Basic Trope: A rivalry or war between kids and adults.
- Straight: Alice, a 10-year old girl, fights in a war against adults.
- Exaggerated: Alice, a 5-year old girl, fights in a World War III which might end in the entire planet Earth becoming a Childless Dystopia when the adults win.
- Downplayed:
- Intergenerational Rivalry
- Alice is 16 years old.
- Justified:
- The children are forced to work by the adults, and rebel against what they perceive as slavery.
- Orphanage of Fear
- Many children have abusive Parents, and want to commit revenge.
- Same with a class of children who rebel against sadistic teachers.
- The children created the adults, and they Turned Against Their Masters.
- Inverted:
- Subverted:
- There are children on the battlefield, but the war is still between two adult powers.
- Alice seems to be fighting, but she's just playing with Bob, her 20-year old friend.
- Double Subverted:
- ...Or so it seems.
- A Totem Pole Trench is created by children who want to disguise themselves as adults.
- Child Prodigy Charlie creates an adult-sized Robot Soldier to fight along with Alice and the other children.
- Perhaps even more believable by the other side, the adults are just sent out by the children, while the other side only consists of adults.
- Or the children on one side are sent out by the adults, while the other side only consists of children.
- It's revealed there is a war, Alice just sees the combat as a game.
- ...Or so it seems.
- Parodied: The children go to war against the adults - because one Spoiled Brat happened not to get the candy he wanted.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- There is no conflict.
- There Are No Adults or children in the setting.
- Enforced: The writers want to write an episode about the dangers of generational conflict.
- Lampshaded: "The kids are rising up against their parents!"
- Invoked: Some examples in Justified.
- Exploited: Alien traders sell weapons to both sides.
- Defied: A conflict between kids and adults is about to start, and one side is even prepared to fight, but both talk themselves out of it.
- Discussed: The children discuss their opportunities for armed conflict and what could be reached this way.
- Conversed: Why are the children fighting against the adults all this time? Doesn't it seem like the children could just start a conversation with the adults?
- Implied:
- (Straight): A Teenage Wasteland in an urban area.
- (Exaggerated): The entire planet is one giant Teenage Wasteland.
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