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{{trope}}
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▲{{quote|''They say that teenagers scare the living shit out of me''<br />
''They could care less as long as someone'll bleed''|'''[[My Chemical Romance]]''', "Teenagers"}}
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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.
Some cases of [[Royal Brat
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
* Mohiro Kitoh's manga titles tend to take a very dark view of teens and tweens. The best example would be ''[[
** Mohiro Kitoh's manga titles tend to take a very dark view of ''everything.''
*** To the degree that, when Kitoh announced his next work would be [http://www.animenewsnetwork.
* ''[[
** ''Akira'' manages to both play this trope straight and deconstruct it. Whilst Kaneda and his gang are portrayed as teenagers that have little regard to the law, they are also shown as having a sense of honor (though it is small), particularly with Kaneda's feelings toward the death of a friend (in both the anime and the manga). By the end of the series, they actually {{spoiler|manage to revitalize Japanese nationalism}}.
* The teenagers in ''[[Battle Royale]]'' are ''forced'' to become monsters and kill each other. Some take quite easily to this new role, others never do.
* While not necessarily teenagers, most antagonists in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' were in their early twenties or earlier when they started out, and were at that age once the feces hit the fan. There was Pegasus at age 22 when we first saw him, there was Malik/Marik who was a mere 16 when we saw him (and who had started down the path of evil before entering puberty), and Dartz who started at only age 21, and kept himself that way for who knows how long, and Yami no Bakura, who probably wasn't more than 20 in the original timeline. To say nothing of all the other minor antagonists over the course of the story that were never older than 25, teenagers must get a horrible reputation in their world.
** Prior to Duel Monsters taking the priority of the series, Yugi went through a whole series of teenage monsters every chapter in the manga, Seto Kaiba being among them.
** Of course, this didn't stop at the first series either. In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|GX]]'', the majority of [[Monster of the Week|antagonists of the day]] were fellow teen schoolmates, the chief antagonists of season 2 were all early 20s or younger, and season 3's subplots and season 4's plot were all ultimately instigated by youngsters.
** Avoided in the third series [[Yu-Gi-Oh!
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' by Gotsumon and Pumpkinmon, despite the fact that teenagers are usually minor characters:
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'''Pumpkinmon''': ''Even worse! I think I knocked over a teenager!'' }}
** Made better by the fact that the Digimon are, well, [[Mons|monsters in the literal sense]].
* All the contestants in the tournament in ''[[The Law of Ueki]]'' are supposed to be junior high students. Yet, they do not mind using their powers to [[Take Over the World]], and hell, apparently don't have any qualms about killing their opponents, for God's sake.
* [[Strongest Legend Kurosawa]] uses this '''a lot''', and at one point even compares them to animals.
* Miki from ''[[
* [[
* Glemmy Toto of ''[[
** Carris Nautilus of ''[[
** Shinn Asuka of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam
==
* In the graphic novel ''[[Black Hole]]'', teenagers are being afflicted with a mysterious STD that causes them to mutate randomly, occasionally turning them into literal monsters: barely human creatures that live in the woods. At least some of them seem to have become significantly mentally deranged because of this, turning them into more traditional monster teens.
* This was America's prevailing attitude towards [[Young Justice (
* The [[X-Men]] and other [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] [[Mutants]] literally exemplify this trope. Most mutant powers seem to manifest around puberty, and turn their recipients into freaks or outcasts of some sort.
* Elizabeth of
== Film ==
* Mark Collins in ''[[Twisted]]''.
* The first ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' movie used disaffected youths to form a thieves' guild.
* From [[
* Also ''[[Welcome to The Dollhouse]].''
* The classic horror film ''I Was a Teenage Werewolf'' took this quite literally.
* ''[[Eden Lake]]'' takes this to a truly disturbing level.
* ''[[Battle Royale]]'' takes this to an extreme. After children in Japan start refusing to go to school, the government starts kidnapping entire classes of teenagers, putting them on an island, give them guns and other weapons, and tells them to all go kill each other, last one alive gets out free. Many of the teens, instead of fighting against the government, see this as an opportunity to wreak havoc, and start mercilessly killing off their classmates.
* Lets not forget the films of Larry Clark; ''Bully'', ''[[Ken Park]]'' and ''[[Kids]]''. ''Ken Park'' features (NSFW) {{spoiler|a teen stabbing his grandparents and getting an erection from it.}}
* A big part of ''[[Brick]]''.
* Similarly, the film ''Kidulthood'', being centered around the troubled youth of urban London, feeds off of this trope - even a fair few of the protagonists are [[Jerkass|pricks]] to some extent, while the main antagonist is a towering [[Jerk Jock]] who batters his girlfriend and shows no visible regret at leading a bullying campaign against a girl at school which ultimately [[Driven to Suicide|drove her to suicide]]. Combine this with the film's other underlying theme of [[Adults Are Useless]], and you get a pretty bleak movie.
* ''[[Murder
* The first two ''Pumpkinhead'' movies pretty much define this trope, with Blood Wings pretty much having you want the titular monster to pretty much slaughter every teen we meet in the movie.
* The feral [[British English|chavs]] terrorizing the [[Council Estate]] in ''[[Harry Brown]]''.
** Subverted by the kids in ''[[
* The Pioneers in ''[[Scarecrow]]'' who traumatize Lena and her grandfather, driving them to madness and out of town.
* [[The Fifties]] was rife with films with this at it's core with titles like "18 And Anxious". [[Rebel Without a Cause]] came in and set it straight.
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* ''The Last Exorcist'''s Caleb is rather creepy and antagonistic {{spoiler|and is actually a member of a demon-worshipping cult. His younger sister Nell, who's possessed and going to give birth to said demon, might be in on it too}}.
* ''The Class (2007)'' is a brutal and realistic look at this and the effects it can have on someone.
* Averted in [[Master and Commander]]. All the [[Plucky Middie|Midshipmen]] are loyal and brave souls who are generally decent people, aspire to be [[Officer and a Gentleman|officers and gentlemen]] and [[A Father to His Men|hero worship]] captain Aubrey. The younger enlisted sailors are brave and honest and good at singing sailor songs. The one monstrosity which is by cliche considered typical of teenagers(driving a weak-willed person to suicide by hate-mongering)is actually instigated by an old man.
== Literature ==
* Jodee Blanco's memoir of recovering from intense bullying, ''Please Stop Laughing at Me'', turns both this and [[Kids Are Cruel]] [[Up to Eleven]]. A group of kids Jodee was friends with in a new town fall out with her after she refused to play a prank on a disabled teacher. They then come back to her over the summer, invite her to play baseball, then [[Complete Monster|knock her out with a fastball, moon her, and call her a variety of names]]. Not only that, her crush wrote {{spoiler|"You're going to have to fuck yourself bitch"}} in her yearbook, gets beaten up by the entire football team, and is made fun of when word gets out that {{spoiler|one breast is smaller than the other}}, and [[It Gets Worse|that's not even the half of it]].
* ''[[Speak]]'' has Melinda's classmates. Heather jumping ship on her. Those kids at the pep rally. {{spoiler|And Andy Evans who raped her}}.
* ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
** "Horrorshow" means "very good" there.
* Figures rather prominently in ''many'' novels by [[Stephen King]] - one almost suspects King believes
** Todd Bowden from ''Apt Pupil'', the second novella from ''Different Seasons''. Todd learns that his elderly next-door neighbor is a Nazi fugitive, but doesn't turn him in because he wants to learn the "gooey stuff" about the Holocaust. As his [[Odd Friendship]] with the Nazi continues, Todd graduates from dreaming about raping concentration camp inmates to becoming a hobo-mauling serial killer. Finally, {{spoiler|Todd kills his guidance counselor and snipes motorists on an expressway}}.
** Buddy Repperton in ''[[Christine]]''. Arnie Cunningham doesn't qualify quite so much due to the whole [[Demonic Possession]] thing.
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** Junior Rennie and his posse in ''[[Under the Dome]]''. Three of them rape a girl while the only female member of the posse cheers them on, and Junior repeatedly has sex with the bodies of two girls he murdered and stuffed in a pantry.
** The teenagers who {{spoiler|kill Alice}} in ''Cell''.
** The Kid in ''[[The Stand]]'' gives the appearance of this, but is in his mid twenties to thirties.
** Henry Bowers and his friends Victor and Belch in ''IT'', as well as Patrick Hockstetter, whose actions even disturb ''Henry''.
** The girls in the locker room in ''[[Carrie]]'', particularly Chris, who comes up with the whole ill-advised pig-blood thing.
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* Joffrey Baratheon from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' is only 13 years old, yet is regarded by many as the single most [[Complete Monster|depraved]] character in the entire series.
* In John Saul's ''House of Reckoning'', the main character is crippled from a car accident and the entire school (not to mention the ''entire town'') whispers behind her back and alienates her, then accuses her of worshiping the devil. ''Because she has a limp''.
** Saul actually has several novels with outcast teenagers being victimized by their monstrous peers. ''The Unwanted'', ''Black Creek Crossing'' and ''Punish The Sinners'' are a few examples. Then there's Teri, the glamorous teenage serial killer in ''Second Child''.
* In [[Andrew Vachss]]'s Burke books the protagonist often passes by disaffected teens who may be violent, though they're rarely the focus.
* Brought up in ''[[Discworld]]'', but in typical Pratchett fashion, quickly subverted soon after. The Ankh Morpork teen street gangs are mentioned to be ruthless and deadly... but find themselves helpless to resist Captain Carrot's good-natured effort to organize them all into a Cub Scout equivalent, camping trips and chanting all included.
* [[Gone (novel)]], by Michael Grant. Partially justified in that the series uses an [[Only Fatal to Adults]] situation and every main character is 14 or 15 years old. On the other hand, there are a lot more villains than heroes, and even the "good" characters have issues.
* In [[The Butterfly Revolution]], John Mason rapes one of the female campers, Blackridge tortures Divordich, and {{spoiler|Stanley kills Mr. Warren.}}
* [[Smug Snake|Draco]] [[Spoiled Brat|Malfoy]] from ''[[Harry Potter]]'', and his Slytherin cronies. Also, the young Tom Riddle, who {{spoiler|opened the Chamber of Secrets, killed a girl and then blamed it all on poor Hagrid.}}
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** For that matter, James Potter and Sirius Black were examples of this trope regarding Snape, at least during fifth year.
** Snape might be an inversion because, while he didn't even seem to be mean, he had a very dark mind, with his fascination with the Dark Arts and the creation of many violent spells. This is likely what his classmates' perception of him was.
*** And Dudley before the Dementors.
* This is, essentially, the point of [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s ''Knights of Forty Islands'', where a bunch of teenagers are kidnapped by aliens and put on small islands connected by narrow bridges, where they're given anger-activated swords and told that anyone who conquers all 40 islands gets to go home ({{spoiler|[[The Cake Is a Lie]], of course, as all "kidnapped" kids are copies}}). The protagonists decide to make an alliance with the neighboring islands in order to peacefully or forcefully bring all islands under one rule. While it works for a short while, teenage hormones soon take over, and the alliance falls apart, as many of them just want to have power and sex (two of the betrayers are murdered in cold blood by the protagonist after they [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|rape a girl]]).
* In ''[[Darth Plagueis]]'', it is revealed that Palpatine, as a teenager, ''ran over two pedestrians with his speeder'' and then ''told his father he wanted to be a racer. And Plagueis didn't need to give him a big nudge to get him to murder his folks. He pledged himself to the Sith at seventeen.
* Pollyanna subverts this about as hard as possible.
* From the ''[[Encyclopedia Brown]]'' books, of the 74 characters confirmed to be teenagers, 44 are crooks, con men, bullies, and/or cheaters. This doesn't include Bugs Meany and his gang (stated to be "tough older boys", but unconfirmed age) but it does include recurring antagonist Wilford Wiggins.
== Live-Action TV ==
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** Vamp Willow and Vamp Xander
** Faith, until her redemption
* Connor in ''[[Angel]]'' is a perfect example. The bad guys hardly have to break a sweat to manipulate the kid into doing really nasty stuff. Fortunately, he returns in Season 5 as a ''much'' saner person, due to {{spoiler|having [[Fake Memories|memories]] of a normal loving family instead of a childhood in a hell dimension.}}
* ''[[The Middleman]]'' plays with this trope. In one episode, it appears that a teenage [[Stalker
* Kevin the Teenager in the ''[[Harry Enfield and Chums]]'' sketches. ("That is SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!") However this is more along the realistic lines of making him an unbearable, moody, whining brat who hates everything his parents do or say and is entirely controlled by hormones and current trends.
** In the earlier ''Harry Enfield's Television Programme'', Kevin (also called "Little Brother") was a hyperactive and relentlessly cheerful preteen. The first episode of ''...And Chums'' showed his thirteenth birthday triggering a hideous [[Transformation Sequence]], similar to [[The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|Doctor Jekyll]], in front of his horrified parents.
* ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' amplifies this trope to its comic extreme in its Dwight the Troubled Teen skits. At the slightest provocation, Dwight loudly proclaims his hatred for his family and storms off.
* Any episode of ''[[Star Trek]]'', The Original Series (TOS) that featured anyone younger than 20 years old adheres strongly to this trope. In no fewer than three episodes (Charlie X, Miri, And The Children Shall Lead) unsupervised youngsters nearly destroy the Enterprise and/or kill the principal characters.
** Let's not forget our friend Trelane, the teenage omnipotent being who'll hunt you down if you ruin his fun.
** Though he was 'born' within the run of the show, Q's son of Voyager was always depicted as a teen whenever he made an appearance.
** In contrast, Naomi Wildman follows the same path of being born during the show's run, but was depicted as a child when she interacted with the crew.
* The first couple of seasons of ''[[
* ''The Sontaran Strategem'', an episode of ''[[
** Also, he had gathered a large number of other genius teenagers to him who, on hearing his real plan, were appalled and immediately abandoned him. It implied that his plans were less about his age and more that he was somewhat unstable anyway.
* Several ''[[Lifetime Movie of the Week|Life Time Movies]]'' portray any teenager who's not a [[Naive Everygirl]] or a squeaky clean Mama's boy as evil, rotten assholes or bitches who try to corrupt the good kids.
* Early on in ''[[Andromeda]]'', the ship docked at a station run by a tribal society of teenagers (everyone died young due to radiation poisoning, so the oldest survivor was sixteen). When the teens gained access to star-destroying bombs, they immediately went out and blew up inhabited solar systems with them.
* Pretty much the entirety of ''[[
* The ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' episode "The Jerk"'s patient of the week was a teen [[Jerkass]] that bullied his mother, insulted everyone he met just for the lulz, and was just a general all around brat (after getting tired of all the tests, when asked for a urine sample, he pissed on the floor). his mother even used the "[[Used to Be
** Of course, he also said it was probably the mother's fault, which usually is in more real cases of bullying or teenager rebelty.
* Though not all, a lot of the [[Monster of the Week|meteor freaks of the week,]] people who usually go crazy and start killing people on ''[[Smallville]]'', are teenagers. Part of that is likely due to the high school/college setting of the first five seasons, but it holds true in later seasons as well.
** Initially an [[Enfante Terrible]], Lx-15/Alexander Luthor plunges headlong into this trope, after he ages to the point where he's in his mid-teens. He attempts to assassinate Martha Kent, Clark, and Earth-2 Lionel, burns down Luthor Mansion, and even attacks Tess, his [[Parental Substitute]]. Thank god that memory loss, and a [[Heel Face Turn]] set in.
* The ''[[Law and Order]]'' franchise is fond of this
* Totally subverted by the [[Power Rangers]], where just about every teenager the audience sees ends up being unbelievably wholesome and respectable. Even the bullies and teenage-jerks usually turn out to be decent people when push comes to shove, although once every few seasons, a teenage character plays the trope straight.
** Lampshaded in the pilot episode; the original team is assembled when Zordon looks for "immature, overbearing humans" to fight evil. This was rephrased as "teenagers with attitude" in the opening credit sequence.
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* Subverted somewhat in ''[[Teachers]]'', in which the titular teachers, most of whom loathe their jobs, believe this about the teenagers they teach - but their actual interactions witht hen show that the teachers are more at fault than the teens. However, background events in any given hallway or yard scene do tend to show students casually setting each other on fire or hanging each other out of windows as the teachers walk by obliviously...
* Accepted as a truth universally acknowledged in ''[[Glee]]'', where it ends up being true at one point or another not just of the general school population but of ''almost every single one of the teenage protagonists too''. So far Mike Chang is about the only one who's escaped it. The trope is taken to its furthest extreme in 2X01, in which [[Mary Sue|Rachel]] is so jealous of [[Always Someone Better|an exchange student's]] superior singing voice that she sends her to a crack house instead of an audition. It is, however, also deconstructed somewhat with the implication that what lets teens be monsters is adults not doing the job of teaching them better: WMHS has an anti-bullying policy that is not enforced, but Dalton Academy for Boys features an ''enforced'' anti-bullying policy and Teens are emphatically Not Monsters there.
* The highschool students attending campus for a program to earn college credits in ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community
* In ''[[
* Parodied in ''[[Father Ted]]'' with the teenaged Father [[Meaningful Name|Damian]], [[Evil Counterpart]] to [[Man Child]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Dougal]]. He exhibits [[Obviously Evil|all the typical traits]] (and rebels against the older priests whom he sees as his parents) and his theft of an old whistle sends the [[Eccentric Townsfolk|inhabitants]] of Craggy Island into a downward spiral of paranoia.
* ''[[Todd and
== 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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== Videogames ==
* Played straight and subverted hard in [[Knights of the Old Republic]]. The cadets at the Sith Academy are early 20's at best, and indulge in things like beating up passers-by, and playing cruel tricks on the "hopefuls," like telling them to stand until they drop of exhaustion or starvation. {{spoiler|Carth's teenaged son}} is a fabulously short-tempered brat who will try to skewer {{spoiler|his own dad}} on a lightsaber if you choose the wrong dialogue option. Subverted hard in that {{spoiler|Kel Algwinn}} isn't a bad guy, just unaware of other options, and that Mission Vao is higher on the [[Karma Meter]] than the party's ''Jedi'' because of her optimistic, trusting nature.
** And to top it off, Mission is of the ''scoundrel'' class.
* [[Yume Miru Kusuri]]. Aeka's route. When the [[Alpha Bitch]] isn't ripping up all her tuition money or convincing her boyfriend to rape the poor girl, [[All of the Other Reindeer|her classmates are all tasering her in the middle of class.]]
* [[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 [[Video Game Caring Potential|later deeply thank you for after seeing news reports of every single mercenary who participated in the mission ended up dead, telling you that he won't waste the chance you gave him.]] Or, you can [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|tell him where to sign up, and you later see him casually sniped by Garrus as he assaults the base along with the rest of the mercs.]] This is in a series that doesn't hesitate to show people of all races, genders, affiliations, and cultures acting nobly or monstrously and everything in between.
== Webcomics ==
* Jeffrey Rowland in [https://web.archive.org/web/20150906231804/http://overcompensating.com/posts/20080620.html this strip] seems to be subverting this, and then says in the alt text, "When I was a teenager I probably should've been put in prison."
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120508140713/http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00348.html This] [[Goblin Hollow]] strip subverts it in [[RH Junior]]'s favorite way
* About half of [[Homestuck]]'s six-sweeps (thirteen years)-old Troll characters qualify. Specifically [[Killer Game Master|Vriska Serket]], [[Fantastic Racism|Eridan Ampora]] {{spoiler|and [[Monster Clown|Gamzee Makara]]}}.
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* [[Whateley Universe|Whateley Academy]] has what might seem to be more than its fair share of students who fit this trope. Possibly [[Justified Trope|justified]], though, in that it's presented as pretty much the only school for teenage ''mutants'' in the entire US (if not much of the world, given the number of foreign students showing up) -- there just aren't that many other places for the offspring of infamous supervillains, the badly traumatized, and the just plain assholes among them to ''go'', so Whateley quite naturally becomes the place where one almost by default encounters all of them at once.
* A lot of [[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]] are in their teens, and committing acts of extreme violence is all part and parcel of the job.
* Any memory that [[
* [[
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' follows the milder version of this trope. It couples [[Adults Are Useless]] with the dubious situation of teenagers being loyal minions, perhaps based on the logic that teenagers actively try to ''behave'' like adults.
** Although they also betray the adults as well, possibly in reference to the fact that teenagers are also more rebellious against adults than kids are (or just to show that they are indeed bastards).
** Many characters in the show enter an "outgrowing" phase shortly before their 13th birthday and become the rebellious bastard stereotype we know and love when the finally hit the big 13.
*** {{spoiler|Though not all of them are affected by this. Some teens (and even a few adults) are hired as black-ops double agents for the KND.}}
* ''[[
* Parodied in ''[[
** Katie's issue was [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|implied]] to be a much more [[No Periods, Period|specific teen problem]].
* Two episodes of ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' featured the Smith family, one member of which was their angry teen son Bud. The first episode, Bud's entire appearance consisted of him yelling something typically teenagerish at his father, such as "I hate you!" and "No one understands me!" The second episode, which features the entire family as villains, provides every member of the family with a motivation for why they hate the Powerpuff Girls - and Bud's is "I hate everything!"
** There's also the Gangreen Gang, who are ''literally'' teenage monsters.
* [[The Fairly
** She's consistently painted as a evil babysitter, but it only brings up her ''age'' when [[Rule of Funny]] applies. More than likely that she has always been and will always be evil. Her age is a side-effect of being a babysitter.
** In one episode she's member of a whole club of evil teen girl babysitters. [[Negative Continuity|But it's not likely they'll be brought up again.]]
* ''[[
* Azula of ''[[
** Probably the next most prominent example is [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Jet]], who attempts to ''kick an old man in the head'' and flood a whole village of innocents in his intense rage towards the Fire Nation. He's the leader of an entire gang of teenagers willing to commit murder and other dark crimes for no other motivation than revenge, and even gets called a monster in-universe by [[Team Mom|Katara.]] He's changed his approach by the next time we see him, insisting that nobody else will get hurt when he tries to expose two firebenders disguised as Earth Kingdom refugees, but is forced to learn that {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}} when his plan backfires on him.
* The vast majority of villains on ''[[Static Shock]]'' are superpowered teenagers.
** [[Subverted Trope|As are the heroes.]]
* Ditto for ''[[
* Kevin 11 of ''[[
* Mac's 13-year-old older brother Terrence in ''[[
* One episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' has a gang of teenage paintball delinquents making Hank and his buddies' life a living hell (to the point of doing drive-by shootings with the paintball rifles) just because he took a stand for Bobby earlier. The trope's even mentioned when they get Bill to pull a [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]] so Hank and Dale could pick off two of them:
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== Real Life ==
* [[Science Marches On|Now science gives some credence to]]
* There was a spate of mass shootings at American high schools in the late 90’s, culminating in the [
* The main factor that made the [
** Leopold and Loeb were also famous because their parents were wealthy, and were able to hire none other than Clarence Darrow to defend them. Darrow, instead of trying to defend their innocence, used the opportunity to rail against capital punishment, saving their lives instead of their reputations.
** The fact that they were Jews also played into the sensationalism of the media coverage of the time. Although apparently they were kinda dicks about their identity: [
* A teenage girl in Bosnia was arrested after the police found a video of her throwing six puppies down the river to drown. And, in the video, she showed no sign of remorse whatsoever. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzPblVSBfiw&feature=player_embedded The video is...] [[Nightmare Fuel|horrifying]] [[Tear Jerker|and depressing to say the least.]]
* Email hoaxes like spunkball. The urban legend is that teenagers, motivated by the [[For the Evulz|hell of it]] or [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil|peer pressure]], create incendiary grenades with lighter fluid, paper, and firecrackers. They then drive around and throw these into cars, scoring points for every person they kill or maim. The tellings usually feature [[An Aesop]] when one of the spunkballers realizes that he's hurting ''real people'', an epiphany that comes after killing a family member.
** Similarly, every year there will be some sort of "craze" that's sweeping the nation's teens, usually involving alcohol, sex, or both. Recent ones include vodka tampons, vodka gummy bears, vodka eyeballing, etc. They usually end up being proven not to be as popular as they are portrayed in the media.
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* [http://news.yahoo.com/mo-teen-gets-life-possible-parole-killing-141938731.html?fb_source=hovercard&code=AQDqK-DNHGtVkKVrKS85bjMcgP-Euqe_JxbweK7pHTZYvhsAgC3NEIrHejNF-XV_-7InwphNVpK-z5EzmtOpub3GZtURAij0UF1Uq1U45-oY0BlfkyCvudkQOOnHXCRaSbzCNc7_R2SfN22AauFICnZzvZRVTi-RACQxgliPLt3SXkcOu1YcddHEVXAFEQGEP50#_=_ Alyssa Bustamente.] At 15 years old, she lured Elizabeth Olten (a 9 year-old girl) into the woods. There, she strangled and stabbed Olten to death because she wanted to see what killed a person felt like. Her reactions? "[[The Sociopath|It was ahmazing. As soon as you get over the 'ohmygawd I can't do this' feeling, it's pretty enjoyable.]]"
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* The British "chavs" are possibly a whole culture based on this trope, since violence and bullying are often glorified.
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** And the murder of Kimberly Proctor which also happened on Vancouver island. The teens who were convicted of the crime [https://web.archive.org/web/20120617235638/http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110404/teen-murder-sentencing-110404
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* The reputation of teenagers being monsters and the fear of school violence is the basis of zero-tolerance policies in the USA. This means that instances that fall under the heading of these policies are not investigated for anything but to determine whether the infraction itself occurred, which of course it did or it wouldn't be an infraction. [[The Other Wiki]] has links to criticisms of said policies in [
* On a similar note, most of what we think of as morality is learned behavior and even empathy takes observation and interaction with others to develop fully. After they clear that hurdle teenagers still do not have much experience with the full motion of adult human experiences but are exposed to many of them so they are more likely to respond to them in unconventional ways. For example reacting to setbacks or shame with irrational anger. To be fair, many adults never clear that moral development stage either.
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