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Author: halfstep

Jan 12th 2013 at 4:51:38 AM

This isn't mentioned, but strongly implied in Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers. In the pilot, when Gadget is added to the group, it's mostly because she is the daughter of a friend of one of the protagonists, and she is the only one who can fly his plane now that he is dead. It is mentioned that said friend and protagonist fought together in "The Great War", which seems to be an expy war for WorldWarII. For any of this part of the pilot to work, either a) Gadget was born about a decade or so after the real actual [=WWII=], making her actually anywhere from 20-30 something at the time of the pilot;  b) The Great War isn't an expy for [=WWII=], but a more recent conflict such as Vietnam, and Gadget is actually 12, and demonstrating a "puberty = adulthood" trope; c) Gadget and every other animal is aging just like they should, The Great War happened in the past 3 or 4 years/is not an expy for any human war/is an expy for a covert black ops action; d) It's not the late 80's in the show. As all the visual evidence, parody, and inferences point to a) (right down to the plane they fly), and in the show, it's clearly the late 80's, this trope has to be in play.