| 1 | [[quoteright:320:[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/watchmenbabies.jpg]]]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:320:[[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} This]] is why Creator/AlanMoore doesn't want us to [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings have nice things.]]]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | ->''"What are you trying to feed the child -- sanitized pablum? Li'l Death? Li'l Morpheus? Revolting!"'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Cain''', ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Cartoons have a tendency to get [[{{Spinoff}} spun off]] into new shows with younger versions of the original characters. No one is quite sure why producers do this, aside from the opportunity to make a new franchise for a new demographic out of an older, successful property. Often the concept of the original show is dropped entirely and replaced, but sometimes it's adapted to an elementary- or middle-school setting. Frequently parodied, due to the absurdity of some of the examples. This trope is named after ''WesternAnimation/{{Muppet Babies|1984}}''. |
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| 9 | Note that those are usually ''not'' {{prequel}}s, and not part of the original show's continuity. It's usual for people who supposedly met for the first time in the original show to meet in the "younger" show, or for characters with notably different ages in the original show to be babies/middle-schoolers at the same time. If they are descendants, then it's SpinOffspring. |
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| 11 | If any of the voice cast of the original series is still alive, expect them to have occasional-to-recurring guest roles as the parents of the younger versions of their original roles (e.g. Henry Corden, the regular voice of adult [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]] at the time, was the voice of young Freddie's dad[[note]][[CrossdressingVoices and mom]][[/note]] on ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstoneKids''). |
| 12 | Related to RecycledWithAGimmick and HighSchoolAU. This is '''not''' about spin-off shows where characters have [[SuperDeformed kid-like proportions]] as they are still otherwise treated like adults despite being lighter in nature. The main draw of this spin-off is that they are younger, with sensibilities aimed at them being of a young age. |
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| 14 | Contrast TimeSkip, which tends to make the characters older instead. Compare YoungFutureFamousPeople, which does this with real people. If the characters start displaying hints of their main-series personalities, see EarlyPersonalitySigns. |
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| 17 | !!Examples: |
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| 19 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 20 | |
| 21 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 22 | * In the Planters Super Bowl ad campaign, [[spoiler: Mr. Nut is reincarnated into a baby version of himself.]] |
| 23 | * Creator/ChuckECheese: At some locations near the Toddler Zone area in the 2000s, there was a picture that had all five members of Munch's Make-Believe Band as babies. |
| 24 | [[/folder]] |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [[folder:Animation]] |
| 27 | * ''Animation/BoonieBears'' has a spin-off called ''Animation/BoonieCubs'' where a younger version of the main cast learn about various topics in Pine Tree Kindergarten. |
| 28 | * ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' has a spin-off called ''Animation/PleasantGoatFunClass'', which makes the characters younger and cuter and is an EdutainmentShow where the characters learn all about the world around them. |
| 29 | [[/folder]] |
| 30 | |
| 31 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 32 | * ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' has the [[HighSchoolAU Middle School AU]] spin-off manga ''Manga/AttackOnTitanJuniorHigh''. It is a rather surreal manga involving the main cast going to school with the Titans, and deals with it as a SliceOfLife comedy. It gleefully parodies the primary canon, as well as including numerous {{Shout Out}}s to popular memes and aspects of the fandom. Eren still hates the Titans, but the trauma of his mother being EatenAlive is replaced with his cheeseburger lunch being stolen on the first day of school. |
| 33 | * Despite ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' being an American property, ''Anime/BabyFelixAndFriends'' was made in Japan. It serves as a prequel to the [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatJoeOriolo 1959 series]], though adult Felix appears often. |
| 34 | * ''Series/{{Godzilland}}'' is a children's EdutainmentShow about Franchise/{{Godzilla}} and friends as babies living on an island together, with Mothra (the sole adult among them) acting as their caretaker. A lot of the Toho kaiju are featured, namely the big G himself, Anguirus, Rodan, [[AdaptationalHeroism King Ghidorah, Gigan, Mechagodzilla, etc.]] as is a [[CanonForeigner new character]] named Gojirin, a female counterpart and love interest for Godzilla. It also features live action segments depicting the adult Godzilla relating these stories to his human sister ([[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext don't ask]]). |
| 35 | ** Would later receive a SpiritualSuccessor in the form of the web puppet show ''WebVideo/{{Godziban}}'', focused on the adventures of a young Showa Godzilla with his siblings Minilla and Littlegodzilla. |
| 36 | * There's a ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' spin-off manga that [[PlayingWithATrope plays with this trope]] a bit by featuring [[note]] [[KidHero the normally 10 year old]][[/note]] Teenage!Negi as 3-A's kindergarten teacher. |
| 37 | * ''Otenba Peach-hime'' is a gag manga based on the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' characters as kids and focuses mainly on Princess Peach. |
| 38 | * ''Anime/PanyoPanyoDiGiCharat'' features an even younger Digiko and Puchiko having adventures on Planet Di Gi Charat. It's not immediately clear if it's actually a prequel, or an alternate continuity. As usual, if a prequel, it messes with the previously-established continuity a bit -- they're still known as Digiko and Puchiko, even though these are supposedly just aliases they go by on Earth, and Piyoko appears, even though no-one seemed to have any idea who she was when she "later" appeared in one of the specials for the original series. Also, Dejiko is more optimistic and cheery instead of being a lazy {{Jerkass}}, and Piyoko [[AdaptationalVillainy is pure evil]] instead of just wanting to kidnap Dejiko for ransom. Given how silly ''Di Gi Charat'' is, this isn't as big a deal as it could be, though. |
| 39 | * The ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' manga contained {{Omake}} depicting all the characters in a fantasy kindergarten. |
| 40 | * ''Anime/UltramanKids'', based on the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' (and with characters more or less "[[CaptainErsatz inspired]]" by ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'', the latter's anime adaptation becoming popular at the time). While the kids in question are Series/{{Ultraman}}, Series/{{Ultraseven}} and Series/UltramanTaro (and a new character, Ultragirl Piko who's a blatant Shizuka expy), various monsters and aliens from the show appears as classmates as well, with Alien Baltan and Alien Guts (respectively expies of Gian and Suneo) being the resident school bullies. |
| 41 | [[/folder]] |
| 42 | |
| 43 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 44 | * ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'''s occasional "Regened" all-ages issues are headlined by ''[[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Cadet Dredd]]''. |
| 45 | * ComicBook/ArchieComics: |
| 46 | ** Archie actually did this YEARS earlier than ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'' (in the 1960s, to be exact) with "Little Archie", taking place in the gang's Elementary School years, but it didn't have many copycats. "The New Archies" (both a cartoon series and a comic, both short-lived) came in the 1980s, and was based around their pre-teen Middle School years. The former appears to actually be in continuity (told nowadays as flashbacks), but the latter, with several replacement characters (Eugene for Dilton, among others), is mostly forgotten. |
| 47 | ** One final attempt (so far) of reviving "Little Archie" was [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs ''New Little Archies'']] in the early nineties, when the concept was redesigned. |
| 48 | ** When the Archie characters became superheroes in the "Pureheart the Powerful" storylines, their younger selves became superheroes, too. |
| 49 | ** There actually was an Archie Babies graphic novel as well, which depicted the characters as toddlers in a daycare. |
| 50 | ** Still Archie Comics, but not Archie-centered: ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' had two specials devoted to the concept of "Sonic Kids". These were stories of the Freedom Fighters as kids, before they went around smashing Robotnik's robots. |
| 51 | * The DC Comics middle-school imprint ''Creator/DCZoom'' has several books like this, including a teenaged Comicbook/LoisLane, [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}, [[ComicBook/BlackCanary Dinah Lance]] and, of all characters, ComicBook/JohnConstantine! |
| 52 | * ''Disney Babies'' featured Mickey, Minnie and friends as toddlers. |
| 53 | * ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse: ''Paperino Paperotto'', a Italy comic book series starring the life and childhood of Donald Duck and his friends in stories. Young Donald, lives in Quacktown, a country village on the outskirts of Duckburg located where there is the farm of Grandma Duck with the little goat Billy. This representation of childhood Donald is easily compatible with versions of other authors, in accordance with the genealogy of Don Rosa. |
| 54 | ** Another spin-off of Paperino Paperotto is titled ''Young Donald Duck'' which focus the lives of Donald and his friends as teenagers going to middle school. |
| 55 | * The ''Series/DoctorWho Adventures'' kids' magazine has a strip called "Alien Babies" with main characters Blun the Slitheen, Simon the Cyberman, Strup the Sontaran, Eldast the Silurian and Chas and Chelsea the Weeping Angels. Other babies come and go, often a baby version of the monster in the previous week's episode. (This was taken to a ridiculous extreme in the issue following [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten "The Rings of Akhaten"]], which featured a character actually called "Baby Grandfather".) |
| 56 | * Even older than the Archie example, Disney did a young UsefulNotes/DavyCrockett comic series in the 1950s called "[[http://www.2719hyperion.com/2006/12/what-character-lil-davy.html Lil' Davy]]" that even teamed him up with [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Crockett]]. |
| 57 | * Creator/DynamiteComics published a series of one-shots, ''Li'l Dynamites'', featuring various characters they hold the rights to as kid versions of themselves, including ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica'', ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'', ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' and ''Series/BionicWoman'', ''ComicBook/EvilErnie'', and ''ComicBook/RedSonja''. They were rather adorable. |
| 58 | * ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'' had a 2011 spin-off titled ''[[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastoon Gastoon,]]'' about Gaston's young nephew and his elementary-school-aged friends Jeanne, Jules, Bertrand and De Mesmeaker, who were also younger equivalent of characters from the main series (without the likeness being explained). It was a critical and commercial failure, and stopped after two albums. |
| 59 | * A volume of ''ComicBook/Gen13'' featured the [[ComicBook/TheAuthority Authoriteens]], in mockery of Spinoff Babies tropes. Their equivalent of the Doctor is the Intern, they travel "The Gutters" instead of the Bleed, teen Jack Hawksmoor, the king of cities, is now Jack Hatfield, spirit of small towns (his costume includes a stalk of straw and denim overalls), and the Midnighter's equivalent, Daybreaker, is a TotallyRadical motor mouth whose relationship with Kid Apollo is no more than AmbiguouslyGay (and implied to have gone no further than the 'funny feelings' stage yet). |
| 60 | * ''Itty Bitty Comics'' is a Creator/DarkHorseComics preteen line made by the creators of ''ComicBook/TinyTitans'' where they made PG adventures for ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'', ''ComicBook/{{BPRD}}'' and ''ComicBook/TheMask''. |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' has ''Kid Lucky'' since 1995. |
| 62 | * ''Mini-Jon's Experiments'' is a particularly odd example, as it is a spin-off for the Canadian comic ''ComicBook/SuperAgentJonLeBon'', which revolves around a kid clone of Jon having experiments while [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter making life hard for Henry]]. As it turns out, [[AllThereInTheManual a story exclusive to the first collected volume]] reveals that he was born from Tiberius' attempt to make super soldier clones of Jon, so Mini-Jon was adopted by the Agency after destroying the lab. |
| 63 | * Chris Giarrusso's ''ComicBook/MiniMarvels'' series. To hammer the point, Spidey is never called "Spider-Man" because, well, he's not a grown-up man yet. Plus, instead of a paid photographer, he's a paperboy for the Daily Bugle. |
| 64 | * ''ComicBook/LePetitSpirou'' is a spin-off of Franco-Belgian comic ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'', starring a younger, and markedly more impertinent and irreverent version of the main character. Some of the one page gags are {{flashback}}s to the protagonist years as a toddler (rather than an elementary school kid) which centers mostly on the many hazards awaiting the dangly bits of a small child running half naked around the house. Has a bad, ''bad'' case of ComicBookTime, the first albums were set in the 60s/70s with a grandfather who'd been in WWI, nowadays the gags are modern (and the grandfather still the same age). |
| 65 | * The French ComicBook ''ComicBook/{{Sillage}}'' (''Wake'') has a spin-off series called ''Nävis'', which is about the title character's childhood on a jungle planet and is written and drawn in a more humorous style than the parent series. |
| 66 | * ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise'' had a four-issue spin-off called ''SIP Kids''. |
| 67 | * Possibly the earliest comic book example is ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, the young persona of ComicBook/{{Superman}}, whose adventures were published as early as the 1940s. This was adapted into ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', among other things. |
| 68 | ** In 1950, Superboy's own comic then introduced Super''baby'' - the adventures of Clark Kent when he was a super-powered toddler. |
| 69 | * In the late 1970s, Creator/DCComics introduced the "Super Juniors", baby versions of the ComicBook/JusticeLeague. While these characters only appeared in comics once (a digest-sized one-shot), they appeared on a considerable number of licensed products (toys, linens, nursery furnishings, etc.) in the early 1980s. |
| 70 | * ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'' had a spin-off series in which the 2 main characters are five-year olds rather than (pre)-teens. It consists of one page gag comics, while the main series is one with album long stories. It also ignores the continuity of it's parent series, since it has Suske already living with Wiske and her aunt Sidonia at age 5, while in the main series both he and Wiske were already pre-teens when they first met. |
| 71 | * ''ComicBook/Switch2015'' is a high-school retelling of ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' centered around a teenager named Mary. |
| 72 | * ''Titans'': In-universe example. In the one-shot ''Titans Sell-out Special'', the team signs off their likenesses to be explored by television studios and toy companies. One of the projects is a cartoon with some of the heroes as babies: Nighty-night (Nightwing), Presto-Change'o (Changeling/Beast Boy), Daddy's Little Princess (Starfire), Kitty Litt'r (Pantha) and Beesty (Baby Wildebeest). |
| 73 | * ''ComicBook/TinyTitans'' is an elementary school themed spin off of ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''. It even had a {{crossover}} title with another spinoff babies comic, ''Tiny Titans/Little Archie''. |
| 74 | * ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' re-envisioned the team as teenagers, including members who were adults when they joined in the proper canon. The one exception is Wolverine, who, like his ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' counterpart, is still an adult. It's worth remembering that the original ComicBook/XMen ''were'' teenagers, so with the UltimateUniverse being a ContinuityReboot, having the team start at that age while shuffling the original lineup makes sense. |
| 75 | * ''ComicBook/WonderGirl'' (and the even younger ''Wonder Tot'') began life as stories of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'''s younger days, until the writers threw continuity out of the window and put her in the ''Teen Titans'' (contemporary with her older self). |
| 76 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 77 | ** After the X-Men temporarily died, evil alien TV mogul, Mojo, filled their broadcast spot with the chibified X-babies, with much LeaningOnTheFourthWall [[InvokedTrope invocation]]. |
| 78 | ** Back in 2004 there was [[http://marvel.com/company/index.htm?sub=viewstory_current.php&id=1209 talk]] of [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D4d9PTkUZlM/S68QptYRI4I/AAAAAAAAEFc/0jXxn4NP4AA/s1600/31_18.jpg "Marvel Babies"]]; infant versions of Marvel characters such as ComicBook/SpiderMan and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. The most baffling part of the whole thing (and there was plenty to choose from) was the decision to have Spidey villain the Rhino as [[TheBigGuy the Big Dumb Guy]]. As if there isn't a [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk major Marvel hero the general public have actually heard of]] who could have fit that role. The concept seems to have died (although not before they [[http://www.ninthart.org/display.php?article=1030 sold the rights to "Marvel Babies" brand clothing]]), and been replaced by ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperheroSquadShow''. |
| 79 | ** And then that was later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] by the Skottie Young and Gurihiru produced spin-off to ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', ''[[FunSize A-Babies vs. X-Babies]]''. |
| 80 | *** Which also got a 4 issue mini in the ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' event titled ''Giant-Size Little Marvel - [=AvX=]''. |
| 81 | ** Played with in ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'' which stars the original X-Men as teens, except that they've been brought into the current day alongside their modern, adult incarnations. |
| 82 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'' had a limited comic-book series titled ''The X-Files: Origins'' about child Mulder and Scully. |
| 83 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Zbeng}}'', an Israeli comic about a group of teenagers (featured in a teen magazine), had a children spin off called "Zbengale" (which featured in a children's magazine). |
| 84 | [[/folder]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 87 | * There exists an extremely rare educational computer game called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQUOzgDxTFY Young Dilbert's Hi-Tech Hijinks]]'' that features ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' (of all characters to get an example of this trope) as a pre-teen boy travelling into his virus-ridden computer to eliminate the viruses. |
| 88 | * ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' has Spy vs. Spy Jr., which ran in the short-lived MAD Kids magazine. |
| 89 | [[/folder]] |
| 90 | |
| 91 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 92 | * ''[[http://mudkipful.tumblr.com/tagged/littletale Littletale]]'', an ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' AU that casts the monster characters as rambunctious kids around Frisk's age. |
| 93 | * [[https://toddlerstuck.tumblr.com/ Toddlerstuck]], a ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' AU in which the Alpha Kids, Beta Kids, Cherubs, and Alternian Trolls are children at a daycare center. |
| 94 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12179850/1/Rainbow-Dash-vs-The-Toilet Rainbow Dash vs the Toilet]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction where the six main characters, Princess Luna, and Big Macintosh are toddlers, but Princess Celestia (who, in canon, is only a bit older than Luna and Luna in canon is ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld way]]'' older than the protagonists) is the same age as she is in canon and Twilight is still literate. |
| 95 | * ''Webcomic/TotalDramaKids'', a fancomic by Deviantart user Kika-ila that has the teenage contestants of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'', ''World Tour'', and ''Revenge of the Island'' as children attending elementary school together. With the debut of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRama'', the whole thing becomes HilariousInHindsight. |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 99 | * Not only did the Danish movie series ''Film/OlsenBanden'' get a spinoff of this nature called ''Olsenbanden Jr.''[[labelnote:Translated]]"The Olsen Gang Junior"[[/labelnote]], so did ''both'' the Norwegian and Swedish {{Foreign Remake}}s. (In the latter case the child spinoff got the name ''Lilla Jönssonligan''[[labelnote:Translated]]''The Little Jönsson Gang''[[/labelnote]] to accomodate for the titular character's DubNameChange.) What's more, all three spinoffs take the characters who were mostly middle-aged in the original continuity (TheSeventies[=/=]TheEighties) and depict them as school children of roughly the same age in TheFifties. While the setting may have worked for Benny, who was noticably younger than Egon and Kjeld (at least in the Danish and Swedish versions), the spinoffs depict all three of the characters as the same age, [[NegativeContinuity throwing continuity out the window.]] |
| 100 | * ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes'' was a pastiche of ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' supposedly telling the early life of Holmes and Watson when they first met as teens (which contradicts the novels, since ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'' has Watson meet Holmes for the first time when both are already adults). And apparently, before Holmes figured out how to solve crimes by logical deduction. |
| 101 | [[/folder]] |
| 102 | |
| 103 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 104 | * ''Literature/ADogsPurpose'' has a spinoff novel series called ''A Dog's Purpose Puppy Tales''. It consists of ''Ellie's Story'', ''Bailey's Story'', ''Molly's Story'', and ''Max's Story''. The stories expand upon the puppy years of the various reincarnations of the ''A Dog's Purpose'' protagonist. |
| 105 | * ''Earth Children Are Weird'' focuses on Mulder and Scully from ''Series/TheXFiles'' as children, even though they met as adults in canon. |
| 106 | * ''Literature/GhostbustersAParanormalPictureBook'': The main cast of ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' are written as children in a school. |
| 107 | * ''Goldilocks and the Three Potties'' focuses on Goldilocks from ''Literature/GoldilocksAndTheThreeBears'' [[ToiletTrainingPlot being potty-trained]]. |
| 108 | * Literature/TheHardyBoys have two, the discontinued Clues Brothers and the currently running Secret Files, which feature Frank and Joe at nine and eight years old. |
| 109 | * The original ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels spun-off into the book series ''Literature/YoungBond'' by Charlie Higson. |
| 110 | * In late 2019 a spin-off book to the ''WebAnimation/LlamasWithHats'' web series was released, featuring Carl and Paul as babies. |
| 111 | * Literature/MaxAndRuby creator Creator/RosemaryWells made a few books titled [[http://rosemarywells.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/red-boots.jpg "Baby Max And Ruby"]] which has Max as a young infant while Ruby is a young child. |
| 112 | * Franchise/NancyDrew got in on it as well, with "The Nancy Drew Notebooks" and "Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew." |
| 113 | * A variation is Disney's successful line of preteen-oriented novels about the adventures of the teenage Captain Jack Sparrow from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''. |
| 114 | * Several ''Series/SesameStreet'' books about characters as babies: |
| 115 | ** "Me Cookie" is about how Cookie Monster got his name. |
| 116 | ** "Too Big For Diapers" is about Ernie being potty-trained. |
| 117 | * The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' Starfleet Academy novels focus on ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' and ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' cast members as Starfleet officers in training. |
| 118 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'' has the "Darth Vader and Son" parody series, which depict Vader as the father to a toddler-aged Luke and Leia. |
| 119 | * ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' has spun-off three "kiddie" versions of the characters: Sweet Valley Twins (set when the characters were in sixth grade), Sweet Valley Junior High (when they were in eighth grade) and Sweet Valley Kids (when they were seven years old and in elementary school). The former was well received and heavily promoted via a retcon character Amy, who was Elizabeth Wakefield's best friend in the "Twins" book but her mortal enemy in the main "Sweet Valley High" book and ultimate led to a villain-based spin-off series based off of the "Unicorn Club". The later was reviled by fans as being a soulless tie-in. Reversed with ''Sweet Valley University'', which put the twins in college. |
| 120 | * The Grim Darkness of the future has just skewed to the 8 - 12 set with ''Literature/WarhammerAdventures''. It's more heroic Rogue Traders and Space Marines with [[KidHero kid heroes]] and less cleansing heretics with fire and steel. ''Warhammer Adventures'' has books for ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' and ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar''. |
| 121 | * Andy Lane has written a series of ''Young Sherlock Holmes'' novels, unrelated to the movie. |
| 122 | [[/folder]] |
| 123 | |
| 124 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 125 | * Creator/AntAndDec's ''Saturday Night Takeaway'' had a segment featuring "Little Ant And Dec". Thankfully not an UnusualEuphemism, this featured a pair of kids who ''slightly'' resembled Big Ant And Dec interviewing somebody in a faintly rude fashion. |
| 126 | * Example that never was: The CBBC wanted the current production team to make them a ''Young Series/DoctorWho'', which presumably would have been titled ''[[Creator/StevenMoffat Moffat]] Babies''. The idea horrified Creator/RussellTDavies, so he pitched ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' to them instead. |
| 127 | ** FanWebComics example ''[[http://tw-babiez.livejournal.com/ Torchwood Babiez]]'' also starring Rose and The Tenth Doctor, putting a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' spin on things. Though technically [[spoiler:they're clones]]. |
| 128 | ** MetaFic FanFiction example: ''[[http://www.ttrarchive.com/lookwhostalking.html Look Who's Talking,]]'' the Doctor Who day care center outside continuity, with toddler versions of every Doctor Who character, from the FanFic/ThisTimeRound setting. Best known for the ''Story Time'' series, casting the ''adult'' Who characters in fairy tales for the kids... |
| 129 | * ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' is in many ways this, where classic Batman characters are either much younger or in most cases children. |
| 130 | * ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies got the TV spin off ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'', which showed Indy as a young lad working alongside his father. |
| 131 | * Reality TV franchise spinoffs with pre-teen/teen competitors include: |
| 132 | ** Junior ''Series/EurovisionSongContest'' |
| 133 | ** ''Series/AmericanNinjaWarrior'' Junior |
| 134 | ** ''Series/{{Chopped}}'' Junior |
| 135 | ** ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' Juniors |
| 136 | ** ''Series/MasterChef'' Junior, |
| 137 | ** ''Series/ProjectRunway'' Junior |
| 138 | ** ''Series/TopChef'' Junior |
| 139 | ** TradingSpaces: Boys vs. Girls |
| 140 | |
| 141 | ** Also, ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' added that age group to teams in its much maligned, but canonical "Family Edition" in Season 8; |
| 142 | * Game Show TV franchise spinoffs with pre-teen/teen competitors include: |
| 143 | ** ''Gladiators 2000'' (''Series/AmericanGladiators'') |
| 144 | ** ''Jep!'' (''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'') |
| 145 | ** ''Joker! Joker! Joker!'' (''Series/TheJokersWild'') |
| 146 | ** ''Storybook Squares'' (''Series/TheHollywoodSquares''), |
| 147 | ** ''Wheel 2000'' (''Series/WheelOfFortune''), |
| 148 | ** ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'' Junior (announced) |
| 149 | ** Also, ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' had a canonical two-week "Teen Tournament" in the U.S. at least once a season 1987-2014 and on occasions thereafter; |
| 150 | * In possibly the most bizarre example, long-running British sitcom ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine'' spawned a spin-off called ''First Of The Summer Wine'', featuring the main cast as teenagers in the 1930s. This included both (at the time) {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s for the third man of the ComicTrio, despite the fact that, in ''Last'', Compo barely remembered one of them was at the same school, and the other one was clearly established as a newcomer to the village. Since this is a show about drunk and arguably senile elderly Brits, you could chalk it up to UnreliableNarrator. |
| 151 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' used this line no less than three times during "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E07TheKillerShrews The Killer Shrews]]"; Joel's invention exchange was Jim Henson's Edgar Winter Babies, and during the short "Junior Rodeo Daredevils", they mention "Jim Henson's Misfit Babies" and "Jim Henson's ''Film/TheLastPictureShow'' Babies". |
| 152 | * ''Series/{{Psych}}'' got two of these. There was a set of short cartoons between seasons featuring Shawn and Gus as children. Then during the commercials in the next season, Shawn and Gus appear in short clips as teenagers during the mid 90's. |
| 153 | * ''Sesame Beginnings'', a direct-to-DVD EdutainmentShow for kids younger than the ''Series/SesameStreet'' demographic (ie the under-2s), starring Baby Big Bird, Baby Cookie Monster, Baby Elmo and Baby Prairie Dawn. |
| 154 | * In the 200th episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'', the titular team briefly imagine being replaced with younger, hipper versions of themselves. They aren't pleased with the result. |
| 155 | * The short-lived ''Series/YoungHercules'', directed at teen and younger viewers, featured the semi-sterilized adventures of an adolescent[[DawsonCasting ish]] [[Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys Hercules]] through ancient high school. |
| 156 | * ''Series/YoungSheldon'' is a spinoff of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' centered around the character of Sheldon as a child. |
| 157 | [[/folder]] |
| 158 | |
| 159 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 160 | * ''Pinball/BabyPacMan'', a pinball[=/=]videogame hybrid featuring the infant of VideoGame/PacMan and Ms. Pac-Man. |
| 161 | [[/folder]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 164 | * In one of the most bizarre examples (which in hindsight, was also tactless and kinda stupid) the already-young Cabbage Patch Kids had a line of Cabbage Patch Preemies, even smaller versions of the dolls. In a move that everybody except the Cabbage Patch People saw coming, making a cute little doll out of frail and weak premature babies '''infuriated''' a lot of people. Discussed in number 2 of [[https://www.cracked.com/article_137_7-hilariously-failed-attempts-at-politically-correct-toys.html this article.]] |
| 165 | * ''Toys/DCSuperheroGirls'' stars DC characters as high schoolers. |
| 166 | * Toys/DraccoHeads, a series of collectible figurines made to [[FollowTheLeader trail off of the popularity of]] Toys/GoGosCrazyBones, had a set of figures called "Baby Dracco Heads" where all the characters from the first Dracco Heads set are babies. |
| 167 | * ''Kindi Kids'' features the ''Toys/{{Shopkins}}'' Shoppies characters as kindergartners. |
| 168 | * ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'''s "So Soft" line, which oddly styles the baby ponies more after human infants instead of equine ones. This is even the case in the toys based on ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship is Magic]]'', which explicitly shows ponies, babies or otherwise, to be quadrupedal. |
| 169 | * 'Newborns' is a popular way for characters in a line of toys to get even smaller and cuter, e.g. Pound Puppies and Puppy In My Pocket. |
| 170 | * ''Series/SesameStreet'': Plush dolls, targeted to infants and babies, have been sold of Ernie, Bert, Cookie Monster, Prairie Dawn, Big Bird and Elmo. Picture books for babies and toddlers, depicting the Muppet characters as babies, have also been sold. |
| 171 | * ''Suzy's Zoo'' has been spun-off into ''Little Suzy's Zoo''. [[Anime/SuzysZooDaisukiWitzy The show]] on Creator/BabyFirstTV? Yeah, [[IAmNotShazam it's actually the latter]]. |
| 172 | * Teenie Beanies, which were available at [=McDonald's=] for several years, were this to Toys/BeanieBabies. Some Teenie Beanies were even given diminutive names of their larger counterparts; e.g., the Teenie version of Ants the Anteater was called "Antsy." |
| 173 | [[/folder]] |
| 174 | |
| 175 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 176 | * ''[[VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin Ecco Jr.]]'' features a younger version of Ecco the Dolphin exploring the ocean, completing such tasks as herding seahorses, [[PassThroughTheRings swimming through rings]], and finding lost balls for sea lions along the way. The game was created to appeal to younger gamers as part of the "Sega Club" line of games, partially in response to the [[SurpriseDifficulty difficulty]] of the original ''Ecco'' game and its sequel, ''Tides of Time''. |
| 177 | * A handful of ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' spinoffs feature party members from mainline titles going on adventures when they were kids. [[VideoGame/DragonQuestVI Terry and Milly]] and later [[VideoGame/DragonQuestVII Kiefer]] were [[VideoGame/DragonQuestMonsters monster tamers]], [[VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII Yangus]] engaged in [[VideoGame/MysteryDungeon dungeon crawling]], and [[VideoGame/DragonQuestXI Erik and Mia]] went [[VideoGame/DragonQuestTreasures treasure-hunting]]. |
| 178 | * Creator/SquareEnix did this with a couple of ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' characters in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series. Most of these characters were originally in their late teens or early 20s in their respective ''Final Fantasy'' games, but their ''Kingdom Hearts'' [[AlternateUniverse counterparts]] are in their early to mid-teens. This includes Zack from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''[[note]]Actually, Zack makes his first appearance in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', which takes place 10 years before the [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI original game]]. So, he's likely in his 20s in the present, just like his ''Final Fantasy'' counterpart.[[/note]], Selphie, Seifer, Fuu (Fujin), and Rai (Raijin) from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', and lastly, Tidus and Wakka from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''. Squall Leonheart is an exception, as he is instead aged up to his twenties. |
| 179 | * In ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'', IF and Compa, two of the playable characters in the previous two games now appear as babies due to Neptune travelling back in time. |
| 180 | * ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': |
| 181 | ** In [[http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=472274&week=417 this]] Neopian Times article, Darigan, Kass, Adee, Fyora, Sloth, Jhudora, Illusen, Edna and Eliv Thade as kids, even though Sloth and Fyora are way older than Illusen, Jhudora, Darigan, Kass, and Eliv, who in turn are way older than Adee. |
| 182 | ** [[http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=144766&week=214 this]] Neopian Times article is about Edna as a kid. |
| 183 | * In the web-game ''Nick Jr Babies'' you take care of infant versions of Oswald, Dora, Blue, and Bill from ''WesternAnimation/{{Oswald}}'', ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'', ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', and ''WesternAnimation/LittleBill''. |
| 184 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' often introduces pre-evolved forms of certain {{Mons}} in each new expansion of the Pokedex. Who gets a baby form seems to be dependent on the character in question. Some get them based on their [[PopularityPower popularity]], and others received them because they appear too "big" or "advanced" to hatch out of an egg as is. |
| 185 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 186 | ** ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' features the Yoshi tribe trying to keep baby versions of the regular Mario characters safe from Kamek and Baby Bowser. Its sequel has the current-day Bowser and Kamek traveling to the past in a search for MacGuffin Babies, terrorizing the Yoshis and babies (including himself) of that time period in the process. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext No, the plot doesn't make any sense]]. |
| 187 | ** Incidentally, ''Yoshi's Story'' was all about Baby Yoshis saving the day for the grown-ups. |
| 188 | ** ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'' stars the older Mario Bros. teaming up with their baby selves to save the past, present, and future from AlienInvaders. |
| 189 | ** Spin off baby versions of Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy and Rosalina have appeared in the VideoGame/MarioKart series. Baby versions of Wario, Donkey Kong and Bowser have appeared in other titles. |
| 190 | * The ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' series is normally about a vicious, high-octane demolition derby where contestants blow up each other to win a wish of their choosing. Then there's ''Twisted Metal: Small Brawl'', where instead every character is a little kid and they drive heavily-armed RC vehicles through playgrounds and other urban areas. |
| 191 | * ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Kids'' is a combination of this and SuperDeformed. It leans more towards the latter as you got characters who have facial hair and developed breasts, despite being called children. |
| 192 | [[/folder]] |
| 193 | |
| 194 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 195 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Mameshiba}}'', of all things, has launched the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc86A43FXLA Babyshiba]] shorts, which feature baby versions of the titular beans. |
| 196 | [[/folder]] |
| 197 | |
| 198 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 199 | * ''Webcomic/TheBookOfBiff'' had a week of comics showing Biff as a kid as that week's theme. [[http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2009/04/06/735-onager/ See for yourself.]] |
| 200 | * ''[[http://jl8comic.tumblr.com/ JL8,]]'' formerly ''Little League'', gives the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} this treatment, relocating the main cast (and villains!) to elementary school. However, the style is more evocative of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' than the more commonly-used; [[RecycledInSpace recycled IN SCHOOL!]] |
| 201 | * ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'' follows the newspaper comics tradition of Sunday features alongside weekday strips; the Sunday version is called ''LICD: Beginnings'' and features a pre-adolescent Rayne and his family. The art is different too, done by the same artist but in a rougher, cozier style, so as to firmly separate the two iterations. |
| 202 | * ''[[http://saiyalings.comicgenesis.com Little Saiyalings]]'' is what you get when you put Manga/DragonBall together with a little bit of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' and ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''. |
| 203 | * From ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' comes ''Li'l Mell''. |
| 204 | ** One ''Li'l Mell'' [[http://www.shaenon.com/lilmell/?p=512 story]] appears to suggest her class [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether also contains]] [[Webcomic/SkinHorse Li'l Julie Rome, Li'l Tip, Li'l Virginia Lee and Li'l Nick Zerhakker]] (and [[AuthorAvatar L'l Shaenon and Li'l Jeffrey Channing Wells]] in the back row). Probably not really, though, especially since [[http://www.shaenon.com/lilmell/?p=528 later strips in the same storyline]] show Shaenon and Jeff as teachers. Earlier, there was a cameo by [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160424095257/http://girlamatic.com/mell/1999/01/01/filler-strip-1-mell-delivers-a-beating/ Li'l Dave.]] |
| 205 | ** The substitute teacher in the first arc of ''Li'l Mell'' was quite obviously Artie[[labelnote:*]]At least, he was once Artie's human form appeared in the main strip, which happened much later. Although the name Arthur Narbon was definitely a clue.[[/labelnote]], presumably researching for his study on violent tendencies in early childhood as mentioned [[http://narbonic.com/comic/december-4-9-2006/ in the last arc]] of ''Narbonic''. |
| 206 | ** There was also a guest week of ''[[http://narbonic.com/comic/andre-richard-guest-week/ Narbonic Babies,]]'' in which Dr Narbon was looking after Toddler Dave and Baby Mell at Narbonic Babies Daycare. Coincidentally, Artie ends up travelling back in time to that one as well. |
| 207 | * ''Si Juki'' has ''Kisah Usil Si Juki Kecil'', portraying Juki and his college-aged friends from the boarding house as small children in TheNineties. |
| 208 | [[/folder]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 211 | * ''WebAnimation/KombatKids'' is a series starring the Babalitized ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' cast. It is ''not'' as LighterAndSofter as it looks, though. |
| 212 | * ''WebVideo/SchoolOfThrones'' is the cast of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' set in a HighSchoolAU. The noble houses are re-imagined as high-school cliques. |
| 213 | [[/folder]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 216 | * When the producers of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' were told to do a "teenage Batman" show, at first they seriously thought about quitting but instead they came up with ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' (a sequel series featuring Bruce Wayne's successor). Creator/BruceTimm has stated that before doing ''Batman Beyond'', the network had initially wanted them to do a series focusing on Batman mentoring teen versions of the ComicBook/JusticeLeague. That particular idea did come up again in the form of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', which instead used {{Legacy Character}}s. |
| 217 | * ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' had ''WesternAnimation/CliffordsPuppyDays''. As a grown up, he was bigger than a house but as a pup he was so small that fits inside a cup of tea. |
| 218 | * Creator/CartoonNetwork adquired the rights of ''ComicBook/{{Condorito}}'' to make a preteen version of the eponymous character and his friends called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04_pRiGJGuw Condorito Jr.]]'', made as 1-minute shorts series. |
| 219 | * ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'' focuses on the preschool-aged offspring of characters from ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood''. |
| 220 | ** The same thing can be said about ''Series/DonkeyHodie'', which focuses on the granddaughter of the original Donkey Hodie (now named Grampy Hodie) from ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood''. |
| 221 | * The aforementioned ''DC Super Hero Girls'' spawned two animated continuities: the [[WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls web series]] where the protagonists go to [[SuperheroSchool Super Hero High]] and the [[WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019 television series]] in which core groups of heroes and villians maintain secret identities while studying at Metropolis High School. |
| 222 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ewoks}}'', the characters are in their preteens/early teens (Wicket being about 12 and the others slightly older), in contrast to those of them appearing in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' being young adults. |
| 223 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' became ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstoneKids''. |
| 224 | * The 2000s series of ''WesternAnimation/{{George of the Jungle|2007}}'' changes George from a full-grown man to a teenager. |
| 225 | * Disney's ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'': |
| 226 | ** The whole series takes place while Hercules is in his mid teens. Hercules was technically that age during [[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} the movie]], but not for most of it (it happens in-between Hercules being accepted as Phil's apprentice and the completion of his hero training). |
| 227 | ** One episode features Hercules, Icarus, Pegasus, and Pain being turned into babies, with Panic and Cassandra having to scramble for the cure. |
| 228 | * The WWE's previous animated series, ''WesternAnimation/HulkHogansRockNWrestling'', had a one-off episode, "Small But Mighty", where the wrestlers were transformed into kids, thanks to Hillbilly Jim's secret chili recipe and granny's magical herbs. The kids wreak havoc, of course, but end up foiling a car-stripping ring by episode's end. |
| 229 | * ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'': Tony, Pepper, Rhodey, and the BigBad The Mandarin are all re-imagined as teenagers in high school. |
| 230 | * ''WesternAnimation/JakeAndTheNeverLandPirates'' was originally intended to be one for ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', but they tossed that out the window and made it a ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' setting instead. |
| 231 | * Seemingly to make a version appropriate for younger viewers, 1991 saw the release of ''WesternAnimation/JamesBondJr'', about the '''nephew''' of [[Franchise/JamesBond the famous superspy]], who also foils evil spies with the help of fellow descendents of well-known characters from the ''Bond'' series, but while trying to get his homework done on time too. |
| 232 | * Paul Frank's ''Julius'' got this treatment when turned into a cartoon and toyline. The end result, ''WesternAnimation/JuliusJr'', airs on Nick Jr. In the US and is available on Netflix elsewhere. |
| 233 | * Disney's ''WesternAnimation/JungleCubs'' which was a spin off of ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' featuring the animal characters as preteens and Kaa and Shere Khan as their allies. |
| 234 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kangoo}}'' has ''Kangoo Juniors''. |
| 235 | * ''WesternAnimation/KidLucky'', adapted from the eponymous spinoff comics of ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'', featuring Luke as a little boy. |
| 236 | * ''Little Rosie'', NotQuiteStarring an animated [[Series/{{Roseanne}} Roseanne Barr]] and featuring, in one episode, an animated John Goodman. |
| 237 | * Done to the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' with ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'', which started off as a line of merchandise. |
| 238 | ** By contrast, ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' is a but of a subversion. While it was originally conceived as such, over the creative process the cast were eventually split off into [[{{Expy}} similar but original characters]] who were ''taught'' by the original WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cast in school. |
| 239 | * ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarALittleWild'' is set during Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria's child years at the zoo, before the events of [[Franchise/{{Madagascar}} the film series]]. |
| 240 | * The ''Mini Monsters'' in the animated series ''WesternAnimation/TheComicStrip'' are the kid's version of the classic Franchise/UniversalHorror monsters. |
| 241 | * ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'', the example that [[TropeCodifier codified the trope]], features pre-K versions of the core cast of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', though [[AffirmativeActionGirl to increase the ratio of female characters to male]], they gave Scooter a tomboyish fraternal twin sister named Skeeter. |
| 242 | ** The whole series is actually based on a scene in ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'', where Piggy wonders what things would have been like if they knew each other as children.[[note]]This cartoon is 99% of what kept that scene from being a BigLippedAlligatorMoment (and even then only in terms of the greater franchise).[[/note]] |
| 243 | ** A [[WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018 reboot series]] premiered in 2018. |
| 244 | * My First Franchise/DisneyPrincess, which essentially portrays the Princesses as toddlers. |
| 245 | * My Little Pony: Newborn Cuties, an offshoot of G3, is an infamous example of this kind of series, portraying the Core 7 as babies in a desperate struggle to maximize profits. |
| 246 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheNewArchies'' is a [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece terribly 80s]] cartoon that has the normally-teenage Archie characters as middle schoolers. |
| 247 | * ''Playdate with Winnie the Pooh'' is a Disney Junior series focused on younger versions of the 100 Acre Wood's animals. |
| 248 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobinHoodMischiefInSherwood'' is about a pre-teen Myth/RobinHood and his friends John, Marion, Scarlet ([[GenderFlip who's a girl]]) and Tuck battling the adult forces of a pre-teen Prince John. |
| 249 | ** An older series made by Creator/HannaBarbera in 1991 called ''Young Robin Hood''. It featured the Merry Men as teens and Robin also gained a messenger hawk named Arrow. |
| 250 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': |
| 251 | ** Inverted with the TimeSkip spin-off ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'', by having the main Rugrats characters age 10 years ''from'' being babies. |
| 252 | ** Done straight when ''All Grown Up'' itself got spun-off as ''Angelica and Suzie's Pre-Skool Daze''. For those of you who missed it, the Rugrats was already about babies, it got a spin-off in the form of ''All Grown Up'' and then that got its OWN spin-off. |
| 253 | * ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' featured the adventures of ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch at about age twelve, with Creator/MelissaJoanHart's little sister as the title voice. Harvey was a skateboard nut (that could explain a few things, actually), and replaced the live action show's AlphaBitch with a new alpha bitch named Jem Stone, who was the old antagonist, but twelve and vaguely gothy. The theme song is eager to point out that Sabrina's "the greatest" and has "super magic", but, since she's the protagonist of a show directed at preteens, she's predictably sort of a loser. As with many examples of this trope, the series also ignored the original canon. In the pilot special, Sabrina didn't even know she was a witch until she was sixteen. Well, the ''actual'' original canon, the ''ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' comic book, shows that Sabrina had her powers and was a witch since at least grade school (per several "Little Archie" stories). |
| 254 | * "[[YouMeddlingKids Those meddling kids]]" from ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' went from their late teens to their preteens for ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''. This is technically a ''straight'' example, though the writers of the series used the new format as an excuse to do a SelfParody of the franchise's most notable tropes, which by the time of the show's airing, had been done to death for twenty straight years. |
| 255 | * ''Slippin' Jimmy'', the animated prequel series to ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', portrays Jimmy [=McGill=] and his childhood best friend Marco Pasternak during their days as fledgling con artists in Cicero. |
| 256 | * The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' prequel series, ''WesternAnimation/KampKoral: [=SpongeBob=]'s Under Years'', which details [=SpongeBob's=] experience at summer camp as a 10-year-old, along with younger versions of other characters. |
| 257 | * They tried taking this tangent with WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake a few times, most notably in with the 2003 series by way of the launch of the Strawberry Shortcake Baby line, featuring baby Strawberry Shortcake, kitten Custard, a younger puppy Pupcake and an unnamed teddy bear being prominently displayed on products meant for infants and toddlers. The show tried going down the path with just one episode [[spoiler:[[HandWave hand waved]] to be Apple Dumplin's dream]], but featured baby Ginger Snap, baby Orange Blossom and baby Angel Cake. The baby books added baby Blueberry Muffin. A baby Huckleberry Pie was designed, but very infrequently used. |
| 258 | * ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryKids'' became this. It's worth noting that in its ThreeShorts format only Tom and Jerry were kids. Other characters like WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}} or Spike and Tyke remained unchanged. |
| 259 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRama'' is a SpinOff series of the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' series that features eleven of the original 22 teenagers[[note]]Beth, Bridgette, Cody, Courtney, Duncan, Gwen, Harold, Izzy, Leshawna, Noah, and Owen[[/note]] (and Jude from ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'') as 4-year-olds at a daycare run by Chef Hatchet. |
| 260 | * ''WesternAnimation/WeBabyBears'' is a ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' spin-off taking place during the childhood of Grizz, Panda, and Ice Bear as they travel in a cardboard box, looking for a place to call home. Notably, the original show also had several episodes depicting the bears' childhood. |
| 261 | * Wrestling/{{WWE}} released a new adult animated show called ''Camp WWE'' in which current and past WWE stars are portrayed as kids (John Cena, R-Truth, Big Show, Stone Cold, Rock, Undertaker, Mark Henry, and the Bella Twins) or camp counselors (Wrestling/TripleH, Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon, Wrestling/RicFlair, and Wrestling/SgtSlaughter) all while Wrestling/VinceMcMahon runs the camp. |
| 262 | * A rather strange example: there was an animated spin-off of this kind from the Colombian telenovela ''Series/YoSoyBettyLaFea''. Where almost all the characters were elementary students, and had wacky adventures in OffModel animation. If you don't believe it [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/hollywood/bettytoons.html see a sample]] and [[{{Pun}} brace]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo9wd4ugNhk yourselves.]] |
| 263 | * The [[TotallyRadical painfully hip]] ''WesternAnimation/YoYogi'' had pre-teen versions of WesternAnimation/YogiBear and a few other Creator/HannaBarbera characters, hanging out in Jellystone ''Mall'' and working as amateur detectives. |
| 264 | [[/folder]] |
| 265 | |
| 266 | !!Parodies |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 269 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY0fzHSkb2Y One of the]] {{Omake}} of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaTheMovie2ndAs'' is a RealTrailerFakeMovie called ''Iryou Shoujo[[note]]Medical Girl[[/note]] Medical Shamal'', a MagicalGirl parody featuring the normally adult Shamal as a 10 year old. |
| 270 | * In the GagDub of ''Manga/SgtFrog'', at the end of episode 9 the narrator wonders if the [[FountainOfYouth still-deaged]] Giroro heralds the beginning of a spinoff called "Sgt. Frog Babies. |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 274 | * ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' included some self-parody strips featuring the regular characters drawn in the style of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''. |
| 275 | * Creator/GailSimone's ''ComicBook/Gen13'' introduces [[ComicBook/TheAuthority The Authoriteens]]; Kid Apollo, Daybreaker, Nestling, the Contractor, the Intern, and Jack Hatfield (the Spirit of Small Towns). They turn out to hail from an ''entire universe'' of Spinoff Babies. |
| 276 | * ''ComicBook/TheSensationalSheHulk'' spoofs this in issue #50, when Creator/JohnByrne proposes to Jen a comic about the adventures of "Li'l ComicBook/SheHulk". After reading only two pages of the cutesy first story, she dismisses the proposal, [[spoiler:and tosses Byrne out a window.]] |
| 277 | * Pre-dating ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' was Teeny Titans, an in-universe parody from the early 1990s involving babified versions of Nightwing, Starfire, Pantha, Changeling, and Baby Wildebeest (turned into a magic transforming doll) and their battles against evil Mr. (Slade "Deathstroke") Wilson. The fictional "Teeny Titans" came about when the New Titans were strapped for cash and decided to whore themselves out via merchandising deals and was largely played for shock value as far as the team being horrified at how their cartoon show was a slapstick kiddie show. |
| 278 | * The Mojo/Longshot arc of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics, which featured the mad ruler of a world based around film and television creating the "X-Babies." |
| 279 | ** The X-Babies were largely based on (and identically drawn as) a brief appearance of the ''actual'' X-Men reverted to childhood forms in the original introduction of Longshot to the team (Annual #10). They did a decent (though not perfect) job of keeping the relative ages of each member scaled to the others. Created two annuals later, the "official" X-Babies (who are clones, not altered originals) were cheekily introduced with a [[CoversAlwaysLie "they're back"]] blurb on the cover. |
| 280 | ** Eventually, X-Baby ''villains'' were created, and an X-Baby version of ''Apocalypse'' destroyed the Mojoverse. |
| 281 | [[/folder]] |
| 282 | |
| 283 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 284 | * In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', Kaiba has a flashback to his and Mokuba's childhood in the orphanage. Upon the cut-away from the present, you see the title ''Jim Henson's Kaiba Babies'' and hear littlekuriboh singing the Muppet Babies theme song. |
| 285 | [[/folder]] |
| 286 | |
| 287 | [[folder:Films]] |
| 288 | * ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'': At one point, Chip sees a poster for the movie ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious babies''. |
| 289 | * The opening of ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' had a bit where the Warner Brothers (here depicted as identical twins in chairs) state that Kate made a baby spin-off for the ''Film/LethalWeapon'' films. |
| 290 | --> "Finally, a ''Lethal Weapon'' I can take my grandchildren to." |
| 291 | [[/folder]] |
| 292 | |
| 293 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 294 | * On ''Series/{{Community}}'', Abed imagines a baby spin-off of the study group, ''Greendale Babies''. |
| 295 | * ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'' has done sketches featuring a children's version of [[BitingTheHandHumor its network's hit reality franchise]] ''Series/TheBachelor'', ''The Baby Bachelor''--which is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oavg_YqE7w8 exactly what it says on the tin]] (with Kimmel's nephew playing the title role). There's also been ''Baby Bachelorette'' (complete with "The Boys Tell All") and ''Baby Bachelor in Paradise'' sketches. |
| 296 | * A ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' sketch, where two tapes of old network shows got tangled together, resulting in the creation of "Series/{{Seinfeld}} Babies." |
| 297 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': |
| 298 | ** A popular riff of theirs, under the formula "Creator/JimHenson's <blank> Babies". They have even quipped, "Film/{{Solarbabies}} Babies!" and "Muppet Baby Babies!" |
| 299 | ** In "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E07TheKillerShrews The Killer Shrews]]", Joel's invention exchange of "Jim Henson's Edgar Winter Babies" even stopped Dr. Forrester from [[EarthShatteringKaboom blowing up the Earth]]! |
| 300 | * Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} once pulled an April Fool's Day joke in which there were elderly-aimed spin-offs of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' featuring older versions of said characters called Nick Sr. |
| 301 | * Among the spoof titles mentioned in the ''Series/{{Roundhouse}}'' episode "New Kid in Town" are "Infant Schmuppets", "Premature Schmuppets", and "Schmuppet Zygotes". |
| 302 | * A ''Series/TVFunhouse'' sketch, "Fetal Franchise/ScoobyDoo", in which fake hauntings were exposed by a gang of prenatal detectives. |
| 303 | * An episode of ''Series/WonderShowzen'' features a sketch titled "Wonder Showzen Preemies" with the regular cast as babies in an obvious ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'' spoof (Nanny even appears, shown from the socks up as a large pair of lips on legs -- in keeping with the style of ''Series/WonderShowzen'', the preemies actually have "two nannies"). At the end of the sketch, the children watch their own favorite show, "Wonder Showzen Embryos." |
| 304 | [[/folder]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 307 | * Pop group Music/ATeens began as an the Music/{{Abba}} Teens, who covered Abba songs for a late 90s/early 2000s tween audience. This gimmick only lasted on album before they broke off into a reasonably successful standalone group. |
| 308 | * One of the stranger examples of this was Music/{{Devo}} 2.0, a Disney-backed music project of preteens covering Devo songs, which are all about such topics as the de-evolution of human intellect, the shallowness of consumerism and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Devo presumably either wanted the kids to start thinking of these things at a young age or just found the concept hilarious. |
| 309 | * In Nolan Thomas' 1984 video "Yo Little Brother", Thomas (who was about 14) appears with his sibling and friends: kids dressed up as Music/BillyIdol, Music/CyndiLauper, Ric Ocasek, and {{Music/Prince}}. |
| 310 | * In the music video of "The Invisible Man" by Music/{{Queen}} from the album ''Music/TheMiracle'' the band members are played by children, dressed up as them. |
| 311 | [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 314 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOHJUrcVdJk The Adventures of Lil' Cthulhu]] by Zachary Murray. |
| 315 | * The ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' short "The Lil' Dics" parodied this by having a time traveler named Tim attempt to [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct kill Adolf Hitler and other notorious dictators during their infancies]], ultimately deciding to instead adopt them and rear them himself in hopes that doing so will make them better people in adulthood. The sketch ends with Tim answering the door to see his aged future self, who glumly informs his past self that his efforts didn't work before [[TemporalSuicide shooting him in the head]] and proceeding to set the house on fire with his past self's corpse and the baby dictators still inside. |
| 316 | -->'''Future Tim:''' It was a good premise, though. |
| 317 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': |
| 318 | ** Parodied in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE140HighSchool highschool]], where Strong Bad claims he, Homestar, Strong Mad, and Marzipan were [[KidDetective "a team of super sleuths" in high school]], then goes on to claim "In middle school, we were a bunch of melon-headed babies with giant eyes and enormous imaginations!" Then he gets carried away and adds "And going even unnecessarily further back, we were all a bunch of plucky parameciums living in Free Petri Dish, USA!" and "Before that we were... Romans. In Roman times. And Creator/DonKnotts was always showing up." |
| 319 | ** Episode 7 of Strong Bad's "independent comic" ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'' was "Teeny Tiny Girl Squad", which featured the girls as preschoolers (though still prone to comical deaths, as seen when new boy character Tompkins "died somehow"). |
| 320 | --->'''Little What's Her Face:''' I can count to G!\ |
| 321 | '''Little Cheerleader:''' That's nothing. I can count to purple backwards. |
| 322 | * ''[[WebAnimation/ShutUpCartoons Smosh Babies]]'' depicts the cast of WebVideo/{{Smosh}}, namely Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, as infants. |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 326 | * For two comics, starting with [[http://lazylonewolf.comicgenesis.com/d/20081112.html this one]] in the original ''Webcomic/CatNine''. Tammy? and Keith have Myan as a "baby". |
| 327 | * ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'': |
| 328 | ** T-Rex and Utahraptor disagree on how good an idea [[http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001058.html "Dino babies"]] is. |
| 329 | ** [[http://www.tv.com/dino-babies/show/15559/summary.html?q=dino%20babies&tag=search_results;title;1 Don't look]], [[HilariousInHindsight they actually made one]], '''in the 90s'''. Although it got ScrewedByTheNetwork as well. |
| 330 | * Parodied in [[http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20061013.html this filler strip]] from ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'', depicting a Spinoff Babies version of the webcomic starring Lothar. Because Lothar was [[ArtificialHuman artificially grown]], the result isn't very exciting. |
| 331 | * [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/gallery/sketch.php?date=20070624 This sketch]] from the makers of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' parodies the concept with a litte Agatha, Krosp and Gil.. and [[EmperorScientist Klaus]] who unlike the other three is is usual age but has been hit with a shrink ray. The title text proclaims ''"Shamless Marketing Presents:"''. Note that when the main characters are shown as younger, it's more "backstory", less "lil' mad scientists". |
| 332 | * Parodied in ''Webcomic/{{Insecticomics}}'', with [[http://www.insecticons.com/insecticomics/v4/390.html "Michael Baybies",]] featuring a combination of kids-friendly action and huge explosions in an obvious jab at Creator/MichaelBay. |
| 333 | * ''Webcomic/MotherlyScootaloo'' has [[http://lightningblitzanswers.tumblr.com/ Lightning Blitz Answers,]] with a donation-based update system. |
| 334 | * ''Worst of the Time Lords'': Parodied in this ''Series/DoctorWho'' {{Fan Webcomic|s}} with the AprilFoolsDay strip [[https://doctorwhy.livejournal.com/20137.html "DOCTOR WHY BABIEZ!"]] |
| 335 | [[/folder]] |
| 336 | |
| 337 | [[folder:Websites]] |
| 338 | * There is a parody nostalgia website for the nonexistent show ''The Adventures of Li'L [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Bill]] & [[UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton Hill]] and Friends''. What makes it actually funny is the executives' claim that any resemblance to a Presidential administration is entirely coincidental, although we the fandom are too smart to fall for that! |
| 339 | * For AprilFoolsDay 2018, Franchise/TheMuppets fansite ''Tough Pigs: For Muppet Fans Who Grew Up'' celebrated ''WesternAnimation/{{Muppet Babies|2018}}'' by reinventing itself as ''[[http://www.toughpigs.com/toughpigs-babies/ Tough Pigs Babies: For Muppet Fans Who Didn't Grow Up]]'', and reviewed such never completed (or begun) cartoons as ''Series/SamAndFriends Babies'' and ''Advertising/WilkinsCoffee Babies'' (turns out babies shouldn't drink coffee). They even inverted the trope with "Muppet Elders", depicting the characters of the original show as elderly people living in a retirement home. |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 343 | * ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' posted a joke trailer for a spin off for "The Guild Babies". But because Bladezz is so much younger than the rest of the characters already, he is a fetus. |
| 344 | [[/folder]] |
| 345 | |
| 346 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 347 | * [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeFionnaAndCake Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake]] had the gang visit an alternate dimension where everyone is a baby and tended by the Gumball Guardians. [[WordOfGod Adam Muto]] says this was meant as a parody of a potential SpinOffBabies WesternAnimation/AdventureTime series he dreads having to one day make. |
| 348 | * An AprilFools 2021 [[https://twitter.com/adultswim/status/1377470832767815683 announcement]] from Creator/AdultSwim shows off a fake trailer for [adult swim jr], featuring shows with aged down characters. Titles include ''[[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros The Venture Nephews]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}} Superjuvie]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw Harvey Birdman: Junior Associate]]'', along with some others. |
| 349 | * Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' with ''Lil' Series/{{Entourage}}''. |
| 350 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gdqLogzdgc A 2023 April Fool's video]] from Creator/{{Disney}} features the intro to a ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' spin-off created for Creator/DisneyJunior called ''Baby City Greens'', featuring the show's cast (save for Gramma Alice) as babies. Yes, Bill is about the same age as his two children, Tilly and Cricket. |
| 351 | * In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'''s "Operation C.A.B.L.E.T.V.", the show lineup for a TV network is shown to be ''Rainbow Monkeys'' followed by ''Rainbow Monkey Babies'' followed by ''Rainbow Monkey Teens''. |
| 352 | * ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' did a Spinoff Babies episode, complete with theme song. Since this is [[AnimatedShockComedy Drawn Together]], it's actually one of the more horrific episodes.[[note]]Rumor has it that this was intended as a PoorlyDisguisedPilot that Creator/ComedyCentral rejected.[[/note]] |
| 353 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' did this in the "Li'l Griffins" short story in "Family Guy Viewer Mail 1" parodying WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals. |
| 354 | ** There was also the ''Film/StandByMe'' parody where the Spooner Street neighbors are childhood friends. |
| 355 | ** "Dearly Deported" had ''Series/{{CSI}} Babies'', in which the detectives are babies and cannot solve crimes. Both Stewie and Peter are horrified of the show. |
| 356 | * Lampshaded in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''. Jon was looking into marketing Garfield for TV. Using AppliedPhlebotinum and a MagicalComputer, the network executive Jon was talking to shows off various ideas he has, among them a baby Garfield [[spoiler:complete with Lorenzo Music making cute cooing sounds]]. The executive mentions that it was the latest craze. |
| 357 | * In the credits of the ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' spinoff ''WesternAnimation/{{Underfist}}'', included among many possible sequel and spinoff ideas is "Underfist Babies". |
| 358 | * ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' had this as a part of an episode focusing on parodying outdated animation cliches and tropes, as the {{animated actor}}s heavily protested against using them in their show. |
| 359 | ** As did ''WesternAnimation/TazMania''. |
| 360 | * Sort of parodied in the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "[[http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Kid_Stuff Kids' Stuff]]". Four of the main heroes get turned into 8 years olds and act like smaller versions of themselves mixed with typical little kid archetypes. |
| 361 | * Creator/ComedyCentral's series ''WesternAnimation/LilBush'' turns UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and other figures from American politics into grade-school kids, and in doing so it works according to exactly the same rules as other examples of this trope. |
| 362 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E7ChumBucketListBigBabyPatrick Big Baby Patrick]]" gives some big [[TakeThat Take Thats]] towards the phenomenon. The episode points out that there's not a lot babies can actually ''do'', so they're not that interesting to watch. |
| 363 | ** ''Captain Quasar in Diapers'' is a spin-off about baby Quasar and Pat-Tron, who are too short to operate their spaceship without teamwork, and whom their enemies find too cute to want to attack. |
| 364 | ** The show turns into ''Baby Stars'', with the cutesy theme song pointing out that babies "can't be held accountable for their actions!" The entire skit consists of the babies deciding to "pretend" to be adults. |
| 365 | * In Europe with of all people, Pope John Paul II and Padre Pio, in ''Piucci and Lolek''. For no real reason, they're still dressed the same but now in boyish form, offering spiritual help to troubled children. |
| 366 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' spoofed this in "City of Clipsville" by depicting a flashback where Professor Utonium accidentally turns the girls into babies, then he does it on the rest of Townsville. There's another flashback later on that spoofs the TimeSkip variant, by having the girls speed up time and give up fighting crime to become air-headed teens, as have the Rowdyruff Boys. |
| 367 | * One ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch parodied this with Terminator. "Come with me, the Terminator Baby, if you want to live!" At the end, Sarah Connor comments about how Skynet must be running out of ideas for terminators. |
| 368 | ** ''Robot Chicken'' also did [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnzKMxoqq7Y Lil' Hitler]] which was semi-accurate,[[note]]Germany occupied Czechoslovakia ''then'' Poland before war was declared by Britain and her allies[[/note]] from the US perspective. |
| 369 | * An In-Universe example in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' reveals that Chuckie's favorite TV show is "[[Franchise/StarTrek Space Trek]] Babies". Tommy absolutely cannot stand it. |
| 370 | * [[WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam and Max]] consider the flashback versions of themselves to be "cute" and "marketable". |
| 371 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'' episode "Baah-dern Times", they ran a fake commercial for ''Secret Military Organization Babies'' wherein General Specific, Private Public, and the Angry Scientist were babies. |
| 372 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', in which Milhouse asks Creator/AlanMoore to sign his copy of ''[[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Watchmen Babies]] In: [[ComicBook/VForVendetta V For Vacation]]''. (pictured above) |
| 373 | -->'''Milhouse:''' Mr. Moore, will you sign my DVD of ''Watchmen Babies''? Which of the babies is your favorite?\ |
| 374 | '''Alan Moore:''' You see what those bloody corporations do? They take your ideas and they suck them! Suck them like leeches until they've gotten every last drop of marrow from your bones! |
| 375 | ** Variations are featured in [[http://gunshowcomic.com/133 these]] [[http://gunshowcomic.com/134 five]] [[http://gunshowcomic.com/135 rather]] [[http://gunshowcomic.com/136 out-of-continuity]] [[http://gunshowcomic.com/137 comics.]] There's also [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120728194628/splitreason.com/product/758 this]] FunTShirt. |
| 376 | * Satirized in a ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode, a questionable incident that occurred in pre-school prompts the boys to flash back and look adorable. |
| 377 | * Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' episode "Uncle Grandpa Babies", complete with Giant Realistic Flying Tiger as a cub and Pizza Steve as a pile of dough. |
| 378 | ** To hype up the episode, Creator/CartoonNetwork brought back reruns of the ''real'' life spinoff babies series ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' for the first time since 2010. |
| 379 | * The ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Matchmaker" spoofs this in one of the transformations experienced by Sylvia and Wander when the former tries to prevent the latter from mailing a love letter to Lord Dominator to make her fall for Lord Hater. One of the titles the pair are accompanied with is "The Babies", where Wander and Sylvia appear as infant versions of themselves riding in baby carriages. |
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