Once M3GAN befriends a young girl in need of a pal, anyone who wrongs her better watch out. A new clip from M3GAN shared by IMDb reveals the titular doll tormenting a boy who chose the wrong girl to pick on, and using her robotic strength and artificial intelligence, M3GAN painfully teaches the bully some manners. You can see the doll giving us a tease of what she's capable of by checking out the clip below.

In the clip, school bully Brandon (Jack Cassidy) can be seen taunting the doll by grabbing a handful of its "fake" hair. That springs M3GAN into action with the angered doll grabbing ahold of Brandon's ear and painfully stretching out the skin.

"You need to learn some manners, Brandon," she says. "You know what happens to bad boys that don't mind their manners? They grow up to bad men!"

After removing a chunk of flesh from Brandon's ear, she then warns the terrified bully, "This is the part where you run."

This tormenting of the school bully is a consequence of picking on 8-year-old girl Cady (Violet McGraw). M3GAN tells the story of the relationship between the titular doll and Cady, who lives with her aunt Gemma (Allison Williams). When Cady is suddenly orphaned and goes to live with her aunt, she is gifted a M3GAN doll with Gemma hoping that this will give her niece a playmate. But unbeknownst to Gemma, M3GAN gets to be a bit too protective when it comes to Cady, as we can see in the clip above.

Gerard Johnstone (Housebound) directs the film using a screenplay by Akela Cooper (Malignant, The Nun 2). It is based on a story by Cooper and James Wan. Wan produced the film with Jason Blum. The movie also stars Ronny Chieng (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Brian Jordan Alvarez (Will & Grace), Jen Van Epps (Cowboy Bebop), Lori Dungey (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, extended edition), and Stephane Garneau-Monten (Straight Forward).

M3GAN Could Launch a New Horror Franchise

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We'll have to see how the movie performs critically and financially before we know for sure if there's a future for M3GAN in horror. With that said, the producers are hopeful this can be the start of a new horror franchise, feeling that M3GAN will fit right in with Chucky and Annabelle as a killer doll who becomes a genre mainstay.

"I hope so," Blum said of possibly making more M3GAN movies. "I mean, we don't want to put the cart before the horse. But if a lot of people love the movie, I hope we can make more of them."