History Main / RelegatedMentor

* Master Roshi from Franchise/DragonBall series wins the first tournament in the shows run, loses in the final 4 during the second, and doesn't even compete in the third. By the time Dragon Ball Z starts, he has become a minor character who isn't nearly as strong as the characters he previously trained. In fact, if you watch Dragon Ball Z before Dragon Ball, you could be forgiven for not knowing that he was ever the world's number one martial arist.

If the mentor is [[ObsoleteMentor obsolete]] they will be relegated much more quickly, perhaps within a single episode. May overlap with MentorOccupationalHazard or The mentor may be DemotedToExtra in which they are still on the series but mostly as an OutOfFocus background character. Most cases though have the mentor being PutOnABus.

* Giles in Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer left the Buffy and the Scoobies because Buffy had grown to be a capable leader without his presence.

* In ''Uzumasa Limelight'', Seiichi's continuing loss of motor control and Satsuki's success as an actress lead him to retire from acting. Satsuki eventually persuades him to return for one last role as equals rather than mentor-and-student.

->'''Master''': A cycle is complete, and now there is a new emptiness to be filled. A new journey, which you must take alone. […]\\
'''Bruce Leroy''': Master, perhaps with more time to train. Master, I need more time.\\
'''Master''': I am no longer your master!

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* Leo does this to the girls in ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' in an episode where he becomes and Elder and can no longer be around to personally give the sisters advice and inspiration. They spend quite a bit of time whining about how they don't know what to do without Leo there to guide them and give them answers. Leo informs them that they don't actually need him and are more than capable to solve their magical problem of the day without his help.

* Master Roshi from DragonBall series wins the first tournament in the shows run, loses in the final 4 during the second, and doesn't even compete in the third. By the time Dragon Ball Z starts, he has become a minor character who isn't nearly as strong as the characters he previously trained. In fact, if you watch Dragon Ball Z before Dragon Ball, you could be forgiven for not knowing that he was ever the world's number one martial arist.

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* Happens frequently to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' in his series. All his mentors die, Dumbledore, Sirius, Lupin, leaving him alone and feeling lost. Dumbledore plays the RelegatedMentor the straightest though in that he willingly died and spent his last year preparing Harry to understand and defeat Voldemort.

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* Professor X from ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}''. Once his X-Men gain enough experience, they tend to leave and become part of other comic titles where they take a more central focus. Scott "Cyclops" Summers exemplifies this best when he takes over for Xavier as the team lead.

* In the ''LyricalNanoha'' franchise, Yuuno Scrya played a major role in the first season, mentoring the eponymous main character in the art of magic. However, he has been all but PutOnTheBus by the third season, after Nanoha became a hypercompetent badass herself.

* This happens to Alaric Morgan relative to Kelson Haldane in the {{Deryni}} works. Morgan has a bigger role in the events of the ''Chronicles of the Deryni'' trilogy, but Kelson comes more to the fore in the next trilogy (called ''The Histories of King Kelson''). It's justified in that Kelson is introduced as a boy of fourteen at the start of the ''Chronicles'', and that entire trilogy takes place within the following year, so he lacks age and experience. ''The Histories'' take place a few years later, after Kelson has grown a bit and been on the throne for a while, and the third volume centers around Kelson's knightly accolade and the coming of age that represents. Morgan is still alive and well as a friend and advisor (the ''Codex'' lists him as such several years after the events of ''King Kelson's Bride''), but his presence isn't as large as in the earlier works.

* Inverted in most adaptions of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' (and less so with ''Superman'') seeing as he is the main character, his sidekicks leave him once they gain enough experience and become their own heroes, i.e.: Robin becoming {{Nightwing}} and Barbara Gordon becoming [[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Oracle]].

* Inverted in most adaptions of ''{{Batman}}'' (and less so with ''Superman'') seeing as he is the main character, his sidekicks leave him once they gain enough experience and become their own heroes, i.e.: Robin becoming {{Nightwing}} and Barbara Gordon becoming [[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Oracle]].

* Happens frequently to ''HarryPotter'' in his series. All his mentors die, Dumbledore, Sirius, Lupin, leaving him alone and feeling lost. Dumbledore plays the RelegatedMentor the straightest though in that he willingly died and spent his last year preparing Harry to understand and defeat Voldemort.

* Inverted in most adaptions of ''{{Batman}}'' (and less so with ''Superman'') seeing as he is the main character, his sidekicks leave him once they gain enough experience and become their own heroes, i.e.: Robin becoming {{Nightwing}} and Barbara Gordon becoming [[BirdsOfPrey Oracle]].

* Leo does this to the girls in ''{{Charmed}}'' in an episode where he becomes and Elder and can no longer be around to personally give the sisters advice and inspiration. They spend quite a bit of time whining about how they don't know what to do without Leo there to guide them and give them answers. Leo informs them that they don't actually need him and are more than capable to solve their magical problem of the day without his help.

* Professor X from ''ComicBooks/{{X-Men}}.'' Once his X-Men gain enough experience, they tend to leave and become part of other comic titles where they take a more central focus. Scott "Cyclops" Summers exemplifies this best when he takes over for Xavier as the team lead. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that who really wants to read a comic about a handicapped, bald, old guy?

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* Happens frequently to ''HarryPotter'' in his series. All his mentors die, Dumbledore, Sirius, Lupin, leaving him alone and feeling lost. Dumbledore plays {{The Obi-Wane}} the straightest though in that he willingly died and spent his last year preparing Harry to understand and defeat Voldemort.