Bully Hunter/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character who is quick to give bullies their comeuppance.

• Straight: Alice beats up Carol or shames her into backing down when she sees Carol picking on Bob.
• Exaggerated:
  • Alice kills Carol when she sees her picking on Bob.
  • Alice is a Serial Killer Killer.
• Justified:
  • Alice views herself as a force of good that must stop the evils of bullying in any way she can.
  • Alternately, Alice was bullied like hell in the past, and refuses to let it happen to others if she can help it.
  • Or, Alice used to be a bully herself, and now seeks to atone for her past misdeeds.
• Inverted: Alice tirelessly tracks down known philanthropists and gives them a beatdown.
• Subverted: Bob thanks Alice profusely and she reacts in shock, revealing that she had no idea that Bob was even there, let alone being bullied, and showing that she's beaten Carol bloody for no reason.
• Double Subverted: It's slowly but surely revealed, however, that Alice has done this multiple times. She attacks various bullies, using her Jerkass Facade and status as a 'psycho' to prevent retaliation against the victims. It isn't their fault, after all, it's just Alice being a lunatic.
• Parodied:
  • Alice steals the lunch money of bullies even when they're not going after anyone.
  • Alice keeps an anti-bully flamethrower in case of bully attack (break glass) in her locker. Bullying rates are low at her school.
• Deconstructed:
  • Alice is only doing it so that not only can she get away with pushing others around but even get the praise of others for it.
  • Alice realises that by fighting violence with violence, she's just making the bullies feel more victimised and misanthropic, making them more likely to lash out.
• Reconstructed: Alice admits that she only does it to vent her violent tendencies, but rationalises that as long as she's only hurting people who would otherwise go on to hurt innocent people, she's doing more good than bad.
• Zig Zagged: Alice bullies Carol into giving up on bullying Bob. And when Carol is gone, Alice goes on to bully Bob. But it turns out that she only does it because she saw Bob bullying Sally earlier that day. She then goes on to lock Lester in his locker just for giggles.
• Averted: Alice takes no action against Carol.
• Enforced: "We need to show the audience that Alice is good, but tough. Let's show her defending Bob against some bully."
• Lampshaded: "You don't even know Bob, do you just go out of your way to find bullies to beat up?"
• Invoked: Carol wanted Alice to attack her so she could get away with maiming her in revenge for something.
• Defied: Alice acknowledges that beating Carol to a pulp, while deeply satisfying, wouldn't solve the underlying cause of her maliciousness and works to give Bob the self-confidence to stand up to Carol without using violence.
• Discussed: Alice suggests to her friends that she go after Carol, but decides it's too dangerous.
• Conversed: "I wish there was someone in my school who went around beating up the bullies"
• Played For Laughs: Alice starts dressing like a Superhero, dropping from rooftops to save kids from bullies.
• Played For Drama: Alice goes to Knight Templar extremes by taking over the school and creating rules that can get a student who does even the slightest amount of bullying expelled. Eventually the students realize Alice is being a dictator and giving them a much harder time than the bullies did. The students, with the help of the former bullies, overthrow Alice.

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