Jimmy Hopkins (Bully) The Principal Character. TTS Computer AI Voice

We shall see, my friend. I only give people what they have coming to them.
Jimmy Hopkins


James "Jimmy" Hopkins is the playable character and the main protagonist in Bully. He was voiced by Gerry Rosenthal.Jimmy is 15 years old and is smaller in height than most students, but is reasonably stocky. He has brown eyes, freckles on his cheeks and wears a gold stud earring on his left ear. He natural hair color is red, and his default hair style is a buzz cut. At the beginning of the game, he wears a brown jacket over a white t-shirt, with faded blue jeans and white sneakers. His school uniform consists of a blue Bullworth vest over a white shirt with khaki school slacks. His pajamas consist of a dark blue t-shirt with a flaming yellow skull on the front and on the back that appears to probably be the tag of the shirt, pale yellow sweat pants with undone ties, and white socks. His athletic uniform consists of a yellow t-shirt with the Bullworth Bullhorns logo in red and khaki school shorts and sneakers.

Over the course of the game, Jimmy can obtain a wide variety of clothes, haircuts, and tattoos. This allows the player to either have him adopt the look of one of the cliques, or make his own unique fashion statement. He generally wears his clothing more disorderly than intended; for example, he wears his school uniform with the collar unbuttoned and unfolded, and his white shirt is untucked. He can have his hair cut and dyed at a few different barber shops around town; hairstyles that include dyeing his hair a different color than the default red are more expensive.

In early screenshots, Jimmy was somewhat uglier. He had fewer freckles, a larger and red nose, and ears that stuck out. He also wore gray slacks and boots instead of khaki slacks and sneakers.

Jimmy's only true friend at the school is Pete Kowalski. Jimmy is not always respectful towards Pete, but in the end he defends and sticks up for Pete. In return Pete provides a voice of reason for Jimmy, figuring out solutions to Jimmy's problems when fisticuffs and violence don't suffice.Character development
When Bully was first announced and the first four screenshots were released, it appeared that Jimmy Hopkins (then unnamed) would be a player controlled antagonist, taking the role of the titular bully. Of the four screenshots, one featured Jimmy firing a slingshot, another featured him kicking another student, and the third featured him giving someone a swirly. By the next update on the game, which was a few years later, Jimmy was revealed to be a standard protagonist who stood up to the bullies. It is unclear whether he was originally designed as an antagonist, or if Rockstar released the pictures they did to give a false initial impression of the game to build controversy.

Jimmy was designed to be an everykid. Lead Producer of Bully, Jeronimo Barerra, claimed that what he wanted to do with Bully was to recreate the state of being a kid, and to make it fun.[1]

Parallels were also made between Jimmy and Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye. Jimmy and Holden share a background of having a difficult home life and being thrown out of multiple private schools. Jimmy even uses Holden's favorite derogatory term, "phony", to describe his new stepfather.[2]

Matt Bush, the voice actor for Pete Kowalski, revealed in an interview with SWEGTA that Gerry Rosenthal was not Jimmy's original voice actor, and that a lot of Jimmy's cutscenes were motion captured by the previous voice actor. However, Bush did not remember the previous voice actor's name.Role in game
As the protagonist, the player controls Jimmy throughout the game and all of the story revolves around him.

Quotes
Main article: Jimmy Hopkins/Mission Quotes
Main article: Jimmy Hopkins/Other Quotes.