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** Zig-zagged especially with Kogoro. He's shown to be a bumbling fool several episodes (Especially early on) and is an alcoholic and sometimes physically hurts Conan. However, averted because he actually ''does'' come to conclusions a lot of real life detectives would and actually knows some stuff Conan doesn't. (He's more street-smart; Conan's more Book-smart.) His biggest shortcoming is that he's competent, but impatient. Averted when [[It's Personal|the case is personal]] or if [[Papa Bear|Ran or Conan are threatened]], then he becomes ''scarily'' competent. There have been several cases where he got it mostly right and just needed a couple hints from Conan, or where he got it all right but only realized it after Conan did. (He's slower.)
** However, note that Shinichi's father Yuusaku is just as good a detective as he is, if not even ''better''. He's only useless because he's simply almost never there and he'd rather continue writing about mysteries than solving them.
** Ultimately averted, though, by the fact that Conan is almost ([[Comic Book Time|and should be]]) an adult himself (he just
** If anything; Megure is perhaps the most worthless of the adults - he's so strictly adhered to police code that he refuses to take a leap of faith and think maybe not all cases are like the ones you learn about in the police academy.
*** However, in one episode he's able to solve the case long before Conan does. Although, this is due to seeing a similar case years before.
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* Haruka's mother in ''[[Psychic Detective Yakumo]]'' does not put up any fight, protest, plea, when her daughter wants to walk into a potentially dangerous situation to rescue Yakumo.
* [[Loveless]], oh so much so. Pretty much every adult is either abusive, inneffective, or emotionally fucked up enough to not be able to help, whether that's with Ritsuka being abused by his mother or all those 12 year old kids running around on their own getting into spell battles.
* [[Bible Black anime)|Bible Black]] is probably the ultimate example. The teens who the story focus on are having sex just about everywhere, sometimes non-consensual, sometimes with teachers, and the only adults who seem to be around are Takashiro, who becomes a victim of this, and Kitami, who eggs it on and participates in it.
* Used as a plot necessity in the Lost Children Arc in ''[[Berserk]]'' (even implied in the title). With the exception of Guts, every adult present is either a violent and sick pervert, a completely clueless moron, or a useless coward. Turns out that the [[Big Bad]] of this arc is a teenaged girl apostle who turns the local children into her spawn to join her [[Crap Saccharine World|elf fantasy land,]] all of them being very lethal, while she makes adults into spawn to use essentially as her own [[Cannon Fodder]] as punishment for treating children so poorly. Also, the village children who aren't turned into monsters seem more ballsy than the adults around them, namely [[Plucky Girl|Jill.]]
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* ''[[Quadrophenia]]'' shows the other side of this- even though the plot opens with Jimmy asking for help from a therapist, preacher, and his mom, as events wear on it's implied (even all but stated) that the real problem is that he can't accept help. As a work about youth, this makes perfect sense really, but considering [[Be Yourself|his epiphany]] at the end, perhaps he can't be blamed for having to find his own way.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* It was just as well that adults were never fully seen in ''[[Peanuts]]'', because the rare situations where the main characters had to interact with them portrayed them as incompetent:
** In one story arc, Charlie Brown went to talk to his pediatrician to find out why the school board (which the doctor was a member of) had banned a book called ''The Six Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out'' from the school library. The doctor ''fainted''. The nurse later told Charlie Brown that little kids made him nervous. (Remember, this was a ''pediatrician''.) Later, Charlie Brown told Linus that the doctor admitted that he only reads medical journals, but the pictures upset him.
** Another story arc shows that Peppermint Patty's teacher is a [[Lawful Stupid]] type. A hole in the ceiling classroom was causing rain to fall on Patty's head. According to Marcie, the teacher couldn't move Patty to another desk, because that would disrupt the alphabetical seating arrangement.
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