Marty, Mean Creek (2004)
The Bully: There are two bullies in Mean Creek . George (Josh Peck) is the school bully, a big mouth with a video camera. When he picks on Sam (Rory Culkin), his friends decide to get revenge by luring George o🐻ut on a boat trip with them, but their prank turns sour when George drowns. It’s at that point that Marty (Scott Mechlowicz༒) reveals himself to be the bigger bully, threatening the kids with further violence if they tell anyone what happened.
Meanest Moment: Letting a kid drown is pretty damn mean.
His Comeuppance: By the end of the film, he’s a wanted fugitive, which probably isn’t going to end well for him.
Ace Merrill, Stand By Me (1986)
The Bully: Kids will fight over all sorts of things, but it takes a special kind of disturbed teenager to want to fight over a dead body. As the leader of Castle Rock’s nastiest bullies, A๊ce (Kiefer Sutherland) lik🌌es to terrorise younger kids, and when he thinks a gang of pre-teens are going to take credit for finding a corpse in the woods, he gets violent.
Meanest Moment: Threatening to🌠 kill children in the woods. That’s about as mean as it gets.
His Comeuppance: The kids one-up𝄹 Ace by pulling a gun, and in the endꦫ, no-one gets the reward for finding the body.
Johnny Lawrence, The Karate Kid (1984)
The Bully: Johnny (William Zabka) is into karate – specifically, Cobra Kai karate, a particularly vicious sub-discipline that seems to be mostly useful for beating up smalle♒r or meeker kids.
Meanest Moment: Determined to win a tournament, Johnny attacks his o✤pponent’s already injured leg. Not exactly sporting, is it?
His Comeuppance: Soundly ꦗbeaten, Johnny actually has the humility to present his rival with the trophy. Awww.
Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter franchise (2001-2011)
The Bully: Bratty Draco (Tom Felton) comes from a family of Death Eaters – so when the Sorting Hat sticks him in Sl🎐ytherin, it’d almost be disappointing if he didn&rsqu🐎o;t turn out to be horrible. Luckily, he’s pretty horrible.
Meanest Moment: He’s got a lot of them, especially in the later films, but ꧅let’s go with his wizardy racism, which sees him slinging around i♔nsults like “Mudblood” and generally mistreating anyone who doesn’t have pure wizard blood.
His Comeuppance: Well, he gets turned into a ferret at one point.
Fred OBannion, Dazed And Confused (1993)
The Bully: Most of the seniors in Dazed And Confused are pretty horrible to the new kids, but O’Bannion (Ben Affleck) takes his bullying duties seriously. It’s a little bit disturbing how keen he is to s🌄pank the freshmen with hiꦐs personalised bat.
Meanest Moment: Lurking outside a middle-school baseball game to beat up the soon-to-be freshmeꦰn before they can leave.
His Comeuppance: The kids get their revenge, throwing a bucket of paint over a paddle-wielding O’Bannion and ruining all his fun.
Jack Merridew, Lord Of The Flies (1963)
The Bully: Jack (Tom Chapin) is one of a group of schoolchildﷺren stranded alone on a desert island. As a choir boy, you’d expect him to be well-behaved, but Jack&rsq🍷uo;s soon leading a tribe of brutal child savages.
Meanest Moment: Breaking Piggy’s glasses. Unforgiveable.
His Comeuppance: He probably got roundly told off by his♋ parents when he finalওly got home.
Miss Trunchbull, Matilda (1996)
The Bully: Not all school bullies are children. Agꦺatha Trunchbull (Pam Ferris) is the headmistress of Crunchem Hall, and she’s the biggest bully of the lot, terrorising all the kids she’s supposed to be teaching.
Meanest Moment: Forcing greedy Bruce Bogtrotter (Jimmy Karz) to eat an entire chocolate ca🌄ke. In front of the whole school. Bleurgh.
Her Comeuppance: Once Matilda (Mara Wilson) learns how t🍰o control her telekinetic powers, she menaces Miss Trunchbull with reminders of her former crimes, scaring her into confessing her guilt and leaving the school. Hurrah!
Chris Hargensen, Carrie (2013)
The Bully: Already a pretty nasty piece of work in the 1976 version of Carrie, Chris (Portia Doubleday) is sp💝ectacularly evil in the 2013 remake. Not only does she scheme to tip a bucket of pig’s blood over poor old Carrie (Chloe Grace Moretz) on prom night, she insists on butchering the pig herself.
Meanest Moment: Other than the whole pig’s blood thing, uploading a video of Carrie panicking in the ꧂school showers to YouTube is undeniably mean.
Her Comeuppance: Carrie kills her🌞 by telekinetically crashing her car as🥃 she attempts to flee the prom with her boyfriend. Ouch.
Regina George, Mean Girls (2004)
The Bully: Regina George (Rachel McAdams) isn’t just a mean gꦇirl – she’s the me🍸an girl. She’s the ultimate queen bee, and the rest of the school is in her thrall, terrified and in awe.
Meanest Moment: Spreading the contents of the Plastic🔜s’ Burn Book a💫round the school, turning her friends into outcasts and even insulting herself to avert suspicion.
Her Comeuppance: She gets hit by a bus, as symbolic payback for bullied kids everywh🎐ere.
Biff Tannen, Back To The Future (1985)
The Bully: Biff (Thomas F. Wilson) is the kind of bully who haunts every kid&rsqꦆuo;s nightmares: big, aggressive, and stupid. He also never goe༒s away, and never grows out of being a bully, tormenting George McFly (Crispin Glover) for a good 30 years (at least, in one timeline).
Meanest Moment: “Mean” isn’t quite the right word for date rape, but that’s Biff’s biggest crime, sexually 🍨assaulting Lo♈rraine (Lea Thompson).
His Comeuppance: With a bit of help from hiཧs time-travelling son, George eventually fights back and knocks Biff out. Not that we’re advocating violence or anything, but that was pretty well-deserved.
