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This is basically the [[Spinoff Babies]] trope applied to real people. The idea is to take [[Historical Domain Character|Historical Domain Characters]] and depict them in their youth. It can be played for laughs--implying that people we normally think of as reserved, stoic, or even evil [[Former Teen Rebel|were once young and reckless themselves]]. (Or the opposite, where they are shown to possess the same traits and interests that later made them famous, even if realistically these would have come much later.) Of course, it may also be played straight.
If the person lived long enough ago that details of their adolescence or youth are obscure or even nonexistent, then this trope may be used as an excuse to ground an entirely fictional story in reality. Sometimes these characters are the leading characters, other times they may only serve as a fictional [[Cameo]] or a [[Shout Out]] to a [[Historical
Obviously a standard trope in [[Historical Fiction]]. See also [[Historical Domain Character]] and [[In the Past Everyone Will Be Famous]]. Can overlap with [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]], as, for example, when a minor character in a movie turns out to be the author of the book the movie is based on.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' has many pros as kids, who are playable characters in the games. Originally just ordinary characters, but then became the [[
=== Young Future Famous People as supporting characters: ===
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The ''[[
** Has a cameo appearance by an infant Baruch Spinoza<ref> actually quite tragic; his parents and community abandoned him the moment they realized who he'd grow up to be due to philosophical disagreement</ref>, and a young-ish Oliver Cromwell who is thrown into prison by Charles I for a regicide he had yet to commit.
** Young Rembrandt becomes a famous artist when people learn that in the future-that-was, he was a famous artist. This happens to quite a few people who haven't done anything yet, and most of 'em are driven ''crazy'' by the attention and expectations.
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