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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.

 

 

** 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.

* 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 other—all without ever compromising her [[Stepford Smiler|"nice teacher" facade]]. An example of this is when, during a homework-checking session, she deliberately calls on the one student who has the incorrect answer for each question, and using the resulting slew of wrong answers to retract her promise of no homework for that day. Every student ends up hating all the others for being idiots who cheated him/her out of a homework-free afternoon, even though in reality none of them missed more than two questions on the assignment.