History Main / TheTropeKid

* Music/ElvisPresley's boxer character in ''Kid Galahad''.

* ComicBook/RawhideKid, the Two-Gun Kid, the Ringo Kid (not related to John Wayne's Ringo Kid in ''Film/{{Stagecoach}}''), the Apache Kid, the Arizona Kid, the Prairie Kid, the Texas Kid, the Western Kid, the Gunsmoke Kid, the Dakota Kid and (in a slight variation) Kid Colt, all from Creator/MarvelComics. According to Creator/StanLee, Marvel publisher Martin Goodman loved Westerns, and was ''particularly'' fond of this trope for some reason.

* ComicBoo/RawhideKid, the Two-Gun Kid, the Ringo Kid (not related to John Wayne's Ringo Kid in ''Film/{{Stagecoach}}''), the Apache Kid, the Arizona Kid, the Prairie Kid, the Texas Kid, the Western Kid, the Gunsmoke Kid, the Dakota Kid and (in a slight variation) Kid Colt, all from Creator/MarvelComics. According to Creator/StanLee, Marvel publisher Martin Goodman loved Westerns, and was ''particularly'' fond of this trope for some reason.

* Rawhide Kid, the Two-Gun Kid, the Ringo Kid (not related to John Wayne's Ringo Kid in ''Film/{{Stagecoach}}''), the Apache Kid, the Arizona Kid, the Prairie Kid, the Texas Kid, the Western Kid, the Gunsmoke Kid, the Dakota Kid and (in a slight variation) Kid Colt, all from Creator/MarvelComics. According to Creator/StanLee, Marvel publisher Martin Goodman loved Westerns, and was ''particularly'' fond of this trope for some reason.

* The desperado that Yancey has to shoot in ''Film/{{Cimarron}}'' is named, simply, "The Kid".
* The Creator/OHenry short story "The Caballero's Way", which introduced the world to the Cisco Kid. Then there was 1928 film adaptation ''Film/InOldArizona'', starring Warner Baxter, which made the Kid a Mexican and more more of an AntiHero, rather than Henry's Anglo VillainProtagonist. That led to a BMovie series starring Cisco and his comic sidekick Pancho, as well as a television series, ''Series/TheCiscoKid'', in which the Kid was played by Duncan Renaldo.

* Rawhide Kid, the Two-Gun Kid, the Ringo Kid (not related to John Wayne's Ringo Kid in ''Film/{{Stagecoach}}''), the Apache Kid, the Arizona Kid, the Prairie Kid, the Texas Kid, the Western Kid, the Gunsmoke Kid, the Dakota Kid and (in a slight variation) Kid Colt, all from Creator/MarvelComics. According to Creator/StanLee, Marvel publisher Martin Goodman loved Westerns, and was ''particularly'' fond of this trope for some reason.
* The Literature/TimeWars book ''The Six-Gun Solution'' had a time-traveling character acquire the nickname "The Montana Kid".

* The Schofield Kid in the movie ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}''.

* In the film, ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest''--the title character originally imagines himself as a gun-slinging hero with an already known moniker: "Billy the Kid."
* Might count under Parodies as well, but in ''Film/ShanghaiNoon'', Creator/JackieChan's character is listed on a wanted poster as "The Shanghai Kid." His partner notes, "That's a really cool nickname, too." Jackie's character immediately complains that he's not really from Shanghai.
** In a possible ShoutOut, ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' featured a {{flashback}} to a [[IdenticalGrandson suspiciously familiar-looking ancestor]] of Jackie's in [[TheWestern the Old West]] nicknamed "The Hong Kong Kid". Amusingly enough, Chan is from Hong Kong, so the cartoon comes one step closer to RealLife.
* The Sundown Kid of ''VideoGame/LiveALive''.

* Fee "The Kid" Herod of ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead''
* The titular character from ''Film/TheDurangoKid'', played by Charles Starrett. Between 1940 and 1952, there were 64 movies made featuring the Durango Kid.

* The Brimstone Kid from ''ComicBook/YoungbloodJudgmentDay''. He was a gunslinger who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for unbeatable gunslinging skills.
* Creator/RobertEHoward's 'The Sonora Kid'.
* Inverted in Creator/KarlMay's westerns (''Literature/{{Winnetou}}'', etc.). Any time someone makes a name for themselves in the West, young or not, they get a moniker with "Old" slapped on. Old Shatterhand, Old Surehand, Old Firehand etc.

* ''Film/TheFriscoKid'': An Orthodox Jew played by Creator/GeneWilder gets embroiled in Wild West shenanigans.
* ''Film/TheBalladOfBusterScruggs'': The harmonica-playing cowboy who challenges Buster Scruggs for the title of best musician and gunslinger in the West is called "the Kid" in the credits.
* The leader of the outlaws in ''Film/JohnnyGuitar'' is the Dancin' Kid.

* Professional wrestlers "The Heartbreak Kid" Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, [[Wrestling/SeanWaltman 1-2-3 Kid]] (later known as X-Pac), the Wrestling/DynamiteKid, etc.

* Superheroes: ComicBook/KarateKid, [[ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}Invisible Kid, Kid Quantum]], [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica Star-Spangled Kid]], [[ComicBook/TheFlash Kid Flash]], [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Kid Eternity, Kid Devil]], [[ComicBook/XMen Kid Omega, Kid Vulcan]], Kid [[strike:Marvelman]] Comicbook/{{Miracleman}}, [[ComicBook/{{Vigilante}} The China]][[ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory town Kid]], the [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Metropolis Kid]]...

* ''Film/TheHeartbreakKid1972'' ([[Film/TheHeartbreakKid2007 remade in 2007]])
** Also the name of a 1985 song by Music/RestlessHeart called Back To (The Heartbreak Kid)
* ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'': Musyanokoji Shien, the quarterback of the {{Western}}-themed Seibu Wild Gunmen, is [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname usually only referred to as "Kid"]]. Also an IronicNickname, since he has an [[YoungerThanTheyLook old man's face]].
* Music/ElvisPresley's boxer character in ''Kid Galahad''.
* The Cold Steel Kid, Gus's video game character in ''Series/DeadlyGames''.
* The Sundown Kid in ''VideoGame/LiveALive''.

* The Ringo Kid in ''LightNovel/HumanityHasDeclined''. Ringo here referring to apples, not the Beatle.
* ''Film/TheKarateKid'' and ''Film/TheNextKarateKid''

* In a ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' parody of ''Series/FantasyIsland'', the Tattoo stand-in was supposed to spread the fame of a guest's character as "The Babyface Kid", but picked a lower body part to feature instead.

* ''Series/RedDwarf''
** Cat in the western episode: "They call me the Kid ... the Riviera Kid."
** In the same episode Rimmer claims he knows how to talk cowboy, then orders a dry white wine and Perrier at the bar. Lister asks him if the western he'd seen was ''[[Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid Butch Accountant And The Yuppie Kid]]''.
* The "Toronto Kid", in a ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'' sketch.

* Nestle has a long-running series of ads for its white chocolate Milky Bar featuring 'the Milky Bar Kid'. The Milkybar Kid is strong and tough, and only the best is good enough... Usually a cowboy, although there was a period in the 80s where he was a space hero.

* From ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', when Moe described to Homer his boxing career:
--> '''Moe''': They called me Kid Gorgeous. Later on, it was Kid Presentable. Then Kid Gruesome. And finally, Kid Moe.
* The [[LongRunners long-running]] children's show ''Series/{{Wonderama}}'' had a dance contest segment in the '70s that was introduced by "the Disco Kid," a boy in a [[Radio/TheLoneRanger Lone Ranger]] style Western costume.
* The Rumpo Kid in ''Film/CarryOnCowboy''.
* ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' The names of "Weird Superheroes" often dip into this trope.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': "Showdown at Teeter-Totter Gluch" had Tommy and Chuckie facing a playground bully known as The Junk Food Kid [[spoiler: her real name is [[IronicName Prudence]]]], because she eats pretty much only junk food.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' has the Amarillo Kid, an armadillo who hustles people at... miniature golf.

* "The Cisco Kid (Was a Friend of Mine)" by [=WAR=], in 1972. The name is a reference to the title character of a TV show that ran from 1950-56 and a series of movies. (See the entry under "Westerns").
* The FMV video game Prize Fighter for the Sega CD has the main player character referred to as simply "The Kid".
* ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'' features The Kenosha Kid, who [[MindScrew may be a character, may be a hallucination by the protagonist, may be a]] DanceSensation, [[MindScrew or may not even exist at all]].

* The very minor example of “the Piercings Kid” in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World''. This is an outworlder, a cross between a punk and a cowboy, who is described as having at least 10 facial piercings. His real name is unknown; the narrative simply refers to him that way. (After the Six Step Combo [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] him and his two companions, they clean fur, blood, and stray metal piercings off the stage.)
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'''s version of Billy the Kid is an actual kid or early teenager, who has a good chance to hold up candy stores along with banks and is not immune to a good spanking. Despite this, townspeople are still terrified of him.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': "Dreamscaperers" had the Mystery Shack crew sitting down to watch "Grandpa the Kid", a Western about an elderly cowboy who "put the 'old' in 'Old West'."
-->'''Grandpa the Kid:''' I'm tired during the day...\\
'''Grunkle Stan:''' I can relate to this.

* The Sundance Kid, part of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
* The Apache Kid, an American outlaw of Native American descent.

* "Kid Dynamite" Mike Tyson
* MMA fighter Uriah Faber, "the California Kid"
* Kid Twist (Max Zwerback), a Jewish-American New York gangster who led the Eastman Gang in the 1900s
* Abe Reles, an infamous hitman for Murder Inc., was nicknamed after the original Kid Twist

* Superheroes: [[ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} Invisible Kid, Karate Kid, Kid Quantum]], [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica Star-Spangled Kid]], [[ComicBook/TheFlash Kid Flash]], [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Kid Eternity, Kid Devil]], [[ComicBook/XMen Kid Omega, Kid Vulcan]], Kid [[strike:Marvelman]] Comicbook/{{Miracleman}}, the [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Metropolis Kid]]...
* The Chinatown Kid is the sidekick of the cowboy hero [[ComicBook/{{Vigilante}} The Vigilante]] and a member of the ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory. He himself does not have a cowboy or western theme, being a martial artist from New York City's Chinatown.

** In the same episode Rimmer claims he knows how to talk cowboy, then orders a [[DrinkOrder dry white wine and Perrier]] at the bar. Lister asks him if the western he'd seen was ''[[Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid Butch Accountant And The Yuppie Kid]]''.

* In the film, ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFivelGoesWest''--the title character originally imagines himself as a gun-slinging hero with an already known moniker: "Billy the Kid."

* In the film, "An American Tail: Fivel Goes West"--the title character originally imagines himself as a gun-slinging hero with an already known moniker: "Billy the Kid."

* 'Kid Shelleen', a gray-haired drunk (but still a gunfighter) played by Lee Marvin in the 1965 film ''Cat Ballou''.

* The [[LongRunners long-running]] children's show ''{{Wonderama}}'' had a dance contest segment in the '70s that was introduced by "the Disco Kid," a boy in a [[Radio/TheLoneRanger Lone Ranger]] style Western costume.

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* Creator/OHenry short story "The Caballero's Way", which introduced the world to the Cisco Kid. Then there was 1928 film adaptation ''Film/InOldArizona'', starring Warner Baxter, which made the Kid a Mexican and more more of an AntiHero, rather than Henry's Anglo VillainProtagonist. That led to a BMovie series starring Cisco and his comic sidekick Pancho, as well as a television series, ''Series/TheCiscoKid'', in which the Kid was played by Duncan Renaldo.
* ''Series/AliasSmithAndJones''' Kid Curry.

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* Professional wrestlers [[Wrestling/ShawnMichaels "The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels]], [[Wrestling/SeanWaltman 1-2-3 Kid]] (later known as [[XPacHeat X-Pac]]),[[Wrestling/DynamiteKid the Dynamite Kid]], etc.
* TroperTales: HeartBurnKid and EponymousKid.
* "Kid Death" from a series of pulp short stories was a {{Gangster}} variant on this trope, so called because of his youthful appearance and the tendency of corpses to appear whenever he was around -- not all by his hand.

* Superheroes: [[ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} Invisible Kid, Karate Kid, Kid Quantum]], [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica Star-Spangled Kid]], [[ComicBook/TheFlash Kid Flash]], [[Comicbook/TeenTitans Kid Eternity, Kid Devil]], [[ComicBook/XMen Kid Omega, Kid Vulcan]], Kid [[strike:Marvelman]] Comicbook/{{Miracleman}}, the [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Metropolis Kid]]...

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* Nestle has a long-running series of ads for its white chocolate Milky Bar featuring 'the Milky Bar Kid'. [[EarWorm The Milkybar Kid is strong and tough, and only the best is good enough...]] Usually a cowboy, although there was a period in the 80s where he was a space hero.

* An episode of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' had Tommy and co. facing the playground bully known as The Junk Food Kid [[spoiler: her real name is [[IronicName Prudence]]]], because she eats pretty much only junk food.

* In ''Film/LittleBigMan'', Jack Crabb is known as the Soda Pop Kid during his "gunfighter period".

* Inverted in Creator/KarlMay's westerns (''Literature/{{Winnetou}}'', etc.). Anytime someone makes a name for themselves in the West, young or not, they get a moniker with "Old" slapped on. Old Shatterhand, Old Surehand, Old Firehand etc.
* In ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven2016'', Earl has taken to calling to calling himself 'the Two-Gun Kid'. His brother thinks its a stupid name. So does Faraday.

* ''Film/TheBalladOfBusterScruggs'': The harmonica-played cowboy who challenges Buster Scruggs for the title of best musician and gunslinger in the West is called "the Kid" in the credits.

* ''Film/TheLegendOfBusterScruggs'': The harmonica-played cowboy who challenges Buster Scruggs for the title of best musician and gunslinger in the West is called "the Kid" in the credits.

* Fee 'The Kid' Herod of ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead''
* The titular character from ''TheDurangoKid'', played by Charles Starrett. Between 1940 and 1952, there were 64 movies made featuring the Durango Kid.

** Also the name of a 1985 song by [[http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Restless_Heart Restless Heart]] actually called Back To (The Heartbreak Kid)

* Superheroes: [[ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} Invisible Kid, Karate Kid, Kid Quantum]], [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica Star-Spangled Kid]], [[ComicBook/TheFlash Kid Flash]], [[Comicbook/TeenTitans Kid Eternity, Kid Devil]], [[ComicBook/XMen Kid Omega, Kid Vulcan]], Kid [[strike:Marvelman]] Comicbook/{{Miracleman}}...