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* ''[[Sliders]]'': Quinn Mallory

* ''[[The Wire]]'': Omar Little, one of the lead characters, dismisses many young players in the Baltimore drug trade because they're "just kids", including using the phrase exactly to describe Michael, who is meeting with Marlo, in late season four. One such child, {{spoiler|Kenard}}, is looked at by a Baltimore police officer as an example of how Omar's influence and brazen antics have spread to young, impressionable children, who view him as a hero. Near the end of the series, {{spoiler|Omar is unexpectedly gunned down by Kenard, and had dismissed the child as a threat when he walked into the store}}.

** The trope is then used word for word in the season five finale. {{spoiler|Michael}} has become a stick-up boy in Omar's mould, and when he holds up {{spoiler|Marlo's "bank"}} is told "Shit, you just a boy!"; ~~{{{AC|~~blam~~}}]~~ "And that's [[Only a Flesh Wound|just your knee.]]"

** The trope is then used word for word in the season five finale. {{spoiler|Michael}} has become a stick-up boy in Omar's mould, and when he holds up {{spoiler|Marlo's "bank"}} is told "Shit, you just a boy!"; ''blam'' "And that's [[Only a Flesh Wound|just your knee.]]"

* ''[[Game of Thrones]]'': [[Badass Grandpa|Tywin Lannister]] dismisses the 18-year-old [[Young and in Charge|Robb Stark]] as a threat because of this, figuring that he'll probably run back home to the North at the first sight of battle. {{spoiler|He is oh so very wrong. When the dust settles, his son is a prisoner of war, and half his army has been destroyed. Turns out that Robb is actually quite the tactician.}}

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== Myths & Religion ==

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: Jeremiah, from ''[[The Bible]]''.

* In the ''[[Táin Bó Cúailnge~~|Tain Bo Cuailnge~~]]'', Queen Medb writes off Cu Chulainn when he first issues a challenge against her forces. Sure, Fergus says he's an unstoppable badass that outclasses all of her men, but he's just a seventeen-year-old boy - [[Tempting Fate|what chance could a single teenager possibly have against an entire army of battle-hardened soldiers?]]

* In the ''[[Táin Bó Cúailnge]]'', Queen Medb writes off Cu Chulainn when he first issues a challenge against her forces. Sure, Fergus says he's an unstoppable badass that outclasses all of her men, but he's just a seventeen-year-old boy - [[Tempting Fate|what chance could a single teenager possibly have against an entire army of battle-hardened soldiers?]]