History Main / SadistTeacher

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': Shifu comes across this way to [[AscendedFanboy Po]] at first, putting him through a lot of butt-kicking and torture and calling it training, because he believes that Po is not worthy of the title of Dragon Warrior (a position to which Grand Master Oogway himself appointed Po). Later, Shifu becomes more of a SternTeacher and sincerely tries to teach Po the ways of kung fu, through much discipline and exercise.

Sometimes they're a ChildHater in general. Other times it's just one particular child who becomes the target of their rancor. Either way, they are as cruel as they can possibly be within the confines of their job. Worse, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity because they're a]] ''[[VillainWithGoodPublicity teacher]]'', anyone seeking justice for their sadistic behavior is [[CassandraTruth likely to be completely ignored]].

* Music/PinkFloyd: In ''Music/TheWall'', "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" describes how "when we grew up and went to school, there were certain teachers who would hurt the children any way they could" as a way of venting their frustrations with their dysfunctional marriages. The teacher is portrayed in a slightly more sympathetic light in ''Music/TheFinalCut'', in which we learn that he is a bitter veteran of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII who takes his anger out on the children, whom he perceives as whiny and ungrateful.

* ''Ed, Edd, n Eddy Z'' has this trope as its backstory: when president George W. Bush passed the No Child Left Behind Act, American congressmen started cutting corners when hiring teachers to teach America's students. These teachers made America's children and teenagers participate in medical and military experiments. It eventually got so bad that the nation's students (which included a group of three saiyans) [[ThisMeansWar waged war on their educators]], an effort in which they got support from the U.S. military. One of these teachers, Professor Utonium, is the BigBad.

* ''Website/GoAnimate'': Just as the parent characters frequently come off as sadistic in the "X Gets Grounded" videos, so do the teacher and principal characters. This can range from them holding back a student a grade just for getting a single math problem wrong, to holding races (usually swimming races) for their students just so they can suspend/expel the one student unlucky enough to come in last place, to torturing them in detention or getting them arrested or even killed for so much as causing a pin to drop in class.

* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] on ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' with Professor Chronos. In addition to being as biased as [[Franchise/HarryPotter Snape]] to the students in his dorm, Chronos has a personal grudge against Judai for publicly defeating him in a duel and thus devoted Season 1 to trying to get Judai kicked out of school. However, Chronos has had his moments that prove deep down, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he really cares about his students]]. [[spoiler:He also manages to combine a HeroicSacrifice with a RousingSpeech to raise his students' morale, just before getting beaten by one of the Seven Stars Assassins.]]
%% ** Professor Cobra (or Thelonius Viper), on the other hand, is an unambiguously EvilTeacher as well as having even stronger shades of this. The English dub {{lampshade|Hanging}}s his [[ObviouslyEvil Obvious Evil]].
** The first 7 volumes of the original ''Manga/YuGiOh'' have: a [[TheVamp Vamp]] who dates men and breaks their hearts for the hell of it, a sadistic guidance counselor who regularly mocks the lower-scoring students and tried to stomp on Anzu/Téa's electronic keychain, and a gym teacher who bullies Bakura because of his hairstyle. All three found themselves on the receiving end of karma in the end, though (the Vamp had her makeup peeled off, revealing how ugly she really was to the whole class; the counselor was revealed to be bald and wearing a toupee; the gym teacher got turned into an RPG figurine by Dark Bakura).

*** Though the gym teacher got turned back once Dark Yugi beat Dark Bakura, and goes back to being his old {{Jerkass}} self.

* ''{{Film/Suspiria}}'' (both versions) revolve around a prestigious ballet academy, where it's revealed that all the teachers are part of a coven of witches. Miss Tanner in particular seems to be especially stern, forcing Suzy to perform a dance when she's clearly ill (and the result is that she faints there in class). Considering the reason Suzy is sick in the first place is that the witches put a spell on her, this seems like a KickTheDog moment.

* ''WebAnimation/MangaSoprano'': Takeuchi forces his student Kanade to get in the swimming pool despite her problems with periods. He even goes as far as to push her into the pool.
* ''WebAnimation/RefreshingStories'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBau-GOn4dI Nagano]] is a tough PE teacher who hits his students. When he hit Ruri's brother, she swore revenge on him and she eventually exposed him to everyone and he lost his job and was thrown in jail.