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Badass and Child Duo

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Badass and Child Duo	comment	The Badass and Child Duo occurs when a badass takes it upon themselves, out of goodness, interest, or circumstances beyond their control, to protect a young kid (typically an unrelated orphan). The trope is also known as the Lone Wolf and Cub, named after the 1970s Manga series Lone Wolf and Cub, the Ur-Example and Trope Maker. The Badass and Child Duo is made up of two parts: The Badass is a jaded, magnificent strong silent type, and very often male Anti-Hero with a Dark and Troubled Past, age anywhere between their mid-twenties to mid-forties. They will generally be a Jerkass or very serious and stoic in personality. Even if they have a more sensitive side, they will not talk about their emotions, their past or what bothers them if they can help it. They are brutally practical and Street Smart, cynical, but they will still hold the hope for a more idealistic world somewhere in their heart, even if on the surface they deny its existence. In combat they are always a veteran and they will be a One-Man Army, usually well known in-universe, often with a badass nickname to match. Easily able to mow down dozens of Mooks, one after another without too much effort, their dangerous reputation is sometimes the cause of half the problems the two face, as at least some of their opponents will be there to defeat them, rather than snatch away the child they're protecting. The Badass often sees the child as a Morality Pet, as a way to atone for his past, or as a Replacement Goldfish for a deceased child that they've lost. It's not uncommon for him to perform a Heroic Sacrifice in order to protect the child. The Child is a Hero, who is very often female, some age between infant and preteen, who has been orphaned in the dangerous world these two very different people are trying to survive in. Either the child's proximity to the Badass will constantly bring them into dangerous situations, or the Child themself is valuable for some other reason and will have one or more organizations vying to attain them, usually to exploit them in some way that is immoral. It is not uncommon for the child to be supernatural or otherwise special in some way to justify this. If very young the child may not have much of an actual personality, but if a little older they will usually be The Pollyanna, with a smile on their face despite their circumstances. They will trust the Badass completely and insist upon his goodness even with complete knowledge, and sometimes even acceptance or approval, of the violence they have done to protect them. The Child will at least begin as a Non-Action Kid, on the sidelines, not involved in battles at all, perhaps not even present if the badass can find a safe place to stow them for the length of it, though it's also not uncommon for them to develop powers or abilities as they remain in contact with The Badass, especially if they are older, which allows them to participate in combat. The Badass and The Child are nearly always Walking the Earth, either trying to defeat whatever organization is after The Child, to get out of whatever horrible place they are in, or to carry out some revenge. If they are not the main characters, their meeting will have taken place off-screen before the story even started. If main characters, their meeting will take place very early in the story, and their relationship will develop almost instantly into a Promotion to Parent Papa Wolf (or Mama Bear if the Badass is female) or Big Brother Instinct and an adopted child/sibling. Assuming heterogeneous genders, if the child is a little older (neonate-age) the child may develop a Precocious Crush which is usually not returned (although in the future it may be). Gender inverted versions and same-gendered version occur, but the pure version is the most common. This is probably because of their effectiveness at being foils of one another. Women and girls are generally expected to be physically weaker and "purer" than men and boys, and as a youth or child, the vulnerability given off to the audience is enhanced. This juxtaposed with the adult, physically strong man who is in some way broken by his dark past of terrible sins, is a potent contrast. Please don't mistake this trope for Papa Wolf or Mama Bear. To see the differences, please refer to the Analysis page. Compare Papa Wolf, Promotion to Parent, Morality Pet, Shoulder Teammate, Little Guy, Big Buddy and Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl. Also is a type of Odd Couple. If the show primarily focuses on the badass hero actually looking after the child then it's a child care and babysitting story. Not to be confused with Badass and Baby, when a hero fights while holding a baby, usually to underscore how badass and heroic he is.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_11bb70c9	comment	Mirai SMP: Ryan forms one half of this with Ty after crashing into his room, as the badass to Ty's child. Ty quickly makes sure that Ryan gets medical attention and them insists that he lets him help him, which Ryan is apprehensive about, but unable to convince him to change his mind.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_11d34cb7	comment	El Cazador de la Bruja has two such duos: one is the main couple, Nadie and Ellis (at least until the latter learns to use her magic effectively); the other is Ricardo and Lirio, whose similarities to Lone Wolf and Cub are lampshaded early on. First is a same gendered pairing, the second is a pure example.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_1331990c	comment	In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, it is ultimately revealed that Homura and Madoka have a fundamentally similar dynamic, though Homura is more subtle (and oblique) than most in her efforts at protection.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_136469af	comment	Pact has Blake Thorburn and Evan Matthieu, a diabolist and an Undead Child, who team up after Blake saves Evan's ghost from the monster that killed him in the first place. Evan is symbolic of the sort of good that Blake wants to do as a Small Steps Hero, and becomes Blake's Familiar, gaining the ability to turn into a bird.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_1377df	comment	Terminator 2: Judgment Day has the eponymous robot, which we previously saw as an unstoppable nemesis in The Terminator, become the very capable protector of a young boy who is humanity's last hope against the machines from the future. The backstory in Terminator Genisys, as the Guardian (aka "Pops") has raised Sarah Connor since the age of nine after her parents were killed by another Terminator. A flashback scene shows a child Sarah being carried off by the Guardian, who is also carrying an RPG-7 rocket launcher over the other shoulder.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_16724165	comment	An all-female example features in The Land of What Might-Have-Been when a chain of events leads to Elphaba and Dorothy being stuck together alone after being trapped in an alternate future version of Oz, Elphaba protecting Dorothy from the threat of the twisted Hellion and starting a chain of events that lead to them forgiving each other for their past interactions.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_16cfb2e5	comment	The second book of The Witchlands briefly plays this out when One-Man Army Aeduen takes it upon himself to rescue a little girl, Owl, from a warzone. Of course, it turns out that Owl can summon earthquakes at will and has a pet dragon-by-any-other-name, so jury's out on who's the badass in the relationship.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_170c798f	comment	In God's Gun, Lewis is summoned to town by a young boy named Johnny, who accompanies him on his vengeance quest.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_1ab9ad1d	comment	Killzone Mercenary: the fifth level has Arran Danner, a hardened mercenary, tasked with escorting Justus Harkin, the son of the Vektan ambassador to Helghan, after the Helghast kill his parents. You escort him again in the final level since both Kratek and Benoit are trying to get their hands on him.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_1b7f85df	comment	K has the Red King Mikoto, and his (more or less) adoptive daughter/little sister Anna, whom he's rarely seen without.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Cable and Hope Summers for about 15 years, starting out as a Badass and Baby. Which gave us the rare spectacle of a grizzled middle-aged warrior winning a brutal gun battle, then changing his partner's nappy.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Has the pair of Kenpachi Zaraki, who found the baby-aged Yachiru Kusajishi when he was a nameless murderer in the most lawless, dangerous areas of Rukongai, and took her in. Yachiru is rather unusual for a child of this type of duo, since during the story's present day, at a (seeming) age of about eight, she's become a Killer Rabbit and is well on her way to becoming at least as badass as Kenpachi. Turns out that Yachiru is actually Kenpachi's zanpakuto's manifestation. Ichigo looked after Nel throughout the Arrancar arc. This paid off when it turned out she was an amnesiac former Arrancar stuck in Sleep-Mode Size. The Sword Beasts arc had Hisagi's sociopathic (to the point that it was still trying to kill him after despite no longer being controlled by the previous arc's Big Bad) zanpakuto Kazeshini looking after a child whose father was killed in an attack. The experience leads him to surrender to Hisagi.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_1d43953c	comment	Usagi Yojimbo: The series has an incredibly creepy version with Jei and his young ward Keiko, who started following Jei around after he killed the bandits who murdered her grandfather. The fact that Jei is a murderous demon who leaves a trail of corpses everywhere he goes seems to bother Keiko not at all — those people were evil, after all, and he does protect her.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_1d6f193a	comment	Tales of Berseria has this dynamic with both Velvet and Eleanor as the badass with Laphicet as the child. Velvet was the first one to take care of Laphicet while Eleanor has a contract with the latter. Both will gut their enemies if anything happens to Laphicet.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_1d88b9dd	comment	Shut Hell has badass antihero Harabal and young orphan girl Melumi working together near the end of the story. They meet when she tries to snipe him with fire arrows, after being left to fend for herself after various earlier plot events.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_1e3b270	comment	Darkstalkers has two examples: Donovan Baine, a reluctant Dhampyr who hunts other monsters, and Anita, an Emotionless Girl with psychic powers. Huitzil, an ancient robot created by aliens, and Cecil, a lost little boy that was turned into Huitzil's target of protection thanks to a glitch.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_205aa811	comment	In Dororo, the title character and protagonist Hyakkimaru form this relationship. Hyakkimaru is the battle-hardened badass swordsman, while Dororo is the spunky and determined child that travels with him.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_22d74b2e	comment	Redwall: Thrugg and Dumble from Salamandastron qualify as this, although Dumble can be pretty badass himself, for his age.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_22f7b306	comment	Prospect: Ezra and Cee become this over time, since he's a hardened prospector experienced with the local environment, while she's just a child, even if a determined one. They swap their respective roles after Cee has to improvise the amputation of Ezra's arm, rendering him mostly harmless, while she has to step up into the badass role.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_2664f44a	comment	The Like a Dragon series has consummate ex-yakuza badass Kazuma Kiryu and his adorable adoptive daughter Haruka ever since the first game. In the Grand Finale of Kiryu's storyline, Yakuza 6, Kiryu takes Haruka's infant son Haruto on his quest to find out what led to the accident that put Haruka in a coma.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_27b84429	comment	The Last of Us: An age-shifted example, with jaded late-middle-aged survivor Joel and fould-mouth teenage Ellie, making their way across the post-apocalyptic United States twenty years after a fungal Zombie Apocalypse. As fitting the trope, Ellie is The Immune, who was bitten by an Infected but didn't turn.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_2a15962e	comment	This trope is the entire concept of Beelzebub. The Badass is an egotistical, comically cruel, stupid, insanely powerful troublemaker, often regarded as the strongest delinquent in a school with a 120% delinquency rate. The Child is a demon, but not just a demon, he's the prince of hell himself, and must be raised by a human in order to destroy all humanity. Doesn't really seem to make sense when you think about it, but that's probably because the Demon Lord who thought of it has a few screws loose.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_2d186a5d	comment	Moonrise allows the powerful Player Character to fulfill this trope by forming a Family of Choice with Alice, a young werewolf with a Dark and Troubled Past who wants to be protected from the world's troubles.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto has Zabuza and Haku. Haku's mother was killed by his own father and fellow villagers after learning that the woman and child he supposedly loved were inheritors of a bloodline limit that was used extensively in the previous Ninja War. Orphaned and alone, Zabuza picked up Haku for his special powers. The two became a murderous duo, with Haku willingly becoming Zabuza's "tool" to serve his purposes. Though Haku made it a part of his character never to kill anyone outright, preferring to incapacitate them instead. In the end, when Haku sacrificed his life to save Zabuza, Naruto caused the ex-Mist ninja to admit that yes, he did have a soft spot for the poor kid. Zabuza then ends up doing a Heelâ€“Face Turn just minutes before death.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_3ccd5d87	comment	The Fall of Deadworld, Judge Fairfax takes it upon himself to protect Jess after her entire family has been murdered by the Dark Judges and their acolytes.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_3e374b30	comment	The Dark Knight Rises gives us this trope in flashback. Ra's Al Ghul's child is born in a Hell Hole Prison; the mother is killed by some other prisoners, but one swears to protect the child. It's eventually revealed that that child grew up to be Miranda Tate, real name Talia, and her champion was — and still is — the Big Bad mercenary Bane.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_3e6efd69	comment	In the Prequel series of Tales of Dunk and Egg, we have Ser Duncan the Tall and his very young Squire, Egg.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_41b0198a	comment	"The Archive" and her bodyguard Kincaid from The Dresden Files. Played with the twist that Ivy, though physically a child, has the experience and magical power to curb stomp your average badass without breaking stride.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_4c746380	comment	Inuyasha: Sesshoumaru and Rin fit this trope to perfection. She is the orphaned, troubled young human girl who approaches the wounded taiyoukai with a smile. He is the taciturn, Handicapped Badass Aloof Big Brother who acts like he barely tolerates her presence. Yet he's willing to literally storm Hell itself to rescue her.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_4d1ba412	comment	The Adventures of Dr. McNinja has the eponymous doctor and his young 12-year-old sidekick Gordito. Keeping with the nature of the comic, Gordito not only fights incredibly well with dual revolvers, but also GREW AN EPIC MUSTACHE ON HIS FACE THROUGH SHEER FORCE OF WILL, even before his first appearance. He also learns how to ride a velociraptor.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_55c5a085	comment	Mazinger Z: Kouji Kabuto and his little brother Shiro. Since their parents' death — supposed death in the case of their father — he had been playing Parental Substitute for Shiro, even if their grandfather was their guardian. After their grandfather's murder, Shiro was the only family Kouji had left and vice-versa (as far as they knew). And even if they often drive each other crazy (due to Shiro using common sense to explain his brother the stunt he tried to pull was dumb, or Kouji making something stupid or being a jerk), if you want to get Shiro, you WILL have to go through Kouji first. A Hot-Blooded badass perfectly capable to hold his own on a fight and pilots a Humongous Mecha. Get your will ready only in case.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Soul Eater has a Badass Normal Samurai named Mifune who loves children and protects a child witch named Angela and in the manga, he pays for it with his life.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_6365ff3a	comment	Dragon Quest V: The game starts off with the protagonist being a child who follows his father on a quest. Later in the game, the protagonist grows up and has his own children who follow him on his quest.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_6b2d14ff	comment	Bruce Willis's character in Mercury Rising, who becomes the protector of a 9-year-old autistic boy who cracked one of the NSA's most difficult-to-break codes from an assassin sent by one of its creators to kill him.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	Jackie Chan Adventures: The title character and his preteen niece Jade Chan are this due to the latter's tendency to tag along in adventures. Another character, El Toro Fuerte, has a similar relationship with his biggest fan, Paco.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk gets a lot of mileage out of this trope: Guts is a grizzled and stoic badass, who failed to protect someone before and is out for revenge. Jill in the Lost Children Chapter is an early adolescent in constant danger whose parents, while living, cannot or will not protect her. Jill follows him around as he goes to hunt Rosine, her childhood friend-turned-monster. Even though he tries to scare her away for her own safety, she trusts him completely and stubbornly believes in his inner goodness. Since he parted ways with Jill, he had a similar dynamic with Casca, who although not a child had regressed to a broken state of mind as a result of her Eclipse (and Femto) induced trauma. He had to constantly protect her from wandering off, and like Jill she functioned as his Morality Pet before the Beast of Darkness put a rift between them and he was joined by other companions to help him care for her. In the camp of Griffith's new Band of the Hawk, Sonia would like to have this kind of relationship with Griffith, but of late, seems to have developed it with an Apostle named Irvine.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_70b26f38	comment	Fate/strange Fake teams the ungodly powerful Gilgamesh up with a 12-year-old Master, Tine. It then goes to point out that Gilgamesh is surprisingly compatible with children in general — not because they provoke some sort of fatherly instinct in him, but because only children are capable of completely buying into his self-aggrandizing nonsense for very long.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_7785278d	comment	The BioShock games have this in various forms. The Big Daddies and the Little Sisters, Elizabeth and Booker, and Elizabeth and Songbird (though the last one is rather an abusive relationship).
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Badass and Child Duo / int_787c928	comment	Spaceships and Psychics: The stars of the Actual Play Ironsworn: Starforged campaign are Eren Finn (the Badass) and Anvil (the Child). Played with, as Anvil is a young Artificial Intelligence inside of a Cute Machine, but that doesn't stop Eren from still being such a Mama Bear that she went rogue from her Knight Templar employers to protect them instead of eliminating them for being an illegal AI, outright referring to Anvil as a child. In terms of gameplay, Anvil is a Utility Bot companion while Eren herself is a Gunslinger, relegating the former to assisting with technical know-how while the latter does all of the combat.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_7a7a1a86	comment	A same-gendered female example in Ripley of Aliens. You only have to look at the theatrical release poster to realize it's this trope.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: In Batman: No Man's Land, one interlude in the second issue features the formation of such a duo. When a mugger tries to rob an orphaned young trader, he's interrupted by an archer who offers to protect the kid in exchange for half of his trading profits. The two then walk away, talking about how the kid can use his small size to get into hard-to-reach scavenging locations.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_7f2f55ad	comment	The Punisher MAX: The Mother Russia arc has Frank tasked with retrieving a little girl whose blood contains a bioengineered virus that's temporarily neutralized from a Russian missile silo. One of the soldiers sent to stop Frank has him on the ropes before making the mistake of hitting the girl right under Frank's eyes. When it turns out the plan was to save the virus at the cost of killing the girl Frank makes it clear the cabal of U.S. generals behind the whole thing isn't getting the virus. The platoon of soldiers ordered to shoot Frank is already hesitant to do so, but put down their weapons when Nick Fury makes it clear he's with Frank on this one.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_7fb63996	comment	The Fifth Season seems to be setting this up with Essun and Hoa: She meets him on the road as the titular disaster begins, right after she's blasted her way past everyone in the town of Tirimo who tried to kill her, and he appears to be a harmless & clueless kid. But then they are attacked by what are effectively feral dogs, one of which tries to bite Hoa's arm, and he reaches down its throat and rips its head off.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_884c7526	comment	Savage Dragon: The titular character had elements of this when he had an adopted daughter.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_8b2d4580	comment	Subverted in The Prince of Tennis. You'd swear that Taichi Dan and Jin Akutsu are a teenaged, same-gender version... but their actual age difference is only of 2/3 years. (Dan is 12-13, Akutsu is 15)
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Badass and Child Duo / int_8e01bfe1	comment	In ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights, the game starts with the Umbral Knight escorting the helpless Lily across the ruined kingdom inhabited by the Blighted and she relies heavily on him to do the fighting on her behalf. Even as Lily gains more Spirits, the Umbral Knight is usually the first to appear to defend her.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_91ecd9c8	comment	The Bridge (MLP) gives us Godzilla Junior, who has grown up since the 1990s as the new King of the Monsters and a resident Big Good protecting Terra and then later Equestria and Mariner Chibi Moon, an 11-year-old Canterlot Magic School student who was present when Junior helped save Canterlot from the gyaos attack. Chibi sees him admirably given her own perchant for destructive magic, seeing his benign monstrous power as a model to look to for Bad Powers, Good People. Initially put off by someone wanting to be like him, later on Junior warms up to her and realizes she's a lot like himself when he was younger, so he takes her on as an apprentice. Subversion on normal formula as Chibi's parents are alive and well, but in a different country while she's in Equestria for schooling.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_95bd5a8e	comment	Dishonored features Corvo Attano, the assassin protagonist, and Emily Kaldwin, the heir to the throne. Corvo's job was to protect Emily's mother, and he failed, so he transferred his loyalty to Emily herself, who sees Corvo as a Parental Substitute for her unmentioned father. (Whether or not Corvo is actually Emily's father is left to the player.) At least, until the sequel.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_989c4b1e	comment	Dennis Quaid's character in Savior goes to every length to protect and take care of a newborn girl.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_99782d26	comment	lie in reverse: Teen Sasuke came from right before the Fourth Shinobi War, so he has his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, two animal summons, and his Lightning Release techniques almost perfected, amongst other things. So he can easily overpower the Third Hokage, Danzo, Kakashi, and rampaging tailed-beasts. Preteen Sasuke is, at this point, a measly genin. A very talented one, of course, but one that doesn't hold a candle to his older self. So, with teen Sasuke protecting and training him, the two of them have this kind of dynamic.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_99d4fcd4	comment	Sweet Tooth: Jepperd and Gus — Jepperd's a violent former hockey player in the post-apocalyptic future, a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who befriend the mutant boy Gus, promising to take him safely to a preserve for human-animal hybrids.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Bob's Burgers: Bob and Louise are fans of a Show Within a Show called "Hawk and Chick", a series of samurai movies about a wandering barber and his daughter who moonlight as monster hunters in feudal Japan.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_9d34d97	comment	In Team Starkid's musical Starship, Up and Taz fit this Trope. We're given a list of times when Up has saved her (that was tough!), and at one point he goes so far as to let the giant mosquitos that were sucking her dry drink his blood instead. In case there was any doubt of his badassness, he kills the mosquitos by making his heart beat so fast that they explode from the extra pressure. Worth noting that this is Inverted at the start of the musical: Taz has grown up into a boastful Vazquez-like Ladette, while Up has regressed into a PTSD-ridden Manchild that has to rely on Taz to remind him of his past courage.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_9de007d3	comment	Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Likely the inspiration for a blinded Sheldon Sands hooking up with a Mexican street kid to shoot some mooks — though we'll have to wait for a sequel to see if there's a full realisation of this trope.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_9f19f7b1	comment	Lone Wolf and Cub (1970-1976) is the Ur-Example and Trope Maker. The child in this case is the Badass warrior's baby son.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_ae5269df	comment	Lone Wolf and Cub, a 1970s Japanese film series adapted from the manga of the same name. Like the original manga series, the film series is the earliest example of this trope in cinema.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_b30ae4db	comment	Halfway through Season 3 of Game of Thrones Sandor Clegane (aka "The Hound") kidnaps Tomboy Princess Arya Stark for ransom, and their unwilling partnership continues in Season 4. However the "child" role is subverted as Arya is far from a helpless innocent, verging on Creepy Child in her obsession with revenge; her association with the brutal Hound only sets her further on a dark path.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog had Shadow (badass) and Maria (child), who grew up beside each other on the Space Colony ARK and became Like Brother and Sister. Maria was killed during a raid on the colony, and Shadow has been seen grieving over her heavily over the course of multiple games.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_b5f08143	comment	Sadly averted in Saving Private Ryan. One of the soldiers tries to take a kid to save her from war and the parents wanted it to happen, but were ordered not to. He didn't listen, but was shot as he was taking the girl in hands.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_babeae6a	comment	Godzilla vs. Kong: Kong has taken in the last, orphaned Iwi Jia under his personal guard since the rest of her tribe perished amid Skull Island's destruction. The gigantic King of the Primates (who has lost his homeland in this film just as much as Jia and is the Last of His Kind too) is fiercely and directly protective of Jia, and he can mutually communicate with her through sign language, though he at first actively hides the latter from other humans out of distrust. Jia meanwhile is a young girl who trusts and believes in Kong unconditionally, and accompanies him wherever he goes throughout the film. A well-meaning Nathan thinks Jia can manipulate Kong to Team Kong's agenda once the extent of her bond with the primate is revealed. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire: During Kong's journey in the newly-discovered region of Hollow Earth, he is accompanied by a young kong named Suko whom he took under his wing upon arriving in the region (though only after he had to quite literally beat some sense into the youngster and fend off several other kongs who were serving the Scar King). The young Suko ends up being Kong's Kid Sidekick and guide as he travels into the Scar King's domain.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded's Duane and Sette. Subverted to some degree, as Sette is a narcissistic, violent kleptomaniac and she technically owns Duane, who is a Warrior Poet by day and a mindless zombie by night.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_c137ae09	comment	One of the main themes of God of War (PS4) is Kratos protecting and training his new son, Atreus. Throughout the game, they fight through several draugrs, trolls, ancients, and are responsible for the deaths of Magni and Modi, Thor's sons The end of the game has them fight against the Stranger, Baldur together. They can also fight against the Valkyries, each one of sliding difficulty until the final one, Sigrun, who pulls no punches even on "Give Me A Story."
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Badass and Child Duo / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd: The Fall of Deadworld, Judge Fairfax takes it upon himself to protect Jess after her entire family has been murdered by the Dark Judges and their acolytes. The Dead Man has the eponymous Dead Man travel across the Cursed Earth with a young boy named Yassa and his dog in order to discover what happened to him. The Dead Man is established to be a hell of a shot, which is unsurprising after The Reveal that he is, in fact, Judge Dredd.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_c4076b9e	comment	Gunslinger Girl is built on this, with each male handler — a military, police, or intelligence veteran of Italy's mafia and terrorist wars — assigned to the management and instruction of a female cyborg Child Soldier. Given the fighting levels of each pair, this is a subversion.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest: The episode "Wolf and Cub" has the POI be a kid who's determined to get revenge on the gangbangers who murdered his elder brother. Realising he's not going to be put off, Reese takes him under his wing while he sets up a Batman Gambit to bring down the villains. The kid's a fan of comics and samurai films, so the trope gets lampshaded at the end when he draws a cartoon of him and Reese as a Badass and Child Duo. In "Razgovor," the POI is a 10-year-old Russian girl who's being targeted by assassins because she's spying on the Russian mob. Shaw ends up going on the run with her to keep her safe.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_c9a29009	comment	Rise of the Dragon Child has Jarl Balgruuf enforcing this trope when he learns the legendary Dragonborn is Just a Kid without real fighting experience. So far, Harry has been paired with a housecarl, a werewolf and a real-life dragon in order to roam Skyrim and survive long enough to become a warrior.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_c9fd01d4	comment	A couple examples in Vagabond. It is zig zagged with main character Miyamoto Musashi and his disciple Jotaro. At first Jotaro greatly admires Musashi and wants to become his disciple, but Musashi doesn't want to have to take care of a kid. He softens up though, but doesn't get to teach Jotaro much before he denounces Musashi after he ran from a fight. Jotaro is quick to forgive him though, and they continue on their journey until Musashi decides to leave him behind with the Yagyu clan, knowing they can take better care of him. A straighter example is perhaps chain and sickle wielding expert, Shishido Baiken or rather the man who killed Baiken and took his name and his kinda-sorta-pseudo-quasi-adopted daughter Rindo. An interesting twist in that Baiken, while a badass to start with, actually learned the technique of the chain and sickle from Rindo.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_caf5efa8	comment	Ringing Bell revolves around a lamb becoming a wolf's apprentice after he kills his mother. Eventually, Chirin becomes a badass himself.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_cbe1bf7e	comment	True Grit is this, although ironically it is the child who is far more bloodthirsty than the badass.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_d35f1e3f	comment	Candy & Cigarettes plays with this. Although Hiraga is capable of holding his own, it's the little girl Miharu who's the chief hitman and pulls the trigger most of the time.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_d5c40848	comment	Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire: During Kong's journey in the newly-discovered region of Hollow Earth, he is accompanied by a young kong named Suko whom he took under his wing upon arriving in the region (though only after he had to quite literally beat some sense into the youngster and fend off several other kongs who were serving the Scar King). The young Suko ends up being Kong's Kid Sidekick and guide as he travels into the Scar King's domain.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_d6ce88cc	comment	Gunpowder Milkshake: After killing her target, Sam feels duty-bound to rescue his daughter Emily, an eight (and three quarters) year old girl who has been kidnapped.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_d76723b5	comment	Ultraviolet (2006) is another Gender Inverted example, with Violet watching over Six for the majority of the film.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_d98a3fbf	comment	Sword of the Stranger has a same-gender version with nameless Ronin Nanashi, who goes through hell and back to save a little boy named Kotaro, who is wanted by the Chinese emperor because some prophecy says his blood can make him immortal. Whether he lives through it is left unknown, as at the end he was alive but dying in a race to get medical help.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_dbe3a074	comment	Bad Black: The opening of the film features Swaaz, an incredibly badass bank robber, and Buddy Spencer, his very non-martial Kid Sidekick.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_dc217e32	comment	A side story of PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines has Steven Stone, the regional PokÃ©mon Champion of Hoenn, going on an adventure with Sawyer, who at the time is just a student in the Rustboro Trainer School.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_dd5ebd61	comment	Next Gen is about a technophobic adolescent girl who discovers a highly advanced robot to be used in case of Robot War. However, the robot has a damaged memory unit, so as he makes memories, he has to lose more and more to avoid a breakdown.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_e293455a	comment	In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes "Bargaining", the antihero Spike and the freshly un-Keyed Dawn are placed together.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_e356cbe8	comment	Shoot 'Em Up is an example, though the child is only a baby and the Badass gets a little help from a lactating hooker.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_e4732abc	comment	An episode of Stargate Atlantis revolves around such a duo. Doctor Keller is kidnapped by a runner (a strong human warrior who is implanted with a tracking beacon and released so the Wraith can hone their hunting skills) to treat a young girl in his care. He later reveals that he stopped briefly in the girl's village which brought the Wraith who then slaughtered them all. Since he blamed himself for the carnage, he took it upon himself to save and protect her.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_e64a6382	comment	Arknights: The Survival Notorization chapter of the Operational Intelligence event depicts Executor Federico of the Laterano Notarial Hall escorting a young huntress named Vermeil to Rhodes Island for her Oripathy treatment. Given Executor's status as a Terminator Impersonator, his relationship with Vermeil is similar to that of John Connor and the T-800 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_e7a9c06c	comment	Paperinik New Adventures: In a Bad Future, an older Paperinik must protect Trip, the son of The Raider, from an older version of him in order to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_e7e557b8	comment	The Terrifying Hitman and the Little Girl by Rimukoro (the creator of The Helpful Fox Senko-san) has this as its premise, with a grizzled hitman taking in an orphaned girl he rescues from one of his jobs. Eventually he starts training her in self-defense, and she even joins her "papa" on a mission or two.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_eb7fcb3e	comment	In The Boy and the Beast, after Kumatetsu befriends Kyuta, they fit into a same-sex version of this when Kyuta is just a kid.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_f81101f2	comment	There was a PokÃ©mon: The Original Series episode that paired the Hellhound-inspired PokÃ©mon Houndoom with Misty's little Togepi.
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Badass and Child Duo / int_f91f25d8	comment	Gungrave has Beyond the Grave, the series' undead silent protagonist, and Mika Asagi, a young girl who sought his aid after the death of her parents.
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