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“ | I keep imagining myself in charge of a large empire. | „ |
~ Gary Smith foreshadowing his goals. |
“ | It's sink or swim, my friend. And if you're good at swimming, you gotta let the losers drown. | „ |
~ Gary demonstrating his own Social Darwinistic mentality to Jimmy. |
Gary Smith is the main antagonist of the 2006 video game Bully.
He is a malicious but highly intelligent student, aiming to take over the student population of the private high school of Bullworth Academy. To do so, Smith feigns friendship with the hero Jimmy Hopkins to use him as muscle and a scapegoat, but Hopkins overtime comes to realize what kind of person Gary is, becoming his archenemy.
He was voiced by Peter Vack.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He constantly physically and psychologically abused many of the other students, mainly Pete Kowalski, whom he insulted for being a loser and his sexuality, claimed insulted Jimmy Hopkins to rile him up, and tormented physically by kicking him in the crotch and forcing him to wear a pink bunny costume on Halloween, for no reason other than boredom and joy.
- Many other of his actions even exceed generic bullying and reach to tortural gratification, which is proven true by his own quotes involving threatening people with tortural traumatization in addition to the Preppie student Pinky Gauthier's statement that he likes to torture people, as well as Gary gloating to Jimmy that after taking over the school that he had gotten kids unfairly expelled, caused them to go to therapy, and amongst other things.
- Upon Jimmy's arrival to the school, Gary feigned friendship with him just to use him as muscle and urge him into committing some offenses such as pick-locking, assault, vandalism, knocking out the school's football team with his slingshot, making violent pranks to both students and teachers, beating Chad up while feeding his dog with rotten meat, tormenting the Hobo who he refers to as "really helpless and unfortunate", and breaking into the basement of the school building.
- When hanging out with Jimmy, lots of his additional quotes during free roam further shows his sadistic personality, such as him imagining budding criminals and hooligans, hoping someone is burning when hearing the fire alarm goes off, saying he loves people getting brutalized, and provoking students into having war, burning down the school and killing each other when seeing any trouble within the school.
- These quotes widely foreshadow his most heinous actions, as he would later order the burning of the school and make the students, whom he sees as potential criminals, hooliganize the school and brutalize each other as he planned from the beginning.
- After getting paranoid that Jimmy would plot against him, he lured him into a trap that involves him fighting against Russell Northrop, the strongest school bully, by leading him to believe that Jimmy insulted his mother, while making the other clique leaders watch it.
- He noted that he enjoys watching people beat each other up, foreshadowing what he later intends to do at Bullworth.
- Throughout a whole year, he manipulated the cliques to turn against Jimmy by convincing them that Jimmy is spreading rumors on all of them.
- In autumn, he convinced the Preppies to turn against Jimmy with claims such as Jimmy insulted Tad and his family for alleged inbreeding.
- In winter, he worked with the Greasers, helping them surround the nerd Cornelius and threaten him.
- In spring, he convinced the Nerds' leader Earnest Jones that the pair could take over the school, turning his clique against Jimmy, which forces Jimmy to have to pacify them before pursuing his feud with the Jocks.
- Even after Jimmy befriended all the school cliques, Gary managed to bring the Townies against Bullworth, causing an all-out onslaught from them to the school.
- He manipulated the Townies' leader Edgar Munsen into helping him take over Bullworth Academy by taking advantage of his hatred for the school, and ordered his gang to commit various offenses against the four cliques to frame Jimmy for them:
- Ordering Duncan and Leon to release twenty possibly feral rats into the school library where the Nerds hang out, until Jimmy interfered and kills all of them.
- Ordering Gurney to set the gymnasium on fire where the Jocks hang out while there were several students inside of it, endangering several lives.
- Ordering Clint, Otto and Duncan to steal and destroy the Preppies' boxing trophies by burning them, which would almost start a brawl between Preppies and Greasers for the former initially blaming the latter for the offense.
- Making the orderlies take Johnny Vincent and have him imprisoned into the Happy Volts Mental Asylum, where he would get tortured and abused, by using the Townies to put out some nefarious rumours about his girlfriend Lola Lombardi for him to be taken to crazy, which consequently forced Jimmy to sneak into the asylum and rescue him.
- His hatemongering and incriminating actions eventually caused Jimmy, the only figure in the school that could have stopped his intentions of taking over the school, getting expelled and being despised by almost everyone around the school.
- While Jimmy was at fault for writing graffiti making fun of Bullworth, it was clearly nowhere near as bad as any of Gary's crimes, and regardless, he was scapegoated by Gary with numerous horrible actions and rumors, even including some horrid ones such as him being a zoophile.
- Even after Jimmy was expelled and managed to befriend the Townies, he turned the cliques against Jimmy and each other for the second time, crowning himself as the Head Boy of Bullworth by manipulating the teachers and prefects onto his side, and causing an all-out riot at the school in which the students brutalize each other and hooliganize the school that would have caused injuries and possibly deaths.
- It is particularly shown during the riot that Earnest Jones is the one who is affected most from his manipulation, as he considers himself and Gary "unstoppable" with his own intelligence and the latter's lack of morals.
- After the defeat of the cliques, he tied Dr. Crabblesnitch up at his office, most likely intending to get rid of him after he's done with Jimmy.
- He rejected Jimmy's negotiation attempts, insulting him and his mother to provoke him into a fight, refusing to justify any of his actions and admitting that he did that only out of joy and sadism while taunting Jimmy for using him as a pawn for the whole year.
- He outright attempted to seriously injure if not murder Jimmy by throwing bricks at him while he is walking through the scaffolding, throwing a wheelbarrow full of cement blocks while he is climbing, trying to strike him with huge bells and trying to push him off the scaffolding.
- Although he initially seemed like he wanted to work with Jimmy to survive the hostile environment of Bullworth Academy, it was actually nothing more than an act and he would backstab Jimmy later on, claiming that Jimmy would have eventually betrayed him, even though Jimmy genuinely wished to be his friend and never did anything to harm or spite Gary.
- Despite having a past of having unloving parents that were trapped in a failing marriage between a greedy crook and a promiscuous woman who are described as horrible greedy people (with even his father going to prison) and forced him on medication, then dumped him into Bullworth when he was old enough, which negatively contributed to his current personality, this tragedy does not hold up as his previous experiences are completely offscreen and only mentioned briefly and he constantly refuses to justify his actions with his past and states he did those solely for no reason other than sadistic enjoyment.
- While it seems that he has moral agency issues from him getting evil from not taking his medication for his mental issues (with even Dr. Bambillo stating he is "clinically delusional") and seems to legitimately suffer from delusions that Jimmy will betray him, he clearly shows high intelligence and manipulative skills, added to the fact that deliberately stopped himself from taking his medication, while he was "sane".
- While he does have a couple comedic moments earlier in the story that are in line with the light-hearted atmosphere of the game, they do not detract from his villainy and he is still taken seriously in-universe, with most of these moments merely highlighting his sadism, a large portion of which center around tormenting Pete and discriminating other people, and these moments are nowhere to be seen after he betrays Jimmy, regardless.
- He is so abhorrent by the standards of the game that he is despised and distrusted by everyone at Bullworth Academy, which is stated to be the worst school in the country, is mostly filled with violent bullies and corrupt authority figures, and, according to Jimmy, has an alumni consisting of "nothing but arms dealers, serial killers and corporate lawyers."
- While there are some in-game references to Manhunt and the 3D/HD Universes of Grand Theft Auto (which could imply he would have to compete with the incredibly high Heinous Standards of those franchises), the connection between the games is vague and left to just in-game references.
- Even if the series was confirmed to take place in those universes, his incredibly low resources compared to other characters (being just a regular high school student), in addition to his personal villainy toward Jimmy, would likely make him stand out regardless.
Trivia[]
- Gary Smith is the only Bully villain on the Pure Evil.
- He is one of the youngest villains on the Pure Evil Wiki.
External Links[]
- Gary Smith on the Villains Wiki
- Gary Smith on the Hate Sink Wiki
- Gary Smith on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- Gary Smith on the Moral Ranking Wiki
- Gary Smith on the Bully Wiki
- Gary Smith on the VS Battles Wiki
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