History SadistTeacher / WesternAnimation

* Mr. Lancer from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' both uses this trope straight and subverts it. He had the terrible tendency to pick on the unpopular main character Danny by choosing the popular kids over him, harshly criticizing his schoolwork, and doling out punishments, yet a few episodes have shown he does care for all his students, even Danny.
* A couple of the teachers in ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': Ms. Barch hates all her male students, and gives them terrible grades. The unfairness of this is only slightly mitigated by the fact that often they deserve them. It is not for nothing that she is depicted as Xena the Warrior Princess in the show's closing credits. Mr. Demartino likes to see ''all'' his students suffer, but in his case, it's because he feels it's payback for the pain they put him through with their stupidity. However, he greatly fears Ms. Barch (she beats him up in more than one episode and, when given a paintball gun and permission to fire it, she expends an entire magazine on a cowering diMartino. It is revealed the real reason for her hatred of men is all the unresolved issues with her former husband - diMartino reminds her of him).

* Were it not for the fact that the show is a cartoon and has a number of bizarre moments, [[MeaningfulName Principal I.M. Greedyguts]] from ''WesternAnimation/JacobTwoTwo'' would have been fired and sent to jail years ago. Besides always having it out for Jacob (although the latter does frequently ruin his plans), his crimes include appropriating money from the Dreary Meadows and spending it on luxuries for himself, planning to turn said school into a stable for his horses (sending the kids to the sub-basement to learn but allowing one to come up "once in a while" to rub his feet) and not caring if Jacob, his friend and a fellow teacher, are trapped forever in another dimension.

** Dr. Slicer, the replacement principal in the episode "Prickly is Leaving," is so cruel that his extreme methods of discipline and punishment horrifies all of the students; [[EveyoneHasStandards even Miss Finster is appalled of how the way he cruelly treats the students]]. He also wants to make the retired cannon at the front of the school operational and plans to tear down the jungle gym to replace it with a guard tower. Fortunately, in the end, Peter Prickly (the current principal of the school and Miss Finster's best friend) decided not to let Slicer run the school.

** Miss Finster is a sadistic playground monitor, especially in season 1. This is only ever when she's inside the school, though. As Spinelli found out, she's actually a CoolOldLady when she doesn't have to be an authority figure. It's also implied in several episodes that there's a mutual FriendlyEnemies understanding between the teachers and children, with the former playing the antagonists. "The Library Kid" has her going into a panic when she sees the titular Library Kid in danger on the flagpole - confirming she would never want to see a child get hurt.
** Dr. Slicer, the replacement principal in the episode "Prickly is Leaving," is so cruel that he horrifies even Miss Finster. He also wants to make the cannon at the front of the school operational and plans to tear down the jungle gym to replace it with a guard tower.

** Played straight by DrillSergeantNasty-turned-teacher Mr. Buzzcut, who is the complete and utter polar opposite of Mr. Van Driessen. He at least cares about the students' well-being however as in one episode he ran to the defense of his students, specifically Beavis and Butt-Head themselves no less, to protect them from a guest teacher who was physically attacking them.

** One episode hints that his mistreatment is him projecting his pain from the overly tight high-heeled shoes he insists on wearing. Another episode implies that cultivating such a fearsome reputation is what keeps the students in line.

** In fairness, Demartino's students are so ignorant you could understand how they'd drive him off the deep end at times. He also acknowledges the good students and grades them appropriately. (Daria never seems to have problems getting As in his class.) He also takes genuine delight in correct (even if unorthodox) answers, as seen by Quinn giving a correct answer (though with the wrong logic) of what Manifest Destiny is at the end of ''Is It Fall Yet?''.

** The substitute teacher Mrs. Grimley takes it up to eleven. She makes the students sit facing the wall, she does not allow passing notes in class, drifting off into space, hall passes, talking, smiling, laughing, or breathing (if she hears you doing it), and she forces them to write essays for minor infractions. The essays get longer as the episode goes on. She makes Ginger, Miranda, and Courtney write ''16,000-word essays'' for passing a note in class (and adds another thousand words for complaining). Ginger tries to see the good side of Mrs. Grimley by defending her house when the other students egg and TP it. And as it turns out, [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk she doesn't have a good side]] and doesn't even care that her students pulled pranks on her house. Ginger and the students all rebel against her, and Ginger promptly gets detention for her ReasonYouSuckSpeech.

** Inverted with Mr. Van Driessen, the boys' [[GranolaGirl overly spiritual]] social studies teacher, who apparently can't bring himself to discipline anyone and gets steamrolled by their pranks time and time again.

** The substitute teacher Mrs. Grimley takes it UpToEleven. She makes the students sit facing the wall, she does not allow passing notes in class, drifting off into space, hall passes, talking, smiling, laughing, or breathing (if she hears you doing it), and she forces them to write essays for minor infractions. The essays get longer as the episode goes on. She makes Ginger, Miranda, and Courtney write ''16,000-word essays'' for passing a note in class (and adds another thousand words for complaining). Ginger tries to see the good side of Mrs. Grimley by defending her house when the other students egg and TP it. And as it turns out, [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk she doesn't have a good side]] and doesn't even care that her students pulled pranks on her house. Ginger and the students all rebel against her, and Ginger promptly gets detention for her ReasonYouSuckSpeech.

* Miss Simian in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' can vary between an ApatheticTeacher and a Sadist Teacher with a particular dislike for Gumball. She treated his mother even worse, mocking her every failure throughout her entire ''life'', even outside of school.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' has Mr Bolhofner, especially after he TookALevelInJerkass since "Schooled!". He has a run-down trailer as his classroom, a pet piranha, refuses to turn down the air cooler ([[spoiler:until the end of the episode, and it's also explained that no one asked him]]) and torments Lincoln with his bad breath, which according to Lynn Jr, "smells like sardines, old farts, and red onions". It's shown from time to time, however, that he has a [[JerkWithaHeartOfGold heart of gold]] underneath.

** When a MisplacedKindergartenTeacher took his place one day, [[WeWantOurJerkBack everyone wanted Mr. Ratburn back by the day's end.]]

** Subverted in "The PTA Disbands!". The teachers go on strike due to Bart's manipulation and a series of substitutes from the townspeople are introduced and quit one by one. Principal Skinner, fed up with the turnover rate, then introduces a thuggish-looking substitute who immediately starts hurling abuse at the terrified students. He's actually just there to introduce Marge, the real substitute.

** This goes even further in the episode [[Recap/SouthParkS6E14TheDeathCampOfTolerance The Death Camp of Tolerance]], where Mr. Garrison hires a masochistic leatherman named Mr. Slave as the teacher's assistant, who would eventually become his boyfriend up until season 9, thus becoming a ''literal'' sadist teacher.

* Vice Principal Chakal of ''WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera'' fits this trope. He has it in for Manny and Frida, and enjoys setting harsh punishments for them. However, said students are often troublemaking kids, so you can't really blame him.

* Mrs. Martin from ''WesternAnimation/WatchMyChops'' punishes Bernie and Corneil all the time even when Bernie is not in school nor when school is open. It should be noted that Martin is breaking the law as this is illegal to punish children outside of school. Once, she punished Romeo for no reason. This is also illegal.

** In "Friends of Peter G.", Stewie mentions that his new daycare teacher deactivates the security camera and beats her students. A few episodes later in "Be Careful What You Fish For", she's depicted as being a cross between this and ApatheticTeacher who isn't around to stop the kids from getting injured (or in the case of one unfortunate boy, abducted) and pulled Stewie's arm out of its socket when he protested her not even giving them a proper lunch (she fed them saltine crackers and the leftovers of her own lunch). [[CasanovaWannabe Brian]] [[{{Jerkass}} was completely useless]] to help until it turned out she already had a boyfriend, after which he immediately turned her over to the police.

* In ''[[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} Happy New Year, CHarlie Brown]]'', Charlie's elementary school teacher decides to give the kid ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' as a reading assignment. '''''[[{{Doorstopper}} War And Peace]].''''' To a ''normal elementary school student.'' And [[TheGrinch over winter vacation]], no less. And from the looks of it, he's the ''only'' student in the class who was given that assignment.
** Not only that, but she gave Charlie Brown a D- despite his best efforts.

** This was actually an exaggerated version of a storyline that ran in the comic strip, where his teacher assigned ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' during winter break (not quite as long, but still ''way'' too advanced for grade school) and Charlie Brown didn't help matters by procrastinating.
* Subversion: This is what WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls thought of Ms. Keane's fill-in at Pokey Oaks Kindergarten in "Substitute Creature" simply because he was a monster. But the girls learned by the episode's end to not judge a book by its cover.

** There's also Ginger's high school teacher Mrs. Zorski, who greets Ginger with, "Let me guess, you're an ex-student of Eleanor's. My cousin and I have nothing in common except the last name." Her actions from that point forward could just be considered a bad case of SternTeacher, but the fact that she doesn't seem to notice or care that she scares Ginger and the other kids to death and stresses them out is a red flag. She calls Ginger a "lazy freshman" and throws her "chicken scratch" homework in the trash right to her face after Ginger accidentally missed her class that morning. Then there was the fact she gave Ginger a full day's suspension for sleeping in her class which she only did because she had a caffeine crash which she started just to get through her classes. Worst of all, she showed no sympathy after Ginger was recovering from appendicitis surgery and just told her life doesn't care for her appendix.