Nobody can kick your butt quite like the guys who can calculate the best angle to do it.
"The nerd said that to you?! Jesus, what kind of bullies did you have?!"
— Ross, Steam Train
Regular bullies (mostly the Jerk Jock types) are bad enough. They steal your lunch money, shove you into lockers, and generally do everything they can to inflict Bully Brutality on anyone smaller or weaker than them. But at least there's certain prerequisites to being The Bully; they've got to be big enough and strong enough (as well as popular enough) to put the hurt on people. Otherwise, how could they?
Well, this character figured it out.
Have an embarrassing diary on your computer? The Nerdy Bully will hack into it. And email it to all your friends. Bomb a test? This guy'll let you know how dumb you are. At length. And with Cyberbullying, he'll make sure the rest of the internet knows it too. And heaven forbid you have an IT problem in his presence — the sheer weight of his mockery might drive you mad. Or at least to transferring schools.
The Nerdy Bully is what happens when a nerd uses his talents to act with typical bullying characteristics, abusing his power, skills, and knowledge to make life hellish for others. They tend to show up in works centered at institutions that are nerdy to begin with, such as schools that specialize in math and science, and they also sometimes have an aggressively atheist or antitheist bent. Their favorite targets are often Book Dumb characters, the Naïve Newcomer who has yet to grasp their "nerd culture", and God save the The Ditz if they are that pathetically dumb enough to be manipulated and outsmarted by them. Rarely, they might choose a high-risk target like a naive Lovable Jock though this very frequently backfires, or if it doesn't they love to play the victim especially in a school setting where stereotypical muscle jocks still exist. If caught, you can expect a flustered insistence that he can't possibly be a bully because he's just a nerd...no matter how obvious his abusive behavior is to the others in the room (which one of them may have recorded in some way). They can double as Internet Jerk due to their sheer knowledge on internet and other online devices.
If he was a victim of bullying himself (in which case compare He Who Fights Monsters), he might invoke Who's Laughing Now?. More often than not, they're the Insufferable Genius or a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. May grow up to be The Cracker or even a Tech Bro.
Compare to Academic Alpha Bitch, who's unpleasant but generally more goal-oriented and rule-abiding; Evil Nerd, who is unpleasant and goal-oriented, but definitely not rule-abiding; and Even Nerds Have Standards, which they find other nerds more pathetic. The Proud Scholar Race and especially the Plunderers of Knowledge are often ruled by Nerdy Bullies. Characters who subscribe to Academia Elitism are sometimes Nerdy Bullies.
Contrast Lovable Jock, a benevolent athlete as opposed to a malevolent geek. Also contrast Abhorrent Alpha Male, who are malevolent manly men.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Liar Game: Norihiko Yokoya is a scrawny guy who, in his high school years, used his intelligence, manipulation and monetary power to establish a social pecking order on campus which allowed the members of the "higher" order to bully people from the "lower classes".
- Yu-Gi-Oh! (first anime series): The Digital Pets arc featured Haiyama, who at first appeared to be a vulnerable nerd alongside Kujirada who is a more standard The Bully. But it's later revealed Haiyama had been keeping Kujirada as a pet and whipping him to make him do his bidding. He also tries to make Honda his new pet. Dark Yugi sets to put an end to his inhumane treatment using a Shadow Game.
Comic Books
- Archie Comics: Fletcher Foley serves as The Rival to fellow, much better-adjusted and better-liked, nerd Dilton Doiley. Occasionally, he'll stray into outright bullying.
- The Eltingville Club: The titual Eltingville Club themselves. With the exception of Jerry, the members are mean-spirited and obsessive pop culture geeks who bully, demean, and insult anyone and everyone who doesn't adhere to their beliefs...including each other.
- Firestorm: In quite possibly the greatest taking of Artistic License bar none. Cliff Carmichael was this to Lovable Jock Ronnie Raymond, constantly calling Ronnie a Dumb Jock, rubbing his perfect grades in his face, and pulling pranks on him such as shooting a spitball at him in class or sneaking up behind him and dropping a frog down his shirt. The author deliberately wanted to subvert the Peter Parker/Flash Thompson setup, realism of high school societal norms be damned.
- Runaways: Gert Yorkes often lords her superior intelligence over her teammates, particularly Karolina, as a cover for her insecurity about her weight and appearance. This becomes especially pronounced in issue #11 of Runaways (Rainbow Rowell), where she assumes that Klara must be stupid for quitting the team in order to live a normal life.
- The Simpsons: In comics version of The Simpsons, Jimbo's backstory explains how Springfield Elementary was controlled by those with strong attendance and education. As a result, nerds made up the majority of the population of bullies.
Comic Strips
- Bloom County: When Steve Dallas is mistakenly arrested for computer piracy, the police lock him up in the "hacker tank" with some child computer hackers. They try to bully Steve by threatening to slash his credit rating.
- Dennis the Menace (UK): Walter is a nerd who dedicates all of his intellect to ruining Dennis' life. Dennis is no saint and half the time brings the blame on himself, but even so Walter is a lot more hostile and mischievous than the standard nerd. In the earlier strips Walter actually was timid (and effeminate), hence his group being called the "Softies", but he Took a Level in Jerkass so Dennis would seem less like a bully for antagonizing him.
- Doonesbury: While Alex attended MIT, she and her mentor took part in a featherweight robot competition. Alex's bot defeated its first adversary easily but added a victory chiptune. Alex's bot was disqualified on the spot by a grandiose nerd for "taunting."
Fan Works
- Carrie: Awakening: Emily Bourne is an Honor Roll student who wears glasses and speaks Japanese but is one of Carrie's crueler bullies, with Miss Desjardin even noting how she would never have guessed that from Emily's appearance.
- The Vigilante Boss and His Failed Retirement Plan: Futaba is a Ditzy Genius that refuses to leave her room and she's Bakugou's primary bully. Futaba has her robots identify him as trash, insult him to his face, spread rumors about him, and uses her position as the smartest in the Support Department to have Bakugou ostracized.
Films — Animation
- Shrek the Third: At Worcestershire Academy, Arthur is a Bully Magnet who gets picked on by literally every other student in the school, even a couple of Dungeons-and-Dragons geeks who are nerdier than him.
Films — Live-Action
- The Benchwarmers: Gus is portrayed as a nerd, and is later revealed to have verbally bullied a vertically-challenged classmate of his while in grade school. He also made fun of another classmate's prematurely receding hairline.
- The Big Hit: One of the subplots of the film involves the Jerkass nerdy clerk of a video rental place continuously making threatening calls to Melvin Smiley because of a copy of King Kong Lives that Melvin has long overdue. The comedy comes from the fact the clerk is acting tough and insulting a veteran hitman.
- Fanboys: The way the fanboys treat Star Trek fans goes beyond rivalry and into pure sadism territory. Hutch, in particular, intentionally baits Trekkies into the comic book store in order to insult them and then goes out of his way to visit a Trek tourist trap so they can pick fights with the visitors.
- Laserblast: The character Froggy was played by Eddie Deezen as the platonic ideal of a nerd. Both he and his toady constantly taunt and torment the easygoing slacker protagonistnote .
- Mean Girls' Janis can be considered this as she is the one who encourages Cady to tear down Regina.
- Real Genius is set in an academy for geniuses (inspired by Real Life Caltech), so most of the characters are nerds to an extent. Kent is a Jerkass who loves to pick on others — especially Mitch — which makes him a nerd bullying other nerds.
- Spider-Man: Homecoming: The MCU version of Flash Thompson has gone from being a Jerk Jock to an academic rival who verbally bullies Peter Parker.
Literature
- Captain Underpants: Melvin Sneedly is both the school nerd and The Stool Pigeon, always out to get George and Harold into trouble. Book 6 and 7 upgrades him to full-blown bully who blackmails the protagonists into doing his bidding.
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader introduces Eustace Scrubb as an effete Know-Nothing Know-It-All whose bland modernist upbringing taught him to wield intellectualism as a form of petty dominance over others. Much of the story focuses on him cultivating courage, humility, faith, and genuine wisdom through his adventures, and he returns in The Silver Chair and The Last Battle as a far more agreeable and heroic sort.
- The Goosebumps books Monster Blood and Monster Blood II give us Kermit, cousin of the protagonist, Evan. He coerces Evan to be a guinea pig in his experiments, which inevitably backfire, and can manipulate both his mom and the local bully, Conan, into punishing Evan for things that are actually his fault.
- Severus Snape from Harry Potter is both geekily enthusiastic about magic (especially potions) and a Sadist Teacher. Even in his adolescence, though he endured a lot of bullying, he gave at least as good as he got (to the point of regularly using Black Magic, while the guys who bullied him only rarely tried anything that dangerousnote ).
Live-Action TV
- 30 Rock In the reunion episode, Liz Lemon is revealed to have been the school bully (while she thinks she was the class nerd), using insults and comebacks instead of physically bullying other students.
Classmate: Hey Liz, how's the telescope?
Liz: How's your mom's pill addiction? - Beverly Hills, 90210: One episode of the Sequel Series has a strange case of a Lovable Alpha Bitch (Naomi) trying to seduce a nerd (Max), who doesn't like her because he finds her a stuck-up Alpha Bitch just like the people she hangs out with. Then Naomi attempts to impress Max by dressing up in an Avatar costume, but she ends up looking ridiculous and being mocked and humiliated by Max's equally nerdy friends.
Naomi: You know what, Max? You can say whatever you want about me and my friends, but your friends are just as arrogant, snobbish, and mean as anyone I know.
- The Big Bang Theory:
- Dr. Sheldon Cooper is very condescending and an egotistical narcissist towards nearly everyone, including his close friends, because he believes himself to be intellectually superior to them, and therefore superior to them and will go out of his way to insult, belittle, and otherwise make them suffer for anything he feels offended for. Though, other times show he is completely oblivious to how insensitive and annoying he is because he lacks basic social skills.
- Dr. Barry Kripke, in addition to being incredibly nerdy, also checks off most typical high school bully tropes: he's crude, obnoxious, and routinely pranks the guys and foils their projects. Hell, he usually makes his appearances in the cafeteria like a high school bully.
- There's also an episode in which Sheldon's World of Warcraft account is hacked, and when the guys track down the hacker he turns out to be a nerdy Fat Bastard much larger than they are.
- Invoked in "The Justice League Recombination", when Penny's nerdy friends were making fun of her boyfriend Zack for being stupid, despite the fact that Zack was just trying to be friendly with them.
Penny: You know, for a group of guys who claim they spent most of their lives being bullied, you can be real jerks.
- Black Mirror: Robert Daly of the episode "USS Callister". In life, he's a nerdy, asocial programmer, who is obstinately the second-in-command at his company but is not respected by his co-workers (despite them being his subordinates) due to his meek personality. He disproportionately takes out his frustrations with his co-workers by creating virtual copies of their minds and placing them in a Star Trek-esquenote video game mod and abusively forcing them to reenact his power fantasies.
- The Twelfth Doctor from Doctor Who. Most Doctors (invariably Science Hero intellectuals) butt heads with machos, military types, and the physically-inclined, but Twelve was outright contemptuous of them. It was mostly played for laughs since it was such bizarre behavior from an apparent sixty-year-old man whose school days were long behind him. It was later explained that this related to this Doctor's particular disdain for the military. While none of them are particular fans of the military, Twelve's attitude was rooted in his own self-loathing over how he used his experience and unconventional Science Hero tactics to ruthless effect as a military commander in the Time War (other Time Lords explicitly refer to him as "the man who won the Time War") and his history as what Danny Pink, a former infantryman, contemptuously refers to as "an officer", shaping his companions into soldiers in his own image.
- iCarly: Nevel Papperman, despite being wimpy and odd, is a bad-tempered kid with great computer skills and a popular blog. When Carly rejected his advances he set out to make her "rue the day" and had since become a recurring villain always attempting to take down iCarly. One episode had him go so far as attempting to get Carly brutally beaten by an MMA fighter in what was meant to be a fun publicity match.
- Liv and Maddie: Artie Smalls is an obnoxious nerd who constantly mocks and belittles Joey, and is always followed by a group of other nerdy students he calls his "minions".
- Modern Family: Manny and Luke run into a gang of these in the episode "After the Fire."
Manny: You guys are bullies!
Luke: They can't be bullies, they're nerds!
Abraham: Don't pigeonhole us, we can be both. - Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide:
- The Killer Bees are a trio of spelling-bee champions who literally buzz around the school to bully people by spelling at them. They later try to make Cookie join their ranks, separating him from Ned, but all so he'd change their grades in the school computer system.
- "Nerdy bully" are the words used by The Other Wiki to describe Lance Widget, an extremely bossy and aggressive Fat Bastard who was Ned's tutor for a while and was always yelling at him and calling him "moron".
- Evelyn is a studious Asian and Nerdy girl who is pretty much Lance's female version. She insults the other students, uses intimidation to fulfill her goals, and has no problem tormenting and beating up her academic rival Cookie (though she's also a Loving Bully to him).
- Runaways: The nerdy Gert Yorkes regularly mocks and belittles Karolina Dean as an idiot for her sincere religious beliefs.
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996): In the episode "Geek Like Me", Sabrina uses her magic to turn Alpha Bitch Libby into a nerd because she believes that it would teach her a lesson in humility and kindness. This ends up backfiring when Libby takes over the Science Club and starts bullying her old friends in the cheerleading squad.
- The Wilds: Ivan Taylor is a variation; he is a Camp Gay boy that would be bullied the same way a nerd would, except he can be a bully himself. He's a shining example of how bullies in current days can come in different forms and sometimes use the "cancel culture" method as a loophole to be a bully in the guise of someone doing something just, such as when he caught Kirin O'Conner Drowning His Sorrows after his coach was fired due to an old Blackface photo that Ivan justifiably exposed him for. Kirin was just sad that the closest thing he had to a father was now gone but Ivan was having none of it and started recording him, trying to get Kirin to call him a slur. Kirin, wanting to be left alone, gave him what he wanted on video which Ivan then released getting Kirin expelled. Since Kirin was just in a genuinely sad moment and Ivan was looking for a fight, Ivan was the bully in this situation. Ivan's own boyfriend calls him out for kicking Kirin while he's down and breaks up with him.
Music
- Eminem Eminem was a shy, nerdy child who got bullied in school to the point of suffering permanent brain damage from being beaten up when he was nine. In his songs, Slim Shady is therefore an Indulgent Fantasy Segue about the nerd tormenting everyone around him. "Brain Damage" is a fictionalised version of the assault that led to his brain damage, and "As The World Turns" has a Slim Shady "dressed like Les Nessman" who assaults a fat female classmate.
Professional Wrestling
- Smart babyfaces certainly aren't unheard of, what with promoters recruiting heavily from colleges, but there is no "super genius" face archetype in the same way there is for heels. Yoshihiro Tajiri may be licensed in acupuncture, Blue Tiger may run a clinic, Matt Hardy may be an expert cracker but their intelligence is usually only referenced when they are heels. The most famous "super genius" heel is Randy Savage's Canadian brother Lanny Poffo, if only for how well he demonstrates this divide. He always insulted opponents of his or his friends, often with poetry, but as a face, his focus was on his athleticism and coordination, as the super genius heel he attempted to confuse people with overly complicated math problems. And rather than show off his skill, tended to hide behind other wrestlers like Mr Perfect or Jay Lethal as an "executive consultant".
- This is what Leva Bates typically looks like after a Face–Heel Turn. Because she's a mousy-voiced short woman and pro wrestling is a very physical activity built around Chewing the Scenery, heel turns are rare for Bates, but she was a prominent member of The Age Of The Fall in FIP and nuisance for then-rookie wrestling model Santana Garrett.
- Damien Sandow, "the intellectual savior of the unwashed masses" was a more tunnel-visioned expy of Lanny Poffo, focusing mostly on making Sheamus look stupid. Unlike Poffo, Sandow usually had no second to hide behind and thus got beaten up, but persisted in humiliating Sheamus in contests of wit and puzzle solving anyway.
Video Games
- In Bully, the Nerds are a clique of, well, nerds. And even though they're the natural prey of both the Bullies and the Jocks, they are absolute backstabbers and manipulators that can be just as vicious as their oppressors if not more so.
- In Deltarune, one of Kris's classmates is a very arrogant anthropomorphic bird named Berdly. While he doesn't show up much in the first chapter, the second chapter shows that he'll never miss an opportunity to rub his intelligence in the other characters' faces. When he follows the playable characters into the Dark World, he immediately allies himself with Queen, the chapter's Arc Villain, in the hopes that he can create a "Smartopia" where "protozoans" like Kris and Susie will never be allowed in. The truth is a lot more complicated. While he does have narcissistic tendencies, he cares just as deeply about his Only Friend Noelle, and many of his less pleasant actions throughout the chapter stem more from his dependence on her than any real malice. Pursue a Pacifist route and he'll wholeheartedly embrace his "stupidity", although this doesn't diminish his ego much. Pursue the Weird Route, and he'll be frozen solid (and not in the Harmless Freezing sense) trying to protect Noelle from the player's abuse (while incorrectly assuming that Kris is the one at fault).
- In BROK the InvestiGator, Klay is this during Graff's storyline, being a self-entitled Rich Bitch who constantly looks down upon Slumers like Graff and Ott and bullies them for his own amusement. You find out later (should you inquire about his past) that he acts this way because he's been pressured all of his life to be The Perfectionist, which he secretly hates and wishes he didn't have to do.
Visual Novels
- Dennis from Double Homework uses trickery and control of information to bully his classmates. This often takes the form of blackmail, which he gives teeth by a combination of hacking, "free" services to his schoolmates, and using Sinister Surveillance for eavesdropping.
Web Videos
- Battle for Dream Island: Lollipop. She is as intelligent as arrogant and judgmental, and frequently gets into fights with Barf Bag, just because she is a barf bag. Golf Ball can also display shades of this, regularly insulting team members she doesn't find useful with little provocation and towards Basketball in TPOT.
- Steam Train: In the fourth part of their playthrough of VVVVVV, Arin and Ross conceptualize a bully character known as Dinkles the Buff Nerd.
- "The Twins(2022)": Lucas. He torments his twin brother Lake by setting him up as a Deliberately Bad Example so he looks better in comparison and receives more gold stars from Mrs. J.
Western Animation
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: In the episode, "Jimmy Goes To College", Jimmy enters college and meets a Jerkass nerd named Seymour Flimelflarb. At first, Seymour seems to be a good friend to Jimmy, but it's all an act as he's actually jealous of Jimmy for being smarter than him and stealing his thunder. So Seymour spends most of the episode framing Jimmy for things he didn't do, sabotaging his work, and getting him expelled. Jimmy gets the last laugh, though, proving his innocence and getting Seymour expelled.
- Arthur: Infamously, in the episode "So Funny I Forgot To Laugh", the bespectacled and good-hearted Arthur relentlessly picks on Sue Ellen for her yak wool coat. This coming from an aardvark with a sweater vest and round glasses, which he was also bullied for in the past.
- Big City Greens: The Cyber Knights are a group who intimidate Cricket's friends by hacking their electronic devices. Cricket is immune to their threats by not owning any devices, thus having nothing for them to hack.
- ChalkZone has the aptly-named Reggie Bullnerd, who likes to pick on the other students, particularly Rudy Tabootie. Fed up with Reggie, Rudy draws an exaggerated image of him on a chalk board, which Reggie uses Rudy's body to erase it, where it goes into chalk world, under the name Bully Nerd.
- Darkwing Duck: In the episode Beauty and the Beet, put-upon scientist Reggie Bushroot works alongside a pair of other researchers who, while if anything even nerdier than himself, are also physically bigger, more confident, more popular with their boss, and who picks on him mercilessly. After becoming a plant-based supervillain, the first thing he does is kill them.
- Daria:
- In one episode Daria and Jodie visit an advanced private school that they have an option of transferring to. They tentatively befriend some kids who are eventually revealed as elitist who openly ostracize another kid for only scoring in the top 90% on his SATs.
- Daria herself can skate on the edge of this in her less sympathetic moments. Notably "Mart of Darkness" implies that Andrea initially sees her and Jane as using their snark to cut down everyone around them.
- Dexter's Laboratory: Mandark is another nerdy boy genius who often seeks to destroy both Dexter and his laboratory. One of his future selves in "Ego Trip" still has the same nerdy appearance and is also an abusive boss who enjoys tormenting and torturing one of his employees (Dexter's future self).
- Elena of Avalor: Javier, a one-shot character from when Isabel joins the Science Academy, is arrogant and pretentious. When he realizes that Isabel might surpass him, he begins bullying her and sabotaging her work in order to get her kicked out.
- The Fairly OddParents!: Poor Cosmo was not only bullied by the resident Jerk Jock during fairy high school but was also so pathetic that even his school's math club joined in the harassment.
- Fillmore!: In A Dark Score Evened, after the Bully Hunter team dealt with some more traditional bullies, including a Jerk Jock and an Alpha Bitch, they deal with Horace, an obnoxious kid in the IT department who spent most of the episode mocking everyone for not being as good with computers as he was. Horace protests to the squad that he can't possibly be a bully because he's just a computer geek, but the squad points out that he's just as adroit at hurting people and making them feel small as their first victims.
Squad Member: You might not throw people up against lockers or take their lunch money, but you've got power and you use it to intimidate and humiliate people!
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In one episode, Bloo assumes Mac is a nerd because he was studying during recess (actually being punished for throwing spit wads), and attempts to make Mac "cool". This blows up in Mac's face, making him come off so Totally Radical and dorky that all the other kids mock him, even the actual nerds.
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Irwin and Pud'n often get some of the worst of the show's luck, the former being a more Stereotypical Nerd, but in "Tricycle of Terror" they bully Billy for once.
- Kaeloo: Mr. Cat is a downplayed example, as in addition to traditional bullying, he also bullies other characters for being stupid and sometimes uses his knowledge of science to make inventions that he uses for bullying.
- Kim Possible: In "Attack of the Killer Bebes", it’s shown that Dr. Possible and two of his scientist friends were friends with Dr. Drakken in college until they put him in charge of getting them dates for an upcoming dance and he built them pathetic robots to be their dates. Dr. Possible and his other two friends then relentlessly made fun of Drakken for weeks, driving him to become the villain he is today. In the present, he comes after them for revenge. In the end, Dr. Possible laments that Drakken might not have gone to the dark side if they hadn’t given him such a hard time.
- My Gym Partner's a Monkey: Charles Darwin Middle School has a group of nerdy students called the Spiffies, led by the dolphin, Phineas Porpoise. They act like bullies to Adam, often calling him "A-dumb" and generally trying to make Adam miserable when they're around each other.
- Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Purple Dragons are a tech club with a smug sense of superiority towards other tech geeks, including hanging them on their computers by the underwear. That's before they turn out to be outright criminals.
- The Simpsons:
- Artie Ziff, Marge's high school prom date, the head of Springfield High School's debate team, and present-day I.T. wizard who has constantly lusted after Marge to the point of harassment since high school and constantly talks down to Homer and others he views as intellectually inferior, even letting Homer take the fall for the misappropriation of his I.T. company's assets in his final canonical appearance. His words after being nominated Prom King in high school sum him up best:
Artie: Hello, classmates. Instead of voting for some athletic hero or pretty boy, you have elected me, your intellectual superior, as your king. Good for you.
- "The Winter of His Content" features a school bully summit modeled on The Warriors in which one Gang of Hats, the "SAT Preppers," consists entirely of these.
- Artie Ziff, Marge's high school prom date, the head of Springfield High School's debate team, and present-day I.T. wizard who has constantly lusted after Marge to the point of harassment since high school and constantly talks down to Homer and others he views as intellectually inferior, even letting Homer take the fall for the misappropriation of his I.T. company's assets in his final canonical appearance. His words after being nominated Prom King in high school sum him up best:
- SpongeBob SquarePants:
- Bubble Bass' geekiness and bullying nature don't go hand-in-hand, but in his first episode alone, he is a spiteful bully to SpongeBob by lying about getting no pickles on his Krabby Patty, forcing the latter to suffer a Heroic BSoD. "Moving Bubble Bass" also reveals he's a Basement Dweller, and in this episode, he manipulates SpongeBob and Patrick (who were promised Krabby Patties) into moving his stuff from his mother's basement to his grandmother's basement... because his mother interrupted his fantasy talk show. He fakes breaking his back so that he has to do none of the work and eats both of the patties he promised them.
- Kevin C. Cucumber has an extremely nasal voice, dorky glasses, and a pocket protector, but he's established a reputation as an expert on jellyfishing, and he takes advantage of SpongeBob's admiration of him so that he can subject him to cruel pranks (although all of them backfire on him in some way or another). It's also revealed that SpongeBob isn’t the only fan he’s abused.
- Static Shock:
- Specs and Trapper, two seniors at the Vanmoor Institute who also serve as teachers to the junior students, while looking down on them. Their Establishing Character Moment is guiding the new student Virgil to what they claim to be his classroom, but in actuality, it was outside of the school. And it only gets worse from there...
- In the episode, Now You See Him, Static mentions that Speedwarp, the villain of the episode who used to go to school with Virgil, was a Bully Magnet in high school and got picked on by everyone, even the other nerds.
- Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters: In the first episode, as Jake is showing Ricardo around his new school, we see some nerds use one of their robots to humiliate a jock.
- Teen Titans: The supervillain, Adonis, is a scrawny nerd with a suit of Powered Armor that gives him Super-Strength, and makes him look like he has a huge chin and a really tall, muscular body. He uses his suit to beat people up while making fun of them for not being as "manly" as him.
- Total Drama: Scarlett at first seems like a standard nerd who befriends Max the Laughably Evil Big Bad Wannabe, but is later revealed to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing and has tricked Max into hurting himself multiple times for her own amusement.