13 Fictional Mentors Whose Teachings Were Utterly Useless

The fictional mentor creed: Phone it in and hopefully they'll die.
13 Fictional Mentors Whose Teachings Were Utterly Useless

We're pretty certain there's a school of thought shared by all fictional mentors that goes along the lines of, "Just phone it and hopefully my protege will go away. Or die. Whichever comes first, I don't really care."

After all, that's the only way you can explain things like ...

In 1978's Superman, Jor-El tells his son that he's sent him to Earth to save them from suffering the same fate as Krypton. They can be a great people
CAPTAIN EISRHCA Alright, kid. 0 think superpowered people should be held accountable for their actions. Wanna help me out? Eh...sure. Great, firs
In The Dead Poet's Society, poetry teacher John Keating is heralded as an inspiration. But what he really did was work up a bunch of privileged teenag
DR. KING SCHULTZ frees Django from slavery and teaches him how to be a bounty hunter. DJANGO MINCHAINED J couldn't resist (fucking everything up) Then
No SUCH THING AS BAD STUDENT, ONLY BAD TEACHER TEACHER SAY, STUDENT DO- Mr. Miyagi In the original KARATE KID movie, Mr. Miyagi says that there are
The NeverEnding Story Falkor is intended to be the mentor to the main characters but does a falking bad job. Then how are we supposed to find them? Wi
CRACKEDCOM. FEAR ANGER HATE SUFFERING Yoda In Star Wars Episode 1, Yoda famously states that fear leads to anger and anger leads to hate... or is that
jiminy Cricket! Entered an abode without invitation. Wanted a gold badge as payment before he even completed the job. Let his ward hang out with unsav
HITMAN In the 2015 film, Agent 47 finds Katia van Dees (Agent 90) and trains her to be more like him through a number of life and death situations. Yo
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES ALFRED KNOWS THAT BRUCE WAYNE IS MENTALLYAND PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE OF FIGHTING AS BATMAN, AND MAY GET HIMSELF KILLED BY BANE. THI
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON'S Gobber believes in learning on the job. Teaching neophyte vikings how to fight dragons by putting them in a pen with a live
In The Matrix. Morpheus asks Neo to make a life- changing decision without telling him he's expected to join a war against a superior enemy. He offers
Hatly Potter Dumbledore is one of the most powerful and wisest wizards in the Harry Potter universe, but he's a terrible mentor. His way of mentoring

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