TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open

Follow TV Tropes

Following

Needs a more descriptive image: Young Future Famous People

Go To

Rhatahema Since: Sep, 2010
#1: Oct 15th 2010 at 12:10:59 AM

Can we find an image where the famous person is depicted at a younger age than when they gained fame, but shows the same iconic features as later in life. There's no way of knowing that the page image is of Che without the caption.

Previous:

Someday young Ernesto will be known as Che.

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
I see the Awesomeness.
#2: Oct 15th 2010 at 7:35:45 AM

Agreed, image pulled.

Fight smart, not fair.
Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#4: Oct 15th 2010 at 7:46:28 AM

^ Sherlock Holmes is not a real person. This trope is "as applied to real people"

EDIT: Which means this trope needs some example pruning.

edited 15th Oct '10 7:47:27 AM by Ghilz

Raso Cure Candy Since: Jul, 2009
Cure Candy
#5: Oct 15th 2010 at 7:48:20 AM

then why are

  1. Young Frankenstein
  2. Young Robin Hood

up there?

NINJ Aed

edited 15th Oct '10 7:48:34 AM by Raso

Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!
Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#6: Oct 15th 2010 at 7:51:57 AM

They aren't anymore ;-P

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#7: Oct 15th 2010 at 7:52:43 AM

It's supposed to be distinct from Spin-Off Babies, which is poorly named if it is supposed to be "any fictional character, shown at a younger age that originally written at"

And Young Frankenstein isn't an example of either one, since he's The doctors descendant, not younger self.

Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Raso Cure Candy Since: Jul, 2009
Cure Candy
#9: Oct 15th 2010 at 7:57:24 AM

Pretty sure Spin-Off Babies is taking the entire set of characters from a show and adding them all as younger. Like The Negima Spin-Off Babies (which may be a play on the trope since the Youngest Character of the series is now older and the older ones are now Younger) or A Pup Named Scooby Doo.

Add a section for Fictional Characters shown when younger if in a cameo or such?

Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!
Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#10: Oct 15th 2010 at 7:59:33 AM

Raso is right. Don't believe we have the trope of showing the younger years of an actual character. I should YKTTW something like this X The Early Years

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
I see the Awesomeness.
#11: Oct 15th 2010 at 8:08:01 AM

A young Abe Lincoln would be better if he had the hat.

Fight smart, not fair.
ThoseDancingDays Since: Mar, 2010
#12: Oct 16th 2010 at 10:35:07 PM

Alexander Hamilton as he appears in the webcomic The Dreamer.

Leaper Since: May, 2009
#13: Oct 16th 2010 at 10:51:46 PM

Is that generally recognizable as Hamilton, though? Or would a caption be required to explain who it is?

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#14: Oct 16th 2010 at 10:53:26 PM

^ I seriously doubt it. Even with the name, a good chunk of people won't know who he is.

Hamilton isn't nearly as famous as say, Washington or Lincoln.

edited 16th Oct '10 10:53:50 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Reaction Image Repository
CaoCao Since: Jan, 2001
#15: Oct 17th 2010 at 3:32:17 AM

Something like this, perhaps?

He hasn't got the beard yet, but the hat is there all right.

"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it." (Oscar Wilde)
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#16: Oct 17th 2010 at 7:16:16 AM

Okay, that's better

Reaction Image Repository
SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17: Oct 17th 2010 at 8:18:12 AM

^^Only problem is that Lincoln doesn't exactly appear to be in his youth.

Also: This

edited 17th Oct '10 8:20:59 AM by SeanMurrayI

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#18: Oct 17th 2010 at 8:40:36 AM

Indiana Jones isn't a real person.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
arimnaes Falls Up Since: Apr, 2009
Falls Up
#19: Oct 17th 2010 at 9:05:36 AM

Indiana Jones isn't a real person.
?!

...You just shattered my dreams. sad

edited 17th Oct '10 9:05:57 AM by arimnaes

CaoCao Since: Jan, 2001
#20: Oct 18th 2010 at 6:56:24 AM

I'm afraid that the above pic of young Lincoln is as close as we're going to get from meeting the requirement of having a young historical figure with an iconic feature of their future famous self. Kids don't wear adult clothing unless they're playing dress-up, nor do they have facial hair.

"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it." (Oscar Wilde)
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#21: Oct 18th 2010 at 8:07:20 AM

@Sean Murray: he's not a youth, per se, but he certainly looks younger than the age at which most images portray him. He certainly doesn't look older than maybe 30 at most, which is a good 20 years younger than his most famous appearance.

edited 18th Oct '10 8:11:04 AM by JapaneseTeeth

Reaction Image Repository
ThePope Since: Oct, 2010
troacctid (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
INUH Since: Jul, 2009
#24: Jan 7th 2011 at 10:51:51 AM

That really wouldn't look like Mozart to me if I didn't know from your telling me.

Infinite Tree: an experimental story
rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#25: Jan 7th 2011 at 12:34:53 PM

Fun fact: no bearded candidate has ever won a US presidential election. Incorrect.

edited 8th Jan '11 2:15:09 AM by rodneyAnonymous

Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.

Total posts: 27
Top