Just a Kid: Difference between revisions

* Lampshaded by almost all the villains Gohan fights in one-on-one battle in ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. Goku also suffered from this in the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' series and in ''GT'', which annoyed him even more, as he was reaching his sixties and was one of the strongest beings in the universe.

** Subverted with gleeful enthusiasm in [[Dragonball Z Abridged]] whenever they can get some footage to support it.

'''Recoome:''' [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|Recoome agrees.]] }}

* Prevalent in [[Nasuverse]] works. Then again, the one saying it is usually [[Our Vampires Are Different|far]] [[All Myths Are True|beyond]] mere humans.

* ''[[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.]]"

 

 

* In ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]'', Shinra responds to questions he doesn't know the answer to with "I'm just a kid."

** At one point, Yuna actually calls him out directly on this. She wants to communicate with the cactuars in the Cactuar Nation, but Benzo, the Al Bhed kid who understands their speech, isn't around. She asks Shinra if he can communicate with them and Shinra gives his standard excuse, to which Yuna responds that Benzo is also just a kid. Shinra seems ''very'' put out by this.

** Considering the protagonists are all in their early teens: "At times like this, kids like you should be playing video games!"

** Also in ''Earthbound'', the sea captain who is ferrying the group to Scaraba exclaims that he thought that the foursome were just a group of kids upon them defeating the Kraken.

** It's simultaneously averted and played straight (by Yue and Aang respectively) in the season one finale (which, coincidentally was aptly named "[[The Siege]] of the North").

{{quote|'''Aang:''' I must have taken out a dozen Fire Navy ships, but there's just too many of them. I can't fight them all.

'''Aang:''' I'm just one kid. ''(buries his head in his arms)'' }}

*** Played straight by Aang in that he later goes on to use his Avatar powers (with a little help) to {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|destroy the entire fleet]]}}. "Just one kid" indeed.

** Also referred to in the opening theme. ("...Danny Fenton, he was just fourteen, when...")

* A huge theme of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' is the fact they ''are'' just kids, yet still manage to do so many bizarre and amazing things; this is the main reason that their mother [[Refuge in Audacity|never believes Candace]] when [[Cassandra Truth|she tries to bust them]].

'''Phineas:''' [[Blunt Yes|Yes]], [[Running Gag|yes I am.]] }}

** Parodied when Candace once asks the boys (renowned for making bizarre inventions) why they couldn't just create some way of fixing their rocket ship without necessitating a space walk. The boys simply stare at her for a moment before Ferb comments, "Candace, we ''are'' just kids."

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