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| “ | Bullying?! *Scoffs* I don't care about bullying! In fact, I encourage bullying! It builds moral fiber, it makes wimps into... men! | „ |
| ~ Burton to Jimmy when the school gym was burning. |
Mr. Burton is a supporting antagonist in the 2006 action-adventure video game Bully.
A harsh and disciplinarian official, he serves as the gym teacher of Bullworth Academy, who has a drill sergeant-like approach to teaching gym, constantly behaving roughly to his students to train them more effectively. On the other hand, it is later revealed that he harbors predatory intentions towards female students, including Zoe Taylor, whom he has expelled for complaining about his actions, thus serving as the archenemy of her.
He was voiced by Michael Boyle.
Appearance[]
Mr. Burton has the frame of an ageing athlete, still muscular but with a gut. He is bald on top but has a horseshoe of red hair, along with a red moustache.
His character art shows him as having chest hair. He normally wears a white tank top and blue gym shorts with white trim, and a navy blue track suit with white trim in the winter. He wears a whistle on a string around his neck, and has a watch on his right wrist.
Background[]
Mr. Burton aspired to play professional American football but was not picked, so he became a gym teacher at Bullworth Acadamy. He often attributes this to an arthritic or damaged knee. He is generally furious and aggressive, and speaks loudly the majority of the time.
Burton was raised in a difficult environment. His father used to beat him when he was a kid, and he was hazed horribly in college. He now teaches gym in a drill instructor-like manner. He believes that suffering develops character, hence he encourages bullying to achieve this goal. He is also a bully towards students. He summons Pedro to his office to rage at him, and he taunts Pete, threatening to have the gym class beat him up the following day, according to unused content discovered in the game files.
Burton is often known to be a compulsive pervert. He bemoans the dearth of attractive women at Bullworth and occasionally boasts about how much ladies like him, despite the fact that they don't. He shows excessive sexual interest in older Bullworth girls, notably Zoe Taylor, who was expelled after complaining about Burton. Burton's gym class, according to Angie, should be avoided because "he's just not kind." He also reads filthy periodicals and appears to have an unhealthy fascination with filthy underwear.
The Bullworth Bullhorns, his high school football team, is his pride and delight, albeit in a more obsessive way. He is heavily hinted to be giving the team's students steroids.
Burton maintains his job, according to Osbourne, since he has information on Dr. Crabblesnitch.
"Degenerate", "girl", and "lady" are his favorite insults.
Biography[]
Burton appears regularly in small roles throughout the game. In Chapter 1 he is first seen during the mission "Slingshot", coaching the Jocks on the football field. Even after Jimmy knocks the players out with his slingshot, Burton keeps telling them to continue running laps. Later in the same chapter he becomes the target of "The Big Prank".
Starting in Chapter 2, Burton asks Jimmy to sneak into the Girls’ Dorm and collect the girls’ underwear for him.
In Chapter 4, Burton can be found on the football field during the mission Nice Outfit, acting like a typical authority figure who will chase Jimmy if he sees him causing trouble. He also appears in "The Big Game", shouting at the cheerleaders as they run away after Jimmy finishes his Cow Dance.
In Chapter 5, he appears in "The Gym is Burning", where he accuses Jimmy of setting fire to the gym out of anger for not making the team and says he has called the police. Later Zoe tells Jimmy that she was expelled for reporting Burton’s inappropriate behavior. The two come up with a plan to push Burton in a port-a-potty off a cliff. Burton ends up covered in waste and complains that he will need days of bleaching to get clean. At the end of the chapter Jimmy confronts Dr. Crabblesnitch about Burton’s conduct, which leads to Burton being fired and Zoe being reinstated. Even after being dismissed Burton continues to show up around the school, still teaching Gym and wandering the campus, possibly because he will not be fully replaced until the next school year. Students mention that he threw a tantrum after being fired.
In the Scholarship Edition mission "Discreet Deliveries", Burton is one of the people Jimmy must deliver Dr. Watts’s chemical compounds to. Burton also sometimes appears when Jimmy is doing his Paper Route in Old Bullworth Vale. If Jimmy leaves him alone and his trouble meter is empty Burton will ignore him and may even chase away people who try to attack Jimmy.
Trivia[]
- In the PS2 release of Bully, the loading screen featuring Mr. Burton holding books behind his back has a porno of a woman in a bikini hanging out. In the Scholarship Edition, this is changed so the porno is completely removed.
