Should I add Jack Spicer from Xiaolin Showdown, or is he too old for this trope?
I restored the deleted folders with examples, I found them in the history, they were deleted by a vandal whose page was cut already.
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Meme Overlord
Is this supposed to be a Metal Gear Solid joke or was enfant terrible already a term?
spicy boi
The usage of the term enfant terrible seems to mean something different in English than what I am used to. On the tropes page it referred to a psychotic evil child. Is that what it normally refers to in English speaking countries? Or is just used like that as trope? I don't know how the term is used in the original French, in German it is used as to describe someone who does extraordinary things in his field of activity but is shocking and provoking the guys who go about things in a kind of old-established fashion. He or She may revolutionize the whole thing. For example Mozart is called the enfant terrible of music of his time.
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An enfant terrible is a narcissistic younger person that knowingly dabbles in the taboo. He/she is not malicious- just egocentric.
Then why are using this preexisting term to describe something very different?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Do these children have to be murderers to count? From what I see, all the examples feature children who have committed murder.