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'''Claude Rains:''' ''Well, I'm not much of a "people person," but I can't let you kill 'em all. You seemed pretty sure about that pending apocalypse of yours.''|''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''}}
A cousin to the [[Trickster Mentor]] and the [[Sink or Swim Mentor]], the
There's a fair to good chance that said mentor either is a [[Knight in Sour Armor]] or [[Retired Badass]].
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* Captain Malcolm Reynolds acts this way towards Simon and River Tam in the first few episodes of ''[[Firefly]]''. He lets them stay on Serenity so that the Alliance doesn't catch them, but he doesn't want much to do with them as long as they don't get in the way, and when he does talk to them, he's pretty cynical.
* Gordon Ramsay on ''[[Hell's Kitchen|Hells Kitchen]]'', who sarcastically berates and insults the chefs for any slip-up, to the point where a viewer might wonder why anyone can stand the man. But when people do meet his standards, or honestly impress him with their talent or passion, his [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] shines through, as seen when he paid to send Waffle House chef Julia to culinary school in Season 3, and praising Ji in Season 5 for her talent, passion, and courage after she was forced to withdraw.
** Not to mention there was one contestant who mentioned that Ramsay was a totally nice guy outside of the kitchen, so it's pretty likely that the guy is only a
*** One of his old shows from the UK, a cooking challenge pitting him against other world class chefs, showed that he's a very nice guy even in the kitchen if he's dealing with someone he respects. One notable episode has him joking around with an American chef and laughing when the guy accidentally dips his long hair into a custard he (the American) was making.
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