The Painted Maypole: Do the Runaways really fit this trope? None of them were actually trained to be supervillains by their parents. The Yorkes had Old Lace and a copy of the Abstract hidden in their basement for Gert, but that was just a backup plan in case they were killed before they could finish doing the work themselves. The others discovered their powers on their own (or, in Chase's case, stole tech from his parents' lab).

Does anyone else feel there's something really unintuitive about the title of this article?

Another obvious examples that should be added are the Irken race from InvaderZim TV Show and the Nightmarens, from both NiGHTSIntoDreams and Journey of Dreams.

Now, how much can a 'Tyke Bomb' and a 'Chosen One' overlap? Obviously, a Tyke Bomb must be created with the intent of becoming a weapon, but does the child need to be conditioned to be a soldier to count? Or can the kid be 'released into the wild' and given a call?