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** In ''[[Ultimate X-Men]]'', the team barely has time to be assembled and forced into tight leather pants before being sent to rescue a young mutant from 50-foot killer robots.

* While not a team, it should be noted that every single [[The DCU|Robin]] (and all four Batgirls) ever has been a youngster.

* Played straight, and extreme, in the Marvel comic ''[[Power Pack]]'', which chronicles four pre-teen siblings who received their superpowers and world-saving mission from a dying alien. This was actually a subversion of the more typical adult, [[Serious Business]] superheroes of the time, and much of the humor since has come from contrasting them with heroes like [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/b/b0/Wolverine_and_Power_Pack_Vol_1_1.gif Wolverine]. Similar to the ''[[Animorphs]]'' situation, the alien was dying, the kids were there, and the alien didn't exactly have the option of going and getting the Marines.

* Played straight, and extreme, in the Marvel comic ''[[Power Pack]]'', which chronicles four pre-teen siblings who received their superpowers and world-saving mission from a dying alien. This was actually a subversion of the more typical adult, [[Serious Business]] superheroes of the time, and much of the humor since has come from contrasting them with heroes like [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/b/b0/Wolverine_and_Power_Pack_Vol_1_1.gif Wolverine]{{Dead link}}. Similar to the ''[[Animorphs]]'' situation, the alien was dying, the kids were there, and the alien didn't exactly have the option of going and getting the Marines.

* Kyle Rayner, who was for a decade or so the only [[Green Lantern]], started out this way. Ganthet needed to give the last ring and power battery to somebody, and Kyle was standing there, so Ganthet literally said, "You'll do," and gave them to him.