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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/6/8/573468.jpg?v=1)
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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/5/572365.jpg?v=1)
![CAPTAIN EISRHCA Alright, kid. 0 think superpowered people should be held accountable for their actions. Wanna help me out? Eh...sure. Great, firs](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/2/572362.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/0/3/572203.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/9/2/572192.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/4/572364.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/1/1/572211.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/0/4/572204.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/0/2/572202.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/0/0/572200.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/9/8/572198.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/9/9/572199.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/0/9/572209.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/0/5/572205.jpg?v=1)