"Crossface Chickenwing, coming up!"

— Bob

Bob is a deleted character in Bully, appearing in only one cutscene. He was referred to as the "white mystery jock" until his name was found in the data files. He was voiced by Tom Vergow.

Data

The only version of Bob that remains in the game is the one that appears in the opening cutscene in The Gym is Burning and wears a wrestling singlet. An old screenshot of Bully showed a plain clothes version of Bob, although it has been removed entirely from the game. Likewise, his winter clothes model was either removed from the game or never created in the first place.

Bob is one of the tougher students in the game. He has 165 health units, putting him well below Bif and Damon, but above any other non-clique-leader. His fighting style is mostly the same as the non-clique students, although he uses the Townie headbutt from a schoolboy press. If he's set to use a grapple from a standstill, he uses Hal's/Norton's bearhug, a straight punch, and a knee to the face.

Strangely, the data files identify him as being a Bully, and if he's hex-edited to appear in free roam he associates with the Bullies. He also has a FIGHJ (fighting a Jock) line of dialogue in his speech files. Although he was clearly originally designed as a Jock, he may have been a Bully at some point in the game's development, although all this may just be a design anomaly, similarly to how Vance is a non-clique student when in his Halloween outfit. His voice files are mostly complete, but he's missing all of the Conversing files. However, he has extra "don't hit me" dialogue lines - the same sets of lines that the clique leaders have.

Character description

Bob is white with short blond hair and brown eyes. He's muscular with particularly broad shoulders. He wears a wrestling singlet in his only appearance in the game, but he appeared in earlier screenshots wearing a blue Bullworth T-shirt over a white sweatshirt, gray slacks, and light blue sneakers, the same outfit that Juri wears. Bob also has a bandage on his left hand, just like Juri.

Characteristics

All of the information below was obtained from the data files containing his spoken lines.

Bob is highly passionate about sport wrestling, and a vast portion of his vocabulary and combat dialogue is centered around the ring. He frequently threatens his opponents with professional wrestling throws and high-impact moves, such as suplexes and clotheslines. He also threatens to lock his opponents in a "Crossface Chickenwing", a likely nod to real-world former WWF World Champion Bob Backlund, who used the hold as his finisher. Additionally, Bob references using arm bars, the figure four leglock, and a unique personal maneuver he calls his signature move, the "Kneeling-Bob".

Beneath his athletic pride, though, Bob suffers from severe emotional and self-esteem issues. Whenever he fails or is defeated, he lapses into extreme self-deprecation and panic. He is under immense pressure from his father and grandfather to excel at sports, viewing athletic victory as the only way to gain his father's respect. When his team fails, he is quick to take the blame entirely upon himself.

Notably, Bob is also openly homosexual, showing a complete lack of interest in girls and questioning why his peers are so preoccupied with them. He is attracted to other male athletes, frequently admiring and obsessing over their physical features,^[1] and when he is bumped, he responds with playful flirtation. His attraction heavily influences his perspective on fighting; he expresses a desire to be held by other men when beaten, gets highly excited by the idea of tearing off clothes during a fight, and there is a comment of his implying a familiarity with Ted's gear.^[2]

Despite his athletic lifestyle, Bob takes offense to being labeled a simpleton and actively tries to separate himself from the rest of his clique, claiming he's not a "stupid Jock". He is critical of the more brutish athletes at the school, urging them to focus on mental exercise instead of fighting, and admits that his desire to work out in the gym distracts him from studying, even when he genuinely wants to prepare for school exams.^[3] During Bob's one legitimate appearance in the game, Jimmy insults him by saying he has the personality of a jock strap. When a backdraft blows out the gymnasium windows, Bob screams for his 'mommy.'

Role in game

Bob's only appearance is in the intro cutscene of the mission The Gym is Burning.

Removal from the game

No official sources have made any statements regarding Bob.

There are numerous similarities between Bob and Juri. They wore the same otherwise unique outfit, are both obsessed with wrestling, and are both openly disinterested in girls. In Bob's case, the disinterest in girls is due to his homosexuality and in Juri's, it's more along the lines of macho posturing. In images from the game's alpha and early beta, Juri doesn't appear at all and Bob associates with the Jocks in his place.

It is believed that Bob's open homosexuality caused him to be mostly removed, excluding his one cutscene in 'The Gym is Burning', and reworked into Juri.

There are also anomalies regarding Bob's small role in the game. Juri is mentioned by name in the cutscene of 'The Gym is Burning' but does not make a physical appearance - his scream echoes from inside the gym. A purely speculative explanation is that the developers were somehow obligated to keep at least a bit of Tom Vergow's work in the game, and Juri was added to the scene to make it clear that Bob and Juri weren't the same character. However, it has also been alleged by players that the voices of Bob and Bo in that cutscene sound different from their normal voices, and may have been provided by different voice actors, which would imply that the cutscene may have been redubbed at some point.

This may also explain why Bob is identified in the data files as a Bully and why the Bullies have one fewer male member in their clique than any of the others - the developers attempted to rework Bob into a Bully but gave up for some unknown reason.

Quotes

Main article: Bob/Quotes

Gallery

An old screenshot of Bully shows Bob in the background while Jimmy tackles Dan Wilson.

Bob, cropped from the previous image.

References

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