Talk:John Bender/@comment-29394979-20180906061946/@comment-44275313-20191111014856

Bender does exhibit some bullying, but he is more of a "juvenile deliquent" or "bad boy", than a "bully"--"Bully" would describe someone like Biff Tannen (Back to the Future), one of William Zabka's teen a-hole characters (Johnny Lawrence [The Karate Kid], Greg Tolan [Just One of the Guys], or Chas Osborne [Back to School]), or Ace Merill (Stand by Me):

Bender changes drastically, and towards the end, I think his bullying tendencies die off, when he finds love in an unlikely place; except for Johnny Lawrence (one of William Zabka's characters), most of the bullies remain evil. Nelson remains evil. Nelson is more of a "bully" than Bender.