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| 17 | ->''It's weird at my school\ |
| 18 | Weird at my school\ |
| 19 | Weird at my school\ |
| 20 | Weird at my school'' |
| 21 | -->-- '''Music/ThePixies''', [[TitleOnlyChorus "Weird at My School"]] |
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| 23 | A [[SchoolTropes school]] where adventure abounds, weirdness is everywhere, and anything that could happen, will happen. Teachers turning out to be villains, strange beings stalking the school grounds, random (or maybe [[FriendlyTarget not so random]]) students getting kidnapped while the UnlikelyHero has to chase after them... Never a dull day, no matter how boring the classes are. |
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| 25 | The school is, simply put, a WeirdnessMagnet, perfect for the budding [[KidHero kid adventurer]] or hero in disguise as a teacher. A school like this will often be rivals to the local AcademyOfEvil. |
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| 27 | Generally, this tends to happen to any school the [[DoomMagnet hero]] is enrolled in or teaching in, so it can be anything from a grade school to a college. See also CityOfAdventure and BuildingOfAdventure. Just like there, contrast NothingExcitingEverHappensHere. If the school explains its weirdness factor by having super powered students, monster students or magical classes, then it's either an ExtranormalInstitute (especially if it's a SuperheroSchool), an AllGhoulsSchool or a WizardingSchool, respectively. Such a school would often be a WorldOfMysteries. |
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| 30 | !!Examples: |
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| 32 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 34 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 35 | * Myoji Academy from ''Manga/AkumaNoRiddle'' is filled with more danger than adventure. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'': The main setting for the first arc of the series, Ishiyama High, is famous for housing the city's worst delinquents, with a delinquency rate of 120%. There are always fights, no one seems to ever attend actual class, and the entire building is smashed up and covered in graffiti. And this was ''before'' Oga "adopted" Baby Beel. |
| 37 | * ''Manga/BlueExorcist'''s True Cross Academy is this, due to being also a base for the Knights of the True Cross aka [[DemonSlaying Exorcists]] and where the Japan Branch's cram school/training academy for budding exorcists is. Also, the Headmaster is a demon [[spoiler:though more specifically one of the Demon Kings and second eldest Satanic son]] and our main (and titular) character is the [[HeroicBastard bastard]] [[HalfHumanHybrid Son]] of {{Satan}}, aka the resident living WeirdnessMagnet that amps up the weird. |
| 38 | * ''Manga/TheClassroomOfABlackCatAndAWitch'' has the royal Diana Academy, home to talented witches and magicians from all over the continent. It's when protagonist Spica Virgo enters this school that she's thrust into danger and adventure all the same with her rambunctious classmates. |
| 39 | * ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' has Hazakura Academy, the private boarding school attended by the protagonists Hiro, Ruli, and Kiyo that's frequently besieged by [[MonsterOfTheWeek hostile Digimon]] due to their WeirdnessMagnet status. |
| 40 | * Two of the ''Eldoran'' series anime, ''[[Anime/ZettaiMutekiRaijinOh Zettai Muteki Raijin-oh]]'' and ''Anime/NekketsuSaikyoGosaurer'' have this. The latter turns into a group of Giant Robots and the former has them housed under them with both having fifth grade students pilot them. |
| 41 | * ''Manga/GakuenAlice'': An "Alice" is someone with a strange or paranormal talent. Any kid who is identified as having an Alice is legally required to go to the Alice Academy, and cannot leave the campus until graduating from high school at the age of 20. The campus is immense and includes forests and a town. All teachers and administration are Alices, and other staff/residents include robots or mutant animals created by Alices. The buildings include three heavily guarded and mysterious school buildings and residence buildings for students and three buildings belonging the three enigmatic headmasters, all of which are guarded with supernatural means. Most of the adventures in the story are set in and somehow related to the buildings and their peculiarities. |
| 42 | * Every high school in ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' qualifies. One wonders how these institutions still attract students, considering all the mayhem that goes on there. |
| 43 | * Exaggerated ([[RuleOfCool like]] [[RuleOfFunny everything]] else) in ''Anime/KillLaKill'' with Honnouji Academy. Students wear uniforms that turn them into superpowered soldiers, club presidents (from boxing to tennis) have their talents amplified dramatically and weaponized, the committee chairs can turn their uniforms into PoweredArmor and [[TankGoodness tanks]], the student council president is an EvilOverlord, battles resulting in explosions that [[BlownAcrossTheRoom send hundreds of people flying]] happen daily, and that's just the beginning of it, even weirder since the villains run the academy, yet the protagonist is studying at it anyway. |
| 44 | * ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'': Luna Nova Academy, a [[Literature/HarryPotter Hogwarts]] {{expy}}, is naturally this. Given the nature of their mindboggling spells, encounters with monsters, and [[EvilTeacher a professor that may or may not be experimenting with a]] DoomsdayDevice, it's safe to say Akko and her friends are in no shortage of adventure. |
| 45 | * In ''Manga/MedakaBox'', there's ''[[WideOpenSandbox Sandbox Academy]]". Teachers are conspicuously absent save for the Principal. And many students have a power level on the tier of avatars of Myth/HinduMythology. The protagonist is often compared to a god, and she might as well be one. |
| 46 | * Yuuei/U.A. High School serves this purpose in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''. In normal circumstances, it's a school that allows future superheroes to train their powers up. Since the series has started, the students have fought off at least one supervillain attack and their sports festival is an even bigger event than the Olympics. |
| 47 | * A standard setting for most ''Anime/MyHime'' series. |
| 48 | ** Fuuka Academy in the original. In the anime, the girls' identities as [=HiME=] are kept secret from the public. In [[Manga/MyHime the manga]], the identities and the abilities of the girls are well-known, and all of the battles that take place within the school (sometimes [[LetsYouAndHimFight between other students]]) are seen in full view of everyone, as is the resulting property damage. |
| 49 | ** Garderobe Academy in ''Anime/MyOtome'', a training ground for {{Magical Girl Warrior}}s where potential Otome candidates are expected to show poise, grace, and fighting prowess almost in equal measures. |
| 50 | ** Hoshinomiya Fuuka Academy in ''Literature/MaiHimeDestiny'', where most of the main characters possess PsychicPowers to some degree. |
| 51 | * Morobare High School in ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' has a surprisingly high density of strange students for a RomCom, including a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, a four-inch tall alien in a MobileSuitHuman, a [[KidFromTheFuture Grandkid from the Future]], a FallenAngel, and that's all before we get into the principal, who's an [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld ancient but young-looking]] demon the epitome of a {{Troll}}. And it's been like this for some time, since several of these characters' parents attended the same school a generation before and helped inspire TheSevenMysteries. |
| 52 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': At Mahora Academy, you need rock climbing gear to traverse the library, the SchoolFestival involves HumongousMecha and zeppelins, the majority of the staff (from what we've seen) are secretly wizards, the center of campus is the WorldTree, and if a student there isn't supernatural, paranormal, superscience, or otherwise out of the ordinary, it probably means they have motivational issues. Even the {{Muggles}} are bizarre or unusual in mundane ways -- like being [[{{Fiction500}} the heir of a richer-than-an-entire-country family]], being able to do way more with a gymnastics ribbon than one should, etc. |
| 53 | * ''Anime/OccultAcademy'' in its entirety. |
| 54 | * In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', the school on Melemele Island gets pretty interesting. It helps that [[CoolTeacher Professor Kukui]] is adventurous and wants his students to have plenty of first-hand experience with all aspects of Pokémon. |
| 55 | * Chiral Royal Knight Academy from ''Manga/RebornToMasterTheBlade'' specializes in training Knights, individuals who hold Runes that let them use powerful magical Artifacts, the only weapons capable of defeating the monstrous Prisma Beasts and other threats to the countries of Midland. The students are sent to or given permission to participate in dangerous activities like serving as bodyguards for traveling merchants, hunting Prism Beasts, or serving as extra members of law enforcement alongside the Knights who have already graduated. |
| 56 | * The Death Weapon Meister Academy in ''Manga/SoulEater'', where Death Weapon's train to become Lord Death's scythe, and Meister's aim to become stronger. Fights tend to happen their on the daily as well, though we only get to see this happen to the main characters. |
| 57 | * In ''Manga/VampireKnight'', at first, with Yuuki and Zero attempting to keep the peace between the Day and Night class. Later, this plot point is dashed in favor of focusing more on the vampires and their politics. |
| 58 | * ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Duel Academia. Doesn't help that it's on an island, and thus almost the only setting where any dueling takes place... There's a lot of mysteries within the island, it houses lots of different Duel Spirits, including the Sangenma/Sacred Beasts, and the island attracts different factions of villains who use it as a playground for their evil schemes. |
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| 61 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 62 | * ''ComicBook/BerrybrookMiddleSchool'': 90% of all shenanigans occur at Berrybrook, though the adventures are more of the mundane variety. |
| 63 | * ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': The ''ComicBook/FutureFoundation'', a Think Tank/school Reed Richards put together for genius or extremely gifted youth including his own children and other superheroes. |
| 64 | * Advanced Public School #001 (APS-001) in the ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' universe. In the "Tifanny & Charlotte" series, the title characters attend the school. |
| 65 | * ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy'': The staff includes Kirk Langstrom and Hugo Strange, the headmaster has a costumed identity as The Custodian, and there are secret tunnels linking it to Arkham. The main character, Olive Silverlock, is descended from a long line of supervillains with some kind of link to the school. |
| 66 | * ''ComicBook/LockeAndKey'': The Lovecraft Academy. The main cast attend the school, and before them, so did their Dad. Needless to say, the main 'big' mystery of the series revolves around what happened to their father and his friends during their school days. |
| 67 | * ''ComicBook/{{PS238}}'': This is the ''setting'' for the series, which is about an Adventure ''Elementary'' School filled with superpowered children. Despite their best efforts, they don't do that great a job of keeping the super powered danger away. |
| 68 | * ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Brentwood Academy gets attacked by demons, has students running an illegal gambling ring and has Man-Bats hiding in the old belfry. Lampshaded by Tim himself when he comments on the weirdness of the school. |
| 69 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': |
| 70 | ** Peter Parker went to both an Adventure High School and Adventure College, and generally continued to do so in every adaptation of the character. As a matter of fact, several of his most memorable villains and allies were either students (Harry Osborn, the second [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]]), introduced ''through'' students (for example, Molten Man), or as teachers/professors (for example, The Jackal), but even the everyday goings on of the school have a bit of adventure to them. Later on, he becomes a teacher at the same high school, which inevitably becomes an Adventure School again, even after he resigns. |
| 71 | ** In particular, his college Empire State University, is a huge Adventure School that has since extended far beyond involving just Peter Parker. Just look at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_University#Staff.2C_students.2C_and_faculty notable faculty/students list]], which involves ComicBook/XMen, villains of every kind, and the Human Torch! Things are rarely boring there. |
| 72 | * ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'': It's justified in that the [[SuperSerum chemical explosion]] that caused the "Bang Babies" happened at a popular local gang hangout near Virgil's school. |
| 73 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': |
| 74 | ** Stanhope Elementary in ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade''. Environmental hazards include: a [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} superhero]] who is the universe's biggest WeirdnessMagnet; a student who happens to be a xenophobic MadScientist training to be a super-villain; an AlphaBitch who ''is'' a super-villain; jerkass students who somehow become even bigger jerks every time they occasionally win super-powers; superpowered animals; tyrannical and uncaring teachers who are really trickster dimensional gods in disguise; and a sadistic, morale-undermining Principal who is an evil, dimensional god in disguise. |
| 75 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Crucible}}'' has the eponymous superhero interplanetary academy. Homework includes battle training and overthrowing world conquerors. |
| 76 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Holliday College is a women's college near Washington D.C. which Wonder Woman frequently visited, and where there were frequent attacks by Nazis, pirates, masked villains, and extraterrestrials which the vast majority of the student body absolutely loved fighting off. Many of the Holliday Girls were trained in [[SupernaturalMartialArts Amazonian martial arts]] and ComicBook/SteveTrevor was just as happy to rely on ComicBook/EttaCandy and her Holliday Girls paramilitary club to watch his back during missions as he was to have other USAAF personnel along. |
| 77 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 78 | ** The Xavier Institute is an example of both this and SuperheroSchool; its students are constantly involved in adventures and attacks by villains and such because its entire faculty and student body are mutants, and, in order to deal with the constant threat of danger, among other things, there's a jet, the Danger Room, etc and the faculty/senior students double as a SuperHero team on the grounds. The school's been leveled so many times by these threats, it's been [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the cast. |
| 79 | ** After the above school is destroyed, Wolverine opens the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Its students include a brood, and one of the teachers is the time-traveling child of the namesake Jean Grey. Homework is basically training for adventuring, e.g jetpacking and snowball fights. |
| 80 | ** ComicBook/{{Cyclops|MarvelComics}} 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, a mutant telepath who can turn her skin into diamond and wears {{Stripperific}} outfits, [[ComicBook/{{Magneto}} a mutant Nazi-survivor who can control magnetic fields]] and a [[HeroicComedicSociopath sociopathic]] mutant sorceress who regularly takes the students through limbo when teleporting and time travels. |
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| 83 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 84 | * ''Webcomic/AutobotAcademy'' is the source of a lot of adventures, including lab accidents that spawn clones, training missions with pro heroes, time travellers trying to change the future, and Decepticon infiltration. |
| 85 | * The canonical setting of the Assassins' Guild School in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' is expanded on in the fictions of Creator/AAPessimal. In-canon, it has expanded to become co-educational. Pessimal also reasoned that in the modern Discworld, with an effective City Watch and a more centralised Government overseeing things tightly, and with the scrutiny of a free Press, the Guild has had to "liberalise" somewhat and change its educational approach in the modern age. It can't get away with, er, ''attrition'' in student numbers any more. Nor can it continue as an exclusive school for the sons of gentlemen, advancing a relatively small number of them to graduation. Also, with so many more students these days, the School has expanded to other sites in and around Ankh-Morpork, each with a different specialised emphasis on what it takes to become an Assassin. Given that Ankh-Morpork is buiult on previous incarnations of Ankh-Morpork, the School also exploits a vertical dimension and goes a fairly long way down below its Filigree Street site. The result may not be quite as hazardous as it once was, but it still promises to be an Academy of Adventure for its students, offering a variety of life-affirming experiences. [[note]]The sort that make a student affirm "How the Hells am I still alive after that?"[[/note]] |
| 86 | * The Artemis Kuroshi School, which is the eponymous school for ''Fanfic/TheMysteriousSchool''. [[ExtranormalInstitute All of the people attending/teaching there have magic,]] including Dragon Slayer Magic (courtesy of [[Manga/FairyTail Natsu's]] random appearance). |
| 87 | * ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'': In addition to U.A. and the other hero schools mentioned in the original ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', ComicBook/GothamAcademy and the Lex Luthor Institution of Accelerated Humanity are both schools in the United States that are said to be on par with U.A. |
| 88 | * The Imperial Naval Academy in ''Fanfic/TheOdyssey'' definitely qualifies as this. It's run by an incredibly ancient [[OldMaster Dragon-Blooded]] and designed to prepare the students for all of the threats they might encounter on the high seas. Under the new leadership, it's meritocratic, and death can be a consequence of failure. |
| 89 | * The University of Wisconsin becomes the site of several battles in ''Fanfic/PowerRangersGPX''. The other battles take place off-campus in Madison. Southern Illinois University in Carbondale serves a similar purpose in an AU fic. |
| 90 | * In ''Fanfic/ASagaOfParallelWorlds'', the [[FictionalVideoGame Game Boy Nova Metroidvania]] known as ''Spy School'' is set in an academy with labyrinthine mazes, a laser trap training room and many different items to collect. |
| 91 | * The eponymous school in the ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook'' series qualifies, in its own weird way. It's a sort of non-magical version of Hogwarts, run by the [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Second Inquisition of Thedas]] (and some friends), and almost anything seems to be possible. The adventures are benign most of the time; the place is just sort of wacky. |
| 92 | * Both Furinkan and Hogwarts in ''Fanfic/TopDog''. At Hogwarts, it's because it's a political football that is politically neutral in all disputes, and members of species and cultures that are furiously at war both attend; at Furinkan, it's more a function of poor faculty judgment in approving projects. (The tokamak in the physics building ended up blowing up, and the biology projects routinely escape and eat people.) |
| 93 | * Basara Academy in [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon SlifofinaDragon]]'s ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' fanfics is just as hectic as it has been in the ''Gakuen Basara'' anime, this time they renovate the mountainside OldSchoolBuilding into a school that teaches [[WizardingSchool hex education]], taught by [[DeanBitterman Principal]] [[UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga Oda]] [[DemonKingNobunaga Nobunaga]]'s sister-in-law Kyogoku Maria. |
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| 96 | [[folder:Film -- Live Action]] |
| 97 | * Horror film ''Film/FiveGirls'' takes place entirely inside St. Mark's: a [[CatholicSchoolgirlsRule Catholic]] BoardingSchoolOfHorrors [[OneGenderSchool for girls]]. |
| 98 | * The martial arts movie ''Film/The36thChamberOfShaolin'' is partly about the foundation of such a school. Initially, the Shaolin monastery only has 35 Chambers of Kung fu, which are emphatically ''not'' this trope: they teach incredible kung fu skills, but graduates of the program are expected to stick around as instructors and, this being a monastery, live cloistered lives of seclusion. However, the movie's hero, San Te, insists that the monastery's knowledge could be put to better use, and [[SpoilerTitle at the end of the movie he establishes the 36th Chamber]], where he teaches kung fu to laymen, allowing them to [[HeroOfAnotherStory go and have adventures of their own]] outside of Shaolin. |
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| 101 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 102 | * ''Literature/AriaTheScarletAmmo'' has Butei High, where the students are trained to be armed detectives. Naturally, this occurs. |
| 103 | * {{Deconstructed}} in ''Literature/TheAsteriskWar'', which goes into detail on the kind of CrapsackWorld that would deliberately turn super-powered school children into the prize-fighters of annual {{Tournament Arc}}s. |
| 104 | * Every bigger town has at least few of these in ''Literature/{{Atharon}}'' books, thanks to MMORPG -like setting. One of main characters Nick goes into one. |
| 105 | * Academic Cities in ''Literature/ChromeShelledRegios'', which are giant walking cities run and populated entirely by students and specialized for education and providing for students' needs, like a giant university town. Combines this with CityOfAdventure. |
| 106 | * The ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'''s Miskatonic University probably counts, insofar as its faculty and student body seem to be almost unfairly magnetized to Unfortunate Incidents of an eldritch variety. |
| 107 | * ''Literature/DivineBloodNovels'': Bravura Academy is more or less a normal boarding school that boasts both a college and high school campus. The high school level kids are already learning college level courses. While the school itself is focused on normal student hijinks it is the focus of several power groups. Bravura itself is sponsored by [[NGOSuperpower Avalon]] who also uses a front company security organization to test potential recruits. Then there's the students, which include an [[ChildSoldiers Avalon soldier]], a [[PsychicPowers "Visionary"]], a ManicPixieDreamGirl, three [[HalfHumanHybrid demi-gods]], a Demoness, and a werewolf. |
| 108 | * In ''Literature/DoomValleyPrepSchool'', the entire point of tutoring in either The School of Righteousness and Honor or Doom Valley Prep School is to teach the students how to be effective warriors, but with the latter, the students don't just have to worry about whatever TrainingFromHell the teachers think up, but they have to worry about each other, as the bullies have no qualms going as far as straight-up murder to hobble the competition, as long as they don't get caught. |
| 109 | * Raira Academy in ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' had a reputation for this thanks to the antics of [[HairTriggerTemper Shizuo]] [[SuperStrength Heiwajima]] and [[ManipulativeBastard Izaya]] [[TheChessmaster Orihara]] -- Shinra can list off half a dozen {{Noodle Incident}}s at any given time. It was bad enough that, after their graduation, Raira had to merge with another school and rebuild their image from scratch. They succeeded...up until an ex-gang leader, the host of a HiveMind-controlling EvilWeapon, the head of the Dollars, the [[StalkerWithACrush stalker to end all stalkers]], and some kid [[ALoveToDismember in love with a severed head]] all end up enrolling in the same year. The real irony is that the school is actually ''less'' chaotic than it was six years back. |
| 110 | -->'''Teacher:''' But really... compared to the times when we had to teach Izaya-kun and Shizuo-kun, this school is way more peaceful nowadays. Back then we used to have filled gasoline drums rolling down the third floor of the school building... |
| 111 | * Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing School for Young Ladies in ''Literature/TheFinishingSchoolSeries''. The girls are taught espionage and assassination alongside manners and graces. It is located in an airship and the instructors number one vampire and one werewolf respectively. |
| 112 | * ''Literature/TheGallagherGirls'': Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is a school for training teenage girls to be spies. |
| 113 | * ''Literature/TheGam3'': The Game's players can pay to attend academies, which power level them until they can be competitive in the Game. The original and most prestigious is just called The Academy, and takes up an entire solar system. |
| 114 | %% ZCE * Ariadnio in ''Literature/GreekNinja''. |
| 115 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Hogwarts, though it's really not meant to be. For someone not Muggle-born or raised, the magic there is really just an extension of what would go on in their own homes. It's only when Harry is going there that this trope is active. |
| 116 | * Crossroads Academy in ''Literature/HereticalEdge'', where students are recruited and trained to use magic and fight monsters ([[spoiler:that aren't always as monstrous as the teachers claim]]). Sooner or later every student ends up dealing with extra-curricular threats and adventures. ''[[WeirdnessMagnet Especially]]'' in [[TheHero The Heroine]] Flick Chambers' case. |
| 117 | * Kuoh Academy in ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' attracts all sorts of strange students, starting with two packs of devils and eventually including an angel, a fallen angel, and a Valkyrie, among others. It turns out that as well as being a legitimate place of education for humans, devils use it as a front to give themselves [[SafetyInMuggles a safe haven]] during daylight hours and a base of operations at night. |
| 118 | * The eponymous academy in the ''Literature/HIVESeries'' is a school for supervillains. In the first book the school is attacked by a giant plant -- a science experiment GoneHorriblyWrong. |
| 119 | %%* Louis Sachar's Literature/WaysideSchool. ZERO CONTEXT EXAMPLE |
| 120 | * There's Mildwood University in ''Literature/TheImpairment'' which we see through the eyes of protagonist Kyle Griffin, a freshman suspect framed for the murder of his roommate at the hands of an extra-terrestrial. Said school features students overwhelmed with fear from a two-year long string of similar murders, a fraternity of hostile young men, and bloodthirsty aliens which, of course, only Kyle can seem to see and are connected to the one Kyle saw kill his roommate. |
| 121 | * Brooklyn House and the larger House of Life in ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'' count. You'd be hard pressed to not find magical activity at either. |
| 122 | * ''Literature/Level1StrongestSage'' features mage academy. Since the goal is teaching the students practical combat magic, tactics, and strategies, the classroom has monster hunting competitions, monthly inter-class duels, and field-trips to foreign countries through routes where guarding against monsters and bandits is routine. |
| 123 | * ''Literature/MiskatonicUniversityElderGods101'' is an updated LighterAndSofter version of the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'''s famous university for a UrbanFantasy series. It is not only an Ivy League school on the East Coast but also the lodestone for protecting Earth's dimension from being absorbed by other more hostile ones. |
| 124 | * The consequences of this trope is {{Deconstructed}} in ''Literature/Pale'', where the [[WizardingSchool Blue Heron Institute]]'s misadventures actually end up hurting the education of the students going there. |
| 125 | * ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Camp Half-Blood is a summer camp designed to protect the children of Greek Gods, and teach them battle skills -- but if that doesn't count as a school, then every school Percy's been to counts, because monsters just can't get enough of his godly goodness. |
| 126 | * ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsIveGotHenchmen'': Northeast West Hollywood Middle turns into a place where weirdness is just accepted as children reveal their superpowers. Such as: |
| 127 | ** The protagonist is a MadScientist prone to inventive fugue states. |
| 128 | ** Cassie flaunting her [[ShockAndAwe electricity powers]] with her electrified hair. |
| 129 | ** Sue using her [[CastingAShadow shadow powers]] to [[MundaneUtility help teachers pass out tests]]. |
| 130 | ** [[CatGirl Mirabelle]] moving into the school being relatively unremarkable despite being made of glass. |
| 131 | ** An unnamed kid having rainbow scales. |
| 132 | * ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': {{Justified|Trope}}. Kimberly Magic Academy is a WizardingSchool built on top of a labyrinth that is full of monsters, dangerous environments, and unhinged upperclassmen who have no qualms about harming fellow students. The school provides very little protection from any of these things and it's up to the students themselves to look out for each other, which is intended as TrainingFromHell for an order of {{Military Mage}}s called Gnostic Hunters. |
| 133 | * ''Literature/TheScholomance'': The titular WizardingSchool is an especially dark version. Not only is it [[ThereAreNoAdults ungoverned by adults]] and infested by deadly monsters, the school itself is an EldritchLocation that appears to have a will of its own and manipulates the students to feed on their misery. |
| 134 | * ''Literature/TheSecretsOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'' and ''Literature/TheHauntingOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'' are set in one of these. The school was deliberately established as an educational institution for "unusual" students (supernatural powers, criminal mastermind parents, etc.), so it's probably only to be expected. [[spoiler:Being built on weak spot in the wall between dimensions]] probably doesn't help. |
| 135 | * ''Literature/TheSevenRealmsSeries'' gives us Oden's Ford, a world-famous academy that teaches everything from magic, to the art of war, to how to be a proper lady. Most of book two takes place there. The Imagery is spectacular. |
| 136 | * In the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', the various Jedi and Sith academies all have shades of this. It is especially notable in the ''Literature/{{Jedi Academy|Trilogy}}'' trilogy and the ''Literature/YoungJediKnights'' series. |
| 137 | * In ''[[Literature/RachelGriffin The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin]]'', Roanoke Academy for Sorcerous Arts. Day three has the heroine musing that she's made friends, gone flying, discovered a world-spanning conspiracy, prevented a murder, and already been to the infirmary twice (once for ending on the wrong side of a [[ForcedTransformation Baleful Polymorph]] spell, once to rescue a classmate being drained by an wraith), and [[TemptingFate "hoping"]] the rest of the year won't be so eventful. |
| 138 | * Saint Vladimir's Academy from ''Literature/VampireAcademy''. A school for Moroi vampires and dhampirs, taught by older Moroi vampires and dhampirs. Plenty of magic going on, political scheming and plots, and [[spoiler:battleground for a Strigoi invasion in ''Shadow Kiss'']]. |
| 139 | * Somewhat {{Zig-Zagged}} by Jade Mountain Academy in Literature/WingsOfFire. The school was founded in the aftermath of a twenty-year-long war to educate dragonets from the different warring cultural groups and prevent future wars. The hope was that the dragonets would come to see each other as friends and realize that they’re all not so different after all. Of course, having former child soldiers who fought on different sides become roommates backfires massively, with a [[AxesAtSchool bomb plot killing two students and injuring another just two days after the grand opening]]. Two weeks after the school opens, and the student population has dropped from 35 to 23 as a combined result of a series of incidents (including the aforementioned bomb plot) resulting in two deaths and several students running off. There’s also hints that several other students may have elected to pack up and go home off-screen. The icing on the cake is a literal battle being fought over the school. By now, Jade Mountain Academy has garnered a reputation as a place where frequently lethal chaos occurs on a regular basis, leading many of the dragon queens to be reluctant about a second attempt. However, it’s now been approximately six months into the new attempt, with nothing noteworthy having gone down, and plot focus has moved away from the school. |
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| 142 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 143 | * In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' the Hellmouth that made Sunnydale a CityOfAdventure was located right underneath the local high school, so Sunnydale High was this in a big way. |
| 144 | -->'''Xander:''' Something weird is going on. Isn't that our school motto? |
| 145 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'': Greendale Community College has all of the madcap, wacky adventures you could ever hope to find at ''any'' college, except that the stakes are [[SeriousBusiness usually irrelevant to any normal person]]. |
| 146 | * Coal Hill School in ''Series/DoctorWho'' and its spinoff ''Series/Class2016'' -- it has had three of the Doctor's companions (or four, depending on how you define 'companion') as teachers, at least three aliens as staff or students (Susan, Charlie and Ms. Quill) and the Doctor himself as a caretaker. All this timey-wimey activity has made the school a hotspot for tears in time through which all manner of alien threats emerge. |
| 147 | * The unnamed boarding school in ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'' (at least, for those who live in the titular Anubis House). |
| 148 | * Smart Brain High School in ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' is the battle ground of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Orphnochs]] and [[HenshinHero Kamen Rider Faiz]], effectively making it a canon HighSchoolAU of [[Series/KamenRider555 the original show]]. What's worse is that Lucky Clover, the school's [[TheBully popular clique that rules with an iron fist]], are all Orphnochs too. [[spoiler: So is Faiz himself.]] |
| 149 | * Amanogawa High School is an ElaborateUniversityHigh that features a secret CoolBase on the moon, a HumongousMecha, and the belt that allows you to transform into ''Series/KamenRiderFourze''. And that's ''before'' the [[{{Monster Of The Week}} Zodiarts]] show up. |
| 150 | * ''Series/{{Legacies}}'': The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted qualifies as this. |
| 151 | * The action of ''Series/LilHorrors'' never moves outside the grounds of Maug Stone Hall: an AllGhoulsSchool. |
| 152 | * Whitechapel High School in ''Series/MyBabysittersAVampire'' qualifies. Something extranormal happens [[OnceAnEpisode on a weekly basis]]. |
| 153 | * Reefside High in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''. A natural consequence of having TheDragon for a principal and a five-time Ranger for a science teacher. And the second guy's substitute teacher was the good half of the BigBad himself. |
| 154 | ** And it's not even the first ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' show to have the action revolving around a school; the idea was first introduced in ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'', though most of the school was actually '''''missing''''' for much of the season. Even in ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'', there are some episodes that take place in their kung fu academy. While the concept of the Power Rangers being teenagers and/or in school isn't new-it first showed up in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''-there are few shows within the franchise that specifically show the Rangers in school. Some-particularly ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce''-imply that the Rangers are high schoolers, but never outright state that they are, as we never see them actually attending school like we do with the ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' through ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' teams or a number of later teams. |
| 155 | * Mokryeon High school in ''Series/TheSchoolNurseFiles''. This school is built on top of a pond, which is infested by monsters. |
| 156 | * Series/{{Smallville}} High was one of these, with plenty of students and teachers turning into insane monsters and/or dying horribly. Plus ComicBook/{{Superman}} was also a student there... |
| 157 | * ''Series/StrangeHillHigh'': The story follows the unusual and absurd occurrences that happen at the inner-city school `Strange Hill High'. Students Mitchell, Tanner, Becky Butters, and Templeton find themselves in the middle of every event, as they try to unravel the school's secrets and mysteries. |
| 158 | * ''[[Series/BlackHoleHigh Strange Days At Blake Holsey High]]'' is set in one of these. An experiment GoneHorriblyWrong at the quantum physics facility next door makes the school a nexus for strange events. |
| 159 | * Beacon Hills High School in ''Series/TeenWolf''. It has five werewolves currently attending it, a werewolf hunter as its (former) principal, and at least a few teachers who are aware of or involved with the supernatural themselves. A lot of weird stuff happens there. |
| 160 | * ''Series/UnnaturalHistory'': Smithson High is one especially since the "DOUM Room" has many undocumented artifacts of the [[LawyerFriendlyCameo National Museum Complex]]. |
| 161 | * ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'': The main setting of the series, Nevermore Academy, is a school for supernatural students such as vampires, gorgons, and sirens. It also happens to be steeped in mysteries, conspiracies, and murders. With the arrival of the title character, they all boil to the surface. |
| 162 | * [=WizTech=] in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''. |
| 163 | * Cheiron's Academy from ''Series/YoungHercules'', where Herc, Iolaus, Jason, Lilith, and others learn to be heroes. The school is often a target due to Ares and other gods' hatred of Hercules. Other episodes show the school also happens to be near a Bacchae cave, deserts home to man-eating monsters, the Forge of Hephaestus, and Artemis's Sacred Grove. An episode of ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' revisited the place, where the now older heroes began instructing a new generation. |
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| 165 | |
| 166 | [[folder:Manhua]] |
| 167 | * ''Manhua/MyGirlfriendIsAVillain'': All the students in Blake Academy are trained in live combat, and the main characters ''frequently have to dodge kidnapping and assassination attempts.'' |
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| 170 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 171 | * In ''Podcast/DungeonsandDoctorates'' Firamustus University is one of the largest education institutions on the continent (if not the world). It has everything a major university would have, but magnified due to the fantastical setting. With an Alchemy Department instead of Chemistry, Artificers instead of Engineering, a Necromancy Department, Barbarians studying Sports Medicine and numerous student societies that could incite events (the Adventurers Appreciation Society and Enigma Society, especially), there is never a dull week for the characters. |
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| 173 | |
| 174 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 175 | * The Defender academy in ''TabletopGame/AgeOfAquarius''. The final exams are field missions that combine combat against actual foes and magic use. |
| 176 | * ''TabletopGame/BreakfastCult'' is set in an outwardly-lighthearted take on such an academy, in a world where magic and science were combined, ushering in a new age of progress. Players take on the role of students at Occultar Academy, and gradually uncover the sinister goings-on behind the scenes. |
| 177 | * ''TabletopGame/GURPSIlluminatiUniversity'' is set in one of these. |
| 178 | [[/folder]] |
| 179 | |
| 180 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 181 | * ''VideoGame/BoardGameOnline'' has a random event at the Academy of Adventure, where players can sacrifice their next turn and some rupees in exchange for a permanent passive skill taught by various professors, some from other media's. |
| 182 | * ''Videogame/{{Bully}}'' has Bullworth Academy, which is filled with various cliques that are constantly at each other's throats as well as staff that range from dysfunctional to outright [[SadistTeacher corrupt]]. |
| 183 | * PSP JRPG ''VideoGame/ClassOfHeroes''. |
| 184 | * Maritsu Evil Academy from ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice''. The school's campus is so gigantic that it encompasses most of the world (And presumably will ''be'' the world eventually, due to its constant expansion). As such, traversing things like icy wastelands and lava-filled ruins to get to a class isn't out of the ordinary, making the "adventure" part of the trope's name quite literal in this case. |
| 185 | * ''VideoGame/EscapeFromStMarys'' has time travelers, aliens, a random knight in shining armor, kung-fu battles, angry cannibals... |
| 186 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' has the Gardens, such as Balamb and Galbadia, which are [[MilitaryAcademy military academies]]. |
| 187 | * The main setting of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' is the [[MilitaryAcademy Officers Academy]] at Garreg Mach Monastery, located at the center of the continent of Fódlan. It’s operated by one of the most powerful institutions on the continent, the Church of Seiros, and the students of the academy are tasked with putting down threats to the peace, from bandit attacks to rebellions against the church. Early on the player chooses from one of [[BoardingSchool three classes of students]] to instruct in the ways of combat and leadership, and it is where the player spends most of their downtime. |
| 188 | * Link and Zelda are students at the Skyloft [[MilitaryAcademy Knight Academy]] in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword''. Zelda's father is the headmaster. |
| 189 | * ''VideoGame/LunarWalkingSchool'' has a WizardingSchool located on an island that travels across the ocean as its primary setting. The main characters are entirely-to-mostly (depending on version) magic students who seem to spend more time getting up to hijinks/saving the world than attending classes. |
| 190 | * ''VideoGame/{{Monark}}'' has Shin Mikado Academy, an ElevatorSchool and ElaborateUniversityHigh. It's not a positive nor a voluntary example, when the school suddenly finds itself cut off from the outside world by a mysterious barrier, insanity inducing Mist floods several of its buildings, and they're terrorized by supernatural beings called Daemons, led by the powerful Monarks, and being helped by their human collaborators, Pactbearers. Much of the game involves the "True Student Council" trying to get things back to normal, battling otherworldly dangers and their personal demons. |
| 191 | * Leafmore High School in ''VideoGame/ObsCure''. It was an ElaborateUniversityHigh even before it was crawling with monsters, the principal built the place as a cover for his {{mad scien|tist}}ce experiments, and you explore every nook and cranny of it. The sequel, meanwhile, has Fallcreek University, where the latest fad is a drug made from [[TheCorruption the mortifilia plant]] and the campus fraternity [[spoiler:is actually a cover for a [[SecretCircleOfSecrets secret society]]]]. |
| 192 | * ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' plays with this trope depending on the entry. |
| 193 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona1'' has the St. Hermelin High, which on its own hosts a mask holding the sealed goddess Nyx, which is used in the school's traditional play "the Snow Queen" and kills every person who wears it. If the box containing the mask is unsealed (fortunately going by that route is optional), the school turns into an EldritchLocation / dungeon ruled by Nyx. And even without all that, it shortly becomes the target of a ZombieApocalypse. |
| 194 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona2'' has two of them. |
| 195 | *** In ''Innocent Sin'', Seven Sisters High, named after the Pleiades, has a clock tower haunted by the ghost of a teacher who apparently commited suicide there, and the Naruhatu stone in the back yard serves as an entrance to the mystical Silver River which leads to Xibalba. In addition, there is a curse which [[FacialHorror melts the face of the students]], and the statue of the principal is moving somehow. Not to mention all the demons that invaded the school. [[spoiler:Eventually this trope is subverted when it turns out that all this nonesense is caused by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelive the rumour curse]] and the school was never supposed to have supernatural properties.]] None of these things apply in ''Eternal Punishment'', but in both games it serves as the first dungeon of the game. |
| 196 | *** Kasugayama High School, an all-boys school with a reputation of being full of delinquents, is filled to the brim with demons in both games. In the second game it gets to the point that they have shifts guarding the entrance to the basement (where the more dangerous demons are) and a local monk sends his son there to get some practice exorcising demons. The basement in question is a Bomb Shelter apparently used in WWII. In ''Innocent Sin'' there is a curse on it that hides the exit unless you know the trick to it, and in the second you find an ApocalypticLog from a little girl that took refuge from the bombings. |
| 197 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona3'': Gekkoukan High is a perfectly normal (if unusually cool, being on an artificial island) school during the day, but midnight is a different story. At midnight the Dark Hour strikes, and the school transforms into Tartarus, an ''enormous'' tower / EldritchLocation that spews out Shadows. The school has a dedicated club called SEES to deal with them and explore Tartarus. In addition, any person who happens to be on schoolgrounds at the time of the transformation gets trapped into Tartarus unless someone rescues them. |
| 198 | ** Averted in ''VideoGame/Persona4''. The teachers are quirky, but nothing odd happens in the school. |
| 199 | ** Subverted in ''VideoGame/Persona5''. Shujin Academy is technically the first dungeon, but that's because it's connected to the [[MentalWorld Palace]] of the gym teacher. Nothing odd happens at the school itself (save for the gym teacher's behavior) in the real world, and once the Phantom Thieves get rid of the Palace and the gym teacher quits, the school goes back to being completely normal. |
| 200 | * In ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'', the PlayerCharacter is a student at Naranja/Uva Academy, a school that educates people from various regions across a wide range of age groups in Pokémon training as well as conventional topics. They take the "adventure" part literally and have an independent study program called the "Treasure Hunt" in which they allow the students to roam the region and find themselves [[ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow but still come back for classes on occasion]]. |
| 201 | * While it's a summer camp and not a school, ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'''s Whispering Rock is an ordinary, mundane SummerCampy, if one mixed with a SuperheroSchool. |
| 202 | * ''VideoGame/{{Territoire}}'' for Windows by Creator/EasyGameStation. Main character Facil becomes StudentCouncilPresident and fights battles along with her "students" in this TRPG. |
| 203 | * ''Videogame/ValkyrieDriveBhikkhuni'' is set on an artificial island that also serves as boarding school for its inhabitants. The classes go from the normal topics to scheduled battles between the alumni set by their giant, robot teachers. |
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| 205 | |
| 206 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 207 | * ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'''s Hope's Peak Academy, where only students with super-talents are admitted (though those talents do not need to be productive.) Then they start killing each other. |
| 208 | * In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', Isezaki Academy teaches its students to protect the town of Gold Cord from mutants and alien invaders with lethal force, in addition to more mundane subjects. |
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| 210 | |
| 211 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 212 | * Saint Scarlet's Combat Academy from ''Webcomic/CendaranMarael''. Even setting aside the name for a moment, let's start with the bit where one of the students in the inaugural class is part of a FirstContact squad and go from there... |
| 213 | * In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', the school aboard [[CoolAirship Castle Wulfenbach]]. It provides schooling and training for the future rulers of Europe and further afield (at least one from China, one from India and one from the Middle East), and the fact that a lot of them are [[MadScientist Sparks or the children of Sparks]] means that there are a ''lot'' of shenanigans. Their [[MamaBear carer]]/[[MagicalNanny teacher]]/[[ParentalSubstitute mother figure]] is SuperSoldier and DarkActionGirl Von Pinn, which doesn't improve things. [[EmperorScientist Baron Wulfenbach]] just generally seems resigned by it all. |
| 214 | ** The University of Paris is another one due to the large percentage of sparks in the student body. The Master seems to like using the sparks in the student body to deal with the troublemaking sparks that Paris attracts as a means of keeping both groups occupied and out of his hair. |
| 215 | * Both high schools in Moperville from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' fits this description. |
| 216 | ** Mostly because [[CityOfAdventure the whole town does]]. There's a snide mention that Moperville's newspaper is regarded with the same respect as a tabloid everywhere outside of the town. |
| 217 | ** South fits the description more than north. [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2005-04-19 Physics teachers react to levitation with nothing more than a sigh]]. |
| 218 | * Setting for the eponymous ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''. |
| 219 | * [[http://iofm.comicgenesis.com/ The Institute Of Metaphysics]]. |
| 220 | * The comic ''[[http://www.rdinn.com/mads.php M.A. in Dragon Slaying]]'' is a tabletop adventure/comedy comic that features an adventurer's collegiate life. |
| 221 | * The York facility for training heroes from ''Webcomic/SurprisingOcteal'' is described as, "sort of like a university campus". |
| 222 | * In ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'', the second floor (the Floor of Test) serves as one of these, teaching new Regulars the basics of what they'll need in order to climb the tower. |
| 223 | [[/folder]] |
| 224 | |
| 225 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 226 | * Played with, but ultimately subverted with Temple Academy in ''WebVideo/AdventuresInJediSchool''. Jedi School sounds like it could be awesome, but most of its curriculum seems to be either basic gen-ed classes or about how to build and maintain a lightsaber. You don't even get to actually use the damn thing until at least 22 years in. |
| 227 | * ''Literature/ArcanaMagiUniverse'': WizardingSchool Memorial Academy |
| 228 | * Silas University from ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries''. There's magic, vampires, and a crazy alchemy club, just to list a few things. |
| 229 | * [[Roleplay/ElfenHigh2 Elfen High]] is one of these, though it seems to vary between everyone having sex and actual world saving. |
| 230 | * ''Roleplay/FireEmblemOnForums'': |
| 231 | ** ''Solrise Academy'': The titular academy is this, along with every single other Elerian academy, as they train students to fight the monstrous Fiends and rescue people from Calamities, supermassive natural disasters that spawn Fiends and cause massive damage everywhere they go. |
| 232 | * Upcoming ''Grave Academy'', while being a monster school on a HauntedCastle on a Überwald 'verse, is also this. |
| 233 | * In ''TabletopGame/NewVindicators'', this trope is present with the various [[SuperheroSchool Vindicator Academies]], which most main characters are enrolled in or alumni of. |
| 234 | * WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} features the Huntmen Academies of the Four Kingdoms, which train the next generation of Huntsmen and Huntresses to keep civilization safe from [[OurMonstersAreDifferent the Grimm]]. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that they double as the secret resting places of four powerful [[McGuffin McGuffins]]]]. |
| 235 | %%* ''School For Adventurers '' IS this trope. |
| 236 | * [[WizardingSchool Wildcliff, School of the Arcane]], the main setting of ''Podcast/TrialsAndTrebuchets'', seems to attract an inordinate amount of danger for the {{Player Character}}s to get caught up in. |
| 237 | * Famous Platform/YouTube contributor Creator/FreddieWong directs the Platform/YouTube series ''WebVideo/VideoGameHighSchool'', in which becoming a professional video game player is a legitimate and lucrative career, and graduates from VGHS are assured a successful future. Students don't study physics, but physics engines; they don't play varsity football, but varsity FPS. If your class rank drops below zero, then you're expelled. NaiveNewcomer Brian. D gets lucky and earns admittance into the school by winning against VGHS's stop student, ArrogantKungFuGuy, The Law. |
| 238 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy. |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 242 | * Hamilton Hill High School is this in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' is perhaps an unintended example (in-universe, of course). Aside from Terry "Batman" [=McGinnis=] and Max "RecklessSidekick" Gibson, this school has a Flash Thompson-esque JerkJock, a LovableAlphaBitch who seems to attract trouble, a student who dated a sexy psycho robot, a student whose step-father had a short career as a villain, a student whose thought-to-have-been-dead birth father tried to kill her adopted father, an avid gamer who almost helps a villain kill someone, no less than four students who are villains, a coach who attacked Batman in an attempt to protect his [[SuperSerum Venom]]-using students, ''and'' a guidance counselor who moonlit as a super villain until he turned to supervillainy full time when he was fired from his job at the school. |
| 243 | * ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' features a school where some of the students are in a global organization bent on guaranteeing freedom for children worldwide, teachers who oppose this group, corrupt members of the student council who try to ensure that snow days never occur, playgrounds with hidden paths to ''volcanoes'', etc. The secret temple that leads to the Fountain of Youth, kindergarteners that are practically wild animals, Wild West situations... the list goes on and on. |
| 244 | * Justified in ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' with the Kadic College: [[BigBad XANA]] targets almost exclusively said college because the Lyoko-Warriors usually are here. Ironically, none of the events that happen remain in the memory because the Lyoko-Warriors possess their own personal ResetButton. |
| 245 | * Casper High in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' qualifies. It's a wonder the teachers could get any teaching done with ghosts constantly fighting in it. |
| 246 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'''s A. Nigma High School. Let's see: a weird snake/dragon/lizard monster thing called a Tazelwurm (who also happens to be the school's mascot) crawling around in the vents, secret passageways literally ''everywhere'', an eye-patched cyborg principal, a [[spoiler:mysterious {{pyramid|Power}}]] under the school, most of the teachers being [[spoiler:clones of famous people]], vacuum-wielding [[HazmatSuit hazmat]] janitors, mysteries, conspiracies... there's quite a lot of adventure to be had. |
| 247 | * The Berk Dragon Training Academy in ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'' is an institution commissioned by Stoick the Vast and granted to his son Hiccup to learn about dragons, record their studies for the tribe and better acclimate dragons into their lives after Hiccup made peace with them in ''WesternAnimation/{{How to Train Your Dragon|2010}}''. Whenever there is [[MonsterOfTheWeek a dragon attack]] or an invasion from an enemy group (the Outcasts, Berserkers, Dragon Hunters, etc.), the team either tries making peace or chases them off on dragon back. The academy is composed of Hiccup, his dragon Toothless, and the other dragon riders that helped defeat the Red Death, later expanding the number of members when a new team was needed. |
| 248 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': Timmy Turner's Dimmsdale Elementary not only has to deal with the effects of Timmy's wishes on a regular basis, but the mad fairy-obsessed Mr. Crocker tends to make things crazy as well. |
| 249 | * X Middle School, the main setting of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}''. [[ElaborateUniversityHigh It's absolutely massive to the point of absurdity]], with a diverse student body and faculty ranging from normal to [[BunnyEarsLawyer insanely cool while also being a little insane in of themselves]]. Their after-school activities range from the typical (like the book club or the chess club) to the highly specific (like the club for model train enthusiasts), with the facilities to accommodate them which includes an Olympic size swimming pool. That's not even getting into the premise of the series where the school's Safety Patrol acts as the police force, and how Safety Patrollers regularly have to chase troublemakers throughout the school. |
| 250 | * The eponymous school of the short-lived Canadian cartoon ''WesternAnimation/FlyingRhinoJuniorHigh''. Let's see...the principal is a rhino, the janitor is a pig who used to be spy, a supervillain makes his lair in the school's basement, and the school is anything depending on the episode from a dinosaur-infested jungle to Ancient Rome. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Nobody bats an eye at these things.]] |
| 251 | * ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' is the latest in a long line of ninjas chosen to protect Norrisville High. That might sound a bit silly, if it weren't for the constant mix of KillerRobot attacks and miserable students becoming AxCrazy mutant horrors, courtesy of an immortal EvilSorceror [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned below school grounds]]. |
| 252 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': While nothing ''too'' out-of-the-ordinary happens, Third Street School usually has something crazy going on every episode. |
| 253 | * ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'''s Midtown High is where Spider-man and four other hero's attend high school, the school is constantly attacked by dozens of super villains and protected by SHIELD's security system, and its principal is an undercover SHIELD agent. |
| 254 | * All three schools in ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': Alfea (school for fairies) has many secret; Cloudtower turned out to be housing three delinquent teenage witches who never seemed to go to class (and the school was the usual occupying hideout for the seasons evil villain); Redfountain is a school for young heroes and the headmaster is a wizard, but none of the boys have magic. |
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