1 | '''Basic Trope''': An adult hero will have an incredibly young sidekick. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Meet Trope Man and his 12-year-old sidekick, Wiki Lad. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Meet Trope Man and his 3-month-old sidekick, the Troping Toddler. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Meet Trope Man and his 17-year-old sidekick, Wiki Lad. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Despite his age, Wiki Lad is incredibly talented and Trope Man has decided to make himself his mentor. |
7 | ** Or Trope Man is his babysitter or other guardian and he can't leave him alone on adventures. |
8 | ** Trope Man is fighting villains with [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]], and took advantage of that to get a sidekick that's [[ImprobableInfantSurvival effectively immortal]]. |
9 | ** Wiki Lad would have taken up the fight against crime anyway, and at least as Trope Man's sidekick, he at least has a more experienced vigilante watching his back. |
10 | * '''Inverted''': OlderSidekick |
11 | * '''Subverted''': Trope Man introduces his new sidekick, Wiki Lad, who actually appears to be the same age as Trope Man. |
12 | * '''Double Subverted''': But Wiki Lad is wearing a disguise to make himself appear older so that the foes will take him seriously. He's actually 8. |
13 | * '''Parodied''': The sidekick in question is ''unborn'': Trope Man's wife is {{pregnant|Badass}}, and the fetus has powerful psychic abilities it can already use effortlessly, so Trope Man brings her along with him. |
14 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Wiki Lad has actual superpowers (albeit at times unreliable) and is naive while Trope Man is a BadAssNormal who tends to act as the leader. Depending upon the point in the series Trope Man may have Wiki Lad as a sidekick, or he may effectively be the OlderSideKick. Sometimes who is the actual leader changes depending upon circumstances and one of them being completely out of their depths. |
15 | * '''Averted''': |
16 | ** Kids are not used as sidekicks. |
17 | ** The kid *is* the star-in his civilian identity, Trope Man is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent. |
18 | * '''Enforced''': "We need to introduce a young character to the team to appeal to our younger audiences. Let's give Trope Man a kid sidekick. |
19 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Dude, you just got your ass kicked by a ten-year-old in spandex." "Shut up, Bob..." |
20 | * '''Invoked''': Trope Man specifically looks for a child to become his sidekick because he secretly always wanted to be a father. |
21 | * '''Exploited''': Emperor Evulz outright [[KillTheCutie kills Wiki Lad]] to prove that he WouldHurtAChild. |
22 | * '''Defied''': Trope Man will not allow a child to fight crime, and hires someone older instead. |
23 | * '''Discussed''': "Is that a kid fighting alongside Trope Man?" "Yep." "Aren't there child labor laws against that sort of thing?" "You want to tell him that?" |
24 | * '''Conversed''': "Why are superheroes always choosing kids to be their sidekicks? That isn't very smart." |
25 | * '''Deconstructed''': Despite being skilled, Wiki Lad is still just a kid being forced to act like an adult. This causes him to lose his childhood and he never really grows up. This causes psychological problems down the road. |
26 | * '''Reconstructed''': But who cares? He's young and kicking crime's ass, how cool is that? |
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28 | Back to KidSidekick |
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30 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
31 | %% |
32 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
33 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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