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{{trope}}
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All too often [[Truth in Television]].
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== Anime
* Jonathon Joestar of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' deals with a gang of thugs who harass [[Love Interest|Erina]].
* Motoko Minagawa of ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' leads a small group of girls who routinely make life a little more difficult for the main character
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* In ''[[Naruto]]'' Sakura is picked on by Ami and two other girls during her ninja academy days, until Ino defends her.
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' manga, Mokuba is introduced with a group of classmates like this. After his first appearance they are never mentioned again.
* Kyoko plays the leader of the gang of bullies in ''[[Skip Beat!]]''. Interesting as she used to be the bullied.
* While only two in ''[[Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo|Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo]]'', they still gang up on [[New Transfer Student|Sayaka]]. One of them just seems to follow the other, who has [[Loving Bully|other motivations]].
▲== Film -- Animated ==
* Foxy Loxy from ''[[Chicken Little]]'' picks on the titular character with Goosey Loosey as support.
* Minku gets bullied by a
* Sykes, Ernie and Bernie from ''[[Shark Tale]]''
* King Malbert and his royal guards in ''[[Igor]]''
* Biff and all his ancestors/descendants from ''[[Back to The Future]]'' lead a small group of thugs.
* In ''[[The Forbidden Kingdom]]'', the protagonist gets harassed and almost killed by a bully with a gun. Even the bully’s cronies are a bit apprehensive about this.
* The Cobras from ''[[The Karate Kid]]''.
** Similarly, the posse of kung-fu students from the [[The Karate Kid|2010 remake]], who were members of the Fighting Dragons. Mr. Han (Jackie Chan's character) specifically comments to their ''sensei'' that fighting someone one-on-one is at least fair, bully or not, but being ganged up
* The bully in ''[[Three Ninjas]]'' was followed around by lackeys.
* ''[[Mean Girls]]'': Though the titular clique is lead by [[Alpha Bitch]] Regina, as the movie shows, she would not be able to terrorize the student population without her faithful "army of skanks".
* The guys that tied up [[Idiot Hero|Nick]] from ''[[30 Minutes or Less]]''.
* The Golf Course Kids from ''[[50 First Dates]]''.
== Literature ==
* Dudley's gang as well as Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle in the various [[Harry Potter]] books.
** Dudley is [[Large and In Charge]] of his gang and beats people up personally, and at least one of his friends that we know of is a scrawny little kid who presumably hangs around him for
** Tom Riddle's own school-years gang would seem to follow this pattern except for the fact that Tom gets away with appearing like the model
** James, Remus, Sirius, and Wormtail, in regards to Snape. Though Wormtail, being the [[Dirty Coward]] that he is, he only does so just so that he won't have his ass kicked, as well.
* ''[[Let the Right One In]]'' features a group of bullies who pick on the main character.
* [[Discworld]]'s Lord Downey is mentioned in ''[[
** Also the immaturity of his ''brain'', which he only ever engaged long enough to remember how to pronounce "scag". I think he was meant to be a parody of people who get into prestigious colleges solely on the merit of being legacy.
* Kalarus Brencis Minoris from the ''[[Codex Alera]]'' bears a striking resemblance to Draco Malfoy: a rich [[Smug Snake]] from a [[Blue Blood|prestigious family]] who wanders the local [[Extranormal Institute]] with his pair of big, dumb thugs, looking for [[Badass Normal|easy victims]].
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* According to [[Word of God]], this is the dynamic that powers the large crews of vermin in the ''[[Redwall]]'' series: "A bully needs a gang."
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Buffy used to be routinely bullied by [[Alpha Bitch]] Cordelia, and her trio of friends until the Cordelia ended up becoming something of a friend to Buffy. Then Cordelia would be the one to suffer at the hands of her former friends.
* [[Joss Whedon]] seems to like this trope, as Kaylee of ''[[Firefly]]'' experiences some harassment at an upper-class party from a trio of female attendees.
* Harley, Frankie and Joey on ''[[Boy Meets World]]''. After Harley gets sent off to reform school Frankie and Joey get a new leader named Griff, although Griff was more of a [[High School Hustler]] than [[The Bully]] so the group's purpose changes. The group later disbands.
* Reina/Reika from ''[[Deep Love]]'' gets bullied by a gang of three girls who write on her textbooks and threw her desk out of the window in the second episode, telling her there was no place for her.
== Video Games ==
* Butch of ''[[Fallout 3]]'' bullies [[Hello, Insert Name Here|you]] with his friends throughout your childhood, though one quest can be solved making one of Butch’s cronies indignant from being told that he “does whatever Butch tells him to”.
== Web Original ==
* Since [[Super-Hero School]] Whateley Academy in the [[Whateley Universe]] is a high school, there are bullies. While some are solitary, Gold Stallion and his gang fit this trope precisely, as do the three [[Jerkass]] bullies who call themselves TNT.
== Western Animation ==
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* The Rowdyruff Boys from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' are essentially this.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E21 Dragon Quest|Dragon Quest]]" has a group of [[Teens Are Monsters|teenage dragons]] who bully and haze Spike in a rather disturbingly realistic manner. The alpha bully seems to be a red dragon who is the most physically strong of them.
* Potisa, Gwen and Penny from ''[[The Mighty B!]]''. They also count as a sadist version of this.
* Dee Dee, Marky and Joey from ''[[Oggy and the Cockroaches]]''.
* Lok, Cheif, Slog and Zariah from ''[[Tak and the Power of Juju]]''.
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[[Category:The Bully]]
▲[[Category:Gang of Bullies]]
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