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This is a school that teaches their students how to be better villains. There will be courses on mayhem, [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word|extortion]], use of [[Bad Powers, Bad People|powers]] for [[Good Powers, Bad People|evil]], money laundering and many other topics. Usually the school will be a strictly evil institution that is staffed entirely with [[Sadist Teacher
Presumably, such a school is funded by graduates tithing back money to the principal, though he or she may get funding from parents who enroll their children because they [[In the Blood|want their kids]] to [[Legacy Character|follow their evil jackboot-steps.]]
To be fair, [[Dark Is Not Evil]], and the '''Academy
If there is a good aligned [[Wizarding School]], [[Ninja School]], or [[Super-Hero School]], expect them both to be rivals. May overlap with [[All-Ghouls School]]. This will most likely be were villains get their [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Morally Ambiguous Doctorates]].
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* The eponymous institution in ''[[Hollow Fields]]'' is a school for mad scientists, with courses in graverobbing, building machines of destruction, and so forth.
▲== [[Anime]] And [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Assassination Classroom]]'', Kunugigaoka Junior High School is this in all but name; the students are are attending with the intent to kill Koro-sensei, as he is teaching there after ''challenging'' them to do so and the government has offered a ¥10 billion reward to whoever succeeds. In the meantime, they're at the school to learn how to do so well - from Koro himself. {{spoiler|after all, [[Death Seeker|he ''wants'' them to succeed]].}}
▲* The eponymous institution in ''[[Hollow Fields]]'' is a school for mad scientists, with courses in graverobbing, building machines of destruction, and so forth.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Alan Moore]] did a ''[[
* The Praetorian Academy in ''[[
* Xavier's School for Exceptionally Wayward Youth in ''X-Men Noir'' is a reform school... but Professor Xavier taught his students how to be better criminals rather than actually reforming them. He insists this was a ploy to gain their trust so they would gradually open up to him and therapy could begin in earnest. In reality, he was developing and studying them to prove his theory that sociopathy is the next stage of human behavioral evolution.
* In mainstream ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' continuity, Emma Frost used to be headmistress of the Massachusetts
** In the more recent ''[[New Mutants]]'' title, the Hellions were another "house" within the Xavier Institute, but still kind of villain-y and rivals to the New Mutants team.
* Oft mentioned in ''[[
* In the [[Marvel Universe]], any institution run by [[Taskmaster]] is this - he first came to prominence running schools for henchmen of other supervillains. Later, during ''[[Dark Reign (
* St. Hadrian's Finishing School for Girls in ''[[Batman]] Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes''.
* Villain Academy in ''[[Sentai School]]''.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Ohtori Institute in the demiworld of Oriphos in the late "Future Imperfect" era of ''[[Undocumented Features]]''.
== [[Film]] ==
* The ''[[Austin Powers]]'' [[The Verse|Verse]] gives us this page's quote.
* ''[[The Karate Kid]]'':
== Folklore ==
* [[wikipedia:Scholomance|The Scholomance]], a hidden school in deepest [[
== [[Literature]] ==
* Catherine Jinks's ''[[Evil Genius Trilogy]]'' sends its protagonist, the [[Sociopathic Hero]] Cadel, to the Axis Institute, which includes courses like "Poisoning" and "Forgery."
* The Higher Institute of Villainous Education, or ''[[
* From ''[[Harry Potter (
** Not quite played straight, since we do meet Durmstrang alumni who are definitely not evil and take a hard stand against evil (Viktor Krum comes to mind right away) and this isn't shown as being very odd. And even Durmstrang had to draw the line and expel Gellert Grindelwald, where a school that really played this trope straight would probably have nurtured him.
*** Given that Durmstrang is the only school we ever see in canon for children from the Nordic countries or eastern Europe, not having at least a few of them be good guys could have had some seriously unfortunate implications.
** The entirety of Hogwarts in [[
* There is a "[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Academy Shadow Academy]" in the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'', as a Dark Side counterpart to the Jedi Academy.
* The Nightmoore Academy of Frank Peretti's ''[[Veritas Project]]'' series.
* ''[[
* Played with in [[
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* [[Dracula (
* Bekinsop's Academy for the Daughters of Gentlefolk in ''Blonde Genius'' by [[
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''; at the end of the episode "Out of Mind, Out of Sight", [[Villain of the Week|Marcie]] is taken to a government facility, the final scene showing her in a classroom with other invisible students, reading from a textbook labeled, ''Assassination and Infiltration''. The insinuation is she's learning to be a [[Professional Killer]], and seems just fine with that.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Academy of Evil, from ''[[Crash Twinsanity]]'', a private school that literally teaches students to be evil, for the sake of being evil. The series' antagonist, Dr. Neo Cortex studied here, while his niece was thrown out and had to continue her studies at the Evil Public School.
* The Institute of Evil, Nether Academy - the setting of ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]''. It's literally a school in ''hell'', where demons go to learn how to be properly evil (By their [[Poke the Poodle|generally awkward]] standards). Also doubles as a [[Bizarro World]], since honor students are the ones who never attend class or do their homework, while delinquents maintain 100% attendance (even though the teachers rarely bother showing up), and give THEMSELVES homework (which they always complete) since the teachers won't. They also pick up litter. Oddly, the so-called "delinquents" are the only ones who ever get to graduate from the academy, since they run off the same standards as any other school in that regard... In fact, {{spoiler|the previously mentioned delinquents are the first ones to ever graduate, which amounts to be [[Kicked Upstairs]]. You see, the Academy's objective is to make the students remain paying the tuition for all the eternity.}}
* Scholomance in ''[[World of Warcraft]].'' Based on the one mentioned above, it a [[Magical Academy]] that caters to a specific type of wizard: [[Necromancer]]s. The instructors and most of the students are undead themselves, not that such a state impairs the classes much.
* The Sith Academies on Korriban and Malachor V in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (
* [[Crash Bandicoot]]'s arch-foe [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate| Dr. Neo Cortex]] went to Madame Amberley's Academy of Evil, a school for mad scientists, which is also the third level in ''[[Crash Twinsanity]]''. Concept art shows that his two henchmen N. Gin and N. Brio were also students there.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Evil University in ''[[Adventurers
* The defunct webcomic ''[http://madaboutu.keenspot.com/ Mad About U]'' was set in a university for mad scientists.
* In ''[[Nodwick]]'', the [[Evil Sorcerer]] Ildomir went to a school for wizards called the Heractium Dark Arts Academy.
* ''[[Evil Inc.]]'' has a [http://evil-inc.com/comic/vima/ remedial education program] for supervillains who can't talk without spouting old cliches. Evil Inc. also has [http://evil-inc.com/comic/title-44/ intern orientation].
* From ''[[League Of Super Redundant Heroes]]''; in [http://superredundant.com/?comic=780-career-counseling this strip], when a high school student expresses interest in mad science, his guidance counsellor recommends Professor Vengeance's School for Misunderstood Geniuses and Thinkers.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* The [[Round Robin]] story ''[[Dark Heart High]]'' uses one as a setting.
* Deville Academy, in the [[Whateley Universe]], is a school that takes in poor, young delinquents... and turns them into the best thieves, spies, and killers on the planet. Except for those mutant supervillains.
* ''[[SCP Foundation]]''
** The
* The play by post roleplay ''[[Destine Enormity (Roleplay)|Destine Enormity]]'' has [[Meaningful Name|SIN Academy,]] where the city's overlords indoctrinate the city's children.▼
** [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/about-deer Deer College] is a school located in Three Portlands that offers conventional studies - like Economics, Chemistry and Creative Writing - and supernatural-themed classes, like Thaumatology, Cryptozoology and Ontokinetics. Current and former alumni include undead beings, [[The Fair Folk]], and [[Religion of Evil| Sarkicists]], and as the link shows, they even have promotional online brochures. To be fair, though, it’s not the best school, even as far as Academies of Evil go; at least one graduate left a negative review of the place in said brochure.
▲* The play by post roleplay ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Teen Titans (
* In ''[[
* The Huntsclan Academy in ''[[American Dragon
* Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz of ''[[Phineas and Ferb
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