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* ''WesternAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': While Lumpy is one of the few characters who's never portrayed as a kid, always being portrayed as a authority figure of some sort, [[MooseAreMorons he isn't any more useful than other, smarter characters]].
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* ''WebAnimation/TheTwins2022'': PlayedForDrama. The teacher never catches on to Lucas' true nature or bothers to understand Lake's side of the story. She also doesn't notice anything wrong when "Lucas" is shown with broken glasses.
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* ''WebAnimation/TheTwins2022'': At first, it's PlayedForDrama. The teacher never catches on to Lucas' true nature or bothers to understand Lake's side of the story. She also Eventually PlayedForHorror when she doesn't notice anything wrong when "Lucas" is shown with broken glasses.
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* ''WebAnimation/TheTwins2022'': PlayedForDrama. The teacher never catches on to Lucas' true nature nor or bothers to understand Lake's side of the story. She also doesn't notice anything wrong when "Lucas" is shown with broken glasses.
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* In ''VisualNovel/DiabolikLovers'', parents are neglectful, abusive, or incapable of protecting their children, and authority figures like school faculty are out of touch at best. Church officials are even worse, since they conspired to seperate the heroine from her father and allowed vampires take her as a sacrifice.
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%% Trope was declared Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease via crowner by the Real Life Maintenance thread.
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See also: TeenageWasteland, CompetenceZone, ParentExMachina, BestYearsOfYourLife, LazyHusband, BabysitterFromHell and AnticsEnablingWife.
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See also: TeenageWasteland, CompetenceZone, ParentExMachina, BestYearsOfYourLife, LazyHusband, BabysitterFromHell and AnticsEnablingWife.
AnticsEnablingWife. Likely occurs with KidHero, especially in {{Role Playing Game}}s where the main characters are almost always under 20, often around 14-18. Normally there are one or two older characters to act as a sage or adviser.
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* ''TabletopGame/TalesFromTheLoop'': Downplayed. Every KidHero has a Connection, a trusted adult who can help bring them back from the DespairEventHorizon. However, a Connection will rarely, if ever, take a part in the Kids adventures, and all other adults are uniformly useless.
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* ''TabletopGame/TalesFromTheLoop'': Downplayed. Every KidHero has a Connection, a trusted adult who can help bring them back from the DespairEventHorizon. However, a Connection will rarely, if ever, take a part in the Kids Kid's adventures, and all other adults are uniformly useless.
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* ''WebAnimation/RevengeFilms'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EomfHJZIN2M Penny]] does nothing to stop her new husband when he tries to rape Claire, forcing Jake to quickly speed home to save his daughter.
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* ''Podcast/InStrangeWoods'' has the teens of Whitetail take this viewpoint about their elders, leading them to train with Howl to learn survival skills. In episode 5, it's the teenage Lexy and John Francis who rally everyone to [[spoiler:save Peregrine and Shane]] when everyone else is initially sure they'll be fine.
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* ''Podcast/InStrangeWoods'' has discusses this trope throughout the series as the teens of Whitetail take this viewpoint about their elders, leading them to train with Howl to learn survival skills. In It's then played with in episode 5, it's as while the teenage Lexy and John Francis who rally everyone to [[spoiler:save Peregrine and Shane]] when everyone else is initially sure they'll be fine.fine, the teamwork of the whole community, including the adults, helps them get home alive.
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One of the reasons this trope occurs is the DefaultAnswer. If the adults ''could'' fix everything? Then the story wouldn't be very interesting. Though there is a lot more to this trope than a simple "Adults must be useless" - writers can easily use this trope in many ways.
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One of the reasons this trope occurs is the DefaultAnswer.AnthropicPrinciple. If the adults ''could'' fix everything? Then the story wouldn't be very interesting. Though there is a lot more to this trope than a simple "Adults must be useless" - writers can easily use this trope in many ways.
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One of the reasons this trope occurs is the DefaultAnswer. If the adults ''could'' fix everything? Then the story wouldn't be very interesting. Though there is a lot more to this trope than a simple "Adults must be useless" - writers can easily use this trope in many ways.
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* ''WebAnimation/PrincessNatasha'': Downplayed, as the issue isn't that the adult spies are incompetent, but rather that the BigBad, Lubek, was in charge of the country's spy network and personally trained their best agents prior to his brief stint as king and leaving for the United States. Natasha volunteers herself to undertake the mission of taking down her uncle, reasoning that since she was born after he fled the country, she'd be less recognizable. She also has the assistance of [[OlderThanTheyLook Oleg Boynski]], a spy who dropped out of the academy during his first week due to bullying, and thus also can avoid immediate detection.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheTwins2022'': PlayedForDrama. The teacher never catches on to Lucas' true nature nor bothers to understand Lake's side of the story. She also doesn't notice anything wrong when "Lucas" is shown with broken glasses.
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In some shows that revolve around teenagers, preteens or younger children, adults can't do anything right -- [[ThereAreNoAdults if they appear on-screen at all]]. Teachers tend to be annoying sticks-in-the-mud who do nothing but [[SadistTeacher spoil people's fun]]. Parents are [[NotNowKiddo clueless]], [[StoppedCaring no longer care]], or are either [[MeddlingParents over-]] or [[FreeRangeChildren under-]]protective. And any other designated authority figures the kid might come across? [[PoliceAreUseless Forget it]].
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In some shows that revolve around teenagers, preteens or younger children, adults can't do anything right -- [[ThereAreNoAdults if they appear on-screen at all]]. Teachers tend to be annoying sticks-in-the-mud who do nothing but [[SadistTeacher spoil people's fun]]. Parents are [[NotNowKiddo clueless]], [[StoppedCaring no longer care]], or are either [[MeddlingParents [[HelicopterParents over-]] or [[FreeRangeChildren under-]]protective. And any other designated authority figures the kid might come across? [[PoliceAreUseless Forget it]].
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See also: TeenageWasteland, CompetenceZone, ParentExMachina, BestYearsOfYourLife, LazyHusband, BabysitterFromHell.
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BabysitterFromHell and AnticsEnablingWife.
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* Shows up frequently on ''[[Website/NotAlwaysLearning Not Always Learning]]'', the authority figures depicted often neglect or flat out refuse to help or look after kids they're in charge of, and some of them actively attempt to sabotage them. On a lighter note, there are several stories of teachers who just take the path of least resistance and hand out passing grades regardless of effort or merit.
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* Shows up frequently on ''[[Website/NotAlwaysLearning Not Always Learning]]'', ''Website/NotAlwaysLearning'', the authority figures depicted often neglect or flat out refuse to help or look after kids they're in charge of, and some of them actively attempt to sabotage them. On a lighter note, there are several stories of teachers who just take the path of least resistance and hand out passing grades regardless of effort or merit.
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* Shows up frequently on ''[[NotAlwaysRight/SisterSites Not Always Learning]]'', the authority figures depicted often neglect or flat out refuse to help or look after kids they're in charge of, and some of them actively attempt to sabotage them. On a lighter note, there are several stories of teachers who just take the path of least resistance and hand out passing grades regardless of effort or merit.
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* Shows up frequently on ''[[NotAlwaysRight/SisterSites ''[[Website/NotAlwaysLearning Not Always Learning]]'', the authority figures depicted often neglect or flat out refuse to help or look after kids they're in charge of, and some of them actively attempt to sabotage them. On a lighter note, there are several stories of teachers who just take the path of least resistance and hand out passing grades regardless of effort or merit.
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In some shows that revolve around teenagers, preteens or younger children, adults can't do anything right -- [[ThereAreNoAdults if they appear on-screen at all]]. Teachers tend to be annoying sticks-in-the-mud who do nothing but [[SadistTeacher spoil people's fun]]. Parents are [[NotNowKiddo clueless]], [[StoppedCaring no longer care]], or are either [[OverprotectiveDad over-]] or [[FreeRangeChildren under-]]protective. And any other designated authority figures the kid might come across? [[PoliceAreUseless Forget it]].
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In some shows that revolve around teenagers, preteens or younger children, adults can't do anything right -- [[ThereAreNoAdults if they appear on-screen at all]]. Teachers tend to be annoying sticks-in-the-mud who do nothing but [[SadistTeacher spoil people's fun]]. Parents are [[NotNowKiddo clueless]], [[StoppedCaring no longer care]], or are either [[OverprotectiveDad [[MeddlingParents over-]] or [[FreeRangeChildren under-]]protective. And any other designated authority figures the kid might come across? [[PoliceAreUseless Forget it]].
