Kids Versus Adults

When the "generation gap" turning into rivalry or all-out war between children and adults.

Often goes hand-in-hand with Adults Are Useless.


 * Codename: Kids Next Door has this as the premise.
 * Stanley Kiesel's novels The War Between The Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids and Skinny Malinky Leads the War for Kidness take this trope quite literally.
 * It's certainly been the premise of a couple of Game Shows over the years- Get Your Own Back and The Kids Are Alright? (John Barrowman hosts the latter)
 * Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
 * The Nickelodeon sports-themed game show Wild and Crazy Kids frequently used this trope.
 * Children of the Damned/Corn.
 * The Adventures of Pete and Pete had the International Adult Conspiracy.
 * Two Star Trek the Original Series episodes about conflict/war between kids and adults: "Miri" and "And The Children Shall Lead".
 * One of Murray Leinster's Med Ship stories featured a war between generations (although the younger was of the age of maturity).
 * Battle Royale 2 goes down this road.
 * It also occurred in the backstory of the original.
 * An Episode of The Simpsons had the adults enforcing a curfew, and the kids rebelling against it by broadcasting all their dirty secrets.
 * I'm sure some South Park episodes have this.
 * The 1968 film Wild In The Streets has the voting age lowered to 14; the 24-year-old rock star subsequently elected President then has everyone over 30 put in re-education camps.
 * The film ends on a punchline suggesting a Full Circle Revolution when the young president pisses off a couple of 7-year olds.
 * Happens now and again in Recess