Transcript
A mentor yells at an exhausted novice. The novice turns to go.
Mentor: You weakling, you’ll never become an elite shadow warrior!
Novice: Oh, that’s too bad. Well… thanks for your time.
Mentor: Wait – where are you going?
Standing next to a different student, the mentor gestures towards a boulder.
Mentor: You must balance this boulder on the tip of your finger – without ever lifting it!
Student: But how is that possible?
Mentor: It doesn’t count unless you struggle for weeks to understand.
The mentor shoves a near-graduate toward a flaming archway.
Mentor: It’s time for the final test!
Near-Graduate: What happens if I don’t pass on my first try?
Mentor: You die, obviously.
As the finalist runs through the archway, the mentor talks to a fellow instructor.
Mentor: I hope this one makes it. For some reason our numbers keep dwindling.
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Considering the final stage of a hero’s training typically involves the mentor’s death, I feel like this guy has ulterior motives.
I get to burst out laughing twice! Once for the comic (strictly speaking twice for the comic) and once for the first comment.
I really don’t see why their numbers would keep dwindling…
LOL … great one again, Bunny and Chris.
I love this dig at hero training methods in spec fic. So good.
Is as good method as any other to find the Choosen One.
Novice number one is the person who sees a clickbait title like: “You won’t believe what this…”, nods to himself and thinks “You’re right, I won’t believe it” and then skips the article.
Training methods are way too harsh, perhaps? I would imagine that mentor is a villain, or at least one of the big villain’s minions.
Well, even if you can’t train the Chosen One with these methods, I can at least see a big bad rising out of it!