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In their strain to try and be taken seriously, teenagers are susceptible, gullible, and downright dangerous to anyone who wants to manipulate them. These are the best targets for demons, vampires or [[The Virus]]. Sometimes they're just delinquents with no respect, but are only a hair's breadth of sanity from shooting up an entire classroom, especially if you call them [[Just a Kid]].
Much of this trope is fueled by a distrust in teenagers by the adult population. Not to mention, many parents of young children dread the moment when their innocent little angels become sassy, [[Hormone
Ironically, the much milder version of this trope occurs with shows aimed toward ''younger'' children, who find teenagers cryptic, pushy, and intimidating for other reasons.
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Of course, this can be, on an individual basis, [[Truth in Television]]; there are monster teens in [[Real Life]] in the same fashion that we can find some [[Kids Are Cruel|mean kids]] and cruel adults. The mere fact of being a teenager doesn´t make people automatically good or evil; it ''does'', however, make any given person more susceptible to reckless or selfish behavior than they otherwise would be as an adult, for biological reasons. This makes it [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|all the more commendable and impressive]] when a teen acts maturely, responsibly, or selflessly in situations where it would be difficult or unexpected for an average adult to act that way. '''Still, no personal examples, please.'''
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== Anime & Manga ==
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== Music ==
* [[My Chemical Romance|My Chemical Romance's]] ''[[The Black Parade]]'' features the song "Teenagers", which starts off about how adults view teenagers, and then how, with the way school life has changed in recent years, why it's ''understandable'' they think this way. The end message seems to be that it's a vicious cycle.
** Thinking of the ''[[The Black Parade]]'', let's remember ''[[British Newspapers|The Daily Mail]]'''s scare over "the [[Critical Research Failure|sinister death cult]] of [[Emo]]" which could be recruiting ''[[Could This Happen to You?|your children]]'' to "join the Black Parade", or in other words, kill themselves.
*** Sort of ironic when you consider that the song ''The Black Parade'' was about someone coping with the death of a loved one (his father) and the painful realization of human mortality. Still, some people (especially younger teenagers) probably didn't get the intended message out of it and thought that it was glorifying death. At least one young girl did commit suicide after listening to the album, although she most likely had severe problems long before hearing it.
**** If hearing an album is enough to cause her to end her life, stating that she had previous and severe problems is somewhat redundant.
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* [[Bully]] gives you the chance to play as a pubescent terror. Student looks at you the wrong way? You can shove him to the ground. Nerd bumps into you in the hallway? You can knee him in the balls. Preppy student mocks your clothing? You can shove him through a glass window, beat him with a cricket bat, and repeatedly stomp on his head while he lays moaning on the floor.
** Subverted in that the main character can be played as a compassionate teen and actively protect vulnerable students.
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' averts this completely when you rescue the remaining students at Grissom Academy. The biotic students, all late-teens or very young adults, act like a [[True Companions|family]], and are all training to fight the Reapers on the front lines with their gift-abilities, knowing quite well how dangerous it is to do so. In fact, if you order them to act in a support role in the war (forming barriers for troops on or near the front lines), they'll protest it, but follow along the order. Regardless, they sometimes have to act offensively in self-defense even in the support role, and save a ton of lives with their actions, not complaining at all during their service in a particularly hellish war. The savants and intellectual geniuses of the Academy also act fairly mature and contribute wholeheartedly to [[Superweapon Surprise|the Crucible Project]]. There's also an 18-19 year-old kid who eagerly volunteers to sign on as a single-mission freelancer for a mercenary group, equipped only with a cheap pistol. You can break his gun, which he'll [[
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* ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' parodies this, showing a pubescent Haley as a destructive monster whose parents have to get [[Improvised Weapon|improvised weapons]] to deal with.
* Azula of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' is nearly the lone exception to an otherwise [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] rule. {{spoiler|She's the one prominent teenager in the entire show that starts and remains evil from beginning to end. However, she ends up being exposed as a very tragic, messed-up person, so not many people in-show or out of it tend to see her as a "monster" anymore.}}
** Probably the next most prominent example is [[Well
* The vast majority of villains on ''[[Static Shock]]'' are superpowered teenagers.
** [[Subverted Trope|As are the heroes.]]
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