Being Bullied

There are times when the hero is being bullied by villains. Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among heroes that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both heroes and villains who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems

Motivation and Reasons of Bullied
Reasons why a character is bullied mainly due to either:

The only thing to prevent one from being bullied was by do something that would made oneself gained respect, even from the bullies themselves, though this not entirely apply for certain bullies.
 * Being Different.
 * Having relatives whom having a bad reputation.
 * Being too much nerdy in behavior.
 * Had to live among the arrogant people or other kind of bullies.
 * The hero or heroine is having fun, but then their fun takes a turn for the worst.

Examples

 * In comics, Peter Parker is often bullied by either Flash Thompson or Carl King. Though Flash's relationship with Peter improves to certain degree, Peter's relationship with Carl ended up worse as the bully turned into supervillain known as The Thousand.
 * Jennifer was bullied the members of the Red Crayon Artistocrat Club who were following the order of the then-evil Wendy.
 * Cody being bullied by Gwen in the Total Drama Island episode "Up The Creek".