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Competence Zone for the more general sense, where anyone outside a specific age band are either dead weight or opposing forces
Not exactly. What I was looking for was the conflict itself, as in how the kids and the adults are treated by the story as if they are longstanding enemies, even though one of them will become the other within two decades.
Yep, that's Competence Zone. Adults Are Useless and Teens Are Monsters are subtropes focusing on specific "unhelpful at best" portrayals of those outside the zone.
^ it's specifically about which side the story favors, right...
And that trope doesn't even require such conflict in the first place.
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No. it's about the conflict itself. Kids versus adults.
I know what you're talking about, something that comes to mind as an example is School's Out! The Musical.
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I think this is worth a TLP.
This does sound like Competence Zone. The part where one becomes the other is even mentioned in the description, in the paragraph where it refers to the zone moving with the characters as they age.
I fail to see how this is Competence Zone. This is a plot and conflict trope depiciting something of a war between kids and adults, not about the age groups being competent and incompetent.
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An actual war between the two could be its own thing, but I'm thinking we're being more figurative here, is that right? I'm honestly asking. I feel like I'm missing something about the objection to Competence Zone.
Competence here isn't just about any one measurable skill, it's about how competent they are as the heroes of their respective stories, and I think that includes their moral judgment and awareness of any moral factors in play, in the sense that those are competencies in their own right.
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Seems related to Silly Reason for War, where the reason is "one side is older than the other."
We have Kids Versus Adults.
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^ Took it loong enough, yeah?
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Some stories treat kids and adults like two separate factions. Usually the adults are authoritative and morally wrong, while the kids are rebellious and morally right. Prime examples include Run Aways, Codename: Kids Next Door and Witch & Wizard
Do we have a trope to describe this kind of plot.
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