School Saved My Life

School is never useful, except in Real Life. WRONG. A lot of times, if you pay attention, it will save your life. Especially if you're in a Super-Hero School. As in Real Life, information is power, so you automatically get this trope if you're in a Spy School. Most of the time, this will be Lampshaded by the example of the trope saying "Weren't you paying attention in class?" to the protagonist. One of the School Tropes.

Inversion: the character has superpowers that help them excel at school wildly. Not necessarily cheating.

Examples of School Saved My Life include:

Anime And Manga

• In Naruto, they bascially train to become a ninja. Subverted for Naruto, who learns everything from training and being the protagonist.
  • Also, Sakura plays this trope straight during the Chunin exams.

Literature

• Hermione does this in pretty much every Harry Potter book. Especially the seventh.
  • Also used when Harry gave Ron the bezoar after he drank the poisoned mead given to them by Professor Slughorn.
• Inverted in Midnighters, all of the Midnighters' powers correlate to a school subject, which they excel at because of the powers (except for one). Dess: Trigonometry, and probably engineering, Jonathan: Physics, Rex: History, Jess: Chemistry.

Film

• Mr. Bruner points this out Percy's Greek History in Percy Jackson and The Olympians before he realizes he's a demigod. Then it goes to to the extreme when he goes to Camp Half Blood.
  • Then later, Annabeth uses her non-demigod knowledge in a Sphinx trial, except she gets fed up with the fact that the questions aren't riddles, and screws everything up.
• You'd think that in a Super-Hero School, this would be the case. But in Sky High, it's actually subverted for the main character. Played straight for everyone else.

Web Original

• In the universe of Greek Ninja, the students of Ariadnio learn to fight and thus, not get killed during its invasions, from simply attending it (since it's a martial arts school). Subverted in Sasha's case, who even points out herself that she learnt everything from Yamauchi-sensei.