It's a Bully

## Office bio

Here at here school, we believe every good school needs a good bully! That's why we have this kid!

**It's a Bully** is, hence his name, the school bully of the Schoolhouse and Super Schoolhouse. He is a student presumably existing in these buildings because it is believed that "every good school needs a good bully!", according to his poster description in the Principal's office.

## Description

It's a Bully appears to be a terribly-modeled CGI human figure with a fat orange ellipse sphere for a torso, blue cylinders for limbs, and small, tan, finger/toeless balls for hands and feet. His arms and legs both use the same model. He is completely barefoot. It's a Bully's outfit is difficult to make out, but it is likely that it's an orange shirt with long blue sleeves, with blue skinny pants underneath.

He has an incredibly distorted and deformed face with smaller brown eyes (beady due to the overall dithering effect), a gaping mouth with red lips (orange due to dithering) that clip into his fat, asymmetrical nose (upper lip) and where his nonexistent neck is (lower lip). It is possible that It's a Bully's brown hair is neatly combed in an unevenly-chopped bowl cut, as it appears smooth.

There is a sans-serif text floating next to his head that says "**THIS IS A BULLY**" in all-caps. His pose appears to be in a run cycle, which ironically contrasts his lazy personality. He speaks in a clear voice, but every word at the end of a line he says has an echo effect.

## Personality

Being the school bully, It's a Bully has a desire to take the player's items, making him appear as selfish and greedy. It's a Bully likes to get what he wants. He thinks that if the player has no items, they should not be able to pass by him. Even if Baldi is right behind the player, this still applies, making him seem heartless.

It is evident his bullying extends only to students and/or young kids, as he makes no attempt to harass any school faculty, including the player if they are wearing the Faculty Nametag.

## Artificial intelligence

### Main gameplay

It's a Bully will stand still around the start or end of hallways in the school, sometimes switching positions as he might block the player's path completely.

If the player approaches It's a Bully, he will steal a random item from their inventory. Afterwards, he will mysteriously vanish and let the player pass. If the player approaches It's a Bully without any items, he will continue to block the player's path, forcing the player to go another way, if there is one. However, if the player approaches him while wearing the Faculty Nametag, he will let them pass without requiring an item. 180 seconds later while occupying the same spot, he will disappear, stating that he is bored.

    It's a Bully is stationary and only blocks one hallway at a time. He can be a problem if the player is running from Baldi and the Bully just so happens to get in the way. The player must keep in mind that It's a Bully will take any of their items, so they must be willing to give up any of the said items. Additionally, It's a Bully cannot be pushed by a BSODA spray or Cloudy Copter's wind, nor can he be pushed by Gotta Sweep. Even if he gets hit by Beans' bubble gum, the gum wad will not appear. He can even block the Grappling Hook if using it at him. He can block characters getting pushed by a BSODA spray, and make it not work on them anymore.

It's a Bully blocks the vision of other characters, similar to the Dirty Chalk Eraser, so NPCs such as Baldi will ignore the player if It's a Bully is in between them.

If Principal of the Thing spots It's a Bully asking for an item from the player, he will send him to detention and open up the path that he was blocking, allowing the player to pass, with It's a Bully not appearing until 90 seconds of cooldown has passed. When the Principal sends It's a Bully to detention, It's a Bully will be teleported to the center of the Principal's office and he disappears immediately, claiming that he is bored. However, even after he is sent to detention, he can still take an item if the player is on the same spot as him.

### Field trips

It's a Bully appeared in the camping field trip until *Baldi's Basics Plus* V0.3. He would hide behind a forest tree and stalk the player while not being looked at. Once he catches up to the player, he will come out from behind the tree , take all of the player's logs and flee away with the tree hovering above his head. It's a Bully can only do this one time. The player must avoid him, and a good way to know if he is there is checking to see if a tree appears to be moving by looking away and back quickly, or checking to see It's a Bully's arm sticking out from behind a tree. Unlike the main appearance, the player can actually push back It's a Bully with a BSODA.

### Challenges

It's a Bully only appears in the Grapple Challenge and he cannot take the Grappling Hook in the first slot from the player's inventory. However, if there is only the Grappling Hook in their inventory, he will not let them pass.

### Other appearances

* In *Baldi's Basics Classic*, It's a Bully spawns in a few preset spots and takes longer to disappear before spawning in another hallway. It's a Bully first spawns in front of the exit that the player starts the game at.
* In *Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash* and Party Style of *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*, he has the same appearance in *Classic*. Additionally, the "**THIS IS A BULLY**" text on the top-left is changed to "**THIS IS A PARTY**". Other than that, It's a Bully does not appear to wear any relevant birthday accessories. When the player reaches the last exit found in the cafeteria after collecting all seven notebooks, he will appear with the original cast to shout a surprise, but he will tell the player to give him a gift instead.
* In *Baldi's Basics - Field Trip demo: Camping*, It's a Bully can move even when the player does not have any logs. Also, he may move even if the player is looking at him.

## Trivia

### General

* There is a formerly unused image called "`PlaceFace`" in the *Baldi's Basics Classic*/*Birthday Bash* files which appears to be a non-distorted version of the Bully's head, seen in screenshots on mystman12's Twitter. The `PlaceFace` can be found in `TestRoom`. The final model of It's a Bully's head does seem to use the distorted water effect. The unused image was later recycled as a stand-alone character, who first debuts in *Field Trip demo: Camping* behind a secret swinging door outside of the map. Only `PlaceFace`'s eyes could be seen through the swinging doors. In *Birthday Bash*/*Classic Remastered*, `PlaceFace` is seen in a room in the Glitched School with many non-functional Playtimes, one being sad.

* It's a Bully's deformed head is inspired from mystman12's "I'm a CGI Pro Now!" video at timestamp 0:20 while "testing" `PlaceFace`'s model.
* The line "*I'm gonna take your candy...*" was inspired by the YouTube video "preschool bully" by PilotRedSun, a YouTuber that mystman12 is a huge fan of, according to mystman12 during his stream on playing his own game for the first time. All of It's a Bully's voice lines have a similar echo effect applied to the end of his lines.
* It's a Bully's model was first revealed by mystman12 three years before the development of *Baldi's Basics Classic*, seeing that he made a short animation of the model walking on December 6, 2015.
* Along with Baldi, It's a Bully was voiced by mystman12 in the "Baldi gets bullied" video.
* The font for "**THIS IS A BULLY**" or "**THIS IS A PARTY**" text is GIMP's sans-serif with anti-aliasing turned off and a font size of 18px.
* It's a Bully could possibly be considered the exact opposite of Playtime, evidence being:
	+ Playtime is an active, energetic student, while It's a Bully is stationary and lazy.
	+ Playtime, despite being small, is far more of a challenge to deal with than It's a Bully.
	+ Playtime is generally good-natured and does not understand the player's danger, while It's a Bully is greedy and selfish, and shows no remorse for the player regardless of whether Baldi is behind them or not.
	+ Playtime's hair is messy and unkempt, while It's a Bully possibly has straight, neatly-combed hair.
* It's a Bully eats food he takes from the player, but he puts it in his pocket to melt before eating it.

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* It's a Bully's poster in the Principal's office actually has the letter "A" from the text "**THIS IS A BULLY**" on his sprite in the top left corner.
* According to his description in the Principal's office, It's a Bully's presence is considered necessary. Ironically, one of the rules on the school rules poster states "No bullying".
* When It's a Bully disappears after an encounter is not being used, he is stored underneath the map alongside other currently unused or disappeared items. This can be found through hacking or a rare glitch when 1st Prize pushes the player while teleported by any character.
* In the game's files, his sprite is named "`bully_final`", which indicates that he may have had different appearances planned.
* It's a Bully, Chalkles, and The Test are the only characters not to visit the party event. This is most likely because It's a Bully is stationary and teleports around the school, while Chalkles only appears in classrooms and The Test does not move by himself.
	+ Chalkles is also immune to Beans' gum.
* There is a chance that NPCs can see the player through It's a Bully. This happens commonly in a long hallway.

### *Baldi's Basics Classic*

* It's a Bully and the Quarter have the same spawn points.
* Prior to V1.3, It's a Bully would not be taken to detention directly upon being spotted by Principal of the Thing. The same thing happened in *Baldi's Basics Plus* V0.1 to V0.1.2.

### *Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash*/*Classic Remastered*

* The "*Give me your gift...*" quote is likely inspired by one of the lines in *Hungry Pumpkin*, "*Give me the (food name)*". *Hungry Pumpkin* was one of the mystman12's favorite memes and the voice in the game is very similar to the one from the original.
	+ Additionally, in mystman12's livestream, It's a Bully's line, "*No, I don't want that.*" originally comes from *Hungry Pumpkin* as well.

## Glitches

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* In the camping field trip in V0.1.5, when the player has at least one log and not looking at It's a Bully, he will fall through the ground and flee away from them.
* From V0.3.3 to V0.3.7, It's a Bully could steal a Grappling Hook in the first slot and he would let the player pass if they only had a Grappling Hook.

### *Baldi's Basics Classic*

* In V1.0, It's a Bully's spawn time was a lot shorter at the start of the game, and could sometimes spawn on top of the player and caused the game to soft-lock as the player would not "fly" out of his collision, which for some reason did happen with other objects like lockers and walls.
* Prior to V1.2, a rare bug prevented It's a Bully from spawning.

## Audio

* Quotes
* Livestream
* Others

*Baldi's Basics Plus*/*Classic Remastered*

*Baldi's Basics Classic*

*Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash*

*Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*

*Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo*/*Kickstarter Exclusive Demo*/*Challenges Demo*

Unused/Removed

*Baldi gets bullied*

## Gallery

* Image files
* Screenshots
* Kickstarter
* Merchandise
* Others

It's a Bully's poster in the Principal's office.Ditto, but prior to *Baldi's Basics Plus* V0.3.5.Ditto, but in *Classic*/*Birthday Bash*.It's a Bully's appearance in *Birthday Bash*.It's a Bully in the *Birthday Bash* ending screen.

*Baldi's Basics Plus*
It's a Bully during the camping field trip.It's a Bully in a hallway.
*Baldi's Basics Classic*
It's a Bully from the V1.4 screenshot.It's a Bully from the V1.3 screenshot.It's a Bully from the Google Play screenshot.It's a Bully from the App Store iPhone screenshot.It's a Bully from the App Store iPad screenshot.
*Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo*
It's a Bully during the test procedure event.
*Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*
It's a Bully's poster in the Principal's office.
Others
It's a Bully's image working on the *Field Trip demo* update.It's a Bully from the full game's development build screenshot.It's a Bully from the screenshot while mystman12 is working on the *Kickstarter Exclusive Demo*.

It's a Bully's head shape in the Kickstarter.It's a Bully, along with half of the cast, in the "**Thank you!**" image after the game's Kickstarter was funded.It's a Bully and Gotta Sweep's old design figures in mystman12's laptop.

T-shirts
It's a Bully in the "Sweepin' Time" classic T-shirt.Ditto, but premium version.
Hoodies
It's a Bully in the "Sweepin' Time" pullover hoodie.
Toys
It's a Bully's beanie doll.It's a Bully's action figure.It's a Bully's figurine.It's a Bully's clip hanger.The back of the action figure packaging.
Prototypes
It's a Bully's prototype action figure.It's a Bully's prototype action figure in second version.It's a Bully's prototype figurine.
Others
It's a Bully from the button set.It's a Bully from the printable Valentine card.It's a Bully from the Amazon merchandise page image.

A sideways view of It's a Bully, seen on mystman12's Twitter.The It's a Bully figure on the *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered* blurry teaser.It's a Bully figure with the old Gotta Sweep figure on mystman12's laptop at Basically, Games!'s office.The It's a Bully plush with the Baldi and Playtime plushies.An It's a Bully figure behind mystman12 wearing sunglasses.It's a Bully with the old Gotta Sweep figure at mystman12's keyboard.It's a Bully grabbing Gotta Sweep.
## References

1. ↑ "*Today was pretty slow. I had to create some textures, which was pretty time consuming and the results were pretty meh... Despite that though, the day ended with this, sooooo I'll consider it a success! #MetaGameJam #Gamedev*" - mystman12. March 18, 2018. Twitter
2. ↑ "*Well, things are going pretty good so far! I've pretty much got player movement down, and now I'm testing out billboarding sprites (Thanks to the Unity Wiki for the billboarding script!) now. I'm going to look into AI next. #MetaGameJam*" - mystman12. March 17, 2018. Twitter
3. ↑ I'm a CGI Pro Now! | YouTube
4. ↑ "*Nope, just a PRS fan.*" - mystman12. June 16, 2018. Twitter
5. ↑ "*He says "I'm gonna take your candy...". Yeah, that's completely based off of the PilotRedSun video.*" - Livestream archive 1:01:35-1:01:43
6. ↑ "*Animation is easy, guys. Stop acting like it's so hard!*" - mystman12. December 6, 2015. Twitter
7. ↑ "*New video out! A huge thank you to @mystman12 for voicing Baldi and the Bully, and @PajamaFrix for the 3d models and vhs effect! Super proud of this one :)*" - Xploshi. July 13, 2020. Twitter
8. ↑ Q: "*Does It's a Bully eat everything he steals?*" / A: "*Yes, but only after letting everything melt in his pockets.*" - Gmail (question), Gmail (response)