Line #2 PlayingWith/KidSidekick


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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30	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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32	%%* '''Implied''': ???
33	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / KidSidekick