Town bully

The town bully is a stereotypical character, especially from the mythology of the American Wild West. The town bully generally oppresses meeker residents of the town. This character is often featured in movies, sometimes as a greaser or a gangster. In 1980s films, he may be a bad-tempered preppy. Usually he's the ring leader of a pack of lesser bullies.

The town bully usually achieves and maintains his power in large part because of the smallness of the town where he resides, and because of the collective apathy or timidity of the rest of the town residents. Often, the moral of movies featuring a town bully is that if the rest of the town bands together, they can rid themselves of the town bully.

An examples of the town bully:
* Biff Tannen from Back to the Future movies.
* Nelson Muntz, Jimbo Jones, Dolph, & Kearney from The Simpsons are usually seen bullying other weaker children, including Bart Simpson, Milhouse Van Houten, or Martin Prince.
* Jian/Takeshi Goda from Doraemon.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/Title?0085334 A Christmas Tale] (features a great town bully).