Basic Trope: A teacher who will kick your ass if you hurt their students.
- Straight: Professor Bryce Baxter is the Midtown High Science teacher, and he's definitely capable of throwing down with even the strongest; Just ask Flash Young.
- Exaggerated:
- Principal Bryce Baxter is the Midtown High Principal, and he bears the reputation of being The Dreaded for a damn good reason.
- Professor/Principal Bryce Baxter can take on Eldritch Abominations and win.
- Downplayed:
- While Professor Bryce Baxter is pretty badass himself, he's often equally matched by Flash Young.
- Bryce isn't exactly all that badass, but he's more than willing to stand in front of his students against whatever danger's out there.
- Justified:
- Bryce is a well trained fighter who just landed a teaching job.
- Bryce takes the expectations people put on a teacher's ability/duty to protect their students very seriously.
- Midtown High just naturally attracts badasses to work there as faculty.
- Midtown High offers physical and martial arts training courses to its faculty.
- Inverted:
- Bryce is a Dirty Coward who got Fired from his teaching job.
- Bryce doesn't care at all if his students get hurt — in fact, he's even a Sadist Teacher who harms them himself.
- Flash Young and the rest of the students are more than willing to square up and get down and dirty whenever Bryce is threatened.
- Subverted: Bryce is a Miles Gloriosus...
- Double Subverted: ...Who ends up Becoming the Boast later down the line.
- Parodied: Bryce Baxter appears as a thin, wiry fellow... Before Hulking Out whenever his students gets threatened.
- Zig-Zagged: The badassery of Bryce tends to be Depending on the Writer.
- Averted:
- Bryce isn't a badass.
- Bryce isn't a teacher.
- Bryce is neither.
- Enforced: "We need to show why Bryce is a Cool Teacher — let's have him be someone who can kick ass!"
- Lampshaded: "Ever had a teacher who can brawl with the toughest of men and win? I expect most of you to say no."
- Invoked:
- Midtown High is a Cool School, an Academy of Adventure. They need badasses to teach their lessons.
- Midtown High had just suffered another school shooting. They need badasses to protect the school.
- Exploited:
- Professor Bryce is given another job on top of his chemistry classes; As Coach Bryce Baxter.
- Professor Bryce inspires his students to become more like him, which helps the community benefit from having better citizens.
- Defied: Midtown High refuses to hire teachers as badass as Bryce for whatever reason.
- Discussed: Flash muses that he'd eventually get to Bryce's strength level one day, though he also remarks that it's definitely gonna be years before he even reaches the halfway point.
- Conversed: "Damn, I wish I had a teacher as badass as Bryce!"
- Implied: When the Midtown High alumni were asked about their teachers, they all refer to one who was... "Special", according to them. This is never expanded upon.
Listen mister. You're going to stay away from my students, and scram. You'd hate to tick off a Badass Teacher like me, would you?
