The Child Prodigy Trope, Explained 

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I adore all of your videos, particularly the "Trope" series! 😍Please can you cover and explain the "Bad Boy" trope in a future video, and why the "Good Girl" is almost irresistibly attracted to him?

Could you do a video looking at hypnotism within films and maybe TV shows. I think the power of controlling another human is a interesting power on the screen, usually being associated with dominance; fear; knowing the deep secrets of a person; and has been used in horror and thriller forms and has sometimes had sexual or romantic symbolism. It would also be interesting for you to look at the vampiric power of hypnotism in older films.

Can you do a video on the sound of music? It's my favourite movie and it would be amazing!!

Please do an article on days of our lives julie Horton's.

Haha, your comment just made my entire day, kudos! 😊😂

Same😂😂

This is my autistic life! XD

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TatzRules Yay that is absolutely a massive issue! I glided by without studying all the way up to university. Then I dropped out. Though to be fair, that was because I had a massive breakdown. I took years to get back on track, and then halfway through my law degree, I became severely disabled and had to drop out again. Now I live below the poverty line on a disability pension, and can’t work or study. Needless to say, I have not lived up to the expectations of my childhood. I’m pretty sure I still hold the record for youngest uni dropout in my state though- I was 15. Super impressive, huh? 😂 But by the time I finally got back around to uni, I had learned how to study and organise, and my notes were a thing of beauty. They had a contents page, and were colour coded. Which helps a lot when all your exams are open book. I did have a perfect GPA until I dropped out again, so I did eventually learn how to study right, it just took an extra 10-15 years longer than most kids. Whoops.

It can also be very lonely when you don’t have a lot of peers your own age to relate to

SketchbookHR That too. Feeling ostracized is one of the worst things for a child and it creates such horrible trauma for them anyway. But imagine being an outcast for something that other people tell you is an amazing gift. You’ll probably grow up to be extremely self-loathing.

Tariq Thomas Haha yup. For a few years after college I definitely engaged in some self destructive behaviors like partying way too much to “fit in”. In hindsight though I felt like smoking tons of weed and drinking a lot and watching shitty TV shows was like shutting off my brain, making me stop over analyzing everything and at least giving the illusion of being like everyone else and living in the moment. That being said, if there was a pill I could take to be “normal” I wouldn’t take it. My academic prowess and creativity has allowed me to escape the borderline poverty I grew up in and provide for my family. But those feelings of loneliness and isolation still persist 😢

This effect was briefly touched upon in “Better Call Saul” with Jimmy’s brother Chuck. It’s implied he was a genius and went to college at a ridiculously young age, but he didn’t have many friends there because he couldn’t relate to any of them since he was like, 14-15 years old

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I disagree, I think the WORST thing you can do is isolate them because they are gifted. You can let them know they are talented, but you can't isolate them from other children, and rob them of their childhood. But I definitely see where you're coming from lol

No-- gifted children have other learning requirements and work differently from other children. Pretending your child is normal will leave them wondering why, in god's name, they aren't like anyone else, and if you don't introduce the possibility of an accelerated learning course early, you could have a horribly, lethally bored child on you hands. What you've got to do is realize that they still to rest and build healthy relationships.

@@lanarich6759 I don't think you should isolate them either--which is why that is not what I said. I was more trying to convey that singling out a child, and specifically labelling them as "gifted", and then TELLING the child this--especially in the context of schooling--can be detrimental to their self image further down the road for a few reasons. I should also add that telling a kid that they are talented/clever is quite different from the specific "gifted" label; I would argue that ALL children should be told they are special and worthwhile (because they are), and these terms aren't/shouldn't be linked only to IQ measures. IMO care should be taken in praising all kids, to make sure that the child doesn't link their own self-worth with external achievements or measures--which I think can more easily happen if they are aware they are "gifted" (due to the specific percentile definitions around the term) and then also the associated treatment from adults and/or peers. That said, I am mostly speaking from my own experience as a kid who was skipped two years, and the similar experiences of my friends; naturally ymmv, and I am NOT a child psychologist... I just see how my own self worth issues are linked to how I was treated as a "gifted" kid, especially when I reflect on my brother's very difference experience, despite us being pretty much the same as me in terms of aptitude and intelligence. My parents, while aware he was smart of course, made sure he was never officially labelled on school or medical records as "gifted", where I was.

@@paperl9328 You can support a gifted child without calling them "gifted" specifically. Maybe it isn't the same worldwide (?) but where I grew up it was a thing parents can get kids tested for (this standardised series of exams/psych tests that spit out where they land in relation to their peers' expected and bellcurved academic progress) and it is then attached to their school record. Because of it being on a kid's perm record of learning, teachers are required focus their teaching around a specific "gifted model of learning" that the ministry of ed mandates for the kids officially deemed "gifted". Kids should be taught according to their learning requirements but in my experience it can be a very delicate thing in challenging the kid while making sure they don't develop unhealthy standards for themselves and/or externalize their value as being intrinsically linked to their academic performance or capability. Like I said with the other comment, ymmv, but I am speaking from my own experience here. TL;DR: smart kids can be accommodated and extended appropriately at school without slapping a "gifted" label on them and all the baggage that comes with that term.

My parents never told me I had autism or ADHD and it fucked me up, honestly it made my life soooooooooooooooooo much more difficult and stresseful than it needed to be...because I knew I was different, it was overt and obvious that I did not think like anyone else around me and I was wayyyyy better at LEGOs than other kids... I made a pulley system out of a string, toy tractor and slung it over curtain rods, around a ceiling fan on a tall ceiling... all at age 3... why? I wanted to turn a light switch on across the room so I didn't need to get up from playing with my LEGOs once it got too dark to use natural lighting. Gifted kids are going to figure out they are better at stuff than other kids one way or the other, so its best to allow them to show them how to be humble and not get full of themselves...because hubris is antithetical to progress, stability, and not being an asshole... plus, being born tall doesn't make you a better person any more than being born smarter... nothing makes a person and better person than another, not even being a better person. (Paradox, I know.) I'm tall and often called "smart" -- but I think unless someone has an I.Q. over 1,000, they're an idiot and...this just in...News flash: we're all idiots, at least compared to future humans and any other beings we may encounter, including a true artificial lifeform we will inevitably make, given enough time. People seem to forget we're literally in the young phase of the universe still... and we're still effectively in the stone age, but due to hubris somehow think we're smart, amazing, mostly flawless... lol we're like kids trying on our parents shoes and clothes, pretending to be adults... its cute, but oh my... we full of our selves as a species and never want to admit when we are wrong or that there could possibly be a better way to do things. Remember: We're all idiots trying to be smart... just because you're a little smarter doesn't mean shit. Ego is often the enemy of science and progress and a healthy life as individuals. Be humble, be happy. Learn for fun. Invent for fun. :)

Same thing happened to me, I loved Artemis Fowl

sofia 22 is still young.

sofia wow that‘s sad, but I appreciate the message!

Artemis fowl is actually a slightly scary work of literature. It feels all too real..

sofia 🙂It’s scary how much I relate to you, I read adult courtroom novels, medical books, and watched TV shows geared towards adults at the age of 12 and as much satisfaction as I attain answering much of the game show jeopardy trivia questions correctly I too struggle to relate to and socialize with others my age.

I don't think Hermione was a prodigy, more of the smart-girl trope. She wasn't a born genius just above average and exceptionally hardworking.

Margo Tenenbaum

Himara I think she almost was a born genius. Yes she worked hard, but her intellectual capacity was huge. She was able to figure things out exceptionally well and her memory capabilities were also amazing.

I was always in gifted classes and middle school was right around the time I began having intense depression and anxiety. In fact one day in 6th grade I came home crying because I was trying to figure out what college and career I wanted to pursue and got very overwhelmed. Being smart can be very isolating and lonely, especially at the pivotal age of middle school

SketchbookHR Yes, I agree. As teachers, we tend to worry about them less because they behave and do all their work, but they have a lot on their shoulders too.

Existential depression.

You are completely and utterly right, I’ve always had the expectations on me for various reasons (my name included) and from an early age I learnt how to adapt to what people want and how to please others, for my family, maintaining my maths skill and english skill was what they wanted from me. However, I didn’t actually suffer from depression until I was introduced to the idea of suicide and spent late nights trying to save my friend from it. I have been isolated from my friends and peers because of my intelligence and often find it hard to ask for help because throughout my childhood it was framed as ‘weak’ and my teachers now can’t understand why it’s so difficult for me to ask and why I get so frustrated so easily when others don’t adapt as quickly as me despite knowing it’s not their fault

How would you recommend them to get through thinking like that?

You're smart, you just gotta find your passion and practice until you get really good.

I sometimes feel the same way as well! It's important to know that you do have special and unique talents of your own, that you might not even realize. Also, people who are child prodigies don't really decide to be a prodigy, it's a combination of environment and genetics, like stated in the video. Negative thoughts will only hold you back and once you can let go of them the best you can reach your full potential! :)

idontwannaliveonthisplanetanymore this is exactly how I feel

You put our feelings in the best way possible! try writing I feel like you can be good at it .

If you don't like the trope then just ignore it, stop watching things that make you feel bad you probably have depression or something so I'll give you some credit but the world doesn't revolve around making you feel good believe it or not some people actually do like this trope and is most likely aimed at them, go watch something that makes *you* happy or study, mistakes can be made and who cares, the people that are judging you probably made mistakes too

This. Exactly this. Everyone measures your worth by your intellect. When you are no longer the smartest of the lot, they blame you for disappointing their unrealistic expectations. No one cares about how damaging this is for your self image.

1% of the earth's children get this thing we invented in the west called childhood.

mr illis I wholeheartedly disagree. Do you think humans are born with fully formed adult brains? No, there are many stages in a child’s development, and the first ten or so crucial forming years are called childhood.

It sounds like you were actually hothoused. That's massively damaging almost 100% of the time

Yes! I've seen adults focus so heavily on praising them or talking about their skill or outright telling them they're different, and it is so alienating.

I'm the laziest person ever, but I was always labeled as the "smart little girl" just because I have a good memory (to the point I do remember 85-90% of every single day of my life to the exact date). Anyways, I would come home from school, watch lots of TV, take naps, then do my homework and I almost never had any time left to study. I still got excellent grades. Until I got to university and reality kicked me in some subjects.

Same here. I'm naturally lazy and unimaginative. I had just had a good grasp of concepts and an amazing ability to retain information, although quite a lot of it was useless.

Same I never felt like I was smart because I wasn’t creative or could come up with my own ideas I just always had a good memory and understanding concepts

Exactly same with me

Same I always saw it as copy and paste and always envied people who could come up with things on their own and thought of them as geniuses even though they weren’t labeled as it

I'm so sorry that that happened to you, a parent should never abandon their kid like that. I pray for you to become whatever weird and wonderful person you are in your heart. (I say that because I believe that we are all inherently weird and wonderful and "normalcy" tries to suck it out. Just in case you dont see the word weird as I do, something of beauty).

Yess! Love this!!

Please, say it louder. It's really important.

People tend to be impressed by natural exceptionalism over hard work. I believe that intelligence and creativity is a lot more common than people think it is, but the work ethic and life skills necessary to translate your intellect into improving your life is truly rare.

Exactly. I always admired my peers or even younger children who excel in some kind of activity, like music, or studying, but mostly because it usually takes a LOT of determination and hard work, sure if they are intruiged in the field they excel, to them it might not feel like burden. I just feel that child prodigies, or children who are exceptionally good at something, should be respected not because of their status, but because of the effort they put into achieving it.

I agree. One of the many reasons I don't want children.

tis just a story though. "bad seeds" don't actually *happen*, bad people come 100% (and I do mean 100%, not 99%) of the time from a troubled childhood, abusive family, passed trauma...

@@irmabud Well you say that, but it is not 100% as you say, because many people turn into sociopaths despite coming from a nurturing and caring family. Also, Psycopaths are born too. There is always the genetic component that complicates stuff and it's not clear the odds of someone just coming out wrong. But the odds are never zero. That's why it's terrifying.

@@irmabud for one, trauma can be a result of many things (not just abuse) which might be out of a parents control. And, children can be abused by people other than their parents (like siblings, teachers, relatives) Also, there are some mental health issues that people are just born with, and especially because they are stigmatized there might not be much a parent could do to get their child the help they need.

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Yaaaaaas There's a clip in an episode of Community where Shirley (black woman) is being asked to act in a commercial a certain way. Guy can't find the word to describe what he'd like her to do, and there's a cutaway where Shirley says "the word he's looking for is 'sassy'. He better pray he don't find it." If they ever do this trope, I would love for them to include this line

They made one about the strong black woman a few days ago.

Take a human evolution biology course and put two and two together. Coming from a black woman in the us.

From the perspective of two white women?!! No thanks! Their videos are cool but they should stay out of racial analysis that’s already highly negative and exaggerated irl!

Umbrella Corporation I love Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz work

Such a good point, it has been dominated by white narratives. Would love your take on the ladies in hidden figures! That was so awesome seeing ppl of colour, esp women, as so intellectually talented 😀

Mecha Zord thank you so much❤.

While this is true and an important caveat, I did find school so easy to pass that I never studied and didn't develop the skills needed to excel at college. Now being 25 is still a struggle to maintain a consistent routine, go the extra mile and accept diminishing returns in long term skills because of that lazy attitude that carried me through many years. And I know I'm not the only one.

You just described me... i have no studying habits...i need to change that

There's gifted adults too... If it's the real giftedness - which is not just knowing a lot of things reading a lot of books having good grades etc. - it won't go away... But as I said real giftedness is not what is commonly considered as being smart/gifted... And the wrong is not science and real giftedness but more the false representations and the adults screaming "gofted" for ... I'm sorry but nothing, and you end up with situations like the one you are describing with a child having that label to then fall of it. And on the side real gifted people that don't fit the stereotype falling under the radar, sometimes being ven considered less, suffering of no recognition and no adaptation to them, and still suffering during adulthood because things are still not made for them. I'm not here to say that one pain is worse than the other, I get how being pressured because everyone think you are gifted can be very hard, real gifted have it, we even pu it on yourself often, but then you get adulthood and... Yeah realize that no, I'm a real gifted I did not experienced that but I can get the pain. But as a real gifted I still don't know how to really "work" and it's not that much that I don't know but more that I can't. I can do incredible things and read learn etc. Like crazy... If it's not seen as an effort by my brain. If it is everything froze and I can't force it. :/ and when there's need of an added effort I'll have trouble with it, I'm lucky my level of giftedness allows me to get away with my minimal effort, but I'm thinking about people not gifted or gifted but at a lower level who suddenly have no other choice but to make effort however as their brain of gifted is the same as me they also have a hard time with forcing their brain to work... No effort not forced not work ? He'll yeah I'll learn tha language in no time. An assignment ? Work ? Effort ? More ? Oh no suddenly I don't even know how to speak my own language. I can get the very hard time of these person - and how lucky I am compared to them-. But it's... Not the fault of the gifted and the non gifted children that are victims. Victims of parents wanting their child to be special, victims of at a moment a problem with the diagnosis... Victim of mentality and stereotypes. Oh he learned to read before age 3 ? Prodigy ! Gifted ! ... No. It's also a problem with external vs internal. Giftedness the real one is not external it's internally how your brain function on a biological level... It has something to do with neuroanatomy genetic... But the person giving diagnosis of giftedness should know that and be able to make the difference between a really gifted person and someone that is not... To help at least a little bit with stereotypes. To dare saying "no ma'am your child is normal." To a mother desperately wanting her child to be special. (which is also selfish... Real giftedness is not funny in our society as it is... And in the absolute sometimes.) I'm sorry for what you've gone through and that now it's ok for you :) if you are not a real gifted you might be able to learn how to work. If you are... There's way of functioning with sometimes annoying brain :)

@@leilazerrouki7040 so hi, I don't know if I would still be considered 'gifted', rn im in highschool, all the classes I take are AP classes and I get good grades, but that's mainly because this year I forced myself to learn how to study, things still come really easy to me especially compared to most of my friends. I had to force myself to actually put in the work because about 2 years ago I was so used to understanding everything immediately that if I didn't understand something immediately I would get a panic attack and wouldn't even bother trying to understand, I dropped every subject that didn't come easy to me. but I forced myself to learn how to study and now I have this mindset: if I don't understand something, it doesn't mean I won't ever understand it, it just means that I don't understand it YET. anyway I learned myself how to study and although my study habits aren't perfect yet (i'm still very good at procrastinating), I'm getting better and better everyday. I hope you learn how to 'work' or how to deal with your brain!

I love her channel ♥️

@@leilazerrouki7040 Same. Reminders that were not alone are so good. Once you find the subject you're interested in, you'll spend a lot of time working on it and studying it with no procrastination problems. I thought I was a hopeless student until I discovered philosophy!

Likewise, it's my favourite of their series of videos! 😍

Same!

Me too!

Mine too, Matilda was my idol growing up, as was Lisa Simpson! 📚

I relate to this on such a deep level... Except I'm not in college yet.

Shoutout to Mwindo, the one born walking and talking.

Be kinder to yourself. Try to love life and yourself in it. Success is meaningless if it leaves you hollow and unhappy. Learn to be happy and calm your mind.💖

I relate a lot to you... my sister and I are both in our early to mid-20s, and as kids, we were praised by our ability to articulate words (in my case), and my sister for her impressive imagination. Together we would write the craziest stories, develop convincing storylines that amazed every adult around us. I was six and my sister four, and I would read her "Don Quijote" to sleep. We would play dolls, and our parents were amazed by our stories... we would also take the Greek Classics and mythology and change the plots to fit our storylines. I skipped a couple of grades in school, as I used to be also really good at math, my sister skipped kindergarten. By the time we were early teenagers, we had this huge plan of writing our own books and maybe get them published by the end of High School. We did start a few, but as the years passed, both lost interest and became moody teenagers with borderline depression. We didn't have many friends, and I was "the weirdo". She, being pretty, at least had more friends. At 17 I still had hoped to write a book by 18 or 19. Now I'm almost into my mid-20s and I have achieved nothing, majored in something totally unrelated to writing (Architecture), and while my sister has been a little more successful (she's a Film major and has written a couple of scripts for our university), we're both disappointed with what we turned out to be. I guess as you said, the pressure instead of helping, makes you feel stressed and overwhelmed. But even after all of this, I still have some hope left. And I hope you can also find some answers, 32 is not old at all, and if you have a dream, today is the day to start it.

You sound like Rory Gilmore, our famous book worm young lass in Gilmore Girls! Now seriously, all of us have to adjust aspiration/dream with reality. How many kids want to be astronauts presidents or doctors? Yeah, to reconcile that with working stiff life that has no end in sight is pretty depressing. May I suggest that you keep on reconciling and try not to feel negative. Now there may be a book or two in the process as long as you don’t fall for the trope of cheerleader becoming fat housewife or nerds becoming billionaire LOL!

@@aricarly Mandy, you are only 20 something. You have 3 more 20 something sectors before you are by death door. It means, of life is a marathon, you are hitting the wall at 6.5 mile mark because you ran too hard and too fast. You are good with words but you may decide that it’d not be a career but a hobby instead. If so, your gear would be in finding a career that you can stomach and pays for standard of living and into retirement while leaving you with time and mind to enjoy your hobby. If you decide to keep on pursuing playwriting or book writing, don’t leap or jump and then feel miserable for not getting high enough. Find small measurable points of progression to build momentum. One day you may be a new novelist sensation who has been writing all her life to get there.

@@dashrubberbear Thanks for the encouragement. I've always found it hard to balance being creative and simply living life in the moment. I think that's why the trope of the "tortured artist" is so popular: The artistic soul struggling between their gift of creating things which reflect their observations of life and simply enjoying their own life is a very real thing, at least for me and my circle of creative friends. But I do practice things regularly like meditation and my faith as a Wiccan and witch also helps give me perspective and keeps me grounded. Thanks again for such kinds words.

I think Malcom was a similar but different thing The "gifted" kid. Not necessarily super geniuses, but adults and others "expect better" of them I think it's a nuanced difference

@@GhoulishGrime Nah I disagree. Malcolm was shown to be easily the best even in his gifted class without even trying while being able to make them completely break down if he forced them to compete with him while he hardly broke a sweat. He was feared in inter-school academic competition and he was shown to have savant-level math and memory acuity. So I would safely say Malcolm is above "gifted". Dewey is the one you can safely call gifted.

@@krystofdayne savant-level memory acuity... How ironic now.

He spoke like a normal child. Was him being smart significant to the story?

@@melodyclark1944 Yeah, he spoke like a normal child, that's sort of my point that it was more nuanced. It's always very weird to me when child prodigy characters on screen speak so elaborately, it just seems off and weird. As to whether his intellect was important to the story, well, yes and no. The whole show was about him just wanting to be a normal kid but his enormous intelligence setting him apart from both his family and his peers. Malcolm himself generally tried not to make his intelligence the story but it couldn't help but shine through. But honestly, I think it's beside the point whether his intelligence was that important to the story or not, it's still an example of that trope.

Where's this quote from?

@@kaliko5245 Kenichi the mightiest disciple, a martial arts manga and anime unlike Baki, DragonBall or Ranma. If you like to dig in to it I recomend the Manga because the anime didn't captured the fights pretty well.

Prince was a musical child prodigy and his talents were still amazing into his 50's. Prince could play 27 instruments, he could write, arrange, compose and produce his own music. He has a very prolific output of music, a vault of several thousand never heard before songs. His band and studio engineers all said that Prince would wear them out with his prolific output of music. Because he would make several songs a day, and sometimes several different versions of the same song. Prince often had backup musicians and studio engineers after the first ones would get tired. I know many musicians who wished they had that type of talent.

Trina Q truth

Ahahahahaha true

lmaooo we were really treated like Einstein for knowing how to read

Ecliptik it even feels like they wanted you to be a genius more than you did

I was a child prodigy *and* I turned out to be a genius, so you take that back.

lol

Oooh brilliant analysis!! Been looking up things to do with the 'American dream' and narrative of meritocracy in the US. Wonder if this trope could be tied to that and that could be part of its appeal? Wonder how child prodigy/superhero narratives in the US compare to other countries this way?

12?!!!!!😭👍

oh i hate this narrative so much, this "without suffering you wouldn't become as great as you are" bs. it's so insulting to the bright people who had to endure abuse/neglect and grow up in poverty. i'm not stronger for it, i'm strong despite it. or maybe i'm a mentally ill mess for it.

What's there to know about those popular kids? They're popular and they think of high school as a caste system where they are at the very top. In short they think everything's about them.

@@____-zk1iq yeah but why do they think that?

Isn't Batman kind the same he just put his vengeance on bad "guys".

@@jayneb6053 It was lampshaded in the episode, Alfred compared Bruce and Artie, both became prodigies, but for different reasons, for Artie it was to win that particular game show; for Bruce, it was to bring criminals to justice. Yes, both characters were out for revenge, but Artie's reason was petty, he didn't move on with his life, and became a villain to avenge his ego. Bruce became Batman, because it was personal, to avenge his parent's deaths, and to seek justice for Gotham City, if Batman was not there to stop the Cluemaster, he would have murdered three innocent people, he was going to drop them in acid.

Are we the same person?

Yeah, easy to see why. You shouldn't compare yourself to the people around you (too much). Getting inspired is good, being jealous or frustrated/depressed because of your alleged talentless is really bad. But the worst thing, as you mention, is to compare yourself to some famous person's talent. There are usually good reasons, why this person made it this far. But the absolute horrible thing is to compare yourself to fictional, written characters. You almost never see them train for their talent. They just are cool or talented. Reality is very different. Doing all that could be really hard. Usually you are surrounded by some people who do something cool. Or have a family. Or go on holidays. One thing that really helped me a lot is to find your own things to do. Because then you have something to talk about. You don't have to think: This guy does such cool things while I'm just lying on the couch. From my personal experience I can say that it is a good idea to find something you're interested in. And try it. Even if it doesn't work out. Even it is just for a season or a couple of years. There are several advantages: You don't sit at home alone in front of some screen. You have something to look forward to. You have an appointment that you don't want to miss. You don't have to ask yourself what to do at home tonight. You go among people or at least are in contact with a music teacher. You're talking to people, you're laughing, you're learning, you're working towards a common goal. You get challenged. You try something new. You have something to talk about (not with everybody, but from time to time). You get a new perspective. It doesn't really matter if you're good at what you do. And one thing often leads to a new unexpected idea/hobby, because you are among people and get new inspiration.

That's soo true

Jdg 98 that sounds really interesting, I’d love to read it!

@@teadrinkerfication9160 thanks! I'm doing it as a creative writing piece so it should end up a series of teen scifi scripts followed by an analysis haha

What’s a teen saviour

@@mauve9266 teen characters (Buffy, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, etc) who are expected to save the world or accomplish a similar feat

Jdg 98 oh I see that does sound interesting good luck with your project

Kiki Vivanco all of the above lmao

Likewise, they're usually the first characters that spring to mind when speaking about fictional child Prodigies! 🧠🏅

Hayato Iwagari (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures) is a pretty awesome one, too!

It's a common trope so they probably couldn't fit ***everyone*** in there.

The Baudelaire siblings are who instantly come to mind for me. Given the fact that they were interested in the Netflix adaptation enough to make an entire video on it, it seems weird they didn't use any clips from that series at some point in the video.

I thought Mr. Young was only in Canada so not a lot of people know it outside of Canada.

This!!!

It's the product of narcissistic parents who see their kids as objects instead of people

I hope you are doing better now, and looks you are on the right path, wish you the best!

Azula is the perfect example of how a child prodigy can fall from grace , she was nurtured into believing she is above others and when faced with reality her issues come to surface and she has a breakdown

Because the Universe strives for balance. Everything should always add up to a zero.

Me looking at the comment section be like: Can't relate