Line #23 Characters/TitanAcademyTheOrganization


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2	[[Characters/TitanAcademyClassT1T5 Class T1T5]] ([[Characters/TitanAcademyClassT1T5ActiveStudents Active Students]] / [[Characters/TitanAcademyClassT1T5InactiveStudents Inactive Students]]) \| [[Characters/TitanAcademyClassN4T1 Class N4T1]] \| [[Characters/TitanAcademyOtherStudents Other Students]]\
3	[[Characters/TitanAcademyTeachersAndFacultyMembers Teachers and Faculty Members]] \| '''The Organization''' \| [[Characters/TitanAcademyOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]]]
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5	!!Subjective trope and audience reactions should go on the [[YMMV/TitanAcademy YMMV page]].
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9	[[folder:General]]
10	* BigBad: They’re the main villains of the series (prior to that there was NoAntagonist).
11	* CapitalismIsBad: Kevin describes them as this.
12	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?: They are essentially an over-the-top allegory for the corrupt school system.
13	* EvilWearsBlack: They (except for the CEO) all wear a black suit and tie.
14	* {{Greed}}: They only care about supporting Titan Academy to profit from it.
15	* NebulousEvilOrganisation: Yes, they are that.
16	* NoNameGiven: They're simply known as "the Organization"; if they have an actual name, it has yet to be revealed.
17	* TraumaticHaircut: Followed by expulsion, their signature ‘capital’ punishment.
18	[[/folder]]
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20	!!Leadership
21	[[folder:Alan]]
22	!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Michael Chua
23	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/t1t5_alan.png]]
24	[[caption-width-right:350:''"All it takes is one bad sheep to spoil the flock, and I don't intend to let that happen."'']]
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26	One of the spokespeople of the organization that buys out the Titan Academy. He's the older man, and generally gives the vibe of 'unsavory businessman only in for the profit'. He also tends to mispronounce the word "academy".
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28	* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The ridiculously absurd rules Alan and Regna (but especially Alan) impose upon the Academy naturally garner them the students' ire.
29	* AmbiguouslyRelated: He has the same surname as Jianhao (Tan), and in Season 8, it is revealed that he wears a yin/yang bracelet around his watch, which is very suspiciously similar to Jianhao’s. He could possibly be Jianhao’s uncle or grandfather.
30	* ArcVillain: Of Season 4. Despite only appearing in a few episodes, he is responsible for the CerebusSyndrome, as well as the [[spoiler:examination that results in Class [=T1T5=] getting split up, the majority of Titan Academy's students being expelled, and the school gaining a much darker and more miserable aura (which mentally and emotionally affects Jianhao).]]
31	* BadBoss: He reveals himself to be not above berating his own underlings, as shown [[spoiler:with Teverly, whom Alan chastise after the assembly for failing his job to find out the crew behind the heist, then promptly tells him to get Denise expelled by any means necessary, purely out of his ego being hurt by her. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Teverly is appalled]]]].
32	* BigBad: Background-wise, he is just CoDragons with Regna for the Organization. However, narrative-wise, he's responsible for almost all of the dark plots for the Academy and somehow lords over Regna, making him more Dragon in-name only, he's the guy in charge of the bad deeds. However, [[spoiler:Season 8 reveals that he really doesn't hold the BigBad position; he's in turn being lorded over by an unseen boss, the proper leader of the Organization, who demands that he should make his plan of bringing profits from the Academy come true quickly or else the leader will close down the Academy.]]
33	* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:Turns out he has Teverly under his thumb because he's paying for his scholarship which the boy's mother can't afford. Alan threatens him with this after Teverly fails to sabotage Denise during the SAT exam]].
34	* CoDragons: He becomes this with Regna once Titan Academy falls under the Organization's control, though he seems to be of higher ranking than her. Additionally, they're not the CEO or director of the Organization [[spoiler:because someone else is]].
35	* ColdHam: Despite the FauxAffablyEvil air accompanying him, Alan nevertheless comes across as over-the-top with his shameless declaration that he will use the students of Titan Academy for the Organization's benefits and his {{Sadist}} kinks.
36	* TheComicallySerious: His frequent mispronounciation of the word "academy" seems to be the only thing remotely humorous about him.
37	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: A member of the organization who is shrewd, manipulative, only interested in profit, has zero empathy and sees everything else like a pawn. He embodies the 'evil businessman' cliche to the fullest.
38	* TheCorrupter: [[spoiler:He is implied to be this to Regna, as he denies her suggestion to guide the students by demanding to know if she is getting attached to them.]]
39	* DeadpanSnarker: He can be condescending towards the students when they display a virtuous trait.
40	* DemotedToDragon: [[spoiler: While Alan was always only a spokesman for the organization, he's been the technical BigBad of series, as he lords over Regna and Teverly who work for him. With the introduction of [[GreaterScopeVillain the true Organization's leader]] in Season 8, Alan is firmly placed back in TheDragon position]].
41	* TheDragon: Technically, Alan isn't even the CEO of the Organization, but he's close enough as the Organization's representative. Should he get taken out, that doesn't mean the Organization will be truly gone. However, in all story technicalities, he could as well be the BigBad.
42	* TheDreaded: His influence intimidates even the most rebellious of Titan Academy's students.
43	* EveryoneHasStandards: Just about the only genuine good thing he and the whole Organization did was that he made sure that everyone from the Titan Academy is vaccinated to protect them from the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, no strings attached, because it's just what was needed for human beings to survive physically. Any notions that he and the Organization put up nasty serums within the vaccine (like Miss Sherly and Tasha theorized) has yet to be proven.
44	* EvilCounterpart: To Jianhao. Both of them have a knack for strategy and manage to get people to work for them, but unlike Jianhao who helps the students, Alan regards them as merely pawns. They also both have {{Malaproper}} tendencies (Jianhao mixing up idioms, Alan mispronouncing "academy").
45	* EvilFeelsGood: He tends to have a smile plastered on his face while asserting dominance over the students/other non-Organization members of Titan Academy.
46	* EvilIsPetty:
47	** He didn't [[spoiler: expel Cleverly without giving him a TraumaticHaircut first, purely to fuel his own sadism]].
48	** He became deadset on [[spoiler:expelling Denise, the top student of the academy, simply because she embarrassed him in the assembly]].
49	* EvilLaugh: He lets out one over [[spoiler:making Cleverly go through a TraumaticHaircut, as well as his plan on targeting Diana once the heist succeeded.]]
50	* EvilOldFolks: Alan holds the record of being the only recurring cast that is old enough to have wrinkles in his face. However, considering that he's letting go of his tuxedo when [[spoiler:he's about to find the hiding students]], it gives the vibes that just because he's old doesn't mean he's fragile, he could still be very fit in case of the need of dispensing physical threat.
51	* EvilWearsBlack: His attire is all black, though beneath the tuxedo, he wears white shirt.
52	* {{Expy}}: In consideration of the show making {{Shout Out}}s to Disney-based franchises, one of them being ''Franchise/StarWars'', Alan might be based on [[Franchise/StarWars Emperor Palpatine]], as the [[EvilOldFolks elderly]] BigBad who mostly plots from behind the scenes and making as few on-screen appearances as possible, although Alan is technically TheDragon for the Organization (as opposed to Palpatine being actually the Emperor), in the current arc, he's closer to a BigBad. [[spoiler:With the introduction of the Leader, it turns out that he's more like a Palpatine who is positioned like Darth Vader instead rather than being the true mastermind]].
53	* FauxAffablyEvil: He speaks in a faux-pleasant smug tone, but mostly to put an emphasis on just how much screwed and powerless the students/other non-Organization members are and how much in the end, they're just pawns to him.
54	* HateSink: You know about what makes you ''hate'' the school system and trying to make students miserable? Alan embodies it to the fullest and milks a lot of the CorruptCorporateExecutive tropes for all it's worth. Pretty much an EnforcedTrope, since the show originally is lighthearted with NoAntagonist, a hateable antagonist like him is practically a necessity to give [[DarkerAndEdgier a lot more tension.]]
55	* IronicName: The name Alan includes the meanings harmony and noble. DoubleSubverted because he certainly wants to bring harmony in the otherwise rambunctious Titan Academy... but it's [[OrderIsNotGood the bad kind of harmony.]]
56	* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:He starts putting his own desire for revenge against Denise before the organization's best interest]].
57	* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Aims to have Denise expelled after she embarrassed him in the assembly by standing up for Jianhao, despite being reminded by both [[EvenEvilHasStandards Regna and Teverly]] that she's one of the top students and her expulsion would hurt the academy]].
58	* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk:
59	** He claims to have the students' best interest at heart, both to Miss Siti and Cleverly, even enabling the latter's interests by supporting his games, but relentlessly shows himself to view said students as nothing more than pawns.
60	** Originally he's the one who came up with the plan that "The minimum passing score is 80." But come the actual exam, it seems that something changed his mind that the passing score stayed 50. What does look like a PetTheDog action is subverted that in the end, this isn't for the existing students' happiness, but to maintain the elite school image that they don't look too suspicious after the mass expulsion for newcomers that want to enroll.
61	* KickTheDog: He did promise a more permanent punishment for Cleverly, which is expulsion, and [[ExactWords delivered on that.]] But [[spoiler:the TraumaticHaircut, despite being more temporary, is added as a bonus that serves as nothing more but fueling his {{Sadist}}ic pleasure of punishing disobedience. Even Regna didn't add up the EvilLaugh on the act despite being similarly unpleasant.]]
62	* KnightOfCerebus: Whenever he (and Regna) makes an appearance, the usual lighthearted atmosphere of the show instantly evaporates; he means business in trying to make Titan Academy a lot more hellish for the students.
63	* LackOfEmpathy: Especially towards the students of Titan Academy, to whom he is utterly apathetic towards. When Regna begins to empathize with and respect them, he's quick to call her out on it.
64	* MakeAnExampleOfThem: [[spoiler:After he'd made Cleverly go through a TraumaticHaircut and is about to expel him, he warns the rest of the students that the same will happen to them should they eavesdrop on his and Regna's internal conversations.]]
65	* ManipulativeBastard:
66	** He successfully convinces Miss Siti to sign the contract for the new regulations the Organization wants to be implemented on Titan Academy by telling her that if the school closes down and the students have no future to look forward to, it will be all because of her.
67	** Though he intends to do this for ''all'' the students, he considers Cleverly as one of the easier ones to manipulate, pretending to support his aspirations.
68	* {{Narcissist}}: Very very smug and so far things are swimming on his way.
69	* NotSoAboveItAll: While observing the Study Buddies' Science Fair project, despite giving the order to Teverly to ruin the project, even Alan had to 'mingle a bit' by whispering to Julynn asking if Denise's project is 'really gonna work', in a tone of less condescending, more curious "Is this for real?".
70	* NotSoStoic:
71	** When [[spoiler:Cleverly]] speaks up against him, he actually yells at him to be quiet.
72	** He can barely contain himself after [[spoiler:Denise saves Jianhao by lying that she participated in the heist, to the point of ordering Teverly to get her expelled despite her usefulness to the reputation of the academy]].
73	* PetTheDog:
74	** When Mr. Alan observes the final assignment of the Night Class, he actually observes silently and gives a genuine clap, congratulating all the students for job well done, instead of trying to intimidate them. Seeing that most of them are adults (with the sole exception of Cameron), this implies that Alan could be nice towards adults, he just has severe issues with [[ChildHater children]] or [[TeenHater teenagers.]]
75	** Judging the students' dishes in the cooking class episode marks the second time he's shown them a lick of admiration for the ones who impressed him with the quality of the food.
76	* PragmaticVillainy: After the fire, it would be actually easy for him to just expel [=JianHao=] and Vincent, moreso since they would be the greatest thorns in his plans. But seeing that refurbishing the school after the fire actually costed money for the Organization, Alan couldn't afford to just expel students or teachers alike anymore (or else there'll be less subjects/targets of his evil plans), and relented with just 'cleaning the school and be the assistants for the upcoming Night Class' as punishment (also rendering them unable to enjoy Summer Holiday), though he did try to threaten Miss Sherly with possible firing if she didn't want to join the Night Class.
77	* PuppetKing: [[spoiler:After slowly being built up as the one in charge, Season 8 revealed him to be subservient to the true leader of the organization]].
78	* RedOniBlueOni: He's the blue oni to Regna, as he didn't see the need to raise his voice, preferring a FauxAffablyEvil tone. Considerably, the role was reversed whenever his {{Sadist}} kinks come in.
79	* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler: Even after being reminded by Regna about Denise's top student status, Alan still speaks to Teverly in private and tells him to get Denise expelled by any means necessary, all because she embarrassed him in front of everyone by standing up for Jianhao]].
80	* {{Sadist}}: [[spoiler:He is ''gleefully'' sadistic when making Cleverly suffer a TraumaticHaircut, taking delight in his horror and misery.]]
81	* SmugSnake: He is overconfident in his belief that Titan Academy is under his complete control.
82	* SpockSpeak: He and Regna tend to use very formal and sophisticated dictation, though he isn't averse to contractions and does occasionally employ simplistic wording.
83	* VillainTakesAnInterest:
84	** He takes a look at Cleverly developing games and decides that he might have some uses for the organization, thus calling him to the director's room. [[spoiler:Once Cleverly reveals himself to have overheard him and Regna, however, this interest fades, and Alan intends to make him suffer a permanent punishment.]]
85	** He takes on another to several students after the School Heist, not out of respect unlike Regna, but because he saw potential for them to be used for his plans and enforce his reign even more. [[spoiler:Starting with Diana, and he plans to move on to Denise and Madeline as well.]]
86	* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:He takes Denise's stand against him to save [=JianHao=] poorly. While he still keeps his composure until James' speech is over, when he prepares to go home, he ends up ranting and berating Teverly for failing his task and eventually resorts to ordering Teverly to ruin Denise's reputation, without any care that the Titan Academy's reputation will be destroyed because of Denise's fall, [[ItsPersonal he just needs a payback for his humiliation]]. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Teverly is visibly startled with Alan's order that can cost the whole Academy and money for the Organization.]]]]
87	* WalkingSpoiler: His appearance spoils the DarkerAndEdgier aspects and the details surrounding it introduced in Season 4.
88	* WouldHitAGirl: Female students aren't exempt from his punishments, including physical ones, either.
89	* YouMonster: [[spoiler:Kevin]] outright calls him a monster with a [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse nice suit and tie]].
90	[[/folder]]
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92	!!Subordination
93	[[folder:Regna]]
94	!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Ferina Arriyani
95	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/t1t5_regna.png]]
96	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Stop right there! Whatever you’re trying to do, it’s not gonna work anymore. So give up, hand it over, before you suffer a worse punishment."'']]
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98	One of the spokespeople of the organization that buys out the Titan Academy. She's the younger woman and generally showcases the personality of a 'ruthless businesswoman'. She later goes on to supervise the teachers' teaching methods, and is typically the one addressing the students.
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100	* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler:She gains this status in the School Heist episode, beginning to have a HeelRealization in which she considers the students perhaps worthy of being guided the normal way, but denies warming up to them when questioned about it by Alan. Therefore, it's unknown if she still feels that way.]]
101	* BadassBoast: "I hope all of you will take this as a lesson, that when the Organization says we'll do something, we'll do it."
102	* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Despite her first appearance suggesting she's similarly motivated by greed and profit as Alan, it's later strongly implied that she [[WellIntentionedExtremist genuinely does believe]] Titan Academy can only prosper if the students are disciplined and the rebellious ones are expelled.
103	* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:[[SmugSnake She]] suffers this in the School Heist episode, where her attempt to stop Jianhao, Vincent, Kevin, Diana, and Chloe from escaping during their heist fails when she gets literally blown away by Cherylene's yelling, giving them time to escape the school.]]
104	* CoDragons: She becomes this with Alan once Titan Academy falls under the Organization's control, though she seems to be of lower ranking than him. Not that she minds, and not to mention neither of them are the CEO or director of the organization. [[spoiler:She also serves as this alongside [[TheMole Teverly]] and James for [[BigBad Alan]]]].
105	* TheComicallySerious: It'll really take time for her to completely assert dominance to the whole Academy and that Miss Sherly's warning about her was correct.
106	** When Regna decided to go punishment-heavy, she learned the hard way that sometimes her punishment attempts backfire. For instance, telling Ben to stand up to prevent him from sleeping instead caused him to sleep ''standing''. And then there's [[HoistByHerOwnPetard her accidental calling to Madam Soot Beng...]]
107	** Additionally, Class [=T1T5=] doesn't [[NoRespectGuy immediately listen to her]] when she screams at them to be silent.
108	* ControlFreak: Overall, she gives this aura to the whole Academy, and she [[VillainBall almost refused Miss Sherly's re-entry]] because the Organization takes 'chances' very seriously. It's only after Alan claims that there are merits for Sherly's re-entry that Regna takes back her decision.
109	* TheDragon: Narrative-wise, she plays this part for Alan being the BigBad, since she's TheHeavy who carries out all his orders, akin to [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] (without copying him too much).
110	* DisproportionateRetribution: Her [[SadistTeacher method]] of teaching, or supervising teaching. She cracks down extremely harshly on even the slightest display of infractions from any student, such as [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment making Ren Yi Xiang stand outside the classroom on one leg while holding a chair over his head]], Cherylene stand in front of the wall merely for being too loud, or Nicole write down "I will not be late to class" 50 times on the board.
111	* EvenEvilHasStandards:
112	** Double subverted: At one point, she did question Alan on how some changes might affect the students, but that was only a fleeting moment, she quickly falls back to going along with the manipulative persona of the two. However, she does [[spoiler:eventually develop VillainRespect for Class [=T1T5=] and consider them perhaps worthy of being guided.]]
113	** Played straight later: While she tried to remind Alan about expelling Denise for the school's prestige as PragmaticVillainy, when she finds out that Alan sends Teverly to make her fail, even Regna tries to object that plan.
114	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler:She is genuinely confused by Cherylene's HeroicSacrifice, and does not understand why she would do it.]]
115	* EvilCounterpart: Technically becomes this to Madam Soot Beng. Regna has the qualities of a SadistTeacher in that she dispenses DisproportionateRetribution against misbehaving students, much like Soot Beng. Unlike [[SternTeacher Soot Beng]], however, Regna really has no altruistic motives, she's just in to shape the students in the Organization's image: Being homogenous, obedient money-making tools.
116	* EvilWearsBlack: Her attire is mostly black.
117	* FaceHeelTurn: She used to be a normal student in Titan Academy and answered to her principal Ms. Siti. Now, as part of the Organization, she's bringing terror to her old academy and with the guidance and help from Alan, she's bringing her former principal to her knees.
118	* FunHatingVillain: She completely and utterly forbids fun occurring in classrooms, and has any teacher (such as Mr. Mabuhay) [[CoolTeacher who makes the students have a good time]] [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished dismissed]].
119	* GetOut: [[spoiler:She orders the Class [=T1T5=] students who failed the final exam to go out of the classroom.]]
120	* GoodCopBadCop: The Bad Cop to [[TheRival Miss Sherly]]'s Good Cop. Regna [[DisproportionateRetribution cracks down incredibly harshly on any sort of misbehavior]], even ''very'' minor ones.
121	* HairTriggerTemper: Her name spelled backwards being "Anger" aside, it isn't at all hard to set her off.
122	* TheHeavy: She's lower in rank than Alan is, but has more screentime than him, thus she directly interacted with the students and faculty a lot more.
123	* HeelRealization: Regna starts to [[spoiler:develop a WorthyOpponent-like [[VillainRespect respect]] for Class [=T1T5=] after they successfully pulled a heist that forces the Organization to cancel the mass-expulsion and bring the expelled students back. And by that, she's suggesting that perhaps they shouldn't be so domineering and guide them the normal way. Alan, on the other hand, thinks she's gone too soft for that.]]
124	* HiddenDepths: The "Types of Students During The Holiday" shows that [[NotSoAboveItAll she has a more lighthearted side]] outside the academy.
125	* HoistByHerOwnPetard: She attempts to punish Vicky for snacking in class by calling her parents... unfortunately for her, [[DidntSeeThatComing she had no idea]] that her contactable parent also happens to be [[MamaBear Madam Soot Beng]], who not only let Vicky off the hook, but also proceeded to mouth her off about her lack of 'teaching credentials'.
126	* InsufferableGenius: She smugly calls out Miss Siti for not understanding the situation about Titan Academy having less than a month to survive without the ownership of the Organization.
127	* {{Jerkass}}: Same deal with Alan and generally the organization, Regna is extremely unpleasant and very much looks forward to yell at the students at any slight of misconduct as well as explaining thoroughly why the Titan Academy is truly under the organization's thumbs or they might as well just perish naturally.
128	* KnightOfCerebus: Again, just like Alan, if she enters the scene, things get rather grim, although unlike Alan, the shenanigans of the students start to rub off on her, even it's just minor parts, for the most part she tried her best to be the trope.
129	* {{Leitmotif}}: She tends to be accompanied by a sinister sounding tune.
130	* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Later on, due to her being designated to interact with the classes more (as opposed to Alan who stayed behind the scenes), we started to see Regna getting hammered with the uniqueness of the classes, so while she still tries to be the domineering teacher, she ends up being TheComicallySerious and could produce more unintentional humor as opposed to Alan. As time passes on, the class' attitude and rebelliousness starts to rub on Regna even more that she starts recognizing their talent begrudgingly, think the domineering attitude might not be worth it anymore and [[spoiler:[[VillainRespect consider them perhaps worthy of being guided the normal way.]] However, she's quick to get reeled back by Alan who calls her out for getting a little too soft on them.]]
131	* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The [[EvilWearsBlack Dark Feminine]] to Denise's [[NiceGirl Light]] [[SilkHidingSteel Feminine]]. She's also the Dark Feminine to Cherylene's Light Feminine.
132	* MeaningfulName: As pointed out by Jasmine, her name backwards spells "[[HairTriggerTemper Anger]]".
133	* MysteriousPast: We don't know her personal background or how she started working for the Organization.
134	* NotSoAboveItAll: During the exam oversaw by her, she started to go along with the class antics while trying to maintain the 'evil teacher' persona, such as falling off her chair when Denise made her 'participate' in her 'pre-exam training', praising Terry for letting her expel a student that he sabotaged and getting distracted with a paper that praised her (actually falling for the ploy of Nicole).
135	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Downplayed. Despite being TheComicallySerious who [[NotSoAboveItAll isn't above]] being subjected to the students' shenanigans, not to mention Alan having to spell out to her their plans for Titan Academy, Regna is still very much willingly complicit in the Organization's plans to make profit from the students and render them money-making machines. She's also a scaringly effective SadistTeacher, and displays LackOfEmpathy towards [[spoiler:the students expelled as a result of the Organization's exam]]. Still, her attempt to [[spoiler:stop Jianhao's heist]] was a complete failure.
136	* PetTheDog:
137	** As a very, ''very'' minor example, she graciously lends Jianhao a sharpener during the final exam once he calls out to her for one.
138	** [[spoiler:Had Cherylene not pull a HeroicSacrifice, it's likely that Regna would honor her re-appeal attempt instead of callously rejecting her.]]
139	** When she calls in Vincent and ended up having to hear him rant lengthily that the fire was [=JianHao=]'s fault, before proceeding with her more hard-ass attitude, Regna admitted that she's just worried if Vincent's okay, not just on the rant, but the fact that he might be seriously injured because he was in the nearest location of the explosion (it happened on his seat).
140	* PragmaticVillainy: After discovering that Jianhao is the mastermind behind the heist, Alan intends to expell him after getting the accomplices' names out of him. When [[spoiler: Denise unexpectedly lies that she was complicit, Alan is about to expel her when Regna reminds him how bad it would be for the academy's reputation, considering Denise is TheAce]].
141	* RedOniBlueOni: The Red Oni with Alan, as Regna is the go-to person to raise her voice to yell at students for misbehaving and demanding students to obey her. She is also the more talkative of the two, but this role is surprisingly reversed during [[spoiler:Cleverly's TraumaticHaircut. While Alan reveled in his EvilLaugh, Regna didn't even do that, she just did the haircut with just a silent smile.]]
142	* TheRival: After Regna is put in charge of supervising Sherly's teaching, the two develop this, as they clash over how to handle the students, with Regna continuously insisting that Miss Sherly be [[DisproportionateRetribution extremely harsh]] with disobedience of rules, to the latter's disapproval as she is aware of Regna (and the rest of the organization)'s intentions.
143	* ShadowArchetype: To Denise, as Regna takes her ThePerfectionist tendencies to extents that harms students.
144	* SmugSnake: For the most part, she tends to be smugly lord over the students even when she's not teaching. And she also claimed that she and the Organization has known everything about the Academy, but apparently she sometimes FailedASpotCheck: She didn't even realize that Madam Soot Beng was a former teacher ''and'' a mother for one of the students (Vicky).
145	* SpockSpeak: She and Alan tend to use very formal and sophisticated dictation, though she isn't averse to contractions, as well as the "ASAP" abbreviation, and does occasionally employ simplistic wording.
146	* SuddenlyShouting: She does this a lot to intimidate the students, especially during the exam overseen by her, and even sometimes slams a ruler against a table while doing it.
147	* UsedToBeASweetKid: Regna used to enroll in Titan Academy, where aside of teasing James, she's just as much as a normal student there, playing with friends with a beaming smile in her face. When she graduated, she ended up being employed by the Organization, and the sweet kid changed into a domineering, shouting-prone lady that brings fear to her old school.
148	* VillainCred: The one student that she somewhat respects is Terry, because he helps her expel a student by sabotaging him about cheating. She gives him an approving 'thank you' for it, as opposed to the others who get her angry no-nonsense side. It shows that if a student somehow has the qualities desired by the Organization (with no drawbacks), then Regna will like that student.
149	* VillainHasAPoint: She does have a point about the rambunctious behavior of Class [=T1T5=]. It's her methods of dealing with said behavior that puts her in the wrong.
150	* VillainRespect: She develops this for [[spoiler:Class [=T1T5=] after they successfully pulled a heist that forces the Organization to cancel the mass-expulsion and reinstate the expelled students.]]
151	[[/folder]]
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153	!!Other
154	[[folder:The Head of Department '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']]
155	!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Keith Lee
156	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr_james.png]]
157	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Since we still have people failing, we've decided to put it up a notch. Students who failed will be blacklisted from ALL schools nationwide."'']]
158
159	James Ng is the father of Vicky and Madam Soot Beng's former husband, he is also the CFO of Q&Q Holdings, but... something happened. After enrolling in the Night School and failing to reconcile with his daughter, he becomes the head of department for Titan Academy and The Organization.
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161	* AbusiveParents: James deeply loves his daughter "Vicky", however, he tries to put out his thoughts in a respectful manner, but... Unless something causes him to lash at someone, when she describes him as ‘very manipulative’. He thinks he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants with money, being disrespectful and demeaning, and on top of it, he is very selfish, only caring about himself and nobody else. He may have also applied to spoil his daughter Vicky, his girlfriend Milly and his other girlfriend, so that he could take advantage of them, with them being the victims.
162	* AffablyEvil: As the director, he is not using an overly overbearing aura like Alan, but instead speaks in a more casual manner to show either disappointment or bad news to the students. He could try to give PetTheDog moments, but can easily take it away if someone goes out of the line.
163	* ArchEnemy: He becomes this to his ex-wife "Madam Soot Beng" after their divorce, and also, don't forget that she saw him as the head of department during at the School Assembly.
164	* AscendedExtra: After his limited screentime in "I Am A Teacher", James would go on to become a Night School student, and then a recurring antagonist after being appointed by Alan to work in the academy.
165	* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's sweet mannered and nice to Vicky, using words that endear her to him when Madam Soot Beng usually defaulted to being a strict EducationMama to her. However, in the face of his new lover, James immediately drops his nice attitude to Vicky and becomes more or less uncaring to his own daughter. This is surprisingly averted when he's being the director: He does not cover his intention to be an overly strict and overbearing director to the students with sweet words anymore, but generally acts more nothing personal against those under him.
166	* TheBusCameBack: After only appearing in ''I Am a Teacher'' and flashbacks, James is back for a serious amount of screen time as one of the students in Night Class. ''Then'' he becomes part of the BigBad organization.
167	* TheCasanova: He's a playboy and serial cheater, and this was one of the reasons why Madam Soot Beng filed a divorce. Milly learned it the hard way in the end of ''I am a Teacher''.
168	* CoDragons: He's working for Alan alongside Regna [[spoiler:and Teverly]].
169	* DisappointedInYou: Expresses this sentiment towards the Study Buddies (Jianhao in particular for being the lowest scorer in the bunch) when they get their SAT results, and tells them they better not disappoint him again in the science fair.
170	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: At first, he's depicted as an uncaring and manipulative man towards his family, then he enrolled in night school and seems more genuine about reconciling with Vicky, while also acknowledging his past wrongdoings. Now, he's been hired by the Organization as a director as the antagonist of the Study Buddies arc.
171	* InsufferableGenius: During night classes, he gives off this aura. He's smug and intolerable with his bragging about owning a company and the skills he acquired from it, but he really is that good.
172	* JerkassHasAPoint: While he really doesn't have the best interest of Vicky at heart, James certainly made a good point that these all stemmed from how much Madam Soot Beng invested in her {{Pride}} as a teacher that she's having a hard time after being fired from the academy. His mistake is not realizing that Soot Beng undergoes CharacterDevelopment to fix her issues while he doesn't.
173	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: As of the SAT results episode, James is the only employee working under Alan to be unaware of the latter's plan to have Denise expelled for embarrassing him in the assembly.
174	* ManipulativeBastard: Can be said that his sweet-talking with Vicky is to manipulate her to favor him more than Soot Beng (though he ended up revealing himself when Milly popped in). Even Soot Beng described him as 'manipulative' to a bank customer service.
175	* NotWhatItLooksLike: Debbie and Vicky walk in on James holding Debbie's mother from behind. He was helping her using the heimlich maneuver because she was choking on a cookie she made.
176	* NothingPersonal: For the whole class members, James holds nothing of sentimental value, so he doesn't really intend to manipulate them, only displaying a 'slightly friendly, but extremely distant' director personality.
177	* PetTheDog: The latter Night School episodes show that James is trying to do good in spite of his sinful past and insensitive personality:
178	** He gives Jack valid advice about growing a spine and standing up to his domineering wife.
179	** He tries to save Chelsea from choking on her own cookie, although it leads to NotWhatItLooksLike moment when Vicky comes to the scene.
180	** In his tenure as director, he's more than willing to give [=JianHao=]'s group extra time out to prepare for the SAT Test rather than sandwiching them together with the school exam. Unfortunately, Ren Yi Xiang runs his mouth to insult him, so he takes it back.
181	** After reprimanding Madam Soot Beng for not referring him as a director properly, but as her ex-husband, and despite saying that he would boss around the faculty members, James instead lets her carry on and refer him by name, not title.
182	* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: Inverted. Back in the school days, James was actually the reserved, dutiful nerd who was bullied by the likes of Dan, Mabuhay and Walater. In the present day, James gets a higher, more antagonistic position as the director, and promises that the faculty members (which includes Dan and Mabuhay) will not be exempt from his antagonism.
183	* SixthRanger: An antagonistic one. James was not part of the initial wave of the Organization members. However, after the Night School arc, he's drafted into the position, making him a late-coming antagonist.
184	* SympatheticPOV: His appearance in Night Class showcases the conflict between him and Madam Soot Beng from his side. There, James is portrayed as an estranged father who knew he made a big mistake in the past, [[InsufferableGenius still has his personality flaws]], and yet still tries to make up for it by reconciling with his daughter, even if he will face constant reminders of how horrible he was in the past.
185	* UnseenNoMore: Used to be mentioned occasionally before his official appearance in "I Am A Teacher", then becoming an AscendedExtra.
186	* UsedToBeASweetKid: When James was in school age, he was a normal, sweet and diligent boy that only had Soot Beng in his mind. Somewhere in the future, however, he changed into a shameless womanizer (and a show-off, as shown in the Night Class) that Soot Beng rightfully filed a divorce. It's still not known if he was already a womanizer when he flirted on Soot Beng.
187	* WalkingSpoiler: For his appointment as the new head of department of Titan Academy, and now working under the BigBad.
188	[[/folder]]
189
190	!True Leadership
191	[[folder:The Leader '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']]
192	The actual leader of the Organization, effectively making both Alan and Regna (and to an extent James) to be [[TheHeavy his main enforcers]]. A mysterious man who demands result and even unnerves Alan himself.
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194	* BadBoss: He doesn't care about the school's well-being and its educational system seeing as he threatened the board of directors to close Titan Academy if they do not make significant profits by the end of the year.
195	* BigBad: The true BigBad of the whole series as the true leader of the Organization. Turns out Alan is just [[CoDragons one of his dragons after all.]]
196	* TheDreaded: To put it in perspective, he's this to Alan who's been TheDreaded himself to the students all this time.
197	* EvilCripple: He's probably older than the already old Alan, hence why he uses a cane to walk around.
198	* EvilOldFolks: Based on his voice and walking with a cane, this guy is much more senior than the already old Alan himself. And as the true leader of the Organization, he's bad news.
199	* EvilerThanThou: He successfully intimidates even Alan, the guy whose mission is to smugly intimidate the students as much as possible.
200	* {{Expy}}: The way he's the true leader of the Organization and not even making an appearance until 8 seasons in makes him the closer comparison with [[Franchise/StarWars Emperor Palpatine]].
201	* TheFaceless: When he appeared, only his body is seen.
202	* GreaterScopeVillain: He's the true villain of the entire web series, because he's the one who's in charged of The Organisation.
203	* {{Greed}}: He's only interested in turning Titan Academy into a profitable business.
204	* HiddenVillain: The true leader of The Organization was kept away from the audience all the time up until the premier of Season 8.
205	* {{Malaproper}}: He seems to have the same habit of pronouncing "academy" wrongly that Alan has.
206	* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the one who's truly in charge, and lords over Alan.
207	* UnseenNoMore: PlayedWith. Throughout the time Alan was the BigBad, he's almost non-existant, making people believe that Alan was the one truly calling the shots. In his debut appearance, he appears and affirms his leadership, but his face is not seen, all that's seen are his yellow clothes and how he walks with a cane.
208	* WalkingSpoiler: It's almost impossible to talk about him without spoiling that Alan is not the true leader of the Organization.
209	[[/folder]]

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