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If you haven't been the victim of a bully in your lifetime, chances are you were one. Bullying's existed since David and Goliath times, when Goliath famously stole David's milk money.
These mean-spirited assholes come in all shapes and sizes, from the devil in nurse's clothing to some fairly lovable meat-heads. One thing's for sure with this bunch of wedgie-giving, cigarette-smoking, cool hair-having bunch—no one's lunch snacks are safe.
These are the 25 Greatest Bullies in Movie History.
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Written by Greg Topscher (@gtopscher)
25. Stab, Pee-Wee, and Zilla
Played By: Paul Anthony, Bowlegged Lou, and B-Fine
Movie: House Party (1990)
In the span of this classic odyssey of having a good time, Full Force get arrested twice, embarrassed by the police, and just generally embarrassed. That doesn't keep them from running around like the keystone cops trying to thwart Kid and Play's good time. They may have egg on their face at the end of this movie, but you can almost see the smiles just under the surface.
Now go play "All in My Mind."
24. The Socs
Played By: Diane Lane, Leif Garret, and Darren Dalton
Movie: The Outsiders (1983)
Who doesn't want to go to war with the rich kids from your hometown? Especially when you are rolling deep with the '80s brat pack. But seriously, the Socs dunked Ponyboy in a fountain! They are going down. Nobody puts Ponyboy in the a fountain.
23. Hugo Snyder
Played By: Rand Kingsley
Movie: 3 Ninjas (1992)
A classic (white guy as a) ninja gone to the dark side, Hugo Snyder has a mysterious past, except that he was a former student of Mori Tanaka's turned sour apple. Like a typical villain, he employs his nephew and his goofball friends, because he's too busy going to terrorist conferences and working on his memoir. But unlike a typical villain, the toughest threats to his evil empire are children. Three children. (Which, rumor has it, was the original title of 3 Ninjas.)
22. Ice and Jay
Played By: Larry Bagby, Tobias Jelinek
Movie: Hocus Pocus (1993)
Jay and Ernie, or Ice as the back of his head asks that you call him, like the simple things: smoking, cash, stealing shoes, and generally terrorizing people the new kids in town. They dress like a greaser and an old man who recently discovered rap, and are kind of loveably un-intimidating. Of course, the get theirs. But it's Disney, not Larry Clark, so no real harm done.
21. Gabe Santora
Played By: Usher Raymond
Movie: The Faculty (1998)
Usher may just be too likeable to properly play the bully here, but that doesn't stop him from giving it his all, from doing it his way. He's the new football captain and he hopes you're not jealous, but he's totally going to infect you with some alien virus. The only thing this performance is really missing is some spontaneous dancing. Can't have it all.
20. The Paperboy
Played By: Sebastian Dungan
Movie: Better Off Dead (1985)
The bully most likely to pop out of absolutely anywhere, this paperboy just wants his damn two dollars. Watching him on his bike chse John Cusak down the slopes during the climactic ski race, is one of the most charming bits of the '80s comedy wave, a sign that the bully archetype was over. Not that the '90s got that note.
19. Seth Devlin
Played By: Alex Greenwald
Movie: Donnie Darko (2001)
The first time viewers see Seth Devlin in Donnie Darko, he's doing a key bump at his locker. And he never stops being the almost-comically bad ghost of '80s movie bullies past. With Seth Rogen at his side, he can ineffectually make fun of any chubby Asian girl in any class. In a climactic scene, Seth Devlin takes it to an unexpected level of seriousness with his Halloween costume meat clever and the chaos it brings. Chaos like a Phantom Planet concert.
18. Witch Clique
Played By: Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True
Movie: The Craft (1996)
Everybody wants to fit in. Even if the only club you can get in is the goth one. Only after an unusually successful game of light as a feather, stiff as a board, it hits you: You're a witch. It happens more often than you might think. And if The Wizard of Oz taught the world one thing, it's that there are good witches and bad ones. These girls are Heathers with superpowers. And the school is in for a world of hurt.
17. Scut Farkus
Played By: Zack Ward
Movie: A Christmas Story (1983)
Equipped with one of the best bully names of all time, and a face that you just want to punch, neighborhood nightmare Scut Farkus is a hard-working bully. He spends his time patrolling the streets, making sure to take pot shots at unsuspecting smaller children. But watching him get wailed on by Ralphie while expletives spew from his mouth is as unexpected and hilarious as a bully interaction can get.
16. John Bender
Played By: Judd Nelson
Movie: The Breakfast Club (1985)
John Bender is that kid in high school who has a close relationship with the assistant principle. He's a wedgie-giving angry kid who looks a little bit like he's been in jail as well as detention. Over time, and after a little weed, he softens on the group and finds a weird little family, but for a while, he's all screams and PCP-eyes. Next to the never intimidating Anthony Michael Hall, he's a lion.
15. Buzz
Played By: Devin Ratray
Movie: Home Alone (1990)
Buzz's girlfriend? Woof. But the rest of the stuff in his chest is real treasure. Maybe that's why he's so hard on little Kevin, who just wants to eat pizza without having to sit next to his gassy cousin and maybe sleep in Buzz's room tonight. Buzz has A, 2, and D reasons for anything Kevin wants to do, and the size and harrowing figure to back it up.
14. Tony Perkis
Played By: Ben Stiller
Movie: Heavyweights (1995)
Tony Perkis, son of the lighting fixture king, means business. He is, after all, a businessman of the highest order. Getting kids at fat camp to lose weight is no joke, and Tony is not kidding around. He's a log toting, lunch-cancelling, infomercial-shooting machine, and he can smell your snack stash from a mile away. So gear up for the hike, free climb, yoga trip, and meditation session-because you look terrible and you have no choice. Deal with it.
13. Tracy Flick
Played By: Reese Witherspoon
Movie: Election (1999)
When you think of cutthroat politics, Reese Witherspoon's cherubic face may not spring to mind. But Tracy Flick, running unopposed in the high-school world of Alexander Payne's Election, is a lone wolf, a rogue on the fast-track to success (even if she has to run over some people to get there). She'll destroy posters and marriages to become student body president. By the end of this impressive performance from Witherspooon, it's impossible to not imagine her in the Senate.
12. Fred O'Bannion
Played By: Ben Affleck
Movie: Dazed and Confused (1993)
Fred O'Bannion: the man with his eye on the prize. Except the prize isn't exactly what you'd expect. The neighborhood terror wields a mighty cricket paddle, a weapons that's inspired years of homoerotic fraternity hazing. And he's pointing it right at your scrawny backside. Motivation aside, Fred was a very effective bully, haunting the dreams of long-haired, forehead-touching teens everywhere. Oh, that gleeful cackle. Then he became a successful writer and director. Go figure.
11. The Clique
Played By: Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, and Kim Walker
Movie: Heathers (1988)
When you talk about cliques of girls in high school, you probably aren't talking about an oligarchy that rules with school with carefully planted rumors, dagger-filled glances, and occasionally, murder. Unless you're talking about the coven from the beloved cult classic Heathers. A revenge fantasy for the ages, the non-Heather changes the way the school is run forever. She takes the red scrunchy.
10. The O'Doyle Family
Played By: Conor Devitt, Christian Matheson, Colin Smith, Sean Lett, Bob Rodgers, and Margo Wladyka
Movie: Billy Madison (1995)
The O'Doyle family rules, lest you forget. It's a dynasty built on intimdation and ridicule that brings chaos and destruction to all levels of Billy Madison's schooling-and life outside of it. But nothing that perfect can last. It's a less common truism, but we all know that the family that bullies together accidentally drives off a cliff together. Makes you wonder what happened to Mrs. O'Doyle.
9. Johnny Lawrence
Played By: William Zabka
Movie: The Karate Kid (1984)
It's easy to imagine that the "You're the Best" montage in Karate Kid is actually about this blonde machine for crushing dreams, the prototype for all other handsome douche bullies in the '80s and '90s. Johnny Lawrence sweeps the leg likes nobody's business, and when he grabs Daniel's leg for a sucker punch to the knee, we limped for days. Also, is it possible that he's the inspiration for Steet Fighter's Ken Masters?
8. Ace Merrill
Played By: Keifer Sutherland
Movie: Stand By Me (1986)
Daryl from The Walking Dead grew up with a poster of Ace Merrill on his wall; he's a shining light of trashy bullies everywhere. He has an immaculate sense of style that involves looking like a dusty breeze follows him wherever he goes, never being without a cigarette, and some damn nice hair. Interests include: hitting mailboxes with baseball bats, rubbing car parts with rags, and threatening small kids with dangerous objects.
7. Regina George
Played By: Rachel McAdams
Movie: Mean Girls (2004)
Raise your hand if you've been personally victimized by Regina George. After a week of revenge that left her fat, acne-covered, and in a neck brace, it's almost possible to feel bad for Regina George. Almost. That's the superhuman power of a high school bully. No sympathy. In either direction.
6. Chet Donnelly
Played By: Bill Paxton
Movie: Weird Science (1985)
Chet Donnelly didn't invent the pork chop sandwich, he was just the innovator who decided to serve it in an ashtray. In what's, weirdly enough, one of Bill Paxton's best roles, Chet is a high and tight total package asshole of an older brother. He opens doors like the Fonz, turns on jukeboxes, smokes cigars with the requisite shit-eating grin, and generally ruins Wyatt and Gary's lives. Which makes their triumph over him all the more exciting.
5. Deebo
Played By: Tommy "Tiny" Lister
Movie: Friday (1995)
Is there a more classic bully type than the drug dealer? A pusher with a lot of projects going on at once, Deebo's just trying to protect his thriving business in these hard economic times. He needs money, occasionally a bike. What really makes him stand out, though, is his professional demeanor, including a body like a hammer, and an eye like a hammerhead's. Just be glad you don't owe him money.
4. Bobby Kent
Played By: Nick Stahl
Movie: Bully (2001)
Bobby Kent, scourge of everyone around him, is a real life bully (based off of a real person) who manages to more or less ruin the lives of everyone he comes in contact with. To the point that his friends band together to try and murder him, both to defend their reputations and out of fear. While many of the bullies from the world of children's movies, ultimately, aren't real threats, everything about Larry Clark's world is super-real. Call the therapist, you're relapsing real.
3. Bishop
Played By: Tupac Shakur
Movie: Juice (1982)
Bishop was just a guy with a cool haircut until he saw that robbery and got hooked on the juice. Which then turned him into a cold blooded killer, who sets up his friends for the string of killings he commits as he spirals into Scarface-like depths of paranoia and greed. Still with the cool haircut. Across genres and time periods, a special haircut is the hallmark of a bully.
2. Nurse Ratched
Played By: Louise Flethcher
Movie: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
She's a bully, all right. An order-keeper of the highest degree, Nurse Ratched uses the quintessential bully tactic: cool intimidation. She rules her hospital with a dictator-type levels of control, making her back and forth arguments with the charismatic and off the handle McMurphy one of the most entertaining battles outside of The Great Escape. But her victory over McMurphy is one of the most crippling defeats in all of film. With most bullies, the only thing at stake is the loss of already-shaky adolescent confidence. Nurse Ratched is aiming much higher, making her something more than a bully.
1. Biff
Played By: Thomas F. Wilson
Movie: Back to the Future (1985)
Could there be anyone more synonymous with bullying than Biff? This throwback from the unadulterated bullying of the '50s is an icon for low-grade malevolence. Biff has great hair, he's the right proportion of beefcake—big smiles and date-rapiness—plus he has a great backing band that includes the guy who wears the 3-D glasses all the time. If you're trying to hook your parents up in the past, there's no one you wanna work against more than Biff.