Kids Versus Adults

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When the "generation gap" turning into rivalry or all-out war between children and adults.

Often goes hand-in-hand with Adults Are Useless.

Examples of Kids Versus Adults include:

Film

• Village of the Damned.
• Children of the Corn.
• Battle Royale 2 goes down this road.
  • It also occurred in the backstory of the original.
• The 1968 film Wild in the Streets has the voting age lowered to 14; the 24-year-old rock star subsequently elected President then has everyone over 30 put in re-education camps.
  • The film ends on a punchline suggesting a Full-Circle Revolution when the young president pisses off a couple of 7-year olds.

Game Shows

• Get Your Own Back
• The Kids Are Alright? (hosted by John Barrowman)
• Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
• The Nickelodeon sports-themed game show Wild and Crazy Kids, frequently.

Literature

• Stanley Kiesel's novels The War Between The Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids and Skinny Malinky Leads the War for Kidness take this trope quite literally.
• One of Murray Leinster's Med Ship stories featured a war between generations (although the younger was of the age of maturity).

Live-Action TV

• The Adventures of Pete and Pete had the International Adult Conspiracy.
• Star Trek: The Original Series had the episode "And The Children Shall Lead" about conflict between kids and adults.

Western Animation

• Codename: Kids Next Door has this as the premise.
• An Episode of The Simpsons had the adults enforcing a curfew, and the kids rebelling against it by broadcasting all their dirty secrets. Partially subverted in that, during the grand finale song and dance number, the elderly got in on the fight and won, forcing everyone under fifty to adhere to the curfew, allowing them free roam of the streets.
• I'm sure some South Park episodes have this.^[context?]
• Happens now and again in Recess