History Main / ImmaturityInsult

* During Chapter 39 of ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'', Mira shows she is [[FriendToAllChildren very good to children]]. At this point, Yuu wondered aloud whether that's because Mira, who's rather {{ditz}}y, is more similar to [[CheerfulChild children]]. Chikage has to shut Yuu up for InnocentlyInsensitive.

* In the ''Girls Aloud'' song "On My Way to Satisfaction", the narrator tries to convince someone to join her in the party girl lifestyle, moving to taunts of this nature when ordinary persuasion doesn't work.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite'': Iris [[CatchPhrase often says]], "You're such a kid!" to Ash ([[HypocriticalHumor despite the fact that she's around the same age as him]]).

* ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'': Melvin's CatchPhrase is "You are ''so'' immature."

* ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'': In "[[Recap/LokiEpisode2TheVariant The Variant]]", Mobius calls Loki a "scared little boy." Loki later tells Mobius that he thinks he went too far by calling him that, because he knows things that children don't. That nobody is wholly bad or good. He implicitly suggests that [[NoYou Mobius is the immature one]] for blindly believing in the benevolence of the Time Keepers despite never meeting them.

* Johnny Cage and Erron Black can have this exchange in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX''. Notably ''NOT'' PlayedForLaughs as Erron's final response is clearly meant as venomous contempt.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'': Ted's mother calls O'Hare a "crazy baby man" when he searches her house to find the Truffula seed.

** In ''Five Run Away Together'', Julian tells Anne that she is a good little girl for keeping their cave so tidy. Anne enjoys the praise, but does not like being called a little girl (despite frequently being TheChick).

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* Inverted in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. The crux of [[BigBad Temple]]'s TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the resident {{Cloudcuckoolander}} ManChild [[KindheartedSimpleton Caboose]] is that he ''isn't'' a child, and shouldn't be treated as one or babied by the Reds and Blues.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Toast of the Town", Professor Utonium [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech rants at the Mayor]] after the latter doesn't heed his orders not to touch anything in the lab, calling him "a big baby".

* ''Franchise/Warhammer40000: VideoGame/DawnOfWar II'': Space Marine Assault Sergeant Thaddeus is the most naive and idealistic squad leader in a CrapsackWorld defined by endless war, and his inexperience gets insulted by characters like Avitus and Jonah Orion calling him "child", Araghast the Pillager calling him "stripling", and a daemon-possessed [[spoiler:Orion]] calling him "infant."

* ''Franchise/Warhammer40000: VideoGame/DawnOfWar II'': Space Marine Assault Sergeant Thaddeus is the most naive and idealistic squad leader in a CrapsackWorld defined by endless war, and his inexperience gets insulted by characters like Avitus and Jonah Orion calling him "child" and a daemon-possessed [[spoiler:Orion]] calling him "infant."

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* WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier: In the 3rd LetsPlay for VideoGame/HitmanIII, Fred and Seb act as though 47 is a boomer making judgmental comments on all the young people at a night club, asking why they don't have jobs and telling them they're going to have to grow up fast.

** In ''Five Run Away Together'', Julian tells Anne that she is a good little girl for keeping their cave so tidy. Anne enjoys the praise, but does not like being called a little girl (despite frequently being TheChick).** In ''Five Go To Smuggler's Top'', their host Mr Lenoir tends to speak to the children as if they are very small.