Tropescilloscope: The Bully

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

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