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* Ditto for just about everyone in ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', also released by same company Kyoto Animation. That is, except for Haruhi herself and Kyon's ten-year-old sister.
* Ironically inverted with another K.A. work, ''[[Lucky Star]]'', where the "teenage" girls look, talk, and sound like preteens. The cutesy music and pastel-colored artwork only makes this series feel more like elementary school than high school.
** Until they start talking about [[
* ''[[Gundam]]'' abuses the hell out of this trope for just about every single series. Many of the [[Super Prototype]] Gundam pilots are just an [[Ordinary High School Student]] around the age of 16 who's never even touched something of such mechanical complexity, (But are frequently well gifted with robotics) however can instantly grasp how to operate the machine. Even if top Aces much older then them had trouble with them in the past. Beyond that point, they often behave with a maturity and sense of purpose a decade beyond their time, unless they are a [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]. Even then, they can possibly be capable of being the leader of an entire country, or at least a [[Cool Ship]].
* The titular character of ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'' falls in love more often in one season than other people in their whole life. And she is 8 at the start of the first season.
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* ''[[Now and Then Here and There]]''. [[Child Soldiers|It's justified though.]]
* Heavily [[Averted]] in ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]''. The whole point is that the main character is eleven years old, has a job as a high school teacher, and yet acts childishly as you'd expect someone her age to (such as shrieking at the top of her lungs or calling her students by distinguishing traits rather than their names).
* [[Popotan]] averts this with Mii, who is very [[Genki Girl|hyperactive]] and obsessed with [[Magical Girl
* This is a common criticism of ''[[Shugo Chara]]'' where the 11-12 year old protagonists act like they're 17.
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* The original [[New Mutants]] (oxymoron noted) of [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] fame had this problem. While the kids didn't act like adults per se, they certainly didn't act like teenagers, superpowers notwithstanding. But then again, they ''were'' created by [[Chris Claremont]]. Marvel later redeemed themselves with ''[[Generation X]]''.
* ''Sugar and Spike'' was about two young babies who were fully aware of their surroundings and capable of semi-rational thought, but spoke a language only the two of them understood. "Fxlbgl?" "Rtmskt." "Word."
* ''[[Runaways]]'' focuses on a group of preteens and teenagers living together without any kind of adult supervision. For every example of the characters acting their
* The [[Young Avengers]] are like a less extreme version of the Runaways. All of them are at least living with some sort of adult guardian, but they're still a group of teenagers who banded together to fight crime all on their own.
* The ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]],'' depending on the version, had characters considered legally adult at 14. The reboot had Ultra Boy and Phantom Girl getting married at [[Comic Book Time|some vague age not too long after that]], which on top of that happened when ''another'' 14 year old almost got married.
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* Scott Ciencin's ''[[Dinoverse]]'' features a batch of 13-year-olds who sometimes do act their age. They're remarkably composed about the situation they find themselves in - cast back in time by 64 million years and possessing the bodies of large, charismatic Cretaceous-period animals - but they're each variably impulsive, self-centered, grudgy, and kind of whiny. Cue character development; they act much older at the end of the book.
** Arguably justifiable - most adults would probably find being sent 64my back in time and being turned into dinosaurs to be truely disturbing. Most 13-year-olds would probably find it truly AWESOME.
* The protagonists in [[V. C. Andrews]] works start out as sixteen (sometimes younger), and right from the start, they all act, talk, and think more like thirty-somethings. In the "Orphans" series, the girls are twelve in their individual stories, but act sixteen. It goes the other way around
* Five-year-old twins in the mystery novel ''Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter'' are able to draw such compelling and detailed pictures of the "vampire" they saw in the woods that it nearly gives their mother nightmares. Most kindergarteners still draw "people" as a circle with sticks coming out of the bottom for legs.
* In ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', Sunny Baudelaire is a baby, yet has the same knowledge and intelligence as her teenage siblings, and this is not treated as remarkable.
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** ''[[The OC]]''
** ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'', too. The characters on that show act more like 20/30-somethings than teenagers. Ironically, despite averting [[Dawson Casting]], they also ''look'' more like 20-somethings than teenagers.
* Quite a few of Hispanic [[Soap Opera
** In ''[[Carrusel]]'', the girls play with dolls and read comic books, while at the same time talking about boys, clothes, celebrity gossip, and romance novels/soap operas. The boys have varying levels of interest in girls, but all still like boyish pastimes.
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* ''[[Rugrats]]'' is the extreme version of this trope, with 2-year olds that acted like 7 year olds that talked in a language incomprehensible to adults. Even moreso Angelica acted much older than three and was treated likewise by the adults.
** This one was mocked in a Fairly Odd Parents movie, where Timmy Turner enters a show which looks the same, but with the children actually acting like the toddlers they are.
** In ''[[All Grown Up!]]'', the kids are
* As time went on, ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' slowly started to treat their main characters more like young adults than eleven year old kids, except for when they needed to either for plot reasons or to set up a gag. This is most obvious in the episode "Stranded," which uses every [[UST]] Trope in the book for Jimmy and Cindy.
* All over the place in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. With all the [[Love Tropes]], [[Drama Tropes]], [[War Tropes]], etc, it's not hard to forget that none of the main characters (bar the [[Big Bad]] and a few mentors) are older than 16, and neither characters nor the plot are held back by their lack of age; the series mixes adult tropes and [[Coming of Age]] tropes, and mixes them very well. Generally, though, it's still a series about two 12-year-olds, a 14-year-old, a 15-year-old, and a 16-year-old who act more like 16-year-olds and two 18-year-olds. Most of the time it's rather tame, but when you consider how young Aang is and how much UST he has with Katara... well, it's rather [[
{{quote|'''Katara:''' I haven't done this [penguin sledding] since I was a kid!
'''Aang:''' You still ''are'' a kid! }}
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{{quote|'''Adult''': Aren't you too young to be doing this?
'''Phineas''': Why, yes. Yes, I am. }}
* Justified in ''[[Kim Possible]]'', as Kim's twin brothers are [[Child Prodigy|kid geniuses]] from a genius family. And like real child prodigies, they do kid stuff and get in trouble, just in an extra-smart
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' often fell into this, which just got silly when you considered this meant they acted like the adults they hated. One of the ten-year-olds was even in a serious relationship.
* ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]''. Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles are ''supposed'' to be ''five years old'', yet they (especially Blossom and Buttercup) act like they're at ''least'' 12 years old or so, what with their understanding of certain sexual things like seduction, in a mild way at least; the first time they beat the Rowdyruff Boys by kissing them, they were tipped off to that weakness by Miss Bellum hinting at them by telling them to "act ''nice''" and [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|and showing them her cleavage]] to solidify the fact. True, they aren't necessarily human so that ''may'' be a justification on their maturity, but the thing is, it's not just them- most of the other kids in the show are shown to be as equally mature as the Power Puffs. Interestingly, this is also a rather strange case because they still occasionally struggle with problems a five year old might actually have, such as learning manners, getting over "cooties", sharing, and leaning what's right from wrong; but, even then, they learn about those things in a more mature way than actual five year old girls would.
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