Richard Vernon

""Dont mess with the bull young man, you'll get the horns.""

- - Richard Vernon

Richard Vernon is the principal of Shermer High School and the main antagonist of the 1985 movie The Breakfast Club.

He is played by the late Paul Gleason, who reprised the role in the A-Teens music video for Dancing Queen (which parodies the film), as a dean in Boy Meets World and in the explicit parody film Not Another Teen Movie.

Vernon is strict and a bully.

When Bender insults him, Vernon gives Bender two detentions. Vernon also locks Bender in a storage closet and threatens him. Richard Vernon also threatens the five students in Saturday detention. By the end of the film Vernon reads the essay that Brian Johnson wrote. Those five teens tell him that he's crazy and their alot better than him.

Richard Vernon failed to break these teens. These teens leave detention as better people.