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== Anime & Manga ==
* Half the cast of ''[[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]'' fits this trope.
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. Yusuke is too cool for school, especially in the first couple of episodes.
 
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== Comics ==
* The standard attitude of the characters in ''[[The Beano]]''.
* Creeps in around the edges of the books in the [[X -Men]] line. While the original X-Men were sometimes shown studying actual school subjects, in recent years, despite the characters often living in a school, they're almost never shown studying anything other than using their powers, fighting, and, in recent years, "superhuman ethics." The implication being that superhumans don't ''need'' to know silly things like history, math, reading, or science.
** Of course, virtually all of the major characters are adults, so the fact that they're not students is rather less surprising.
 
 
== Film ==
* ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Film)|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]'' consists entirely of a character with this philosophy putting it into action by treating every authority he runs into with caustic dismissal.
* The song "The Nicest Kids in Town" from ''[[Hairspray]]'' is practically the hymn for this ethos. In universe, at least.
* The third ''[[Big Momma]]'' movie featured [[Wholesome Crossdresser|the cop's]] stepson thinking like that.
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{{quote| "College is just a place for white people to go to to get other white people to read to them. I figure I'll just buy the books and read to myself."}}
* On [[Hyperdrive]], Henderson makes a samll jab at Teal when she mentioned she took a year off after university, as he [[Slobs Versus Snobs|had to start working and didn't get to to go to university at all]].
* One episode of ''[[Married... Withwith Children]]'' had Kelly gaining an internship at a tv station. Al invoked the trope the moment he learned Kelly was offered a three-year-long contract that paid 250 thousand dollars per year and required her to drop out of school.
 
 
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