Description

Character description Mr. Burton has the frame of an athlete gone to seed, still muscular but with a gut. He is bald on top but has a horseshoe of red hair, along with a red mustache. His character art shows him as having chest hair and hairy armpits. He normally wears a white tank top and blue gym shorts with white trim, and a navy blue track suit with white trim in the winter. He wears a whistle on a string around his neck, and has a watch on his right wrist. Mr. Burton wanted to play professional American Football, but no one drafted him and so he turned to teaching at Bullworth. Sometimes he blames this on an arthritic or injured knee. He speaks loudly most of the time and is usually angry and aggressive. Burton had a harsh upbringing. When he was a child, his father regularly beat him, and he was hazed badly while in college. Now, he has a drill sergeant-like approach to teaching gym. He believes that pain builds character, and so encourages bullying to this end. He also bullies students himself. He calls Pedro to his office to yell at him, and according to unused content found in the game files, he bullies Pete and threatens to make the gym class beat him up the next day. Burton is also a lech. He complains about the lack of attractive women at Bullworth, and sometimes brags about how much women like him, although they actually don't. He displays an inappropriate sexual interest towards the older girls at Bullworth, including Zoe Taylor, who was expelled for complaining about Burton. Angie also claims that it's best to avoid Burton's gym class because "he's just not nice". He also reads dirty magazines and appears to have a perverse interest in dirty panties. His pride and joy is the school football team, the Bullworth Bullhorns. It is strongly implied that he gives the students on the team steroids. Osbourne claims that Burton keeps his job only because he has something on Dr. Crabblesnitch. The alpha version of Mr. Burton version was named "Neil" and had a slightly hunched back. The name Neil was later given to the shop teacher.