James "Jimmy" Hopkins, 15 years old, is Bullworth Academy's newest student, as well as Bully's main protagonist and sole playable character. Jimmy is sent by his mother as she takes a year-long honeymoon cruise with her new husband. Jimmy's troubled history is well known: he has been expelled on seven other occasions for bad behaviour. Bullworth Academy is his last chance of avoiding a youth detention centre. Hopkins possesses an easily swayed personality. Initially goalless, he is quickly persu