I don't agree with your logic regarding this matter here.
The 'bullie' here didn't act in any physical way (but clearly threatened to) so it still can be a superiority complex. Inferiority and superiority complex may tend to come hand in hand, especially with something as complex and variable as a human mind but being insecure and having an inferiority complex aren't the same thing.
What concerns me the most beyond the psychological analyses and interpretations of the event is:
In the end, who came out of the confrontation more insecure than before ?
Even if the bullie's action came from an inferiority complex.. what is keeping him from gaining confidence in bullying others now that he saw it's working ?
Ultimately I believe he met an idiot, not necessarily someone burdened with a neurosis ; I do not believe for a second he met someone who thought of himself as inferior as the original poster (and that is a main characteristic of the inferiority complex).
As you see I have no tangible evidences for my superiority complex theory : )
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