Tropescilloscope: The Bully

That kid at school who always picks on you. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes NO INDOOR VOICE Bullying a Dragon Awesome, but Impractical Dark and Troubled Past Due to the Dead Mexican Standoff Stealth Pun Deliberate Values Dissonance Comically Missing the Point Agony of the Feet Anguished Declaration of Love Distracted by the Sexy Blatant Lies Unreliable Narrator Amusing Injuries Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy I Have Your Wife Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Stoic Author Appeal Ambiguously Gay Card-Carrying Villain Fat Bastard Police Brutality Expy Bavarian Fire Drill Developing Doomed Characters Older Than They Look The Dog Bites Back Russian Films Did Not Get the Girl You Killed My Father The Cameo Dark Reprise Fanservice Framing Device Abusive Parents Pragmatic Villainy Air-Vent Passageway Eiffel Tower Effect Improbable Aiming Skills Ascended Extra Anti-Villain Chekhov's Gunman The Place Pretty Little Headshots Never Trust a Trailer Badass Bookworm Insane Troll Logic From Bad to Worse Hope Spot Costume Porn Posthumous Character Brainless Beauty One-Man Army He Who Fights Monsters Make It Look Like an Accident Sci-Fi Horror Ironic Echo Aside Glance Big Damn Heroes Fainting Manly Tears Scenery Porn Evil Plan Beauty Is Never Tarnished Hollywood Darkness Missing Mom Cruel and Unusual Death Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Death by Adaptation Cool Old Lady Big "NO!" Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dirty Cop Meet Cute Redshirt Army Book-Ends Works Set in World War II Left the Background Music On No Celebrities Were Harmed Only Known by Their Nickname Rule of Cool Hollywood Law The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite "Shaggy Dog" Story What the Hell, Hero? Police are Useless Brutal Honesty Kick the Dog Creative Closing Credits The '50s Happily Married Biopic Cool Old Guy The Musical Took a Level in Badass Jerk with a Heart of Gold Running Gag Random Events Plot Character Development Film Noir Pay Evil unto Evil Big Bad Duumvirate Mind Screw Affectionate Parody Take That! "Awesome McCool" Name Plot Hole Does Not Like Shoes Danny Peary Cult Movies List Same Language Dub Spiritual Successor folderlabel Hypocritical Humor Death Seeker Shower Scene Decoy Protagonist Neck Lift Groin Attack Canon Foreigner The Chessmaster From Nobody to Nightmare Shut Up, Hannibal! Knight Templar Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Final Girl He Knows Too Much Say My Name Throwing Your Sword Always Works Not So Above It All Bring My Brown Pants Pyrrhic Victory Vacation Films The Ghost Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Vamp Retcon Faking the Dead Belligerent Sexual Tension The Big Guy Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Artistic License – Physics Psychopathic Manchild Honor Before Reason Shout-Out Superhero Rewatch Bonus This Is Gonna Suck Central Theme Getting Crap Past the Radar I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Those Two Guys Dumb Blonde Dirty Old Man Kick the Son of a Bitch timeperiod Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Genre Shift Kill 'em All Take a Third Option Mythology Gag Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Big Applesauce What Happened to the Mouse? For the Evulz Affably Evil Beware the Nice Ones You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! German Films Yandere Not So Different Creator Cameo Pet the Dog Silence Is Golden All There in the Manual Action Prologue Noodle Incident Line-of-Sight Name Freudian Excuse Kubrick Stare Music Stories Big Brother Instinct Overly Long Gag Kids Are Cruel Corpsing Slasher Smile Deus ex Machina Bond Villain Stupidity Idiot Ball Sexy Discretion Shot Sequel Hook Grey and Gray Morality And Starring Extremely Short Timespan Blood from the Mouth Genre Savvy Extreme Doormat Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Beta Couple It's Personal Here We Go Again! Animated Credits Opening Bare Your Midriff Department of Redundancy Department Five-Man Band The Brute Mistaken for Gay Chiaroscuro Darkest Hour Shirtless Scene Camera Abuse Gender Flip Whole Plot Reference Epic Movie Artistic License – Biology Friend to All Children Drives Like Crazy Alas, Poor Villain Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Obviously Evil As Himself Driven to Suicide Trailers Always Spoil Grievous Bottley Harm Black and Gray Morality Cat Scare Double-Meaning Title An Arm and a Leg The Ace Artistic License – History Heroes Want Redheads Intergenerational Friendship O.O.C. Is Serious Business Bittersweet Ending The '60s Dogged Nice Guy Took a Level in Jerkass Punny Name Fake Shemp Your Cheating Heart Even Evil Has Loved Ones There Is No Kill Like Overkill Arranged Marriage Flipping the Bird Leave the Camera Running Villain Ball Fingore Daylight Horror Betty and Veronica Determinator Captain Obvious Hypocrite Henpecked Husband Punch-Clock Villain Names to Run Away from Really Fast Victoria's Secret Compartment Your Head A-Splode Bar Brawl Offscreen Moment of Awesome Darker and Edgier Not Even Bothering with the Accent Put on a Bus Market-Based Title In Name Only The Voiceless Karmic Death Shipper on Deck Product Placement Up to Eleven Daddy's Girl Really Gets Around Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Sacrificial Lion Boom, Headshot! Film Noir Index Not Quite Dead Woman in White Race Lift Meaningful Background Event Chewing the Scenery Homage Time Skip Ungrateful Bastard Manic Pixie Dream Girl Revenge Fire-Forged Friends Parental Incest Ship Tease Star-Crossed Lovers Artistic License – Geography Bottomless Magazines Well-Intentioned Extremist All for Nothing Fatal Flaw Suspiciously Similar Substitute Eye Scream Eyepatch of Power Historical In-Joke Insistent Terminology Man on Fire Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Credits Gag A Date with Rosie Palms Rule of Funny Nice Hat Celebrity Paradox Adaptation Expansion Off with His Head! Evil Brit The Reveal Earn Your Happy Ending Serious Business Laser-Guided Karma Bait-and-Switch World of Ham Monumental Damage Guile Hero Dirty Coward Guns Akimbo Frame-Up Not What It Looks Like Foreshadowing Storming the Castle Gainax Ending A.I. Is a Crapshoot Chekhov's Gun Closed Circle Smoking Is Cool N-Word Privileges Genre Throwback Early-Bird Cameo Men Are the Expendable Gender Together in Death Domestic Abuse Fun with Acronyms Retired Badass Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Major Injury Underreaction Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Cool Shades Married to the Job Butt-Monkey Curb-Stomp Battle After the End Spanner in the Works Black Dude Dies First Love at First Sight Reasonable Authority Figure Big Fancy House Redemption Equals Death Historical-Domain Character The Ditz The '70s No-Sell Eagleland Soft Glass Corrupt Corporate Executive Tranquil Fury Love Triangle Reckless Gun Usage Adaptational Attractiveness Arch-Enemy Accidental Murder Super Strength Casting Gag Enemy Mine Deadpan Snarker Badass Grandpa The Atoner Everyone Has Standards Bad "Bad Acting" Retirony Wretched Hive Amoral Attorney Unspoken Plan Guarantee Creepy Child Ominous Latin Chanting Berserk Button Rich Bitch Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Disproportionate Retribution Epic Fail Romantic False Lead Hero of Another Story Historical Hero Upgrade Black Comedy Rape Suspiciously Specific Denial Dwindling Party Auto Erotica The Bully Action Girl The Smurfette Principle Parental Neglect Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Mooks Recycled IN SPACE! Mugging the Monster Dark Is Not Evil She's Got Legs Hidden Depths Deal with the Devil Cold-Blooded Torture Reality Is Unrealistic Instant Death Bullet Break the Haughty Adorkable The Faceless Contrived Coincidence The Bad Guy Wins Mercy Kill Sports Stories Gone Horribly Right Captain Ersatz Double Entendre Reality Has No Subtitles Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience All There in the Script Bound and Gagged Shell-Shocked Veteran Despair Event Horizon Authority Equals Asskicking Big Bad The Oner Flashback Only Sane Man Leaning on the Fourth Wall Wounded Gazelle Gambit Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Disappeared Dad Parental Abandonment Disguised in Drag Horror Comedy Toplessness from the Back The End... Or Is It? Greater-Scope Villain In Medias Res Death Glare Knife Nut Room Full of Crazy Moment Killer Spell My Name with an "S" Spiteful Spit Not Using the "Z" Word Training Montage As You Know Hero Antagonist Tempting Fate Jerkass Has a Point Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Stalker with a Crush Good Is Not Nice Suddenly SHOUTING! Dark Action Girl Evil Is Petty Totally Radical Animal Title Index Anti-Hero Broken Aesop Wicked Cultured Bury Your Gays Bland-Name Product Taking You with Me Malevolent Masked Men Demoted to Extra Logo Joke Wham Line Rule of Symbolism Exact Words '80s Hair Foregone Conclusion Bolivian Army Ending Historical Villain Upgrade Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Power of Love Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Cain and Abel A Father to His Men Adaptational Badass Age Lift Evil Counterpart Green-Eyed Monster Thriller Diabolus ex Machina La Résistance Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Parental Substitute Alliterative Name Slasher Movie Title Drop Male Frontal Nudity Horror Films Setting Update Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other All Just a Dream Dramatic Irony Black Comedy Mad Scientist Catapult Nightmare Expository Hairstyle Change Drill Sergeant Nasty Gilligan Cut Unwitting Instigator of Doom Broken Bird No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Villain Protagonist Bi the Way The Load Fate Worse than Death The Un-Reveal Wrong Genre Savvy Would Hit a Girl Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Obfuscating Stupidity Pretty in Mink Call-Back My Greatest Failure Every Car Is a Pinto Madness Mantra Almost Kiss Defiant to the End Camp Gay War Is Hell Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Soundtrack Dissonance Outrun the Fireball Italian Films Implacable Man Villainous Breakdown The Remake Funny Background Event Jerk Jock Hong Kong Films Blood Knight Armor-Piercing Question Coming-of-Age Story Fanservice Extra Eldritch Abomination Meaningful Name Combat Pragmatist Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Blackmail French Films Actually Pretty Funny Brick Joke Babies Ever After Kill It with Fire Adult Fear Mr. Fanservice Cowboy Cop The Dreaded Wham Shot Annoying Younger Sibling The Hero Batman Gambit Empathic Environment One Steve Limit Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Chick Novelization Rousing Speech All Men Are Perverts The Alcoholic Needs Wiki Magic Love Cool Guns Advertised Extra Early Installment Weirdness Woman Scorned Demonic Possession Damsel in Distress Leitmotif Improbable Weapon User Establishing Character Moment Evil-Detecting Dog The Sociopath Easily Forgiven Zombie Stories Adapted Out The Cavalry Motor Mouth She Cleans Up Nicely And I Must Scream Fiery Redhead Plucky Comic Relief Action Survivor Overprotective Dad Precision F-Strike Better to Die than Be Killed Too Dumb to Live Becoming the Mask Beard of Evil Rape as Drama Back from the Dead Humans Are Bastards Last-Name Basis Drugs Are Bad Shown Their Work Destination Defenestration Manipulative Bastard Alpha Bitch I'm a Humanitarian Determinator aka: The Determinator Politically Incorrect Villain Unusual Euphemism Informed Ability Narrator Artistic License – Gun Safety Rasputinian Death The Film of the Book One-Word Title Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Faux Affably Evil Jerkass Broken Pedestal Scare Chord Martial Arts Movie Disney Villain Death Ax-Crazy Refuge in Audacity Important Haircut Hair-Trigger Temper Bowdlerise Self-Deprecation My Beloved Smother Military and Warfare Films I Need a Freaking Drink Mood Whiplash All Girls Want Bad Boys Cat Fight Worthy Opponent Children Are Innocent Hoist by His Own Petard Token Minority Re-Cut Crazy Jealous Guy Manchild Heroic Sacrifice Depraved Bisexual Dressing as the Enemy Stylistic Suck Race Against the Clock Get Out! Villain Song Only a Flesh Wound Oh, Crap! Dissonant Serenity It's All About Me For Want of a Nail Science Fiction Films No Name Given Male Gaze Fourth Date Marriage Chase Scene Arc Words Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Public Domain Feature Films Rated M for Manly Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Bilingual Bonus Big Eater Psychological Thriller Peek-a-Boo Corpse Shoot the Shaggy Dog It Will Never Catch On Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Failed a Spot Check Deliberately Monochrome Adaptation Name Change Award-Bait Song Intrepid Reporter Break the Cutie A Minor Kidroduction BFG Fan Disservice Drowning My Sorrows Car Fu Killed Mid-Sentence Cluster F-Bomb Femme Fatale Mama Bear Have a Gay Old Time Loads and Loads of Characters The X of Y Red Oni, Blue Oni I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Heterosexual Life-Partners Red Eyes, Take Warning Bunny-Ears Lawyer Hell Is That Noise Sequel Escalation Index of Film Westerns Would Hurt a Child Match Cut Vampire Fiction Funny Foreigner Jump Scare Never Found the Body Television Movie Index Dying Moment of Awesome Japanese Films Laughing Mad Gratuitous English Even Evil Has Standards Gorn Reality Ensues Offscreen Teleportation Apocalypse How Bloody Hilarious Black Best Friend Twist Ending Scary Black Man Death by Sex Sadistic Choice An Aesop Morality Pet Serial Killer Continuity Nod Actor Allusion Stealth Hi/Bye Non-Indicative Name 20 Minutes into the Future Antagonist Title No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Lighter and Softer Composite Character Handicapped Badass Jitter Cam Vitriolic Best Buds Crazy-Prepared Adults Are Useless Made of Iron Badass in a Nice Suit Real Life Writes the Plot Lampshade Hanging Covers Always Lie Never My Fault Slap-Slap-Kiss Author Avatar Canadian Movies Interrupted Suicide Slashed Throat Those Two Bad Guys Australian Movies Paper-Thin Disguise Spared by the Adaptation Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Romantic Comedy Gory Discretion Shot Tap on the Head Mr. Exposition As the Good Book Says... Riddle for the Ages Word of God Ms. Fanservice Sir Swears-a-Lot Gold Digger Truth in Television And the Adventure Continues The Hero Dies Villain with Good Publicity Properly Paranoid MacGuffin The Lost Lenore Asshole Victim Ass Shove Face Death with Dignity Cassandra Truth Crucified Hero Shot More Dakka Imagine Spot Karma Houdini Bald of Evil Pre-Mortem One-Liner Red Shirt The Stinger Calling the Old Man Out Nothing Is Scarier The '80s How We Got Here Small Name, Big Ego You Have Failed Me Badass Normal Aluminum Christmas Trees Roaring Rampage of Revenge Fantastic Racism Exactly What It Says on the Tin Heel–Face Turn B-Movie Hate Sink Badass Boast Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Loophole Abuse Didn't Think This Through Ambiguous Ending Unresolved Sexual Tension Conspicuous CG Bloodier and Gorier Facial Horror Evil Laugh Anachronic Order Freeze-Frame Bonus Does This Remind You of Anything? Dull Surprise Crapsack World An Axe to Grind Dramedy Heroic BSoD Ripped from the Headlines Large Ham Sealed Evil in a Can Fish out of Water Girl-on-Girl Is Hot I Did What I Had to Do Catch-Phrase Psycho for Hire Based on a True Story Sinister Minister Improvised Weapon Body Horror Chekhov's Skill Disney Death May–December Romance Meaningful Echo Obstructive Bureaucrat Mundane Made Awesome Adaptational Heroism Foil Naked People Are Funny Playing Gertrude The Dragon Stuff Blowing Up Be Careful What You Wish For The Mafia Protagonist Title Tagline Translation Convention Stock Footage The Casanova A God Am I Only in It for the Money Only One Name Once More, with Clarity! Mighty Whitey Scenery Gorn Not So Stoic Bond One-Liner Poor Communication Kills Immune to Bullets It Can Think Dramatic Gun Cock What You Are in the Dark Eureka Moment Heel Realization Adaptational Villainy "The Reason You Suck" Speech British Films Cool Car Evil vs. Evil Abhorrent Admirer Lock and Load Montage Cloudcuckoolander Documentary Show Within a Show No OSHA Compliance Those Wacky Nazis Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Mole Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Adaptation Distillation Action Genre Vomit Indiscretion Shot Real Life Artistic License – Military Dies Wide Open Unusually Uninteresting Sight Naïve Newcomer Call-Forward As Long as It Sounds Foreign Let's Get Dangerous! The Alleged Car Adaptation Dye-Job Breaking the Fourth Wall The Starscream Evil Is Hammy The Lancer Neck Snap My God, What Have I Done? Bloodless Carnage Straight Gay The Smart Guy The Stoner Maybe Ever After Anachronism Stew Insult Backfire Face–Heel Turn Made of Explodium Hooker with a Heart of Gold Pimped-Out Dress Dual Wielding The '90s Rule of Three Fantasy Films Badass Longcoat Dutch Angle Big-Bad Ensemble Silent Movie Death of a Child Sassy Black Woman You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Sanity Slippage Taking the Bullet Humiliation Conga Villain Opening Scene Red Right Hand Film Series Accidental Misnaming Irony Evil Sounds Deep Half the Man He Used to Be In the Back Visual Pun Our Zombies Are Different Sole Survivor The Great Depression Video Credits Undying Loyalty Light Is Not Good Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Brother–Sister Incest No Antagonist Stepford Smiler Animal Motifs Red Herring Pragmatic Adaptation Smug Snake Four-Temperament Ensemble Artistic License – Law Death by Irony Attempted Rape Nice Guy Defrosting Ice Queen Deconstruction Anyone Can Die Dropped a Bridge on Him Country Matters Our Vampires Are Different Ambiguous Disorder "Well Done, Son!" Guy Fatal Family Photo The Quiet One Bad Boss Curse Cut Short Famous Last Words True Companions Ghost Fiction Papa Wolf "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue No Ending Very Loosely Based on a True Story Vomit Discretion Shot Mystery and Detective Films Skewed Priorities Christmas Movies Index Downer Ending