Anthony DeMartino: Difference between revisions

 

{{quote|...conserve your energy. Do as little as possible. '''PRETEND YOU'RE IN CLASS!'''|[[Antisocial Climbers]]}}

 

==Character Overview==

 

===Teaching===

 

From the very beginning of the show, he is shown as having become ''very'' disillusioned with his role as an educator. One of the show's running gags was Mr. DeMartino's bitterness over his low salary and disgust at the incompetence of several of his students, particularly [[Brittany Taylor]] and [[Kevin Thompson]], who never seemed to make any effort to succeed in his class, and, if their classroom performance was any indication of their abilities, may have been educationally incompetent to the point of functional illiteracy and therefore thoroughly unteachable in a conventional classroom setting. In "[[The Daria Hunter]]" and "[[Fair Enough]]", where he has a chance to cause suffering and pain to some students and get away with it (paintballing and in a jousting game respectively), he gleefully takes it. Principal Li has a standing order that DeMartino is to be no longer request retirement ''during'' classes. In "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]", in his lowest hour, he broke down at the idea that he was just "no good at working with young people".

 

While frustrated with his life to an almost maniac state, Mr. DeMartino is shown at points to enjoy teaching ''some'' students. This is highlighted by his frequent almost-friendly tolerance for Daria Morgendorffer on occasion, as well as for her sister Quinn Morgendorffer on those few occasions when she shows some depth or displays some of her true academic prowess and potential. [[Helen Morgendorffer]] appears to view him as the only competent teacher at the school, turning him to get information in "[[The Lawndale File]]" as "he's a bit high-strung but he's a fixture at that school". In "[[Antisocial Climbers]]", while grumbling about it, he went out on his own in a blizzard to find help for the trapped students.

===Relationship with his students===

 

 

Mr. DeMartino has a seething hatred for most of the student body at [[Lawndale High]], because the majority of them are either lazy, slackers, or absurdly stupid. All of these characteristics in turn make his job less fulfilling and lead to outbursts of rage; everyone seems used to this by now and barely respond, outside of Daria and Jane snarking, though Jane once joked that he caused students to wet the bed ("[[The Big House]]"). Students that are usually well behaved, such as [[Jane Lane]] and [[Jodie Landon]], don't arouse his ire. Despite his uncontrolled rage, Mr. DeMartino's has never been violent to any student - with the exception of Kevin, who he once started strangling ("[[Murder, She Snored]]"), and that led to a brief stay at [[Brookside Rest Home]] and some medication. Kevin's near mythic levels of idiocy and stupidity constantly frustrate Mr. DeMartino's efforts to teach, as Kevin appears incapable of learning practically anything beyond a football play.

 

==Voice Actor==

Anthony DeMartino was voiced by actor [[Marc Thompson]], who also gave voice to [[Timothy O'Neill]], [[Kevin Thompson]] and [[Charles "Upchuck" Ruttheimer III]].

 

 

 

===Demartino-centric Fanfiction===

* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=30265&start=0 "Anthony DeMartino Just Wants To Have Fun"] by [[Smijey]]

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/370759/4/Apocalypse_Then "Apocalypse Then,"] by [[Milo Minderbinder]]