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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"When we grew up and went to school
''There were certain teachers who
''Would hurt the children any way they could"''
|'''[[Pink Floyd]]'''|''[[The Wall]]'', "The Happiest Days of Our Lives"}}
So you made it past the evil bus driver, avoided the cafeteria lady with her [[Mystery Meat]], and dodged the [[Jerk Jock|bully in the schoolyard]]. You're safe now, right?
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Guess again. Now it's time to face... ''that'' teacher.
You know which one. The teacher who singles you out for ridicule and humiliation. The one who openly mocks you in front of the rest of the class. The one who tells you they ''want'' you to fail because you don't ''deserve'' to move up. If they teach gym, you'd better be ready for [[Dodgeball Is Hell]] every day, if not [[Blood Sport|worse]]. They're the
Sometimes they [[Child-Hater|hate all children]], but sometimes it's just one special child who becomes the target of their rancor. Either way, they are as cruel as they can possibly be within the confines of their job, but [[Villain with Good Publicity|because they're a]] ''[[Villain with Good Publicity|teacher]]'', anyone seeking justice for their sadistic behaviour is [[Cassandra Truth|likely to be summarily dismissed]].
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{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* Taken to its literal extremes in the different teachers for the book, manga and film versions of ''[[Battle Royale]]''. In the manga version at least, the "teacher", who is also the host of "the Program", shoots one student twice when he raises a furor over the fact that said teacher raped his caretaker, then sinks a knife into another student's head for talking. {{spoiler|In all three versions, when some of the students are about to escape the island, they make a point of finding and killing the "teacher".}}
** In the manga, there's an interlude during the Sugimura/Kotohiki section that talks about Jaguar, a gym teacher they had. Jaguar was a total jerk, challenging the students to martial arts duels and humiliating and/or hurting them when they wouldn't fight back. {{spoiler|He eventually challenged [[Ax Crazy|Kiriyama]], who plucked out and squished his eye.}}
* The [[Kirby:
* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] on ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' with Professor Chronos. In addition to being as biased as [[Harry Potter|Snape]] to the students in his dorm, Chronos has a personal grudge against Judai for publicly defeating him in a duel and thus devoted Season 1 to trying to get Judai kicked out of school. However, Chronos has had his moments that prove deep down, [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|he really cares about his students]]. {{spoiler|He also manages to combine a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] with a [[Rousing Speech]] to raise his students' morale, just before getting beaten by one of the Shadow Riders.}}
** Professor Cobra (or Thelonius Viper), on the other hand, is a total wanker, forcing students to duel so he can steal their life energy to resurrect his son.
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* Brilliantly subverted in Osamu Tezuka's ''[[Black Jack]]''. A sadistic Maths teacher terrorizes his "weakest" student to the point of traumatizing him, but is actually a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|good person at heart]] [[Stern Teacher|who only wants to toughen the kiddo up]]. {{spoiler|Actually, the boy almost dies in a street accident that he got in [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|because he was too distraught by his phobia of the teacher]], and the man feels [[The Atoner|so guilty when he finds out]] that he attempts to kill himself and give the money of his health insurance to the kid's mother so Dr. Black Jack can operate on the boy. In the end, Black Jack saves both of them}}.
* Sister Grace, the St. Paul College principal in ''[[Candy Candy]],'' straddles the line between this and [[Stern Teacher]].
* Subverted in ''[[Rosario
* In ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]'', Sengoku-sensei has an almost obsessive hatred of Akito, going to great lengths to make the kid miserable, even hit him once. Turns out it's [[Freudian Excuse|because Akito reminds him of the kids who used to bully him when he was younger]].
* Just before the Trunks saga of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', ChiChi hires a private tutor for Gohan who turns out to be one of these. Mr. Shu is a raging asshole who repeatedly [[Kick the Dog|Kicks The Dog]] by calling Goku worthless as a father and even makes poor Gohan bleed. When ChiChi finally finds out about how much of a sadist he is...[[Mama Bear|let's just say it doesn't end well for Shu]].
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* ''[[The Dreaming]]'''s Avril Merriweather, the first headmistress of Greenwich Private College, punishes her students by locking them in cupboards and coffins.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' with the gym teacher. He genuinely hates Sousuke, but Sousuke mistakes his malice as respectable boot-camp teacher behavior. Whenever the teacher goes on a tirade against him, Sousuke treats him like an officer, which in turn is taken like smart aleck behavior. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** And Sousuke's assumption that such sadistic malice is ''normal'' for a teacher makes ''him'' one as well. Just look at [[Training
*** Considering that Sousuke obtained his training techniques from Melissa Mao, and her "How to Abuse a Training Recruit" manual, one must qualify Mao as one as well.
* ''[[Hell Girl]]'' follows a group of supernatural beings who can be "hired" to send one person bodily to Hell, at the cost of the contractors' soul upon death. Sadist Teachers are some of their more frequent victims, ranging from a literal sadist who felt sexual pleasure from humiliating one of her female students, to an extremely strict teacher who kept a notebook full of details about the students' misbehavior (which, it turns out, was actually blank).
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* [[Soul Eater|Franken Stein]] will beat up students for the purposes of training, throw scalpels at them, and speculate on experimenting upon one girl after pointing out his previous test subject was her father. His sadistic tendencies are usually played for laughs, but in serious moments including his introduction, are genuinely creepy. And it's not ''too'' difficult to imagine him making good on any of his 'dissection' threats.
** With that description, it's worth pointing out that Stein is a decent guy, who seems to genuinely care about his students. Well, okay, a guy who makes an effort to be decent because his less-than-decent compulsions scare even him.
* Gunjou-sensei from ''[[Super
* In one ''[[Ghost Hunt]]'' arc, Hideaki Matsuyama was so obsessed about his students applying themselves academically, he would destroy his student's ''personal belongings'' for not being related to classwork. He actually drove one student to suicide - but not before the student created a ritual curse intended to kill his tormentor and tricked half the student body into continuing the ritual.
* [[Highschool of the Dead|Shidou]] is a prick often enough to begin with. When the story [[Zombie Apocalypse|gets going]] and he promptly gets worse...
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* In ''[[My Immortal]]'', every teacher except Trelawney and Proffesor Sinister.
* Mr. Davidson in [[Tokyo Mew Mew No Hope Left|a similar work.]] He likes shooting aliens and talking about George Bush and shit.
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** Though considering Indy and his father were still estranged at that point, it's possible that Indy was exaggerating.
* Master Shifu in the first ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' when he was trying to make Po quit at first. However, Shifu eventually learns that Po has tremendous talent for kung fu after all and brings it out magnificently.
* It's noted in Literature, but Imelda Staunton's performance as Dolores Umbridge in the [[Harry Potter
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* Captain Lancaster in ''[[Danny, the Champion of the World]]'' is a more realistic example. He's obviously based on one of Roald Dahl's actual teachers, Captain Hardcastle, described in his autobiography ''Boy''.
* The unnamed Head of Experiment House in ''[[Narnia|The Silver Chair]]'', inspired by C.S. Lewis' own unfortunate experience with his first headmaster.
** More than an actual
*** And the book is even older than the hippie movement.
** Which is probably why when her incompetence is exposed, she gets [[Kicked Upstairs]] instead of fired.
* Miss Heaton ("Hawkeye"), Miss Simpson ("Slim") and Miss Stamp ("Adolfa") in the ''[[Confessions of Georgia Nicolson]]'' series.
** Also Mr. Attwood (called "Elvis" after he broke his hip dancing), the school's extremely unpleasant janitor.
* It's bad enough is you have a
* Schoolteacher from ''[[Beloved]]''. Owns. This. Fucking. Trope.
** Not
* Brother Leon from ''[[The Chocolate War]]''. He fails David Caroni, a straight-A student, to show Jerry what he's willing to do if the chocolates aren't sold.
* If your kids ever think Dame Snap from the ''[[Faraway Tree]]'' books is unnecessarily mean, tell them she originally was known as Dame ''Slap''.
* Most, if not all, of the teachers in the ''[[Captain Underpants]]'' books. The most notable ones are Mr Krupp, the principal, {{spoiler|(who's also Captain Underpants, due to a prank gone wrong)}} and Mrs Ribble, George and Harold's teacher, {{spoiler|who undergoes a [[Face Heel Turn]] in the fifth book after becoming the supervillain Wedgie Woman. At the end, George and Harold hypnotise her into being nice, which sticks.}} There was also Professor Poopypants, who was actually a nice person {{spoiler|until the teasing about his name drove him to construct a giant robot and force everyone to have silly names like his.}}
* Subverted in ''The Demon Headmaster''
* Miss Minchin from Frances Hodgson Burnett's ''[[A Little Princess]]''.
* [[Charles Dickens]],
** Wackford Squeers from ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]'', making this trope [[Older Than Radio]].
** Mr. Creakle, of ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]''.
* Mesaana from Robert Jordan's ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' series turned to the Dark Side sometime after being turned down for a respected research position and was relegated instead to teaching.
** Mazrim Taim, the teacher of the Asha'man, should also qualify since a certain amount student fatalities is expected.
* In Chip Kidd's novel ''The Cheese Monkeys'', Professor Sorbeck straddles the line between this and [[Stern Teacher]]. A notable example: the class is Graphic Design, the assignment is to illustrate a word with appropriate form for the word's content. A student presents his rendition of "HOT" made of match-heads stuck to posterboard with rubber cement. Sorbeck scowls at this and has the student touch it. Is his finger warmed? No? So it's not very hot, is it, which would make it an F. The student loses some
* In the [[Stephen King]] novella "The Body" (and its movie adaptation, ''[[Stand by Me]]''), Chris Chambers tells Gordie how he stole their class's milk money, had a change of heart and tried to return it, only to have their teacher steal the money in turn and then blame it on Chris, whose reputation for criminal mischief came back to haunt him.
* Mr. Jonas, in Richard Llewellyn's ''[[How Green Was My Valley]]''.
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** Snape is either the nastier sort of [[Stern Teacher]] or this, depending on how bad his mood is or if your name's Harry or Neville. {{spoiler|The fact that he indirectly orphaned the former makes it even worse.}} Highlights include testing potions on Neville's pet and verbally abusing him even outside the classroom. But even he can't compete with...
** [[Harry Potter/Characters|Dolores Umbridge]]. She's a [[Smug Snake]] who makes at least two students [[Kick the Dog|write lines in their own blood]] (more than two in the films) and briefly [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|takes over Hogwarts]]. She emphatically crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]], all the while maintaining a very annoying [[Stepford Smiler]] pretense.
** The Carrows in ''[[Harry Potter and
* Mrs. [[Sdrawkcab Name|Gorf]] in the first book of Louis Sachar's ''[[Wayside School]]'' series turns her students into ''apples'' when they do anything wrong. Including sneezing in class. The students manage to outsmart her by forcing her to turn them back into humans and tricking her into turning herself into an apple, which [[Author Avatar|Louis]] then unknowingly eats.
** Wendy Nogard in ''Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger'' is a more subtle (but even more insidious) example: while she appears to be a sweet, considerate teacher, she uses her mind-reading abilities to humiliate and turn her students against each
** Wayside School had terrible luck with their substitute teachers.
*** Their first one, Mr. Gorf, was actually the son of Mrs. Gorf and had the freakish ability to steal the voices of people through his ''nose''! Which had three nostrils! Then, when he had stolen the students' voices, he called their parents up and used their voices to say terrible things, making their parents think the kids hated them.
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** The first season of the TV series also had an episode that featured a sadistic substitute teacher.
* Viola Swamp from ''Miss Nelson is Missing'': A very nice teacher with an unmanageable class suddenly goes AWOL from her class for a period, and the class celebrates... until the wretched Viola Swamp takes over as the teacher {{spoiler|causing the class to ultimately be so grateful when Miss Nelson returns that they shape up and start behaving better. At the very end we discover that Viola was actually Miss Nelson in disguise.}}
* Professor Mericet of the Assassins' Guild (teaching Strategy and Poison Theory) in [[Discworld]]. Rumour amongst the students is that if you get him as the examiner for your final exam, you might as well kill yourself immediately and save time. The events of ''[[
* Codrose, [[James Bond]]'s house master, in the ''[[Young Bond]]'' novels:
{{quote|"I am to be your father, your priest and your God for the duration of your stay at this school."}}
* An extremely mild case of this trope applies to Fudge's first kindergarten teacher in ''[[Judy Blume|Superfudge]]''. While actual deliberate cruelty is not shown, she refuses to call him "Fudge" even when this sends him into screaming fits, and her students behave like little robots without a spark of individuality.
{{quote|"Fudge" actually tells off the teacher at the very end of the chapter by calling her 'Rat Face'.}}
* Osip Senkovsky is portrayed as this in ''[[The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar]]'', when asked to preside over an exam in the School of Oriental Languages. He is passive-agressive, demanding, perfectionistic and [[Large Ham|hammy]] as he bombards hapless students with questions about and demands for translations of Arabic and Persian poetry. The main character is eventually compelled to intercede, after which point Senkovsky considerably mellows out.
* Apparently, Fitz, from the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]], ''attracted'' these; it seems he's had several, which may explain why he's fairly [[Book Dumb]]:
{{quote|Scraped-back grey hair and a snotty manner; this woman reminded Fitz of his old maths teacher. One of the ones who used to say things like, ‘that may be how you used to do things in ''Germany''’ really sarcastically, knowing Fitz’d never been further than the other end of Southend pier in his life.<ref>He's [[But Not Too Foreign|half-German]] and was born in London in 1936. [[The Woobie|Ouch]].</ref>}}
* Several in Gene Kemp's ''[[Cricklepit School]]'' books. Usually they're a fairly mild version, but Mr Carter in ''Charlie Lewis Plays For Time'' is something else (although still within the realms of plausibility). Carter is made all the worse by being a tyrant when compared to [[Psychologist Teacher]] Mr Merchant.
* In Louis Sachar's ''Someday Angeline,'' Mrs. Hardlick is one of the sixth-grade teachers, and the titular Angeline, eight-year-old child genius, has the misfortune to be sent to her class. Mrs. Hardlick frequently gives the class wrong information and gets angry when Angeline corrects her, ''and'' takes immense delight in telling students that they answered incorrectly. On her first day of class, Angeline is driven to tears and sucks on her thumb to console herself, prompting Mrs. Hardlick to taunt her about it in front of the whole class (who start laughing at her), and gleefully tells her "Only ''babies'' suck their thumbs!" After Angeline's father forces her to resign from being "Secretary of Trash" (meaning she empties the garbage bin), Hardlick refuses to listen, or to let her resign, and then says she'll send a letter to Angeline's mother about
* The principal, [[Meaningful Name|Mr. Payne]] in ''The Year My Parents Ruined My Life'' is an asshole in general, biased against the protagonist because he crashed into her parents' car (and is now ''faking a neck injury'') and is, oh yeah, racist. Which he does not make a secret about, in regards to one of the fourth-grade protagonist's friends, a Japanese-American girl.
* The title character in ''The Piano Teacher'' was a very extreme version of this trope, and (although still rather traumatising) appears pretty tame by comparison in Michael Haneke's [[The Film of the Book|film adaption]]. No examples will be given for the sakes of haemophobes and the highly disturbing habits Erika pursues on a daily basis.
== [[Live
* ''[[The Secret World of Alex Mack]]'': Alex, in one episode has to do a science project for a teahcer who also had her older sister Annie for a student. as such, the teacher continually mocks Alex for not being as smart as Annie, provoking Alex to use her powers to "spice up" her project in a way that would be very hard to explain.
* ''[[Family Ties]]'': In the episode "The Harder They Fall," Reuben Tedesco is an insufferably rude and insulting to parents as well as students, he provokes both Keaton parents to violence when Mr. Tedesco can't shut his mouth:
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* And what would an entry on the Wiki be without the mandatory ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' example? Two words: ''Principal Snyder''.
** At least he does explain why he's a teacher, despite hating kids. 'Somebody has to keep an eye on them.'
*** Also an example of an [[Aborted Arc]], as the end of an episode reveals he's among Mayor Wilkins' inner circle and is aware of the existence of vampires. The Season 2 finale also shows him reacting more with glee that Buffy is wanted by the police rather than nervous of being in the presence of a mundane juvenile delinquent. However, he's returned to standard
* Comedy example: Mr. Sweeney from ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]''. In one episode, Ned asks Mr. Sweeney to explain how a science fair diorama should look. In response, Mr. Sweeney reaches behind his desk, takes out an elaborately detailed diorama explaining why Ned is likely to get an "F" on his science fair
** To be fair, he does soften up over time, with the eventual result being that Sweeney was only sadistic from Ned's point of view and Ned usually deserved the grades Sweeney gave him.
** Sweeney also subverts this in the [[Grand Finale]], where he admits to Ned (who is hanging upside in a tree) {{spoiler|that Ned was his favorite student and enjoyed his antics. And leaves him hanging in the tree.}}
* Back in 1986, Christopher Lloyd had a field day playing the gleefully sadistic Professor B.O. Beanes in "Go to the Head of the Class", a memorable, hour-long episode of [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0511097/ Amazing Stories]''. One fan's excellent review, available [http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0955/ here,]{{Dead link}} goes into loving detail and includes numerous clips that ''must'' be seen. ''Especially'' the clip wherein hapless high school student Peter Brand is forced to ''"meet the Misters!!"''
* One Maurice Bronson in ''[[Grange Hill]]'', the classic example.
* Mr. Gilbert from ''[[The Inbetweeners]]'':
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** There's also, on one occasion, Josh himself. When he tries to be a student teacher for Megan's class, the first homework assignment he gives? A science one with ''college level textbooks'' that even the class's ''parents'' couldn't figure out. Then the next day, when he finds out none of them could do it, ''punishes them''.
* Chuck Noblet in ''[[Strangers with Candy]]'', particularly to Jerri. [[Word of God|Word Of]] [[Stephen Colbert]] says he does this because he's so repressed and secretive, and resents her for trying to find things out and figure out her life.
* Herkabe from ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]''. (It's not surprising that an important character is a teacher who's a
* Haresh Chandra appears to be this when he first appears as the new headteacher in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', then it turns out he is the new regular character Rani's father (much to the dismay of [[Class Clown]] Clyde who has an obvious crush on Rani). He's also a nicer person when he gets home, and Rani and her mother Gita make fun of him for his stern streak.
* Sue Sylvester from ''[[Glee]]'' embodies this trope. From her brutal yet efficient ways of training the 'Cheerios' cheerleading squad, to the way she literally throws things around and even almost throws a kid out of a corridor when she's angry in one episode, you'd be hard pressed to find someone worse than her (Roald Dahl notwithstanding). Even then, admittedly, it's only done mainly for comedy purposes...
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* Saskia Duncan from ''[[Dance Academy]]'': An inexperienced teacher in the process of recovering from an injury that could shorten or end her career as a principal dancer, Saskia becomes intensely jealous of Tara's lyrical style and ability to dance the same solo (the Red Shoes) that made Saskia the youngest ever principal dancer with the Company. Initially, this jealousy leads Saskia to undermine Tara's confidence and bully her both in and outside of class. Later, in a private pas de deux class, she forces Tara into a dangerous stretch that results in a ''broken vertebra'', leaving Tara courting paraplegia with every step. Fortunately Ben was there too...
* Mr Tanner from ''The Vampire Diaries'' proves himself one in his thankfully short run of episodes. During his time, he openly insults students who don't know things and even brings up personal tragedies in front of the class (Such as the death of Elena's parents), keeps files on students he doesn't like such as Jeremy, proves he doesn't know ''[[Small Name, Big Ego|basic facts such as the end of The Korean War]]'', bullies students and tells Stefan he hopes to see him hurt while playing football (Though to be fair, he did change his mind after seeing his skill).
== Music ==
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=387gRdQmmeg This song] from [[Danny Elfman]]'s abandoned musical project "The World of Jimmy Calicutt" is told from the perspective of one such teacher.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* In ''[[Zbeng!]]
* Chalky, the cadaverously evil teacher with an impressive collection of canes and a love of terrifying schoolchildren and other teachers, from the newspaper cartoons by [[Giles]].
* Ms. Butcher from ''[[Zits]]''. She supposedly writes Jeremy's grades in blood.
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** And on the final, stapling the syllabus for the next class (taught by him) to the test and saying "Since most of you guys are going to fail anyways, I'm going to get a head-start!"
* Mrs. Wormwood from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' is an interesting take on this trope. Calvin (being Calvin) believes his behavior is justified, even appropriate, so when she doles out completely reasonable punishments, it appears to him that she is a sadist.
== Radio ==
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'''Dr. Hawthorne''': "Well, you should have thought of that before you [[It Makes Sense in Context|flung your jello]]. }}
== [[Theatre]] ==
* One presumes that Mrs. Thistletwat in ''[[Avenue Q]]'' is no better to her students than she is to her teaching assistant.
* In ''[[A Chorus Line]]'' Diana Morales recounts the story of her first acting teacher at the High School for Performing Arts, Mr. Karp, who turns on her after she questions his approach, and allows the other students to humiliate her.
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* Professor Calahan from ''[[Legally Blonde]] [[The Musical]]'' is unafraid to kick Elle out of class on the first day. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that she didn't do the reading, but still. And he treats his TA like crap, ''and'' he teaches students that ethics shouldn't play into law. He gets better... {{spoiler|until we find out he hits on interns...}}
** In the movie, the teacher who kicked Elle out was Professor Stromwell, who Elle initially saw as a Sadist Teacher (Emmett also said "she can really kick you in the balls"). Stromwell does {{spoiler|give Elle an inspirational talk about not giving up when Elle is seriously considering going home.}}
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The teacher seen in the intro movie of ''[[Heart of Darkness (video game)|Heart of Darkness]]'', wherein he puts Andy in a hole and asks him if he's afraid of the dark...
* Mr. Yamato from ''[[Lux-Pain]]''. It's fairly obvious from when you first meet him, but just to cement the point, {{spoiler|he tries (and succeeds, for a while anyway) to take several students in school hostage. He fires a few shots, but no one dies.}}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Thomas Fay Syndicate]]'s webcomic, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511015816/http://imhip.intodit.com/ ''I.M. Hip''] features Mr. Albany, who sends many characters into detention for just about anything (i.e. going to an opera).
* Mr. Dover from ''[[
* In ''[[Red String]]'', Arata routinely torments his students; he even orchestrates getting the main character expelled when she dares to stand up to him in class for ridiculing a friend. It's to the point that another main character (known for being headstrong and prone to foolhardy heroism) has been asked by the student body to do something about him.
* Kat from ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' is a photographer by profession; she was once hired to take school
** Though considering that it was the teacher who did all the renewing of hostilities, up to and including trying to threaten Kat's job, Kat's satisfaction at the teacher's demise is fairly understandable. (Though the woman's current students were far more overjoyed.)
*** To be specific, the most hostile thing Kat does when returning is giggle about how she's now taller than the teacher. The teacher, on the other hand, belittling Kat ''in front of Kat's own boss'', mocking Kat for needing a supervisor, and then mocking Kat more when she finally starts doing the shoots without her boss present. And Kat's actions, which potentially caused the heart attack? She finally confronts the teacher about her treatment and declares that she'll put up with it no longer.
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*** While he ''is'' sadistic, he's mostly just really really weird due to being half human, half immortal (called an "elf" in-story), and his sadistic nature comes from that.
*** And then [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-06-18 this happens]. Discuss amongst yourselves, class.
** Conversely, the math teacher offered a
* In a surprising move, the titular character from ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' is a subversion of the
** How is that a subversion, exactly? Not every case of a teacher ''not'' being a sadist is a subversion.
** It's a subversion in that, while he has a reputation as an incredibly difficult teacher, all of his students love him and are better people because of him, he never humiliates or bullies them in any way, and they all actively try to help him in every way they can. The class is hard because the ''subject'' is hard, not because he's a bad teacher. In fact, all of his students considered him their favorite, and were devastated when his reputation as a "hard" teacher caused him to get fired.
* The
* ''[[Precocious (Webcomic)|Precocious]]'' has the [[Meaningful Name|appropriately named]] Ms. Monster, though considering her students once rebelled and formed a [http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2010/01/26 union] she might need to be.
* ''[[Bug
{{quote|[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/halloween-part-1/ "I hate happiness."]}}
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130516085908/http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/halloween-part-2/ She gets her comeuppance, though.]
* Von Pinn from ''[[Girl Genius]]'' seems to be [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030718 like this]. It is subverted though, as later it is revealed that [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100512 the students actually love her].
== [[Web Original]] ==
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** The closest thing to the "sadist teacher" archetype seen at Whateley so far would actually be Amelia Hartford, though she ends up being more of a highly placed [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] or [[Dean Bitterman]] due to not actually having a teaching position (that we've seen thus far).
* ''[[Xin]]'' anyone? The school rules are practically built around allowing teachers to do whatever it takes... violent or non-violent... to keep order in class. Including brutalising students into bloody shivering pulps... for [[Disproportionate Retribution|homework violations...]]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Doug]]'' had Mr. Bone & Mrs. Wingo in Doug's own nightmarish imagination. Only his imagination
* Headmistress from ''[[Mucha Lucha]]'' loves to yell and menace with expulsion, but still has a lighter side that isn't really hidden.
* Mr. Crocker from ''[[The Fairly
* Ms. Bitters from ''[[Invader Zim]]'' is an extreme example. She's a [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] who not only hates her students (especially Dib and Zim), but everyone and everything in the world. "Children, your performance was miserable. Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now."
** Of course one could argue that she is the [[Only Sane Man]] and is well aware of how much of a [[Crapsack World]] it is.
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* The ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' episode "Mad Mod" took this to extremes, in which Mad Mod traps the heroes in a school that's constantly trying to kill or brainwash them.
* Were it not for the fact that the show is a cartoon and has a number of bizarre moments, [[Meaningful Name|Principal I.M. Greedyguts]] from ''[[Jacob Two Two]]'' would have been fired and sent to jail years ago. Besides always having it out for Jacob (although the latter does frequently ruin his plans), his crimes include appropriating money from the Dreary Meadows and spending it on luxuries for himself, planning to turn said school into a stable for his horses (sending the kids to the sub-basement to learn, but allowing one to come up "once in a while" to rub his feet) and not caring if Jacob, his friend and a fellow teacher are trapped forever in another dimension.
* In the last episode of ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'', Courage develops self-esteem issues that manifest in the form of a
* Principal Madman from ''[[Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?]]?'' is hard on all his students, but especially Robot, since he's also a technophobe.
* Ms. Finster in ''[[Recess]]'', that is, the one time she's shown doing anything even ''resembling'' teaching. (She's actually been shown to be a much rounder character than you'd think.)
* Played straight in the ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' episode "Nothing to Fear" with Huey Dewey and Louie's hallucination of their teacher. Subverted in a later season when the same teacher actually appears, and is very sweet.
* A [[Flash Back]] on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes|Jimmy Two Shoes]]'' revealed Lucius had one, despite knowing full well [[Bullying a Dragon|he was the future ruler of Miseryville]].
* Mr. Barkin from ''[[Kim Possible]]'' seems to be 10% this and 90% [[Stern Teacher]] with most of his students, but with Ron, it reverses (It's heavily implied that the reversal stems from revenge for Ron looking at him funny). However, overtime, he has shown to respect Ron.
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* Miss McBeth from ''[[Invisible Network of Kids]]''.
* Spiro Garkos from ''[[Hurricanes]]'' fits this trope as the coach of the Garkos Gorgons Youth Team. He seems to be this to all footballers but Stevie Pepenopolis had it the worst. And he couldn't be reported to Child Welfare because, in the Island of Garkos, he ''heads'' the Department of Child Welfare.
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** That doesn't mean he was sadistic. Most of the staff of the Unseen University are like this.
** There are also claims that he stole from his students.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131106065549/http://www.cracked.com/article/211_the-6-most-horrific-lessons-ever-taught-in-elementary-school/ The 6 Most Horrific Lessons Ever Taught in Elementary School] brought to you by ''[[Cracked.com]]''. It's possible that the teachers involved didn't torment their students out of sadism but out of a genuine belief that they were doing the right thing. That arguably makes it ''worse''.
* There's a news story on Yahoo about a teacher that took twenty percent off of a girl's paper. His explanation? "For being a loser."
* Another story from netlore is the teacher who gave one Adam Clarkson [
* There was once a minor scandal in Poland about one [https://web.archive.org/web/20130730164835/http://www.edukacjawpolsce.pl/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=202 batshit crazy teacher]. She made her students (seven year old children!) sit with hands tied behind their backs (for "better concentration") and, judging from videos recorded by a student with a cell-phone, was also an utter insane bitch whose lessons consisted mainly of screaming at the top of her lungs. (However, her main claim to infamy was her utter, terrifying ignorance. She taught students that whales are fishes, Christopher Columbus was a Polish scientist who made a trip around Earth, "szalik" (scarf) is a five-letter word...)
* As seen on the [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']] page, one teacher ''called the police'' on a girl for drawing on her desk in ''washable ink.'' [[Disproportionate Retribution]], much?
* This is [[Truth in Television]] as far along as the university level; professors who hate teaching undergrads. Some take it out on them in the courseload and grades assigned, some indulge in verbal abuse to unprofessional degrees, and seize any opportunity to belittle their students publicly. A few times, a teacher/professor even uses their position as a bully pulpit to essentially indoctrinate their students with viewpoints that only tangentially have any bearing on the subject, and sometimes even makes it a point to arrange it in regards to people providing proof to back their claims on history that they have to find proof at short notice (between class sessions), with no definitively confirmed method of disproving them by the next class.
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* Oh boy have I got a lot for you guys....
** http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330998/Teacher-forced-autistic-children-run-treadmill-punishment.html
** https://web.archive.org/web/20150131151529/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/02/02/banned-teacher-forced-pupils-to-wear-picture-of-child-with-noose-around-neck/
** https://web.archive.org/web/20100928035104/http://www.wftv.com/news/15620442/detail.html
** https://web.archive.org/web/20111228045919/http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44550 Is just plain cruel!
** https://web.archive.org/web/20110923072616/http://www.disaboomlive.com/
* Ron Williams, director of the religious [[Boarding School of Horrors]] in Indiana called [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109112908/http://formerhephzibahgirls.webs.com/ Hephzibah House], has gone so far as to publish articles arguing that it is necessary to beat all children
* As mentioned under Literature, [[C. S.
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