Pint-Sized Kid/Playing With

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Basic Trope: Animated children are far shorter than adults, even for their age.

  • Straight: Alice is half as tall as her mother on her eighth birthday.
  • Exaggerated: Alice is half as tall as her mother on her twelfth birthday.
  • Downplayed: Alice is half as tall as her mother on her fourth birthday.
  • Justified: The series is Super-Deformed, newborns are born relatively premature to compensate for the size of the head compared to mom's hips, and children take a while to catch up in growth. (Analysis)
  • Inverted: Alice is just starting to hit her teen-age growth spurt and she's already almost taller than her mother.
  • Subverted: ???
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Alice is half as tall as her mother on her second birthday.
  • Enforced: The writers don't want to show adult faces.
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: Being half adult height makes a two-tier Totem Pole Trench believable.
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
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