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In storylines involving children or teenagers, the issues raised by the Adults Are Useless trope sometimes are handled more dramatically. Adults become rare to non-existent, occurring primarily as off-screen background. The adults might continue to set the contextual rules of the story, but they are not individuals to whom the children can appeal. See also: Invisible Parents, Teenage Wasteland, World of No Grandparents, and Parental Abandonment. Sometimes caused by a catastrophe of some sort that was Only Fatal to Adults. Compare Hide Your Children, where the kids are theoretically around somewhere, but never shown on-screen. |
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The Odyssey (a Canadian kids drama) took this to a very literal level. A main character who after receiving a concussion, found himself in a world where there were no adults. This is the start of a journey he makes through this strange land where he encounters weird societies and places while he searches for his Dad (long story; don't ask). With the exception of one episode which ended with a couple of parental arms reaching into view from the edge of the screen and dragging two of the trio away. There was also an inversion in an episode where they reached a wall that separated their world from a world of adults, where there were no kids | |
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Lord of the Flies takes place on a deserted island. The only adults on the boat were killed, leaving only the boys to survive on their own. Lord of the Flies was a deconstruction of stories where boys had adventures while lost together, showing how the situation can quickly devolve. | |
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Very deliberate in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. There are teachers, but no parents. | |
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The BBC series The Sparticle Mystery has the adults disappear through a science experiment gone wrong. | |
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In The Simpsons when Homer and Grampa distribute their "re-vitalizer" to Springfield, adults excuse themselves to their bedrooms, leaving the town children wondering if the grown-ups have become reverse-vampires. | |
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Justice League episode "Kid Stuff" had the heros become 8 years olds in order to exist in a world were adults were magically removed. | |
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Millsberry was a browser game set in the fictional city of Millsberry. Almost every character depicted was a preteen. Some adult characters did appear to fill-in roles like the librarian or mayor, however they were easily outnumbered by the kids. Teenagers were even more sparingly seen. | |
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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, in fact does bring their parents in; they very much do not approve (also, Frank Welker voices Daphne's dad. And he still does Freddy. Don't think about that too much). The final episode of Mystery Incorporated features the gang going off on a cross-country road trip, in the style of the original series, immediately after graduating high school, which may retroactively justify all the franchise's previous uses of this trope. | |
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Originally in Rule of Rose there are whole two adults and one sixteen-year old in the Rose Garden Orphanage supervising over twenty children, and by the end they all have mysteriously disappeared without anyone from the outside noticing, leaving the orphans to their own devices. | |
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In the TV show Max and Ruby, the parents of Max and Ruby were initially never shown, though their grandma sometimes made an appearance. And while she made appearances, she did not live with them. Ruby does all the mother work. Adults did occasionally appear as background characters but the siblings’ parents were consistently nonexistent. The stage show "Max & Ruby: Bunny Party" lampshades this with a song that is actually called "Where Are the Parents?" According to the song "They're busy making plans, scrubbing pots and pans / Writing letters, folding sweaters..." and "They're not too far way / They're on the sundeck just to relax / Not too far from Ruby and Max." In the 2010s, the series had a retool where Max and Ruby's parents became on-screen characters. | |
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The Girl Who Owned a City is a post-apocalyptic story after a Only Fatal to Adults plague, where children are trying to survive on their own and dealing with issues of suddenly having to watch for infants, etc. | |
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In The Powerpuff Girls, a squadron of broccoli-shaped aliens attempts to conquer Townsville by contaminating the broccoli harvest, hypnotizing anyone who consumed the vegetable. This leads to the trope, since all the city's children consider it too disgusting to eat. | |
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The 1976 cult classic movie Bugsy Malone is a musical comedy about 1920s gangsters played entirely by children. It launched the careers of Scott Baio and Jodie Foster. | |
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There are "adults" in the film Class of 1999 — but they are robots: violent, bloodthirsty robots. | |
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The Perishers rarely seems to have adult characters as anything other than The Voice. The gang go off by themselves to the seaside on their holidays with no parental supervision; orphaned Wellington lives with only his dog Boot for company and not once do social services bat an eyelid. | |
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You never see any adults in High School Story. Occasionally one shows up for plot-related reasons, but you always hear about it second-hand from other students telling you what the adult said or wants. Then again, they're pretty useless in the game anyway. | |
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Homestuck: Mostly played straight. The Beta kids have parents (who are pretty much the only adult human characters in the story), but they exist mainly as non-speaking antagonists early in the comic, and are then killed off fairly early on in the story. They are even drawn without eyes, emphasizing their non-characterness. The kids and trolls all have their guardians die for Sburb-related reasons early on, and it is implied that this is Enforced by the game. Enforced on Alternia, where troll adults are banned from the planet, which is populated only by kids, teens, and their animal guardians. The Alpha kids take this to the extreme - three of them spent nearly their entire lives with no parents or other adults around whatsoever. |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Shadow Man", there are no adults except for brief appearances by the school librarian and Danny Hayes' mother. | |
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Inverted in Can You Imagine That? - all the kids are abducted by Retro. | |
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This trope becomes literal in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, where the entire adult population of Retroville is abducted by aliens. | |
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Despite the central conflict in Weak Hero being between high school kids, there's next to no intervention by their teachers- especially jarring since half of their fights take place in the classroom. And forget about their parents getting involved; they're lucky if they even get shown on-screen at all. | |
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During a mission in a Stargate SG-1 based RPG, the team went to an Adventure Town planet with no adults. Lampshaded by the Cunning Linguist wondering how kids managed to function as a working society. Then 3/4 of the team became children. And it turned out that the kids of the planet were the adults, aged down through Applied Phlebotinum that allowed the team to return to adulthood. | |
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New Zealand show The Tribe has all the adults of the world dying of a mysterious virus. | |
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The Scholomance: The titular Wizarding School is built in the Void, powered by magic, and autonomous enough not to need adults on-site. Students are teleported in at the beginning of their freshman year and left to their own devices until graduation... hopefully to survive the monsters that stalk its halls. | |
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In the short-lived Flintstones spinoff Cave Kids, a Muppet Babies or Rugrats-esque show focusing on Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's "adventures", their parents were nowhere to be seen. | |
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A number of teen movies, such as Dazed and Confused. In Dazed and Confused adults do occasionally impact the story. One couple ends their plans to go on a trip so they can shut down a party that their son was planning on hosting in their house while they were to be gone. Another mother threatenens some seniors with a shotgun when they try to haze her boy. One stoner hypothosizes that the adults are complict or at least apathetic to the strange situation of the local highschool. Randy "Pink" Floyd's entire personal storyline centers around his conflicts with his football coach, who is seen harassing him to sign a "drug-free" pledge, and he and his teammates make fun of him near the end of the movie. | |
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Absolutely no adults appeared on Cleo & Cuquin, not even the parents of the titular characters and their four siblings. | |
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Taken to extremes in Little Einsteins. Not only do we never see the main characters' parents, there doesn't appear to be any other visible humans. | |
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On Kaeloo, apparently adults (and teenagers) are not allowed in Smileyland. The closest thing we get is Stumpy's mother calling him on the phone in one episode. | |
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Rainbow Brite: Rainbow Brite and the Color Kids didn't seem to have any parents. Justified as they seem to be Ambiguously Human, aside from Rainbow who was a human orphan named "Wisp" once. | |
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In Xenoblade Chronicles 3 every character is born at the physical age of 10 and only for 10 years before they die, if they even survive that long in battle. When the party meets Guernica Vandham, they're shocked to see his face all wrinkled and are confused when he explains that it's called getting old having never met anyone over the physical age of 20, let alone someone three times that. | |
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The Canadian teen drama Edgemont has no characters over 21. Parents and teachers are only mentioned. | |
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One animation exception: In This Is America, Charlie Brown, the kids experience historical milestones by, among other things, interacting with the Wright Brothers. (no explanation was given for their displacement in time.) | |
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In Revolutionary Girl Utena adult teachers only make a tiny handful of brief appearances which only emphasise how out of touch and ineffectual they are. The school appears to be essentially ruled by the teenaged members of the Student Council, and even serious issues, like a student badly injuring another, are dealt without adult interference. The only adult of any significance is Chairman Akio, and he is more like an embodiment of what a teenager would imagine an ideal adult to be like than someone with a genuine adult mentality. | |
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The MST3K-featured City Limits took place in a future where nearly all adults had been wiped out by a plague. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Miri" uses this. Beware the grups! | |
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Charlie and Lola: Though they TALK about "Mum" and "Dad," there's never any sign of them, not even Charlie or Lola reacting to them. For example, in the episode "Charlie is Broken" after Charlie breaks his arm, Marv informs him that his father is coming to help him, only for the scene to suddenly change before his father makes it onto the screen. | |
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Massacre at Central High is about a high school student who goes on a crusade to kill his school's bullies, and supposedly an influence on Heathers. No adults appear in the entire film. | |
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Scooby-Doo: Those teens travel all around the world with their talking dog, capturing nut jobs in Halloween costumes. Don't they have to go to school (or homeschool)? Do their parents care out late they stay out? Do their parents even care about feeding them dinner? Do they even know or care where they are? Apparently not. Not that it's ever clearly established how old they actually are outside of supplementary material. The original reason was that they were a music band traveling around during summer vacation, however that was scrapped in development of the original cartoon and they never bothered to explain where their parents were. Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, in fact does bring their parents in; they very much do not approve (also, Frank Welker voices Daphne's dad. And he still does Freddy. Don't think about that too much). The final episode of Mystery Incorporated features the gang going off on a cross-country road trip, in the style of the original series, immediately after graduating high school, which may retroactively justify all the franchise's previous uses of this trope. |
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The Witch of Knightcharm: The rookie witch Emily, who has enrolled at an evil Wizarding School in an attempt to learn about and undermine it, soon realizes that there don't seem to be any adults. All the teaching and staff work is done by older students. Her roommate Megumi tries to find out where the adults actually are but is rebuffed by her mentor (also an older student), raising the possibility that no adults are present at all. | |
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The Fire-Us Trilogy follows a band of kids in a deserted Florida town a while after a virus (which is, of course Only Fatal to Adults) has ravaged the world. Unable to remember their names before hand, they have christened themselves with their jobs ('Mommy', 'Teacher', 'Hunter'. It appears the older children have renamed the younger children arbitrarily. 'Doll', 'Baby', 'Action Figure'). Unlike most stories with its setup, it also shows how badly most children would fare without adults to take care of them; by the time the story takes place most of the children who survived the pandemic have died of various other causes. | |
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Jelly Jamm. The only adults we ever see are the King and Queen. | |
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Backyard Sports features no adults whatsoever across the franchise. Played with by famous celebrities or sports stars that appear as guest athletes, who are aged down to fit with the all-children cast. | |
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Peanuts, which generally did not even show adults in the panels. The kids are often shown REACTING to adults, but they are always shown talking to someone who is off-panel. Anything the adults do or say has to be inferred by the actions of the kids. Charles Schulz is on record saying that the moment he did introduce adults was a big mistake. This was a series of 1954 Sunday strips involving Lucy competing in an amateur golf tournament while being coached by Charlie Brown. She has to withdraw and go home or miss her bedtime, even though she was winning. The adults make up the gallery, and are drawn more or less realistically, which doesn't remotely work in terms of scale with the regular characters. (Even then, their faces aren't shown.) The strips appear in the 1953-1954 volume of The Complete Peanuts anthology, the first time they've been reprinted. A few 1950s and early 1960s strips did feature off-panel dialogue from Linus's and Lucy's mother or grandmother. Also, the occasional strip throughout the comic's run had dialogue from radio or TV announcers, although the TV screen was never shown. The cartoons substitute the famous gibberish horn sound for adult speech. The animators' original plan was for adults to have no presence whatsoever like in the comic. This idea was abandoned when it turned out that without some indicator of their existence, all the kids seemed like they were talking to themselves. One animation exception: In This Is America, Charlie Brown, the kids experience historical milestones by, among other things, interacting with the Wright Brothers. (no explanation was given for their displacement in time.) Other animation exceptions include the movies Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown and its "this is a sequel?" What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?, both of which feature talking adults, though not always seen. In I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown, one scene shows Rerun inside a shopping cart being pushed by his mom, but it's shown to be pushed by an invisible force. Also the original reason was they "literally would not fit" in the close up style of the strip; children would just be at most a half panel instead of being focused on. The WWI flying ace, the Red Baron, may be the only adult that somewhat averts this trope, but he mostly appears in Snoopy's imagination. When he is shown, it's usually from a distance where one can usually faintly make out a scarf, goggles and pilot helmet obscuring his face. |
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Also with very minor exceptions, the movie Kids. | |
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The Sonic the Hedgehog games technically have adults, and some of the heroes are over 18, but there are an awful lot of characters, notably Sonic, Tails, Amy and Knuckles, who have no legal parents or guardians, and seem to live entirely on their own. The only character with a known parent is six-year old Cream and her mother Vanilla. | |
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Winnie the Pooh should be mentioned here. In none of the original Disney animated shorts are parents, with the exception of Kanga, present, however, being a stuffed animal, she might not qualify. However, this is subverted in The New Adventures, as Christopher Robin's mom, as well as other adults, appear in the animated series. Hell, she, and a theater usher appear in just the very first episode, "Pooh Oughta Be In Pictures". If Kanga applies, then so does Lumpy's mother, deemed "Mama Heffalump", in Pooh's Heffalump Movie, and in My Friends Tigger & Pooh. The original whole point of Winnie the Pooh was that it was the world Christopher Robin had created to play with his stuffed animals in. He's often away, of course, having other claims on his time, and at the end of the last book he's growing up. It's sort of a precursor to Toy Story, only without a real-world context. | |
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With very minor exceptions, the movie Brick. | |
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Young Justice had a similar episode, "Misplaced", where a group of evil sorcerers creates two separate worlds, one with adults and no children and one with children and no adults, based on the "World Without Grown-Ups" storyline. | |
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Although it's averted in the main series, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls plays this straight with the human world — aside from Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna, the only other adults are cameos with no effect on the plot (Granny Smith, Cheerilee, and Mr. & Mrs. Cake). The absolute lack of parents is puzzling; the total absence of law enforcement after a flying fire demon demolishes the front of the high school totally boggles the mind. More adults are introduced as the series progresses, but parental figures, aside from Granny Smith, remain conspicuously absent, and the only authority figures seen are school staff, camp counselors, a music festival security guard, and an amusement park administrator. | |
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Magic Gift of the Snowman: The land that Princess Electra rules has no adults except for Snowden. | |
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Possible in Fable, if you kill every adult in a town. And you can then buy back the affections of the children whose parents you've killed with gifts. | |
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Downplayed in I. M. Meen. Meen and Gnorris are technically adults, but Meen acts like a spoiled child, and Gnorris is a gnome. There are no normal adults. The two kids are apparently alone and unsupervised at the library. | |
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This was more or less the whole premise of Party of Five at the outset. | |
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No adults appeared in Ed, Edd n Eddy. The episode "Stop, Look and Ed" entails that the adults are usually at work while the kids are playing and Ed says his dad is very lazy and doesn't do anything but watch TV after work. Later episodes are a little less strict with the rule, showing certain body parts and representing their speech with sound effects, but the only adult to make a full on-screen appearance was Eddy's brother, though he's more of a young adult. | |
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Though there are (if mostly evil or incompetent) adults in the Codename: Kids Next Door universe, the rumored goal of the apparent KND Splinter Cell was to wipe them all (good and evil alike) out. However, it turns out to be just cover-up for the KND Galactic branch, much to the ire of some fans. | |
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Just wait until you're on the other side of Logan's Run. | |
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In the South Park episode "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", the children all accuse their parents of molestation, getting all of them arrested at once. Naturally, without anyone paying the bills for water, power or even food, the town goes to hell in a few hours. | |
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In Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure: Dreaming♡Children's Lunch!, no adults are allowed in the theme park Dreamia. When Rosemary (an adult) tries to enter to rescue the Cures, he is kidnapped by robots and thrown down a garbage chute. | |
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Summer Camp Island takes place in a summer camp where all the main characters are children. The camp councillors are teenagers who may-or-may-not be legally adults (Susie turns fifteen mid-series, but she's actually over a century old, and the other councillors seem the same age as her). | |
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This is blatant in Strawberry Shortcake, especially in the 2003 version where the characters are designed, and act more like real kids than the other versions. In this version, Strawberry Shortcake and Apple Dumpling are sisters, yet no parents are seen or mentioned. Strawberry doesn't look older than eight prior to her aging up however she is in charge of a toddler. Whenever the characters visit places everyone looks under thirteen but despite this they can drive and they hold jobs. An episode involving Strawberry meeting an old friend Lime Lite has some implications that they do have parents somewhere, as we see the two as toddlers in a nursery and later Lime mentions she has to move away without it apparently being her decision, however otherwise nothing suggests adults exist. | |
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PJ Masks: The only regular adult character is the Teacher, but even he only appears during the daytime scenes at the start and end of episodes. And technically there are Master Fang and Flossy Flash, but they are fictional characters within the show's universe. | |
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Shade's Children: All of them vanished during the Change as the Overlords took over, aside from Shade and his colleague, sort of. Both of them had their uploaded personalities left. | |
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Logan's Run: Specifically the book had lastday be the 21st birthday. The Movie pushed this up (and avoided Dawson Casting by having lastday become the 30th. | |
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Shimmer and Shine: The genies are still fairly young, even if they are magical, so where are their parents? And what about the human kids Leah and Zak? Wouldn’t their parents be suspicious of their kids running off or all the strange things going on? Heck, the only adults (or maybe older teens) on the show are Sameera and Zeta, and they’re not even human (Sameera is a genie and Zeta is a witch). Also, it’s implied that Shimmer and Shine live alone, since they decorated their palace and Leah’s bottle by themselves. If the genies do indeed have parents, wouldn’t they be concerned if Zeta did something bad to them? |
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