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* In ''Fanfic/AvengersInfiniteWars'', when the Peter Parker of the fic's main reality (who has spent over a year fighting in the Clone Wars and bonded with a symbiote) becomes part of the events of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', he basically becomes the leader of the assembled group of Spider-People despite Peter B and Noir being adults, as his experience with the Avengers has given him a broader range of experience and skills compared to most Spiders (another alternate Peter depicted is a Jedi with spider-powers, but he has less explicit experience than Peter).
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Royalty fall under AChildShallLeadThem, while corporate versions are the GradeSchoolCEO. If a young leader (royal or otherwise) has established or expanded an empire, that's a YoungConqueror. If there are no adults, it's a TeenageWasteland.

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Royalty fall under AChildShallLeadThem, while corporate versions are the GradeSchoolCEO. If a young leader (royal or otherwise) has established or expanded an empire, that's a YoungConqueror. A teacher in this position is PeerAsTeacher. If there are no adults, it's a TeenageWasteland.
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* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has a 16 years old sub-Viceroy in season 1... A Viceroy as old as this in season 2... Someone who tells Zero he doesn't mind him being a student... Should we speak about empress of China? [[spoiler: Or Emperor Lelouch? Empress Nunnally?]]

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* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has a 16 years old sub-Viceroy in season 1... A Viceroy as old as this in season 2... Someone who tells Zero he doesn't mind him being a student... Should we speak about empress of China? [[spoiler: Or [[Characters/CodeGeassLelouchLamperouge Emperor Lelouch? Lelouch?]] Empress Nunnally?]]
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* In ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'', when Trevor and Phoebe Spengler learn that their grandfather was one of the original Ghostbusters, Phoebe's scientific interests lead to her basically being the unofficial leader of the new team in Summerville as they [[spoiler:fight to stop Gozer reawakening]].

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* Kim Jong Un took over as the dictator of UsefulNotes/NorthKorea after the death of his father in 2011; according to domestic sources, he was less than a month shy of his thirtieth birthday at the time,[[note]]Other sources claim that he was born up to two years later.[[/note]] making Jong Un the current world's youngest state leader.
* The 2011 Canadian federal election saw many ridings that had traditionally voted Liberal or Bloc Québécois change over to voting NDP (the so-called "Orange Crush" had the NDP gaining a net sixty-seven seats from the last election, in 2008). It's fairly common practice to field younger, less experienced candidates in ridings where they're not expected to win, and apparently even the New Democrats themselves were a bit surprised by how many of their new [=MPs=] weren't even thirty when they took their seats (when after the previous election in 2008, they'd had only one new MP younger than thirty). The riding of Sherbrooke elected the first ever teenage MP in Canadian history, NDP candidate Pierre-Luc Dusseault, who noted later that he had planned to work at a local golf course for his summer job. (Dusseault had his twentieth birthday days before the 41st Parliament was called.)
** In another example of this trope from the opposite end of the political spectrum that same year, Andrew Scheer (who himself had been a Conservative Party MP since 2004, when he was twenty-five) was elected speaker of the House of Commons less than two weeks after his thirty-second birthday. Although Scheer lost the speakership with the Conservative government's defeat in 2015, he would play the trope straight again by getting elected leader of his party one week after his thirty-eighth birthday in 2017.

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* Kim Jong Un took over as the dictator of UsefulNotes/NorthKorea after the death of his father in 2011; according to domestic sources, he was less than a month shy of his thirtieth birthday at the time,[[note]]Other sources claim that he was born up to either one or two years later.[[/note]] making Jong Un the current world's youngest state leader.
* The 2011 Canadian federal election saw many ridings that had traditionally voted Liberal or Bloc Québécois change over to voting NDP (the so-called "Orange Crush" had the NDP gaining a net sixty-seven seats from the last election, in 2008). It's fairly common practice to field younger, less experienced candidates in ridings where they're not expected to win, and apparently even the New Democrats themselves were a bit surprised by how many of their new [=MPs=] weren't even thirty when they took their seats (when after the previous election in 2008, they'd had (whereas only one new NDP MP younger than thirty).thirty had gotten elected in 2008). The riding of Sherbrooke elected the first ever teenage MP in Canadian history, NDP candidate Pierre-Luc Dusseault, who noted later that he had planned to work at a local golf course for his summer job. (Dusseault had his twentieth birthday days before the 41st Parliament was called.)
** In another example of this trope from the opposite end of the political spectrum that same year, Andrew Scheer (who himself had been a Conservative Party MP since 2004, when he was twenty-five) was elected speaker -- that is, final authority -- of the House of Commons less than two weeks after his thirty-second birthday. Although Scheer lost the speakership with the Conservative government's defeat in 2015, he would play the trope straight again by getting elected leader of his party one week after his thirty-eighth birthday in 2017.



** Two years later in the other major party, 25-year-old Madison Cawthorn, a real estate firm owner from North Carolina, defeated army veteran Moe Davis in a bid to represent the state's 11th District. Taking office just 5 months older than the cutoff age, he was the youngest serving politician to have a seat in a major office in the United States government. However, he lost his primary come the following election and only served one term in the House.

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** Two years later in the other major party, 25-year-old Madison Cawthorn, a real estate firm owner from North Carolina, defeated army veteran Moe Davis in a bid to represent the state's 11th District. Taking office just 5 five months older than the cutoff age, he was the youngest serving politician to have a seat in a major office in the United States government. However, he lost his primary come the following election and only served one term in the House.House.
* UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev was a relative example of this when he became the leader of [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn the Soviet Union]] in 1985. Being 54 years old at the time, he was not young as such, but he was the youngest member of the Politburo.
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* UsefulNotes/JoeBiden was elected to the Senate a few weeks before his 30th birthday; 30 is the minimum age to serve in the Senate (Biden's birthday occurred between the election and the start of his term). Shortly after he took his seat Henry Kissinger mistook him for a staffer.
* UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy and UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson were 29 and 28 years old respectively when they were first elected to the House of Representatives and the former was mistaken for an elevator officer multiple times early on in his career.

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* UsefulNotes/JoeBiden was elected to the US Senate a few weeks thirteen days before his 30th birthday; 30 is the minimum age to serve in the Senate (Biden's birthday occurred between the election and the start of his term). Senate. Shortly after he took his seat Henry Kissinger seat, UsefulNotes/HenryKissinger mistook him for a staffer.
* UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy and UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson were 29 and 28 years old respectively when they were first elected to the House of Representatives and the former Representatives. Kennedy was mistaken for an elevator officer multiple times early on in his career.



** UsefulNotes/LouisXVI was 20 years old when he became King, 34 when the Revolution started and 38 when he died. Georges Danton and Camille Desmoullins were in their early 30s. UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre was 36 when he died. Louis Antoine de Saint-Just was 25 when he made his political debut and 27 when he died.

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** UsefulNotes/LouisXVI was 20 years old when he became King, 34 when the Revolution started and 38 when he died.was killed. Georges Danton and Camille Desmoullins were in their early 30s. UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre was 36 when he died. was killed. Louis Antoine de Saint-Just was 25 when he made his political debut and 27 26 when he died.was killed.



** UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte was 26 and lacking experience as a commander-in-chief when he was put at the head of the Army of Italy.[[note]]The other generals, in particular André Masséna and Pierre Augereau who were more than ten years his seniors and already had a well-established reputation, did not appreciate being put under the orders of a "boy" like him, but they were soon forced to acknowledge that he was not half-bad himself.[[/note]] He became Emperor at the age of 33.
* UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi took control of Libya through a coup d'état in 1969 when he was around 27 (his birthdate is unclear).
* Thirty-two-year-old Kim Jong-Un took over as the dictator of North Korea after the death of his father in 2011, making Jong-Un the current world's youngest state leader.
* The 2011 Canadian federal election saw many ridings that had traditionally voted Liberal or Bloc Québécois change over to voting NDP (the so-called "Orange Crush" had the NDP gaining a net sixty-seven seats from the last election, in 2008). It's fairly common practice to run younger, less experienced candidates in ridings where they're not expected to win, and apparently even the New Democrats themselves were a bit surprised by how many of their new [=MPs=] weren't even thirty when they took their seats. The riding of Sherbrooke elected the first ever teenage MP in Canadian history, NDP candidate Pierre-Luc Dusseault, who noted later that he had planned to work at a local golf course for his summer job. (Dusseault had his twentieth birthday days before the 41st Parliament was called.)
** In another example of this trope from the opposite end of the political spectrum that same year, Conservative Party MP Andrew Scheer was elected speaker of the House of Commons less than two weeks after his thirty-second birthday. Although Scheer lost the speakership with the Conservative government's defeat in 2015, he would play the trope straight again by getting elected leader of his party one week after his thirty-eighth birthday in 2017.

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** UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte was 26 and lacking lacked experience as a commander-in-chief when he was put at the head of the Army of Italy.[[note]]The other generals, in particular André Masséna and Pierre Augereau who were more than ten years his seniors senior and already had a well-established reputation, reputations, did not appreciate being put under the orders of a "boy" like him, but they were soon forced to acknowledge that he was not half-bad half bad himself.[[/note]] He became Emperor at the age of 33.
* UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi took control of Libya UsefulNotes/{{Libya}} through a coup d'état in 1969 when he was around 27 (his birthdate is unclear).
* Thirty-two-year-old Kim Jong-Un Jong Un took over as the dictator of North Korea UsefulNotes/NorthKorea after the death of his father in 2011, 2011; according to domestic sources, he was less than a month shy of his thirtieth birthday at the time,[[note]]Other sources claim that he was born up to two years later.[[/note]] making Jong-Un Jong Un the current world's youngest state leader.
* The 2011 Canadian federal election saw many ridings that had traditionally voted Liberal or Bloc Québécois change over to voting NDP (the so-called "Orange Crush" had the NDP gaining a net sixty-seven seats from the last election, in 2008). It's fairly common practice to run field younger, less experienced candidates in ridings where they're not expected to win, and apparently even the New Democrats themselves were a bit surprised by how many of their new [=MPs=] weren't even thirty when they took their seats.seats (when after the previous election in 2008, they'd had only one new MP younger than thirty). The riding of Sherbrooke elected the first ever teenage MP in Canadian history, NDP candidate Pierre-Luc Dusseault, who noted later that he had planned to work at a local golf course for his summer job. (Dusseault had his twentieth birthday days before the 41st Parliament was called.)
** In another example of this trope from the opposite end of the political spectrum that same year, Andrew Scheer (who himself had been a Conservative Party MP Andrew Scheer since 2004, when he was twenty-five) was elected speaker of the House of Commons less than two weeks after his thirty-second birthday. Although Scheer lost the speakership with the Conservative government's defeat in 2015, he would play the trope straight again by getting elected leader of his party one week after his thirty-eighth birthday in 2017.
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* UsefulNotes/WilliamPittTheYounger first became [[UsefulNotes/TheMenOfDowningStreet Prime Minister]] at 24.
* Compared to the American and Russian Revolutions, the generation of UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution is unique for the fact that it was run by late 20s-early-to-late-30s adults.

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* UsefulNotes/WilliamPittTheYounger first became [[UsefulNotes/TheMenOfDowningStreet Prime Minister]] at 24.
24. He died in office during his second premiership at the age of 46.
* Compared to the American and Russian Revolutions, the generation of UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution is unique for the fact that it was run by (mostly) men between their late 20s-early-to-late-30s adults. 20s and late 30s ran it.



* The 2011 Canadian federal election saw many ridings that had traditionally voted Liberal or Bloc change over to voting NDP (the so-called "Orange Crush" had the NDP gaining a net sixty-seven seats from the last election, in 2008). It's fairly common practice to run younger, less experienced candidates in ridings where they're not expected to win, and apparently even the New Democrats themselves were a bit surprised by how many of their new [=MPs=] weren't even thirty when they took their seats.

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* The 2011 Canadian federal election saw many ridings that had traditionally voted Liberal or Bloc Québécois change over to voting NDP (the so-called "Orange Crush" had the NDP gaining a net sixty-seven seats from the last election, in 2008). It's fairly common practice to run younger, less experienced candidates in ridings where they're not expected to win, and apparently even the New Democrats themselves were a bit surprised by how many of their new [=MPs=] weren't even thirty when they took their seats. The riding of Sherbrooke elected the first ever teenage MP in Canadian history, NDP candidate Pierre-Luc Dusseault, who noted later that he had planned to work at a local golf course for his summer job. (Dusseault had his twentieth birthday days before the 41st Parliament was called.)
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* ''Fanfic/GodOfWarChainsOfTheHeart'': Despite only being, at most, 19 or 20, Skjöldr's been named the leader of his village and is quickly growing to become one of the primary leaders of Midgard in the aftermath of Ragnarök. According to him, it's due to his close friendships with gods and Jötnar, making him a natural spokesperson for his people. Freya also notes that, despite his youth, he has a strong charisma alongside a genuine talent for leadership.

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* 32-year old Kim Jong-Un took over as the dictator of North Korea after the death of his father in 2011, making Jong-Un the current world's youngest state leader
* The 2011 Canadian federal election saw a huge number of ridings that had traditionally voted Liberal or Bloc change over to voting NDP (the so-called "Orange Crush"). It's fairly common practice to run younger, less experienced candidates in ridings where they're not expected to win, and apparently even the New Democrats themselves were a bit surprised by how many of their new [=MPs=] weren't even thirty when they took their seats.
* In 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a 28-year-old bartender and waitress, just four years above the minimum age to run for Congress (she was 29 when she took office), when she scored a major upset victory in the Democratic Party primary against Joe Crowley, who represented New York's 14th Congressional District and was considered one of the leading figures in the party. The fact of her age, combined with her upset of Crowley and her reputation as a left-wing populist firebrand, made her one of the most high-profile figures in the Democratic Party even before the ForegoneConclusion that was the actual election (New York's 14th being stridently Democratic-leaning), and was immediately seen as the ''de facto'' leader of a group of four newly-elected left-wing Congresswomen known as "the Squad" even though she was the youngest of them by seven years.
* Two years later in the other major party, 25-year-old Madison Cawthorn, a real estate firm owner from North Carolina, defeated army veteran Moe Davis in a bid to represent the state's 11th District. Taking office just 5 months older than the cutoff age, he was the youngest serving politician to have a seat in a major office in the United States Government. However, he lost his primary come the following election and only served one term in the House.

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* The 2011 Canadian federal election saw a huge number of many ridings that had traditionally voted Liberal or Bloc change over to voting NDP (the so-called "Orange Crush"). Crush" had the NDP gaining a net sixty-seven seats from the last election, in 2008). It's fairly common practice to run younger, less experienced candidates in ridings where they're not expected to win, and apparently even the New Democrats themselves were a bit surprised by how many of their new [=MPs=] weren't even thirty when they took their seats.
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** In another example of this trope from the opposite end of the political spectrum that same year, Conservative Party MP Andrew Scheer was elected speaker of the House of Commons less than two weeks after his thirty-second birthday. Although Scheer lost the speakership with the Conservative government's defeat in 2015, he would play the trope straight again by getting elected leader of his party one week after his thirty-eighth birthday in 2017.
* In 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a 28-year-old bartender and waitress, just four years above the minimum age to run for the United States Congress (she was 29 when she took office), when she scored a major upset victory in the Democratic Party primary against Joe Crowley, who represented New York's 14th Congressional District and was considered one of the leading figures in the party. The fact of her age, combined with her upset of Crowley and her reputation as a left-wing populist firebrand, made her one of the most high-profile figures in the Democratic Party even before the ForegoneConclusion that was the actual election (New York's 14th being stridently Democratic-leaning), and was immediately seen as the ''de facto'' leader of a group of four newly-elected left-wing Congresswomen known as "the Squad" even though she was the youngest of them by seven years.
* ** Two years later in the other major party, 25-year-old Madison Cawthorn, a real estate firm owner from North Carolina, defeated army veteran Moe Davis in a bid to represent the state's 11th District. Taking office just 5 months older than the cutoff age, he was the youngest serving politician to have a seat in a major office in the United States Government.government. However, he lost his primary come the following election and only served one term in the House.

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** ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'': Downplayed trope, but to rise to Governor of Tokyo at age 42 the way Ryo Aoki did is quite a feat.

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** ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'': Downplayed trope, but to rise to Governor of Tokyo at age 42 the way Ryo Aoki did is quite a feat. This was one of his strengths due to being younger and more charismatic than the typical elder statesmen of Japan.

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** ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'': Downplayed trope, but to rise to Governor of Tokyo at age 42 the way Ryo Aoki did is quite a feat.
** Daigo Dojima became [[TheDon Chairman of the Tojo Clan]] at the age of 30. In ''Like a Dragon'', he's actually the same age as Ichiban and Aoki.



* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'': Downplayed trope, but to rise to Governor of Tokyo at age 42 the way Ryo Aoki did is quite a feat.
** In the main series, Daigo Dojima became [[TheDon Chairman of the Tojo Clan]] at the age of 30. In ''Like a Dragon'', he's actually the same age as Ichiban and Aoki.
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* ''Fanfic/SpiderManFindingHome'' sees Peter post-''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' meet and form a polyamorous relationship with Kate Bishop, Yelena Belova, [[spoiler:Felicia Hardy and Shuri]], as well as forming a new team as they investigate various crimes in New York. However, it takes until Chapter 33 for Peter to realise that he's basically the team leader even if Yelena's the more experienced one, Felicia observing that Peter's the one best suited to keep them all focused for reasons beyond him being the core of the relationship.

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* ''Fanfic/SpiderManFindingHome'' sees Peter post-''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' meet and form a polyamorous relationship with Kate Bishop, Yelena Belova, [[spoiler:Felicia Hardy and Shuri]], as well as forming a new team as they investigate various crimes in New York. However, it takes until Chapter 33 for Peter to realise that he's basically the team leader even if Yelena's the more experienced one, Felicia [[spoiler:Felicia]] observing that Peter's the one best suited to keep them all focused for reasons beyond him being the core of the relationship.
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* In ''VideoGame/DarkChronicle'', the head researcher at Lunatic Wisdom Laboratory in Monica's time is Dr. Nobb, who looks to be about ten years old. According to him, Luna Lab is a strict meritocracy, where brainpower trumps age.
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* Two years later in the other major party, 25-year-old Madison Cawthorn, a real estate firm owner from North Carolina, defeated army veteran Moe Davis in a bid to represent the state's 11th District. Taking office just 5 months older than the cutoff age, he is currently the youngest serving politician to have a seat in a major office in the United States Government.

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* Two years later in the other major party, 25-year-old Madison Cawthorn, a real estate firm owner from North Carolina, defeated army veteran Moe Davis in a bid to represent the state's 11th District. Taking office just 5 months older than the cutoff age, he is currently was the youngest serving politician to have a seat in a major office in the United States Government.Government. However, he lost his primary come the following election and only served one term in the House.
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Royalty fall under AChildShallLeadThem, while corporate versions are the GradeSchoolCEO. If a young leader (royal or otherwise) has established or expanded an empire, that’s a YoungConqueror. If there are no adults, it's a TeenageWasteland.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersGenerationOne:'' Hot Rod, upon becoming Rodimus Prime. Exact age is unclear, but Hot Rod is clearly quite young by Cybertronian standards, and even the burst of maturity that comes of becoming Prime doesn't exactly temper his brash nature. There's also the crushing responsibility of the role ''and'' the burden of having to replace Optimus Prime.

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* In ''Anime/{{K}}: Missing Kings'', [[spoiler: 12-year-old Anna Kushina becomes the new Red King and leader of the infamous urban gang HOMRA]].
** This applies to the 24-year-old Munakata, the Blue King, as well - even though he's an adult, he has power over just about everything in the government, and the Prime Minister resents him for this at his age.

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* In ''Anime/{{K}}: Missing Kings'', [[spoiler: 12-year-old Anna Kushina becomes the new Red King and leader of the infamous urban gang HOMRA]].
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** This applies to the The 24-year-old Munakata, the Blue King, as well - even King. Even though he's an adult, he has power over just about everything in the government, and the Prime Minister resents him for this at his age.age.
** In TheMovie ''Anime/KMissingKings'', [[spoiler: 12-year-old Anna Kushina becomes the new Red King and leader of the infamous urban gang HOMRA]].

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