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 mantains 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.

External links:

• Bullies in the Simpsons
• Coward of the County Lyrics
• A Christmas Tale (features a great town bully).