A muckle of the reference we love from science fabrication and illusion con how to harness their power and intellect in school : skilled wizards , mad scientists with PhDs in horribleness , carefully trained military ship’s officer , mutant superheroes who studied T.H. White . But there are plenty of poor boy and villains who start up schooltime only to leave partway through — either by their own choice or because they were forced out . But some of these characters would be competent autodidacts , others would witness their good educational path lay outside the schoolroom , and still others would determine success in depicted object not learn in any schoolhouse .
Wesley Crusher : grow up on the Enterprise as Captain Picard ’s protégé , Wesley Crusher seemed destined to graduate from Starfleet Academy at the top of his form . But after he enter in a dangerous flying stunt that resulted in the death of a fellow cadet , Wesley recede much of his youthful enthusiasm for the elite officers ’ academy . It was n’t until he met the Traveler , though , that it occurred to Wesley that he could forge his own path . After all , while graduate from Starfleet Academy is a certain ticket to space geographic expedition , the Traveler can really take you where no one has gone before . Perhaps he did ultimately return to the Academy , since he showed up to Riker and Troi ’s hymeneals in a lieutenant ’s uniform . Then again , perhaps Starfleet agnize that his virtual experience was far more valuable than a schematic Department of Education .
Fred and George Weasley : Technically , their generation of Hogwarts gambol a pile of dropouts — among them Fred and George ’s sidekick Ron and the illustrious Harry Potter himself . ( Hermione , true to form , returned to Hogwarts to complete her wizarding teaching . ) Fred and George , however , dropped out with the keen flair , planting a portable swamp in front of Dolores Umbridge ’s federal agency , summoning their brooms from captivity , and flying off for greener ( and more moneymaking pastures ) . Once they open their gag workshop , Weasleys ’ Wizard Wheezes , the two kids who failed most of their O.W.L. test were peddling the most innovative magical products Britain had ever seen , from nosebleed nougat to trick wand to headless chapeau . Soon , they were take out in enough money to convert even their parents — who would have been happy with a family full of Hogwarts prefects — that dropping out was the correct decisiveness .
Pretty much everyone on Buffy the Vampire Slayer : Buffy Summers spent the first few seasons of her television set show attempt to poise her execution duty with high schooling , but when she drop out of college , it was for much more mundane reason — to take care of her sister , Dawn , after their mother ’s death . But Buffy was n’t the only — or even the first — of the Scoobies to ditch college . Oz leave behind during neophyte twelvemonth to get his lycanthropy under command , and Willow leave out out after Buffy to go into charming rehab . None of these characters follow traditional career paths after college . Oz was in all probability the happy of the three , choosing to withdraw from the world and prosecute spiritual and fellowship life in Tibet . Buffy held down various odd jobs — fast food clerk , high school guidance counselor , coffee shop waitress , bodyguard — but protecting the earthly concern is always job # 1 . And Willow … well , if the events of Fray are any indication , Willow may have turned out immensely powerful , but also evil and insane . Perhaps the most traditionally successful of the mint is Xander , who was never admit to college ( and therefore never dropped out ) , but proved quite adept at construction when not run Watcher to the Slayerettes .
Rose Tyler : Before sit for her A - stage , a 16 - year - sometime Rose Tyler dropped out of school to hunt down off with Jimmy Stone . Their relationship ended five calendar month after , but Rose never returned to school . afterward on , she ’d make better decision about the sorting of person she ’d run off with , get away her shopgirl aliveness for an intergalactic , intertemporal , and even interdimensional term of enlistment with the Doctor . Her ingenuity and heart made her a valuable ally for the Doctor — and she eventually surpass the constrains of time and space ( and even mortality ) by looking into the centre of the TARDIS and becoming the Bad Wolf . finally , she ’d take on a more lasting job at her adopted dimension ’s rendering of Torchwood , but she ’ll long be remembered for doing one matter few humans dared to strain : make the Doctor fall a little act in love with her .
Clark Kent ( The Smallville version ): Ever the good son , Clark Kent twist down a football scholarship at Metropolis University in party favour of the much more local Central Kansas A&M so he could proceed to act upon on the kinfolk farm . CKU might not have the cache of Met U , but it did brag at least one supervillain on its mental faculty , history prof Milton Fine , a.k.a . Brainiac . When his founder break down , though , Clark drops out of school to work on the farm full - fourth dimension . His deficiency of a college sheepskin does n’t seem to hinder his scoring a caper at the Daily Planet , although Lois Lane ( who had already been kicked out of Metropolis University for imbibing ) was already employed there despite her want of a bachelor ’s level .
Bruce Wayne ( The Christopher Nolan reading ): Although the comic book Batman has a law degree from Yale , Nolan ’s Bruce Wayne shed out of Princeton during his fresher twelvemonth . After he returns to the Cosa Nostra - find Gotham City , he settle that the best way to avenge his parent end is to become an embodiment of justice . Since no exist college has a John Major in “ becoming Batman , ” Bruce decides to take a less traditional route with his education , traveling the world and contemplate the criminal element . When he takes up formal teaching again , it ’s with the League of Shadows , whose coursework involves martial arts , overcome fear , and cave in down decadent civilizations . Even here , Wayne drops out before graduation ( “ commencement exercise ” have in mind “ murdering a criminal in the name of the causal agency ” ) and riposte to Gotham as both the prodigal pass of Wayne Enterprises and Batman .
Eli Wallace : Stargate : SGU ’s mathematical supergenius comes under the heading of “ vivid but lazy . ” After dropping out of MIT , Eli spent an inordinate amount of fourth dimension on his couch act picture games while his misfortunate HIV - infected female parent act upon as waitress to pay her medical bills . fortuitously , that video gaming paid off when Eli solve the Dakara Weapons puzzle placed in his favourite game , Prometheus , earning him a lucrative gig with the Stargate program . Unfortunately , he did end up ground billion of light years from abode aboard the Destiny , but that part was n’t his error .
Doctor Doom : Despite the title , the Fantastic Four ’s nemesis Victor Von Doom is n’t really a doctor . Doom did n’t voluntarily drop out of his Ph.D. program , however ; he was expelled following a teensy little research lab fortuity . You do n’t need a doctor’s degree to appropriate small-scale European nation , and Victor quickly ascended the Latverian throne and take on the rubric he always require : medico . If anyone doubts it , he can commission a university that will award him a doctorate . Just kid . He ’ll plausibly just have them killed .
Victor Frankenstein : Perhaps Doom was just taking his cues from another Victor who never finished school , the famed Mr. Victor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley ’s far-famed novel . Frankenstein studies chemistry for a while at the University of Ingolstadt , but became so preoccupied with the theme of make life that he decided to drop out of school and embark on an independent study . The whole “ create lifespan ” thing might not have been as pretty and fresh - smelling as he would have favour , but he did in fact make himself a walking , talking creature before dying in his attempt to murder it .
Brock Samson : State University , which is refer to by Hank Venture as “ Super - Crazy No Way School , ” does n’t have a great track record of graduating student . Rusty Venture dribble out curtly after his father ’s death , and has spent his post - collegial years run his Fatherhood ’s company into the ground . Master Billy Quizboy left State succeed the accident that turned Professor Fantomos into the supervillain Phantom Limb ( although they in all likelihood would have kicked him out when they realized Stephen Hawking was spell all of his physics newspaper ) , and his major title to renown is that he is occasionally kidnap to perform complicated surgeries ( for which he has received a work doctorate ) . By far the most successful State dropout is Brock Samson , who lost his football learnedness after he accidentally killed Tommy the Quarterback . College probably would have done little to change Brock ’s condition as the ultimate man ’s serviceman who would go on to become one of the top agent for the Office of Secret Intelligence . The last of Tommy would , however , haunt him for years to add up .
John Connor : It ’s hard to get make for up about auto store when you ’re trying to prevent the robot apocalypse . ( Although , get ’s be honest , automobile store is choke to be one of the things you ’ll actually use in the automaton apocalypse . ) John Connor and the Terminator Cameron spend a good amount of time at Campo de Cahuenga High School , but eventually , they ’re too busy taking down Skynet to bother with class . When your circumstances is to protect the remainder of humanity from murderous Bradypus tridactylus , it ’s probably best if you pass your teenager year battle homicidal golem anyway .
Agatha Heterodyne : The eponymousGirl Geniusdidn’t earn she was a genius when she was attending Transylvania Polygnostic University , thanks to a locket that curb her innate intellectual “ Dame Muriel Spark . ” Silas Merlot , a TPU prof , hated Agatha for her incompetency , and when Merlot succeeded Agatha ’s admirer and protector Dr. Beetle as head of the school , his first act was to oust her . However , Agatha finally came to realise that she was the late in a farsighted line of notable mad geniuses , and went from disastrous science lab assistant to orb - trotting artificer , adventurer , and heroine . Merlot , meanwhile , failed in his exclusive quest : to shoot down Agatha Heterodyne .
The walkaway : When your parent turn out to be supervillains out to put down the world , running away from home might be the only intellectual action . For the teen and pre - teen members of the Runaways , that intend cutting themselves off from their parents ’ Brobdingnagian fortunes , living off the power grid , and drop out of school . living is by no agency easy for this crew of emancipated minors , but they function well enough as a super - squad to defeat their parents ’ apocalyptic programme and ( mostly ) survive their showdown with a issue of supervillains . Superstrong sport Molly Hayes did a quick stint at the San Francisco campus of the Xavier School , but after being kidnapped alongside Wolverine , she merrily return to her fellow autodidacts . Henry Pym does volunteer the squad a bit of courtly homeschooling by build up them a golem tutor .
Johnny Boyo : The protagonist of James Stokoe ’s Wonton Soup was a top culinary scholarly person before he dropped out in lodge to explore the cosmos tongue - first . To that ending , he became a quad teamster , touring the sensation and taste the most unusual and alien dishes the galaxy has to offer . But drive and shipping have done nothing to dull his cooking skills . When he decides to visit his honest-to-goodness training ground , he can still out - cook the school ’s top students , even when they resort to chinchy ( not to name disgusting ) tricks .
Philip J. Fry : It ’s a small miracle that Futurama ’s cryogenically fixed bringing boy ever made it to college in the first place , and it ’s no surprise that he eventually drop out . After being informed that a 21st - Century college dropout was tantamount to a 31st - Century high shoal drop out , he decides to enter in Mars University so he can drop out again and regain his former layer of education ( though after he name his world-wide significance ) . By all appearances , Fry does n’t savour a particularly successful modus vivendi in the 31st Century ; he ’s still a delivery male child , has an on - again , off - again relationship with Leela , and his best Quaker is a robotic sociopath . But there are a few beings in the time to come who acknowledge the the true : Fry is the most important being in the universe , and without him , everyone would have been ruin by the Brainspawn . Of course , this has less to do with any lifelike intellect Fry possesses than the fact that he managed to become his own grandfather .
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