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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Karakurizoushi Ayatsuri Sakon]]'' had one of these involving a school's puppetry club.
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* In ''[[Empowered]]'', most of the superheroes are outright jackasses who often pick on the D-listers. So it should come as no surprise that one of them finally snapped at a superhero get-together. There's also a [[Not So Different]] moment with the title character, who's one of the most pitiful, picked-on superheroes imaginable. {{spoiler|Who proceeds to save all of her jackass co-workers in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].}}
== [[Film]] ==
* The entire plot of slasher flick ''[[Slaughter High]]'', where a nerd named Marty Rantzen tries to get revenge on former classmates and bullies who accidentally and horribly disfigured him through a series of escalating pranks. {{spoiler|It ends with it being revealed that [[All Just a Dream|everything was just a revenge fantasy of Marty's]]-- he's actually locked up in a mental institution, having never recovered from his trauma.}}
* ''[[National Lampoon's Class Reunion]]'' (1982) built an entire movie around this trope and played it for laughs.
* ''[[Rose of Death]]''{{context}}
* ''[[Class Reunion Massacre]]''{{context}}
== [[Literature]] ==
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* The plot of The [[Diamond Brothers]] book ''I Know What You Did Last Wednesday'' is a group of old classmates being invited to a reunion on a remote island being murdered one by one. A parody in that {{spoiler|their only crime was coming first in school subjects where the killer came second}}.
== [[Live
* Lois had a class reunion on ''[[Lois and Clark]]'' in which a classmate who was picked on takes her revenge on the popular people.
* ''[[The Sean Cullen Show|The Sean Cullen Christmas Special]]'' had, throughout the evening, an old schoolmate trying to kill Sean for taking the last place in the orienteering club. But then it turned out that Sean had never joined the club, and the other guy had spent his whole life chasing the wrong man.
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* Inverted in the ''[[Designing Women]]'' episode "They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?", where Delta Burke's ex-beauty queen Suzanne Sugarbaker is mocked at her high school reunion for being fat. The episode is also a [[Very Special Episode]] touching on the topics of weight prejudice and world hunger.
== [[Music]] ==
* The music video of [[Bowling for Soup]]'s
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' has combined this with [[Something's Different About You Now]] (the other typical reunion plot): Johnny wants top take revenge on a girl who always made fun of him when they were kids but it turns out that she turned into a total babe. The rest of the episode is spent agonizing whether she likes him now or she's just playing a prank on him like she used to. {{spoiler|[[Failure Is the Only Option|It's a prank]].}}
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Bas Rutten, former UFC Heavyweight Champion and MMA Legend, was actually physically weak in
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