Basic Trope: Somebody intentionally mistreats a disabled person.
- Straight: Jack bullies Danny, an autistic boy with Speech Impediment, by mocking his stims and his speech patterns.
- Exaggerated:
- Jack does many horrible things to Danny on a regular basis, such as intentionally slamming doors/yelling just to watch him jump at the loud noise, physically attacking him, calling him ableist slurs, and pissing on his belongings.
- Jack wants to eliminate all autistic people, everywhere.
- Everyone mistreats Danny just because he has a disability.
- Jack and his Gang of Bullies team up and torment the entire special education class, and when that's done might even go around and bully everyone they see with a disability.
- Danny is right-handed who lost only his left hand from some accident, and when Jack knows about this accident, he kills Danny for being too disabled.
- Downplayed:
- Jack regularly uses ableist slurs in conversation, but doesn't necessarily bully disabled people directly.
- Jack bullies Danny but it's showcased that he Hates Everyone Equally and, if anything, Danny would get it worse if not for his disability.
- Jack doesn't attack Danny directly, but he and his Gang of Bullies rather treat him as All of the Other Reindeer.
- Justified: Jack is a really awful person.
- Inverted:
- Jack treats Danny nicely, aware that he's disabled.
- Danny, who is disabled, treats Jack horribly for being non-disabled.
- Subverted: Jack seems to be mocking Danny, but it's revealed that he was being Innocently Insensitive and had no clue that Danny was even disabled.
- Double Subverted: He was lying.
- Parodied: Jack sees bullying Danny as actually being inclusive - he doesn't treats him any more or less awful that he would treat any other kid. He even goes out of his way to accommodate Danny's disability such as binding his legs together so he won't have a mobility advantage in that fight challenge he just gave Danny.
- Zig-Zagged: Jack bullies Danny - who is a paraplegic - by calling him slurs, but he refuses to bully Abigail - who is deaf - because he was responsible for the accident that deafened her, and he's Vitriolic Best Buds with Chester - who is quadraplegic - and the only person who has N-Word Privileges, but he definitely doesn't has such privileges with Edgar - who has Down's Syndrome - and he is very violent with his bullying.
- Averted: Nobody ever bullies disabled people.
- Enforced:
- "We need to show that Jack has crossed the Moral Event Horizon - let's show him being a complete dick to a disabled person for no other reason."
- Rule of Drama in a show about disability.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: "That kid looks stupid! Go pick on him!"
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Jack believes that intentionally bullying a disabled person is too mean, even for him.
- Danny fights back against Jack.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Let's go back to Bullying the Disabled and tell that guy to leave the kid in a wheelchair alone.
