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- Break the Haughty: While he is tough and a pragmatic fighter/killer when the situation calls for it, even refusing to tell Hit Girl anything. He seemed pretty scared when Hit Girl was gonna make good on her threat to make him eat his own dick. It was just enough to get him to talk.
- Jerkass: Taunts Colonel Stars and Stripes once he's fatally injured.
- Improbable Weapon User: Used a broken pool cue to kill two guys.
- The Napoleon: He's short, and makes no secret of the fact that he'll kill anyone who brings it up.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: The reason he gets his name.
- Porn Stache: Causes Mindy to call him "pube-face".
- What Happened to the Mouse?: We never see what Mindy and Dave actually do to him, but it's implied that he's tortured and is forced to eat his penis.
(This is a reference to the fact that Izuku is a top student at UA High School in the anime and manga series My Hero Academia. "Bite off more than this dick" is a crude way of saying that Dave will take on more than he can handle, and "prick" is a derogatory term for a person).
So the fifth instalment of the Harry Potter series has Harry, in part because of his connection with the now-returned Voldemort, being more irate than his usual self. But the film adaptation undersells this. In the film, Harry loses his temper a few times, but that's really about it; in the book, he's genuinely a bit of a dick sometimes. I don't know if they changed it to make him more likeable or possibly just to save time when adapting the series' longest book, but I think it was to the detriment of the story and Harry as a character. And, given around the same time we got to see another movie featuring a different super-powered orphaned specky teenager suddenly turning into a bit of an asshole which now seems to be remembered extremely fondly, I want to have a recap on Harry's 'Bully Potter' arc and why the film let it down.
In both book and film, right at the start Harry is out on his own and runs into Dudley. In the film, it's Dudley who comes up to Harry with a group of his buddies in tow and starts picking on Harry for no reason, even making fun of his dead mother. What a dick move. Harry losing his temper with Dudley here is completely reasonable and we're rooting for him all the way. But in the book, things are different. Harry is in a bad mood already when he runs into Dudley, alone, and it's actually Harry who initially starts making fun of Dudley, knowing Dudley is scared of his powers and won't retaliate. It's only when Harry has provoked him that Dudley starts mocking Harry in return. But both scenes resolve in the same way, with the boys being attacked by the Dementors and Harry fending them off. In the book version, Harry definitely comes across as a bit of a dick here, even a bully as he has the power advantage over Dudley. But when push comes to shove he's still the hero of the hour, and we can see when Dudley's retorts get to him that he's also not in a good place mentally and still dealing with the trauma from the end of last year.
There are several scenes in the book, most notably when he first shows up at the Order's headquarters, where Harry flies off the handle and starts yelling at Ron and Hermione as he feels slighted by stuff including their keeping secrets from him about the Order and not adequately understanding the things he's been through until this point. The film either omits these or dials them down so Harry is only mildly rude. Again, Harry's frustration is often understandable, but he's still being a bit of a dick here. It places a little more strain on these relationships and makes Harry feeling kind of isolated throughout the story a little more understandable.
Book Harry's relationship with Cho is as messy as Bully Maguire's with MJ and Gwen Stacy. In the film, they don't have a lot of time to focus on it, but it's a very simple progression: Harry likes Cho, then it looks like she's betrayed Dumbledore's Army, things end between them. (It later turns out she was given a truth-telling potion, so idk why they never patched things up.) In the book, Bully Potter handles things with all the grace of a bad-tempered teenager with his first relationship... which is exactly what he is. First up, Harry and Cho go on a disastrous date which is largely Harry's fault- he has already made plans to meet Hermione in what later turns out to be a plan to publicise his side of the story about Voldemort, and fails to realise that he has given Cho the impression that he is blowing her off to see another girl, and a combination of this and his poor handling of her venting about Cedric's death puts paid to things. Again, we the reader know that Harry is acting in good faith, but a dumbass he very much is. After they reconcile, the real drama then occurs and they break up for good when in the book, it's Cho's bff who sells out Dumbledore's Army, and Cho defends her whilst Harry is furious. It feels like some actual teenage drama for a change. Harry's again a bit of a hothead. But ultimately, we're still on Bully Potter's side: he might be rude but he's fighting the good fight here, sticking up for his underground kickass student organisation. Still, whilst film Harry's life at this stage is merely disappointing, Bully Potter's life is a genuine mess.
There's a few threads of the story that get lost by dialling down 'Bully Potter'. Harry being less than admirable sometimes offers a bit of a parallel with Voldemort, but even though of course we know Harry's gonna be the good guy in the end, in the film you'd wonder why he was even doubting himself at all; at least Bully Potter genuinely is a bit of a low-level douche to enough of an extent to merit feeling guilty about it. It also gives Harry a bit more of a unique voice of his own and less of a generic protagonist, and it underscores his similarities to Sirius throughout the book which make Sirius' death at the end more poignant. Finally, Bully Potter is self-aware: he doesn't want to be a dick, he feels guilt for his actions, and he can still readily identify poor behaviour as shown by his reaction to seeing his father bully Snape in Snape's memories. His being a tool at times only underscores more handsomely those moments when he gets his act together and redeems himself: he's mad at Dudley but he still protects him, he's mad at his classmates but when they want to form Dumbledore's Army he puts the work in, he trades barbs with Snape all throughout their Occlumency lessons but he's genuinely ashamed to see how his father treated him, etc.
"We tried to stay up as late as we could before we all face-planted," he said, smiling. "It was sad saying goodbye to all those guys...Aside from making a really kickass movie I get to hang out with those guys."
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