Joe Pena

Joe Pena was a high school bully that harassed Emmett for months during his senior year of high school. In the spring of 2015, months after Emmett's father died in a terrorist attack in Paris, Joe made the fateful mistake of verbally slandering Emmett. Emmett attempted to defuse the situation, but Joe ended up angrily assaulting Emmett in front of Emmett's friends. In the ensuing brawl, Emmett accidentally killed Joe by rupturing his liver after punching it really hard. 
However, Emmett suffered no legal repercussions, as he was able to prove that the fight happened out of self defense, thanks to his friends videotaping the fight on their mobile phones as it happened.  A few weeks after the incident, Joe's parents came to apologize to Emmett for their son's behavior.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Not much is known about Joe's early life, except for the fact that his parents immigrated to the US from Venezeula months before his birth. Sometime later, a series of tragic events in his life turned him into a menacing bully, which made him quite feared at school.
===Bullying career===
Joe Pena harassed Emmett for months both before the November 2015 Paris Attacks and after. He mainly targeted Emmett because he felt jealous of Emmett's popularity due to his "uniqueness", in addition to Emmett's perceived "scrawny" appearance, and felt that the only way to settle the score was to "bring him down" (i.e. dehumanize him). In the wake of his father's death, Joe found a new reason to torment Emmett: losing his father would, at least in Joe's eyes, make Emmett "weaker".
===Defeated===
The last time Joe ever bullied Emmett was in the spring of 2015, after the November 2015 Paris Attacks. After verbally slandering Emmett once more, Emmett retaliated with a speech about how he believes everyone is picking on him because of his "uniqueness" while everyone else lives a "normal" (and, in his eyes, immoral) life, then proceeded to rebuke Joe and his cronies for using their statuses as "normal people" as a justification to attack him for his "uniqueness." Emmett then invoked the name of the Christian God to intimidate Joe, which led to Joe angrily assaulting him.
In the ensuing brawl, Emmett broke Joe's arm, leg and back, leaving him paralyzed for life.
===Post-bullying===
Joe eventually reformed during his recovery in the hospital, thanks to some Campus Crusader Underdog members sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with him. As a new Christian, he now fears Emmett Mack (who has yet to learn of his conversion to Christianity) will return and finish what he started. However, it is later revealed that Emmett and Joe forgave each other and are on good, or at least friendly terms. He later revealed that his bullying reputation emerged because he was in a rather broken household. Both his parents abandoned him and it left him with a warped view on people and life itself. 
Category:Bullies
Category:Minor villains
Category:Villains
Category:Columbus High School students