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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nuclear Platypus" data-source="post: 2383518" data-attributes="member: 17507">Any time period? With a little digging, you could find stories from other cultures involving child heroes.What about a 6 yr old with a hyperactive imagination and his stuffed tiger (Calvin and Hobbes)?Son Goku. Yes, before Dragonball he existed in "A Journey to the West" and had a few animal companions. AKA Sun Wukong and possibly Hanuman.Ditto for Momotaro (Peach Boy). He fought some ogres with the help of a dog, monkey and pheasant. Hey, it was mentioned in a "Lone Wolf and Cub" type story in Samurai Jack.Tom Thumb. Jack the Giant Killer.Heck, what about King Arthur? A little hand waving and he might've awakened early from his healing sleep, which had the side effect of making him MUCH younger.Again with a Wong Fei Hong plug. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> He was alive around the turn of the century (1847 - 1924) so who's to say he didn't have disciples to pass his knowledge on to? Maybe something like the kids from Xiaolin Showdown.</blockquote>