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Eccentric Mentor

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Eccentric Mentor	comment	The Eccentric Mentor is an apparent contradiction, a sagacious figure who seems eccentric and possibly foolish; a font of power and respectability who acts like comic relief. Typically the Eccentric Mentor is an older male character, connected to the back story, who acts as a mentor, protector, and/or guide. They often feign senility and weakness when it is useful to do so, and rarely take pains to avoid such an appearance if it requires effort. Their eccentricity may show itself even in visual appearance, including a quirky clothing style and an aversion to shoes. When pushed, the Eccentric Mentor easily demonstrates how they have earned their status. Those who underestimated them are suddenly confronted with heroic badassery, Sherlock Holmes-level insight, moral fortitude in the face of death, and/or staying a step ahead of everyone else. Due to their age, wisdom, and conviction, they fear death far less than a loss of integrity. Combines aspects of Cool Old Guy, The Mentor, Old Master (sometimes), Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, Bunny-Ears Lawyer, often Cloudcuckoolander, and Zen Survivor into one cranky, tough old biscuit. If they are an authority figure, they are The Wonka. May overlap with Loon with a Heart of Gold, if they are not villainous. They may fill any of a number of mentor roles, such as Trickster Mentor or Reasonable Authority Figure, related to their personality and their role in the story. As such, no matter how much power they have, they want the heroes to solve the problem. Mentor Occupational Hazard will likely happen at some point. Compare Simple-Minded Wisdom, when a character who appears lacking in conventional Book Smarts displays uncommon wisdom.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_10321784	comment	As of Disgaea 4, Flonne also qualifies. Valvatorez also acts as a mentor for the younger members of the team (Fuka, Desco, and Emizel), and he's odd enough to qualify for the "eccentric" title.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): While Dean Strikt mostly just comes of ass strict she also does such things as arrange a school gathering she's scheduled to speak at and instead of showing up prowls the school looking for any girls who opted to skip and didn't hide well enough.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): Diana unknowingly picks up an eccentric mentor figure while enslaved by the Sangtee Empire since H'Elgn reigns in her eccentricities while enslaved. After they escape she really likes her pranks, including introducing Diana to the new hologram tech by making it look like they were being attacked by the Empire and getting a good laugh out of Diana taking a flying leap at the intangible holograms.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Digimon: Qinglongmon, though it's only really clear in the dub of Digimon Adventure 02. He even has the Wizard Beard! Xuanwumon from Digimon Tamers. Hiroshi Yushima of Digimon Data Squad also has elements of this - it's not until a good chunk of the series is out of the way that it's shown that he's anything but an eccentric elderly fisherman with knowledge of Digimon.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_1b386512	comment	Cologne in Ranma ½, although while she is generally laid-back she is always demonstrated as highly competent and is not used as comic relief, beyond occasionally finding it diverting to trick or play games with other people. Happosai is another subversion. He has extreme expertise, appears to be just as skilled as and far more powerful than Cologne, but is also entirely driven by impulse, is practically never serious, lacks common sense and is easily tricked, can't read his own (gibberish) handwriting, and is a Poke the Poodle Plucky Comic Relief or flat-out antagonist more often than not.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_1beda93b	comment	Sensei Feng from Sluggy Freelance is an Old Master who trains the deadly assassin Oasis in both mind and body, yet resembles an old hobo as much as a martial arts master, mooching pizza rolls whenever he can, and displaying such incredible fighting techniques as literally putting his foot in his mouth.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Kisuke Urahara, the self-described "mere honest, handsome, perverted businessman." But don't let his sanguine disposition, odd dress-sense or shameless self-promotion fool you; beneath it all lurks the soul of a true badass. A former Shinigami Captain and founder of the Soul Society Research Institute, Kisuke became a legend in the Seireitei after mastering Bankai — a powerful attack which usually takes decades of study to learn — in only three days (this record has only been surpassed by the main character who achieved bankai in two-and-a-half days). The catalyst and driving force behind the plot, it is widely believed by fans that the entire series is merely one grand game of Gambit Roulette played between him and his Manipulative Bastard rival, Captain Aizen.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_1d698aef	comment	Chairman Kaien Cross from Vampire Knight.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_1e015a5d	comment	Yoda's appearance in The Empire Strikes Back. He also teases Obi-Wan a bit in Attack of the Clones, but he is younger (and teaching the younglings) at the time.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_2127e14c	comment	The Once and Future King version of Merlin, aided by his... unique situation.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_21a4e905	comment	Grampa Smith from Monster Buster Club. A senile old alien in disguise as a senile old human, he probably knows more about the "monsters" the kids encounter than anyone else, but is far too concerned with the upkeep of his garden to do anything other than offer hints, info, and advice.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_2247a14a	comment	Dallben from Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain seems like a quirky old man for the first four books, practicing a little light divination, complaining about young people these days, and doling out sage advice between naps. Then comes Book 5, and he proves why he's the Big Good for Prydain and The Dreaded for the Big Bad.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_22e9daaa	comment	Catherine Ling: Hu Chang, the Chinese folk medicine expert and master poisoner who took Catherine in as an adolescent, who fools around with chemicals and herbs seemingly for his own amusement and takes very little completely seriously. In the first book he spirits her son away out from under the noses of both the CIA and the Nebulous Evil Organization targeting Catherine, and later puts a mook under chemical Mind Control as part of the Batman Gambit to take out the organization's leader.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_2372359	comment	Belgarath from The Belgariad by David and Leigh Eddings. A case of deliberate Obfuscating Stupidity here, he specifically has clothes tailored to look like he found them in a trash can so that he could pass unnoticed.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_24a6dfde	comment	Spencer from lonelygirl15, although younger than most examples. What a strange little man.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_267cbfa	comment	Donovan Deegan of Dominic Deegan is a very capable bard and swordsman, but spent decades mangling the orcish language because of Rule of Funny.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_2b91d798	comment	Max Madigan from True Jackson, VP is an eccentric and often straight-up silly multimillionaire, and True's boss and mentor.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_2d316ba2	comment	The Ancient One in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), seems to be channeling shades of Bo'Rai Cho; a dwarfish, obese, flatulent, and ill-mannered little man who started off the Master-Apprentice Chain that led to the main characters, and is surprisingly insightful.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_2d8fcd22	comment	The New Guy gives us Luther, a crazy-eyed con who teaches Dizzy Harrison how to be cool by giving him a haircut, dance lessons, a prison tattoo, and then setting him on fire.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Jiraiya, one of Konoha's Legendary Sannin, and author of numerous pornographic novels. Affectionately nicknamed "Pervy Sage", he enjoys spying on naked women ("research") and is not above robbing 12 year old boys (his godson, no less) to pay for cushy hotel rooms and hookers. But he's a war hero, the Toad Sage a legendary ninja master, the man who taught the 4th Hokage amongst other shinobi greats, and a master of summoning, barrier and sealing jutsu. And he's bad ass enough to shrug off losing his arm without a glance, and spends his free time hunting down the world's most dangerous criminals. Also the Third Hokage, Sarutobi, mentor of both Jiraiya and Tsunade. He serves no plot purpose other than being the foil of slapstick and giving occasional orders, usually offscreen, until his village is attacked and the audience sees for the first (and unfortunately only) time why he is held in such respect by his peers, and why in his youth they called him "the God of Shinobi". Hatake Kakashi, the Fourth Hokage's protégé (seeing a pattern here?). A laid back, perpetually late ninja obsessed with Jiraiya's porn novels, which he reads even while he has his students train. But he's also the most elite Jounin the Hidden Leaf village possesses, and their ninjutsu specialist with over a thousand justu in his arsenal. He makes jokey excuses for his lateness when he is actually visiting an old comrades grave, near enough every day, and has stated that everybody he loved is dead, but he gets by considering his students and the rest of the village his extended family. He's also so legendary, professional and respected he is pretty much next in line to be Hokage, should the need arise. In fact, at one point was literally seconds away from being declared the sixth Hokage, only for Tsunade to awaken from her coma just in time to keep the position. He's also apparently legendary enough across the Five Great Countries that the Shinobi Alliance appointed him as one of their Generals. The current Hokage herself, Tsunade, is also a lot like a female version of this. She is a gambling addict, a terrible one who was constantly on the run due to all the money she owed. She's also vain enough to use a life threatening jutsu to make herself look decades younger than she is (which meant that her true form is actually decades older). She also has the training regime from Hell whereby she teaches evasion by trying to smash you with her Super Strength attacks, enough to crack the Earth with a finger. But she is a popular leader and a legendary medic, who has suffered a great deal of personal tragedy. Kishi loves this trope. Maito Gai is a genuine goofball, but he is a serious and dedicated mentor and the Leaf's most prominent Taijutsu master. Chiyo of the Sand is an 80 something old hag who spends all day fishing and enjoys making people (esp. her brother) think she's dead for a prank, but she is a puppet master and an especially deadly poisoner, with some medical skill. The Raikage and Killer Bee of the Hidden Cloud both seem to have shades of this in relation to their subordinates, despite both being eccentric weirdos in their own right (though both are, in their own way, genuinely hotheaded, reckless and the Raikage might be a bit of a warmonger). Hell, even the parents tend to be this trope. The Raikage hasn't been stated to have a student, but Killer Bee is this way to his new protégé Naruto.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_30a8ce3d	comment	Nightfall (Series): Strangely enough, Vladimir becomes one to Myra (the person sent to assassinate him), as he teaches her how to be a better writer and a more capable enemy.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_30e36140	comment	Around the Horn's Woody Paige may qualify as this.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_326ee64b	comment	Yan the Samurai Smartie from Giants: Citizen Kabuto is a powerful Smartie wizard that Delphi seeks out for further training in her magical abilities. He is capable of surprisingly effective plans, and does teach her both how to wield magic and how to set up bases, but he's also incredibly goofy. A Running Gag is his problem with creating portals in that he tends to place the exit portal too high in the ground. He deliberately talks like an old stereotypical Asian mentor for his own amusement, and he initially mistakes Delphi as his bastard daughter by Sandra Myrtle from Chillchuck Island despite the fact that they are clearly different species.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_32c541e6	comment	Hohenheim from Fullmetal Alchemist is practically a stereotypical example, though some might argue that he really is a genuinely socially awkward and emotionally crippled Cloudcuckoolander.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_33728d94	comment	Noish-pa, Vlad Taltos's grandfather, sometimes fits this trope in the Dragaera novels, albeit with the comic relief coming less from his own remarks than from Vlad's reactions to them.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_337631b6	comment	In Pokémon Live!, Professor Oak's eccentricity is exaggerated.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_33fdae4d	comment	Bertram Cooper from Mad Men may seem like your run-of-the-mill elderly eccentric, but in reality he is just as shrewd a businessman as Don or St. John Powell.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Pick a teacher from Beacon Academy. Any teacher. Their all extremely eccentric in different ways. They're also all former or active Huntsmen and Huntresses, all very badass, and often surprisingly wise. Team RWBY would've never made it to this point without their help.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_37a15a81	comment	Master Wu of The Gone-Away World is an Old Master (and founder of a secret society of kung fu mimes) who runs a martial arts school that the protagonist trains at. He teaches moves with names like "Walk Like Elvis", gets into arguments about the location of the moon, and cheerfully admits to making up ancient wisdom on the spot.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. In the fifth book, when fighting Voldemort, Dumbledore fires off a spell that is never identified, but is clearly VERY powerful. Voldemort blocks the spell, and taunts Dumbledore that he does not seek to kill him. Dumbledore calmly responds, "We both know there is more than one way to destroy a man, Tom." He also mentions how merely killing Voldemort would not satisfy him. Also from the fifth book, the scene where Dolores Umbridge and her cronies confront Dumbledore in his office and then try to arrest him. When one of the Aurors reaches for his wand, Dumbledore has this to say: Think about how Dumbledore progresses throughout the books. We go from "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! and Tweak!" to the most powerful wizard in the history of the Wizarding World to a broken man who is grief-stricken over the loss of his sister, Ariana, whom he may have killed (and considers himself to blame regardless of whether his curse was the one that killed her). A fan-favorite quote that epitomizes Dumbledore's transition from "cool grandpa" to "ancient monk badass" came in The Goblet of Fire: In Order of the Phoenix, after Dumbledore spends most of the summer supporting Harry in his assertion of Voldemort's return, the Ministry of Magic threatens to strip Dumbledore of his (many, many) titles, and indeed kicks him out of his own school. Dumbledore doesn't care, as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards. At the end, however, he has the balls to create an illegal Portkey right in front of the Minister, tells said Minister that he can graciously provide half an hour of his time to explain what's been happening, and tells him "letters addressed to the Headmaster will find me."
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Eccentric Mentor / int_3decdde4	comment	Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (the original story by E. T. A. Hoffmann): is he the children's eccentric but kindly uncle, or is he manipulating all the events of the story? (Hint: he's a skilled builder of mechanical toys (automata).)
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Eccentric Mentor / int_3f44e3d7	comment	Subverted in Princess Tutu. Drosselmeyer always seems odd (to put it lightly), but he's the one who gives the main character her powers in the first place, and he seems to want to push her along in helping the Prince. However, it quickly becomes apparent that he really is quite crazy, and to top it off he's the Big Bad and his main goal is to trap the characters in an endless cycle of tragedy for the sake of his "art".
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Eccentric Mentor / int_41b0198a	comment	Shiro from The Dresden Files novels. He may act a little senile at times, but he's actually a seriously badass paladin and one of the only people in history to take on Nicodemus in a sword fight and win. Too bad he's Too Cool to Live. Though he's not as... easygoing and jovial as the trope specifies, though Arthur Langtry is the oldest and most powerful wizard alive, and the head of the White Council, with the title of 'Merlin', he seems to be generally underestimated, and perceived as a figurehead. Until he shows off the strength and depth of his power by doing such things as, oh - holding off Outsiders with a single ward and turning chaos into order by broadcasting a mental map (with voiceover) to the entire council, whilst attempting to contain an omnilethal nasty with the sheer force of his will. 'not [gained his position] by collecting bottle caps' indeed. As the series goes on, the eponymous Harry Dresden becomes this to his student, Molly Carpenter. To Molly, he's just her kooky, slightly grumpy teacher who often quotes Star Wars and can't function without coffee in the morning. A person who'd never seen him in battle would never guess that he's defeated two of the aforementioned [[spoiler;Outsiders]] and obliterated an entire vampire species when they threatened his family.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_431f7ab9	comment	Master Elodin, from The Kingkiller Chronicle, was a child prodigy mage who went mad. By the present time, he's gotten better, but he's still a Cloud Cuckoo Bunny Ears Absent-Minded Professor type. He's also the one professor at the University who protagonist Kvothe is determined to study with the most…even in the face of Elodin's cryptic interactions and outright discouragement.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion's Shivering Isles expansion has the series' resident Mad God Sheogorath in this role. You are his chosen champion to save his realm against cyclic destruction.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_45599333	comment	Ha Jinsung from Tower of God, the mentor and martial art instructor of Jue Viole Grace. He dotes on his student a lot and is really cheerful and polite, though sometimes overly friendly, but his mood can swing at the drop of the wrong hat into murderous Tranquil Fury and even when he's cheerful people around him feel extremely threatened.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_45d1711f	comment	Genshitenson from Soul Hunter.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_468bebb0	comment	Lu-Tze shows up in several Discworld books, playing the Eccentric Mentor in Thief of Time. Actually, Lu-Tze has more or less made his living appearing to be a weird little monk, on the basis that, since no one notices weird little monks who are just sweeping up the place to begin with, he's far more stealthy and better equipped than the most highly trained of ninja. Not least because, in addition to being able to seriously inconvenience someone about twenty-seven different ways with a broom, if the floor gets dirty you can take care of that too. Remember Rule One: Never act incautiously when confronting a little old bald wrinkly smiling man. (And, of course, Rule Nineteen: Never forget Rule One.) Also from the Discworld, a Rare Female Example: Nanny Ogg.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_4a3437ef	comment	A clearer distaff counterpart, Professor Potsdam in Magical Diary, who appears to be a hippie with a few screws loose most of the time. Don't make her mad.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_4a8918e1	comment	Hikaru Tsurugi from Key the Metal Idol serves as an especially eccentric deconstruction of the trope.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_4fd9904a	comment	In Order of the Phoenix, after Dumbledore spends most of the summer supporting Harry in his assertion of Voldemort's return, the Ministry of Magic threatens to strip Dumbledore of his (many, many) titles, and indeed kicks him out of his own school. Dumbledore doesn't care, as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards. At the end, however, he has the balls to create an illegal Portkey right in front of the Minister, tells said Minister that he can graciously provide half an hour of his time to explain what's been happening, and tells him "letters addressed to the Headmaster will find me."
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Eccentric Mentor / int_5057aae3	comment	Zonama/Discord from Star Mares, as one might expect. While it's normal for zebras to speak in rhyme, she sometimes breaks from the normal mode of couplet rhymes in favor of triplets, limericks, and the occasional sonnet. At one point, she drank a milkshake that her student was daydreaming about. She also has fetish masks of Spiderman and Deadpool on the walls of her hut.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_538ba773	comment	In The Machineries of Empire, Shuos Jedao's attempts at teaching Cheris some strategy are rather unsual, making extensive use of games and Cheris' brainwashing.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_53bd0aaf	comment	Grunnel the Thinker, to a point, in With Strings Attached. He's a jolly guy who latches onto the four because they're interesting. At first he seems a bit goofy, with quite a sadistic sense of humor, but the four realize quickly that he's extremely intelligent and well-educated. He ends up helping them a lot when magic starts to pour out of the sky on them. He also teaches them about Baravadan society, and they teach him about Earth in return. Subverted in that he backstabs them in Ehndris in order to get control of both Paul and the third piece of the Vasyn.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_5752f55e	comment	Gammel Dore from GrimGrimoire, like Dumbledore but not as eccentric.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_5755b96a	comment	Shojo from The Order of the Stick. May only be a borderline case, considering he couldn't avoid having his cover blown and was killed by Miko when she learned of his deception. Then again, she did immediately pay a high price for it.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC puts Master Neloth in this role. The self-proclaimed "greatest wizard you will ever meet" is indeed a powerful Archmage, but he is also a selfish Bad Boss Insufferable Genius Jerk with a Heart of Jerk prone to Comedic Sociopathy.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Shinigami-sama of Soul Eater hides his frightening power and appearance behind a cartoonish mask, goofy antics, and childish speech. This is so he doesn't frighten the students at his Extranormal Institute. About halfway through the series, it's revealed that he can't leave the city because he bonded his soul to it in order to keep the Kishin sealed in its can, which is why he needs others to go do the heroing for him. Not that being unable to leave the city ultimately slows him down much. Shinigami is far more knowledgeable about the history of the current conflict than he lets on, having been previously involved in every known side of it (witches, the Gorgons, Asura and his fellow Eldritch Abominations). He's genuinely nice, but his staff and students are right to be genuinely wary of him at times.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_5dbbf8fb	comment	Geser in the Night Watch (Series) is an ultra-powerful, centuries old Other who likes to hang out in themed bars, has a definite sense of humor, and in one instance is shown wearing Disney pajamas. He's also a rather morally ambiguous Chessmaster.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_617279ac	comment	Uncle Ebbit in The Seventh Tower, who may or may not be going senile.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_629cd094	comment	Flemeth from Dragon Age: Origins is an odd blend of this trope and Retired Monster. If even half the stories you hear about her are true, she skipped over the Moral Event Horizon centuries before the story even began. However, despite her vast power and alleged ruthlessness, she never actually does anything openly antagonistic, and has actually helped the protagonists on several occasions (including saving them from what would have otherwise been certain death). She often speaks in riddles and seems to enjoy playing up her crazy-old-woman-who-lives-in-a-swamp persona.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_64dd58b2	comment	Harry Potter: Albus Dumbledore. The movies didn't have room to squeeze in all of his eccentric moments, but they made up for it by coming up with a few of their own. Nor do the films skimp on his moments of wisdom or badassery. A great example of the latter comes from a scene in the fifth movie in which he is confronted by four Ministry officials. He proceeds to calmly inform them that he has no intention of being arrested, and before they can react, he somehow uses Fawkes to disappear in a blaze of fiery light. As Kingsley puts it, "Dumbledore's got style." Half-Blood Prince really drives it home beautifully. Dumbledore's massive fire ring against the Inferi is one of the most awe-inspiring visuals in the whole series, and a fantastic Moment of Awesome for Dumbledore.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_69b0b659	comment	Sabrina: The Animated Series: The Wise Warlock from "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?" episode. At first he appears to be a phony and a grumpy old man, seemingly unwilling to help Sabrina and instead trying to sell her items from his shop; however, at the end he turns out to be really wise, and gives Sabrina an important piece of advice. It is likely, though not outright stated, that his "phony/grumpy old man" persona was deliberate pretense. Oh, and he's also perpetually barefoot.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_6b85085e	comment	Bo' Rai Cho from Mortal Kombat. He's a constantly drunk, fat man who attacks by farting and vomiting, yet he trained many legendry heroes in the past, and also many in the present day, including Liu Kang and Kung Lao. He's also Been There, Shaped History several times; for example, after Muso Gonnosuke was defeated by Miyamoto Musashi, Bo' Rai Cho would help him improve his jujutsu by using a four-section staff instead of a six-section one.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_6c3335d4	comment	The dwarven prince protagonist of Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns deliberately allows, even encourages, the other six wardens, plus companions, to assume and believe a lot of erroneous things, including that he might really be a kinslayer, just so the shock of later revelations, like the fact that he actually faked Trian's death and painted himself the murderer on purpose, can prompt them to grow wiser.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_6d9a0c36	comment	Bayaz in The First Law is introduced as the typical grumpy, eccentric old wizard who interacts with the protagonists. Since the series is a Deconstructor Fleet of traditional fantasy, it turns out that he's a cruel Tautological Templar of a megalomaniac who is the closest thing the series has to a Big Bad.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	Uncle from Jackie Chan Adventures. Equal parts crotchety old man and master sorcerer.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_6f6c1eb7	comment	Hiroshi Yushima of Digimon Data Squad also has elements of this - it's not until a good chunk of the series is out of the way that it's shown that he's anything but an eccentric elderly fisherman with knowledge of Digimon.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_708ae58b	comment	Though introduced with some foreboding, Fa'lina of Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures is Rare Female Example #4 (but as a succubus she doesn't exactly show her age). She does look older than most of the cast though. Hell, she even has the biggest bustline in the comic!
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Eccentric Mentor / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Iroh is this, especially in Book 1, to Zuko. In Book 2, also briefly becomes this to Toph and, at the end of the season, Aang. Part of it seems to be part of a Sad Clown act, as he's been through a lot, and is watching his nephew head down the same evil path as the rest of his family. His eccentricity notably declines as the series goes on, but for good reasons, mostly. King Bumi, even more so. At one point, he asks Aang to choose which Earth Kingdom warrior he wants to fight, presenting him with two intimidating young soldiers. Aang chooses Bumi. Wrong choice. Later, when the Fire Nation conquers Bumi's fortress town Omashu, they keep him as a hostage to prevent rebellion. To prevent rebellion by Bumi, they put him in a metal box that doesn't let him move anything except his mouth (so that he can breath and be fed). They think that will make it impossible for Bumi to use his very powerful Earthbending talents. They thought wrong. Later, it was revealed that in The Day of Black Sun, he retook his city all by himself and even took down a towering statue of Ozai. After defacing it with a crude smiley face, no less. Monk Gyatso, Aang's guardian at the Southern Air Temple. He was a major reason for Aang's cheerful, happy-go-lucky demeanor. And, like most people, he died while Aang was frozen, and took a surprisingly large group of super-charged Firebenders with him. Surprisingly large, because Airbending is a defensive art. He killed them with ''defensive'' bending.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_733f2aaf	comment	Cradle Series: Eithan often gives Lindon and Yerin bizarre orders that make no sense, such as locking Lindon in a room with monsters for two weeks. He will explain himself when pressed, and everything he does ultimately has a reason behind it. Yerin grudgingly admits that this isn't too different from how her master trained her; the difference is she doesn't trust Eithan enough to obey his seemingly random orders.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_762df2bc	comment	Master Oogway in Kung Fu Panda. He may seem an old senile turtle, but he is blindingly fast when necessary with a multiple nerve strike pattern guaranteed to take anyone down... and of course his selection of Po the Panda for the Dragon Warrior was on the money.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_787bd2e0	comment	Julian Morrow, the Classics professor in The Secret History. He accepts no payment, practically has his own building on campus, and the few students he accepts must take nearly all their classes with him. Later becomes a Broken Pedestal.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: Kibayashi is Akira's Friend on the Force (the Hunter's Office) who lives as a Challenge Seeker and Thrill Seeker, sponsoring talented hunters in hopes of enjoying their battle footage. Government employees who hear that Akira is being sponsored by him feel pity due to how he gets those he sponsored killed with their impossible assignments. He's also quite willing to bend the rules to help those who do succeed under him. As for his Hidden Depths, Kibayashi actually has shades of a Social Climber: He'll exaggerate how volatile and unreasonable Akira is, and then sell favors for 'talking him down', raising his own influence.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_7af4bd43	comment	Uncle Ted of Freakwatch was this to Jessica before he died.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_7cda381e	comment	Assassin's Creed: Odyssey: Socrates is a major character, and every conversation with him involves lots of pointed questions designed to force people to think, even if that requires Socrates to contradict what he just said thirty seconds ago. The one thing everyone agrees on is that talking to him is a pain in the ass.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_7d271ad1	comment	Merlin, in The Sword in the Stone. The Wizard Duel — Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, indeed.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_7d79ec95	comment	The original version of Poseidon's Fury at Universal's Islands of Adventure had "The Keeper": an eccentric, yet kind and knowledgeable old man that acted as the guest's guide through the attraction.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_7fc78282	comment	Also, when Amy hits on him and then accuses him of playing hard to get, he protests that he's "not like that", and compares himself to two other examples of this trope: "I dunno, Gandalf! I'm like a Space Gandalf. Or the little green one from Star Wars." twirls around making a lightsaber noise)
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Eccentric Mentor / int_80942169	comment	Principal Pal from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide is very much a non-magical, Americanized version of early Dumbledore.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_85eecea0	comment	Aozaki Touko from The Garden of Sinners is very quirky and friendly, but as Cornelius Alba learned the hard way, do not fuck with Touko if you value your life.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_86814e56	comment	Strago from Final Fantasy VI, and the whole town he lives in, which practices awesome magicks, but keeps it all under the radar of the The Evil Empire. When he joins the heroes, he still comes off a doddering geezer most of the time, but in magical combat, he brings the hurt like nobody else. Also, he learns his most awesome spells by letting monsters use them on him first, and surviving.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_88b348e8	comment	Clow Reed from Cardcaptor Sakura. Don't let his cheerful, laid-back nature fool you. He's quite the badass wizard!
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Eccentric Mentor / int_8908c29b	comment	The Curandero from Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico is a wise old healer/mystic/shaman... who also happens to have a personal website, www.ancientmexicanwisdom.com. When Daphne expresses surprise about this, he replies with a hint of a smile: "As I said: expect the unexpected".
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Eccentric Mentor / int_89f747a9	comment	Ghost in Yet again, with a little extra help teaches Naruto various skills by throwing him off cliffs, throwing exploding cows at him, covering him with women's underwear and dropping him in the middle of the female baths... and teaching him the importance of a well rounded breakfast. He also insists upon acting as random as possible to fool people on your true intentions and mindset.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_8a40eb2b	comment	Ian McKellen plays this up in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (although, like in the books, he becomes a more serious character in the following two installments). He was even asked to play Professor Dumbledore himself at one point.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_8aa7c509	comment	Glossaryck, from Star vs. the Forces of Evil, is the living embodiment of Star's spell book (and magic in general), and her instructor in the craft. He often gives bizarre or cryptic advice, has a fixation on pudding, and sometimes even refuses to help out of disinterest. It's later revealed that he doesn't always use this method of instruction when teaching owners of the spell book, but he believes it's the most effective way to teach Star. Many of the seemingly random things he says and does over the course of the series ends up coming back in some important way. Yes, even the pudding.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_8f8df73b	comment	Rafiki in Disney's The Lion King (1994) always seems a bit insane, but has all the answers... and knows how to kick some serious hyena tail.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_8fe66664	comment	Grandpa Smedry in the Alcatraz Series.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_90c5d5fe	comment	Silver Hoshipon of Patapon 3 may qualify. However, the badassery part of the trope has more to do with him being able to fuse together the god of the Patapons (you) with a half-dead member of the race, namely your hero, and then still keeping the energy to revive other 3 patapon.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_91e45f5	comment	Phoenix Wright himself falls into this trope in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_928a8b2b	comment	Also Zifnab of The Death Gate Cycle; essentially the same character in a different series written by the same authors. The latter lampshades his status as an Expy in his first appearance: he starts to call himself Fizban, but then corrects himself. Zifnab is very different from Fizban in at least one major way, though- Fizban is a god using Obfuscating Stupidity, whereas Zifnab is genuinely insane with only occasional moments of lucidity. He's still incredibly powerful, but it takes some serious effort (usually from his dragon) to get him to reveal important information rather than, say, going off on a long rambling monologue about how he's really James Bond. Or Dorothy Gale.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_982f28af	comment	The Potter Puppet Pals version of Dumbledore, vastly more eccentric than J.K. Rowling ever intended.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_996edf24	comment	Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): While Dean Strikt mostly just comes of ass strict she also does such things as arrange a school gathering she's scheduled to speak at and instead of showing up prowls the school looking for any girls who opted to skip and didn't hide well enough. Wonder Woman (1987): Diana unknowingly picks up an eccentric mentor figure while enslaved by the Sangtee Empire since H'Elgn reigns in her eccentricities while enslaved. After they escape she really likes her pranks, including introducing Diana to the new hologram tech by making it look like they were being attacked by the Empire and getting a good laugh out of Diana taking a flying leap at the intangible holograms.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_99d8fc02	comment	Ichiro Mihara from Angelic Layer, who could be the poster boy for Mad Scientist... and is also the man who invented the game itself.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_9cc9639	comment	Seraph Lamington from Disgaea. As of Disgaea 4, Flonne also qualifies. Valvatorez also acts as a mentor for the younger members of the team (Fuka, Desco, and Emizel), and he's odd enough to qualify for the "eccentric" title.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: In Morrowind, should you choose to join Great House Hlaalu, your sponsor will be Crassius Curio, a Loveable Sex Maniac Camp Gay (though technically bisexual...and then some) Councilor who writes a pornographic play in his spare time. Despite his...eccentricities...he is very much a Reasonable Authority Figure actively working against the corruption in the House and he deeply cares for the Player Character. Oblivion's Shivering Isles expansion has the series' resident Mad God Sheogorath in this role. You are his chosen champion to save his realm against cyclic destruction. Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC puts Master Neloth in this role. The self-proclaimed "greatest wizard you will ever meet" is indeed a powerful Archmage, but he is also a selfish Bad Boss Insufferable Genius Jerk with a Heart of Jerk prone to Comedic Sociopathy.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Vice-Admiral Garp from One Piece is a goofy, lovable father figure (complete with a silly hat)...who also gleefully dispenses Training from Hell, throws cannonballs like baseballs, and provokes a rare Oh, Crap! reaction from Monkey D. Luffy himself.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_9fdbe934	comment	Fin Raziel, in Willow, is of the rare female subtype.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_9feb7ff3	comment	R.J. from Power Rangers Jungle Fury is like a surfer dude, who can do kung fu, and is genuinely wise as well.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_a32b6a64	comment	President Bartlet from The West Wing, in his "Uncle Fluffy" persona.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_a33d74a4	comment	Zedd from Sword of Truth And Rare Female Example #3: His soul mate Adie. Because trickery and cleverness are considered the primary weapons of a wizard, before even their potent magic, this is almost a professional requirement.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_a6543322	comment	Yukari Yakumo from Touhou Project sleeps for 12 hours a day, hibernates through winter, spends her waking time seemingly just messing around with people, doing things that only make sense to herself, and has a philosophy that appears to be based upon some kind of Taoism as (mis)interpreted by a member of The Fair Folk. She's also The Archmage of Onmyoudo, a Chessmaster who manipulates other masterminds into doing her bidding, a youkai with powers that undermines the very foundations of reality and a Trickster Mentor who, if she decides that you need to be competent at something, will whip you into the shape of a grandmaster on the subject... just bear in mind that if Yukari takes time out of her day to be your mentor, she needs you to be good at something for her purposes and you've officially been promoted to the position of her latest Unwitting Pawn.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_a6f6433c	comment	Samos the sage from the Jak and Daxter games.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_a774bc3e	comment	In The Vow, Ah-Ma the Soothsayer is a wise old lady and a seer who just loves giving advice in vague riddles and ripping off his old foster child Shen's silk clothes to irritate him.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Galuf from Final Fantasy V is an old man who loves booze, avoided blame by using his amnesia as an excuse, and is the king of a kingdom. Who happens to fight alongside his soldiers because he's just that good. Oh, and he knows a lot about how to fight the Big Bad because he was one of the previous four warriors who defeated him in the first place. He also starts with a slight strength and stamina boost, making him well-disposed for this. . Strago from Final Fantasy VI, and the whole town he lives in, which practices awesome magicks, but keeps it all under the radar of the The Evil Empire. When he joins the heroes, he still comes off a doddering geezer most of the time, but in magical combat, he brings the hurt like nobody else. Also, he learns his most awesome spells by letting monsters use them on him first, and surviving. Auron from Final Fantasy X is a mild version, but is good at projecting casual deference when it's handy.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_a90d239a	comment	Ford Cruller from Psychonauts is a rare example where his unwise behaviour is involuntary (his mind literally falls apart when he's away from a psytanium deposit).
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Eccentric Mentor / int_ae050a9f	comment	Kaepora Gaebora from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time qualifies, considering who he eventually turns out to be. (The Gossip Stones say he's a reincarnation of a Sage.)
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Eccentric Mentor / int_b29c63f7	comment	Merlin in the 1981 film Excalibur comes across this way.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_b5134390	comment	Dumblydore in My Immortal is at first an Alzheimer's-ridden, headache-prone old man who swears at everybody. Whether he sides with Enoby or conspires to piss her off is not clear until he saves her from Voldemort and his band once, even going on to tell the "enitre school and Misery of Mogic" that Ebony can defeat Voldemort.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_b5a2b326	comment	In Morrowind, should you choose to join Great House Hlaalu, your sponsor will be Crassius Curio, a Loveable Sex Maniac Camp Gay (though technically bisexual...and then some) Councilor who writes a pornographic play in his spare time. Despite his...eccentricities...he is very much a Reasonable Authority Figure actively working against the corruption in the House and he deeply cares for the Player Character.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_b962c879	comment	Makarov from Fairy Tail. He gives sage advice to his children in the guild, but he's also a Dirty Old Man and freaks out from the damage expense accrued by the guild members.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_b9821fa9	comment	Aughra, in The Dark Crystal, appears a little crazy and perhaps even dangerous, yet has an uncanny wisdom for the harmonies of existence. She was involved in the last cycle and has studied the system for centuries at least, she just incidentally went insane in the intervening time.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_bb851453	comment	Professor Savant in The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles. When the children first meet him, he rambles about extinct imaginary creatures, and goes on to complain about how nobody ever pays attention to the world around them before nearly getting run over because he's too busy appreciating the world around him to notice an oncoming car.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_bd310eaa	comment	Invoked in El Goonish Shive by Tedd for his dad. Most of the time, Mr. Verres is a typical Bumbling Dad... who works for the government, knows everything, is a VIP in the supernatural world for currently unexplained reasons, and is a powerful wizard that will go absolutely apeshit on anyone that harms his family, or anyone under his protection. Also, Mr. Raven for the non-Muggles that are not under Mr. Verres' care. Though, Raven seems to be a bit more stern that your typical Dumbledore, but he does make it up in overtheatrics. And for a more literal sense, we have Jerry. Self-proclaimed Fat Bastard, (though of the jolly sort, not the jumpy sort,) has had more than a few weird ideas about what to do with his time, and looks strangely like Santa Claus. However, he's also a 200 year-old Immortal with ludicrous amounts of power simply by being that old, sage wisdom for Susan, Grace, and Sarah, and powered the Hyperspace Mallet ability that, evidently, every female on the planet had access too. Granted, he's in the process of dying so he can be reborn properly, but he's also sworn himself to repay the debt Immortals owe Susan, making him a weird case. Did we mention he's a master of Serenity-Inducing Fluffy Animal Attack?
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Eccentric Mentor / int_c2463c53	comment	Galuf from Final Fantasy V is an old man who loves booze, avoided blame by using his amnesia as an excuse, and is the king of a kingdom. Who happens to fight alongside his soldiers because he's just that good. Oh, and he knows a lot about how to fight the Big Bad because he was one of the previous four warriors who defeated him in the first place. He also starts with a slight strength and stamina boost, making him well-disposed for this. .
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Eccentric Mentor / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Princess Celestia is an unusual case. Unlike most other examples, whose eccentricity often causes other characters to unfairly discredit them, Celestia is highly regarded by all of her subjects — too highly, in fact, as it leads them to frantically worship the ground under her hooves while feeling terrified that any tiny mistake on their part will provoke her royal fury. In reality, Celestia is not only the most easy-going character in the whole series despite her position (to a point: she's nice but can be utterly merciless when need be. Cozy Glow, a child, learned that the hard way, twice), but enjoys pranks and despises formality to such a degree that the Season 1 finale has her inviting the Mane Six to the illustrious Grand Galloping Gala purely to enjoy the chaos she knew their presence would wreak. Then in Season 4, it's revealed that the old castle that she and Luna used to inhabit is full of secret passages, trapdoors, an organ (that controls the secret passages and trapdoors), and numerous other oddities (the hallway with legs sticking out of the walls) that are pretty much solely designed to turn the place into a gigantic funhouse. Then there's Discord of all people taking on this role (briefly) in the Season 4 premiere and afterward.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor from Doctor Who often resembles this kind of character. The Seventh Doctor served as a combination mentor and Parental Substitute to his companion Ace. He was as bonkers as any other incarnation, playing the spoons, rolling his Rrrrrs, acting the Large Ham, and getting his metaphors mixed up ("a stitch in time...saves space"), amongst many, many other acts of eccentricity. He's also renonwned as being the Chessmaster Doctor, master of the Breaking Speech, and capable of being very, very ruthless. Just ask Davros. Or all of the Daleks on Skaro. Or the Cybermen. Or Lady Peinforte. Or Fenric... In particular, David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor embodies this trope to a tee. The Family of Blood sought to steal his immortality, and thought he was a doddering pathetic man. BIG. MISTAKE. Matt Smith as the eleventh Doctor plays this to the hilt, He openly admits to being a "Madman with a Box," often acts foolishly, and dotes on grown adults as if they were small children but is almost always in control of the situation and can often manipulate his foes into doing his work for him (he also looks about 25, adding another layer of dissonance). Also, when Amy hits on him and then accuses him of playing hard to get, he protests that he's "not like that", and compares himself to two other examples of this trope: "I dunno, Gandalf! I'm like a Space Gandalf. Or the little green one from Star Wars." twirls around making a lightsaber noise) This wonderful bit of dialogue from the Tom Baker story City of Death (which was co-written by Douglas Adams): "My dear, I don't think he's as stupid as he seems." "My dear, nobody could be as stupid as he seems." The Eleventh Doctor gets one of his own in the form of The Curator, who seems to be a far, far future regeneration of himself (who has taken the face and personality of the Fourth Doctor again, apparently because it is his favourite).
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Eccentric Mentor / int_c489a759	comment	Qinglongmon, though it's only really clear in the dub of Digimon Adventure 02. He even has the Wizard Beard!
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Eccentric Mentor / int_c62995ba	comment	In Child of the Storm, Dumbledore is, as ever, this trope. However, the prize-winning example is Doctor Strange, who's millennia old, a Living Legend renowned throughout the Nine Realms, and a Seer and Time Master without equal, appearing borderline omniscient. He's also quirky to say the least. He enjoys winding up the entire cast, and you would be forgiven for wondering how he accrued his reputation as The Dreaded. Then comes the finale of Book 1, where he conducts a Wizard Duel with a Physical God Humanoid Abomination while simultaneously giving someone else a pep-talk on the other side of the battlefield via Astral Projection. Then, once he finishes the pep talk, he wins the fight, comfortably, and as the book rounds off, it's revealed that all of it has been part of his grand Xanatos Gambit, in which he he played everybody like the strings of a harp. After that, you stop wondering (though in the true spirit of this trope, he goes right back to playing The Gadfly almost immediately afterwards). The epilogue of Book 1 also explains why he didn't just step in and solve it all, explaining that letting matters play out as they did, manipulating them only a little, stopped a number of problems before they got bigger, and serves as a hardening experience for the main cast and the Earth as a whole, which it'll need - after all, Thanos is coming. And then, in the sequel, he demonstrates this more directly, when he starts teaching Harry directly. This comes shortly after a period when - for a number of entirely understandable reasons - he sort of lost his marbles.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_d1fbfbbc	comment	He might be evil, but otherwise Aro of The Twilight Saga is just your average vampire Dumbledore. Cleolinda Jones calls him Dumblevamp at one point. He's just not as smart.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_d97e4fa5	comment	Wataru in Ensemble Stars! is this for Hokuto and Tomoya in the Theatre Club - he's an incredibly talented actor who is considered a young prodigy, but he is also an unpredictable Large Ham who never seems to take anything seriously. He does take mentoring his juniors seriously, but even when he shows this effort, his methods are hard to keep up with - in Cinderella he helps Tomoya out with his difficulties getting into character by giving him a totally different script (as Anzu had edited a standard Cinderella script to be more comical while Tomoya was given an Original Flavour one) so he'd be forced to improvise based on how the actual Cinderella would act under these circumstances.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_de92a1f1	comment	A Hero's Wrath: Much like his canon counterpart, Augus is just as much of a Blood Knight to his students. It is strongly implied that his cocky attitude towards his students is why he was the perfect teacher for Asura; his Training from Hell by design exhausts one's patience, thus it is perfect for training those with Wrath Mantra.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_df277244	comment	Mr. Wednesday from American Gods may be the slippery character this side of the Colorado, but he most certainly fits the description. He even pretends to be senile in order to get the cashier at the gas station to accidentally pay for his gas.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_e261956	comment	Ping Pong: Both Mr. Koizumi and Obaba have their personal quirks and considered themselves "married" to their respective trainees. Bonus points to Obaba for play flirting with Peco, despite being roughly fifty years his senior.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_e381e71f	comment	Xuanwumon from Digimon Tamers.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_e59216c7	comment	In The Gamer's Alliance, Harrad is a wise mage but he's also obsessed with building the perfect candy machine and often does weird things which his students simply can't fathom. Despite his quirks he's very good at reaching and magic (except finishing the candy machine which keeps malfunctioning no matter how much he improves and tweaks the design).
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Eccentric Mentor / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney's Damon Gant is an odd example of that plays to this tropes applied to a villain. At one point, he even starts switching between lovable eccentric and sociopath within seconds. Phoenix Wright himself falls into this trope in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Jack Rakan of Negima! Magister Negi Magi is kind of like this, although he's much more over the top than other examples.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_eef5470a	comment	Hiko Seijuuro from Rurouni Kenshin is a borderline case. So is Okina.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_f24bb5a	comment	Wayne from The Kingdom Keepers is a strange imagineer who guides the DHIs through their trials.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_f349915b	comment	Fizban the Fabulous, from Dragonlance, an apparently senile wizard who may or may not have actually been the god Paladine in disguise. It becomes fairly obvious later in the series. Also Zifnab of The Death Gate Cycle; essentially the same character in a different series written by the same authors. The latter lampshades his status as an Expy in his first appearance: he starts to call himself Fizban, but then corrects himself. Zifnab is very different from Fizban in at least one major way, though- Fizban is a god using Obfuscating Stupidity, whereas Zifnab is genuinely insane with only occasional moments of lucidity. He's still incredibly powerful, but it takes some serious effort (usually from his dragon) to get him to reveal important information rather than, say, going off on a long rambling monologue about how he's really James Bond. Or Dorothy Gale. And also from the same authors is Zanfib of the Starshield series. However, he's insane only due to a slightly flawed resurrection. Oh, and he's an agent for the Sentinels.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 Draal is both this and a Large Ham. Although he didn't play the fool by any means, Kosh is sort of this to Sheridan, as his statements are usually very cryptic, his "lessons" are rather ambiguous, and a lot of people (Sheridan included) even lampshade this with statements like "spoken like a Vorlon".
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Eccentric Mentor / int_fc51285f	comment	Master Surya from The Beast Legion. This page explains it all.
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Eccentric Mentor / int_fd0b756	comment	In keeping with the source material, Gandalf gives off a more enigmatic, even untrustworthy air throughout much of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The movie even plays up the other characters' perceptions of his apparent ineptitude.
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Vampire Knight (Manga) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Westlife (Music) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
The Minister of Chance (Podcast) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Around the Horn / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Chicago Med / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Die Hart / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
John Adams / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Kamen Rider / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Kamen Rider Amazon / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Key West / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
La que se avecina / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Last Man Standing (2011) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Louie / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Power Rangers Jungle Fury / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Siren (2018) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Studio C / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
The Goldbergs / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
The Mighty Boosh / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
True Jackson, VP / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Who Are You? / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Sweeten That Aesop / Sugar Wiki / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Measure for Measure (Theatre) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Pokémon Live! (Theatre) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Poseidon's Fury (Theatre) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
A Hat in Time (Video Game) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
AÃ«demphia (Video Game) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Codemancer (Video Game) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
.hack//G.U. (Video Game) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Giants: Citizen Kabuto (Video Game) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Gravity Rush (Video Game) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
GrimGrimoire (Video Game) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Legionwood (Video Game) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Lily's Garden (Video Game) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon (Video Game) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Quest for Glory (Video Game) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Sun Haven (Video Game) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Corrupted Kingdoms (Visual Novel) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Family Project (Visual Novel) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Minilife TV (Web Animation) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Turnabout Storm (Web Animation) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
An Ordeal In Osondu (Web Video) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Arthur vs. The Druids vs. The Grail (Web Video) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
lonelygirl15 (Web Video) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
At Arm's Length (Webcomic) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Blade Under Mask (Webcomic) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures (Webcomic) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
GATEKEEPER (Webcomic) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Junior Gala (Webcomic) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Kukuburi (Webcomic) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Our World (Webcomic) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
PAUSE (Webcomic) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Planeta Absurdo (Webcomic) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
The Beast Legion (Webcomic) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Aloha, Scooby-Doo! / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Atomic Puppet / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Crashbox / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Glo Friends / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Jackie Chan Adventures / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Monkie Kid / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Monster Buster Club / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Ōban Star-Racers / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Pelswick / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
The Secret of Kells / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
The Sword in the Stone / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Joey Ryan (Wrestling) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
London and Kendrick (Wrestling) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Low Ki (Wrestling) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Ric Flair (Wrestling) / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
The First Law / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
eccentricmentor	sameAs	Eccentric Mentor

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