Adorably Precocious Child: Difference between revisions

 

Compare [[Cheerful Child]], [[Innocent Prodigy]], and [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]. Sometimes also a [[Token Mini-Moe]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* The platelets from ''[[Cells at Work!]]'' are typically depicted this way. Of course they are actually anthropomorphized human cells (specifically platelets).

* Rare Western literature example - Eoin Colfer's book ''The Supernaturalists'' involved a 'kid' called Ditto who was [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] - okay, in his early twenties - but as he was a naturally-immature adult he occasionally cracked.

** Eoin Colfer also brings us [[Artemis Fowl]], who at the beginning of the series is a twelve-year-old evil genius who plans to rebuild the Fowl family fortune using fairy gold.

** Better yet, {{spoiler|Howl's child disguise}} in the new sequel, ''House of Many Ways'', fits this trope to a tee, as ''not only'' does he speak with an exaggerated lisp, but also is described to be [[Cheerful Child|ultimately cherubic with golden curls, adorable puppy-fat, and a lot of lace]]. It's even more ridiculous when {{spoiler|his reasoning for adopting a jailbait disguise is simply because he had a horrid childhood (or so he says, Sophie immediately denounces him as a liar) and he has every right to relive being six years old... only prettier.}} But {{spoiler|because it is only a ruse}}, he manages to surprise the main character, Charmain, into speechlessness when he drops all pretenses and acts very adult and down-to-business.

* Olver from ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' fits this trope in-universe despite being described as downright ugly in the books. It probably has to do with when he follows his [[Big Brother Mentor]] Mat around to watch his back and tries to mimic the Warders.

* Otto in ''[[Someone Else's War|Someone Elses War]]'' is this trope [[Up to Eleven]].

 

* Flynn Jones of ''[[Shake It Up]]''. He handwaves that he's "the only responsible person around here", and even got a model to like him, saying he's adorable.

* Doctor Sweets of ''[[Bones]]'' definitely qualifies. He's the youngest member of the team and cannot get himself taken seriously because of it, tends to lapse into [[Sophisticated As Hell]] mid psych-babble, looks up to the two main characters as [[Parental Substitute]]s, and is all around [[Adorkable]].