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[[File:bullyjh.jpg|frame|Jimmy Hopkins is happy to see you.]]
{{quote|"''So here I am, at probably the worst school in the country, whose alumni are nothing but [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|arms dealers]], serial killers, and [[Acceptable Professional Targets|corporate lawyers]]. Real scum. And that old creep thinks he can tame me? We shall see, my friend. I only give people what they have coming to them.''"
|'''Jimmy Hopkins'''}}
'''''Bully''''' is
Jimmy Hopkins, a 15 year old boy with a troubled past and a face like a dog who's just been kicked, is left at Bullworth Academy while his mom (on her 5th marriage) and new stepdad are gone on a year long honeymoon cruise. Expelled repeatedly, Bullworth is pretty much his last stop before Juvenile Hall, and he can't afford to get in trouble again. Unfortunately, trouble finds him the second he steps inside the school gates, when three bullies attack him.
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* [[BFG]]: The Potato Gun. Probably the closest you're going to get in a T rated game about going to school.
* [[Black and Nerdy]]: Cornelius Johnson.
* [[Black and White Morality]]: Play the game a few times and be surprised at how morally ambiguous it ''isn't''. Although Jimmy's a great example of [[Good Is Not Nice]], there's really no question about who the good guys and bad guys are. Though Russell does become a good guy after being a bad guy.
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: 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 [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)|if the sexes were reversed...]]
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Derby Harrington.
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** Also, the ''entire game'' was renamed to ''Canis Canem Edit''- [[Gratuitous Latin]] for ''Dog Eat Dog''- for the initial release in the PAL regions.
* [[British Education System]]: A major influence, particularly in the use of the Prefects and Head Boy.
* [[The Bully]]: An entire clique of them. Although really, ''every single clique'' in the school counts. Even the Nerds pick on Non-Clique kids who happen to wander by the Library, though they’re never portrayed as being as bad as the other cliques. (Jimmy does form an alliance with Earnest, after all.)
* [[Bully Hunter]]: Jimmy is practically the trope codifier.
* [[Burger Fool]]: Jimmy gets a job where he has to dress up in an awful yellow and red uniform with a hat shaped like a box of fries and deliver burgers.
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** Although all the cliques accept Jimmy to varying degrees after he beats their clique leaders, Russell fully becomes Jimmy's friend after they fight.
** Spoofed regarding the Nerds. Jimmy wants their help to take on the Jocks, but they want nothing to do with him. He's forced to beat them up and invade their observatory, and when their leader Ernest finds his offer of friendship questionable (since he just beat him up), Jimmy snaps "We're buddies!".
* [[Deliberately Bad Example]]: Gary Smith is what Jimmy would be if he chose not to care about anyone but himself.
* [[The 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.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]:
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* [[Enemy-Detecting Radar]]: Jimmy has one that rivals [[Metal Gear Solid|Solid Snake's]]. No explanation, just for ease of gameplay.
* [[Evil Teacher]]: Both [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Mr. Burton]], the gym teacher and Mr. Hattrick qualify.
* [[Expy]]: Jimmy looks an awful lot like a younger version of James Earl Cash from ''[[Manhunt]]'', another Rockstar game, and even has the same first name. He doesn’t resort to Murder though.
* [[Extended Gameplay]]: "Endless Summer". Bullworth is your sandbox. Get going.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Gary Smith starts out as your friend but early on betrays you, although if you didn't see it coming, you must be [[Genre Blind]].
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* [[Faux Action Girl]]: 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. It has been shown that she is a strong girl though based on how much property she manages to destroy over the course of her date with Jimmy.
* [[Fille Fatale]]: 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.
* [[Fired Teacher]]: Mr. Burton and Mr. Hattrick at the end. And yes, they deserved it.
* [[Foil]]: Gary, Pete, and Jimmy all serve as foils to each other. Jimmy and Pete turn out to have a lot in common, however. As for Jimmy and Gary…it turned out they weren’t so alike after all.
* [[Five-Man Band]]: [[The Hero|Jimmy]] and his allies ([[The Smart Guy|Petey]], [[The Big Guy|Russell]], [[The Chick|Zoe]] and [[The Lancer|Edgar ]]) during the last mission.
* [[Five-Token Band]]: Each clique includes one black kid, one bisexual kid, and excluding the Bullies one girl. The Nerds go for a [[Twofer Token Minority]] with Cornelius, who is black ''and'' bi.
* [[Foot Focus]]: Kirby Olsen likes the girls' feet.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: It’s hinted that Gary and Jimmy aren’t true friends. And he’s definitely not a true friend to Pete.
* [[Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse]]: While he had an abusive father, Mr. Burton is never really treated with any sympathy.
* [[Future Loser]]: 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."
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: 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'' ([[Authority Equals Asskicking|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 [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality]] 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.
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Russell Northrop and Edgar Munsen.
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: Ms. Philips who is considered by far the most attractive teacher in the school.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Crabblesnitch is one of these if Jimmy doesn’t stay on his best behavior. It’s averted if Jimmy manages to prove Hattrick’s guilt, however.
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Jimmy's final love interest is red haired Townie girl Zoe Taylor.
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Subverted by Beatrice, who's actually closer to the [[Nerd]] trope played straight. The only thing worse than her fashion sense is her hairdo (and maybe her coldsores and braces). She could probably pull a [[Beautiful All Along]] if she wanted to, but she never makes an attempt to do so. For that matter, the girls actually subvert a ''lot'' of stereotypes (well, other than maybe Lola but that's cause her stereotype is based off of ''[[Grease]]''). Pinky appears to be a [[Spoiled Brat]], but she turns out to be [[Spoiled Sweet]] when Jimmy takes her out, Beatrice can easily pull a [[Beautiful All Along]], Mandy is the [[Alpha Bitch]], but it's implied she is that way due to peer pressure, and when she becomes a [[Fallen Princess]], is ''significantly'' nicer. Lola can also be a vamp, but she cares about Johnny enough to express concern when he gets sent to the asylum.
* [[Homemade Sweater From Hell]]: Jimmy gets one for Christmas. It's an actual mission that is required he pick it up. And afterwards, he has to go back to the dorms to change out of it, subjugating himself to much shame and humilation from the other students.
* [[Hot for Student]]:
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** And for the distaff counterpart, Lola and Mandy are a [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|little too insistent]] when it comes to how unattractive they find each other.
** All Peanut ever seems to talk about is Johnny.
* [[Humilation Conga]]: Both Hattrick and Mr. Burton end up getting fired.
* [[Hulk Speak]]: "Russell SMAAAAASSSHHHH!"
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Apparently, Gary carries a bunch of these around and hands them out to people before he talks to them.
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** During the end of mission "I run this clique now" speeches, Jimmy hams it up pretty good himself.
{{quote|'''Jimmy:''' Who's the baddest?! Me! Who's the toughest?! Me!}}
* [[Lethal Chef]]: Edna,
* [[Lighter and Fluffier]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20121012072708/http://www.tylersart.com/bully.html Old concept art] shows all the characters as rougher around the edges and uglier, lots of them have muscles like pro wrestlers, Zoe's outfit was extremely [[Stripperiffic]], and the Prefects carried batons around and looked more than a bit like skinheads... the game was, er, softened from this visualization.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The game is this compared to Rockstar's other high profile releases before it, ''[[Manhunt]]'' and the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series. A T rated game with no blood, no guns and no killing.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Jimmy is able to outrun or keep up with just about everybody in the game, in addition to kicking much ass.
* [[Lost Forever]]: In the original version of the game, this would happen to any mission you failed to complete before moving on to the next chapter, preventing you from getting [[One Hundred Percent Completion]]. This was corrected in the ''Scholarship Edition'' which allowed you to do any mission you missed after completing the main game or the chapter corresponding to them. And you can still attend Me. Hattrick and Mr. Burton’s classes regardless of whether they’re fired or not.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Gary Smith, Derby Harrington.
* [[Meganekko]]: Angie.
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* [[Murder Simulators]]: What the [[Moral Guardians]] claimed it was, which is a little difficult when ''you can't kill anyone''.
* [[My New Gift Is Lame]]: Jimmy's Christmas sweater.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Bullworth Academy doesn’t sound pleasant. And indeed it isn’t when Jimmy first visits it. Luckily, Jimmy changes the school for the better, even if the name never changes.
* [[Nerd]]: A whole clique of them. And every nerd trope in the book is probably filled by at least one of 'em.
* [[New Era Speech]]: Jimmy gives these each time he takes over a clique.
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* [[Non-Giving-Up-School Guy]]: Most of the teachers and prefects fall into this category.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: 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 though even though he does get him out.
* [[Not So Different]]: Russell starts off as an enemy to Jimmy, but when Jimmy explains that he shouldn’t bully innocent kids, and that Gary had manipulated them both into fighting each other, they end up making peace.
** Likewise, Pete and Jimmy both seem to be opposites at first, but it turns out they both want there to be peace at Bullworth Academy. And he’s just as smart as Jimmy himself is.
** Jimmy persuades Earnest to work for him for this reason. They both want to teach the jocks at the school a lesson.
** Crabblesnitch agrees with Jimmy that both Mr. Hattrick and Mr. Burton should be fired, though he needs to provide evidence of Hattrick’s corruption and explain that Mr. Burton decided to flirt with a teenage student despite her protests.
* [[Not So Similar]]: It turns out Gary is willing to attack people unprovoked (unlike Jimmy), as poor Pete finds out.
* [[No Swastikas]]: There are no swastikas on the SS officer uniform that Gary wears for Halloween.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: If the scar and somewhat creepy things Gary says at the beginning of the game don't tip you off, the Nazi uniform he wears for Halloween certainly will.
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* [[Rated "M" for Money]]: Inverted, as the game had a T rating, but still managed to cause enough controversy to get it plenty of publcity.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Small talk says Mandy does this. Lola actually does, but no one talks about it because they don't want their ass kicked by Johnny.
* [[Red Herring]]: Russell appears to be the main villain at first. (One can assume he’s the biggest threat at Bullworth, after all.) But it turns out that the real villain is in fact Gary Smith, who wishes to take over the school and turn it into a battleground.
* [[Rewarding Vandalism]]: Several missions involve smashing things, but the mission "Smash It Up" might as well be the [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[Running Both Sides]]: Gary is manipulating both Crabblesnitch (Bullworth school principal) and Edgar (leader of the Townies, sworn enemies of Bullworth) for his own personal gain.
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Miss Peters, the music teacher. Though she first appears as a [[Hippie Teacher]], she turns into this in the "Nutcrackin'" misson when Jimmy refuses to help her at first and she blackmails him by threatens to fail him.
* [[Schoolteachers]]:
** [[Apathetic Teacher]]: Mr. Galloway. While he's actually very popular with the students and doesn't seem to hate them, he does hate his job due to Mr. Hattrick's bullying, as he drinks heavily even while at work.
** [[Fired Teacher]]: Two, and both are the rare examples of it happening to a [[Sadist Teacher]]. Happens to Mr. Hattrick when he's caught taking bribes from the parents of his wealthy students to give them good grade, and at the end to Mr. Burton when the principal discovers that he shamelessly flirts with his female students.
** [[Hippie Teacher]]: Miss Peters, the music teacher who only appears in the ''Scholarship Edition''. However, she turns into a [[Sassy Black Woman]] in the "Nutcrackin'" mission when Jimmy refuses to help her at first and she blackmails him by threatens to fail him.
** [[Hot Teacher]]: Ms. Philips.
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** 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 [[Wanted Meter|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, adults and authority figures 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.
* [[Villain Has A Point]]: Gary wasn’t wrong to point out that Jimmy would want friends in order to survive in Bullworth. Gary turned out to be a terrible friend, however.
* [[Virtual Paper Doll]]: While Jimmy isn't quite as customizable as [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|CJ was]], you can still dress him in a wide variety of clothes (sure, there's a dress code, but it's not enforced that strongly). And once Chapter 2 begins, and the school gates open up, you can go to a barber and choose from a few "tough guy" style haircuts. And once Blue Skies Industrial Park is opened up in Chapter 5, you can get tattoos.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: It's never explicitly stated, but it's widely believed that Bullworth is in New England. The back of the Scholarship Edition box confirms that it's in New England.
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