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* Hagbard Celine in ''[[The Illuminatus Trilogy]]''.
** Likewise, the Dealy Lama (no misspelling). Both more or less good guys who make extreme effort to appear unreliable or even dangerous and evil to their wards. When you manage to connect the dots, you'll realize that the Dealy Lama took this [[Beyond the Impossible]]: {{spoiler|he inspired the myth that would become [[Satan|the Devil-character]] of every mythology in existence, including the Discordianism - about himself!}}
* Terry Pratchett's [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Thief of Time]]'' includes Lu-Tze, a deliberate pastiche of Mr. Miyagi style trickster mentors. In true Zen form the humble sweeper Lu-Tze never quite lets on whether he's a profoundly enlightened
* In the Strugatsky Brothers' later Noonverse novels, Rudolf Sikorski, the [[Government Conspiracy]] [[Knight Templar]], works somewhat like that with the protagonist Maxim Kammerer. He keeps [[Shoot the Dog|shooting the dog]] and does a classic [[Breaking Speech]] when Maxim first meets him. It all seems to do Maxim some good service in the end, though.
* It is impossible to describe the [[The Four Gods|Quintarian]] deity known as the Bastard from [[Lois McMaster Bujold|Bujold's]] Chalion books, ''Paladin of Souls'' in particular, as anything but this.
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'''Ista''': "Plummet."
'''Bastard''': "No. Not You. Granted, you tumble and complain halfway to the abyss, but eventually you do spread your wings and soar." }}
* Hasan ibn Sabbah in Vladimir Bartol's ''[[Alamut]]'', with the twist that he usually has the followers who realize that he is a trickster covertly killed. When one of them survives and comes back for revenge, he declares him as his own son in every sense but biological, and blesses his search for enlightenment. ''And it works!''
* Fizban{{spoiler|/Paladine}} in the ''[[Dragonlance]] Chronicles'' trilogy.
* Vergere from the [[New Jedi Order]]. Later works established her as being also an [[Evil Mentor]].
* K. Pinkerton Silverfish, the author of the titular self-help book in Stephen Manes' children's novella ''Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days''. The protagonist Milo does all sorts of ridiculous things at Dr. Silverfish's instruction, like wearing a stalk of broccoli around his neck, going without food for a whole day, and finally staying up all night doing nothing but laying in bed and drinking weak tea. When Milo screws up by nodding off during the last task, the book reassures him by explaining the moral of the story: nobody's perfect, and people who obsess over trying to be perfect just make themselves look silly.
* ''[[An Elegy for the Still-living]]'': Robin Goodfellow, when he isn't just messing with Francis for the fun of it.
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