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Cartoons have a tendency to get spun off into new shows with younger versions of the original characters. No one is quite certain why producers exercise this, aside from the opportunity to make a new franchise for a new demographic out of an older, successful property. Oftentimes the concept of the original testify is dropped entirely and replaced, only sometimes information technology's adapted to an elementary- or heart-school setting. Frequently parodied, due to the absurdity of some of the examples. This trope is named afterward Muppet Babies.

Note that those are usually not prequels, and non part of the original show's continuity. It'south usual for people who supposedly met for the first time in the original testify to meet in the "younger" show, or for characters with notably different ages in the original testify to be babies/middle-schoolers at the same fourth dimension. If they are descendants, then it'south Spin-Offspring.

If any of the voice bandage of the original series is withal alive, wait them to have occasional-to-recurring guest roles every bit the parents of the younger versions of their original roles (e.g. Henry Corden, the regular voice of adult Fred Flintstone at the time, was the vocalism of young Freddie's dad ^notation and mom on The Flintstone Kids). Related to Recycled IN Space! and High School A.U.. This is not about spin-off shows where characters have kid-like proportions as they are yet otherwise treated similar adults despite beingness lighter in nature. The master draw of this spin-off is that they are younger, with sensibilities aimed at them being of a immature age.

Contrast Time Skip, which tends to make the characters older instead. Compare Young Futurity Famous People, which does this with real people. If the characters offset displaying hints of their main-series personalities, see Early Personality Signs.

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    Advertizement

• In the Planters Super Bowl ad campaign, Mr. Nut is reincarnated into a baby version of himself.
• Chuck Due east. Cheese: At some locations near the Toddler Zone area in the 2000s, in that location was a picture that had all 5 members of Munch's Make-Believe Band as babies.

    Anime & Manga

• Attack on Titan has the Eye School AU spin-off manga Attack on Titan: Junior High. It is a rather surreal manga involving the main cast going to schoolhouse with the Titans, and deals with it as a Slice of Life comedy. Information technology gleefully parodies the primary canon, equally well as including numerous Shout Outs to popular memes and aspects of the fandom. Eren however hates the Titans, but the trauma of his mother being Eaten Alive is replaced with his cheeseburger luncheon being stolen on the first day of school.
• Despite Felix the Cat being an American holding, Baby Felix and Friends was made in Nippon. It serves as a prequel to the 1959 series, though developed Felix appears oft.
• Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat features an even younger Digiko and Puchiko having adventures on Planet Di Gi Charat. It'south not immediately clear if information technology's really a prequel, or an alternate continuity. Every bit usual, if a prequel, it messes with the previously-established continuity a bit — they're all the same known every bit Digiko and Puchiko, fifty-fifty though these are supposedly but aliases they go past on Globe, and Piyoko appears, even though no-one seemed to accept any idea who she was when she "later" appeared in 1 of the specials for the original series. As well, Dejiko is more optimistic and cheery instead of being a lazy Jerkass, and Piyoko is pure evil instead of only wanting to kidnap Dejiko for bribe. Given how silly Di Gi Charat is, this isn't as big a deal as it could be, though.
• In that location's a Negima! Magister Negi Magi that plays with this trope a scrap by featuring ^notation the normally 10 twelvemonth onetime Teenage!Negi every bit iii-A'south kindergarten teacher.
  • He and Kotarou (besides aged upwards to tardily teens) are listed as classmates, and then it'due south likely some sort of work study program. Most of his grade still have (age-appropriate for their new historic period) crushes on him, and as of the 5th chapter, no graphic symbol who was an adult in the original (including Evangeline) has been seen at all.
• The Tokyo Mew Mew manga independent Omake depicting all the characters in a fantasy kindergarten.
• Ultraman Kids, a 26-episode Lighter and Softer take on the Ultra Series.
• Godzilland is a children's Edutainment Bear witness about Godzilla and friends equally babies living on an isle together, with Mothra (the sole adult among them) acting as their caretaker. A lot of the Toho kaiju are featured, namely the big K himself, Anguirus, Rodan, King Ghidorah, Gigan, Mechagodzilla, etc. equally is a new character named Gojirin, a female person counterpart and honey interest for Godzilla. Information technology also features live action segments depicting the developed Godzilla relating these stories to his homo sister (don't ask).
  • Would later receive a Spiritual Successor in the class of the web puppet prove Godziban, focused on the adventures of a immature Showa Godzilla with his siblings Minilla and Littlegodzilla.
• Otenba Peach-hime is a gag manga based on the Super Mario Bros. characters equally kids and focuses mainly on Princess Peach.
• Ultraman Kids, based on the Ultra Series. Yes, they went there. While the kids in question are Ultraman, Ultraseven and Ultraman Taro, various monsters and aliens from the show appears as classmates too, with Alien Baltan and Alien Guts being the resident school bullies.

    Asian Animation

• Boonie Bears has a spin-off called Boonie Cubs where a younger version of the main cast learn about diverse topics in Pine Tree Kindergarten.
• Pleasant Caprine animal and Large Large Wolf has a spin-off called Pleasant Caprine animal Fun Class, which makes the characters younger and cuter and is an Edutainment Prove where the characters acquire all about the globe around them.

    Comic Books

• Archie Comics:
  • Archie actually did this YEARS earlier than Muppet Babies (1984) (in the 1960s, to be exact) with "Little Archie", taking place in the gang's Elementary Schoolhouse years, but it didn't have many copycats. "The New Archies" (both a cartoon series and a comic, both short-lived) came in the 1980s, and was based around their pre-teen Middle Schoolhouse years. The old appears to really be in continuity (told nowadays as flashbacks), but the latter, with several replacement characters (Eugene for Dilton, amongst others), is mostly forgotten.
  • I concluding attempt (then far) of reviving "Lilliputian Archie" was ''New Footling Archies'' in the early nineties, when the concept was redesigned.
  • When the Archie characters became superheroes in the "Pureheart the Powerful" storylines, their younger selves became superheroes, besides.
  • There actually was an Archie Babies graphic novel also, which depicted the characters as toddlers in a daycare.
  • Still Archie Comics, only non Archie-centered: Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) had two specials devoted to the concept of "Sonic Kids". These were stories of the Freedom Fighters as kids, earlier they went around smashing Robotnik's robots.
• Even older than the Archie example, Disney did a young Davy Crockett comic serial in the 1950s called "Lil' Davy" that fifty-fifty teamed him up with Jiminy Crockett.
• The DC Comics centre-school imprint DC Zoom has several books similar this, including a teenaged Lois Lane, Bruce Wayne, Zatanna, Dinah Lance and, of all characters, John Constantine!
• Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Paperino Paperotto, a Italy comic book series starring the life and childhood of Donald Duck and his friends in stories. Young Donald, lives in Quacktown, a country village on the outskirts of Duckburg located where there is the farm of Grandma Duck with the petty caprine animal Billy. This representation of childhood Donald is easily compatible with versions of other authors, in accord with the genealogy of Don Rosa.
  • Another spin-off of Paperino Paperotto is titled Immature Donald Duck which focus the lives of Donald and his friends as teenagers going to eye school.
• The Doctor Who Adventures kids' magazine has a strip chosen "Alien Babies" with master characters Blun the Slitheen, Simon the Cyberman, Strup the Sontaran, Eldast the Silurian and Chas and Chelsea the Weeping Angels. Other babies come and become, often a babe version of the monster in the previous week's episode. (This was taken to a ridiculous extreme in the issue post-obit "The Rings of Akhaten", which featured a character really chosen "Babe Grandpa.")
• Dynamite Comics published a series of 1-shots, Li'l Dynamites, featuring various characters they hold the rights to as child versions of themselves, including Battlestar Galactica, Vampirella, The 6 1000000 Dollar Human being and Bionic Woman, Evil Ernie, and Blood-red Sonja. They were rather adorable.
• A volume of Gen¹³ featured the Authoriteens, in mockery of Spinoff Babies tropes. Their equivalent of the Medico is the Intern, they travel "The Gutters" instead of the Bleed, teen Jack Hawksmoor, the male monarch of cities, is at present Jack Hatfield, spirit of small towns (his costume includes a stalk of straw and denim overalls), and the Midnighter'due south equivalent, Daybreaker, is a Totally Radical motor mouth whose relationship with Kid Apollo is no more than Ambiguously Gay (and implied to have gone no further than the 'funny feelings' stage yet).
• Itty Fragmentary Comics is a Dark Horse Comics preteen line made past the creators of Tiny Titans where they fabricated PG adventures for Hellboy, B.P.R.D. and The Mask.
• Le Petit Spirou is a spin-off of Franco-Belgian comic Spirou and Fantasio, starring a younger, and markedly more impertinent and irreverent version of the main character. Some of the one page gags are flashbacks to the protagonist years as a toddler (rather than an elementary schoolhouse child) which centers by and large on the many hazards awaiting the dangly bits of a small child running one-half naked effectually the business firm. Has a bad, bad instance of Comic-Book Time, the get-go albums were set in the 60s/70s with a grandad who'd been in WWI, present the gags are modern (and the grandfather yet the same age).
• Mini-Jon's Experiments is a particularly odd example, as it is a spin-off for the Canadian comic Super Amanuensis Jon Le Bon!, which revolves around a kid clone of Jon having experiments while making life hard for Henry. As it turns out, he was built-in from Tiberius' endeavor to brand super soldier clones of Jon, so Mini-Jon was adopted past the Bureau after destroying the lab.
• Chris Giarrusso's Mini Marvels series. To hammer the point, Spidey is never called "Spider-Human being" because, well, he's not a grown-upwardly man even so. Plus, instead of a paid lensman, he's a paperboy for the Daily Bugle.
• Brazil inverted this trope, by making Spinoff Teenagers of two Not Allowed to Grow Up series: local work Turma da Mônica ◊ (Monica's Gang ◊) and the internationally known Piffling Lulu. ◊
  • While baby versions of the Monica characters practise be, they don't really take a spinoff of their ain, beingness mostly featured in a line of baby care products.
• The French Comic Volume Sillage (Wake) has a spin-off series called Nävis, which is nigh the title character's babyhood on a jungle planet and is written and drawn in a more humorous style than the parent series.
• Strangers in Paradise had a four-outcome spin-off called SIP Kids.
• Possibly the earliest comic book example is Superboy, the immature persona of Superman, whose adventures were published as early as the 1940s. This was adapted into Smallville, amongst other things.
• In the late 1970s, DC Comics introduced the "Super Juniors," baby versions of the Justice League. While these characters only appeared in comics in one case (a digest-sized 1-shot), they appeared on a considerable number of licensed products (toys, linens, plant nursery furnishings, etc.) in the early 1980s.
• Switch (2015) is a high-school retelling of Witchblade centered around a teenager named Mary.
• Tiny Titans is an simple schoolhouse themed spin off of Teen Titans. It fifty-fifty had a crossover title with another spinoff babies comic, Tiny Titans/Footling Archie.
• 2000 Advertizing'southward occasional "Regened" all-ages bug are headlined by Buck Dredd.
• Ultimate X-Men re-envisioned the squad as teenagers, including members who were adults when they joined in the proper canon. The ane exception is Wolverine, who, like his X-Men: Evolution counterpart, is nevertheless an developed. It's worth remembering that the original X-Men were teenagers, and so with the Ultimate Universe being a Continuity Reboot, having the team first at that age while shuffling the original lineup makes sense.
• X-Men:
• Zbeng! , an Israeli comic nigh a group of teenagers (featured in a teen magazine), had a children spin off called "Zbengale" (which featured in a children'due south magazine).
• Disney Babies featured Mickey, Minnie and friends as toddlers.
• Gaston Lagaffe had a 2011 spin-off titled Gastoon, most Gaston's immature nephew and his elementary-school-anile friends Jeanne, Jules, Bertrand and De Mesmeaker, who were also younger equivalent of characters from the main serial (without the likeness existence explained). Information technology was a disquisitional and commercial failure, and stopped after 2 albums.
• Suske en Wiske had a spin-off series in which the two primary characters are five-yr olds rather than (pre)-teens. Information technology consists of one page gag comics, while the main series is one with anthology long stories. It too ignores the continuity of information technology's parent series, since it has Suske already living with Wiske and her aunt Sidonia at age 5, while in the chief series both he and Wiske were already pre-teens when they starting time met.
• The 10-Files had a express comic-book serial titled The Ten-Files: Origins about child Mulder and Scully.

    Comic Strips

• At that place exists an extremely rare educational estimator game chosen Young Dilbert'due south Hullo-Tech Hijinks that features Dilbert (of all characters to get an example of this trope) as a pre-teen boy travelling into his virus-ridden computer to eliminate the viruses.

    Fan Works

• Littletale , an Undertale AU that casts the monster characters as rambunctious kids around Frisk'southward historic period.
• Rainbow Nuance vs the Toilet is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction where the six main characters, Princess Luna, and Big Macintosh are toddlers, but Princess Celestia (who, in catechism, is only a scrap older than Luna and Luna in canon is way older than the protagonists) is the same historic period every bit she is in canon and Twilight is still literate.
• Total Drama Kids, a fancomic past Deviantart user Kika-ila that has the teenage contestants of Total Drama Isle, World Tour, and Revenge of the Island as children attention elementary school together. With the debut of Full DramaRama, the whole affair becomes Hilarious in Hindsight.

    Films — Alive-Activeness

• Not only did the Danish movie serial Olsen-banden get a spinoff of this nature called Olsenbanden Jr. ^Translated "The Olsen Gang Junior", and so did both the Norwegian and Swedish Foreign Remakes. (In the latter case the child spinoff got the name Lilla Jönssonligan ^Translated The Little Jönsson Gang to accomodate for the titular character'due south Dub Name Change.) What's more than, all three spinoffs take the characters who were mostly middle-aged in the original continuity (The '70s/The '80s) and depict them as schoolhouse children of roughly the same age in The '50s. While the setting may have worked for Benny, who was noticably younger than Egon and Kjeld (at least in the Danish and Swedish versions), the spinoffs depict all three of the characters as the same historic period, throwing continuity out the window.
• Young Sherlock Holmes was a pastiche of Sherlock Holmes supposedly telling the early life of Holmes and Watson when they outset met every bit teens (which contradicts the novels, since A Written report in Scarlet has Watson meet Holmes for the first time when both are already adults). And apparently, earlier Holmes figured out how to solve crimes past logical deduction.

    Literature

• Earth Children Are Weird focuses on Mulder and Scully from The X-Files as children, fifty-fifty though they met every bit adults in catechism.
• Goldilocks and the Three Potties focuses on Goldilocks from Goldilocks and the Three Bears existence potty-trained.
• The Hardy Boys take ii, the discontinued Clues Brothers and the currently running Clandestine Files, which feature Frank and Joe at ix and eight years old.
• The original James Bond novels spun-off into the book series Young Bail by Charlie Higson.
• Max and Cerise creator Rosemary Wells made a few books titled "Baby Max And Reddish" ◊ which has Max every bit a young infant while Blood-red is a immature kid.
• Nancy Drew got in on it likewise, with "The Nancy Drew Notebooks" and "Nancy Drew and the Clue Coiffure."
• A variation is Disney's successful line of preteen-oriented novels nigh the adventures of the teenage Helm Jack Sparrow.
• Several Sesame Street books nigh characters as babies:
  • "Me Cookie" is about how Cookie Monster got his name.
  • "Besides Large For Diapers" is about Ernie being potty-trained.
• The Star Trek Starfleet Academy novels focus on The Next Generation and Deep Space 9 cast members as Starfleet officers in training.
• Star Wars has the "Darth Vader and Son" parody series, which draw Vader every bit the father to a toddler-aged Luke and Leia.
• Sweet Valley High has spun-off three "kiddie" versions of the characters: Sweetness Valley Twins (set when the characters were in sixth grade), Sweet Valley Junior High (when they were in eighth class) and Sweet Valley Kids (when they were seven years old and in elementary schoolhouse). The former was well received and heavily promoted via a retcon graphic symbol Amy, who was Elizabeth Wakefield'due south best friend in the "Twins" book just her mortal enemy in the primary "Sweet Valley High" volume and ultimate led to a villain-based spin-off serial based off of the "Unicorn Guild". The subsequently was reviled past fans every bit being a soulless tie-in. Reversed with Sweet Valley University, which put the twins in college.
• The Grim Darkness of the future has merely skewed to the eight - 12 set up with Warhammer Adventures. Information technology'southward more heroic Rogue Traders and Space Marines with kid heroes and less cleansing heretics with fire and steel. Warhammer Adventures has books for Warhammer xl,000 and Warhammer: Historic period of Sigmar.
• Andy Lane has written a serial of Young Sherlock Holmes novels, unrelated to the movie.
• A Dog'due south Purpose has a spinoff novel series called A Dog'due south Purpose Puppy Tales. Information technology consists of Ellie'due south Story, Bailey's Story, Molly'southward Story, and Max's Story. The stories aggrandize upon the puppy years of the various reincarnations of the A Dog'south Purpose protagonist.
• In late 2019 a spin-off book to the Llamas with Hats web series was released, featuring Carl and Paul equally babies.

    Alive-Activeness TV

• Ant And Dec'due south Sabbatum Dark Takeaway had a segment featuring "Piddling Emmet And Dec". Thankfully not an Unusual Euphemism, this featured a pair of kids who slightly resembled Big Ant And Dec interviewing somebody in a faintly rude fashion.
• Case that never was: The CBBC wanted the current production team to make them a Immature Physician Who, which presumably would have been titled Moffat Babies. The thought horrified Russell T Davies, so he pitched The Sarah Jane Adventures to them instead.
• Gotham is in many ways this, where classic Batman characters are either much younger or in most cases children.
• In the 200th episode of Stargate SG-1, the titular team briefly imagine existence replaced with younger, hipper versions of themselves. They aren't pleased with the effect.
• Indiana Jones movies got the TV spin off The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, which showed Indy as a young lad working alongside his father.
• Reality Tv set franchise spinoffs with pre-teen/teen competitors include:
  • "MasterChef Junior",
  • "Tiptop Chef Inferior"
  • "Chopped Junior"
  • "Project Rails Inferior"
  • "Dancing with the Stars Juniors"
  • "Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls"
  • As well, The Astonishing Race also added that age group to teams in its much maligned, simply canonical "Family Edition" in Season viii;
• In possibly the most bizarre example, long-running British sitcom Terminal of the Summer Vino spawned a spin-off called Showtime Of The Summertime Wine, featuring the main cast as teenagers in the 1930s. This included both (at the time) Suspiciously Similar Substitutes for the third human being of the Comic Trio, despite the fact that, in Last, Compo barely remembered one of them was at the same schoolhouse, and the other one was conspicuously established as a newcomer to the village. Since this is a testify near drunk and arguably senile elderly Brits, yous could chalk it up to Unreliable Narrator.
• Mystery Scientific discipline Theater 3000 used this line no less than iii times during "The Killer Shrews"; Joel'south invention exchange was Jim Henson's Edgar Winter Babies, and during the short "Inferior Rodeo Daredevils", they mention "Jim Henson's Misfit Babies" and "Jim Henson'southward The Terminal Motion picture Show Babies".
• Psych got two of these. There was a set of brusk cartoons betwixt the shows where it showed Shawn and Gus every bit children. And so at the adjacent flavour, Shawn and Gus appears in shorts clips as teenagers during the mid xc'southward during the commercials.
• Sesame Beginnings, a directly-to-DVD Edutainment Show for kids younger than the Sesame Street demographic (ie the under-2s), starring Babe Big Bird, Infant Cookie Monster, Babe Elmo and Babe Prairie Dawn.
• The brusk-lived Young Hercules, directed at teen and younger viewers, featured the semi-sterilized adventures of an adolescentish Hercules through ancient high school.
• Immature Sheldon is a spinoff of The Big Bang Theory centered around the graphic symbol of Sheldon as a child.

    Pinballs

• Baby Pac-Man, a pinball/videogame hybrid featuring the baby of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Homo.

    Toys

• In one of the most bizarre examples (which in hindsight, was also tactless and kinda stupid) the already-young Cabbage Patch Kids had a line of Cabbage Patch Preemies, fifty-fifty smaller versions of the dolls. In a motion that everybody except the Cabbage Patch People saw coming, making a cute little doll out of frail and weak premature babies infuriated a lot of people. Discussed in number 2 of this commodity.
• DC Super Hero Girls stars DC characters as high schoolers.
• Kindi Kids features the Shopkins Shoppies characters as kindergartners.
• My Trivial Pony's "And so Soft" line, which oddly styles the infant ponies more than afterwards human infants instead of equine ones. This is fifty-fifty the case in the toys based on Friendship is Magic, which explicitly shows ponies, babies or otherwise, to be quadrupedal.
• 'Newborns' is a popular way for characters in a line of toys to become even smaller and cuter, eastward.k. Pound Puppies and Puppy In My Pocket.
• Sesame Street: Costly dolls, targeted to infants and babies, have been sold of Ernie, Bert, Cookie Monster, Prairie Dawn, Large Bird and Elmo. Picture books for babies and toddlers, depicting the Muppet characters as babies, have also been sold.
• Suzy'due south Zoo has been spun-off into Little Suzy's Zoo. The evidence on BabyFirstTV? Yes, it'south actually the latter.
• Teenie Beanies, which were available at McDonald'due south for several years, were this to Beanie Babies. Some Teenie Beanies were even given diminutive names of their larger counterparts; e.1000., the Teenie version of Ants the Anteater was called "Antsy."
• Dracco Heads, a series of collectible figurines made to trail off of the popularity of GoGo's Crazy Bones, had a set of figures chosen "Babe Dracco Heads" where all the characters from the outset Dracco Heads set are babies.

    Video Games

• Ecco Jr. features a younger version of Ecco the Dolphin exploring the bounding main, completing such tasks as herding seahorses, pond through rings, and finding lost balls for ocean lions along the way. The game was created to appeal to younger gamers as part of the "Sega Club" line of games, partially in response to the difficulty of the original Ecco game and its sequel, Tides of Fourth dimension.
• In Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory, IF and Compa, two of the playable characters in the previous ii games now appear as babies due to Neptune traveling back in time.
• Neopets:
  • In this Neopian Times article, Darigan, Kass, Adee, Fyora, Sloth, Jhudora, Illusen, Edna and Eliv Thade as kids, fifty-fifty though Sloth and Fyora are way older than Illusen, Jhudora, Darigan, Kass, and Eliv, who in plough are mode older than Adee.
  • this Neopian Times article is about Edna as a kid.
• Pokémon frequently introduces pre-evolved forms of certain Mons in each new expansion of the Pokedex. Who gets a infant form seems to be dependent on the character in question. Some get them based on their popularity, and others received them because they announced too "big" or "advanced" to hatch out of an egg as is.
• Square Enix did this with a couple of Terminal Fantasy characters in the Kingdom Hearts series. Most of these characters were originally in their late teens or early on 20s in their respective Last Fantasy games, merely their Kingdom Hearts counterparts are in their early on to mid-teens. This includes Zack from Final Fantasy Seven ^note Actually, Zack makes his first appearance in Kingdom Hearts: Nascence by Sleep, which takes place 10 years before the original game. So, he's probable in his 20s in the present, just like his Final Fantasy counterpart., Selphie, Seifer, Fuu (Fujin), and Rai (Raijin) from Last Fantasy Eight, and lastly, Tidus and Wakka from Terminal Fantasy X. Squall Leonheart is an exception, as he is instead aged up to his twenties.
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • Yoshi'south Island features the Yoshi tribe trying to keep baby versions of the regular Mario characters rubber from Kamek and Baby Bowser. Its sequel has the current-twenty-four hours Bowser and Kamek traveling to the past in a search for MacGuffin Babies, terrorizing the Yoshis and babies (including himself) of that time period in the process. No, the plot doesn't make any sense.
  • Incidentally, Yoshi'south Story was all virtually Babe Yoshis saving the twenty-four hours for the grown-ups.
  • Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time stars the older Mario Bros. teaming upward with their baby selves to save the past, present, and hereafter from Conflicting Invaders.
  • Spin off baby versions of Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy and Rosalina take appeared in the Mario Kart series. Infant versions of Wario, Donkey Kong and Bowser take appeared in other titles.
• The Twisted Metal serial is normally about a vicious, loftier-octane demolition derby where contestants blow up each other to win a wish of their choosing. And so there'due south Twisted Metallic: Small Ball, where instead every graphic symbol is a picayune kid and they bulldoze heavily-armed RC vehicles through playgrounds and other urban areas.
• Virtua Fighter Kids is a combination of this and Super-Plain-featured. It leans more towards the latter as yous got grapheme who have facial hair and developed breasts, despite beingness called children.
• In the web-game Nick Jr Babies you take care of infant versions of Oswald, Dora, Blue, and Neb from Oswald, Dora the Explorer, Blue's Clues, and Little Beak.

    Webcomics

• The Book of Biff had a week of comics showing Biff equally a kid as that week'southward theme. See for yourself.
• JL8, formerly Footling League, gives the Justice League this treatment, relocating the master cast (and villains!) to simple school. However, the style is more evocative of Calvin and Hobbes than the more commonly-used; recycled IN Schoolhouse!
• Least I Could Do follows the newspaper comics tradition of Sunday features alongside weekday strips; the Sunday version is called LICD: Beginnings and features a pre-adolescent Rayne and his family. The art is different too, done by the same artist but in a rougher, cozier style, so as to firmly separate the 2 iterations.
• Little Saiyalings is what you get when y'all put Dragon Ball together with a petty fleck of Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes.
• From Narbonic comes Li'50 Mell.
  • One Li'l Mell story appears to suggest her course also contains Li'fifty Julie Rome, Li'l Tip, Li'l Virginia Lee and Li'l Nick Zerhakker (and L'l Shaenon and Li'50 Jeffrey Channing Wells in the dorsum row). Probably non actually, though, specially since later strips in the same storyline show Shaenon and Jeff every bit teachers. Before, there was a cameo by Li'fifty Dave.
  • The substitute instructor in the showtime arc of Li'l Mell was quite obviously Artie ^* At least, he was once Artie's human form appeared in the main strip, which happened much later. Although the proper name Arthur Narbon was definitely a inkling., presumably researching for his study on trigger-happy tendencies in early childhood as mentioned in the last arc of Narbonic.
  • There was also a guest week of Narbonic Babies, in which Dr Narbon was looking after Toddler Dave and Baby Mell at Narbonic Babies Daycare. Coincidentally, Artie ends up travelling back in fourth dimension to that one equally well.
• Si Juki has Kisah Usil Si Juki Kecil, portraying Juki and his higher-aged friends from the boarding house every bit small-scale children in The '90s.

    Spider web Videos

• Schoolhouse Of Thrones is the cast of A Song of Ice and Fire fix in a Loftier Schoolhouse A.U.. The noble houses are re-imagined as high-school cliques.
• Kombat Kids is a series starring the Babalitized Mortal Kombat cast. It is non equally Lighter and Softer as it looks, though.

    Western Animation

• When the producers of Batman: The Animated Serial were told to do a "teenage Batman" show, at first they seriously idea about quitting but instead they came up with Batman Across (a sequel serial featuring Bruce Wayne'due south successor). Bruce Timm has stated that before doing Batman Beyond, the network had initially wanted them to do a serial focusing on Batman mentoring teen versions of the Justice League.
• Clifford the Big Ruddy Dog had Clifford's Puppy Days. As a grown upward, he was bigger than a house merely as a pup he was so small that fits inside a loving cup of tea.
• Drawing Network adquired the rights of Condorito to make a preteen version of the eponymous character and his friends called Condorito Jr. , made equally 1-minute shorts series.
• In Ewoks, the characters are in their preteens/early on teens (Wicket being about 12 and the others slightly older), in contrast to those of them appearing in Return of the Jedi being young adults.
• The Flintstones became The Flintstone Kids.
• The 2000s series of George of the Jungle changes George from a full-grown man to a teenager.
• Disney' Hercules: The Animated Series:
  • The whole series takes place while Hercules is in his mid teens. Hercules was technically that age during the movie, but not for nearly of it (it happens in-betwixt Hercules being accepted equally Phil'due south apprentice and the completion of his hero training).
  • One episode features Hercules, Icarus, Pegasus, and Hurting existence turned into babies, with Panic and Cassandra having to scramble for the cure.
• Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Tony, Pepper, Rhodey, and the Big Bad The Mandarin are all re-imagined as teenagers in loftier school.
• Jake and the Never Land Pirates was originally intended to be one for Pirates of the Caribbean, just they tossed that out the window and made it a Peter Pan setting instead.
• Paul Frank's Julius got this treatment when turned into a cartoon and toyline. The terminate result, Julius Jr., airs on Nick Jr. In the US and is bachelor on Netflix elsewhere.
• Disney's Jungle Cubs which was a spin off of The Jungle Book (1967) featuring the animal characters as preteens and Kaa and Shere Khan equally their allies.
• Kangoo has Kangoo Juniors.
• Footling Rosie, Not Quite Starring an blithe Roseanne Barr and featuring, in i episode, an animated John Goodman.
• Washed to the Looney Tunes with Baby Looney Tunes, which started off every bit a line of merchandise.
• The Mini Monsters in the animated series The Comic Strip are the child's version of the classic Universal Horror monsters.
• Madagascar: A Piddling Wild is set during Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria's child years at the zoo, before the events of the motion picture series.
• Muppet Babies (1984), the example that codified the trope, features pre-Chiliad versions of the core cast of The Muppet Show, though to increment the ratio of female person characters to male, they gave Scooter a tomboyish fraternal twin sis named Skeeter.
  • The whole serial is actually based on a scene in The Muppets Take Manhattan, where Piggy wonders what things would have been similar if they knew each other as children. ^note This cartoon is 99% of what kept that scene from beingness a Large-Lipped Alligator Moment (and fifty-fifty and then only in terms of the greater franchise).
  • A reboot series premiered in 2018.
• My Commencement Disney Princess, which essentially portrays the Princesses as toddlers.
• My Little Pony: Newborn Cuties, an offshoot of G3, is an infamous example of this kind of series, portraying the Cadre 7 equally babies in a desperate struggle to maximize profits.
• The New Archies is a terribly 80s cartoon that has the usually-teenage Archie characters as middle schoolers.
• Robin Hood: Mischief in Sherwood is about a pre-teen Robin Hood and his friends John, Marion, Scarlet (who's a girl) and Tuck contesting the adult forces of a pre-teen Prince John.
  • An older serial fabricated by Hanna-Barbera in 1991 called Young Robin Hood. It featured the Merry Men every bit teens and Robin also gained a messenger hawk named Arrow.
• Rugrats:
  • Inverted with the Time Skip spin-off All Grown Up!, by having the main Rugrats characters historic period x years from being babies.
  • Done direct when All Grown Up itself got spun-off as Angelica and Suzie's Pre-Skool Daze. For those of you who missed it, the Rugrats was already about babies, it got a spin-off in the grade of All Grown Up and so that got its Ain spin-off.
• Sabrina: The Animated Series featured the adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch at almost age twelve, with Melissa Joan Hart's little sister as the title vocalization. Harvey was a skateboard nut (that could explain a few things, actually), and replaced the live action bear witness's Alpha Bitch with a new alpha bitch named Jem Stone, who was the old antagonist, only twelve and vaguely gothy. The theme song is eager to indicate out that Sabrina's "the greatest" and has "super magic", merely, since she'south the protagonist of a show directed at preteens, she'south predictably sort of a loser. As with many examples of this trope, the serial besides ignored the original canon. In the airplane pilot special, Sabrina didn't even know she was a witch until she was sixteen. Well, the actual original canon, the Sabrina the Teenage Witch comic book, shows that Sabrina had her powers and was a witch since at least form school (per several "Little Archie" stories).
• "Those meddling kids" from Scooby-Doo went from their late teens to their preteens for A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. This is technically a straight example, though the writers of the series used the new format as an excuse to do a Self-Parody of the franchise's most notable tropes, which past the time of the show'due south ambulation, had been washed to death for twenty straight years.
• They tried taking this tangent with Strawberry Shortcake a few times, well-nigh notably in with the 2003 serial by way of the launch of the Strawberry Shortcake Infant line, featuring baby Strawberry Shortcake, kitten Custard, a younger puppy Pupcake and an unnamed teddy comport beingness prominently displayed on products meant for infants and toddlers. The show tried going down the path with simply i episode hand waved to be Apple Dumplin's dream, but featured baby Ginger Snap, baby Orange Blossom and baby Angel Block. The baby books added baby Blueberry Muffin. A baby Blueberry Pie was designed, but very infrequently used.
• The SpongeBob SquarePants prequel serial, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Nether Years, which details SpongeBob'due south experience at summer campsite as a 10-year-former, along with younger versions of other characters.
• Tom and Jerry in Tom & Jerry Kids became this. Information technology's worth noting that in its Three Shorts format only Tom and Jerry were kids. Other characters like Droopy or Spike and Tyke remained unchanged.
• Total DramaRama is a Spin-Off serial of the Total Drama serial that features 11 of the original 22 teenagers ^note Beth, Bridgette, Cody, Courtney, Duncan, Gwen, Harold, Izzy, Leshawna, Noah, and Owen (and Jude from 6teen) as 4-year-olds at a daycare run by Chef Hatchet.
• We Baby Bears is a We Bare Bears spin-off taking place during the childhood of Grizz, Panda, and Ice Bear as they travel in a paper-thin box, looking for a place to call home. Notably, the original show also had several episodes depicting the bears' childhood.
• WWE released a new developed animated evidence chosen Army camp WWE in which electric current and by WWE stars are portrayed as kids (John Cena, R-Truth, Big Show, Stone Cold, Rock, Undertaker, Mark Henry, and the Bella Twins) or army camp counselors (Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, Ric Flair, and Sgt. Slaughter) all while Vince McMahon runs the camp.
• The WWE's previous animated serial, Blob Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, had a one-off episode, "Modest But Mighty," where the wrestlers were transformed into kids, thanks to Hillbilly Jim'southward secret chili recipe and granny's magical herbs. The kids wreak havoc, of course, only end up foiling a auto-stripping band by episode's cease.
• X-Men: Development, in which virtually of the featured characters are re-imagined as teenagers attending high school. This wouldn't completely count considering that many of the characters in the testify were teenagers when start introduced in the comics (specially the original five), and some of the older characters (Professor X, Wolverine, Storm, Magneto, etc.) retained their canon ages.
• A rather strange example: there was an blithe spin-off of this kind from the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea. Where almost all the characters were elementary students, and had wacky adventures in Off-Model animation. If yous don't believe it see a sample and caryatid yourselves.
• The painfully hip Yo Yogi! had pre-teen versions of Yogi Bear and a few other Hanna-Barbera characters, hanging out in Jellystone Mall and working equally amateur detectives.
• Seemingly to brand a version appropriate for younger viewers, 1991 saw the release of James Bond Jr., about the nephew of the famous superspy, who also foils evil spies with the assist of fellow descendents of well-known characters from the Bond serial, but while trying to get his homework done on time too.
• Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood focuses on the preschool-aged offspring of characters from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
  • The same matter can be said about Donkey Hodie, which focuses on the granddaughter of the original Donkey Hodie (now named Grampy Hodie) from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
• Slippin' Jimmy, the animated prequel series to Better Telephone call Saul, portrays Jimmy McGill and his babyhood all-time friend Marco Pasternak during their days as fledgling con artists in Cicero.

Parodies

    Anime & Manga

• 1 of the Omake of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie2nd As is a Real Trailer, Faux Movie called Iryou Shoujo ^note Medical Girl Medical Shamal, a Magical Daughter parody featuring the ordinarily adult Shamal as a x year old.
• In the Gag Dub of Sgt. Frog, at the end of episode 9 the narrator wonders if the still-deaged Giroro heralds the beginning of a spinoff called "Sgt. Frog Babies.

    Comic Books

• ElfQuest included some self-parody strips featuring the regular characters drawn in the style of Tiny Toon Adventures.
• Gail Simone's Gen¹³ introduces The Authoriteens; Child Apollo, Daybreaker, Nestling, the Contractor, the Intern, and Jack Hatfield (the Spirit of Small Towns). They plow out to hail from an entire universe of Spinoff Babies.
• Sensational She-Hulk spoofs this in event #50, when John Byrne proposes to Jen a comic almost the adventures of "Li'l She-Hulk". Afterwards reading merely two pages of the cutesy offset story, she dismisses the proposal, and tosses Byrne out a window.
• Pre-dating Teen Titans was Teeny Titans, an in-universe parody from the early 1990s involving babified versions of Nightwing, Starfire, Pantha, Changeling, and Baby Wildebeest (turned into a magic transforming doll) and their battles confronting evil Mr. (Slade "Deathstroke") Wilson. The fictional "Teeny Titans" came virtually when the New Titans were strapped for cash and decided to whore themselves out via merchandising deals and was largely played for daze value as far equally the team being horrified at how their cartoon show was a slapstick kiddie prove.
• The Mojo/Longshot arc of the X-Men comics, which featured the mad ruler of a world based effectually film and television creating the "X-Babies."
  • The X-Babies were largely based on (and identically fatigued as) a brief advent of the actual X-Men reverted to childhood forms in the original introduction of Longshot to the team (Almanac #ten). They did a decent (though not perfect) chore of keeping the relative ages of each member scaled to the others. Created two annuals later, the "official" Ten-Babies (who are clones, not altered originals) were cheekily introduced with a "they're back" blurb on the cover.
  • Eventually, X-Baby villains were created, and an X-Baby version of Apocalypse destroyed the Mojoverse.

    Fan Works

• In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, Kaiba has a flashback to his and Mokuba's childhood in the orphanage. Upon the cut-away from the present, you see the title Jim Henson's Kaiba Babies and hear littlekuriboh singing the Muppet Babies theme song.

    Films

• The opening of Looney Tunes: Back in Activity had a chip where the Warner Brothers (hither depicted as identical twins in chairs) state that Kate made a infant spin-off for the Lethal Weapon films.

  "Finally, a Lethal Weapon I can have my grandchildren to."

    Alive-Action TV

• On Community, Abed imagines a infant spin-off of the study grouping, Greendale Babies.
• A Muppets Tonight sketch, where 2 tapes of former network shows got tangled together, resulting in the creation of "Seinfeld Babies."
• Mystery Scientific discipline Theater 3000:
  • A pop riff of theirs, under the formula "Jim Henson's <bare> Babies". They have even quipped, "Solarbabies Babies!" and "Muppet Baby Babies!"
  • In "The Killer Shrews", Joel'south invention exchange of "Jim Henson'due south Edgar Winter Babies" even stopped Dr. Forrester from blowing up the Earth!
• A Television set Funhouse sketch, "Fetal Scooby-Doo", in which fake hauntings were exposed by a gang of prenatal detectives.
• An episode of Wonder Showzen features a sketch titled "Wonder Showzen Preemies" with the regular cast as babies in an obvious Muppet Babies (1984) spoof (Nanny fifty-fifty appears, shown from the socks upwardly every bit a big pair of lips on legs — in keeping with the style of Wonder Showzen, the preemies actually have "two nannies"). At the end of the sketch, the children watch their own favorite evidence, "Wonder Showzen Embryos."
• Nickelodeon once pulled an April Fool's Twenty-four hours joke in which in that location were elderly-aimed spin-offs of SpongeBob SquarePants and All Grown Up! featuring older versions of said characters called Nick Sr.
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! has washed sketches featuring a children's version of its network'south hit reality franchise The Bachelor, The Infant Bachelor—which is exactly what information technology says on the tin (with Kimmel'south nephew playing the title role). There's too been Infant Bachelorette (complete with "The Boys Tell All") and Baby Bachelor in Paradise sketches.

    Music

• Pop group A-Teens began every bit an the Abba Teens, who covered Abba songs for a tardily 90s/early on 2000s tween audience. This gimmick but lasted on album before they bankrupt off into a reasonably successful standalone group.
• 1 of the stranger examples of this was Devo 2.0, a Disney-backed music projection of preteens covering Devo songs, which are all about such topics every bit the de-development of homo intellect, the shallowness of consumerism and The End of the World as We Know Information technology. Devo presumably either wanted the kids to beginning thinking of these things at a young age or simply found the concept hilarious.
• In Nolan Thomas' 1984 video "Yo Lilliputian Brother", Thomas (who was about xiv) appears with his sibling and friends: kids dressed upward equally Baton Idol, Cyndi Lauper, Ric Ocasek, and Prince.
• In the music video of "The Invisible Man" past Queen from the album The Phenomenon the band members are played by children, dressed up as them.

    Web Animation

• The Adventures of Lil' Cthulhu by Zachary Murray.
• Homestar Runner:
  • Parodied in the Potent Bad Electronic mail highschool, where Strong Bad claims he, Homestar, Potent Mad, and Marzipan were "a team of super sleuths" in loftier schoolhouse, then goes on to merits "In middle school, we were a bunch of melon-headed babies with giant eyes and enormous imaginations!" And then he gets carried abroad and adds "And going even unnecessarily farther back, we were all a agglomeration of plucky parameciums living in Free Petri Dish, United states!" and "Earlier that nosotros were... Romans. In Roman times. And Don Knotts was e'er showing up."
  • Episode vii of Stiff Bad'southward "independent comic" Teen Girl Squad was "Teeny Tiny Girl Team", which featured the girls equally preschoolers (though still decumbent to comical deaths, as seen when new boy graphic symbol Tompkins "died somehow").

    Little What's Her Face up: I can count to One thousand!
    Fiddling Cheerleader: That's nothing. I tin count to purple backwards.

• Smosh Babies depicts the cast of Smosh, namely Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, equally infants.

    Webcomics

• T-Rex and Utahraptor disagree on how good an thought "Dino babies" is.
  • Don't await, they actually made one, in the 90s. Although it got Screwed past the Network as well.
• Parodied in this filler strip from Exterminatus At present, depicting a Spinoff Babies version of the webcomic starring Lothar. Because Lothar was artificially grown, the result isn't very exciting.
• This sketch from the makers of Girl Genius parodies the concept with a litte Agatha, Krosp and Gil..and Klaus who unlike the other iii is is usual historic period merely has been hit with a compress ray. The championship text proclaims "Shamless Marketing Presents:".
  • Note that when the main characters are shown as younger, it's more "backstory", less "lil' mad scientists".
• Parodied in Insecticomics, with "Michael Baybies," featuring a combination of kids-friendly action and huge explosions in an obvious jab at Michael Bay.
• Motherly Scootaloo has Lightning Rush Answers, with a donation-based update organisation.

    Web Original

• At that place is a parody nostalgia website for the nonexistent show The Adventures of Li'50 Bill & Hill and Friends. What makes it actually funny is the executives' merits that whatsoever resemblance to a Presidential administration is entirely coincidental, although nosotros the fandom are as well smart to fall for that!
• For April Fools' Day 2018, The Muppets fansite Tough Pigs: For Muppet Fans Who Grew Up celebrated Muppet Babies (2018) by reinventing itself as Tough Pigs Babies: For Muppet Fans Who Didn't Grow Up , and reviewed such never completed (or begun) cartoons as Sam and Friends Babies and Wilkins Coffee Babies (turns out babies shouldn't drink coffee). They even inverted the trope with "Muppet Elders", depicting the characters of the original show as elderly people living in a retirement home.

    Web Videos

• The Lodge posted a joke trailer for a spin off for "The Guild Babies". But because Bladezz is then much younger than the remainder of the characters already, he is a fetus.

    Western Animation

• In Codename: Kids Next Door'due south "Performance C.A.B.L.E.T.V.", the show lineup for a Tv network is shown to be Rainbow Monkeys followed past Rainbow Monkey Babies followed by Rainbow Monkey Teens.
• Drawn Together did a Spinoff Babies episode, complete with theme song. Since this is Drawn Together, it'southward really one of the more than horrific episodes. ^notation Rumor has it that this was intended as a Poorly Bearded Pilot that Comedy Key rejected.
• Parodied in American Dad! with Lil' Entourage.
• Family Guy did this in the "Li'l Griffins" short story in "Family unit Guy Viewer Mail 1" parodying The Footling Rascals.
  • In that location was as well the Stand by Me parody where the Spooner Street neighbors are childhood friends.
  • "Dearly Deported" had CSI Babies, in which the detectives are babies and cannot solve crimes. Both Stewie and Peter are horrified of the show.
• Lampshaded in ane episode of Garfield and Friends. Jon was looking into marketing Garfield for TV. Using Applied Phlebotinum and a Magical Estimator, the network executive Jon was talking to shows off various ideas he has, among them a baby Garfield complete with Lorenzo Music making cute cooing sounds. The executive mentions that it was the latest craze.
• I Am Weasel had this as a role of an episode focusing on parodying outdated animation cliches and tropes, every bit the blithe actors heavily protested confronting using them in their show.
  • Every bit did Taz-Mania.
• Sort of parodied in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Kids' Stuff". Iv of the main heroes get turned into 8 years olds and human activity like smaller versions of themselves mixed with typical little kid archetypes.
• One-act Key'south series Lil' Bush turns George West. Bush and other figures from American politics into form-school kids, and in doing so it works according to exactly the same rules as other examples of this trope.
• In Europe with of all people, Pope John Paul 2 and Padre Pio, in Piucci and Lolek. For no real reason, they're still dressed the same simply now in boyish form, offering spiritual help to troubled children.
• The Powerpuff Girls spoofed this in "City of Clipsville" by depicting a flashback where Professor Utonium accidentally turns the girls into babies, and then he does it on the rest of Townsville. At that place's some other flashback later on that spoofs the Time Skip variant, by having the girls speed up time and give up fighting crime to go air-headed teens, as have the Rowdyruff Boys.
• An episode of The Simpsons, in which Milhouse asks Alan Moore to sign his copy of Watchmen Babies In: V For Vacation. (pictured above)

  Milhouse: Mr. Moore, will you sign my DVD of Watchmen Babies? Which of the babies is your favorite?
  Alan Moore: You come across what those encarmine corporations exercise? They have your ideas and they suck them! Suck them like leeches until they've gotten every last driblet of marrow from your bones!

• One Robot Chicken sketch parodied this with Terminator. "Come with me, the Terminator Babe, if you want to alive!" At the end, Sarah Connor comments about how Skynet must be running out of ideas for terminators.
  • Robot Craven also did Lil' Hitler which was semi-authentic, ^notation Frg occupied Czechoslovakia then Poland earlier war was declared by Britain and her allies from the U.s. perspective.
• An In-Universe example in Rugrats reveals that Chuckie'southward favorite Tv set show is "Space Trek Babies". Tommy absolutely cannot stand information technology.
• Sam and Max consider the flashback versions of themselves to be "beautiful" and "marketable".
• In the Sheep in the Big Metropolis episode "Baah-dern Times", they ran a faux commercial for Secret War machine System Babies wherein Full general Specific, Individual Public, and the Angry Scientist were babies.
• Satirized in a South Park episode, a questionable incident that occurred in pre-school prompts the boys to flash back and look adorable.
• Parodied in the Uncle Grandpa episode "Uncle Grandpa Babies", complete with Giant Realistic Flying Tiger equally a cub and Pizza Steve every bit a pile of dough.
  • To hype upwards the episode, Cartoon Network brought back reruns of the existent life spinoff babies series Baby Looney Tunes for the get-go time since 2010.
• In the credits of the The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy spinoff Underfist, included amidst many possible sequel and spinoff ideas is "Underfist Babies".
• An April Fools 2021 annunciation from Adult Swim shows off a faux trailer for [adult swim jr], featuring shows with anile down characters. Titles include The Venture Nephews, Superjuvie, Harvey Birdman: Junior Associate, along with some others.

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