As said by Zack W. Van, “ Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It’s a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.” Acts of verbal and physical abuse can be seen in Bully by Lee Hirsch and Mean Girls by Mark Waters. Bully depicts the stories of individual children dealing with different types of harassment at their schools and Mean Girls showcases fictional examples of bullying going on between people all around high school, especially with the teenage girls. Tropes are always reoccurring in medias almost like a stereotypical element; these films clearly show the classic depiction of a person being bullied to the breaking point, and what happens to the bullies who have caused it. Motifs can help
