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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid."''|'''Mahatma Gandi'''}}
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All too often [[Truth in Television]].
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== Anime
* Jonathon Joestar of ''[[
* Motoko Minagawa of ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' leads a small group of girls who routinely make life a little more difficult for the main character
* Probably the most timid character of the series (Kotonoha) gets harassed by no less than five girls in ''[[
* In
* 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
* While only two in ''[[
* Foxy Loxy from ''[[
▲== Film -- Animated ==
▲* Foxy Loxy from ''[[Chicken Little (Disney)|Chicken Little]]'' picks on the titular character with Goosey Loosey as support.
▲* Minku gets bullied by a [[Gang of Bullies]] at school in ''[[The Return of Hanuman]]''.
* 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 ''[[
* The Golf Course Kids from ''[[
== 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]].
* Henry Bowers from Stephen King's [[IT]] had a couple lackeys, though [[Even Evil Has Standards|even they were occasionally frightened by how sociopathic Bowers was]].
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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
== Western Animation ==
* Roger of ''[[Doug]]'' is rarely seen without a couple of his lackeys in tow.
* Dolph (the hunched-over redhead with the [[Peek
** It's not clear which of them is the alpha bully, though. Jimbo was the leader at first (according to the season one episode, "The Telltale Head" when Bart first met them outside the Aztec Theater), but over time their chain of command has shifted between Jimbo (because he was introduced first) and Kearney (because he's older than Dolph and Jimbo) before the chain of command became more or less egalitarian.
*** Unless Nelson's being depicted as part of the gang (rather than just co-operation through respect between bullies), in which case he is almost always depicted as the leader. Albeit one with only a tenuous hold on power, as demonstrated in ''Lisa's Date with Density''.
* Mooch in ''[[
* The Rowdyruff Boys from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' are essentially this.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* 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
* Lok, Cheif, Slog and Zariah from ''[[Tak and
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[[Category:The Bully]]
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