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This type of game is a trope both in fiction about children, and in fiction about adults who sometimes interact with children.
Generally, there will be more competition for the "good guys" role, while less popular or socially adept children will get stuck with the "black hats." True friends will make sure to switch the roles around fairly, and watch out for that one kid who's always eager to play the
Sometimes the children will learn [[An Aesop]] about the dangers of war or prejudice, or how cultural perceptions change over time, causing [[Values Dissonance]].
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== [[Anime]] ==
* ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' has an online shooter game somehow getting mixed up with a couple of children playing tag. The result? A dude commits suicide after being tagged by a little girl, {{spoiler|which looks to those who play the game as the [[Big Bad]]. As a result, she ends up getting killed by another player}}. Pure [[Nightmare Fuel]]!
* One of [[Heroic Sociopath|Revy's]] [[Pet the Dog]] moments in ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' involves playing
** She later subverts it by bringing a real gun to a second round. Oh, not in ''that'' way, but a few of those kids may get traumas later.
* The plan of "Friend" in ''[[Twentieth Century Boys]]'' is directly based upon an elaborate game of "Good guys vs. League of Evil" Kenji and Otcho made up.
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* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin and Hobbes play "Americans and Soviets" with dart guns and [[Mutually Assured Destruction|both get shot]], subsequently deciding "War's a stupid game, anyway."
** They also play more traditional Cowboys and Indians in the house, much to Calvin's mother's chagrin. A recurring trope is Calvin's attempts to cheat, such as insisting that Hobbes missed when he's shot and zapping Hobbes with his cattle prod when Hobbes declares his gun's out of bullets.
* There's a ''[[Mafalda]]'' strip where all the kids are much too busy to play their usual game of
* In one ''[[Bloom County]]'' strip, Olivia and Opus are playing Cowboys and Indians until told by the cockroach that it's politically incorrect. They go through a series of other villains ranging from [[Star Trek|Klingons]] to communists, each time being told that group is not a suitable villain. They ask the cockroach what he does for a living and he says he's with the media. [[Hilarity Ensues|Cue much cocking of dart guns and evil grins]].
* In ''[[FoxTrot]]'', Jason and Marcus frequently cast Paige as the villain of their games. She never wants to play, but they don't take no for an answer. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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