Line #62 Main/AdultHater


1	%% Trope was declared Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease via crowner by the Real Life Maintenance thread.
2	->"Don't trust anyone over 30."
3	-->-- Jack Weinberg
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5	Sometimes, a kid gets so fed up with something that was inflicted on them by adults that they completely lose trust in adults and consider them either [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]] or [[AdultsAreUseless just plain ineffectual]]. In other words, they become this. [[{{Irony}} Ironically enough]], they're pretty oblivious to the fact that like it or not, ''they'' will become an adult in time. Other times, they might ''covet'' being an adult so that they can be in control of their lives without other adults telling them how to live (or they may just grow up to hate other adults who may be old enough to be their own parents). How they take it depends on if they have some CharacterDevelopment or stay [[BoomerangBigot adult-hating.]]
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7	This type of character is ''very'' likely to be (or wish to be) an AbusiveOffspring, a ManipulativeBastard to adults or an outright SelfMadeOrphan, though this isn't necessary. They might even aim for a TeenageWasteland, in which case they may [[ChildSoldiers fight in]], or even invoke a KidsVersusAdults conflict. They are also likely to discover or create a FountainOfYouth or something else that's OnlyFatalToAdults.
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9	Contrast ChildHater. This trope heavily overlaps with GrowingUpSucks.
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13	!!Examples:
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18	* [[{{mons}} Petermon]] in ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' is a PsychopathicManchild CorruptedCharacterCopy of ''Literature/PeterPan'' who abducts human children & Rookie-level Digimon to his LandOfFaerie PocketDimension called "Never-Ever Land" while attacking the teenage protagonists who try to stop him, calling them "adults" [[BoomerangBigot despite being an Adult/Champion-level Digimon himself]]. When an Elecmon casually says he wishes he were bigger after missing the ball in a soccer game, Petermon takes it to mean that he wants to Digivolve and threatens him with violence until he begs for mercy.
19	* Tsukasa Shishio from ''Manga/DrStone'', except he's a teen, not child, but he's an EvilLuddite who literally blames everything that has gone wrong ever on adults and even goes so far as smashing petrified adults and trying to kill the protagonists because they are trying to find a way to [[TakenForGranite de-petrify]] everybody, including adults.
20	* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'': Miyabi Aizawa is famously this, especially in the anime version. [[ParentalNeglect Her parents are barely there for her]], but her mom tries to act as if everything's perfectly fine and [[spoiler:her best friend committed suicide due to getting pregnant by a teacher]]. Thus, it leads to her hatred towards both teachers and adults.
21	* ''Manga/HappySugarLife'': As a result of [[AbusiveParents his father's abuse]], Asahi developed trust issues towards adults.
22	* In ''Manga/{{Shibatora}}'', the mysterious Onigami founds a street gang that goes around smashing storefronts and stealing primarily out of their hatred for adults. Their secret code phrase is "Never trust adults" spelled backwards and all of its members are wary of anyone who isn't their age. [[spoiler:Its founder, Katou, was abandoned by his parents while he was still in middle school and organized the gang to both support himself and lash out at the adults he feels wronged him.]]
23	* Chris Yukine from ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}''. Ever since she was a child and lost her parents, she was forced to become a child slave and was many times tortured and raped by adults. By the time she's a teenager, she utterly hates and distrusts adults. It's not until some encounters with Genjuro that she finds out that her parents, despite going missing, must've loved her that she broke down and got better in perspective, dedicating her HeroicSacrifice [[spoiler:that didn't stick eventually]] for her parents.
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27	* The main plot of ''ComicBook/{{JLA\|1997}}: [[TeenageWasteland World Without Grown-Ups]]'' and OriginsEpisode for ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' team: Matthew Stuart is a kid who hates adults, especially his parents. His archaeologist father ([[WhenYouComingHomeDad who never stays in home for his work]]) gives him a relic he recently found for his birthday, he later noticed there's an entity trapped and when it's freed, he gained RealityWarper powers and becomes "Bedlam", the first major enemy of the then-recent team.
28	* The kids from ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' have varying degrees of adult hate due to their circumstances. Many of their parents are supervillains and have a stranglehold over the authorities the Runaways would normally turn to. The ones who aren't under the Pride's thumb often dismiss them as JustAKid. This also backfires on them at times, as shown when Nico attacks and knocks out Spider-Man just for being an adult even though he was trying to hear them out.
29	** It becomes deconstructed in ''ComicBook/RunawaysRainbowRowell'' when several of the cast become adults themselves.
30	* King Kid from ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' is the ruler of the Funlands [[NeverGrewUp and eternally a kid]]. The Funlands are a dimension [[NeverLand populated entirely by children]] who ran away from home, that's basically a giant theme park. [[PleasureIsland Once a child turns 18,]] [[CrapsaccharineWorld they are forced to work as slaves in the factories that keep the Funlands running.]]
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34	* Virtually all of the main characters in ''Fanfic/MiraculousThePhoenixRises'' have an axe to grind with [[AdultsAreUseless "those rotten adults"]] as they put it.
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38	* The Creator/RankinBass film ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleDrummerBoy'' had Aaron (the eponymous drummer boy) hate adults after his family is slaughtered.
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42	* In ''[[Literature/TheMysteriousBenedictSociety The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict]]'', Nicholas's life experience has led him to believe that adults are inherently crueler and less trustworthy than children. He worries about who he'll turn into when he grows up.
43	* ''Franchise/PeterPan'' in all incarnations hated the very thought of becoming an adult and went away to a magical place where he'd never have to grow up.
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47	* In the ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'' episode "Brooklyn Dodgers", Brisco tries to help a pair of runaway orphans who hold this opinion because of their mistreatment by the head of the orphanage, who is currently trying to beat them to San Francisco so he can falsely claim their inheritance.
48	* ''Series/ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo'': Downplayed by the defendant in "The Pied Piper." He's a political activist engaging in crimes of protest against the CramSchool system, and openly disparages schools, teachers, and most parents as being the enemy of fun, freedom, and children's very health. He [[TheKindnapper temporarily kidnaps]] some children on their way to a particularly brutal (and borderline abusive) academy, giving them a day of playing outside and having fun rather than doing homework and being forced to study until late at night ''with no breaks or food'', and outright encourages them to fight back and rebel against the grown-ups who are stealing their childhoods. However, he's perfectly cordial to all the adults he comes into conflict with, even [[ApologeticAttacker apologizing]] to the bus driver he had to knock out in order to get to the kids. He seems to hate adult ''society'' and the abusive system they prop up more than he hates individual adults.
49	* In "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E8Miri Miri]]" of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', some aliens are infected by a plague that means that the children never hit puberty and live forever and the grown-ups become violent and zombie-like. This causes the alien children to become very suspicious of all adults, including the ''Enterprise'' crew.
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53	* ''Franchise/BlazBlue''. After seeing the things his father [[CompleteMonster Relius]] did, Carl Clover started to hate and distrust adults altogether, thinking that they're all like his father. He's momentarily proven wrong after encountering [[JusticeWillPrevail Bang Shishigami]], and eventually, after further interacting with [[CoolBigSis Litchi Faye-Ling]], he eventually decides that not all adults are bad and wishes he could grow into an adult like Litchi... [[spoiler:[[DramaticIrony that is, if he doesn't freak out on the eventual reveal that Litchi is practically choosing to side with Relius, even if it's against her will.]] By the last game, he found out, after awhile doubting he managed to defend her, but then the timeline is reset, where Carl, despite having animosity with his father, came to downplay the trope in the end: He decided that [[VillainHasAPoint his father has a point for doing what he did to achieve his goal]], thus going to the dark side on his own.]]
54	* ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'': The villains of the game are a group of children who all grew up with such horrifically AbusiveParents that they now despise all adults to the point of trying to commit genocide against them and create a TeenageWasteland.
55	* ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga 2'': While Fred is a teenager, he still considers adults to be utterly untrustworthy. His beliefs are rather justified, as his current guardian is TheAlcoholic who is overly paranoid and thus doing a very bad job at leading LaResistance.
56	* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' gives us the town of Little Lamplight, which is completely populated with young children who distrust adults in one way or another. Gaining enough trust with them as an adult is needed in order to enter their town and be able to progress further in the main story of the game.
57	* In ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'', the KillerRobot toy animatronics are said to be perfectly friendly with the children who visit the [[SuckECheeses restaurant]] during the day but are hostile towards adults, staring at parents menacingly while acting aggressive towards staff. It's implied that these ones were also [[HauntedTechnology possessed by dead kids]] and saw every adult as their potential murderer.
58	* One of the newly-introdcued characters in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters XV'', Isla, grew up in an OrphanageOfFear due to ParentalAbandonment, and thus she despises adults, as well as anyone who are on good terms with adults such as Shun'Ei. Ironically, Isla's teammates in that game are the very-much-adults Heidern and Dolores, and she makes no effort to mask her contempt for them.
59	* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', a major theme is that of adults who selfishly hoard power for their own purposes, screwing over the young and vulnerable in the process. Ryuji is particularly defined by his hatred of exploitative adults, and tends to be distrustful of adults in general.
60	* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}''. The Ventkids are a group of orphans, troublemakers, and other young outcasts who live in the vents of Fortuna. While they don't ''hate'' adults per say and are willing to work with the adult members of Solaris United, it's clear that they're distrustful of most adults and prefer to hang out with their "logical fam" who [[ParentalAbandonment won't abandon them]].
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65	* Max from ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'', seems to have a disdain for adults, treating David and Gwen like crap most of the time and generally being cynical about the outside world. [[spoiler:Turns out to be {{Justified\|Trope}} by his horrible upbringing by neglectful parents. Though after David and Gwen begin to show kindness to him over it, he starts to respect them a lot more.]]
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69	* Many children in WebOriginal/TheInnocent are this, or at least enough to defeat the adults and place the adults under total control of the children.
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73	* Early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' portrayed the main characters more as [[AntiHero Anti Heroes]] who hated any rule or restriction placed on them by an adult. Even in later episodes, where the adult characters tended to be more genuinely villainous (though not AlwaysChaoticEvil outright), the kids tend to indiscriminately hate adults and the thought of becoming one, with any member of the unit over 12 years old mind wiped and exiled. A later episode does make it clear they don't hate all adults, just evil ones, as the team is horrified by a bullfighting ring that replaces bulls with caffeine-crazed adults. Additionally, they all have loving parents who they have good relationships with, which Numbah 5 reminds [[DumbMuscle 4]] of when he short-sightedly says he sees nothing wrong with the extremist splinter cell wanting to wipe out adults.
74	* In the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' episode "[[Recap/DannyPhantomS2E3PirateRadio Pirate Radio]]", Ember and Youngblood [[VillainTeamUp team-up]] over their mutual hatred of adults. Ember releases a hypnotic album that has all of the adults (and Jazz, who thinks she's an adult) to go on a cruise that is actually Youngblood's disguised pirate ship. They use exercise equipment they stole from around town and the adults to power Youngblood's ship and Ember gains unobstructed free-reign over Amity Park's youth.
75	* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': In "The Bubbler", Nino gains some contempt for adults after Adrien's father forbids him from having a birthday party -- a contempt that escalates into him ridding Paris of all adults once he gets akumatized.
76	* Timmy Turner in ''WesternAnimation/SchoolsOutTheMusical''. After too much mistreatment from adults that are in context sending kids off to a safety camp while they have fun and thanks to some destructive prodding by the Pixies, Timmy declares an absolute hatred of adults in song form in his song ''Adults Ruin Everything'' and eventually wishes that children have all the power and authority on Earth.
77	-->''Adults Ruin Everything, with all their rules and laws!''
78	-->''Adults Ruin Everything, we must fight back because,''
79	-->''Adults Ruin Everything, time and time again''
80	-->''Adults Ruin Everything, trust no one over ten!''
81	* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': One VillainOfTheWeek is a kid who wants children to rule the world instead of adults and considers anyone older than 12 as an enemy (including the three protagonists, who are teenagers). His FreudianExcuse was that his father [[ParentalNeglect would always neglect him]] [[WhenYouComingHomeDad in favor of his job]].
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