History Main / RiteOfPassage

* Franchise/DragonAge also has two: city elves are considered children until they get [[ArrangedMarriage married]] (which is considered a joyous occasion in the [[FantasticGhetto alienage]], when everyone can put down their work, forget their worries, and just party for a day), and Dalish elves are considered children until they receive their ''vallaslin'', ritualized face tattoos of the symbol of one of their gods.

* SagaFrontier2 - For future rulers of the Finney Kingdom, there's the Firebrand ceremony, where the child holds a special sword which will glow to indicate the presence of magic. (In fact, Gustave XIII's failure to induce magical glowing is what kicks off the plot to his entire character arc.)

* In ''{{Drowtales}}'', the Sarghress clan has a ''Blood Rite'' which is probably based on ''The Blooding''.

* ''TalesOfTheQuestor'' has the Choosing Ceremony, where the youth of the village place their hand on the village SoothStone and announce what profession they intend to pursue. The stone glows blue when the child speaks truthfully and sincerely. When Quentyn announces his intention to be the Village Questor, the results [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00025.html are rather spectacular...]]
* In ''BirdBoy'', [[http://bird-boy.com/volume-1-page-7 Bali is frustrated because of the upcoming rite of passage]].

* ''TazMania'': Francis X. Bushlad's tribe has three options, equally valid: either the ancestral strategy of slaying a mighty and dangerous beast, or the slightly more contemporary options of buying out a major corporation in a hostile takeover, or amassing a stock portfolio worth $500,000.

** In Finnish Reserve Officer Academy, the Kirkkojärvi March, a run of 25 to 30 km in full combat gear in formation, with 5 to 6 tasks along the route. The march is also a competition between various platoons. It is not unusual to have young officer students being hauled to hospital on ambulance from exhaustion.

* In ''{{Dune}}'', Fremen must be able to steer a sandworm before they are considered adults.

* The decision of gender in ''{{Simoun}}''.

* The "red beans and rice" meal is referenced in KodomoNoOmocha when Sana reassures an adult that she's old enough to know shame.

* [[http://www.florestica.com/ukuonji/oneshot/rbar/index.htm Red Beans and Rice]] a RanmaOneHalf FanFic that briefly explores the question of "just how female is Ranma, anyway"?

* ''SixteenCandles''.
* In ''{{Jezebel}}'', Bette Davis scandalizes everyone at the debutante ball by showing up in a red dress instead of virginal white.

* In ''KeepingTheFaith'', the preparation leading up to a Bar Mitzvah is shown as well as the Mitvah itself.

* In MemoirsOfAGeisha, a young apprentice would have to sell her '[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuage Mizuage]]' as a rite of passage.

* In ''KimPossible'', Ron was upset when he discovered that his rabbi forgot to sign off on his Bar Mitzvah certificate, fearing that it meant he wasn't really a man. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity]] ([[AnAesop along with an Aesop]]) [[HilarityEnsues ensues]].
* An episode of ''KingOfTheHill'' had one of Hank's co-workers planning a Quinceañera for his daughter. Bobby complained that he doesn't get a rite of passage like that, so he comes up with the idea of a "Sweet Fourteeno".

* In ''TheGiver'', getting assigned a job is an important rite that determines the rest of a person's life; being assigned the unusual job of Receiver is what marks Jonas as special in the community.

* Ian Fleming's ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels (and later the movies) establish that in order to become a double-0 agent, a spy must first complete two assigned kills. The books and films are ambiguous as to whether these must be the person's first two kills ever (the 2006 version of ''Film/CasinoRoyale'' indicates these to be Bond's first kills).

** Many navies have a ceremony for sailors [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-crossing_ceremony crossing the Equator for the first time.]] [[note]] No comparable fuss is usually made when crossing the Date Line or the Greenwich Meridian; this may be due to Tradition. These ceremonies date back to the Age of Exploration, long before sailors could reliable know ''what'' longitude they were on; but latitude has always been easy to find if you have the right instruments. [[/note]]

* Some people consider being bullied at school as something you have to deal with and learn how to defend themselves instead of always running to an adult for help and by standing up for yourself, you grow up and learn to be independent when being threatened. This may have been fine decades ago, but with the rise of social networking and the aggression in children and teenagers rising, adults can't brush off bullying as a rite of passage anymore.

* The ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Yesteryear" introduced the [[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Kahs-wan kahs-wan]], an ordeal in which Vulcan children must survive in the desert for 10 days by themselves with no supplies to prove their courage and strength. For young Spock, it becomes even more when his companion selhat, I-Chaya, who had followed him against his wishes, was mortally wounded and the attending vet could only give Spock two choices, an extended life in agony or putting him out of his misery; Spock made the mature and logical choice to put him down.

SexAsRiteOfPassage is a subtrope. For other kinds of rites and rituals that earns you membership into a group of people, see InitiationCeremony.

* In the ''Legend of Jig Dragonslayer'' trilogy, all potential heirs to the throne of Adenkar must complete a quest of some sort to prove their worth to the previous ruler. Since it's generally believed that the more impressive the quest, the more likely the quester will be named the heir, they all tend to be insanely dangerous. As a result of this, only four of the King's eight children returned from their quests alive, and two of them returned insane, resulting in their later deaths.

* In the ''Legend of Jig Dragonslayer'' trilogy, all potential heirs to the throne of Adenkar must complete a quest of some sort to prove their worth to the previous ruler. Since it's generally believed that the more impressive the quest, the more likely the quester will be named the heir, they all tend to be insanely dangerous. As a result of this, when the various quests of the eight children of the King of Adenkar ended, only two of them were still alive.

* The decision of gender in {{Simoun}}.

** And the sequel introduces the Krogan rite to establish themselves as a true warrior. It's tradition, and you get to go through the process with Grunt if you choose to take on the side-mission.

* In MemoirsOfAGeisha, a young apprentice would have to sell her '[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuage Mizuage]]' as a rite of passage.

* [[TazMania Francis X. Bushlad's tribe]] has three options, equally valid: either the ancestral strategy of slaying a mighty and dangerous beast, or the slightly more contemporary options of buying out a major corporation in a hostile takeover, or amassing a stock portfolio worth $500,000.

* Alexei Panshin's SF novel ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_of_Passage Rite of Passage]]''. 14-year-old children on a starship must go through a Trial before being considered adults: surviving on a hostile colony planet for 30 days with minimal equipment.

* In the EarthseaTrilogy novel ''A Wizard of Earthsea'', the mage Ogion the Silent gives Duny his TrueName of "Ged" in a coming of age ceremony.