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A very simple trope. One of the top officers of the [[Mega Corp]] happens to be far younger than should be permissible. Examples should be earlier than 12th grade, which is just young enough that it seems implausible. Often the age is justified by the fact that their parents owned the controlling interest in the company, so ownership of it fell to them upon their death.
Subtrope of [[Improbable Age]]. Related to [[A Child Shall Lead Them]], where the kid is the ruler of a country. (The two may overlap if the company is an [[NGO Superpower]].)
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The little girl, Susie, in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUcpCB7Wls8 this Verizon commercial]. She uses her father's cell phone to turn her lemonade stand into a thriving corporate business.
* The baby from the E*Trade commercials who acts as a hyper-competent stock guru.
* This seems pretty popular in advertising. In the UK, a series of TV ads for Velvet toilet paper have featured a computer-animated baby as managing director of a company producing that product, lecturing the adult staff on its qualities. The effect is a bit weird.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Seto Kaiba in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. He won Kaiba Corp from his step-dad when he was a child, and turned it from a weapons-manufacturer to the major provider of the game's central Children's Card Game.
* Ciel Phantomhive from ''[[Black Butler]]'' is the head of a massive toy and candy company.
* In ''[[Mega Man NT Warrior]]'', 12-year-old Enzan Ijuuin is the vice-president of the IPC hardware company.
* ''[[Rental Magica]]'' has both Astral and Goetia assigned very youngs 'heirs by blood' -- and in case of Astral, magically inept boy who had to learn on the fly—as acting presidents after disappearance of their old bosses. [[Justified]], as in both cases the alternatives were either worse or unavailable.
* Watta Takeo from the old [[Super Robot]] series ''Trider G7''.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]], possibly. In the film version, at least, he has substantial power within his parents' company.
* The villains of ''X-Men: Schism'' are a quartet of obscenely rich kids around 12 years old, the leader of whom takes over for his [[Self-Made Orphan|late]] father as CEO of the company that manufactures Sentinels.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Little Big League]]'': Preteen boy becomes owner of the [[Baseball|Minnesota Twins]].
* ''[[The Kid From Left Field]]'': Preteen baseball manager.
* As mentioned earlier, ''Richie Rich''.
* ''[[101 Dalmatians]]'': It's a kid who has the final say on the approval (or rejection) of the game Roger tried to pitch to the company.
* ''[[The Brainiacs Dot Com]]'': Two kids (using investors' money) bought controlling interest of a toy manufacturing company. Trouble arises when the authorities made inquires about the microchip the kids told their investors the money would be used to develop.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* "The Admiral" from ''[[Borderlands]]'' fits this trope, being only 5 years old.
{{quote|'''General Knoxx:''' "Damn nepotism."}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': [[Show Within a Show|A show seen on TV]] is "Admiral Baby", about a baby in command of the Sixth Fleet.
** Another show they watch is "Supreme Courtney," about a Tween girl on the Supreme Court.
*** Amazingly, [[Loophole Abuse|there is no law against a child serving on the Supreme Court.]] The ONLY requirement to get onto the Supreme Court is that you must be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
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