History Main / TeensAreMonsters

** He also said it was probably the mother's fault, which usually is in more real cases of bullying or teenager rebelty.

* The ''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 "[[UsedToBeASweetKid he used to such a sweet kid]] till he became a teen" line. House only had his EurekaMoment discovery of the kids illness by realizing that [[spoiler: the kid's utter jerkassedness was NOT a symptom, he was just a teen A-Hole.]]

* Booker [=DeWitt=] of ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' was only sixteen years old when he was at the Battle of Wounded Knee, which nowadays is often referred to as a massacre. [[spoiler: It's implied Booker ''himself'' might be the reason why. It's revealed that Slate's soldiers gave him the ''nom de guerre'' of "The White Injun" because he collected so many grisly trophies from the dead, while Comstock's Voxaphone recordings reveal that after he was (correctly) accused of having Indian blood, he decided to prove them wrong by burning tepees down with the inhabitants (women and children) still inside. Since this took place before the point of divergence that turned Booker into Comstock, then Booker is guilty of this as well]].

* "Film/{{Thirteen}}": With all the drug usage, underage drinking, underage sex (and numerous other illegal acts) that goes on in this movie well... lets just say this film is a parents worst nightmare on what will happen when their sweet little angels become teenagers.

* Played straight and subverted in KnightsOfTheOldRepublic. 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 in that [[spoiler: Kel Algwinn]] isn't a bad guy, just unaware of other options, and that Mission Vao is higher on the KarmaMeter than the party's ''Jedi'' because of her optimistic, trusting nature.

* In AndrewVachss's Burke books the protagonist often passes by disaffected teens who may be violent, though they're rarely the focus.

* ''MassEffect'' 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 [[TrueCompanions 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 [[SuperweaponSurprise 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 [[VideogameCaringPotential 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 [[VideogameCrueltyPotential 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.

* [[SmugSnake Draco]] [[SpoiledBrat Malfoy]] from ''HarryPotter'', 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 Hagrid.]]

** 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 OddFriendship 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]].

* ''SchoolDays'' anime involves a number of teenagers doing false "dating practice" with sex, betraying, harassing, blackmailing, cheating, avoiding responsibilities, raping, and murdering.

Some cases of {{Royal Brat}}s can be attributed to this {{trope}}. This {{trope}} may also be [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] further still by invocations of how the teenage monsters in question [[UsedToBeASweetKid used to be sweet kids]]. If teen monsters run society, it's a TeenageWasteland. See also BigBrotherBully.

* Subverted by the PowerRangers, where 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.
*** Tommy's brainwashing as the [[SixthRangerTraitor Green Ranger]] notwithstanding, the few time we see this trope played straight are when one or more of the main characters is cast as a villain or as a brainwashed/corrputed character for most of the storyline, usually ending with a HeelFaceTurn about halfway through the season. Astronema/Karone (Space), Mara, Kapri, and The Thunder Rangers (Ninja Storm), and Trent (Dino Thunder) are notable examples of this.
** 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.

* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', Eddy's older brother.

** The teenagers who [[spoiler:kill Alice]] in ''{{Cell}}''.

** 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.

** Buddy Repperton in ''{{Christine}}''. Arnie Cunningham doesn't qualify quite so much due to the whole DemonicPossession thing.

** Junior Rennie and his posse in ''UnderTheDome''. 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': Vicky, who is pictured above. She's consistently painted as a evil babysitter, but it only brings up her ''age'' when RuleOfFunny 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. [[NegativeContinuity But it's not likely they'll be brought up again.]]

** And there's Laura, who, whenever her BerserkButton gets pressed (In more ways than one), transforms into a monsterous teenager.

** And there's Laura, who, whenever her BeserkButton gets pressed (In more ways than one), transforms into a monsterous teenager.

* In ''DarthPlagueis'', 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.

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* In ''DarthPlagueis'', 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.

* The films of Larry Clark; ''Bully'', ''KenPark'' and ''Film/{{Kids}}''. ''Ken Park'' features (NSFW) [[spoiler:a teen stabbing his grandparents and getting an erection from it.]]