History Main / JustAKid

* ''GundamWing''. Noin is bitter at having been defeated by "just a kid". To which Wufei retorts she underestimated him because he was young.

** This could be part of the reason behind teenage rebellion. When teenagers start seeing that the world is seeing htem as an adult and being given more responsibilities (being able to drive, vote, enlist in the military, etc.,) and you parents still see you as "my little baby," it's entirely possible that most rebellion is the child saying, "No, I'm not anymore." Most go in the wrong direction, but still as good a theory as any.

* A rather [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IcZbluiA1s vulgar example brought to you by the WebVideo/TheTourettesGuy. Apparently, asking for Captain Crunch cereal is enough to get the "Just A Kid" treatment ''and'' some very blue-mouthed put downs if you're Danny's son.

* A rather [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IcZbluiA1svulgar example brought to you by the WebVideo/TheTourettesGuy. Apparently, asking for Captain Crunch cereal is enough to get the "Just A Kid" treatment ''and'' some very blue-mouthed put downs if you're Danny's son.

* ''GameOfThrones'': [[BadassGrandpa Tywin Lannister]] dismisses the 18-year-old [[YoungAndInCharge Robb Stark]] as a threat because of this, figuring that he'll probably run back home to the North at the first sight of battle. [[spoiler:He is oh so very wrong. When the dust settles, his son is a prisoner of war, and half his army has been destroyed. Turns out that Robb is actually quite the tactician.]]

* ''{{Earthbound}}''

* ''BackyardSports'': This is the way Sally Dobbs acts toward her brother Ronny.

* Both the five protagonists and two of the antagonists of the web fiction serial ''DimensionHeroes'' fit into this trope.

* One of the motivating factors behind [[spoiler: Naoto's]] shadow in ''{{Persona 4}}''.

--> Rucks: (Kid uses Army Carbine and [[spoiler:Calamity Cannon]] "Kid makes me nervous sometimes strutting around with all those guns."

---> Rucks: (Kid uses Galleon Mortar and [[spoiler:Calamity Cannon]] "OK, now that's just plain overkill. I mean, come on."

* {{Videogame/Bastion}} has this Averted, as the main protagonist is only about 13 to 16, aptly known as "The Kid", and is capable of wielding an industrial hammer, a repeater made of bones, a scrap musket, and even a CANNON. That not even going into the rest of the weapons, the upgrades for them, the magical elixirs that he drinks, and the things you can do with wll three. Much {{More Dakka}} for such a young Kid, huh? Even the Narrator thinks so.
--> Rucks when you equip an Army Carbine and the [[spoiler: Calamity Cannon]] "Kid makes me nervous sometimes strutting around with all those guns."
** It gets better. Just use a Galleon Mortar instead of a Carbine. Yup. {{Macross Missile Massacre}}
---> "OK, now that's just plain overkill. I mean, come on."

* {{Videogame/Bastion}} has this Averted, as the main protagonist is only about 13 to 16, aptly known as "The Kid", and is capable of wielding an industrial hammer, a repeater made of bones, a scrap musket, and even a CANNON. That not even going into the rest of the weapons, the upgrades for them, the magical elixers that he drinks, and the things you can do with wll three. Much {{More Dakka}} for such a young Kid, huh?

* "VideoGame/Bastion": Averted, as the main protagonist is only about 13 to 16, aptly known as "The Kid", and is capable of wielding an industrial hammer, a repeater made of bones, a scrap musket, and even a CANNON. That not even going into the rest of the weapons, the upgrades for them, the magical elixers that he drinks, and the things you can do with wll three. Much [[More Dakka More Dakka]] for such a young Kid, huh? Though there are reasons for this aversion, however...

* Lampshaded by almost all the villains Gohan fights in one-on-one battle in ''DragonBallZ''. Goku also suffered from this in the ''DragonBall'' series and in ''GT'', which annoyed him even more, as he was reaching his sixties and was one of the strongest beings in the universe.
** Subverted with gleeful enthusiasm in DragonBallZAbridged whenever they can get some footage to support it.
-->'''Gohan:''' I'm not going to back down. I might be younger than you, smaller than you, weaker than you, and much less experienced, [[BrickJoke but I learned more about peach farming than you... ]][[ThisIsGonnaSuck I think this was a horrible decision.]]

* Mission Vao in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is constantly annoyed this tropem to the point of it being a BerserkButton. She's just fourteen and sounds like a typical teenager, except for the part that when she demands to be taken seriously, she has good reason. You can avert actually treating her like this, though.
** Seeing as she survived ''on her own'' in [[WretchedHive one of the worst slums in the galaxy]] after her brother ran off, when she is an age, gender, species, and attractiveness level (nubile, female, pretty-looking Twi'lek of uncommon coloration) that would have pigeonholed her into prostitution, slavery, or worse '''and''' frequently explres tunnels and passages in the Undercity where even the party's [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mandalorian mercenary]] won't go without a full entourage of armed men, her annoyance at being blown off as a kid is pretty justified. Mission is definitely LittleMissBadass.

* Mission Vao in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is constantly wary of this trope. She's just fourteen and sounds like a typical teenager, except for the part that when she demands to be taken seriously, she has good reason. You can avert actually treating her like this, though.

* A RunningGag in the fourth case of ''AceAttorney Investigations'' was that everyone was dissing the young Miles Edgeworth and Franziska Von Karma as just kids, even though Edgeworth was already a prosecutor.
* ''ApolloJustice'' where almost everyone in the cast brushes off Apollo and Trucy as kids trying to play as grown ups, which is weird for Apollo since he IS a Defense Attorney and is almost the same age Phoenix Wright was (24) when he first started and no one called Phoenix a kid then.

* Every main series ''{{Pokemon}}'' game seems to have this. The villainous teams always brush off the player character because they're just a kid, and think they'll quickly take care of him/her. Needless to say, it doesn't work that way.

* Laharl of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea}}'' has gotten quite a bit of this from both Etna and '''Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!''' Etna uses it to legitimately call him out on his [[RoyalBrat brattiness and emotional immaturity]] while He Who Has NoIndoorVoice is just incapable of believing that some [[BadassAdorable tiny little punk]] is stronger ''and'' smarter than him.

* [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20552_6-old-photos-kids-who-are-way-tougher-than-modern-adults.html This Cracked Article]] had photographs of kids who can put an present adult to shame.

** Also from the metaseries is [[HotMom Hope Stelar]] of ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'', where she calls her own son (and the hero of the game) "Just A Boy" in the third game.

* In ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' the veteran generals of Wu were reluctant at first to follow the orders of their new chief strategist Lu Xun beccause he was just "a mere young scholar". They later gave him their full support after seeing how effective the strategy was in curb-stomping the invading Shu forces.

* In ''{{Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms}}'' the veteran generals of Wu were reluctant at first to follow the orders of their new chief strategist Lu Xun beccause he was just "a mere young scholar". They later gave him their full support after seeing how effective the strategy was in curb-stomping the invading Shu forces.

Common theme running through initial seasons of shows featuring a KidHero. The young hero meets a series of [[NotNowKid dismissive]] characters who assume ineptness because (wait for it) -- "You're just a kid." The dismissive characters can be good or bad, but will meet their comeuppance by the end of the episode (or the season, if it's a multi-episode arc).