoring order to the school.]]

*** Zoey is another example, Mr. Burton is shown to be ephebophile as he instructed Jimmy to collect girls underwear under the pretence of doing laundry for them. According to Zoey, Mr. Burton harassed her at some point and managed to turn the conviction around by getting Zoey expelled. [[spoiler:Mr. Burton is only fired in the end because Jimmy reported after defeating Gary and restoring order to the school.]]

* AsTheGoodBookSays: In Nice Outfit, Earnest quotes Matthew 22:14 as an invocation to Jimmy to help him stand up to the Jocks.

* BattleInTheRain: The first occurs on the football field, during a nighttime brawl with the Jocks. The second happens on Bullworth's steeple during the chase with Gary.

* {{BFG}}: The Spud Gun. Probably the closest you're going to get in a T rated game about going to school.

** ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Grottoes and Gremlins]]''.
** Characters encountered in the games hit the PlayerArchetypes as well. Most of the Nerds consider [[TheRoleplayer roleplaying]] the "high point of human achievement." On the other hand, the townie kid Duncan is a fan of the game because you can "[[TheRealMan kill things]] and [[TheMunchkin take their stuff]]."

* BullyingADragon: Some students sometimes try to fight back when being caught by a prefect or a teacher, with predictible consequences.

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: [[spoiler:Jimmy vandalizing the Town Hall leads to getting expelled]].

** You can find a very brief instance when you enter the Nerd hideout in the Dragon's Wing basement. If you zoom in on the books next to the Grottos and Gremlins set using your camera, you'll notice that they're actually titled "Goblins and Gremlins".

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Bullworth Academy could be seen as this. It certainly looks nice from the outside, with the elegantly maintained grounds and main hall with chandelier and wooden bannisters on the staircase, plus a student body consisting of rich and/or gifted kids - "the leaders of tomorrow". Of course, any part of the school that isn't kept up for appearances' sake is a dump, and the school doesn't really advertise the reform school candidates.

-->'''Russell:''' ''Russell likes to hurt people...'' '''''For Peace!'''''

* NoOSHACompliance: In the gym, the pool has been drained for unknown amount of time and has no railings to stop people from falling into it or stop people being thrown into it. It's also a lot deeper than standard regulations and has no clear shallow end.
* NoSwastikas: There are no swastikas on the SS officer uniform that Gary wears for Halloween.

* ButNotTooGay: The game goes out of its way to establish all the boys who Jimmy can kiss as bisexual. Cornelius pines for Mandy, Gord dates Lola, Trent and Duncan are both girl-crazy, Kirby at least likes women's feet, and can sometimes be seen holding hands with Mandy. Vance is sometimes thought to be fully gay, but he can occasionally be seen making out with girls and has a couple hard to catch lines of dialogue about hanging out with them. Interestingly, the deleted character Bob was ManlyGay and openly disliked girls.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Compared to all of the other things Gary frames Jimmy for in Chapter 5 (namely setting the gym on fire, stealing the Preppies' boxing trophies, and making Johnny go missing), setting rats loose in the library is pretty minor. Doesn't stop the Nerds from being just as pissed as the other cliques though.
* ArtShift: The pause menu screen is illustrated by monochromatic sketches of various characters, with a grotesque cartoonish style which doesn't match the relatively realistic character design of the game. This is because these sketches were made during development.

Our protagonist, James "Jimmy" Hopkins, is a 15-year-old boy with a checkered past, a head shaped like a potato, and a face like that of a bulldog chewing on a wasp. He's just been dropped off at a so-called "prestigious" school in New England while his serial divorcée of a mother and fourth stepfather depart for their honeymoon cruise. This is Bullworth Academy and, far from being a respected seat of learning, it is in reality the worst school in the entire country. Having been repeatedly expelled from past schools for various counts of vandalism, violence and insubordination, Bullworth is the last stop for Jimmy before he is landed on juvenile detention. Naturally, trouble finds him the moment he steps on campus, in the shape of deliquents always on the lookout for [[NewTransferStudent new kids]] to dunk into the toilet.

* BossInMookClothing: Bif and Damon are the toughest, strongest members of the Preppies and Jocks, respectively, but both can be found randomly wandering around Bullworth like normal students. It's rather hard to tell Bif apart from the rest of his clique. AThis is averted with Russell, who is also randomly present but is actually a boss and is obviously different from the other Bullies. Ironically, in the storyline, you fight these three in order of most to least dangerous.

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* AbortedArc: Nothing ever really comes out of Earnest running for class president against Ted. It's just the backdrop for a mission's excuse to grant you a cooler weapon. Given that the school still puts money into training the football team over the science field trip, it's likely that the dork with a Messiah Complex lost.

* ActorAllusion: One of the townswomen says "I hear Mr. Grant was once the star of the Scottish Stage." Mr. Grant/The Hobo was voiced by Angus Hepburn, who is Scottish and is primarily a stage actor.

* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Pretty much what Mandy Wiles' popularity runs on.

* AlphaBitch: Mandy, head cheerleader who mercilessly teases nerd girl Beatrice. She also keeps up a steady stream of catty remarks against Lola, who is her top competition for "hottest girl in the school". Subverted in that it's hinted she's actually a somehow decent person whose attitude stems both from peer pressure and insecurity, and she eventually mellows after the Nerds put indecent pictures of her around the school.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Edgar Munsen.

* AnachronismStew: The Bullworth region appears to be caught in a time warp. The game is ostensibly set in the present (there is reference to the school banning UsefulNotes/MP3 players, Mr. Galloway mentions the Internet during his questline, Jimmy receives a digital camera during the Photography class, and the map of Europe in Geography class added in ''Scholarship Edition'' features a modern-day political layout), but the cars, computers,[[note]]The Nerds keep a modern PC with a flat-panel monitor in their hideout, just to further confuse the issue.[[/note]] nobody has a mobile phone (which, even if set in TheEighties, would definitely have been thrown in as a status symbol for the Preppies), and the Preppies look like they came out of TheEighties, while the Greasers are a throwback to TheFifties. One of the arcade machines has the date of release for its game as 1995. There's also no mention of social media, which would seem odd for a game set in the mid-2000s. WordOfGod has it that Rockstar wanted both adult and teenage gamers to be able to enjoy it, and thus, they threw in elements from multiple time periods rather than grounding it in one.

** ''Discretion Assured'': Revenge porn is not justice, no matter horrible someone is to you, paying them back by violating their privacy and dignity that way will only make you a villain as well.
** The game goes out of its way to show that popularity isn't worth it in the end since it can be destroyed within seconds and [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion how public opinion can ruin a life]]. As long you have a few good people on your side then it should be good enough.
*** [[spoiler: The greasers only turn on Jimmy in the third chapter because Derby told Jimmy to spray insults in their territory, the nerds betray Jimmy in the 4th chapter because they thought Jimmy was mocking them, and in the 5th chapter, all the cliques betray him. After helping every clique with their problems and earning their trust to stop the fighting, all the cliques turn on Jimmy because of problems caused by Gary Smith. They all blamed Jimmy because they expected him to do everything for them and it eventually gets Jimmy expelled after Gary reports him for vandalising the town hall. Jimmy was expelled because Crabblesnitch read the reports from the other students and heard complaints from Mr. Burton about Jimmy's alleged crimes of releasing rats into the library and setting fire to the gym, something they had no evidence for other than word of mouth.]]
*** Zoey Taylor is another example, Mr Burton is shown to be ephebophile as he instructed Jimmy to collect girls underwear under the pretence of doing laundry for them. According to Zoey, Mr Burton harassed her at some point and managed to turn the conviction around by getting Zoey expelled. [[spoiler: Mr Burton is only fired in the end because Jimmy reported after defeating Gary and restoring order to the school.]]

** A somewhat weird example. Ammo for your weapons is dropped in fights, so the only thing you really use your money for is getting a haircut and expanding your wardrobe. The clothes don't really provide any benefits, and if you wear anything but your uniform on school grounds the prefects yell but do nothing else at you for breaking dress code.

** In ''Scholarship Edition'', the only reward you get for passing 3 of the 4 new classes are clothing. And those clothes are worse than useless, since if Jimmy wears them, people laugh at him instead of interacting normally, and he can't get kisses and ergo can't get the health bonus kissing rewards.

** The nerd clique has an association with [[ResourcefulRodent rats]]; Algie and [[MeaningfulName Bucky]] [[note]] Bucks is the name for a male rat [[/note]] have pet rats called "Sniffy" and "George", the gang has a collective fear of rats as shown by the mission "Rats in the Library", the group is willing to run away from a fight, use underhanded tactics, are regarded as "Sneaky bastards" by Gary Smith, and the Nerds use homemade firearms that are made from various scraps around the school. They also made an alternate route to the abandoned observatory to avoid jocks, like how rats would avoid predators by taking alternate routes and staying out of sight. The Bullworth academy crest also has a rat as part of the design, likely representing the nerds.
** The jock clique has an association with [[BrutishBulls Bulls]], this is justified because as the school sports team, they are required to wear Bullworth's bull emblem as part of their uniform. They also have a bull mascot and the group is known for being quick-tempered as they attack anyone on sight who isn't a jock or has low popularity. The clique is also fixated on manliness and behaves in a hypermasculine way, they believe that violence, wrestling, and football are ways of proving their manhood, likely referencing how bulls are symbols of virility and masculinity. There is also a bull on the Bullworth academy crest, likely representing them on the crest.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: In "Nice Outfit", Earnest quotes Matthew 22:14 as an invocation to Jimmy Hopkins to help him stand up to the Jocks.

* BackgroundBoss: The Earnest Jones boss fight.

** Russell Northrop is the single toughest random fight in the game, and is capable of beating up a pro boxer like Bif Taylor. He's also your first boss fight. Post-HeelFaceTurn, we see him doing such things as holding a shopkeeper in Old Bullworth Vale off the ground by the neck with one arm, chasing off two prefects, and ''stealing a police motorcycle'', something not even Jimmy can do. [[spoiler:His simple-mindedness also makes him [[TooDumbToFool the only person largely immune to Gary's manipulations]].]]
* BarbaricBully: Subverted. As the title of the game would suggest, a big portion of the named characters could be considered "bullies" in some way or another, but the only clique in the game that's explicitly called "the Bullies" is composed exclusively of dimwitted thugs who'll fight anyone they run across for the hell of it. Then again, the leader of the Bullies (Russell Northrop, a hulking giant who's barely capable of forming a coherent sentence) is a textbook example of this.

* BeautifulAllAlong: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Beatrice Trudeau, who holds the trope itself in disdain.
* BigBad: Gary Smith, the manipulative sociopath who pulls every string he can to take over the school.

* {{BFG}}: The Potato Gun. Probably the closest you're going to get in a T rated game about going to school.

* BlackComedyRape: Jimmy helps the ([[{{Gonk}} extraordinarily ugly]]) cafeteria lady Edna slip sedatives to a male teacher; she then takes him inside a nearby motel for the presumed and implied purpose of sex, and it's played for laughs. Imagine the Moral Guardians' reaction [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale if the sexes were reversed...]]

* BondOneLiner: After beating the Mascot and stealing the costume, Jimmy quips...

** FinalBoss: Against Gary Smith. While on foot he's no tougher than standard {{mook}}s (considering the fact that he's not as experienced in brawls as Jimmy), chasing him across the steeple of Bullworth requires you dodging bricks he throws at you while negotiating the steel bars and the rocks hurled from wheelbarrows while climbing ladders if you want your health up for the final showdown. He also counts as a FisticuffsBoss; the prefects confiscate all your weapons before the battle, leaving you to face off against Gary with your bare hands.
** BackgroundBoss: Against Earnest Jones, leader of the Nerds, who fights in the background.
** BullfightBoss: Against Russell Northrop and the Mascot, the latter being ''literal''.
** FlunkyBoss: Against Derby Harrington. He starts off fighting you alongside his minions, then after beating them up he hops behind a counter (where you can't hit him for some reason) and then shouts, "Give me a hand in here boys!" and gets more preppies to come after you.
** GetBackHereBoss: Against Davis White, who starts off with a lengthy chase before Jimmy traps him on a scaffold. And during the final fight against Gary, you have to make your way across an obstacle course while he throws bricks at you. To a lesser extent the fights against Johnny Vincent and Edgar Munsen have chase sections as well.

** TennisBoss: Against Ted Thompson, who can only be beaten by throwing his explosive-laced footballs back at him to take out his bodyguards and ''then'' tackling him.

** HardLevelsEasyBosses: Gary Smith, on the other hand, is fought after a MarathonLevel in the middle of a war zone, with Jimmy having to bring down the majority of the school's population before getting to him, but his lack of fighting experience puts him far from being the hardest boss in the game.
* BossInMookClothing: Bif and Damon are the toughest, strongest members of the Preppies and Jocks, respectively, but both can be found randomly wandering around Bullworth like normal students. It's rather hard to tell Bif apart from the rest of his clique. Averted with Russell, who is also randomly present but is actually a boss and is obviously different from the other Bullies. Ironically, in the storyline, you fight these three in order of most to least dangerous.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: There were a few cutscenes viewable in the game trailers that didn't make it to the final version, probably because of all the negative publicity the game was getting pre-release. Makes you wonder what got left out that no one knows about. Most but not all of these were re-added in ''Scholarship Edition''. Also, the ''entire game'' was [[MarketBasedTitle renamed]] to ''Canis Canem Edit'', GratuitousLatin for ''Dog Eat Dog'', for the initial release in the PAL regions.
** One of the relatively recent discoveries is that at one point, the older girls were modeled to wear sexy underwear in the dorm. It's more surprising that this idea made it far enough for the characters to be designed than that it was removed from the game.

* BratsWithSlingshots: Official artwork and screenshots seem to play up the slingshot as Hopkins' weapon, though other students use their own slingshots throughout the story and in free-roam.

* BullyTurnedBuddy: Jimmy's plan is to invoke this by subjugating the leaders of the school's gangs to defeat [[BigBad Garry]] by beating them up and declaring them his friend. For some reason this works.

** Constantinos. He's constantly complaining about how poorly he's treated on a daily basis. There's also a minigame where you have to beat him mercilessly with a soccer ball, and a mission where you have to annoy him, beat him up, and steal his mascot costume.
--->'''Constantinos''': ''"As usual, the world takes an enormous crap on my head!"''
* ButNotTooGay: The game went to a fair amount of effort to establish all the boys who Jimmy can kiss as bisexual. Cornelius pines for Mandy, Gord dates Lola, Trent and Duncan are both girl-crazy, Kirby at least likes women's feet, and can sometimes be seen holding hands with Mandy. Vance is sometimes thought to be fully gay, but he can occasionally be seen making out with girls and has a couple hard to catch lines of dialogue about hanging out with them. Interestingly, the deleted character Bob was ManlyGay and openly disliked girls.

** And of course, the character whose name the game designers couldn't keep straight, Clint aka Henry. The name "Clint" is never used in ''Bully''. In ''Bully: Scholarship Edition'', he's mainly called Clint, but they missed a few instances of Henry. He was credited in both games as "Clint (aka Henry)."
** You can find a very brief instance when you enter the Nerd hideout in the Dragon's Wings basement. If you zoom in on the books next to the Grottos and Gremlins set using your camera, you'll notice that they're actually titled "Goblins and Gremlins".

* ClimbingClimax: A few. Jimmy must fight his way to the top floor of Harrington House where the greenhouse is located. The final mission concludes with a mild obstacle course atop Bullworth's bell tower, which is undergoing restoration.

* CliqueTour: In the mission "This is Your School", Gary shows Jimmy the four cliques of Bullworth Academy at the cafeteria: [[MadScientist the Nerds]], [[AristocratsAreEvil the Preppies]], [[GreaserDelinquents the Greasers]] and [[JerkJock the Jocks]].
* ClosetKey: Russell Northrop is Troy Miller's closet key.

* CruelCheerleader: Mandy is never out of uniform and is very close to the stereotypical portrayal of cheerleaders. There are three other girls on the squad (Pinky, Angie and Christy). They're not as mean as Mandy, but they're meaner while in their cheerleading outfits than they are the rest of the time.
* CryingWolf: You can pull the fire alarm a lot. Chances are the fire department only come when someone physically ''calls'' them considering how often you hear the fire alarm getting pulled (even one of the non-clique students says, "Oh boy! A fire!" if you pull the fire alarm).
** Of note is Jimmy is not the only person who does this, although others doing so is rare. In addition you may hear announcement from the Secretary warning that when a fire ''does'' break out the firemen won't respond.

* DeanBitterman: Dr. Crabblesnitch, although subverted in that he's also a ReasonableAuthorityFigure ''despite'' being a Dean Bitterman. He scoffs at the idea that bullying is a problem and that his staff is corrupt, but when handed proof of such he takes the right action immediately. But, if that proof isn't iron-clad, expect to be labeled the troublemaker.

** One humiliation is the inverse: an offer of friendship by extending the hand, followed by painfully twisting the arm of the target.
* {{Determinator}}: In the boss fight against the Jocks, Damon West is pelted with exploding footballs. He dusts himself off and proclaims that a little blood never hurt anyone.

** Entering a swear word during the English classes, only available during English 2, will prompt an amused reaction from the teacher instead of the usual response.
*** Aversion – the same string of letters for ''English 2'' contains an '''E''', yet shite has not been accounted for. Pretty jarring when the response given is [[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shite “That’s]] not English!”
** In "Weed Killer", Jimmy has to disguise himself as a Prep and infiltrate the Harrington House in order to kill Derby's rare plant. When you first enter the house, you'll find Gord and Parker conversing in the living room; beating them up is entirely optional. However, if you do choose to fight them, Tad (who you encounter upstairs) will hear the ruckus, but will merely shrug it off and assume that they were just wrestling each other.
** There's an alternate way to defeat Johnny and Earnest in "Complete Mayhem". Rather than fighting them head-on, you can run into the bathroom. Once they catch you there, you can drag them to the nearest toilet and give them a swirly to take him out instantly.
** Normally, if Jimmy wears the Mascot outfit, the girls in the game will point and laugh instead of kissing him. However, in the mission "Discretion Assured," he gets a kiss from Mandy - and it's also likely that he'll be wearing the Mascot outfit, since he had to for the previous mission. As such, the game contains a cutscene where, if he's wearing the Mascot outfit upon completing the mission, Mandy will kiss it on the nose.

** In "Save Algie", it is possible to ignore Algie's warning to not use the first floor boy's bathroom and go in anyway. Two Bullies are waiting in the bathroom, which requires you to beat them up. Algie will use the bathroom after, only to demand going to the second floor as there's no lock.

** There are a few missions where there are interesting ways to fail it - for example, shooting out the speakers during Earnest's speech during the mission 'The Candidate', or pulling the fire alarm yourself and blowing your cover in 'Panty Raid.'

* DevilInPlainSight: Gary is such an obvious liar. His choice in Halloween attire is also questionable. [[ThoseWackyNazis Sieg heil.]]

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The protagonist helps the cafeteria lady slip sedatives to a male teacher; she then takes him into an hourly rates motel with the strong implication she intends to have sex with him. This would rightfully be seen as date rape if it were a male doing this to a female; instead it's played for comedy.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: One mission has Jimmy dress up as a Prep to kill Derby's plant. Though you can also get clothes to match the other cliques. He also dresses up as The School Mascot once, as well as an asylum warden.

-->'''Russell''': ''Russell likes to hurt people...'' '''''For Peace!'''''

* EasilyForgiven: Gurney's setting the school gym on fire should have, realistically, landed him in actual prison for ''years''. Once the fire's out it's never mentioned again, and Jimmy doesn't seem to hold the fact that he nearly killed 3 people against him.
* EdibleAmmunition: Jimmy's potato gun, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin naturally.]]
* ElaborateUniversityHigh: Justified in that Bullworth is a BoardingSchool.
* EnemyDetectingRadar: Jimmy has one that rivals [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Solid Snake's.]] No explanation, just for ease of gameplay.

** Tad has a bad relationship with his father, but he loves his mother. He gets extremely offended when Gary lies to him about Jimmy claiming his mother is legally his aunt.
--> Tad: You've been rude about Mummy! Let's get this pauper!
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While the jocks are the reigning popular kids who are happy to beat up anyone weaker than themselves, they are enraged when they discover the nerds have taken erotic pictures of Mandy (against her consent) and attack the observatory while calling them "sickos".

* ExclusiveCliqueClubhouse: Just about every clique in the game has their own clubhouses, both on the Bullworth Academy grounds and in the surrounding town. Over the course of the game, Jimmy has the opportunity to acquire some of the secondary clubhouses as his own, usually by defeating the inhabitants in a fist-fight (or a video-game tournament, as is the case with the Nerds):
** The Preppies have their own official dorm, the palatial Harrington House, befitting their status as the school's elite. Off school grounds, they've not only taken over the Glass Jaw Boxing Club in Old Bullworth Vale, but also have an opulent hideout in the abandoned lighthouse on the beach - complete with gaming consoles, Persian rugs and a ''bar''.

** The Nerds take the cake: they not only hang out at the library, have a secret clubhouse in the basement of the Dragon Wings comic book store in Bullworth Town, but have their own exclusive headquarters at the otherwise-abandoned school observatory - which they've transformed into a fortress. In order to get the Nerds on your side, you have to fight your way into the heavily-guarded observatory... and then defend the place when the Jocks try to storm the building.

* ExtendedGameplay: "Endless Summer." Bullworth is your sandbox. Get going.
* FaceHeelTurn: Gary Smith starts out as your friend but early on betrays you, although if you didn't see it coming you must have GenreBlindness.
* FallenPrincess: Mandy Wiles, after risqué photos are taken of her, blown up into posters and placed all over town.

* FatalFireworks: The firecrackers and firework launcher, which can be used to stun [=NPCs=] or knock them out completely. There's also the incredibly potent Volcano 4000 (arguably the rarest weapon in the game), which can draw in a crowd of people and then knock them down all at once.

* FauxActionGirl: Zoe Taylor is a mild example. Although according to dialogue, she enjoys and is very good at fighting, she's as weak as all the other girls in the game if she's actually provoked.

* FilleFatale: Lola Lombardi. She speaks in double entendres (bike races make her... ''excited''), and she uses her looks to get homework help from Nerds and money from Preppies.
* FireAlarmDistraction: Most of the buildings on campus have a fire alarm that Jimmy can pull, which causes any students and teachers inside to run for the exits. Sometimes it's necessary in order to complete certain tasks without being interrupted, but players can also do it for laughs. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Dropping marbles in front of the door of the boys' dorm and then pulling the fire alarm]] is a favorite trick of many players.

* FlushingEdgeInteractivity: The toilets and urinals can actually be used by Jimmy (though only to urinate), with a flush sound being heard should you choose to do so. You can also place firecrackers in the toilets. And if so inclined, you can drag another student over and give them a {{swirlie}}. All of this is purely optional, however.

* FutureLoser: Osbourne (one of the town bums) used to be the star quarterback for the football team. Now, he's a bum, and the cheerleader he married "couldn't wear her old cheerleading skirt as a garter."

** During "Complete Mayhem", the game will not allow you to leave campus, lest you receive a GameOver. However, there is indeed a way to leave the school: go to the side alley by the library and follow the path until you reach the mine shaft. From there, you'll be able to reach the asylum grounds without getting a Game Over, and from THAT point, you can enter the town. All of the rioting cliques that fight each other on the school grounds will now spawn anywhere in town (even within the shops), and apart from a few cars that drive by, the place will be completely deserted (however, cops will still spawn if you attack the citizens in the cars). Once you approach the school gates, the game will shut down.

** You can actually beat up as many students as you want and merely get detention. Heck, you can even do stuff like beat up ''the faculty'' ([[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking if you manage to do this]]) and run into a prefect with a lawnmower or hit him with a shovel and you won't get expelled, whereas Crabblesnitch would have ''more'' than enough reason to do so. This is a case of AcceptableBreaksFromReality because one could get expelled before [[spoiler:the story demands it]]. Plus, it's incredibly satisfying to give a prefect a swirlie and then watch as later in the day he appeared to have forgotten it. On a similar note, no matter how vicious or violent you are to the Bullworth citizens or the local police forces, the worst which can happen is a short trip to the police station.
** Mr. Hattrick and Mr. Burton are both fired during the course of the story (after completing a series of sidequests, and at the end of the main storyline, respectively), but, after that, they are still teaching their classes. This is probably to ensure that their classes and the related rewards aren't {{Permanently Missable|Content}} if you complete the quest before passing all the classes.
** Prefects yell at you if you aren't wearing the school's uniform. [[spoiler:They still do it near the end of the storyline, when Jimmy has been expelled and Crabblesnitch forbade him to wear the uniform. You can still wear it regardless without any consequence.]]
** Every adult you meet during in free roam mode is a jerkass to Jimmy. This includes the teachers who seem decent during their own classes or the missions involving them. Thankfully, after completing Final Showdown they will start responding nicely...as long as Jimmy wears the right clothing.
** When Jimmy is sent to Crabblesnitch's office after being busted, Jimmy's rule violations mentioned by Crabblesnitch are actually sentences randomly selected, which are picked without checking whether the player actually committed those specific offenses or not.

** The Jocks are on the [[JerkJock opposite end]] [[DumbMuscle of the spectrum]] and their tendencies are encouraged by Mr Burton. They tend to dress in sports gear and varsity jackets. They tend to hang around the gym.

* GayOption: Well, it doesn't really affect the overall storyline, but Jimmy can kiss one member of each clique if the player chooses to. And it's more like [=Bi Option=] anyway. Getting girlfriends is a mandatory part of the game. Boyfriends are strictly optional - unless you're playing the Xbox 360 version and want all the achievement points. Then you ''[[ButThouMust must]]'' kiss 20 boys for the achievement "Over the Rainbow."

** Eunice Pound, the morbidly obese girl with a thick husky voice, small vocabulary and elephantine legs, embodies this, especially since 90% of the girls at Bullworth are way, way above average in looks.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: While Jimmy has a couple cute nicks on his head Gary has the cliche scar through the eye. Chad (one of the Preppies) has a fencing scar on his cheek.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Derby Harrington's father. He doesn't appear in the game and is only mentioned in some lines of random dialogue, but he holds undue influence over the school and the principal and has quite a bit of responsibility for the general corruption and rottenness in Bullworth Academy.

** And in the mission "Character Sheets", Jimmy himself suffers a crotch kick. In fact, there's even a ''stat'' for times kicked in the nuts.

** Russell Northrop, the first clique leader that Jimmy faces in the game, becomes one of his most trusted allies after Jimmy convinces him to stop bullying innocent students.
** Edgar Munsen, the leader of the Townies, joins Jimmy and Russell on their mission to save the school after realizing that he was a pawn in Gary's plan.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Jimmy's final love interest is red-haired Townie girl Zoe Taylor.
* HippieTeacher: Miss Peters, the music teacher who only appears in the ''Scholarship Edition''. However, she turns into a SassyBlackWoman in the "Nutcrackin'" mission when Jimmy refuses to help her at first and she blackmails him by threatening to fail him.

* HomeworkSlave: It's been said multiple times in the game that the jocks have been strong-arming the Nerds into doing their homework for them. ''The Candidate'' also shows that Juri, a Russian jock, is actually illiterate because he couldn't read "Class President" despite speaking near-perfect English (a few grammar hiccups here and there, as well as not knowing the English phrase for "fire alarm").
-->'''Damon West''': Keep this up and I won't let you do my homework anymore!

** On one mission you can see bully, Trent Northwick, and jock, Kirby Olsen, holding hands in line at the movie theater.
** During the mission where Jimmy has to protect Earnest while he gives a speech, Earnest goes into unnecessary detail about how good-looking Ted Thompson is, with an odd, longing tone in his voice.
** And for the distaff counterpart, Lola and Mandy are a [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial little too insistent]] when it comes to how unattractive they find each other.

* HundredPercentCompletion: A load of achievements to achieve.

* IFoughtTheLawAndTheLawWon: You ''can'' defeat some authority figures (notably prefects), but attacking them maxes out your trouble meter, meaning that if they touch you, you're busted then and there. Edward will even tell Jimmy "You fought the law, and the law won!" when busting him.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Galloway says this if he is annoyed. Or exasperated. Or just whenever.

* InterfaceSpoiler: The yearbook. [[spoiler: One can infer that Zoe being in the yearbook before she's reinstated in the school can only mean that she'll become a student eventually.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Apart from a few exceptions, ''everybody''. The [[JerkJock Jocks]] are bullies who pick on anyone who isn't athletic enough. The Bullies are, obviously, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bullies]] who pick on anyone weaker than they are. The Greasers are violent delinquents who'll bully or attack anyone who crosses their path, enters their territory or just looks at them funny. The Preps are all stuck-up rich kids who think all other people are inferior to them simply because they have less money and aren't above telling them so. The Townies will insult and fight any Bullworth student and can be seen insulting or even fighting adults, which, in this game, is a major offense. The Townsfolk are pretty much grown-up Preps, and will treat you like shit simply for being underage. Even the NERDS, who are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain, act pretty rudely to anyone who isn't one of them and will happily bully anyone weak enough for them to get away with doing so. The most jerkass characters in the game, though, would have to be Gary Smith, Derby Harrington, Mr. Hattrick and Mr. Burton.

** Jimmy, totally. Edgar Munsen counts as this too. He helps Jimmy [[spoiler:quell the riot]] during the final mission despite the fact that he hates Bullworth and most of the students therein. Arguably, Dr. Crabblesnitch is one of these too.
** Each clique has one student who's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Tom of the Bullies is still in the Bullies clique because his friends are, but sort of wishes they weren't bullies. Parker of the Preppies has the instincts to be nice and generous, although his fellow Preps don't let him use them. Lucky of the Greasers is an advocate of finishing your education and learning a trade. Of the Jocks, Luis does fairly well in classes and Bo has a good relationship with his family. Even the [[UngratefulBastard Nerds]] have Bucky, who speaks fondly of his grandmother and is the one to give Jimmy the skateboard after rescuing him in the "Defend Bucky" mission.
* KarmaHoudini: The lack of reaction to Gary having the Townies (Gurney, in particular) burn down the gym and almost ''murder'' several jocks in broad daylight is incredibly jarring. [[AbortedArc The fire is never even mentioned again after the mission,]] [[UngratefulBastard the jocks continue to attack Jimmy on sight even after saving their lives,]] and while Gary eventually gets taken down (even if not specifically in retribution for the fire), Gurney simply flees the scene and doesn't get in any trouble for it whatsoever.
* KickTheDog: The Nerds do a bit of this during "Stronghold Assault." Algie taunts Petey for having no friends and being "weird" and calls you a useful idiot, and all throughout they deride Jimmy's intelligence.

** Seth Kolbe. Sure, his apparent only task is to endlessly run after jerkasses, bullies and future criminals around the school, but there's not a ''single'' line where he isn't yelling. ''"EEEVILDOER!"''
** During the end of mission "I run this clique now" speeches, Jimmy hams it up pretty good himself.

* LethalChef: Edna, whose hygiene, cooking, and cleanliness are all...somewhat lacking.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Each clique has their own theme that plays when they fight or chase Jimmy. The Bullies have a breakbeat techno theme, Preps have a jazz-organ New Wave theme, the Greasers naturally have a 50's rock n roll rumble theme, Nerds have an 8-bit techno theme, Jock's have an almost jock jam techno theme similar to the Bullies, and Townies have a hard edged surfer rock theme. Even Non-Clique kids get a variant on the standard theme when in fights.

** The game on the whole is this compared to Rockstar's other high-profile releases before it, ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'' and the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series. A T rated game with no blood, no guns (unless you count the potato cannon), and no killing.

* MailboxBaseball: Clint (aka Henry) assigns protagonist Jimmy Hopkins a mission to ride his bike around the rich part of town and smash up mailboxes with a baseball bat.

* MallSanta: During the Christmas missions, you help Rudy (a drunken bum dressed as Santa Claus) sabotage a mall Santa that sets up in front of the town hall. Then you help him make his own "workshop" and take pictures with children for profit.

* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: When Mr. Burton asks Jimmy to go on a panty raid that's very... "discreet", Jimmy replies, "Discretion is my middle name, sir."

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Lola Lombardi's appearance was based on actress Molly Ringwald in the '80s.[[note]]Think ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''.[[/note]]
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Jimmy shares a lot of similarities to [[UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar Julius Caesar]];
** Both were bald men who rose to power without parental influence (Jimmy's dad is no longer in the picture, while Caesar's dad was never consul so Caesar had no inherited excellence). Both Caesar and Jimmy joined 2 other allies and formed The Triumvirate so they could build nobility and rise to power. Before rising to power, both the Roman Republic and Bullworth academy were plagued by a ruling body who were divisive and eventually factional, causing multiple civil wars. In bullworth, there are 5 cliques who are at each other's throats and fights are a common sight.

*** Like Gary, Pompeius acted from the sidelines and renounced the protagonist's leadership during a campaign. Gary used the Townies to create dissonance between Jimmy and the other cliques while Jimmy was away tagging the town hall. Meanwhile, Pompeius resinded Caesar's governorship while the latter was away from Rome.

* NoodleIncident: One takes place during the game. It's never actually mentioned ''what'' Johnny Vincent did to get committed. From what you're told of Johnny, it would be more likely he'd get arrested instead. Jimmy doesn't seem to care even though he does get him out.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Said by the nerd Melvin O'Connor if you beat him up.

** Juri's Russian accent subtly slips into an American one during "The Gym is Burning".
** A strange instance occurs when the Chinese shopkeeper at Yum Yum Market speaks with an American accent during "Tad's House", despite having a generic Chinese accent whenever you enter the shop.

* ParentalAbandonment: Jimmy's mother and stepfather are guilty of this. They fit the negative stereotype of parents with kids in boarding schools, since they dump him at Bullworth so they can go off on a year-long honeymoon.

** Parker Ogilvie seems to have a genuinely good nature beneath his preppy upbringing.
** Bo Jackson and Luis Luna, both jocks, do relatively well in classes.
** Norton Williams the Greaser has a pronounced sensitive side.
** The entire Townie clique during the final mission aid Jimmy in restoring order to the school, despite their hate of Bullworth and their students.

** Downplayed. Lola Lombardi is a promiscuous character who seduces boys for personal gain and to get a reaction from her hot-headed boyfriend, Johnny. Her character design consists of a pink crop top under her leather jacket or a pink sweater during the Greaser chapter.

* ProactiveBoss: Before fighting Gary, Jimmy Hopkins is forced to give chase up to the roof of Bullworth Academy. All the while, Gary throws bricks at him when crossing thin scaffolding, and tries to tip carts filled with cinderblocks on top of him when he climbs up ladders.

* RecurringRiff: The melody in the Nerd's {{Leitmotif}} gets reused and restructured in a number of the mission tracks, notably "Defend Bucky", "Defender of the Castle" as well as the Jock's boss theme, "The Big Game".
* RevengeIsNotJustice: ZigZagged, chapter 4, ''A Healthy Mind In a Healthy Body, and Other Lies'', has Jimmy enlist the Nerds in his fight against the jocks because they have been bullying everyone since the start of the game and the Nerds want revenge as well for being bullied by them. In their revenge plot, Earnest makes Jimmy take illicit photos of Mandy, the head cheerleader and a bully herself, in order to rile up the Jocks (in actuality, Earnest was just being a creep and wanted those photos for himself). The nerds are attacked later on by the jocks for what happened. Jimmy then meets a distressed Mandy, who tells him that the photos have been printed all over town and she's feels humiliated and dreading the reaction from her parents. In an inversion of the trope, Mandy accepts that she's been a terrible person and says she deserves it, while Jimmy volunteers to take the posters down after internally realizing that he and the Nerds have taken their revenge too far since they've effectively ruined her life and caused life long trauma. Since then, Mandy has been attracted to Jimmy and she becomes a lot nicer.
* RewardingVandalism: Several missions involve smashing things, but the mission "Smash It Up" might as well be the TropeCodifier.

* SarcasmBlind: The drunken Santa, who takes Jimmy's sarcasm at face-value. Every other character just brushes it off when Jimmy starts snarkin'.
* SassyBlackWoman: Miss Peters, the music teacher. Though she first appears as a HippieTeacher, she turns into this in the "Nutcrackin'" mission when Jimmy refuses to help her at first and she blackmails him by threatening to fail him.
* SchoolNurse: Bullworth Academy has Mrs. [=McRae=]. She hates kids, is a fatalist, and chain-smokes.

* {{Sexophone}}: In missions that finish with Jimmy getting a kiss from a girl, a quick saxophone melody plays.
** The mission "Carnival Date" has one that plays when you're about to kiss Eunice.

** Provoking Ray Hughes causes him to say "[[Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} shkt! Lets go, bub!]]". ("shkt" being the sound effect of adamantium claws unsheathing[[note]]Okay, technically it should be "snikt!", but [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope Marvel owns the onomatopoeia]][[/note]])

** Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus: In the ''Scholarship Edition'', Music 4 requires you to play Sousa's Liberty Bell March, which is also the show's theme song, albeit slowed down.
*** Also, Music 2 requires you to play a slowed-down, off-key rendition of Mouret's "Fanfare-Rondeau", used as a theme song for the TV series ''Series/{{Masterpiece}}''.

** The smaller of the two black Jocks is named Bo Jackson. If that's not a ShoutOut, then it's a huge coincidence.

** Compare Jimmy's default look to Creator/{{B|ruceWillis}}utch in ''Film/PulpFiction'': shaved head, short and stocky build, unzipped tan jacket, white t-shirt with no logo and heavily faded blue jeans. Maybe it's no coincidence that Jimmy fights like a pro boxer after getting training from the hobo.
** In the ''Character Sheets'' mission, one of the bullies says "[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark I'll kick you in the nuts, then you kick me in the nuts and the first one to fall loses.]]"

** The ExtendedGameplay of the game, once the player has finished the main storyline, is called "Endless Summer," which is literally true since it takes place during summer vacation and has no end. It's also a reference to the [[Film/TheEndlessSummer surf documentary]] and famous GreatestHitsAlbum by Music/TheBeachBoys, both of which share the same name.
* ShowerScene: Mandy in the "Paparazzi" mission. Since this is a T rated game, we see nothing. There's a scene in one of the video trailers that's a close-up of Mandy's legs while she's wearing the towel, which was cut from the final version of the game.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Gordon Wakefield, who's convinced he's a brilliant intellect, a ladies man, and a lethal fighter, when in fact he's none of the above:

* SmugSnake: Gary Smith is the 'bastard whose supposed magnificence is really the rest of the cast grabbing {{Idiot Ball}}s' version. Derby Harrington is the "good" version.

* SocialClimber: Deconstructed, [[spoiler: Jimmy spends the entire game building relationships with each clique until he decides to just to beat them into submission. By the 5th chapter, all the cliques are on Jimmy's side until he vandalises the town hall because Gary stirred up trouble and they all blame Jimmy.]]
* SoundtrackDissonance: During "Movie Tickets", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO21zvSzq5o this smooth, jazzy saxophone song]] plays as you are about to kiss Eunice, the ugly girl of the school.

* SpoiledBrat: Many of the Preppies. Pinky is the most well-known (see quote below), but other Preppies qualify. Chad threatens that his father will sue if someone hits him too hard, Parker expresses disbelief that Gord's father would actually make him work...

* StealthBasedMission: Two of them. In "Panty Raid", you have to sneak into the girls' dorm and steal five pieces of dirty laundry (specifically panties, hence the name) for Mr. Burton. If Mrs. Peabody spots you, she'll kick you out. "Finding Johnny Vincent" has you sneaking into Happy Volts Asylum to rescue Johnny. You have to carefully sneak past the orderlies, or else they'll catch you and knock you out with a tranquilizer.
* StepfordSuburbia: While Bullworth appears to be a normal urban community, it's practically a [[CrapsackWorld hell hole]] according to some of its denizens. Later it's confirmed that they're not so wrong as Jimmy and the player almost instantaneously find out or better yet realize.

* {{Stripperific}}: Zoe's townie outfit, by school standards. Her original character design by ''any'' standards.

* SweetPollyOliver: Karen Johnson claims she disguised herself as a boy once so she could play sports.

* TakeThatCritics: In a rather mild example, minor character Ray Hughes says "They say kids imitate characters in video games. But I have yet to become a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros mustached plumber]]!"

* TeensAreShort: The adults in this game are '''massive''' compared to most of the characters.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In the mission "Wrong Part of Town", Jimmy, Chad (a Preppie), and Algie (a Nerd) team up to escape the Greasers in a bike chase.

* [[ThrivingGhostTown Thriving Ghost School]]: Bullworth Academy has 61 students (65 if you count the prefects) when realistically a campus that size could support more. And only 11 of them are female. Bullworth also apparently has a monopoly on education in town since you don't see any other schools. No ''wonder'' the Townies hate Bullworth so much!

* TokenBlackFriend: The original concept for the character that would become Pete Kowalski was black.

** Each clique has one girl and one black student (the Jocks being an exception, as they have two black students, and the non-cliques have three black students and six girls, seven with [[spoiler:Zoe]])
** In addition, in every clique outside of non-clique students, one student will always be bisexual; The Bullies have Trent, the Preps have Gord, the Greasers have Vance, the Nerds have Cornelius, the Jocks have Kirby, and the Townies have Duncan.
** Many characters have ambiguous ethnic backgrounds; Angie is implied to be east Asian (while both of the Yum Yum Market owners are obviously Chinese), Pedro, Luis and Edgar are implied to be Hispanic, and the Greasers bar two members are very likely Italian due to their surnames.

* TrophyRoom: Jimmy's room gains a memento from pretty much every mission, side mission, collection quest, class mini-game and race he completes. By the end his bedroom is filled to the brim with the trophies of all his accomplishments. He can even buy stuff like posters too.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The side mission "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 goods back.

** Note that if you get caught too many times (or for too serious an offense), you must play a "Detention" minigame until you get it right. Each time you do so, it gets harder. Completing all of the detention services is the only way to unlock the prison uniform outfit.
** Fun little game: Pull out your potato gun. If you aren't in town, go there. Wait in the middle of the street. Now when a car stops, jump on the hood. When the person driving it comes out, nail them in the face as much as needed to get them down. Now you cannot be one-shotted by police when they come to get you. As long as you have health, they throw bricks, you can stay up there the entire time and just shoot anybody with your toys. It appear to be a GoodBadBug. You can jump on school receptionist's desk and you will still be ungrabbable.
** If the player unlocks the Rubberband Ball, by collecting all the rubberbands, they can use it against anyone.

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment:
** Feel free to fight among your own age group all you like... but hit girls, little kids, adults, or prefects, and the game will immediately turn your [[WantedMeter wanted bar]] full red, meaning if a cop, prefect or teacher so much as touches you, you're busted immediately, do not pass go. What's more, hitting girls, little kids, and adults will cause prefects or police to ''spawn'' near you and charge immediately.
** Extremely rare for this type of game, this punishment holds true for ''everyone'', not just you - If an enemy accidentally hits an adult, little kid, or prefect, The Law will spawn nearby and go after them. The lone exceptions are scripted interactions, such as a bully taking a little kid's textbook and hitting them with it.

** Russell Northrop, Juri Karamazov, and Luis Luna all use pro wrestling moves when they fight.

* WrongSideOfTheTracks: The City of Bullworth has two districts, New Coventry and Blue Skies Industrial Park, that are on the wrong side of the tracks both literally and figuratively - New Coventry is separated from the more upscale districts of Downtown and Old Bullworth Vale by a railroad overpass. The Greasers and Townies are respectively from New Coventry and Blue Skies.

** In individual missions, some characters may appear multiple times with others not at all. A mission early in the game, for example, has Troy Miller appear three different times and Davis White appear twice, while Ethan Robinson, Tom Gurney and Wade Martin don't appear at all.