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* ''WesternAnimation/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown'' (1977) The Peanuts gang has a white water race down a river in the wildnerness and encounter numerous perils and hazards along the way with Charlie Brown learning a little bit about leadership and getting some self respect-though it isn't much.

* While we're on the subject of cartoons... ''[[{{Rugrats}} The Rugrats Movie]]''! The main cast gets lost in the woods and try to get home. And they're BABIES!

* Arguably, Christopher [=McCandless=], as documented in the biography (and film) ''[[Film/IntoTheWild]]'' tried to pull this off in real life. He was a upper-class college graduate who gave away all of his money to charities, hitchhiked across America, then tried to live through the winter in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness. The subversion comes in when he was found dead the next spring, having accidentally poisoned or starved himself to death.

* Arguably, Christopher [=McCandless=], as documented in the biography (and film) ''[[IntoTheWild]]'' tried to pull this off in real life. He was a upper-class college graduate who gave away all of his money to charities, hitchhiked across America, then tried to live through the winter in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness. The subversion comes in when he was found dead the next spring, having accidentally poisoned or starved himself to death.

* Arguably, Christopher [=McCandless=], as documented in the biography (and film) ''IntoTheWild'' tried to pull this off in real life. He was a upper-class college graduate who gave away all of his money to charities, hitchhiked across America, then tried to live through the winter in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness. The subversion comes in when he was found dead the next spring, having accidentally poisoned or starved himself to death.
** Despite the deconstruction, [[MisaimedFandom there is a noticeable amount of people who see McCandless's story as "inspiring" and have expressed their desire to emulate him.]] To the extent that fans of the movie and book do pilgrimages to the bus site. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-30-1898419718_x.htm This bewilders many local Alaskans, who don't understand how so many people became obsessed with a young man--who in their minds, is just one of ''many'' people who have gone into the wilderness unprepared and died before their time.

* ''RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown'' (1977) The Peanuts gang has a white water race down a river in the wildnerness and encounter numerous perils and hazards along the way with Charlie Brown learning a little bit about leadership and getting some self respect-though it isn't much.
* ''TheLandBeforeTime'' (1988) could almost be a complete example, execpt that the "kids" in this case are juvenile dinosaurs, and the villain in question is a predatory T-rex that is stalking them.

* ''TheRescuers Down Under'' (1990) although it should be mentioned that unlike many other examples, the boy protagonist of this movie actually lives in the Australian outback and therefore know his way around in the wilderness.

* ''The Amazing Panda Adventure'' (1995) is your standard-issue one of these. That is, aside from a bizarre scene in which the young boy and girl (thankfully not siblings in this case) decide to get naked... well, not so much "decide" as "panic and strip while trying to get rid of the ''leeches''", but still rather unexpected.

** Despite the deconstruction, [[MisaimedFandom there is a noticeable amount of people who see McCandless's story as "inspiring" and have expressed their desire to emulate him.]] To the extent that fans of the movie and book do pilgrimages to the bus site. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-30-1898419718_x.htm This bewilders many local Alaskans, who don't understand how so many people became obsessed with a young man--who in their minds, is just one of ''many'' people who have gone into the wilderness unprepared and died before their time. Hence many Alaskans see the book and movie as a romanticization of [[WhatAnIdiot reckless behavior.]]

** Despite the deconstruction, [[MisaimedFandom there is a noticeable amount of people who see McCandless's story as "inspiring" and have expressed their desire to emulate him.]] To the extent that fans of the movie and book do pilgrimages to the bus site. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-30-1898419718_x.htm This bewilders many local Alaskans, who don't understand how so many people became obsessed with a young man--who in their minds, is just one of ''many'' people who have gone into the wilderness unprepared and died before their time. It's not helped that had he been more prepared he may have gotten out alive; Hence many Alaskans see the book and movie as a romanticization of [[WhatAnIdiot reckless behavior.]]

** Despite the deconstruction, [[MisaimedFandom there is a noticeable amount of people who see McCandless's story as "inspiring" and have expressed their desire to emulate him.]] To the extent that fans of the movie and book do pilgrimages to the bus site. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-30-1898419718_x.htm This bewilders many local Alaskans, who don't understand how so many people became obsessed with a young man--who in their minds, is just one of ''many'' people who have gone into the wilderness unprepared and died before their time. It's not helped that had he been more prepared he may have gotten out alive, and many Alaskans who live in the area see the book and movie as a romanticization of [[WhatAnIdiot reckless behavior.]]

** Despite the deconstruction, [[MisaimedFandom there is a noticeable amount of people who see McCandless's story as "inspiring" and have expressed their desire to emulate him.]] To the extent that fans of the movie and book do pilgrimages to the bus site. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-30-1898419718_x.htm This bewilders many local Alaskans, who don't understand how so many people became obsessed with a young man--who in their minds, is just one of ''many'' people who have gone into the wilderness unprepared and died before their time.

** Despite the deconstruction, [[MisaimedFandom there is a noticeable amount of people who see McCandless's story as "inspiring" and have expressed their desire to emulate him.]] To the extent that fans of the movie and book do pilgrimages to the bus site. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-30-1898419718_x.htm
This bewilders many local Alaskans, who don't understand how so many people became obsessed with a young man--who in their minds, is just one of ''many'' kids who have gone into the wilderness unprepared and died before their time.

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* Arguably, Christopher [=McCandless=], as documented in the biography (and film) ''IntoTheWild'' tried to pull this off in real life. He was a upper-class college graduate who gave away all of his money to charities, hitchhiked across America, then tried to live through the winter in a abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness. The subversion comes in when he was found dead the next spring, having accidentally poisoned or starved himself to death.

* Arguably, Christopher McCandless, as documented in the biography (and film) ''IntoTheWild'' tried to pull this off in real life. He was a upper-class college graduate who gave away all of his money to charities, hitchhiked across America, then tried to live through the winter in a abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness. The subversion comes in when he was found dead the next spring, having accidentally poisoned or starved himself to death.

* If the children are stranded in the remote wilderness or on an abanonded island, it can also be an example of a {{Robinsonade}}.

* The ''Literature/StephanieHarrington'' series is about an adventurous girl, the daughter of two scientists, who is a colonist on the planet Sphinx. Something of a {{Reconstruction}} of the genre, as her first adventure in the wilderness results in her almost being killed, and the adults see to it that she is better supervised and receives the type of training that will allow her not to die a senseless death in the [[DeathWorld vast wilderness of Sphinx]]. The local natives also pull double-duty as the cute animals Stephanie must protect from the poachers who [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman refuse to consider the 'cats as sentient beings.]]

* The ''Literature/StephanieHarrington'' series is about an adventurous girl, the daughter of two scientists, who is a colonist on the planet Sphinx. Something of a {{Reconstruction}} of the genre, as her first adventure in the wilderness results in her almost being killed, and the adults see to it that she is beter supervised and receives the type of training that will allow her not to die a senseless death in the [[DeathWorld vast wilderness of Sphinx]]. The local natives also pull double-duty as the cute animals Stephanie must protect from the poachers who [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman refuse to consider the 'cats as sentient beings.]]