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[[File:Academic_6985Academic 6985.png|link=Calvin and Hobbes|frame|Calvin sure doesn't sound like he's 6.]]

{{quote|"Just a man and his thoughts. <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Beat]]] And his iPhone."}}

* Another Pre-[[Teen Genius]], ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'', uses this extensively as well. ''The Eternity Code'' sees him scare the wits out of an ordinary waitress with his adult (and ultra-sophisticated) behavior, and in ''The Time Paradox'' it gets put into perspective when we realize that the "present" Artemis is actually a lot better at acting his age than he was when he was 10. It is tempting to blame [[Parental Abandonment]] for this, but ''The Time Paradox'' ''also'' revealed that he was actingacting—and -- and speaking -- likespeaking—like that even before his father went missing.Though he still thinks like a kid in some ways; in the first book, Holly says something sarcastic about lollipops as she's making her escape, and Artemis' first two thoughts are, in order, that he doesn't like lollipops, and that using the word "lollipop" is beneath the dignity of his intellect. Which, of course, leads one to the question of how he plans to patronize children himself when he grows up.

* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' featured allegedly six-year-old Calvin, who didn't talk like any six-, or even twelve-, year-old that most of us have ever met. Bill Watterson sometimes [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] this by having Calvin follow up a spate of [[Little Professor Dialog]] with a more typical six-year-old reaction.

* In ''[[Non Sequitur (comic strip)|Non Sequitur]]'', Danae embodies this trope to a tee, but with an alarmingly good justification. She largely bases her assumptions on what is acceptable social behavior by watching politicians and pundits on television. When she emulates them, she'll use the words pretty much the same way they do -- todo—to make a bizarre political point. In spite of the fact that she only uses very basic mimicry to develop her points, she is still able to gain think-tank funding and cable news time because her arguments end up indistinguishable from legitimate pundits -- evenpundits—even though her thesis is usually something ridiculous like "boys are boogerbrains".

* [[Whateley Universe|Whateley Academy]] is supposed to be a high school for mutants, with most of its students indeed belonging to the right age group because mutations generally manifest during puberty. You wouldn't believe it from listening in to most of their conversations, though. (In some cases it's justified -- somejustified—some of these kids ''were'' already highly educated before they arrived and/or have superhuman mental faculties --, but it's too universal a phenomenon to be explained by that alone.)

* Penny from ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' used semi-big words like "infiltrate" and such, but that's not too bad. What did stick out, however, was something she said in an episode where MAD was trying to turn metal into gold: "If MAD can turn metal into gold, they'll undermine the world economy!" Wow! For someone who's not even in middle school, she's able to understand a concept that most don't learn -- orlearn—or even understand -- untilunderstand—until high school! Then again, her uncle is a cyborg and she runs around with a laptop before laptops even existed, and no explanation of why is ever given. Penny might just be really, ''really'' smart.