10 Best Video Games With An Unseen Enemy
5. Bully
Though the card-carrying antagonist of Rockstar's Bully is the sociopathic a**hole Gary Smith, there's a subtle but vital sentiment throughout the game that shifts the blame towards the parents of Gary and other bullies like him.
After all, bullies are more often than not the product of a rough, potentially abusive upbringing, and according to nerd Donald Anderson, Gary's dad was kicked out of Bullworth Academy himself and later went to prison.
As such it's little surprise that Gary is such an unstable young man with crazed designs to take over Bullworth.
This isn't the only example of unseen parents being held responsible for their kids' behaviour in Bully, though.
Derby Harrington, the obnoxious leader of the snobby Preppies clique, is emboldened to act out with impunity by his father's status, being both enormously wealthy and a major Bullworth backer.
We never see Gary or Derby's fathers, but it's clear that in different ways they're systemically responsible for the anarchy at the school.