Who will guide the hero in your novel?

Your protagonist can't do it alone!

In "A Few Good Mentors", this visualized excerpt from the book "Right Brain Writing" by Gary Fearon demonstrates that fictional mentors can have good intentions, bad motivations, or a mix of both, but all help the hero one way or another.

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TV and film clips used for illustrative purposes include:
The Simpsons (20th Television)
Rocky (1976, United Artists)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992. 20th Century Fox)
Million Dollar Baby (2004, Warner Bros.)
The Mighty Ducks (1992, Buena Vista Pictures)
Star Wars (1977, 20th Century Fox)
Mary Poppins (1964, Buena Vista)
The Lord of the Rings (2001, New Line Cinema)
The Sword in the Stone (1963, Buena Vista)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2o01, Warner Bros.)
Pinocchio (1940, RKO Radio Pictures)
Cinderella (1950, RKO Radio Pictures)
Sleeping Beauty (1959, Buena Vista)
Peter Pan (1953, RKO Radio Pictures)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022, Walt Disney)
The Matrix (1999, Warner Bros.)
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Aladdin (1992, Buena Vista)
Ordinary People (1980, Paramount Pictures)
Back to the Future (1985, Universal Pictures)
The Karate Kid (1984, Columbia Pictures)
Working Girl (1988, 20th Century Fox)
Wall Street (1987, 20th Century Fox)
The Firm (1993, Paramount Pictures)
Stripes (1981, Columbia Pictures)
The Hunger Games (2012, Lionsgate)
Private Benjamin (1980, Warner Bros.)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Loew’s, Inc.)
The Jungle Book (1967, Buena Vista)
A League of Their Own (1992, Columbia Pictures)