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[[caption-width-right:350:Don't have a hall pass? Then [[Series/DogTheBountyHunter Dog the Hallway Monitor]] will show you no mercy.]]

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* ''Fanfic/TheSimpsonsTeamLASH'': Simon Skinner-Chalmers is the head hall monitor of Springfield Elementary School, and he takes his job [[SeriousBusiness extremely seriously]]. He's also said to be the only hall monitor who can give out detentions. And as if he didn't have ''enough'' power to lord over people, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections his dad is the principal]].
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* ''Series/EvenStevens'' dialed this UpToEleven. Incorrigible Louis is sentenced to hall-monitor duty, which involves an absurdly over-the-top [[InitiationCeremony induction ritual]], the power to issue detentions and even dispense retributory wedgies to hallway bullies, and ultimately an investigation of administrative corruption.

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* ''Series/EvenStevens'' dialed this UpToEleven. ''Series/EvenStevens'': Incorrigible Louis is sentenced to hall-monitor duty, which involves an absurdly over-the-top [[InitiationCeremony induction ritual]], the power to issue detentions and even dispense retributory wedgies to hallway bullies, and ultimately an investigation of administrative corruption.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' features another example. Master Neutron is granted hall monitor powers, and inspired by his idol UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein (who he also believes was once a hall monitor), takes full advantage of his new position, placing people in detention for possession of gum and, in Carl's case, [[FelonyMisdemeanor having more llama stickers on his lunchbox than the permitted amount]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' features another example. Master Neutron is granted hall monitor powers, and inspired by his idol UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein (who he also believes was once a hall monitor), takes full advantage of his new position, placing people in detention for possession of gum gum, and, in Carl's case, [[FelonyMisdemeanor having more llama stickers on his lunchbox than the permitted amount]].



* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' Kevin sometimes has this role. Notably, in "Hanky Panky Hullabaloo" he gives Eddy a detention for mouthing off to him when told to get his kissing booth out of the hall, and then gives Double D one for sticking up for him.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', Kevin sometimes has this role. Notably, in "Hanky Panky Hullabaloo" he gives Eddy a detention for mouthing off to him when told to get his kissing booth out of the hall, and then gives Double D one for sticking up for him.



* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', hall monitor Emily is Principal Moss's main enforcer, and acts as a ''de facto'' resource officer at Landry Middle School despite the fact that she's only 13 years old.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', hall monitor Emily is Principal Moss's main enforcer, and acts as a ''de facto'' resource officer at Landry Middle School School, despite the fact that she's only 13 years old.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Phoebe is made hall monitor despite her intense reluctance. At first, she is an absolute pushover, but after a pep talk from her friend Helga, Phoebe does a complete U-turn, even pulling people away from the water fountain if they're taking too long.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Phoebe is made hall monitor monitor, despite her intense reluctance. At first, she is an absolute pushover, but after a pep talk from her friend Helga, Phoebe does a complete U-turn, even pulling people away from the water fountain if they're taking too long.
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Normally this trope is used to teach a [[AnAesop lesson]] about how someone must be careful [[ComesGreatResponsibility not to abuse authority that is given to them]].

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Normally Normally, this trope is used to teach a [[AnAesop lesson]] about how someone must be careful [[ComesGreatResponsibility not to abuse authority that is given to them]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', hall monitor Emily is Principal Moss's main enforcer, and acts as a ''de facto'' resource officer at Landry Middle School despite the fact that she's only 13 years old.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' epsiode, "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS5E1Schooled Schooled!]]", Lynn Jr. is revealed to be the hall monitor of Royal Woods Middle School, and she is shown to be very aggressive at her job. Throughout the episode, she tortures Lincoln as he tries to get to Mr. Bolhofner's class on time, at one point [[StuffedIntoALocker stuffing him and his friends into lockers]], and she even gives Principal Ramirez a warning pass despite her being her superior. [[KarmaHoudini She is never punished for any of this]].
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Compare AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil, another example of students having ''way'' more authority than they would in real life. See Also: RedArmbandOfLeadership

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Compare AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil, another example of students having ''way'' more authority than they would in real life. See Also: RedArmbandOfLeadership
also RedArmbandOfLeadership, which is essentially the Japanese version of this trope.
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* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'', which treats the sash as the equivalent of a policeman's shield but with very tight limits on authority and an abundance of accountability. The point of the series is to have a CopShow set in a school, though.

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* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'', which treats the Safety Patrol's orange sash as the equivalent of a policeman's shield but with very tight limits on authority and an abundance of accountability. The point of the series is to have a CopShow be an AffectionateParody of {{Cop Show}}s which is set in a middle school, though.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SeaPrincesses'': In "Lunch Power", the power goes to Tubarina's head when she is made lunch monitor, and she winds up sending all of the other students to the study room for the most minor of infractions and, in some cases, seemingly no infraction at all.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' continuum, author Creator/AAPessimal has paid creative thought to the deeper workings of the Assassins' School in Ankh-Morpork. Following its recent expansion to take in more pupils and become co-educational, it has moved onto several additional sites around the City, and its teachers, already overworked and underappreciated, cannot be ''everywhere''. The School has therefore funded a lower grade of retained employee called Teaching Assistants, who have less status and pay than the fully-fledged staff, and who end up doing the dogsbody jobs. Usually they are school graduates paying their way through higher degrees and diplomas. The School (based on British public schools, where Prefect would be a specifically British equivalent of "Hall Monitor") also works on the House system: each House has a peer-elected Head of House and Heads of Years, who also have delegated Prefect responsibilities. Particularly noteworthy or gifted students -- generally those whose specialist knowledge far outstrips that of their teachers -- are sometimes offered Teaching Assistant status in their specialist areas of knowledge. Sometimes a pupil is given TA status to teach him or her a lesson.... full teachers have purple sashes; TA's wear purple with white piping; prefects merely get a lapel badge.

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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' continuum, author Creator/AAPessimal has paid creative thought to the deeper workings of the Assassins' School in Ankh-Morpork. Following its recent canonical expansion to take in more pupils and become co-educational, it has moved onto several additional sites around the City, and its teachers, already overworked and underappreciated, cannot be ''everywhere''. The School has therefore funded a lower grade of retained employee called Teaching Assistants, who have less status and pay than the fully-fledged staff, and who end up doing the dogsbody jobs. Usually they are school graduates paying their way through higher degrees and diplomas. The School (based on British public schools, where Prefect would be a specifically British equivalent of "Hall Monitor") also works on the House system: each House has a peer-elected Head of House and Heads of Years, who also have delegated Prefect responsibilities. Particularly noteworthy or gifted students -- generally those whose specialist knowledge far outstrips that of their teachers -- are sometimes offered Teaching Assistant status in their specialist areas of knowledge. Sometimes a pupil is given TA status to teach him or her a lesson.... full teachers have purple sashes; TA's wear purple with white piping; prefects merely get a lapel badge.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' continuum, author Creator/AAPessimal has paid creative thought to the deeper workings of the Assassins' School in Ankh-Morpork. Following its recent expansion to take in more pupils and become co-educational, it has moved onto several additional sites around the City, and its teachers, already overworked and underappreciated, cannot be ''everywhere''. The School has therefore funded a lower grade of retained employee called Teaching Assistants, who have less status and pay than the fully-fledged staff, and who end up doing the dogsbody jobs. Usually they are school graduates paying their way through higher degrees and diplomas. The School (based on British public schools) also works on the House system: each House has a peer-elected Head of House and Heads of Years, who also have delegated Prefect responsibilities. Particularly noteworthy or gifted students -- generally those whose specialist knowledge far outstrips that of their teachers -- are sometimes offered Teaching Assistant status in their specialist areas of knowledge. Sometimes a pupil is given TA status to teach him or her a lesson.... full teachers have purple sashes; TA's wear purple with white piping; prefects merely get a lapel badge.

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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' continuum, author Creator/AAPessimal has paid creative thought to the deeper workings of the Assassins' School in Ankh-Morpork. Following its recent expansion to take in more pupils and become co-educational, it has moved onto several additional sites around the City, and its teachers, already overworked and underappreciated, cannot be ''everywhere''. The School has therefore funded a lower grade of retained employee called Teaching Assistants, who have less status and pay than the fully-fledged staff, and who end up doing the dogsbody jobs. Usually they are school graduates paying their way through higher degrees and diplomas. The School (based on British public schools) schools, where Prefect would be a specifically British equivalent of "Hall Monitor") also works on the House system: each House has a peer-elected Head of House and Heads of Years, who also have delegated Prefect responsibilities. Particularly noteworthy or gifted students -- generally those whose specialist knowledge far outstrips that of their teachers -- are sometimes offered Teaching Assistant status in their specialist areas of knowledge. Sometimes a pupil is given TA status to teach him or her a lesson.... full teachers have purple sashes; TA's wear purple with white piping; prefects merely get a lapel badge.
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* ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'' has Annie, a petty tyrant in the high school hallway and utterly subservient to the Principal.
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* Deconstructed with the character of the hall monitor Jia Wei in ''WesternAnimation/Superbook2011''. He frequently enforces the school rules and keeps a pinpoint-accurate note of every student's infractions, to the extent that his record on the two protagonists when they're late for school in one episode shows that it's Joy's first infraction, so she gets off with just a warning, but Chris gets put at risk for detention since it's his third time being late. However, Jia Wei's insistence on following the rules so stringently has made him so unpopular with the other students that none of them will even eat lunch with him, and he knows he's being ostracized by everyone and is deeply bothered by it. At the same time, Chris--who initially resents Jia Wei's authority--comes to acknowledge that the guy's just doing his appointed job of maintaining order and doing it well, and that he himself can choose to be friendly to Jia Wei instead of hating on him him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' features another example. Master Neutron is granted hall monitor powers, and inspired by his idol UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein (who he also believes was once a hall monitor), takes full advantage of his new position, placing people in detention for possession of gum and, in Carl's case, having more llama stickers on his lunchbox than the permitted amount.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' features another example. Master Neutron is granted hall monitor powers, and inspired by his idol UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein (who he also believes was once a hall monitor), takes full advantage of his new position, placing people in detention for possession of gum and, in Carl's case, [[FelonyMisdemeanor having more llama stickers on his lunchbox than the permitted amount.amount]].
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