Bo Jackson

Bo Jackson
Clique	Jocks
Gender	Male
Family	Lance Jackson (brother/possibly) Gloria Jackson (sister/possibly)
Kissable	No
Missions	Slingshot The Candidate Cook's Date Jocks Challenge Funhouse Fun Defender of the Castle Discretion Assured Nice Outfit The Big Game Jock Boss Fight The Gym is Burning Complete Mayhem
Voice Actor	Jason Fuchs

"Freaking Hopkins man..."

— Bo

Bo Jackson is a character in Bully, and is a member of the Jocks at Bullworth Academy. He was voiced by Jason Fuchs.

Character description

Bo is the only medium-sized Jock and has light brown eyes. He's black, wears a long sleeve blue Letterman's sweater, light grey pants, white sneakers, and a white Bullworth cap with a blue brim. Under the cap, he has a generic close-cut hairstyle, although he appears in a cutscene with a flattop. In winter, he adds white fingerless gloves and wears brown boots.

Bo shares his name with the multi-sport athlete Bo Jackson. This is almost certainly intentional.

Characteristics

Bo is surprisingly soft-spoken for a jock. He doesn't swear very often, and when he's upset his voice gets high pitched and whiny. He regularly greets people with by shouting "'Ey." His insults are more creative than profane, such as threatening to 'rearrange [someone's] beautiful teeth' and mocking Jimmy by calling him 'King of all Hills.' Unlike a lot of other students he enjoys the Carnival. A handful of dialogue lines and some unused content imply he's crazy about girls but not successful with them.

Despite being a member of the Jocks, Bo isn't particularly fond of his clique, describing them as 'annoying.' He wants to play quarterback, regularly practices to try and improve his skills, and claims if he doesn't make QB the next year he'll look for another school. He also values his education enough that he often complains about Mr. Galloway being drunk during class. Despite this he's struggling in English class. He has a good relationship with his father, who he calls his 'old man,' calling him regularly and mentioning that they go hunting together.

Bo takes a dislike to Jimmy from the moment Jimmy arrives at Bullworth. He watches Jimmy hang around with Gary early in the year, and later in the year with both the Preppies and Greasers. He comes to the conclusion that Jimmy is up to no good and planning a hostile takeover of the school. After the events of Chapter V he concedes that he may have been wrong about Jimmy, but he's still not convinced Jimmy isn't a bad guy.

He is sometimes thought to be related to Lance Jackson and Gloria Jackson. They share a last name, skin tone, and interest in education, although Bo's interest in education is downplayed compared to that of his possible siblings.

Role in game

Bo's largest role in the game is in the opening cutscene of The Gym is Burning. He, Bob, and Mr. Burton are in front of the gym watching the fire. Mr. Burton has the majority of the dialogue, although Bo does call Jimmy a bully. Jimmy retaliates by claiming that Bo likes to torture weak kids.

Bo has another speaking line in Nice Outfit, where he threatens Jimmy and sics the Jocks on him after Jimmy harasses the Bullhorns Mascot. He also helps Ted and Damon vandalize the library during the schoolwide riot in Complete Mayhem.

He plays on the Jocks' dodgeball team, and appears in the background of Jocks Challenge.

Deleted content

Bo was meant to have a role in That Bitch, according to an unused speech file, in which he got angry at Jimmy over making Mandy vomit. He had a lot of dialogue in Funhouse Fun. He also had small amounts of unused dialogue in the missions Halloween, Cheating Time, Defender of the Castle, The Gym is Burning, and an unused mission coded 3R-09.

He also had an unused errand that he and Kirby participated in, GIRLE. Both of them wanted Jimmy to bring a girl to meet them without the girl being seen.

The Gym is Burning design oddities

There are numerous oddities in the opening cutscene of The Gym is Burning, with the issues related to Bo being rather less significant than some of the others.

Bo dons a wrestling singlet for the only time in the game, and his hairstyle is a flattop rather than just short. He also speaks exclusively in his higher pitched, whiny voice during the cutscene. For some time the character wasn't even recognized by Bully fans as Bo, leading to him and Bob being known as the two mystery jocks.

As Bo isn't a character that generated much fan interest, his whiny streak wasn't known and it was alleged or believed that his high pitched in the cutscene was entirely different from his normal voice, leading to a belief that he may have been voiced in this one cutscene by someone other than Jason Fuchs.

Quotes

Main article: Bo Jackson/Quotes