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** In yet another episode, Mick inspires Creator/IshiroHonda to create Franchise/{{Godzilla}}.
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* ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'': Xavier, Yadina, and Brad travel back in time to meet famous people of history when they were children like Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, and Marie Curie. As children, the historical figures possess the attributes that made them famous in adulthood. Even facial hair. The point of the show is to demonstrate that historical figures used to be children and yet changed the world with their positive messages.
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** The episode "Murdoch and the Tramp" has Murdoch investigating a murder in a touring vaudeville company that includes Creator/CharlieChaplin, his then-understudy [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel]] and a ''very'' young Creator/BusterKeaton. Crabtree inadvertantly invents the "little tramp" character, and Murdoch does an accidental ByWallThatIsHoley gag, which Keaton is impressed by.
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** In ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedValhalla'', one sidequest has you help a boy pick flowers to present to his crush, who turns out to be UsefulNotes/{{Aethelflaed}}, daughter of UsefulNotes/AlfredTheGreat (a major character in the game) as a child long before she comes to power and boots the Danes out of England.
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* ''Literature/TheDarkestDark'' is about a young [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hadfield Chris Hadfield]] learning to overcome his fear of the dark.
* Creator/EstherFriesner's ''Princesses of Myth'' series, about historical or semihistorical (or straight-up mythical) princesses of history during their childhood and young adulthood. So far she has taken on Helen of Troy, Nefertiti of Egypt, Himiko of Yamatai/Japan, and Maeve of Connacht/Ireland.
* Creator/EstherFriesner's ''Princesses of Myth'' series, about historical or semihistorical (or straight-up mythical) princesses of history during their childhood and young adulthood. So far she has taken on Helen of Troy, Nefertiti of Egypt, Himiko of Yamatai/Japan, and Maeve of Connacht/Ireland.
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* Creator/EstherFriesner's ''Princesses of Myth'' series, about historical or semihistorical (or straight-up mythical) princesses of history during their childhood and young adulthood. So far she has taken on Helen of Troy, Nefertiti of Egypt, Himiko of Yamatai/Japan, and Maeve of Connacht/Ireland.
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* One episode of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' had Sam unable to figure out what he was supposed to do in a leap until the end of the episode where a pig he was watching runs off and he tries to find it. The literal moment he utters "Here, piggy! Soo-ey!" his assistant belts out a song about "Piggy Soo-ey" on his guitar.
--> '''Sam''': [[Music/BuddyHolly Buddy...]]
-->'''Buddy''': Yeah, Doc?
-->'''Sam''': Uh... why don't you try "Peggy Sue", it might... sound a little better.
--> '''Sam''': [[Music/BuddyHolly Buddy...]]
-->'''Buddy''': Yeah, Doc?
-->'''Sam''': Uh... why don't you try "Peggy Sue", it might... sound a little better.
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* ''Series/InsuTheQueenMother'': Most of the characters who appear as children or teenagers grew up to be important figures in Korean history. The most infamous one is Prince Yeonsan -- otherwise known as UsefulNotes/YeonsangunOfJoseon.
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* On ''Series/LovecraftCountry'', Dee's friend "Bobo", who appears in a few episodes, is actually real-life lynching victim [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till Emmett Till]]. The first episode he appears in has an ouija board tell him that his upcoming trip to Mississippi won't go well. Till's funeral plays an important role in episode 8.
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* ''Film/{{Hawking}}'': features Stephen Hawking when he was an ambulatory, [[{{Adorkable}} oddly cute]] 21 year old university student.
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* Daisy, the Doctor's companion in ''Webcomic/DoctorWhoRegenerated'', really wants to meet Howard Carter, but when she gets the chance, he's seventeen and {{Adorkable}}. Not that she has a problem with it.
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* ''Series/TheGreat'': UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat is much younger here (20) than when she took power in real life (40s), but the series fast tracks the buildup to the coup.
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* ''Series/TheGoldbergs'' features the recurring character David Sirota, based on one of Adam Goldberg's real life childhood friends. By the time the show started airing, Sirota had become famous as Bernie Sanders' speechwriter and a political commentator. Narration during the character's first appearance points out Sirota's fame as an adult and with a clip of the real Sirota on ''Series/TheColbertReport''.
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* A young man called Siu Lung in the ''Film/IpManFilmSeries'' starts showing up in the series starting in the second film, eager to learn martial arts from Ip Man. He is also known as Creator/BruceLee.
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* On ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', Lord Grantham mentions having a friend who got excellent returns from his investment with [[Ponzi Charles Ponzi]]. Fortunately, the Crawleys decide to go in a different direction.
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* ''ComicBook/MyFriendDahmer'' depicts Jeffrey Dahmer, an American SerialKiller during his high school years. The reason being that it's actually based on real witnesses from the author Derf, who went at the same school as Dahmer.
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** In '''Videogame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'', a segment featuring Jacob's descendant has her working with a young Winston Churchill, presumably before he became a Templar.
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** ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' has the young Alcibiades as an ally before he became one of the central figures of the Peloponnesian War.
** ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' has the young Alcibiades as an ally before he became one of the central figures of the Peloponnesian War.
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* The boxing documentary ''Film/WhenWeWereKings'', focusing on the 1974 fight between UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli and George Foreman, includes footage of Ali sparring with Larry Holmes. Six years later, Holmes, by then the world heavyweight champion, would effectively end Ali's career in a bout so one-sided that Ali's corner stopped the fight after 10 rounds. (Ali had only one more fight, which he lost by decision.)
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For the benefit of the audience, Young Future Famous People who are known to history by their StageName are often called that in such appearances in fiction, even if they are being depicted at a point in their lives before they had adopted such names. For example, a child Archibald Leach, better known to history as Creator/CaryGrant, or, as noted in the examples below, young Gladys Smith being called by her adult professional name, Creator/MaryPickford
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* ''Series/Spy2019'': Of all of construction magnate Mohammed bin Laden's 56 children, of course it's a young Osama who makes a brief appearance.
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* Creator/ChrisRock from ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris''.
* Adam Goldberg from ''Series/TheGoldbergs''. Even the adult version of himself is [[NostalgicNarrator the narrator who narrates his life in]] TheEighties.
* ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'' focuses on a younger version of Eddie Huang who is portrayed by Hudson Yang.
* Adam Goldberg from ''Series/TheGoldbergs''. Even the adult version of himself is [[NostalgicNarrator the narrator who narrates his life in]] TheEighties.
* ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'' focuses on a younger version of Eddie Huang who is portrayed by Hudson Yang.
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* ''Film/{{Backbeat}}'' portrays the Music/Beatles in their Hamburg era, and focuses on tragically doomed Stu Sutcliff and his romance with Astrid Kirchherr (a solid performance by a young Sheryl Lee).
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* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' dabbles in this trope, including an episode in which the Legends convince a young Creator/GeorgeLucas not to give up on filmmaking and one where they save [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Barry Obama]] from a rampaging telepathic gorilla.
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* ''Series/AmericanCrimeStory: Series/ThePeopleVOJSimpson'' does this with Robert Kardashian's wife Kris Jenner and their children Creator/{{Kim|Kardashian}}, Khloe, Kourtney, and Rob, who are all enraptured by the sight of Robert on TV and amazed at the attention that they now receive. The show portrays the O. J. Simpson trial as the StartOfDarkness for the Kardashians, the point at which they, despite Robert's warnings about how CelebrityIsOverrated, committed themselves to becoming world-famous celebrities once they realized its perks.
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* ''Series/TheAlienist'' features New York City Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt.
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* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' dabbles in this trope, including an episode in which the Legends convince a youngGeorge Lucas Creator/GeorgeLucas not to give up on filmmaking and one where they save [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Barry Obama Obama]] from a rampaging telepathic gorilla.gorilla.
* ''Series/AmericanCrimeStory: Series/ThePeopleVOJSimpson'' does this with Robert Kardashian's wife Kris Jenner and their children Creator/{{Kim|Kardashian}}, Khloe, Kourtney, and Rob, who are all enraptured by the sight of Robert on TV and amazed at the attention that they now receive. The show portrays the O. J. Simpson trial as the StartOfDarkness for the Kardashians, the point at which they, despite Robert's warnings about how CelebrityIsOverrated, committed themselves to becoming world-famous celebrities once they realized its perks.
* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' dabbles in this trope, including an episode in which the Legends convince a young
* ''Series/AmericanCrimeStory: Series/ThePeopleVOJSimpson'' does this with Robert Kardashian's wife Kris Jenner and their children Creator/{{Kim|Kardashian}}, Khloe, Kourtney, and Rob, who are all enraptured by the sight of Robert on TV and amazed at the attention that they now receive. The show portrays the O. J. Simpson trial as the StartOfDarkness for the Kardashians, the point at which they, despite Robert's warnings about how CelebrityIsOverrated, committed themselves to becoming world-famous celebrities once they realized its perks.