| “ | You guys treat us nerds like dirt. One day you'll regret it! | „ |
| ~ Earnest Jones |
Earnest Jones is one of the secondary antagonists of the 2006 action-adventure video game Bully.
He is the self-proclaimed supreme leader of the Nerds clique, ruling over his fellow outcasts with an iron fist that hides deep insecurities. Despite his intelligence and organizational skills, his authority often stems less from genuine respect and more from his ability to manipulate and intimidate the socially awkward students who follow him. Earnest presents himself as a visionary fighting against the oppression of Bullworth’s popular cliques, yet his arrogance and toxic sense of entitlement reveal a darker side to his leadership. He is also Ted Thompson's former archenemy.
He was voiced by Jesse Tendler.
Description[]
Appearance[]
Earnest wears the same kelly green astronomy club jacket as most of the nerds. He wears half moon glasses, same as Donald, and he also wears brown school pants, brown ankle boots, and a brown leather watch on his left wrist. During winter, he wears a green astronomy sweater and a short purple and white striped scarf. In Complete Mayhem, he wears a red headband and a war vest on top of his costume. Brown eyes.
There was one extremely early incarnation of Earnest with black hair in a short mullet, facial imperfections and extremely large buckteeth. His last incarnation could have been based on Ernest "Ernie" Douglas in the first TV version of My Three Sons.
Personality[]
Earnest is the leader of the Nerds and rules his clique with an iron fist. He's intelligent but also arrogant at the same time. He's also got a dirty mind, with Jimmy even catching him muttering fantasies to himself at one point. He's always carrying around dirty magazines that, according to his dialogue, he sometimes lends out and has trouble getting back. His entertainment at such material has a tendency to completely overshadow his sense. He is also very skilled at making plans and strategies as the entire campaign was planned by him against the Jocks.
Despite his intelligence, he is clearly easy to manipulate as Gary is able to do so twice. He is also very eager to take revenge on the Jocks and seems to want to place his clique higher in the social hierarchy. Earnest is a coward and will attack Jimmy from above and surrenders after Jimmy has dragged him to his level. He finds it difficult to take responsibility for his own behavior because he blames Jimmy exclusively for the Jocks' retaliation for the naked pictures of the cheerleader, Mandy, despite the fact that it was his idea for Jimmy to take the pictures, and he who then printed them up in poster form.
According to the speech Earnest delivers while running for class president, he is against schools teaching non-academic subjects, and advocates the complete abolition of Bullworth Academy's sports program. He also considers himself a revolutionary. His speech features monologues regarding what he'll reform when he gets into office; he consistently refers to his clique as "compadres" or "amigos", and during Complete Mayhem, even dons a pseudo-military uniform.
He is, along with Edgar, the only clique leader who is not going out with the group's girl, his being Beatrice.
Biography[]
Chapter 1[]
Earnest is attempting to become the class president but the Jocks sabotage his advertisement and make a plan to ruin his speech at the debate. Jimmy notices that Earnests campaign is not going so well but Earnest asks Jimmy if he will vote for him Jimmy says 'yeah not a chance' but says he will vote for Earnest after he offers to pay Jimmy for his vote.
Jimmy tells Earnest unless he buys everyone's vote he will never win because the Jocks will definitely ruin his speech at the debate but Earnest says he needs a security manager then requests Jimmy to be one but Jimmy says security managers cost a lot of money but accepts when Earnest tells him he will pay him. During the speech Jimmy keeps Earnest safe and Earnest gains applause from the crowd but it is unknown what happens next as the class president theme is never brought up again after this mission.
Chapter 4[]
Jimmy was planning to take on the Jocks next. But in order to do that he had to team up with the Nerds, by fight their leader, Earnest. Since the boy lacks the brawns to face Jimmy head on, he attcks him with a homemade gun atop from railings that Jimmy must destroy. After he defeated Earnest, the Nerds became an ally to Jimmy. He devises the plot to ridicule the football team and open the way for Jimmy to battle them, plan set into motion by his nerd friends.
The rest of the chapter has Jimmy working towards Earnest's plan, "Operation Trojan Cow". Earnest nearly sabotages his own plan when his dirty mind overrides his common sense and he has Jimmy take risque photos of Mandy. In the end, though, Earnest's plan is pulled off.
Chapter 5[]
At first, it seems that Jimmy succeeded in making all the clique leaders his friends, but when Gary releases rats in the library, the nerds are quick to blame him. And when Jimmy gets expelled, his newfound "friends" promptly turn on him. In the end of Chapter 5, there was a riot in Bullworth Academy thanks to Gary Smith. Both Jimmy and Russell have to fight the leaders of each class group. Earnest and 2 other nerds are spotted destroying the gym. Both Jimmy and Russell fight Earnest and the nerds. Jimmy and Russell can easily beat them.
When Gary is defeated and Jimmy re-enrolled in a pacified Bullworth Academy, Earnest is seen applauding him, along with Jimmy's friends and the clique leaders.
Theme[]
Theme of Earnest[]
External Link[]
- Earnest Jones on the Bully Wiki
