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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. Smith feigns friendship with the hero Jimmy Hopkins to use him as muscle and a scapegoat, but his reign of terror comes to an end when Hopkins realizes what kind of person he is, becoming his archenemy.
He was voiced by Peter Vack.
Appearance[]
Gary is a tall and slender fifteen-year-old boy with dark brown hair in a low fade style, dark brown eyes that can also appear reddish at night and hint at his sinister nature, as well as a large scar over his right eye. He wears a teal Bullworth sweater vest unique to him, over a white shirt, and grey school slacks. He has a silver watch on his left wrist and a brown leather band on his right.
In the winter he wears a black wool skullcap. At Halloween he wears a SS Officer costume and carries a riding crop which Jimmy can wrestle off him.
Personality[]
Gary has a horrible (and entirely deserved) reputation among the student body. He is distrusted by all, and scorns them all in turn. Fellow students state that he is a violent, egotistical, destructive, merciless, power-hungry sociopath and that he likes to torture people. He claims to suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder, and displays dark tetrad personality traits; which encompasses Narcissism, Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, and Sadism. He is also suffers from extreme paranoia, and possibly schizophrenia, perhaps due to his awful family life. He was on behaviour amplifying medication, but stopped taking it sometime around Halloween, worsening his condition.
Gary craves for stimulation, constantly seeking for thrill. He is thoroughly cannot connect to people, viewing them as worthless tools to play with and discard, and the mere idea of sharing is alien to him. He has a strong superiority complex, boasting endlessly and fancying himself as a great ruler. He cannot fathom being wrong, reviles contradiction, trusts no-one, and sees plots against him everywhere, even when there are none.
Gary hates society at large. He will stoop to any means to manipulate people, just for the thrill of having them eating out of his hand, regarding that as a validation of his low opinion. He took great, albeit perverse-like sadistic joy in leading Dr. Crabblesnitch, the principal, on getting students expelled, putting others into therapy and causing a veritable war in Bullworth Academy, for no other reason that he could. Much worse, he relishes in the chaos he causes, gleefully taunting and insulting his victims, rubbing his success to their face and going out of his way to infuriate them.
Despite his mental instability, he is highly intelligent, manipulative and observant, boasting that "nothing escapes [his] notice". He is very adept in using people's rivalry to play people against one another, by spreading lies and framing them behind their backs. He is also very good in orchestrating situations, by playing for several sides at once.
Gary, the Devil on Jimmy's shoulder.
His modus operandi is to "befriend" his target and gain their trust, all the while plotting against them. He is also shown to be an excellent manipulator and liar, knowing what buttons to push to direct people where he wants, and proves able to make people believe whatever he wants them to, even when they despise him and know full well that he is not to be trusted.
However, his clinically overinflated ego leads him to underestimate the heroes, like so many criminal masterminds. Having pegged Jimmy Hopkins as a brainless muscle-head and Pete Kowalski as a spineless nobody, he cannot conceive having misjudged them, failing to regard Jimmy's drive to solve troubles and Pete’s intelligence surpassing his own. He starts out as cautious and collected, but stopping his treatment causes him to throw restraint through the window.
He no longer bothers with discretion, wanting everyone to know how he “beat” them, only focusing on his short-term, hollow victory. When Jimmy rightly points out that his so-called success is bound to crumble around him, he laughs it off, being too fixated on his power high to care. He keeps gloating, even when cornered, all within earshot of authority, leading to his well-deserved downfall.
Quotes[]
Story[]
| “ | Jimmy: Hey man, what's your problem? Gary: Well A.D.D., primarily, but also life, my parents, this school, western civilization, but really, honestly, enough about me. |
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| ~ Gary explaining his misanthropy to Jimmy. |
| “ | Oh, I see you've met the dorm's mascot. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you "Femme Boy", the girliest boy in school. Petey, haven't you got some imaginary friends to go annoy? | „ |
| ~ Gary introducing Jimmy to Pete Kowalski. |
| “ | They're actually sneaky bastards. Their turf is the library. | „ |
| ~ Gary describing the Nerds to Jimmy in the lunchroom. |
| “ | The thing is, if I win, you're just another punk! You win, and you'll be sent away even quicker for beating up the head boy! | „ |
| ~ Gary Smith to Jimmy Hopkins before the final fight. |
Free roam[]
| “ | I'm a genius. Geniuses don't need medication. | „ |
| ~ Gary Smith |
| “ | Come here, we're gonna torture you. | „ |
| ~ Gary Smith |
| “ | No wonder your mother left you here. She must be so embarrassed by you, JIMMY HOPKINS | „ |
| ~ Gary Smith to Jimmy |
Trivia[]
- Gary is one of the few Rockstar villains to not be killed, being the youngest major Rockstar villain (age 15) and Bully having a lightened theme as purged from any bloodshed and death.
- Despite being the final boss of the game, he is considered too easy to fight for an ultimate archenemy. This is because Gary himself is not presented as a brute force but a manipulative figure who drives the other students to fight for him, and he only fought Jimmy when he had no another choice.
- While the creators of Bully stated that Jimmy Hopkins is not a type of person to turn out like all the protagonists or antagonists in the Grand Theft Auto series, they did not state any explanation for Gary's future. However, judging by his behavior, he might be end up as a criminal when he reaches adulthood.
- Peter Vack has stated that he really enjoyed playing Gary, having expressed interest in reprising the role in a hypothetical Bully sequel if it ever materializes.
External Links[]
- Gary Smith on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Gary Smith on the Bully Wiki
- Gary Smith on the VS Battles Wiki
