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* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': Though not the youngest of the group (that would be Agnea), Ochette is the most childlike, as well as being inexperienced in the ways of the world, such as money, due to having grown up on a secluded island. She's also particularly close to TeamMom Castti, whom she (usually affectionately, but sometimes derisively such as when the latter tells her she can't only eat meat all the time) calls Mama.
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* ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'': Tressa Colzione, along with being [[TheBabyOfTheBunch the youngest of the group]], is also the most childlike. She's [[GenkiGirl cheerful]], optimistic, [[BrutalHonesty outspoken]], travels for the fun of it, and becomes a surrogate little sister to [[CoolBigSis Primrose Azelhart]]. Having had a normal, happy upbringing without the trauma of her companions likely contributes to her Team Kids status.
* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': Though not the youngest of the group (that would be Agnea), Ochette is the most childlike, as well as being inexperienced in the ways of the world, such as money, due to having grown up on a secluded island. She's also particularly close to TeamMom Castti, whom she (usually affectionately, but sometimes derisively such as when the latter tells her she can't only eat meat all the time) callsMama."Mama".
* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': Though not the youngest of the group (that would be Agnea), Ochette is the most childlike, as well as being inexperienced in the ways of the world, such as money, due to having grown up on a secluded island. She's also particularly close to TeamMom Castti, whom she (usually affectionately, but sometimes derisively such as when the latter tells her she can't only eat meat all the time) calls
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* Of the Homunculi in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Gluttony is the most childish. He has a mother-son dynamic with [[TeamMom Lust]], and is one of the least malicious Homunculi. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Doesn't stop him from being a threat.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge2TheMeltdown'': When Manny is making the herd a "family", he designates Crash and Eddie (two rambunctious possum brothers) "the kids who get on [his] nerves".
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* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge2TheMeltdown'': ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'': When Manny is making the herd a "family", he designates Crash and Eddie (two rambunctious possum brothers) "the kids who get on [his] nerves".
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* ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'': Roman Pearce, despite being a grown man, often behaves the most immaturely of Dom Toretto's entire CriminalFoundFamily. He's nearly always [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong complaining and voicing doubts about their plans]], thinks [[LeaderWannabe he could be a better leader]], but always refuses to take charge when they offer it to him, gets into petty verbal sniping with Brian in the second film, takes the most AwesomeButImpractical orange Lamborghini just to look cool, and in the sixth film, he's more concerned about using the right British currency to get a snack out of a vending machine than listening in about the {{Macguffin}} of the week and what the BigBad wants to do with it. [[NotSoAboveItAll Hobbs]] offers to help Roman get his snack by just [[CuttingTheKnot shooting the vending machine open]], like an indulgent uncle.
* ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'': Roman Pearce, despite being a grown man, often behaves the most immaturely of Dom Toretto's entire CriminalFoundFamily. He's nearly always [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong complaining and voicing doubts about their plans]], thinks [[LeaderWannabe he could be a better leader]], but always refuses to take charge when they offer it to him, gets into petty verbal sniping with Brian in the second film, takes the most AwesomeButImpractical orange Lamborghini just to look cool, and in the sixth film, he's more concerned about using the right British currency to get a snack out of a vending machine than listening in about the {{Macguffin}} of the week and what the BigBad wants to do with it. [[NotSoAboveItAll Hobbs]] offers to help Roman get his snack by just [[CuttingTheKnot shooting the vending machine open]], like an indulgent uncle.
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* ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'': Roman Pearce, despite being a grown man, often behaves the most immaturely of Dom Toretto's entire CriminalFoundFamily. He's nearly always [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong complaining and voicing doubts about their plans]], thinks [[LeaderWannabe he could be a better leader]], but always refuses to take charge when they offer it to him, gets into petty verbal sniping with Brian in [[Film/TwoFastTwoFurious the secondfilm, film]], takes the most AwesomeButImpractical orange Lamborghini just to look cool, and in [[Film/FastAndFurious6 the sixth film, film]], he's more concerned about using the right British currency to get a snack out of a vending machine than listening in about the {{Macguffin}} MacGuffin of the week and what the BigBad wants to do with it. [[NotSoAboveItAll Hobbs]] offers to help Roman get his snack by just [[CuttingTheKnot shooting the vending machine open]], like an indulgent uncle.
* ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'': Roman Pearce, despite being a grown man, often behaves the most immaturely of Dom Toretto's entire CriminalFoundFamily. He's nearly always [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong complaining and voicing doubts about their plans]], thinks [[LeaderWannabe he could be a better leader]], but always refuses to take charge when they offer it to him, gets into petty verbal sniping with Brian in [[Film/TwoFastTwoFurious the second
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If the TeamMom utilizes FullNameUltimatum against someone, that's one of the Team Kids, even if it's at that very moment that they're forcibly inducted to the "family".
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"family". Often she'll use TheMomVoice to chide them.
If they are a group, one will often be TheTroublemaker.
If they are a group, one will often be TheTroublemaker.
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-->'''Jake:''' So, I'd just like to say I'm happy to be here... With my family. My super-weird family, with two black dads and two Latina daughters and two white sons and... Gina, and... ''(to Scully)'' I don't know what you are... Some strange giant baby?
-->''(in the season 8 episode "Lake House")''
-->''(in the season 8 episode "Lake House")''
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-->'''Jake:''' So, I'd just like to say I'm happy to be here... With my family. My super-weird family, with two black dads and two Latina daughters and two white sons and... Gina, and... ''(to Scully)'' I don't know what you are... Some strange giant baby?
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-->'''Rosa:''' So we're just dispensing with subtext now?
-->'''Jake:''' Yes, this workplace is my family. Was that not clear? Holt is my dad, you're my mean older sister...
* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one instance by Ryan when he turns to Esposito and says of Beckett and Castle, "Mom and Dad are fighting."
-->'''Jake:''' Yes, this workplace is my family. Was that not clear? Holt is my dad, you're my mean older sister...
* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one instance by Ryan when he turns to Esposito and says of Beckett and Castle, "Mom and Dad are fighting."
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'''Jake:''' Yes, this workplace is my family. Was that not clear? Holt is my dad, you're my mean older sister...
*''Series/{{Castle}}'': ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one instance by Ryan when he turns to Esposito and says of Beckett and Castle, "Mom and Dad are fighting."
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'''Jake:''' Yes, this workplace is my family. Was that not clear? Holt is my dad, you're my mean older sister...
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': TeamDad Mac thinks of his team as his FamilyOfChoice, even telling his girlfriend, Christine, so in season 8. Stella is TeamMom for the 6 seasons, followed by Jo for the last 3. During Lindsay's settling-in period in season 2, Stella has to call her out for ditching a crime scene, but later takes her under her wing when Lindsay opens up about it reminding her of a high-school tragedy. Mac has several instances of finding some of the Kids (Danny, Lindsay, Adam and to a lesser extent, Sheldon) bickering; his stern go-to phrase to stop them is "Are you two/three done?" But when any of them, especially TheBabyOfTheBunch Adam (whom he once catches throwing multiple paper airplanes in the Lab), are troubled, Mac will sit down and have a fatherly heart to heart with them. Notable examples are Danny struggling with feelings of inadequacy over becoming a husband/new dad, and Adam reliving past abuse from his own father.
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': TeamDad Mac thinks of his team as his FamilyOfChoice, even telling his girlfriend, Christine, so in season 8. Stella is TeamMom for the first 6 seasons, followed by Jo for the last 3. During Lindsay's settling-in period in season 2, Stella has to call her out for ditching a crime scene, but later takes her under her wing when Lindsay opens up about it reminding her of a high-school tragedy. Mac has several instances of finding some of the Kids (Danny, Lindsay, Adam and to a lesser extent, Sheldon) bickering; his stern go-to phrase to stop them is "Are you two/three done?" But when any of them, especially TheBabyOfTheBunch Adam (whom he once catches throwing multiple paper airplanes in the Lab), are troubled, Mac will sit down and have a fatherly heart to heart with them. Notable examples are Danny struggling with feelings of inadequacy over becoming a husband/new dad, and Adam reliving past abuse from his own father.
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** Shizuka, who everyone else strives to protect if she's hurt physically or emotionally.
** Kusuri, whose attempt at an immortality drug left her in a child's body. (Though she can temporarily age herself up to her actual age of 18.)
** Chiyo, the youngest of Rentarou's girlfriends.
** Kishika, who mentally regresses to infancy whenever she gets pampered by someone else.
** Kusuri, whose attempt at an immortality drug left her in a child's body. (Though she can temporarily age herself up to her actual age of 18.)
** Chiyo, the youngest of Rentarou's girlfriends.
** Kishika, who mentally regresses to infancy whenever she gets pampered by someone else.
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** Shizuka, who everyone else strives to protect if she's hurt physically or emotionally.
emotionally. One instance in which exactly happens causes everyone to become [[Franchise/DragonBall Super Saiyan]] or, rather, "Super Smitten".
** Kusuri, whose attempt at an immortality drug left her in a child'sbody. (Though body, though she can temporarily age herself up to her actual age of 18.)
18. One chapter features her happily playing pretend with toys until she ages herself up partway through and becomes embarrassed at her antics.
** Chiyo, the youngest of Rentarou'sgirlfriends.
girlfriends who occasionally struggles with being more mature than she's capable of being.
** Kishika, who mentally regresses to infancy whenever she gets pampered by someone else. She takes great pride in being a reliable leader and caretaker, and is often embarrassed once she recovers from her bouts of EmotionalRegression.
** A moment halfway through chapter 61 features Shizuka, Kusuri, and Chiyo chatting with Rentarou watching from afar, happy that the normally rigid Chiyo can lower her guard with friends she can be a kid and act her age with... only for the narration to remind everyone that Shizuka and Kusuri are 3 and 6 years older than Chiyo, respectively.
** Kusuri, whose attempt at an immortality drug left her in a child's
** Chiyo, the youngest of Rentarou's
** Kishika, who mentally regresses to infancy whenever she gets pampered by someone else. She takes great pride in being a reliable leader and caretaker, and is often embarrassed once she recovers from her bouts of EmotionalRegression.
** A moment halfway through chapter 61 features Shizuka, Kusuri, and Chiyo chatting with Rentarou watching from afar, happy that the normally rigid Chiyo can lower her guard with friends she can be a kid and act her age with... only for the narration to remind everyone that Shizuka and Kusuri are 3 and 6 years older than Chiyo, respectively.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MonkieKid'': MK and Mei tend to fill this role, being the youngest and often most impulsive members of their group.
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* ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': The four main characters, Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Raphael are literal brothers, and surrogate sons to TeamDad Splinter. In most iterations, Mikey is TheBabyOfTheBunch, and Raphael is a hothead. They squabble from time to time, but they remain family and brothers, and heaven help the foe who harms any one of them.
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* ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': The four main characters, Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Raphael are literal brothers, and surrogate sons to TeamDad Splinter. In most iterations, Mikey is TheBabyOfTheBunch, and Raphael is a hothead. They squabble from time to time, but they remain family and brothers, and heaven help the foe who harms any one of them.
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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': With Lily and Marshall as TeamMom and TeamDad, the rest of the group often fall into the kids' roles:
** Hyperactive Barney is often seen as the youngest child, as he has little impulse control and never learned certain basic skills like how to drive or use certain tools.
** Hyperactive Barney is often seen as the youngest child, as he has little impulse control and never learned certain basic skills like how to drive or use certain tools.
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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': With Lily and Marshall as TeamMom and TeamDad, the rest of the group often fall into the kids' roles:
**roles: Hyperactive Barney is often seen as the youngest child, as he has little impulse control and never learned certain basic skills like how to drive or use certain tools.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The Straw Hat Pirates fully embody the CentralTheme of the story, FamilyOfChoice, with its full set of Team Dads and Moms and Kids, as designated by [[WordOfGod the author himself]] on a fan's prompting. The youngest three fill this trope together: the boastful [[BratsWithSlingshots slingshot-toting]] prankster Usopp, the adventurous and excitable [[TheHero Luffy]], and TheBabyOfTheBunch, naive and scaredy and very cuddly Chopper.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Whose lost children are these?!]]
[[caption-width-right:350: Whose lost children are these?!]]
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* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': Narancia Ghirga, while not the youngest member of Passione (he's 17 while Giorno is 15), certainly looks and acts like he is. He chooses to vibe with a boombox on the trip to a billion lire stash, begs for Bucciarati to buy him snacks when given the chance, is the quickest to act on his rage when pissed off, and has the most emotional reaction to [[spoiler: the death of TeamDad Leone Abbachio]].
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* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': Narancia Ghirga, while not the youngest member of Passione (he's 17 while Giorno is 15), certainly looks and acts like he is. He chooses to vibe with a boombox on the trip to a billion lire stash, begs for Bucciarati to buy him snacks when given the chance, is the quickest to act on his rage when pissed off, and has the most emotional reaction to [[spoiler: the death of TeamDad Leone Abbachio]].
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* ''Anime/MyOtome'': Natsuki is the Headmaster, and Shizuru is the TeamMom, leaving Arika, Nina, Nao, Chie, Erstine, Tomoe, and other minor Otome as the Team Kids, complete with getting into mischief. Nao is a CoolBigSis in the group, as is Chie, both wise to Tomoe's duplicity. Tragically, Erstine is The mole, and dies as her betrayal is brought to light. And Nina goes through a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor.
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* ''Anime/MyOtome'': Natsuki is the Headmaster, and Shizuru is the TeamMom, leaving Arika, Nina, Nao, Chie, Erstine, Tomoe, and other minor Otome as the Team Kids, complete with getting into mischief. Nao is a CoolBigSis in the group, as is Chie, both wise to Tomoe's duplicity. Tragically, Erstine is The mole, TheMole, and dies as her betrayal is brought to light. And Nina goes through a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor.
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Where there's a Mom and a Dad, there have to be kids. And if there's a TeamMom and/or a TeamDad, there have to be Team Kid(s).
Not necessarily a literal kid, and in fact more often than not are simply younger adults, the Team Kids are the ones who give the Team Mom and Team Dad their title.
Of course, in a FamilyOfChoice, this can often result in one being The Favorite, or TheUnfavorite. And in many dynamics, one of the Team Kids will be TheBabyOfTheBunch, even though they're all grown adults.
Maybe they even started as a TagalongKid years ago, but grew into an adult surrogate son or daughter. Sometimes one of the Team Kids will be a veritable {{Manchild}} / {{Womanchild}}.
From time to time WellDoneSonGuy can be in effect, even if the TeamDad isn't their literal father.
Among the "kids", a sibling dynamic can form, from BigBrotherBully, CoolBigSis, and BigBrotherInstinct. Woe to anyone who picks on a member of the "family", even if they'd been fighting among themselves beforehand.
Occasionally the Team Parent(s) is absent, and whoever stands in for them ends up a BadlyBatteredBabysitter. Often it's the HonoraryUncle, a team member who is too old and curmudgeonly to serve as one of the kids.
If the TeamMom utilizes FullNameUltimatum against someone, that's one of the Team Kids, even if it's at that very moment that they're forcibly inducted to the "family".
This has equal play for drama or comedy.
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* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Among the titular girlfriends:
** Shizuka, who everyone else strives to protect if she's hurt physically or emotionally.
** Kusuri, whose attempt at an immortality drug left her in a child's body. (Though she can temporarily age herself up to her actual age of 18.)
** Chiyo, the youngest of Rentarou's girlfriends.
** Kishika, who mentally regresses to infancy whenever she gets pampered by someone else.
* ''Anime/BangDream'': With seven bands of young women, there are multiple teams, multiple {{Team Mom}}s, and lots and lots of kids.
** Lisa Imai is '''''THE''''' TeamMom, the one even other {{Team Mom}}s turn to, making almost everyone other than Yukina the kids, but in her own band, Roselia, there's [[TheBabyOfTheBunch Ako]], [[ShrinkingViolet Rinko]], and [[ThePerfectionist Sayo]]. She also tends to look out for Afterglow's members, as they all attend her school, she works with [[TheGadfly Moca]], and Afterglow doesn't actually have a TeamMom, with Tsugumi, TheReliableOne, also serving as TheBabyOfTheBunch, though Tomoe does serve as a CoolBigSis to her band.
** Poppin' Party's drummer, Saaya Yamabuki, has her hands full with [[CloudCuckoolander Tae]], [[BunnyEarsLawyer Kasumi]], and [[ShrinkingViolet Rimi]]. She also looks out for Moca of Afterglow, who's probably the best customer Yamabuki Bakery has.
** Misaki/Michelle is less TeamMom and more BadlyBatteredBabysitter to an entire band of Kids, from [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense Kokoro]] to Shakespeare obsessed {{Bifauxnen}} Kaoru, timid Kanon, or boisterous Hagami. There are several scenes in ''Garupa Pico '' where they realistically [[UnexplainedRecovery should not have survived]], even from the viewpoint of the story itself, but are back for more antics later.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': The youngest member of Passione, Narancia Ghirga, certainly acts his age, perhaps a little younger even. He chooses to vibe with a boombox on the trip to a billion lire stash, beg for Bucciarati to buy him snacks when given the chance, is the quickest to act on his rage when pissed off, and has the most emotional reaction to [[spoiler: the death of TeamDad: Leone Abbachio.]]
* ''Anime/MyHime'': Mai is a {{Deconstruction}} of the TeamMom, showing how her efforts to care for others amid the chaos are slowly wearing her down. Midori comes closest to being the TeamDad, being the boisterous go-getter who looks out for the girls in the "Hime Sentai/Rangers". Natsuki, Nao, Mikoto, Yukino, and Sister Yukariko are the Team Kids, with no shortage of in-fighting and miscommunication between them, especially when Yukariko is convinced by her lover to falsely accuse Nao of attacking her, which sparks a very deadly conflict between them, though when all is resolved, everyone is EasilyForgiven.
* ''Anime/MyOtome'': Natsuki is the Headmaster, and Shizuru is the TeamMom, leaving Arika, Nina, Nao, Chie, Erstine, Tomoe, and other minor Otome as the Team Kids, complete with getting into mischief. Nao is a CoolBigSis in the group, as is Chie, both wise to Tomoe's duplicity. Tragically, Erstine is The mole, and dies as her betrayal is brought to light. And Nina goes through a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor.
* ''Anime/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': Discussed. Tamaki declares himself the TeamDad while Kyoya is TeamMom, making the rest of the host club their "kids". (Often ZigZagged, since Tamaki often acts more childish than the rest of the group.) In particular, Tamaki insists that the reason he is so possessive of Haruhi is that she is his "daughter" and he has to protect her. [[spoiler: Multiple characters poke holes in this narrative throughout the series, until Tamaki finally starts to recognize his feelings for Haruhi are actually romantic.]] Of the rest of the group, Honey (who is older than Tamaki and Kyoya but is a TokenMiniMoe) and the twins (who are mischievous and somewhat immature) play the trope mostly straight while Mori and Haruhi mostly avert it.
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* ''ComicBook/GenerationX'': Banshee and White Queen are the Parents to the team, including Jubilee, M, Chamber, Husk, Skin, Synch, and, initially, Penance. The team literally being kids helps. Some issues with Penance and M and their family cause a major revelation later, and Synch is later killed, causing a rift in the team. The group eventually disbands.
* ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': The four main characters, Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Raphael are literal brothers, and surrogate sons to TeamDad Splinter. In most iterations, Mikey is TheBabyOfTheBunch, and Raphael is a hothead. They squabble from time to time, but they remain family and brothers, and heaven help the foe who harms any one of them.
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* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge2TheMeltdown'': When Manny is making the herd a "family", he designates Crash and Eddie (two rambunctious possum brothers) "the kids who get on [his] nerves".
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* ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'': Roman Pearce, despite being a grown man, often behaves the most immaturely of Dom Toretto's entire CriminalFoundFamily. He's nearly always [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong complaining and voicing doubts about their plans]], thinks [[LeaderWannabe he could be a better leader]], but always refuses to take charge when they offer it to him, gets into petty verbal sniping with Brian in the second film, takes the most AwesomeButImpractical orange Lamborghini just to look cool, and in the sixth film, he's more concerned about using the right British currency to get a snack out of a vending machine than listening in about the {{Macguffin}} of the week and what the BigBad wants to do with it. [[NotSoAboveItAll Hobbs]] offers to help Roman get his snack by just [[CuttingTheKnot shooting the vending machine open]], like an indulgent uncle.
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* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Leonard and Penny frequently take up the TeamDad and TeamMom roles in the group, especially, though not exclusively, with Sheldon. In fact, on one episode after the pair had temporarily broken up, they had arguments over Sheldon that were intended to mirror parents fighting over shared custody of a child after a divorce, including taking Sheldon to Disneyland on an outing. In an earlier instance, when Leonard and Penny are fighting over one of her friends staying at her place, Sheldon responds as though his parents were fighting (even referring to a fight between his actual parents), and Penny placates him by having Leonard buy him a toy robot and a comic book.
* In ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', while Terry and Holt are the TeamMom and TeamDad respectively (with Holt's husband Kevin also being referred to as the squad's dad sometimes), the rest of the squad are collectively the Team Kids, with Jake and Amy in particular both referring to Holt as their dad on separate occasions. This dynamic is even lampshaded a couple of different times.
-->''(in the season 1 episode "Thanksgiving")''
-->'''Jake:''' So, I'd just like to say I'm happy to be here... With my family. My super-weird family, with two black dads and two Latina daughters and two white sons and... Gina, and... ''(to Scully)'' I don't know what you are... Some strange giant baby?
-->''(in the season 8 episode "Lake House")''
-->'''Jake:''' The point is, we can't let that [divorce] happen to Daddy Holt and Daddy Kevin.
-->'''Rosa:''' So we're just dispensing with subtext now?
-->'''Jake:''' Yes, this workplace is my family. Was that not clear? Holt is my dad, you're my mean older sister...
* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one instance by Ryan when he turns to Esposito and says of Beckett and Castle, "Mom and Dad are fighting."
* ''Series/{{Community}}'': [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Initially, Jeff and Britta were portrayed as the TeamDad and TeamMom of the study group, often involving themselves in the lives of Abed, Troy, and Annie (the youngest members of the group). At the same time, Jeff had romantic feelings for Annie. This came to a head when the two tried to stop her from dating Britta's ex Vaughn. While both claim it's because they're protective of Annie, in truth it was motivated by Jeff wanting to be with Annie and Britta jealous that Annie was seeing Vaughn. This causes the group to have a realization about how unhealthy this dynamic was.
* ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'': Grissom and Catherine serve as the Team Parents, with Nick, Warrick, Greg, and Sara as the Team Kids. However, Grissom vacilates between trying to be a father figure to Sara and having romantic feelings for her. Even after marrying her, he splits with her until the finale. Warrick is killed by a corrupt law enforcement officer, and Grissom takes it very hard. Greg gets roughed up by a gang, and is the subject of an inquest when he kills one of them with his vehicle to save another man, and Grissom advises him not to rely on the city to have his back. And Nick has a DarkAndTroubledPast and ends up being BuriedAlive in one story arc that has lasting ramifications. When he's rescued, Grissom calls him "Poncho", which was the nickname Nick's Dad used to use for him
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': TeamDad Mac thinks of his team as his FamilyOfChoice, even telling his girlfriend, Christine, so in season 8. Stella is TeamMom for the 6 seasons, followed by Jo for the last 3. During Lindsay's settling-in period in season 2, Stella has to call her out for ditching a crime scene, but later takes her under her wing when Lindsay opens up about it reminding her of a high-school tragedy. Mac has several instances of finding some of the Kids (Danny, Lindsay, Adam and to a lesser extent, Sheldon) bickering; his stern go-to phrase to stop them is "Are you two/three done?" But when any of them, especially TheBabyOfTheBunch Adam (whom he once catches throwing multiple paper airplanes in the Lab), are troubled, Mac will sit down and have a fatherly heart to heart with them. Notable examples are Danny struggling with feelings of inadequacy over becoming a husband/new dad, and Adam reliving past abuse from his own father.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': With Lily and Marshall as TeamMom and TeamDad, the rest of the group often fall into the kids' roles:
** Hyperactive Barney is often seen as the youngest child, as he has little impulse control and never learned certain basic skills like how to drive or use certain tools.
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': WordOfGod is that Sophie and Nate are the TeamMom and TeamDad respectively, and that Hardison, Eliot, and Parker are "the kids", which is demonstrated several times, but perhaps nowhere near as well as "The Ho Ho Ho Job" where Nate and Sophie got gifts for the kids, and then delighted in watching them enjoy their "toys".
* ''Series/TheLibrarians2014'': Flynn and Baird are the TeamMom and TeamDad. ([[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] when Flynn is under the influence of the Apple of Discord and [[LargeHam hammily]] announces "Daddy's home!") This makes Stone, Ezekiel, and Cassandra the Team Kids, with Jenkins as a sort of grumpy HonoraryUncle. There's also a degree of competitiveness between the "siblings" as Ezekiel will steal Stone's wallet to prove he's not going soft, and Cassandra keeps trying to use magic, to the amusement of Ezekiel and the consternation of Stone.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Cols. Blake and Potter are each the TeamDad for their time at the 4077th, with Potter actually acting as a surrogate for Margaret, but the biggest example of the team Kids are the denizens of "The Swamp", which always include Hawkeye, Trapper until Season 4, Burns until Season 6, BJ from Season 4 onward, and Winchester from Season 6 onward. They often prank each other, spar with one another, particularly with Burns as TheUnfavorite, and have petty squabbles, such as when Hawk and BJ are in a protest against Winchester over his music, during which they refuse to bathe. Potter even once tells Hawk, after the Captain had misbehaved particularly egregiously, that if he were the man's father, he'd take him to the woodshed.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Uhura, Checkov, and Sulu are the Team Kids to the Kirk/Spock Team Mom and Dad, with Bones and Scotty as [[HonoraryUncle uncles]]. This is made apparent in "Who Mourns For Adonis", when Checkov suggests he comfort Lt. Palamas. Kirk asks him how old he is and when Checkov tells him, Kirk says he's too young.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', Ventus, being the youngest and most inexperienced Keyblade wielder, acts as the Team Kid with TeamMom Aqua and TeamDad Terra. When Scrooge [=McDuck=] thanks Ventus for saving him with passes to Disney Town, Ventus tells Terra and Aqua that he is told to bring "his parents" (Japanese version) or "two grown-ups" (English version).
* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': Though not the youngest of the group (that would be Agnea), Ochette is the most childlike, as well as being inexperienced in the ways of the world, such as money, due to having grown up on a secluded island. She's also particularly close to TeamMom Castti, whom she (usually affectionately, but sometimes derisively such as when the latter tells her she can't only eat meat all the time) calls Mama.
* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'': Played for laughs in one of the official gag manga, where [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Captain Bright Noa]] is treated as the TeamDad by the majority of the combined heroes. In one story, [[Anime/GreatMazinger Tetsuya Tsurugi]] expresses his admiration that just about everyone views Bright as a surrogate father, to which Bright replies that as captain of the Ra Calium, he's naturally AFatherToHisMen. Tetsuya notes that as an orphan, he's never had a father to discipline him properly and asks him to demonstrate his legendary [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan Bright Slap]]. After a brief moment of confusion, Bright obliges and knocks Tetsuya clean off his feet with a single slap. A RunningGag is how the orphans in the crew often act more childishly around him, due to seeing him as a ParentalSubstitute... even if, like Tetsuya, they're grown adults and veteran soldiers.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheRealAdventuresOfJonnyQuest'': Race Bannon and Dr. Quest are literal Dads, first to Jonny and Hadji, and later in "Real Adventures" to Jessie as well. The duo-turned-trio are the literal Team Kids, who serve as the focal characters of the show(s). Jonny serves as TheHeart, Hadji as TheSmartGuy, and Jessie as the ActionGirl, until ExecutiveMeddling in Season 2 of "Real Adventures" turns her into TheLoad.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': Ezra, Sabine, and Zeb are the Kids to Kanan and Hera. Ezra and Zeb act like brothers, sometimes pranking each other, sometimes working together to deal with Imperial troops. They're even sent out on a SnipeHunt by Hera to teach them to get along (and manage to return with the "snipe"). And in one episode, Sabine has a serious conversation with Hera about keeping her and the others in the dark, with Hera telling her it's to protect them, as well as the movement against the Empire. Hera also uses FullNameUltimatum on Zeb from time to time.
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Not necessarily a literal kid, and in fact more often than not are simply younger adults, the Team Kids are the ones who give the Team Mom and Team Dad their title.
Of course, in a FamilyOfChoice, this can often result in one being The Favorite, or TheUnfavorite. And in many dynamics, one of the Team Kids will be TheBabyOfTheBunch, even though they're all grown adults.
Maybe they even started as a TagalongKid years ago, but grew into an adult surrogate son or daughter. Sometimes one of the Team Kids will be a veritable {{Manchild}} / {{Womanchild}}.
From time to time WellDoneSonGuy can be in effect, even if the TeamDad isn't their literal father.
Among the "kids", a sibling dynamic can form, from BigBrotherBully, CoolBigSis, and BigBrotherInstinct. Woe to anyone who picks on a member of the "family", even if they'd been fighting among themselves beforehand.
Occasionally the Team Parent(s) is absent, and whoever stands in for them ends up a BadlyBatteredBabysitter. Often it's the HonoraryUncle, a team member who is too old and curmudgeonly to serve as one of the kids.
If the TeamMom utilizes FullNameUltimatum against someone, that's one of the Team Kids, even if it's at that very moment that they're forcibly inducted to the "family".
This has equal play for drama or comedy.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Among the titular girlfriends:
** Shizuka, who everyone else strives to protect if she's hurt physically or emotionally.
** Kusuri, whose attempt at an immortality drug left her in a child's body. (Though she can temporarily age herself up to her actual age of 18.)
** Chiyo, the youngest of Rentarou's girlfriends.
** Kishika, who mentally regresses to infancy whenever she gets pampered by someone else.
* ''Anime/BangDream'': With seven bands of young women, there are multiple teams, multiple {{Team Mom}}s, and lots and lots of kids.
** Lisa Imai is '''''THE''''' TeamMom, the one even other {{Team Mom}}s turn to, making almost everyone other than Yukina the kids, but in her own band, Roselia, there's [[TheBabyOfTheBunch Ako]], [[ShrinkingViolet Rinko]], and [[ThePerfectionist Sayo]]. She also tends to look out for Afterglow's members, as they all attend her school, she works with [[TheGadfly Moca]], and Afterglow doesn't actually have a TeamMom, with Tsugumi, TheReliableOne, also serving as TheBabyOfTheBunch, though Tomoe does serve as a CoolBigSis to her band.
** Poppin' Party's drummer, Saaya Yamabuki, has her hands full with [[CloudCuckoolander Tae]], [[BunnyEarsLawyer Kasumi]], and [[ShrinkingViolet Rimi]]. She also looks out for Moca of Afterglow, who's probably the best customer Yamabuki Bakery has.
** Misaki/Michelle is less TeamMom and more BadlyBatteredBabysitter to an entire band of Kids, from [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense Kokoro]] to Shakespeare obsessed {{Bifauxnen}} Kaoru, timid Kanon, or boisterous Hagami. There are several scenes in ''Garupa Pico '' where they realistically [[UnexplainedRecovery should not have survived]], even from the viewpoint of the story itself, but are back for more antics later.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': The youngest member of Passione, Narancia Ghirga, certainly acts his age, perhaps a little younger even. He chooses to vibe with a boombox on the trip to a billion lire stash, beg for Bucciarati to buy him snacks when given the chance, is the quickest to act on his rage when pissed off, and has the most emotional reaction to [[spoiler: the death of TeamDad: Leone Abbachio.]]
* ''Anime/MyHime'': Mai is a {{Deconstruction}} of the TeamMom, showing how her efforts to care for others amid the chaos are slowly wearing her down. Midori comes closest to being the TeamDad, being the boisterous go-getter who looks out for the girls in the "Hime Sentai/Rangers". Natsuki, Nao, Mikoto, Yukino, and Sister Yukariko are the Team Kids, with no shortage of in-fighting and miscommunication between them, especially when Yukariko is convinced by her lover to falsely accuse Nao of attacking her, which sparks a very deadly conflict between them, though when all is resolved, everyone is EasilyForgiven.
* ''Anime/MyOtome'': Natsuki is the Headmaster, and Shizuru is the TeamMom, leaving Arika, Nina, Nao, Chie, Erstine, Tomoe, and other minor Otome as the Team Kids, complete with getting into mischief. Nao is a CoolBigSis in the group, as is Chie, both wise to Tomoe's duplicity. Tragically, Erstine is The mole, and dies as her betrayal is brought to light. And Nina goes through a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor.
* ''Anime/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': Discussed. Tamaki declares himself the TeamDad while Kyoya is TeamMom, making the rest of the host club their "kids". (Often ZigZagged, since Tamaki often acts more childish than the rest of the group.) In particular, Tamaki insists that the reason he is so possessive of Haruhi is that she is his "daughter" and he has to protect her. [[spoiler: Multiple characters poke holes in this narrative throughout the series, until Tamaki finally starts to recognize his feelings for Haruhi are actually romantic.]] Of the rest of the group, Honey (who is older than Tamaki and Kyoya but is a TokenMiniMoe) and the twins (who are mischievous and somewhat immature) play the trope mostly straight while Mori and Haruhi mostly avert it.
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* ''ComicBook/GenerationX'': Banshee and White Queen are the Parents to the team, including Jubilee, M, Chamber, Husk, Skin, Synch, and, initially, Penance. The team literally being kids helps. Some issues with Penance and M and their family cause a major revelation later, and Synch is later killed, causing a rift in the team. The group eventually disbands.
* ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': The four main characters, Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Raphael are literal brothers, and surrogate sons to TeamDad Splinter. In most iterations, Mikey is TheBabyOfTheBunch, and Raphael is a hothead. They squabble from time to time, but they remain family and brothers, and heaven help the foe who harms any one of them.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge2TheMeltdown'': When Manny is making the herd a "family", he designates Crash and Eddie (two rambunctious possum brothers) "the kids who get on [his] nerves".
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[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
* ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'': Roman Pearce, despite being a grown man, often behaves the most immaturely of Dom Toretto's entire CriminalFoundFamily. He's nearly always [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong complaining and voicing doubts about their plans]], thinks [[LeaderWannabe he could be a better leader]], but always refuses to take charge when they offer it to him, gets into petty verbal sniping with Brian in the second film, takes the most AwesomeButImpractical orange Lamborghini just to look cool, and in the sixth film, he's more concerned about using the right British currency to get a snack out of a vending machine than listening in about the {{Macguffin}} of the week and what the BigBad wants to do with it. [[NotSoAboveItAll Hobbs]] offers to help Roman get his snack by just [[CuttingTheKnot shooting the vending machine open]], like an indulgent uncle.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Leonard and Penny frequently take up the TeamDad and TeamMom roles in the group, especially, though not exclusively, with Sheldon. In fact, on one episode after the pair had temporarily broken up, they had arguments over Sheldon that were intended to mirror parents fighting over shared custody of a child after a divorce, including taking Sheldon to Disneyland on an outing. In an earlier instance, when Leonard and Penny are fighting over one of her friends staying at her place, Sheldon responds as though his parents were fighting (even referring to a fight between his actual parents), and Penny placates him by having Leonard buy him a toy robot and a comic book.
* In ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', while Terry and Holt are the TeamMom and TeamDad respectively (with Holt's husband Kevin also being referred to as the squad's dad sometimes), the rest of the squad are collectively the Team Kids, with Jake and Amy in particular both referring to Holt as their dad on separate occasions. This dynamic is even lampshaded a couple of different times.
-->''(in the season 1 episode "Thanksgiving")''
-->'''Jake:''' So, I'd just like to say I'm happy to be here... With my family. My super-weird family, with two black dads and two Latina daughters and two white sons and... Gina, and... ''(to Scully)'' I don't know what you are... Some strange giant baby?
-->''(in the season 8 episode "Lake House")''
-->'''Jake:''' The point is, we can't let that [divorce] happen to Daddy Holt and Daddy Kevin.
-->'''Rosa:''' So we're just dispensing with subtext now?
-->'''Jake:''' Yes, this workplace is my family. Was that not clear? Holt is my dad, you're my mean older sister...
* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one instance by Ryan when he turns to Esposito and says of Beckett and Castle, "Mom and Dad are fighting."
* ''Series/{{Community}}'': [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Initially, Jeff and Britta were portrayed as the TeamDad and TeamMom of the study group, often involving themselves in the lives of Abed, Troy, and Annie (the youngest members of the group). At the same time, Jeff had romantic feelings for Annie. This came to a head when the two tried to stop her from dating Britta's ex Vaughn. While both claim it's because they're protective of Annie, in truth it was motivated by Jeff wanting to be with Annie and Britta jealous that Annie was seeing Vaughn. This causes the group to have a realization about how unhealthy this dynamic was.
* ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'': Grissom and Catherine serve as the Team Parents, with Nick, Warrick, Greg, and Sara as the Team Kids. However, Grissom vacilates between trying to be a father figure to Sara and having romantic feelings for her. Even after marrying her, he splits with her until the finale. Warrick is killed by a corrupt law enforcement officer, and Grissom takes it very hard. Greg gets roughed up by a gang, and is the subject of an inquest when he kills one of them with his vehicle to save another man, and Grissom advises him not to rely on the city to have his back. And Nick has a DarkAndTroubledPast and ends up being BuriedAlive in one story arc that has lasting ramifications. When he's rescued, Grissom calls him "Poncho", which was the nickname Nick's Dad used to use for him
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': TeamDad Mac thinks of his team as his FamilyOfChoice, even telling his girlfriend, Christine, so in season 8. Stella is TeamMom for the 6 seasons, followed by Jo for the last 3. During Lindsay's settling-in period in season 2, Stella has to call her out for ditching a crime scene, but later takes her under her wing when Lindsay opens up about it reminding her of a high-school tragedy. Mac has several instances of finding some of the Kids (Danny, Lindsay, Adam and to a lesser extent, Sheldon) bickering; his stern go-to phrase to stop them is "Are you two/three done?" But when any of them, especially TheBabyOfTheBunch Adam (whom he once catches throwing multiple paper airplanes in the Lab), are troubled, Mac will sit down and have a fatherly heart to heart with them. Notable examples are Danny struggling with feelings of inadequacy over becoming a husband/new dad, and Adam reliving past abuse from his own father.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': With Lily and Marshall as TeamMom and TeamDad, the rest of the group often fall into the kids' roles:
** Hyperactive Barney is often seen as the youngest child, as he has little impulse control and never learned certain basic skills like how to drive or use certain tools.
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': WordOfGod is that Sophie and Nate are the TeamMom and TeamDad respectively, and that Hardison, Eliot, and Parker are "the kids", which is demonstrated several times, but perhaps nowhere near as well as "The Ho Ho Ho Job" where Nate and Sophie got gifts for the kids, and then delighted in watching them enjoy their "toys".
* ''Series/TheLibrarians2014'': Flynn and Baird are the TeamMom and TeamDad. ([[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] when Flynn is under the influence of the Apple of Discord and [[LargeHam hammily]] announces "Daddy's home!") This makes Stone, Ezekiel, and Cassandra the Team Kids, with Jenkins as a sort of grumpy HonoraryUncle. There's also a degree of competitiveness between the "siblings" as Ezekiel will steal Stone's wallet to prove he's not going soft, and Cassandra keeps trying to use magic, to the amusement of Ezekiel and the consternation of Stone.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Cols. Blake and Potter are each the TeamDad for their time at the 4077th, with Potter actually acting as a surrogate for Margaret, but the biggest example of the team Kids are the denizens of "The Swamp", which always include Hawkeye, Trapper until Season 4, Burns until Season 6, BJ from Season 4 onward, and Winchester from Season 6 onward. They often prank each other, spar with one another, particularly with Burns as TheUnfavorite, and have petty squabbles, such as when Hawk and BJ are in a protest against Winchester over his music, during which they refuse to bathe. Potter even once tells Hawk, after the Captain had misbehaved particularly egregiously, that if he were the man's father, he'd take him to the woodshed.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Uhura, Checkov, and Sulu are the Team Kids to the Kirk/Spock Team Mom and Dad, with Bones and Scotty as [[HonoraryUncle uncles]]. This is made apparent in "Who Mourns For Adonis", when Checkov suggests he comfort Lt. Palamas. Kirk asks him how old he is and when Checkov tells him, Kirk says he's too young.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', Ventus, being the youngest and most inexperienced Keyblade wielder, acts as the Team Kid with TeamMom Aqua and TeamDad Terra. When Scrooge [=McDuck=] thanks Ventus for saving him with passes to Disney Town, Ventus tells Terra and Aqua that he is told to bring "his parents" (Japanese version) or "two grown-ups" (English version).
* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': Though not the youngest of the group (that would be Agnea), Ochette is the most childlike, as well as being inexperienced in the ways of the world, such as money, due to having grown up on a secluded island. She's also particularly close to TeamMom Castti, whom she (usually affectionately, but sometimes derisively such as when the latter tells her she can't only eat meat all the time) calls Mama.
* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'': Played for laughs in one of the official gag manga, where [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Captain Bright Noa]] is treated as the TeamDad by the majority of the combined heroes. In one story, [[Anime/GreatMazinger Tetsuya Tsurugi]] expresses his admiration that just about everyone views Bright as a surrogate father, to which Bright replies that as captain of the Ra Calium, he's naturally AFatherToHisMen. Tetsuya notes that as an orphan, he's never had a father to discipline him properly and asks him to demonstrate his legendary [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan Bright Slap]]. After a brief moment of confusion, Bright obliges and knocks Tetsuya clean off his feet with a single slap. A RunningGag is how the orphans in the crew often act more childishly around him, due to seeing him as a ParentalSubstitute... even if, like Tetsuya, they're grown adults and veteran soldiers.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheRealAdventuresOfJonnyQuest'': Race Bannon and Dr. Quest are literal Dads, first to Jonny and Hadji, and later in "Real Adventures" to Jessie as well. The duo-turned-trio are the literal Team Kids, who serve as the focal characters of the show(s). Jonny serves as TheHeart, Hadji as TheSmartGuy, and Jessie as the ActionGirl, until ExecutiveMeddling in Season 2 of "Real Adventures" turns her into TheLoad.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': Ezra, Sabine, and Zeb are the Kids to Kanan and Hera. Ezra and Zeb act like brothers, sometimes pranking each other, sometimes working together to deal with Imperial troops. They're even sent out on a SnipeHunt by Hera to teach them to get along (and manage to return with the "snipe"). And in one episode, Sabine has a serious conversation with Hera about keeping her and the others in the dark, with Hera telling her it's to protect them, as well as the movement against the Empire. Hera also uses FullNameUltimatum on Zeb from time to time.
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