Hormone-Addled Teenager: Difference between revisions

 

Though this is taken to severe extremes in fiction, many adults and even some teenagers (and this DOES vary by community) will agree that this is [[Truth in Television]] far too often. Its opposite is [[Chaste Teens]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[She's All That]]'' turns the female lead partly into this, complete with [[Unnecessary Makeover]]. It still possesses a good [[Aesop]] about staying true to who you are, though, even if it's slightly undermined by the implication that you still need to look like everyone else.

* The ''[[Bratz]]'' movie is a particularly [[Egregious]] offender on the fashion-obsession front, but that movie is an [[Egregious]] offender against humanity.

* Amy Dolenz's character in the Tony Danza film ''She's Out of Control''.

* Male example in the film adaptation of ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]''. In the books, Will is a thoughtful eleven-year-old who's described as 'wise for his years'. In the movie, he's a fourteen-year-old [[Jerkass]] who immediately wants to use his newfound powers to get a girl.

* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' "witches" plotline, both Magrat and Verence fall under this trope. As in many of the Discworld books, it's [[Played for Laughs]] (and Verence and Magrat are both presumably out of their teens, if not by much.)

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' ([[Trope Overdosed|of course]]): Molly Carpenter is a [[Perky Goth]] version of this. When she first becomes important to the story, she's dropped out of school, gotten a bunch of tattoos and piercings, started hanging around with the wrong crowd, and dresses like, in the protagonist's words, "Frankenhooker." She avoids going home whenever possible because any conversation she has with her mother turns into a shouting match inside of ten seconds, and develops a bit of a crush on Harry mostly because [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|her mother hates him]]. {{spoiler|She also started using [[Black Magic]]; this, naturally, does ''not'' go well. On the plus side, when she ends up as Harry's apprentice, she has to follow his rules moderating the worst of her behavior.}}

* Played ''painfully'' straight in ''Carter Finally Gets It'', which is a book about a [[Captain Ersatz|suspiciously]] [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Xander]][[Expy|-like]] boy who's absolutely obsessed with '''[[Buxom Is Better|BOOBS]]''', as are [[All Men Are Perverts|all his male friends]]. This would be mostly acceptable, except that the title character is ''[[Squick|fourteen]]''.

 

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Eight Simple Rules]]''. Just ''8 Simple Rules''. The elder daughter in particular is almost as stereotyped as you can get, and a complete [[The Ditz|airhead]] to boot.

* Pick a [[Disney Channel]] show. ''Any'' Disney Channel show.