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* The Diclonius of ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', which can intentionally infect normal humans so their children will inherit the mutation.

* Although drugs were involved, all the powerful psychics in ''[[Akira]]'' are explicitly young people, or awakened to their powers at young age.

* The "Whispered" of ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'' possess a psychic connection with an undefined future, which "whispers" the secrets of "[[Applied Phlebotinum|Black Technology]]" directly into their minds. From time to time that connection can be established between individual Whispered. ''Every'' Whispered was born on December 24, 1981 (1984 in the anime) between 11:50 and 11:53 PM Greenwich Mean Time.

* The "Whispered" of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' possess a psychic connection with an undefined future, which "whispers" the secrets of "[[Applied Phlebotinum|Black Technology]]" directly into their minds. From time to time that connection can be established between individual Whispered. ''Every'' Whispered was born on December 24, 1981 (1984 in the anime) between 11:50 and 11:53 PM Greenwich Mean Time.

* Children from ''[[Toward the Terra]]'', born naturally on Nazca are all Type Blue and {{spoiler|grow incredibly fast.}} They all share the same slightly sociopathic mentality, which connected with their actions doesn't score them many points with the other Mu.

* ''[[Alive the Final Evolution]]'' invokes this trope, but doesn't actually use it--the space-beings thud into and apparently fuse with human beings, upon which most of them promptly and joyfully commit suicide. The few who have strong enough will, in some fashion, to survive, get superpowers instead. The persons involved can be any age--the oldest shown was an old blind man--but the main focus is on the new [[Tyke Bomb|tykebombs]], so it plays out a lot like this trope.

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* In Garth Nix's novel ''[[Shade's Children]]'', during "The Change," everyone over the age of 14 suddenly disappeared and the mysterious Overlords appeared from nowhere. Children born during or after the Change had "Change Talents," basically [[Psychic Powers]].

** Those who survived the Change got them too; there are multiple characters (one during the main story and at least one more in flashback) shown to have Change Talents who were definitely born before it.

* Arthur C. Clarke's ''[[~~Childhoods~~ End]]'' -- sort of. {{spoiler|Aliens show up shortly before a bizarre new generation of humans appears, but they didn't cause it. The human race is [[Evolution Power-Up|evolving on its own]], as others have before, and the aliens are here to make this as painless as possible.}}

* Arthur C. Clarke's ''[[Childhood's End]]'' -- sort of. {{spoiler|Aliens show up shortly before a bizarre new generation of humans appears, but they didn't cause it. The human race is [[Evolution Power-Up|evolving on its own]], as others have before, and the aliens are here to make this as painless as possible.}}

* In Greg Bear's ''Darwin's Radio'' (and sequel), the human race undergoes a disease called "Herod's Flu" because it spontaneously aborts fetuses--and then the mothers become spontaneously pregnant again. It turns out non-coding introns in human DNA occasionally induce a mass evolutionary change, in this case to adapt us to better live in an information-rich world. This is a case of surprisingly plausible [[Hollywood Evolution]], because Bear [[Shown Their Work|shows his work.]]

** Except that the whole concept of "non-coding" introns has now had to be re-examined as [[Science Marches On]].