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* Zuko from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirBender'' gets shades of this. When he joins the heroes, he tries to pass on the wisdom he has learned through Iroh, but can't phrase it properly so it makes no sense. He is at least able to teach Aang Firebending, including how to redirect lightning. This comes in handy in the final battle.

* [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]]. "Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try."

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries': Brock gives romance advice to several other characters, most notably Ash's Totodile in the [[Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries Johto saga]], Corphish (also Ash's) in the [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire Hoenn saga]], and Dawn's Piplup late in the [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl Sinnoh saga]]. Too bad Brock is himself rather hopeless at romance.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Brock gives romance advice to several other characters, most notably Ash's Totodile in the Johto saga, Corphish (also Ash's) in the Hoenn saga, and Dawn's Piplup late in the Sinnoh saga. Too bad Brock is himself rather hopeless at romance.

->'''The Stepford cuckoos:''' We’re saying Sophie’s dead because she believed all the rubbish you talk about being superior. You are all shiny surface with nothing underneath. You have no feeling and no heart. Just nasty jokes and cleverness. People like you are a danger to impressionable children, Miss Frost. Goodbye.
->'''Emma Frost:''' No, that’s not true, I love children, teaching is my life!
->'''The Stepford cuckoos:''' If you love them so much, then why did you let them die all the time, you silly old woman?
->'''Emma Frost:''' Old? I’m only twenty-seven, you ungrateful wretches!
-->-- ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' #138: "The Prime of Miss ComicBook/EmmaFrost"

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* Blaquesmith of the ''ComicBook/XForce'' books tries to be the voice of reason to the sometimes-TriggerHappy team leader ComicBook/{{Cable}}, but between his love of the CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer, some CannotSpitItOut, being a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter, and agreeing with Cable at all the wrong times that MurderIsTheBestSolution, he typically causes far more problems that he solves. His track record includes provoking Nate Grey the ComicBook/XMan into [[PowerIncontinence going nuclear]], goading on a perfectly avoidable fight between Cable, Nate, and [[KnightTemplar Exodus]], arming and providing future knowledge to the StrawFeminist villain Finality and her Dark Sisterhood, sparking the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', and [[spoiler:ultimately getting Cable killed by recruiting a younger counterpart of him and setting that counterpart loose on the timestream]].
* ComicBook/EmmaFrost has modeled herself as a teacher ever since the 90s when she decided her previous career choice of "RichBitch supervillainess" was going nowhere. Problem is, her track record as a teacher is spotty at best, with multiple students having died under her watch and [[ComicBook/AvengersVsXmen at least one incident]] where she went [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide mad with power]] and mentally enslaved her students outright. The issue where her students [[CallingTheOldManOut call her out]] (''ComicBook/NewXMen'' #138) is titled "The Prime of Miss Emma Frost" as a reference to ''Literature/ThePrimeOfMissJeanBrodie''.

* ComicBook/EmmaFrost has modeled herself as a teacher ever since the 90s when she decided her previous career choice of "RichBitch supervillainess" was going nowhere. Problem is, her track record as a teacher is spotty at best, with multiple students having died under her watch and [[ComicBook/AvengersVsXmen at least one incident]] where she went [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide mad with power]] and mentally enslaved her students outright. The page quote of her students CallingTheOldManOut is from ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' number 138 and is titled "The Prime of Miss Emma Frost" as a reference to ''Literature/ThePrimeOfMissJeanBrodie''.