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** After the above school is destroyed, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} opens the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Its students include a brood, and one of the teachers is the time travelling child of the namesake Jean Grey... and one of its later students ''is'' a time-travelling teenage Jean Grey. Welcome to the X-Men, it only gets stranger from here. Homework is basically training for adventuring, e.g jetpacking and snow ball fights. Students also include a galactic ProudWarriorRaceGuy, time travellers, and the front lawn is a mutant.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]] opens the New Xavier Institute. It is located at the old Weapon X Facility, the place that gave Wolverine his unbreakable skeleton and [[AbsurdlySharpBlade sharp-ass claws]], and the students regularly go out on missions with the teachers. Said teachers consist of: a mutant revolutionary who shoots lasers from his eyes and is wanted for the murder of Charles Xavier, [[Characters/EmmaFrostWhiteQueen a mutant telepath who can turn her skin into diamond]] and wears {{Stripperiffic}} outfits, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto a mutant Holocaust-survivor and terrorist who can control magnetic fields]] and a [[HeroicComedicSociopath sociopathic]] [[ComicBook/{{Magik}} mutant sorceress]] who regularly takes the students through limbo when teleporting and time travels.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]] opens the New Xavier Institute. It is located at the old Weapon X Facility, the place that gave Wolverine his unbreakable skeleton and [[AbsurdlySharpBlade sharp-ass claws]], and the students regularly go out on missions with the teachers. Said teachers consist of: a mutant revolutionary who shoots lasers from his eyes and is wanted for the murder of Charles Xavier, [[Characters/EmmaFrostWhiteQueen a mutant telepath who can turn her skin into diamond]] and wears {{Stripperiffic}} outfits, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto a mutant Holocaust-survivor and terrorist who can control magnetic fields]] and a [[HeroicComedicSociopath sociopathic]] [[ComicBook/{{Magik}} mutant sorceress]] who regularly takes the students through limbo when teleporting and time travels.
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** After the above school is destroyed, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]] opens the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Its students include a brood, and one of the teachers is the time travelling child of the namesake Jean Grey... and one of its later students ''is'' a time-travelling teenage Jean Grey. Welcome to the X-Men, it only gets stranger from here. Homework is basically training for adventuring, e.g jetpacking and snow ball fights. Students also include a galactic ProudWarriorRaceGuy, time travellers, and the front lawn is a mutant.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]] opens the New Xavier Institute. It is located at the old Weapon X Facility, the place that gave Wolverine his unbreakable skeleton and [[AbsurdlySharpBlade sharp-ass claws]], and the students regularly go out on missions with the teachers. Said teachers consist of: a mutant revolutionary who shoots lasers from his eyes and is wanted for the murder of Charles Xavier,[[Characters/EmmaFrostWhiteQueen [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost a mutant telepath who can turn her skin into diamond]] and wears {{Stripperiffic}} outfits, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto a mutant Holocaust-survivor and terrorist who can control magnetic fields]] and a [[HeroicComedicSociopath sociopathic]] [[ComicBook/{{Magik}} [[Characters/{{Magik}} mutant sorceress]] who regularly takes the students through limbo when teleporting and time travels.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]] opens the New Xavier Institute. It is located at the old Weapon X Facility, the place that gave Wolverine his unbreakable skeleton and [[AbsurdlySharpBlade sharp-ass claws]], and the students regularly go out on missions with the teachers. Said teachers consist of: a mutant revolutionary who shoots lasers from his eyes and is wanted for the murder of Charles Xavier,
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* St Merlin's University from the ''Literature/MediochreQSethSeries'' is a university on the other side of the {{masquerade}}. Subjects include [[PostModernMagick technomancy]], [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dracology]] and [[TheUndead zontanecrology]].
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* St Merlin's University from the Literature/MediochreQSethSeries is a university on the other side of the {{masquerade}}. Subjects include [[PostModernMagick technomancy]], [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dracology]] and [[TheUndead zontanecrology]].
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^^* In ''Literature/DragonSlayersAcademy'', the school for which the series is named.
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* Not to speak for all religious schools, but at some universities, the extranormal is more with the students than with how the institute is run. Some of the kids come from extremely sheltered backgrounds, and for them the very prospect of living in the dorm or going to the cafeteria by themselves is terrifying; some of the others are MK (missionary's kids) and come from various jungles, islands, and so forth and find Los Angeles as a whole basically stifling (expect a lot of DoesNotLikeShoes). Throw in a few cases of visions or demonic possession, and this place probably qualifies.
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* Kunpuu High School in ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}'' turns out to be, basically, a boarding-school for demons and spirits who find it hard to fit into human society -- as such, several dozen spirits and demons are liberally mixed with the human students, and have to stay there until they learn how to maintain the {{masquerade}}. Something tells us that Chizuru will be stuck there for a while...
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* Kunpuu High School in ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}'' ''Literature/{{Kanokon}}'' turns out to be, basically, a boarding-school for demons and spirits who find it hard to fit into human society -- as such, several dozen spirits and demons are liberally mixed with the human students, and have to stay there until they learn how to maintain the {{masquerade}}. Something tells us that Chizuru will be stuck there for a while...
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* ''EVERYONE'' at ''[[Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi Mahora Academy]]'' (or at least MANY) seems to be abnormal in some way. You have vampires, ninjas, time-travelling Martians from the future, robots, mad scientists, mages, [[spoiler:princesses]], ghosts.... And that's not even touching the tip of the iceberg. And yet, somehow the majority of the student body seem to be {{Muggles}}.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' has The Yamanouchi Ninja School.
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* Sci-fi, fantasy, anime, and comicbook conventions. Outsiders see a bunch of strange people in strange garb doing strange things, but to people inside the fandom it's all perfectly normal.
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* Brown College UVA.
* The University of Chicago goes as far as to invoke this trope, embracing unashamed expressions of nerdiness. This is helped by how the college's gothic architecture resembles [[Franchise/HarryPotter a certain wizard school]]. One of the best-selling T-shirts in the bookstore says, "I was waitlisted at Hogwarts."
* The University of Chicago goes as far as to invoke this trope, embracing unashamed expressions of nerdiness. This is helped by how the college's gothic architecture resembles [[Franchise/HarryPotter a certain wizard school]]. One of the best-selling T-shirts in the bookstore says, "I was waitlisted at Hogwarts."
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* A major point of pride for the Rochester Institute of Technology and its students is finding new ways to fuse technology with art and design -- so in other words, you can expect to find all the weirdness typical of [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a tech school]] ''[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs and]]'' [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs an art school]], [[ExaggeratedTrope squared]]. This comes to a head during the annual [[https://www.rit.edu/imagine Imagine RIT]] festival held during the final weekend of the school year, where students and faculty turn the entire campus into a veritable MadScienceFair as they showcase the bizarre projects they've been working on all year.
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* A major point of pride for the Rochester Institute of Technology and its students is finding new ways to fuse technology with art and design -- so in other words, you can expect to find all the weirdness typical of [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a tech school]] ''[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs and]]'' [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs an art school]], [[ExaggeratedTrope squared]]. This comes to a head during the annual [[https://www.rit.edu/imagine Imagine RIT]] festival held during the final weekend of the school year, where students and faculty turn the entire campus into a veritable MadScienceFair as they showcase the bizarre projects they've been working on all year.
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* Somewhat similar to the X-Men example below, ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has Academy City. It has hundreds, if not thousands of schools. 80% of the population are students, over 60% of which are [[PsychicPowers espers]]. Teaching them how to use their abilities to their fullest potential is ''part of the local curriculum''. No one finds it unusual; in fact, the whole world knows about it and don't particularly care.
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* Somewhat similar to the X-Men example below, ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has Academy City. It has hundreds, if not thousands of schools. 80% of the population are students, over 60% of which are [[PsychicPowers espers]]. Teaching them how to use their abilities to their fullest potential is ''part of the local curriculum''. No one finds it unusual; in fact, the whole world knows about it and don't particularly care.
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* ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': Both Knightcharm and the Scholomance are schools dedicated to teaching magic.
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Often, stories in such a setting will be in a genre ([=besides/in addition to=] the obvious [=sf/fantasy=]) in which the protagonists spend a lot of time exploring the details of the setting, such as School Story, MedicalDrama, or PoliceProcedural. Of course, the contrast with the mundane aspects of that genre helps the bizarre details of the setting to stand out even further.
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further. It may be a BoardingSchool, which means that there can be stories about the trials and tribulations of living away from home in a dormitory-style setting.
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The Extranormal Institute is a strange and/or wonderful place where bizarre is the new normal. Students with unusual abilities get training and courses from instructors who may have extranormal powers themselves and/or from scientific experts on extranormal powers, It makes good internal sense (as opposed to farce played for laughs) and is genuinely functional (as opposed to a CrapsackWorld or the like), but has a very high weirdness level as real people deal with fantastical things.
Such a location is usually an important part of the attraction of whatever series it's featured in. {{Naive Newcomer}}s (perhaps [[StrangerInAStrangeSchool Strangers In A Strange School]]) can be expected to drop their eyes. The regulars may well be aware of their madhouse status and even proud of it. The school building is often a specialized facility designed to permit those with extranormal powers to test them out. To reduce scrutiny from prying outsiders, the school may be set in a remote location and parts may be hidden underground.
Such a location is usually an important part of the attraction of whatever series it's featured in. {{Naive Newcomer}}s (perhaps [[StrangerInAStrangeSchool Strangers In A Strange School]]) can be expected to drop their eyes. The regulars may well be aware of their madhouse status and even proud of it. The school building is often a specialized facility designed to permit those with extranormal powers to test them out. To reduce scrutiny from prying outsiders, the school may be set in a remote location and parts may be hidden underground.
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The Extranormal Institute is a strange and/or wonderful place where bizarre is the new normal. Students with unusual abilities get training and courses from instructors who may have extranormal powers themselves and/or from scientific experts on extranormal powers, It powers. The school makes good internal sense (as opposed to farce played for laughs) and is genuinely functional (as opposed to a CrapsackWorld or the like), but has a very high weirdness level as real people deal with fantastical things.
Such a locationand paranormal things and powers.
The school is usually an important part of the attraction of whatever series it's featured in. {{Naive Newcomer}}s (perhaps [[StrangerInAStrangeSchool Strangers In A Strange School]]) can be expected to drop their eyes. The regulars may well be aware of theirmadhouse "madhouse" status and even proud of it.being quirky outsiders. The school building is often a specialized facility designed to permit those with extranormal powers to test them out. To reduce scrutiny from prying outsiders, the school may be set in a remote location and parts may be hidden underground.
underground. The story may make use of the town near the institute, thus permitting the use of "normie" characters who live in the region, which contrasts with the extranormal students.
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The Extranormal Institute is a strange and/or wonderful place where bizarre is the new normal. It makes good internal sense (as opposed to farce played for laughs) and is genuinely functional (as opposed to a CrapsackWorld or the like), but has a very high weirdness level as real people deal with fantastical things.
Such a location is usually an important part of the attraction of whatever series it's featured in. {{Naive Newcomer}}s (perhaps [[StrangerInAStrangeSchool Strangers In A Strange School]]) can be expected to drop their eyes. The regulars may well be aware of their madhouse status and even proud of it.
Such a location is usually an important part of the attraction of whatever series it's featured in. {{Naive Newcomer}}s (perhaps [[StrangerInAStrangeSchool Strangers In A Strange School]]) can be expected to drop their eyes. The regulars may well be aware of their madhouse status and even proud of it.
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The Extranormal Institute is a strange and/or wonderful place where bizarre is the new normal. Students with unusual abilities get training and courses from instructors who may have extranormal powers themselves and/or from scientific experts on extranormal powers, It makes good internal sense (as opposed to farce played for laughs) and is genuinely functional (as opposed to a CrapsackWorld or the like), but has a very high weirdness level as real people deal with fantastical things.
Such a location is usually an important part of the attraction of whatever series it's featured in. {{Naive Newcomer}}s (perhaps [[StrangerInAStrangeSchool Strangers In A Strange School]]) can be expected to drop their eyes. The regulars may well be aware of their madhouse status and even proud ofit.
it. The school building is often a specialized facility designed to permit those with extranormal powers to test them out. To reduce scrutiny from prying outsiders, the school may be set in a remote location and parts may be hidden underground.
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* This can also be said about any school with a large, well-established game of ''LARP/HumansVsZombies''. For students at these schools, discussions of how to avoid zombies on the way to class, people sprinting across the quad shooting Nerf darts at people chasing them, or seeing forty people suddenly siege a dorm are quite normal.
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* ''Myth/TheScholomance'', in Romanian mythology, is a school for evil witches and wizards to learn Main/TheDarkArts. Students are trapped in its underground halls for their seven years of studies, and those who survive to graduate can wield immensly powerful magic. (The one student who is sacrificed to pay for the tuition of the others, however, has a worse time of it).
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* ''Myth/TheScholomance'', in Romanian mythology, is a school for evil witches and wizards to learn Main/TheDarkArts. Students are trapped in its underground halls for their seven years of studies, and those who survive to graduate can wield immensly powerful magic. (The one student who is sacrificed to pay for the tuition of the others, however, has a worse time of it).
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Contrast with MundaneFantastic and WorldOfWeirdness, where the entire world is like this (at least for the protagonists). Not to be confused with a SchoolForScheming, which appears to be this but is actually led by malevolent individuals or groups planning to exploit or manipulate the students.
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* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' has Raya Lucaria Academy in Liurnia, which teaches glintstone sorcery. Scholars pick a field of study called a Conspectus focusing on different spells- Lazuli sorcerers study Carian lunar magic, Karolos studies comets, Olivinus studies stars, Haima studies battle magic, and Heirodas is for scholars who did fieldwork. The Twinsage Conspectus contained the elite sorcerers who excelled in multiple fields. All sorcerers are given large stone masks shaped after their conspectus founder, which increase intelligence at the detriment of physical stats. Raya Lucaria has currently shut its doors to the outside world and is engaged in a civil war with Liurnia's ruling house of Caria.
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* ''Fanfic/TrollCops'' gives us SEER, the [[FunWithAcronyms Society for the Elevation of Ectotechnological Research]], a sort of Wiki/SCPFoundation pastiche led by Rose Lalonde and including most of the city's active vigilante superheroes.
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* ''Fanfic/RoyalHeights'' entirely revolves around the school in the title itself, Royal Heights Academy, a school within the dimension Utopia traveled to by portal creating jets that is entirely riffed with TechnologyPorn and houses a multitude of students of differing species from multiple dimensions.
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** In other words, Gunnerkrigg Court supports technology and freely uses it, while it tries to deny or at least hide things that it cannot explain with technology. A major theme in ''Gunnerkrigg Court'' is the [[MagicVersusScience conflict]] between technology in the court and the unexplainable, etheric magic in the forest beyond the court.
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* [[ComicBook/AtomicRobo Tesladyne Industries]] is a workplace that specializes in Action Science, including such fields as Imaginary Physics and Advanced [Other] (it's so revolutionary it doesn't have a name yet). Giant bugs and extra-universal incursions are the order of the day. Vampire attacks are treated with as much concern (but much less surprise) than a fire in a normal office compound, and the receptionist keeps a shotgun and helmet under his desk just in case.
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* The Soviet film ''Sorcerers'' is loosely based on the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers novel ''Literature/MondayBeginsOnSaturday'' (see below). Ivan Puhov's fiancée Alyona (unbeknownst to him) works as a witch at the Scientific Universal Institute of Extraordinary Services, a subsidiary of the Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry from the novel. Thanks to a rival at the institute, Alyona is cursed by the jealous director of the institute (who thinks that her boyfriend is cheating on her with the young witch) to be a cold-blooded bitch, who doesn't care about anyone. It's up to Ivan and a pair of magic wood masters from the institute to lift the curse.
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* The Soviet film ''Sorcerers'' ''Film/{{Sorcerers}}'' is loosely based on the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers novel ''Literature/MondayBeginsOnSaturday'' (see below). Ivan Puhov's fiancée Alyona (unbeknownst to him) works as a witch at the Scientific Universal Institute of Extraordinary Services, a subsidiary of the Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry from the novel. Thanks to a rival at the institute, Alyona is cursed by the jealous director of the institute (who thinks that her boyfriend is cheating on her with the young witch) to be a cold-blooded bitch, who doesn't care about anyone. It's up to Ivan and a pair of magic wood masters from the institute to lift the curse.
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* Literature/NowhereIslandUniversity is a mix of a bunch of sub-types, due to its separate schools. Some, like the [[MilitarySchool Academy of Military Science]] and [[SpySchool Shadowhaven]] specialize in turning out Elite Mooks. However, most of the other schools focus on a specific area of technology (medicine, computers, engineering, etc.) and have taken the university years ahead of the rest of the world technologically.
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* Literature/NowhereIslandUniversity ''Literature/NowhereIslandUniversity'' is a mix of a bunch of sub-types, due to its separate schools. Some, like the [[MilitarySchool Academy of Military Science]] and [[SpySchool Shadowhaven]] specialize in turning out Elite Mooks. However, most of the other schools focus on a specific area of technology (medicine, computers, engineering, etc.) and have taken the university years ahead of the rest of the world technologically.
* The first book in ''Literature/TheSolomonCode'' series is technically a school for half-angel teens, though in reality it's a prison camp where the boys are barely taught anything.
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* The forum-based RPG Roleplay/{{Shadowside}} not only covers the basis of this, but almost all of the subtropes are at least partially true of it.
* Hyakuji High School, the eponymous high school from Roleplay/ShinHyakujiHighSchool forum-based RPG covers a variety of subtropes related to this concept.
* Hyakuji High School, the eponymous high school from Roleplay/ShinHyakujiHighSchool forum-based RPG covers a variety of subtropes related to this concept.
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* The forum-based RPG Roleplay/{{Shadowside}} ''Roleplay/{{Shadowside}}'' not only covers the basis of this, but almost all of the subtropes are at least partially true of it.
* Hyakuji High School, the eponymous high school fromRoleplay/ShinHyakujiHighSchool ''Roleplay/ShinHyakujiHighSchool'' forum-based RPG covers a variety of subtropes related to this concept.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans'': While the gods of Mount Olympus no longer have the power to stop Cronus on their own, an oracle has foretold that Cronus will be defeated once and for all by seven teenagers descended from Greek mythology's greatest heroes. These chosen ones are gathered at Olympus High, a school that hides a secret entrance to a special training ground for them.
* The eponymous ''WesternAnimation/RegalAcademy''
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* The eponymous ''WesternAnimation/RegalAcademy''
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* ''WesternAnimation/SupernaturalAcademy'' is attended by Shifters, Magic-Users, Faeries, Trolls, Harpies, Vampires and Mermaids.
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* Roleplay/SigilAcademy is another forum-based RPG that's one of these, also covering a variety of subtropes but mostly SuperheroSchool.
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* The Society for Creative Anachronism.
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* The Society for Creative Anachronism.UsefulNotes/SocietyForCreativeAnachronism
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* In Marvel's ComicBook/TheNewUniverse, ''ComicBook/DP7'' introduced a clinic for people developing paranormal powers as a result of [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent the White Event]].
** To a lesser extent, the Ballad Institute from ''Nightmask'' also qualified.
** To a lesser extent, the Ballad Institute from ''Nightmask'' also qualified.
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* In Marvel's ComicBook/TheNewUniverse, ''ComicBook/DP7'' introduced the Clinic for Paranormal Research, a clinic for people developing paranormal powers as a result of [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent the White Event]].
** To a lesser extent, the Ballad Institute from''Nightmask'' ''ComicBook/{{Nightmask}}'' also qualified.
** To a lesser extent, the Ballad Institute from
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* AcademyOfAdventure (the only Extranormal School trope not defined by what it teaches)
* AcademyOfEvil
* AllGhoulsSchool
* HeroAcademy
* NinjaSchool
* RoyalSchool
* SpySchool
* SuperheroSchool
* WizardingSchool
* AcademyOfEvil
* AllGhoulsSchool
* HeroAcademy
* NinjaSchool
* RoyalSchool
* SpySchool
* SuperheroSchool
* WizardingSchool
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* AcademyOfAdventure (the AcademyOfAdventure: An academy guaranteed to have danger and excitement happen to its students. The only Extranormal School trope not defined by what it teaches)
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*AcademyOfEvil
AcademyOfEvil: A school that teaches you to be a Villain.
*AllGhoulsSchool
AllGhoulsSchool: {{Our Monsters|Are Different}} go here.
*HeroAcademy
HeroAcademy: An academy that teaches you how to be the Good Guy.
*NinjaSchool
NinjaSchool: A school that teaches ninjitsu.
*RoyalSchool
RoyalSchool: A school for nobility and aristocracy.
*SpySchool
SpySchool: A school that teaches you espionage.
*SuperheroSchool
SuperheroSchool: A school for {{Superhero}}es.
*WizardingSchoolWizardingSchool: A school that teaches you magic.
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