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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]], [[{{Franchise/Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow the Scarecrow]], [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Selina Kyle]], ComicBook/TheJoker, ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]], [[Characters/BatmanBane Bane]], and Mr. Freeze.[[note]]And starring Al Pennyworth as the [[AlmightyJanitor Wise Janitor]].[[/note]]]]
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4	->''"The basic overarching plot is, 'What is the contrived nonsense that drives [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] to take a human form and go to high school?'"''
5	-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''' pitches ''Literature/ViridianSaga''
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7	The High School A.U. is an AlternateUniverseFic that may or may not resemble the original universe, but the main premise is that most or all of the characters from whatever universe the story draws from are [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether all in an academic setting]] (typically set in the present day). Usually, this happens to be high school, although [[CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2 college is not unheard of]], nor is Jr. High[=/=]Middle, or even Elementary School, depending on the ages of the cast.
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9	This type of story may also occasionally [[{{Mundanization}} remove anything and everything unusual in the original premise]], though this is not necessarily a requirement. This especially tends to happen when the cast is already comprised mostly of teenagers in a fantasy or sci-fi world.
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11	This is the most common form of AlternateUniverseFic, for good or ill, mostly because it is an easy setting to write for, probably because [[WriteWhatYouKnow a lot of fanfic writers are of school age themselves]]. Some stories may take a series that never took place in a school and transplant the characters there. A variant on this is to take a series where a school was part of the setting, and makes it the primary setting. Another variant is taking a show with characters that were elementary or lower grammar school age and [[AgeLift transplanting them to a high school setting]]. A less common variant are the characters being portrayed as teachers rather than students.
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13	A rarer variation is to also attempt to transplant the ''storyline''. This works better with storylines that are effectively independent of the setting.
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15	This is especially likely to happen when the cast of a series functions as a UniversalAdaptorCast.
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17	A subtrope of TransplantedCharacterFic. Compare SpinoffBabies, CoffeeShopAUFic, and ModernAUFic. Contrast SuperFic. Supertrope to TheBreakfastPlot.
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19	[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not a high school in]] UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}... unless it's set there, of course.
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22	!!Example subpages:
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24	[[index]]
25	* HighSchoolAU/FanWorks
26	[[/index]]
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28	!!Other examples:
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30	[[folder:Advertising]]
31	* ''Advertising/HungryDays'' has [=AUs=] for ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'', ''Anime/HeidiGirlOfTheAlps'', ''Anime/SazaeSan'', and ''Franchise/OnePiece''.
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34	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
35	* Some manga have {{Omake}} chapters in this style, often finding humor from the contortions needed to shoehorn the tropes of the series into the cliche High School tropes. Examples:
36	** ''Manga/BlackLagoon''
37	** ''Manga/ExcelSaga''
38	** ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld''
39	** ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', which also had animated omake sequences and even a novelisation of their "Ginpachi-sensei" AU.
40	** ''Manga/FairyTail''. Gets an extended {{Omake}} with a few {{Call Back}}s
41	** ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' and ''Manga/XxxHolic''. Strangely, ''[=×××HOLiC=]'' should qualify as a HSU anyway; the teenage leads are high school students and we sometimes see them at school, albeit not in classes. It's just not the main focus.
42	** ''Manga/PandoraHearts''.
43	** ''Manga/{{Itsuwaribito}}'' Has these at the end at almost every volume. [[spoiler:In the end Utsuho wakes up and turns out that it was the real storyline and the plot was AllJustADream. So the story about the best liar ever... was all just a lie...]]
44	** ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' has the "Kimetsu Gakuen" strips.
45	* Speaking of, "Kimetsu Gauken" went from being a short omake to a straight up spin-off after the original manga series concluded.
46	* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' has three examples:
47	** A gag ending in the original manga has Eren waking up to discover that the entire series was AllJustADream and that he and Mikasa are actually normal Japanese teenagers. Likely a ShoutOut to the ''Evangelion'' fake-out ending mentioned below.
48	** A later series of gag endings puts the cast into a stereotypical [[EagleLand American]] high school.
49	** The series also has an official SpinOff called ''Manga/AttackOnTitanJuniorHigh'', though as the name implies, it's technically a Junior High AU; everyone in the series has been transplanted into a modern Japanese middle school setting, including the Titans themselves, who are still towering giants but somehow ''also'' go to school.
50	* Similarly, the fourth ending of ''Manga/BlackClover'' is based on this idea.
51	* Creator/TsutomuNihei's ''[[Manga/{{Blame}} BLAME! Academy]]'' gag manga. You only have to look at the art work to realize this is intensely [[CrackFic crackish]] and completely hilarious. Notable for still having killer cyborgs with portable [=WMDs=] & taking place in an unimaginably massive CyberPunk city, which is basically the whole joke. Also unusual as it actually ages one character up, with murderous cyborg loli Sana-Kan becoming a grown woman as one of the teachers.
52	* ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' was adapted into a High School AU {{Light Novel\|s}}, ''Hard Metal Guardians'', in 2012. Sylia is an ElegantGothicLolita, Linna is a rich girl working in a {{Meido}} cafe to understand how ordinary people live, Nene has GirlishPigtails with Leon as her older brother who still works in the A.D. Police, and Priss is still in a rock band.
53	* ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' has an anime-based [[AudioAdaptation Drama CD]] set in an High School AU. The Sinners are in a gang which Chrono is slowly becoming disillusioned with, Rosette is a girl from a Catholic school that Chrono has a romantic interest in, Sister Kate is the principle of Rosette's school while Daffau is the principle of the other school, etc. The cast gets to be {{Large Ham}}s and seem to be having a blast.
54	* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
55	** Like its [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Internet rival]] ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', ''Anime/CodeGeass'' had a High School AU as one of its audio dramas. Unlike most examples though, the expected roles were reversed; MagnificentBastard protagonist Lelouch is a teacher, his LadyOfWar sister Cornelia is a ''sukeban'', and BigBad Emperor Charles is the leader of the school's gangs.
56	** Arguably, the manga adaptation with the same name as the anime also qualifies, since it focuses more on Ashford Academy thanks to the removal of the HumongousMecha. The racist military faction is replaced by a racist group of students, and the Japanese rebels commit acts of petty vandalism rather than actual terrorism.
57	* ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'': ''The High School Years!''
58	* ''Anime/CrossAnge'' has a spinoff manga called ''Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Gakuen (Cross Ange: School of Angels and Dragons)'' where everyone is a regular high school student and there are no deaths.
59	* Later episodes of the ''Manga/DGrayMan'' anime have a High School AU {{Omake}} at the end.
60	* ''Literature/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' has a manga adaptation where the main characters are in school instead of the fast food industry.
61	* The third credit ending sequence of ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' skirts this, showing the female cast living out lives normal for (real) women of their ages (given that most of them are High School aged). It's interesting to note that this ending credit sequence was storyboarded by Shinichirō Watanabe. Yeah, ''[[Anime/CowboyBebop that]]'' [[Anime/SamuraiChamploo Shinichiro Watanabe]] ([[CowboyBebopAtHIsComputer but not that one]])
62	* Spoofed by Hiromu Arakawa more than once with ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' omakes. They usually involve Edward and Alphonse in a gang (not a very good one at that) or Mustang and the Fuhrer in a girls' school spoofing '70s {{Shoujo}} manga. Don't forget Olivier as a sukeban (member of a Japanese girl gang).
63	* ''Anime/GalaxyAngel X'' has one for one episode, complete with the requisite AnimeThemeSong this type of show would have. The end of said theme song is interrupted by ringing cell phones.
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65	* ''Anime/HeroicAge'''s OST covers feature Dheianeila and Yuti La as high school students in another shoutout to Sukeban Deka.
66	* ''Horitsuba Gakuen'' is a series of crossover drama [=CDs=] starring the characters from ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' and ''Manga/XxxHolic'' in a high school setting.
67	* ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' is itself a High School AU of ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' (as well as a GenderFlip of most of the characters). [[InvertedTrope Naturally, this means]] there's official art of the ''Ikki Tousen'' characters in ''Three Kingdoms''-era China (or something similar enough to excuse breaking out the {{Breast Plate}}s).
68	* ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'' is a {{Crossover}} anime series that is an ''official'' High School A.U. It brings together four {{Light Novel\|s}}-based {{Isekai}} series published by Kodansha (''Literature/KonoSuba'', ''Literature/{{Overlord\|2012}}'', ''Literature/TheSagaOfTanyaTheEvil'', and ''Literature/ReZero'') and puts them all in a single high school classroom, while keeping their original outfits from their home series. The second season adds characters from ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' as well.
69	* ''Anime/{{K}}'' has one as an OtomeGame, called ''Gakuen Anime/{{K}}''.
70	* Very similar to ''Isekai Quartet'' above, ''Anime/{{Kaginado}}'' uses the same premise of merging multiple franchises together and put them in the same high school without changing outfits. The franchises being ''Creator/KeyVisualArts''' ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'', ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', ''VisualNovel/{{Rewrite}}'', and later ''Anime/AngelBeats''. However, only the actual high school characters attend Kagindo Academy, while all the other characters apparently live in the same town or live in their original homes, as evident with ''AIR''. Characters from the distant past are in the present, the series has no fear of spoiling its audience and it makes constantly fun of the TearJerker moments the franchises are known for.
71	* While ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' already takes place in High School, the ''Official Doujinshi'' spin-off had a series of chapters centering around a Kindergarten AU where Shirogane and Hayasaka are everyone else's teachers. [[spoiler:Notably, it is the only AU where Hayasaka takes Kaguya's place as Shirogane's LoveInterest (though Kaguya still has a PrecociousCrush on him).]]
72	* The {{OVA}} on one of the ''Anime/KoihimeMusou'' [=DVDs=] has all the main characters attend high school, with highly explosive results.
73	* ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaINNOCENT'' is a manga series used to advertise a {{Collectible Card\|Game}} MobilePhoneGame for ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha''...and it is unabashedly a Grade School AU. The magic powers have been replaced with virtual card games, and all of the non-human characters are now humans (except the familiars, which are just normal animals). [[FixFic We also have a good Precia and six other canonically dead characters that aren't dead.]][[note]]seven if you include ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable Gears of Destiny]]'' continuity.[[/note]]
74	* Parodied in ''Anime/MagicalShoppingArcadeAbenobashi'' as one of the alternate worlds [[spoiler:(created from fragments of Sasshi's mind)]] to which Sasshi and Arumi travel - this one is patterned after dating sims, having Sasshi as a borderline UnluckyEverydude and Arumi as... a cupid of sorts.
75	* ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' spoofs this with an "Early 21st Century High School" entertainment program in the titular space battleship's virtual reality recreation room, which is essentially a High School AU [[Franchise/StarTrek holodeck scenario]].
76	* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' anime. The series takes place mostly in a high school (granted, it's a [[AcademyOfAdventure high school for superheroes]], but a high school regardless). The third ending credits sequence features the characters in a HighFantasy setting. [[EmpoweredBadassNormal Deku]] becomes a clumsy traveller in a rather Bilbo-Baggins-esque get-up (with a sword that's apparently possessed by [[BigGood All-Might]]), Todoroki is a prince on a white horse, Uraraka is a mage, Iida a KnightInShiningArmor, and [[HavingABlast Bakugo]] is a DragonRider. We also get to see all of Class 1-A, who are all featured as some [[AnAdventurerIsYou fantasy class or other]]. The beginning implies this is a class play of some sort.
77	** In a sense, the series was this to its predecessor ''Manga/{{My Hero\|2008}}''. Rather than be about a salaryman taking after his inspiration while on the job, it's about a teen's life at SuperheroSchool with his inspiration as one of the teachers.
78	* The [[https://youtu.be/jufVjjtiDko second ending credits sequence]] for ''Manga/{{Naruto}} Shippuden'' is set in a High School AU, joining and legitimizing the thousands of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfics that have already used this trope. Ironically, it also went ''against'' lots of clichés that were (and still are) extremely common in Naruto high school AU fics. It portrayed Naruto as a HotBlooded gang member instead of a normal but waifish outcast. OTOH Hinata remained a shy ShrinkingViolet (albeit one who is assertive enough to directly ask Naruto out), Sakura remained a Type B {{Tsundere}} ready to slap Naruto if needed, Rock Lee was the sports star, Neji was both the ArrogantKungFuGuy AND the StudentCouncilPresident, and Sasuke was the local Bad Boy and Naruto's rival who still aided him during fights. This was expanded upon in a bonus feature, created by the animators, for the seventh Shippuden DVD called ''[[Anime/ShippuKonohaGakuenDen Shippu! Konoha Gakuen Den]]'' which consists of narrated still-frames, in which Naruto [[ToBeAMaster seeks to be the leader of all in the yakuza in Japan]] and we see him beating the other fighters in the school, and also features [[ShipTease Naruto and Hinata actually going on a date]] while several others (Sakura, Ino, Shikamaru, etc.) [[DatePeepers spy on them]].
79	* ''Manga/{{NEEDLESS}}'' also has a series of High School AU bonus specials, this time set at St. Lily Academy, with Cruz playing a role he would later go on to play in the post-apocalyptic action series, only in a more traditional setting. That role? Crossdresser.
80	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' plays with the trope--since the original series already takes place (for half of its run anyway) in a junior high school, one of the spinoffs takes place in a '''kindergarten''' instead, with the students aged down and the (originally child prodigy) teacher and his best friend '''aged up''' to adults.
81	* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
82	** During Shinji's [[MindScrew weird, freaky head-space thing]] from the last episodes, he imagines putting all the characters into an idealized version of his school -- with twice the High School cliché tropes, and none of the HumongousMecha. There are now ''three'' official tie-in manga series based on that setting, not to mention the {{fanfic}} on both sides of the Pacific.
83	** The ''Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionAngelicDays'' spinoff is actually a ''subverted'' High School AU, as it is quickly revealed that all the HumongousMecha and AncientConspiracy stuff is going on in this universe too.
84	** The other two ''Evangelion'' manga which fit this trope are ''Neon Genesis Evangelion: Manga/ShinjiIkariRaisingProject'' and ''Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionCampusApocalypse'' (which tweaks the formula slightly to age the characters a few years and put them in university).
85	** There's the SuperDeformed CGI shorts and YonKoma manga of ''Anime/PetitEva'', which is 100% gag-based. Unit 01 is now a {{delinquent\|s}} robot in the same class as Shinji, Asuka and the three Rei Ayanami sisters.
86	* The three-page manga "Red-Hair of Class 3-Sea TIME" takes ''Manga/OnePiece'' characters and sticks them into the clichéd story of an inspirational teacher who turns around a class of delinquents [[spoiler:Specifically, they're all inspired to become pirates]]. With Luffy as the all-out study freak jukensei.
87	* ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'', an anime adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'', featured the girls as three unrelated typical 12 year-old middle schoolers that were given superpowers. It played like a {{Magical\|Girl}}... 'scuse me, [[InsistentTerminology Scientific]] [[MagicalGirl Girl]] series.
88	* ''Anime/QueensBlade'' is normally a HighFantasy world. The DVD bonus specials take all the characters and set them at Gainos Academy, with school uniforms and no decrease in fanservice.
89	* The ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'' manga has a series of audio drama CD set in the alternate 'Samurai High School' setting, stemming from a piece of art drawn by the creator for one of the manga volumes. Strangely enough it is highly probable that said creator is actually female (pseudonyms are funny that way).
90	* Not exactly an ''AU'', but ''[[Literature/{{Slayers}} Slayers NEXT]]'' and ''Slayers TRY'' feature fun little illustrations that bookend the commercial breaks, like a lot of anime do. Sometimes they actually pertain to the episode, but usually they're just fun illustrations showing what the characters would look like in a more modern setting. Favorites include [[GenkiGirl Amelia]] the sailor-style school girl, Zelgadis the rock star, and Gourry as a daycare attendent.
91	* The ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' has several short-lived anime/manga spin-offs featuring its characters in a school setting:
92	** ''Tales of Academia'' has characters from games up until ''Xillia 2'' attending or teaching at an unnamed ElaborateUniversityHigh, with younger characters attending a primary school on campus, and older adult characters acting as teachers or other staff. Characters tend to maintain their dynamics from the source material, such as [[VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia Flynn being the responsible hall monitor opposite the more blunt Yuri]].
93	** The ''VideoGame/TalesOfLink'' tie-in comic promotes in-game school uniform costumes by parodying a FirstDayOfSchoolEpisode with the ''Tales of School'' chapter, where characters attend Leonne Academy, a school ruled from the shadows by [[NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters a gang that enforces justice between students]]. Here, [[VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2 Ludger]] is a nervous senior student who bumps into first-year students [[VideoGame/TalesOfGraces Sophie]] and [[VideoGame/TalesOfRebirth Mao]] as well as StudentCouncilPresident [[VideoGame/TalesOfInnocence Ange]] on his first day. After an incident with an emptied bento box, [[VideoGame/TalesOfXillia Gaius]] is shown to be one of the gang members, only for [[TheReveal Ludger to reveal himself to be the leader]].
94	** ''Tales of Homeroom'' was a series of anime shorts released in 2018 centering on [[VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria Laphicet]], a shy new student often bailed out of trouble by [[RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation his sister]] Velvet, who's credited with wrecking a number of schools due to [[KnightTemplarBigSister her extreme overprotectiveness of her little brother]]. Unlike the previous spin-offs, the shorts include the combat elements of home games, such as [[VideoGame/TalesOfXillia Milla]] using her elemental spirit powers, Velvet's transforming monster hand, and Ludger dual wielding... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a pot and ladle to stop them from fighting]].
95	* This happened in an episode of the ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' TV series. Not content to leave it at that, however, the writers also threw in {{Magical Girl}}s. Unsurprisingly, given the amoeba-like manner in which ''Tenchi Muyo'' split off {{alternate continuit\|y}}ies, this world became [[Anime/PrettySammy a series all on its own]]. [[Anime/SasamiMagicalGirlsClub Two different series, in fact]].
96	* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
97	** There is an audio drama CD set in a high school where Kamina is basically a misfit failing school, Simon is the sole handyman/janitor, and Nia is the Student Council President...until they kick all that to the ground like everything else and turn the whole thing upside down. [[http://community.livejournal.com/gurren_lagann/157779.html Read the script here.]]
98	** ''Gurren Lagann'' also has a ''second'' official High School AU in the form of the manga ''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Guren Gakuenhen''. All the good guys attend Dai Gurren Academy, which is located right next to the menacing and intimidating Teppelin Academy, headed by malicious principal Lord Genome. Note that all of the Beastmen are still Beastmen, and [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight no one finds this odd]]. Highlights include Kamina getting ''very'' confused over the meaning of "{{moe}}", Yoko in a [[{{Joshikousei}} sailor uniform]] inducing MarshmallowHell to Simon for ''three whole pages'' (while continuing to talk), and Viral dressed in a business suit (coinciding with the "ViralMarketing" [[MemeticMutation meme]]). Oh, and Nia wears [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei's]] transfer student uniform (see below) and calls Simon her husband... and ''takes the [[Anime/{{Gunbuster}} Buster Stance]]''. Plus, this manga sheds some insight into how Kamina and Nia [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would fare]] [[spoiler:had Kamina not died before Nia arrived into the plot]]. Leeron is also in a dress and Lord Genome is the overprotective dad of Nia. Nia and Simon pull off a sequence very similar to [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Love Love TenKyoKen]]
99	* ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' had a kindergarten AU in the manga, entitled ''Petite Mew Mew''. Interestingly, the characters' natures as magical {{Animorph\|ism}}s were ''emphasized'' rather than discarded; for example, Lettuce is a finless porpoise ''all the time'', and has to be carried around in a fishbowl.
100	* Both of the opening credits to ''Anime/TheTowerOfDruaga'' are set in such a setting.
101	* ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'' has a drama CD with a high school setting.
102	* ''Franchise/YokaiWatch'' has the ''Yo-Kai Academy Y'' subseries (''[[Anime/YokaiWatchJamTheMovieYokaiAcademyYCanACatBeAHero Can a Cat be A Hero?]]'' and ''[[Anime/YokaiWatchJamYokaiAcademyYCloseEncountersOfTheNKind Close Encounters of the N Kind]]''), which is a fusion between this and the HenshinHero genre. The usual Yo-kai are humanoids and attend the titular school, and since they're already supernatural to some extent, the YSP Watch instead gives them powers.
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105	[[folder:Comic Books]]
106	* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': Featured in ''ComicBook/DeadpoolCorps'', with Kid Deadpool living in one such world.
107	* The Creator/DCInk {{Elseworlds}} ''ComicBook/GothamHigh'' (no relation to the cancelled cartoon show) includes teenage and {{Race Lift}}ed versions of [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], ComicBook/TheJoker, ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} and ComicBook/TwoFace.
108	* The ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'' original graphic novel ''Breaking Glass'' features Harley, Joker, and Ivy (who also gets a RaceLift, becoming black) as high schoolers, [[spoiler:with cameos from a teenage Bruce Wayne.]]
109	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': Archie did this to Sonic and his friends in one issue. It was not well-received.
110	* ''ComicBook/MystikU'' is a DC AU series featuring various DC magician characters as freshmen at a [[WizardingSchool Wizarding University]].
111	* ''ComicBook/Switch2015'' is a LighterAndSofter ([[AdaptationalModesty and much more modest]]) ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' AU in a high school setting.
112	* ''ComicBook/TinyTitans'' does this for the ComicBook/TeenTitans and other characters in the DCU in a grade school sense, with Titan villains being teachers of the school the main cast goes to.
113	* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
114	** ''X-Campus'' is either this or a college AU. Same difference.
115	** The OELManga ''Manga/XMenMisfits'', which cast a few characters like ComicBook/{{Storm\|MarvelComics}} and ComicBook/{{Beast\|MarvelComics}} as young teachers, but made the rest of the cast into teenagers.
116	** ''Pixie Strikes Back'' started out as this, but [[spoiler:it gradually turned out that the whole thing was an illusion brought on by some weird mixture of demons and pixie dust]].
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119	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
120	* This seems to be one of the main premises of ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGONinjagoMovie'', the spinoff of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' set in the universe of ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie''.
121	* ''WesternAnimation/LittlePrincessSchool'' is a ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' [[TheMockbuster mockbuster]] featuring the characters as 6-year old students at a princess school.
122	* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' features multiple of the original film's major characters actually attending college and studying for their future profession as Scarers.
123	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' and its sequels are literally this, being an actual alternate universe from the main ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' series that the characters can travel between whenever they so wish. The cast are reimagined as [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation technicolor humans]], with many of them either attending high school or working there as faculty.
124	* ''Anime/PokemonIChooseYou'' has a DreamSequence where Ash imagines himself going to elementary school. Instead of being late for his first Pokémon, he is late for school. It's implied in the sequence that Pokémon don't exist in that world.
125	* This is how ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' reimagines the mythos of Myth/KingArthur, depicting many of the characters in that setting as students going to high school together.
126	* ''Anime/YokaiWatchJamTheMovieYokaiAcademyYCanACatBeAHero'' is a school AU of ''Anime/YokaiWatch'' set in Y Academy. Jibanyan, Komasan, and several other yokai are now human schoolkids.
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129	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
130	* Hollywood seems to enjoy giving Creator/WilliamShakespeare the High School AU treatment, with notable examples including ''Film/{{O}}'' (''Theatre/{{Othello}}''), ''Film/GetOverIt'' (''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream''), ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou'' (''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'') and ''Film/ShesTheMan'' (''Theatre/TwelfthNight''). The thriller ''The Glass House'' is vaguely ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' (with the obligatory shout-outs), and vaguely High School (everyone stays the same ''relative'' ages, so most characters are adults.)
131	* ''Film/AssassinationOfAHighSchoolPresident'' translates conspiracy and thriller-feely tropes to a high school setting. It also features the journalist protagonist, in this case writing for the high school newspaper.
132	* ''Film/{{Brick}}'' isn't an AU of any specific noir story, but it still fits here. The movie takes every noir trope imaginable and transplants them into a high school setting. The results are surprisingly good.
133	* One of the better results was ''Film/{{Clueless}}'', which recast Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/{{Emma}}'' in a Beverly Hills high school.
134	* ''Film/CruelIntentions'' gives this treatment to ''Literature/DangerousLiaisons''.
135	* The ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' LiveActionAdaptation ages up Dora and deals with her as a high schooler.
136	* ''Film/DragonBallEvolution'' is essentially a High School A.U. fanfic of ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' with CGI.
137	* ''Film/EasyA'' set Creator/NathanielHawthorne's ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'' in a high school at Ojai, California.
138	* ''Film/ShesAllThat'' does a very loose version of this for George Bernard Shaw's ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'' (filtered through its more famous adaptation ''Theatre/MyFairLady'').
139	* Some people have claimed that ''Film/StarTrek2009'' is an attempt to do something similar to this with the established characters from [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original series]]. The [[NeverLiveItDown popular fan misconception]] is that all the main characters are cadets, when in fact only Kirk, Uhura, and [=McCoy=] are students (and [=McCoy=] is already a fully qualified doctor)[[note]]Spock had been a "distinguished graduate"; Scotty, a veteran engineer; Sulu, a pilot with the rank of lieutenant; and Chekov, a commissioned ensign despite being only 17.[[/note]]. The captain's chair is traded around quite a bit as well, although it's made very clear that Kirk's promotion is for the duration of the current crisis only. Of course, then he goes and saves the Federation and makes the jump from Cadet to Captain in one fell swoop...
140	** This may be something to do with a supposed pitch for a ''Star Trek'' prequel film set when the original ''[=TOS=]'' cast were either Starfleet Academy cadets or [[EnsignNewbie newly-commissioned ensigns]], which was rumoured to be under consideration some time around the turn of the millennium and may or may not have partly influenced the direction the reboot eventually took.
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142
143	[[folder:Literature]]
144	* The Creator/MegCabot Novel ''Literature/AvalonHigh'' is pretty much a published version of this. It's Myth/ArthurianLegend... in a high school!
145	* ''Literature/GakuenKino'' is a High School ''MagicalGirl'' AU set of spin-off novels for ''Literature/KinosJourney''. Thankfully, the writers know and revel in how silly this is.
146	* The children's book series ''Literature/GoddessGirls'' is basically this trope for Myth/GreekMythology.
147	* There's a very bad recast of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' in high school out there.
148	* ''Literature/GiJoeClassified'' by Kelley Skovron is a series is about the [[Franchise/GIJoe "Average Joes" school club attempting to work against the Cobra organization.]]
149	[[/folder]]
150
151	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
152	* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperboy'' stars a high school version of Superman.
153	* ''Series/BecomingHuman'' can be seen as the High School AU of ''Series/{{Being Human\|UK}}''.
154	* ''Series/{{Club}}'' is a miniseries based on ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' that essentially took the characters from the game and made them teens.
155	* Also ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' but applied to Batman.
156	* ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'', in its distortion of past series, changes ''Series/KamenRider555'' into a high school AU. Former QuirkyMinibossSquad Lucky Clover is reimagined as a clique of the cool kids and Tsukasa becomes a student for his duration in this world.
157	* ''Series/LawAndOrderTrialByJury''. Given that these series don't provide much in the way of personality for their characters, except as relates to their investigation and prosecution of crime, the fic was essentially a regular, boring high school experience [[TransplantedCharacterFic using the names]] of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' characters.
158	* For ''Series/{{Lost}}'', we have [[spoiler: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Linus an actual canon episode]] that takes place in a high school in an alternate universe, with Ben Linus, John Locke, and Arzt as teachers, and Alex as a student.]]
159	* ''Series/{{Merlin\|2008}}'' has been described as "The High School AU of Myth/ArthurianLegend". Certain changes, including making Merlin and Arthur the same age (late teens, early twenties) and a [[AnachronismStew loose interpretation of history]], definitely fit the trope.
160	* A case of canonical high school having its slate wiped clean is one high school AU for ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''. The teens never had any powers, and the Red and Silver Rangers, ([[HumanAliens human]]) aliens in the show, were normal school-attending Earthlings here. Though the high school stopped appearing in the show for good around episode 8, which is probably the only reason the fic author could get away with it.
161	* The Taiwanese series [[https://youtu.be/TdFL7QxCFPI K.O.3anguo (read as Zhongji Sanguo)]] does this for ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''. Among other anachronisms, the love triangle involving Lu Bu, Diao Chan and Guan Yu seems to be a primary plotline.
162	* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' is an official version of this trope applied to Superman.
163	* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
164	** They took this and made it canon by introducing a teenage clone version of Jack O'Neill, who promptly returns to high school. Although he's [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse never seen]] or mentioned again, countless fanfictions try to explain what happened next. Some inexplicably decide to give the rest of the team mini-clones as well.
165	** In the 200th episode, there was a scene featuring teenage versions of the team, in direct reference to this trope. [[WordOfGod Joe Mallozzi]] said in his blog that O'Neill's clone, after graduating high school, rejoined the Air Force and was promptly enlisted in the Stargate Program (now Homeworld Security) because he has all of Jack's experiences.
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167
168	[[folder:Music]]
169	* "When I Kissed The Teacher" by Music/{{ABBA}}, from ''Music/{{Arrival\|Album}}'' describes how the singer kissed the teacher at school, obviously years after she actually attended school.
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171
172	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
173	* One of the magazines not directly affiliated with any fed ran a feature that was short comic strips of the wrestlers of the day in high school. One was Steve Austin standing up on a chair flipping the bird into the air saying "If you hate algebra, give me a Hell Yeah!" while the teacher said "Steven, sit down.", and one with Kane shooting flames out of the stove in Home Ec. It happened for a few issues and then had a fan contest on who could write the best one, then published the contest winners in the magazine.
174	* ''[[http://www.younganimal.com/magazine/list/?id=shinnichi Shin-Nichi!]]'' serves as this for the cast of Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, with Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi as its lead.
175	[[/folder]]
176
177	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
178	* ''TabletopGame/ChuubosMarvelousWishGrantingEngine'':
179	** This is pretty much a High School AU version of ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'', complete with Lord Entropy (whose soul-fragments became members of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil), Iolithae Septimian [[spoiler:(possibly sealed under the Titov family shrine)]], and the Excrucians (represented by the Bleak Academy).
180	** The first official mega-campaign for it, ''The Glass-Maker's Dragon'', is by the author's own statements a high-school version of the ''Literature/EnumaElish''.
181	* There's a ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression''/''TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful'' crossover supplement called ''On Wednesdays we Wear'' which deals with Geniuses and Princesses dealing with Highschool life.
182	* SJ Games' ''Pyramid Magazine'' once had a ''TabletopGame/{{TOON}}''/''TabletopGame/InNomine'' crossover set at Heavenly Heights High School. Laurence ([[IncorruptiblePurePureness incorruptible]] leader of Heaven's armies) was the captain of the football team, Kobal (Demon Prince of [[ComedicSociopathy Dark Humour]]) was the class clown, and so on.
183	* ''TabletopGame/KingdomDeath'' had started a line of non-canonical miniatures with their characters in a High School setting.
184	[[/folder]]
185
186	[[folder:Theater]]
187	* ''Lysistrata Jones'' is a musical High School AU of ''Theatre/{{Lysistrata}}''.
188	* ''Sweet Little Rock'n'Roll'' from the Creator/TakarazukaRevue sets ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' in an American high school in TheFifties.
189	* Act I of ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' pretty much boils down to a standard College AU for the ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', taking place at a university in Oz and featuring the Wicked Witch as a nerdy social outcast, Glinda as a LovableAlphaBitch, a [[WasOnceAMan then human]] Scarecrow as a popular, hunky love interest for the two, a big dance party at some point, and a song about being popular. However, Act II eventually rolls around and the play gets thrown into the original ''Wizard of Oz'' story, albeit from the Wicked Witch's perspective.
190	[[/folder]]
191
192	[[folder:Toys]]
193	* A large number of ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' "comedies", as they are known on Platform/BZPower, have this as the premise.
194	* ''Toys/{{Lalaloopsy}}'' has ''Lalaloopsy Girls'', with the characters attending a boarding school of sorts.
195	* ''Toys/MonsterHigh'' has the children of the classic [[Franchise/UniversalHorror Universal Monsters]], as well as other monsters, attending high school.
196	** The SpinOff ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'' has the same idea, only with fairy tale characters. Much of the conflict comes from the fighting between [[BecauseDestinySaysSo those who want to follow their parents' legacy]] and [[ScrewDestiny those who want to forge their own paths.]]
197	[[/folder]]
198
199	[[folder:Video Games]]
200	* The ''Private VideoGame/{{BEMANI}} Academy'' event features [[Music/{{BEMANI}} BEMANI musicians]] as students in a private academy, with a comically-middle-aged-looking dj TAKA acting as the principal. The event has you playing (platonic) matchmaker by getting pairs of artists to build up friendship with each other; filling a pair's [[RelationshipValues Friendship gauge]] by playing their "home" game causes the graphic of the pair to change from the pair being distant to becoming best friends. When the pair's gauge reaches 100%, you unlock their respective collaboration song for play in all participating BEMANI games.
201	* ''VideoGame/BrownDustII'': The Character Pack "Jayden's Gate" takes place in a high school setting. Strangely enough, unlike the other Character Packs the '''Kendo Club''' Justia playable here isn't actually native to this universe but was accidentally warped there during a warlock excursion and is trying to find her way back with Jayden's assistance.
202	* ''VideoGame/BungoToAlchemist'' has a series of official school uniform skins for the writers, most of which can be unlocked in the school AU event ''An Encouragement of Learning''.
203	* The ''VideoGame/CardCityNights'' series is a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover where characters from ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'', the ''VideoGame/IttleDew'' series, ''VideoGame/HyperPrincessPitch'' (among others) play card games.
204	* ''VideoGame/CrashFever'' has the ALICE Dreamin' School quest line, in which you go to school, meet school versions of past characters, [[HilarityEnsues get into some wacky hijinks,]] then wake up and realize it was [[AllJustADream all just a]] [[AllMenArePerverts (mildly perverted)]] [[AllJustADream dream.]]
205	* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': While the game isn't a High School A.U. as of itself nor does it contain a story chapter that takes place in a high school, almost all of the characters drawn by Honjou Raita have an alternate version that seems to be designed to take place in a potential high school setting, such as biker Sakata Kintoki, "JapaneseDelinquent" Raikou who acts more like a student council president, literary club member Murasaki, and cheerleader Ibuki-Douji. The only exception to this is with Shuten-Douji and James Moriarty, albeit the latter got a younger version of himself when he was just a math professor.
206	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has "Academia Eorzea", which started as an April Fool's Day joke prior to getting a proper greenlight and serialization. It stars the Leveilleur twins, Alisaie and Alphinaud, as first-years in the Academy of Light, after having combined with the Academy of Darkness to make the titular Academia Eorzea ran by principal Tataru. The twins live in the shared home named The Rising Stones, living with the founding Scions as members of the school faculty: homeroom teacher Y'shtola, science teacher Urianger, and PE teacher Thancred.
207	* In ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'', Lowain, Elsam, and Tomoi come up with one in the "L.E.T'S. H.A.N.G." event where the former two are students and the latter an instructor at Albion Military Academy. It's noted that due to it being a fantasy of theirs and not having the full details from Katalina, there are discrepancies from reality. The "Table for Six" event adds Sutera and Korwa as students and Isabella and Jin as faculty members.
208	* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' features a line of "Academy" skins for several champions (specifically [[{{Joshikousei}} Ahri]], [[TheBully Darius]], [[GadgeteerGenius Ekko]], and [[PrincelyYoungMan Vladimir]], among others retrofitted for the line), which eventually developed into its own AlternateContinuity with its own minor lore blurbs. Riot has officially endorsed a fan webcomic called ''[[https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/page/academy-adventures-series-1 Academy]] [[https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/page/academy-adventures-series-2 Adventures]]'', transplanting a much wider range of champions to fit the {{Troperiffic}} setting of Valoran High.
209	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' isn't so much an [=AU=] of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', but it starts off in a boarding school and centers around the students (namely Link, Zelda, and Groose) before TheDragon shows up.
210	* ''VideoGame/MapleStory'' has the Friend Story theme dungeon, a parallel world where several characters have counterparts in a South Korean high school setting. Notably, the AU is ''integral to the plot'', as not only is one of the playable classes from that world (Kinesis), but the Heroes of the Maple World travel to it looking for information, because the BigBad teamed up with his own counterpart to further his plans.
211	* ''VideoGame/OnmyojiArena'' of all games have this in the form of a set of skins that transforms certain characters into high school versions of themselves. Their character animated shorts also take place in a modern classroom.
212	* ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'' has this in its Epilogue Disc.
213	* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'': Note that while these examples don't usually have recurring characters in high school (the series stars a new cast of characters with every game). They're still a high school spinoff in an AlternateContinuity/[[AlternateUniverse Universe]] of the main series.
214	** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIf'' Atlus asks, "What if we took the post-apocalyptic themes and demons in our main series, and had them overrun a high school?". You play as an OrdinaryHighschoolStudent who on his way home realizes his school isn't on Earth anymore, and that demons are taking over the school.
215	** ''Shin Megami Tensei If'' inspired Atlus to create the very successful ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' franchise to appeal to the casual gamer market, essentially ''spinning off the spin-off''. It deals with {{Ordinary High school Student}}s, going through their school life, while summoning aspects [[UsefulNotes/CarlJung of their personalities]] as they fight against demonic {{Eldritch Abomination}}s [[ItMakesSenseInContext called shadows]].
216	* The creators of ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' jokingly proposed a "Shovel Knight High" series as a goal for their kickstarter. It never came to fruition, but fans still play around with the idea from time to time.
217	* Re/Visioned made a ''Franchise/TombRaider'' animated series named Pre-Teen Raider with the description "Lara Croft wasn't always one of the world's most successful Tomb Raiders. See how a twelve year old Lara honed her craft during her early years at the Croft Academy." Essentially, the Tomb Raider creators licensed a High School AU of their own game. It is seemingly impossible to find said series, but it is mentioned on the Croft Generation website [[http://http://www.croftgeneration.com/eng/index.php?sec=revisioned here]]
218	* In addition to anime/manga spin-offs, the ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' has official school uniform designs for party members, usually featured as alternate costumes in 3D games, as well as making appearances in its mobile gachapon titles. Teenage characters or those in their early 20s are often depicted as students, while older characters are teachers/aides.
219	[[/folder]]
220
221	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
222	* ''VisualNovel/{{Hakuouki}}'' has a sequel that places all the characters in a modern high school setting.
223	* ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}}'' released an official AlternateUniverse high school DatingSim called ''Sunrider Academy''.
224	[[/folder]]
225
226	[[folder:Web Animation]]
227	* [[Creator/{{Dropout}} CollegeHumor]] parodies this with their ''Muppet Teens'' skit, though they are not shown in school.
228	* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls'' stars younger versions of characters like Franchise/WonderWoman and ComicBook/HarleyQuinn as teenagers in high school. Unlike other works it isn't set in a traditional school, instead being in a SuperHeroSchool.
229	* Machinima had also funded ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YWoB9jFoVc He]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYFOGkqiR1Y ro]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPWkb-XVEEw High]]'', featuring ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' in a high school environment. While CutShort once the company went under, the series was rediscovered once Creator/RoosterTeeth featured it in the anthology ''Neon Konbini''.
230	* Creator/{{Machinima}}'s ''Teenage Pokémon'' series was, as you would expect, this towards ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', portraying Pokémon in their second stage of evolution as hormonal teenagers. Sometimes they were in school, though most of the time they were out doing other things like attending video game conventions.
231	[[/folder]]
232
233	[[folder:Webcomics]]
234	* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2011/02/15/311-cocoon-academy-part-1/ tries its hand at this in the Cocoon Academy story arc.]] Although, technically, its more of a flashback-to-grade-school than it is an unrelated alternate universe with the characters in high school.
235	* This is canon for ''Webcomic/DubiousCompany''. The cast gets flung into an alternate dimension and needs to [[Series/QuantumLeap dimension hop]] to get back home. One of the dimensions puts them in an [[BroughtDownToNormal ordinary high school]]. Walter and Tiren lose their [[LittleBitBeastly animal appendages]], Mary and Sue lose their superiority, and Elly gets his [[CurseEscapeClause manly hair back]]. The creators take the opportunity for a [[{{Shoujo}} genre shift]] and ShipTease the cast.
236	* ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' takes the alien fighters and toy store employees from the Webcomic/WalkyVerse and sets them as college students.
237	* ''Webcomic/JL8'' stars the ComicBook/JusticeLeague in Elementary school.
238	* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', of all things, has the DatingSim VisualNovel ''Gakuen Hetalia'', penned and illustrated by the author himself and later adaptated into a PSP game (not by Himaruya, though). Because what everybody needs is an AU where [[MoeAnthropomorphism Moe Anthropomorphisms]] of countries who normally make up a CastFullOfPrettyBoys have friendly and/or romantic hijinks with a newcomer country, er, girl in the [[BoardingSchool Boarding School of World]]. (Bad thing is that it made Seychelles, said newcomer country, [[DieForOurShip horribly unpopular among the rabid and jealous fangirls]] who falsely accused her of either "stealing all the bishonen for herself" or standing in between their favorite yaoi couples.) The ''Gakuen'' universe has been expanded in manga strips, and it eventually debuted in the AnimatedAdaptation. Among other things, it has France hanging with China and Turkey in the [[SupremeChef Gourmet Club]], Estonia and Ukraine in the music club, Seychelles peeking into other people's clubs too, etc. It's specially "famous" for introducing Romania, who is a member of the Magic Club with England.
239	* ''[[http://thendu.com/ The NDU]]'' is basically ''Dumbing of Age'' staring the casts of ''Webcomic/NamirDeiter'' and ''Webcomic/YouSayItFirst''.
240	* ''Webcomic/VixenNYC'': College AU variation. The webcomic is set in an alternate version of Franchise/TheDCU where Mari [=McCabe=] and Karen Beecher are university students rather than the established career women they are in comic canon (businesswoman/model and scientist, respectively). Neither have gotten their respective comic powersets at the start of the comic either.
241	[[/folder]]
242
243	[[folder:Web Original]]
244	* ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'' has an extremely rare canon example! The ''Live in Austin!'' show takes Tres Horny Boys into a collective DreamLand where they and their friends are students at Neverwinter High. Notably, Angus [=McDonald=], Boy Detective, becomes Angus [=McDonald=], Teenage Detective, with all the same mannerisms as his younger self but a much deeper voice and as large muscles as Magnus.
245	* ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'' is ''Literature/{{Carmilla}}'' in a modern-day college.
246	* WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun once did a sketch where desperate Hollywood producers listen to increasingly ridiculous High School [=AUs=] of various monsters (including, yes, Cthulhu) to use as the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' phase dies out. Eventually they green-light one involving a burrito.
247	* ''Nothing Much to Do'', a Vlog SettingUpdate of ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing''.
248	* ''WebVideo/WatchmenTheHighSchoolYears'' turns the cast of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' into teenagers. HilarityEnsues.
249	[[/folder]]
250
251	[[folder:Western Animation]]
252	* Many Superhero Blockbuster Summer Action movies throughout the 2000s would have an animated series released at or around the same time to ride the wave of renewed interest and popularity of the character. Usually taking the core cast and if not being explicitly in high school, then at at least explicitly younger than they are usually interpreted (although some of these, such as the X-Men and Spider-Man, did actually start their career during their teenage years in the comics).
253	** ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' premiered the same year as ''Film/XMen1''. It justified this with the concept that mutants (and super-powered beings in general) were thought by the general public to be nothing more than rumor, hoax, and legend for the first couple of seasons, and Xavier wanted his students to have as normal a life as possible.
254	** Back in the '80s, there were plans for an ''X-Men'' cartoon that would've featured ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, ComicBook/{{Storm\|MarvelComics}}, ComicBook/KittyPryde, ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}, ComicBook/{{Colossus}}, Thunderbird and ComicBook/MsMarvel as teenagers attending a public high school. It never got off the ground, though.
255	** ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', a year before ''Film/BatmanBegins''. Not in high school but featuring younger interpretations of Batman and his RoguesGallery.
256	** ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'' premiered a year after ''Film/IronMan1'', with Tony Stark as a genius teenager with a suit of armor, his buddies, and the CorruptCorporateExecutive who kicked everything off by having his dad killed. It's about as much like the ComicBook/IronMan comics or movies as the high-school [[Series/{{CSI}} C.S.I.]] fanfics are like the actual Series/{{CSI}} series, but it gets away with it by [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools being totally awesome in its own right]].
257	** ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' for ''Film/SpiderMan3''. After a rights dispute caused by Disney buying Marvel, the show was canceled...
258	** ... and replaced with ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' just in time for ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan''. ''USM'' has ComicBook/LukeCage, ComicBook/IronFist, ComicBook/WhiteTiger and ComicBook/{{Nova}} attending the same high school as Peter Parker. While White Tiger and Nova are [[CanonImmigrant Canon Immigrants]] created for the show (albeit as {{Legacy Character}}s of existing heroes - the original Nova was originally a teen, the original White Tiger was an adult when he got his powers), Luke Cage (who uses his old Power Man alias in the cartoon) and Iron Fist are always depicted as adults in the comic books, with Cage in particular being much older than Spider-Man and Iron Fist not finishing his training until adulthood.
259	** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' for ''Film/Transformers2007'' - the main cast are an inexperienced RagtagBunchOfMisfits rather than war veterans, and the human sidekick is a kid rather than a high-school student.
260	** ComicBook/TheMightyThor was scheduled to have one after his first [[Film/{{Thor}} movie]], but it was canceled before it ever aired. It would've been about his adventures in Asgard before ever coming to Earth. There is a direct-to-home-video movie called ''WesternAnimation/ThorTalesOfAsgard'' that is based on a similar idea.
261	** The [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 Nickelodeon Ninja Turtles reboot]] comes one year before the Michael Bay film reboot. The Turtles are teenagers by default, but Splinter is noticeably younger than he is usually interpreted, and April is 16 instead of being a working woman, though in contrast to the Thor example, the show began well before the movie began shooting, and was already on its second season before a single trailer for the film was out.
262	** ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006'' does fall into this, by adapting the pre-Crisis ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'s adventures with the titular team, as its first season came out in the fall of 2006, the same year ''Film/SupermanReturns'' was released.
263	** ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'' was released at least a month after ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''. It goes back to ''Spectacular Spider-Man's'' roots of a High School focused show. Peter Parker gets accepted into Horizon High (a high school version of Horizon Labs) and some of its top students (Anya Corazon, Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy), who are known spider-heroes, are as old and smart as Peter Parker.
264	*** Interestingly, a majority of characters have been [[AgeLift aged down a bit]] and [[AdaptationalIntelligence their brains boosted up]]. Otto Octavius is around Peter's age and already he got his doctarate and works for Horizon High. Alistair Smythe is a student a Midtown High where his father, Spencer Smythe is a science teacher.
265	*** Keeping in mind with the high school element, after Harry's wrongful sunspension from Horizon High, Norman Osborn created a new school for him, the Osborn Academy for Geniuses. John Jameson applied for it, a young man who is an ace in astrophysics, enforced by the fact NASA adopted two of his ideas. Herman Schultz (Shocker) and Clayton Cole (Clash) also applied whilst demonstrating prototypes of their trademark weapons.
266	* ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' is actually a television example of the latter, taking the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' cast, aging them by ten years, and putting them in a fairly standard ''middle''-school sitcom. Which, in the show, is still [[MostWritersAreAdults pretty much like High School]] in every other respect.
267	* Even the ''creators'' of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' have gotten into the act, with their [[https://youtu.be/SuSshdGE1Lo "School Time Shipping"]] video, though the bending is still all there. Their teacher is Avatar Roku, and Iroh is the guidance counselor.
268	** The episode "The Headband" may also be a nod to this trope, as it places Aang in the middle of a Fire Nation School for little more than some ShipTease and [[ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll teaching the Fire Nation kids to loosen up]].
269	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'''s existence is owed to [[ExecutiveMeddling a bunch of higher ups]] going "Let's do a show about Batman in high school." The creators took advantage of the fact that [[ExactWords they didn't specify]] ''Bruce Wayne'' in high school, so instead it's set in a {{Cyberpunk}} future where he's the retired MissionControl for a new Dark Knight. It became surprisingly popular and even [[RetCanon got adapted to the comics]], mostly due to being a lot DarkerAndEdgier than the execs had in mind.
270	* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' is basically the High School AU of all of history. Though as the name implies, technically the characters are all ''clones'' of historical figures. The main cast are adapted to the high school archetypes (Abe [Lincoln] is [[ThisLoserIsYou the everygeek protagonist]], Joan of Arc is a {{Goth}}, JFK is the jock, Cleopatra is the AlphaBitch and Gandhi is the party animal), but a lot of minor characters act much closer to their RealLife counterpart, never mind the setting.
271	* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2017'' takes place during Flint's high school days and, through some slight retconning, Sam goes to the same school.
272	* Unlike the SuperheroSchool the original continuity took place in, the 2018 ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls'' is a true blue high school AU. Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl, Zatanna, and several other characters are high schoolers who are also superheroes (and supervillains) on the side.
273	* ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' is about a second generation of [[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters ghostbusters]] made of college students.
274	* The page image comes from a proposed ''[[http://jeffandceleste.blogspot.com/2011/01/gotham-high.html Gotham High]]'' animated series that was briefly considered in the late 2000s among many other ideas for future ''Batman'' TV projects by Warner Bros. Animation, before presumably being passed over in favor of developing ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman''. Had it made it to series, it would have explored a Bruce Wayne attending high school with his rogues gallery while in the process of crafting his Batman persona.
275	* ''WesternAnimation/LittleShop'' is ''Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors'' with Audrey and Seymour as teenagers.
276	* ''WesternAnimation/MegaManFullyCharged'' takes this approach to the [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic classic Mega Man series]]. Instead of being a janitorial robot turned fighting robot after one of his co-creators goes rogue, this incarnation of the Blue Bomber is a robot high school student named Aki Light, with Mega Man being his evil-fighting alter ego.
277	* The ''Mork and Mindy'' segments in the ''Mork and Mindy/Laverne and Shirley with Fonz'' [[AnimatedAdaptation animated series]] is a High School AU for the [[Series/MorkAndMindy series proper]].
278	* Much like Gotham High, there was almost a ''[[http://www.cracked.com/article_19049_6-insane-versions-famous-cartoons-they-almost-made_p2.html Muppets High]]''. It would have been set in the 1950s, with Kermit as a [[Series/HappyDays Fonzie]]-style greaser, Gonzo as a nerd, Fozzie Bear a soda jerk, and Rowlf a varsity football player. The show was never made, but plenty of merchandise was.
279	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
280	** As stated above, ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' takes place in an alternate universe where the characters are all human high schoolers. This means most characters have been aged-down ([[VagueAge maybe]]), while others are aged-up (again, maybe).
281	** Season 8 of the main series has a slight school GenreShift. In this case, however, the main characters are teachers, not students.
282	* Craig [=McCracken=] mocked the concept in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'', where the girls are ditzy morons more interested in shopping and boys rather than saving the town from destruction.
283	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has a meta example: [[https://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Hilary_Florido#Promotional_Artwork Hilary Florido's promotional art]] for episodes she has storyboarded depict the characters, including the [[TheAgeless Gems]] as high school students (specifically, wearing [[SailorFuku Japanese school uniforms]]) with ''[[CheerfulChild Steven]]'' as their teacher. [[BadassBookworm Connie]] also seems to be the school librarian. These promos are only superficially related to the episodes they promote; for example, "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E38TheTest The Test]]" has the student characters taking an exam, when it's actually about Steven going through an obstacle course to prove his abilities. Canonically, Steven doesn't even attend school; he didn't even ''know'' what it was until Connie mentioned that she'll be able to visit more thanks to summer break coming up.
284	* ''WesternAnimation/SummerMemories'': In the episode "Bummer Memories", one of the alternate worlds Tim pitches is for the show is one where everyone is in high school, where Jason and Ronnie never met... they meet and become friends after the commercial break, much to Tim's frustration.
285	* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', which is not simply ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' in school, but brand new toons in training who are being taught by the Looney Tunes.
286	* ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' had an episode called "Uncle Grandpa: The High School Years" which is a parody of both ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' and ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' with the Uncle Grandpa cast in high school, serving as the group's OriginStory.
287	* ''WesternAnimation/WingCommanderAcademy'' is an odd case -- adapting a [[Franchise/WingCommander video game series]] into a series where all the main characters from the games are cadets onboard the ''TCS Tiger's Claw'' would sound like a recipe for disaster. It's actually well-written and ''incredibly'' accurate to the games.
288	* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' gives several established DC superheroes cameos as non-powered high school students. Karen Beecher ([[ComicBook/DoomPatrol Bumblebee]]) and Mal Duncan ([[ComicBook/TeenTitans Herald]]) appear as classmates of Superboy and Miss Martian, while Barbara Gordon (ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}) and Bette Kane ([[ComicBook/{{Batwoman}} Flamebird]]) attend the same school as Artemis and Dick. Most notably, ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} (who is almost always depicted as an adult in the comics and other adaptations) is made the same age as Dick Grayson. Most of these characters received their powers / superhero personas sometime during the five year timeskip between seasons 1 and 2. They are now in their late teens and early twenties and affiliated with either the League or the Team.
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