1 | '''Basic Trope''': Children do disturbing grown-up things. |
2 | * '''Straight''': |
3 | ** Ten-year-old Timmy smokes and drinks. |
4 | ** Fifteen-year-old Tim is a juvenile {{delinquent|s}} who routinely cuts class, shoplifts, and fights with other delinquents. |
5 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
6 | ** Five-year-old Timmy smokes, drinks, gets high, [[DirtyKid has a lot of sex]], and kills people. |
7 | ** Five-year-old Timmy sells drugs, vandalizes public property, [[KidsDrivingCars drives a car]] ([[DrivesLikeCrazy with a habit of speeding in residential areas]]) a full decade before he's even eligible to apply for a learner's permit, shoplifts, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and exhibits controversial art]]. |
8 | ** [[BrainyBaby One-year-old]] [[EnfantTerrible Timmy]] [[PsychoForHire is a mercenary]] [[ChildSoldiers working for]] [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]]. |
9 | ** Fifteen-year-old Tim is a SerialKiller. |
10 | * '''Logical Extreme''': Not only is Timmy a fetus who leads a planet that invades other planets, he's an EvilGod powerful enough to be capable enough to cause a ''ApocalypseHow/ClassZ'' apocalypse. |
11 | * '''Downplayed''': |
12 | ** Thirteen-year-old Tim sometimes plays M-rated games or watches R-rated movies, but is otherwise a well-adjusted child. |
13 | ** Timmy acts normal, but keeps a level head in dangerous situations better than his own parents, especially doing things that would typically creep out other children with no problem. |
14 | ** Timmy can understand taboo concepts like rape or murder well, but not enough to keep his parents concerned. |
15 | ** Fifteen-year-old Tim is a SirSwearsALot, but otherwise kind and respectful. |
16 | ** Fifteen-year-old Tim occasionally drinks alcohol after school but doesn't go further than that. |
17 | ** Seventeen-year-old Tim is racist and is guilty of FlippingTheBird non-stop, but he means well when it comes to Academics, and [[NobleBigot Tim himself is not as bad as he seems]]. |
18 | * '''Justified''': Timmy [[ParentalObliviousness has little to no parental supervision]], or his parents and/or authority figures are [[AbusiveParents toxic]] [[AdultsAreUseless people]] [[AntiRoleModel themselves]]. |
19 | * '''Inverted''': |
20 | ** Timmy respects authority and does things expected of his age, like playing E-rated video games and collecting action figures. |
21 | ** Tim is a full-grown ManChild who has never used drugs, drank, smoked, or engaged in any sexual activity or crime. |
22 | ** Timmy is ten, but [[KiddieKid still loves to watch preschool shows and play with stuffed animals]]. |
23 | ** AdorablyPrecociousChild: Young children do grown-up things, but it's treated as cute/wholesome. |
24 | * '''Subverted''': |
25 | ** A rumor goes around that Timmy smokes and drinks. But it's just that, a rumor. |
26 | ** An onlooker thinks that Timmy is a twelve-to-fourteen-year-old smoker, but he's actually way [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]]. |
27 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
28 | ** ...He does routinely get high, though. |
29 | ** Even though Timmy is [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]], he's very young for his species. |
30 | * '''Parodied''': |
31 | ** As soon as Timmy is delivered, he drinks a bottle of vodka and delivers a curse-filled rant about how the preschool's coat rack is broken because it doesn't stamp his timecard when he clocks in. |
32 | ** Timmy's parents read his ListOfTransgressions to him every night as if it were a bedtime story. |
33 | ** A judge reads Timmy's ListOfTransgressions to him. He [[DissonantSerenity looks to be almost enjoying himself]] through the judge's recitation of his drug dealing, vandalism, illicit driving, speeding, and shoplifting, but [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne loses it]] when the judge mentions the art. |
34 | ** Timmy doing typically adult things like stamping a timecard, drinking coffee in the morning, wearing a suit and tie, and watching Monday night football with his friends is treated like this. Not disturbing adult things, just comically mundane adult things. |
35 | * '''Averted''': |
36 | ** There are no child characters. |
37 | ** Tim occasionally talks back to his parents or teachers, but that's perfectly normal, if unpleasant, child or teen behavior. |
38 | ** Timmy is a ChildProdigy who neither engages in adult nor childlike behavior. |
39 | ** Timmy exemplifies the ChildrenAreInnocent trope. |
40 | * '''Enforced''': The producers demand a VerySpecialEpisode about underage drug use. |
41 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Seriously? A ten-year-old stole your car?" |
42 | * '''Invoked''': Timmy, seeing his lack of authority figures, decides to light up because no one is there to stop him. |
43 | * '''Exploited''': Bob, seeing Timmy's preference for smoking and drinking, offers to set him up in exchange for...[[{{Squick}} certain favors]]. |
44 | * '''Defied''': |
45 | ** Timmy is offered a cigarette. He says no. |
46 | ** Timmy's parents put their feet down: |
47 | --->"[[FullNameUltimatum Timothy Vincent Troper!]] You are grounded until your behavior improves! And if it doesn't ... I'm sure your grandmother will be ''very'' disappointed to hear about what you've been up to!" |
48 | * '''Discussed''': "You know, Timmy, kids don't normally light up and down gin ever, never mind often." |
49 | * '''Conversed''': "I often find it worrying when [[MostWritersAreAdults kids on TV act much older than they really are]]. It's cute when they're [[AdorablyPrecociousChild using big words they don't necessarily understand]], but when they do things like swear, use drugs, have sex, and commit crimes, there I'm going to draw a [[PunctuatedForEmphasis thick. Red. Line.]]" |
50 | * '''Deconstructed''': Timmy faces a lot of unwanted physical consequences because his body is still too young to tolerate foreign substances or sexual activity. The adults who look after Timmy and/or take part in his criminal or sexual activities get into legal trouble themselves for "allowing" a minor to do these things. |
51 | * '''Reconstructed''': Timmy is MadeOfIron, so he doesn't suffer from having sex or consuming controlled substances. If he faces no harm, nobody will ever face sanction; such is the rationale. |
52 | * '''Implied''': Timmy acts like a regular, well-adjusted child or teenager on screen. Several adults compare him to a hardened criminal, but it is difficult to tell if they are joking or being serious. |
53 | * '''Played for Laughs''': Timmy is a toddler who murders other children [[CrossesTheLineTwice in an over-the-top exaggerated way that could never happen in real life.]] |
54 | * '''Played for Drama''': |
55 | ** Timmy is a TroubledChild. |
56 | ** Timmy acts this way because he's witnessed things that are HarmfulToMinors. |
57 | * '''Played for Horror''': Tim inflicts ColdBloodedTorture and CruelAndUnusualDeath[=s=] [[{{Sadist}} without even a hint of humanity to him]]. |
58 | * '''Plotted a Good Waste''': Timmy is a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of an EnfantTerrible who troubled the creator at some point in their lives, and they created him to show that young kids aren't immune to doing bad things. |
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60 | Young man, you'd better extinguish that cigarette. What do you mean "fuck you"? That's it -- get back to TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior right now. |
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