Doing something dangerous is usually a successful strategy for rebelling against parental authority. Bliss Cavendar, as played by Ellen Page in this week’s “Whip It!,” knows a good thing in the sport of roller derby when she sees it. Your mom trying to get you into the beauty pageant scene? Then try a sport that involves knocking people in roller skates down while moving at high speed; it's a great way to say "no thank you" to your legal guardian’s quest to keep you down. It helps that roller derby is awesome and closely associated with punk rock, so your rebellion is doubled!

But hey, roller derby may not be your thing. There are alternatives though! For example, you could…

Luke Skywalker was raised on a podunk moisture farm on a podunk planet ruled by morbidly obese mobster slugs. The best he could do for ambition was joining the Imperial Academy to learn how to be a goose-stepping space-Nazi with crappy laser aim. Hell with that. Take a cue from Luke and follow some crazy old man into space. Just make sure to hold out until he gives you a sword made of light. That’ll show your fascist uncle what’s what. (Luke was truly hardcore. After he did that, the guy literally brought down the Galactic Empire his dad built. Farmboy knew what was up.)

You got yourself a part time job because your dad told you to learn the value of a dollar, just like Jeremy Capello (Robert Sean Leonard) in “My Best Friend Is a Vampire”. Then one day, you deliver groceries to some chick’s house and she looks like a backup singer for Chaka Khan, but she’s into you. You know what’ll show your dad? Sleeping with her, finding out she’s a vampire, and then deciding being a vampire is awesome. Hang out with other vampires, drink pig’s blood, be a badass, and don’t tell them what you’re up to. You think those "Twilight vampires are cool? Edward Cullen's got nothing on Robert Sean Leonard.

I suppose it all depends on your situation, but in the event that you wake up one day to find your hormones-wracked body energized with superhuman powers, this is an option. Of course, it’s only rebelling if you, like Bobby Drake in “X-Men: The Last Stand,” have bigoted parents who think being a mutant is bad. If they don’t, they’ll probably think Professor X’s school is the cat’s meow. In which case, you tell those oppressors that you’re going to public school, it’s a free country! State-funded educational institutions are totally capable of teaching me how to use these insanely dangerous, difficult to control bodily functions!

Chris McCandless is the face of teenage rebellion, a sort of 21st century Holden Caulfield, even though he was 22 when he acted out. Pissed off at his dad for cheating on his mom and just generally being a jerk throughout his childhood, Chris decided to walk the American continent as a naturalist instead of going to law school. He met some hippies, discovered the power of nature and totally showed his parents. Then he died in a bus in Alaska because he became stuck there after the snow melted and, in a state of starvation, ate a poisonous plant. Then John Krakauer wrote a book about it called “Into the Wild,” which Sean Penn adapted into a movie. On second thought, don’t do this one. Rebellion should never be fatal, not if it's done right.

The only thing that makes the fact that you’re an awesome mythical creature less awesome is when your parents think it’s awesome. Way to take all the joy out of being a werewolf, dad, and screw your policy of secrecy. I am going to let the whole world know that I am Marty McFly, "Teen Wolf." I will play basketball in front of everyone and it will be great, you’ll see!