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In a setting with mostly older cast, a [[Child Prodigy]] might be introduced to appeal to a younger demographics.
Very often [[The Smart Guy]] in a [[Five
See also [[Brainy Baby]] which is even younger counterpart.
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For the record, despite some [[Real Life]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_prodigy uses of the term], a teenage/high school-age character in college would be a [[Teen Genius]], not this trope.
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* [[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Chiyo-chan]] is 10 when she starts high school. While she consistently gets better grades than everyone, being 5 years younger than everyone means she has problems during P.E. and Sex Ed talks.
* Negi in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', kinda. He graduated from [[Wizarding School]] at the age of nine and became a teacher in Japan and mastered the language <ref> in two weeks</ref>, too. Later on, when he starts learning combat techniques and training seriously, it takes him about 9 months to become one of the most powerful combatants alive.
** To be fair, Negi spent an inordinate amount of time in [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|magic resorts, scrolls, and the like]], to the point where he's now actually twelve years old.
** Kurt Godel is also explicitly stated to be one of these. (Or at least, he was when he was still a child.)
** Negi's father, Nagi, also qualifies, at least in regards to combat. [[Idiot Hero|And only combat]]. He was one of the strongest men alive when he was about twelve, culminating with him [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|defeating a god in single combat]] when he was seventeen or so.
* Edajima Heihachi from [[Sakigake Otokojuku]] is capable of fighting a group of monkeys at the age of 7. When he is ten years old, he have read and remembered the content of a whole shelf of thick books, which includes some higher level of Mathematics. At the age of eleven, he is specially admitted in Tokyo Imperial University and is capable of breaking prison bars.
* Yukari Sendo from ''[[Rosario to Vampire]]'' is an 11 year old genius in a class full of teenagers.
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** It's revealed in the [[Comic Book Adaptation|supplementary manga]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' that the math used in earth and Mid-Childa are very similar, and using advanced magic requires a firm grasp of mathematical formulas. Needless to say, Nanoha and Fate are math geniuses who always ace the subject in school, much to the chagrin of the competitive [[Those Two Guys|Alisa]], and Fate even helps Nanoha's older sister Miyuki with her school work.
* Ai Haibara from ''[[Detective Conan (Manga)|Detective Conan]]'' is implied to have been one: if she has a PhD and already led [[The Syndicate]]'s lab before the age of 18, she must be one in her preteen years.
** Hiroki Sawada from the [[Non Serial Movie]] ''Phantom of Baker Street'' is more of a book example; he was a grad student in MIT at the age of ''ten''. However, a mixture of [[Parental Abandonment]] and [[Intelligence Equals Isolation]] means his case [[Starts With a Suicide|is not]] [[Deconstruction|played]] [[Tear Jerker|for the ]][[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|laughs]].
** The titular character ''seems'' like a [[Child Prodigy]] to those who don't know his true identity. He's actually [[Older Than They Look|Older Than He Looks]] due to an [[Fountain of Youth|'un-aging' pill]], but even so he is a [[Teen Genius]]. And according to the OVA's, Shinichi/Conan ''was'' a [[Child Prodigy]] when he truly was a child.
* Sou Touma from [[QED]], likewise, is MIT-graduated before high school age; he is now in a [[High School]] for the needed socialization to prevent [[Intelligence Equals Isolation]].
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** And the most recent one is {{spoiler|Killer Bee.}}
* In ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', while most of the qualifiers are 13, and thus [[Teen Genius]] material, Maria entered the school at 10 and graduated at 13. Nagi, Isumi and Sakuya are most of the way through their first year of High School, meaning that they were [[Child Prodigy]] material. Nagi doesn't even attend classes and is still considered one of the top students before Hayate comes along.
* The [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Professor]] in [[Nichijou]], despite being eight years old, has managed to build, among other things, a speech-giving scarf and a [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] (which she constantly modifies without the robot noticing).
* Taiki Kudou in [[Digimon Xros Wars]] who is not aware that he is this. He is both exceedingly athletic and intelligent, and has engaged various sports like a pro. Further more he is capable of forming brilliant strategies within a flash of a second in the heat of battle.
* Wendy from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' might also count as she was able to learn her offensive spells just by seeing Natsu use it once.
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* Mechanic Puck from [[Vanguard Bandits]]. He works faster than the best engineers in a nation and is small enough to fit under the seat of one the [[A Mech By Any Other Name|ATACs]] he works on.
* [[Magnificent Bastard|Albert Wesker]] of the [[Resident Evil]] series is eventually revealed to have been one of these.
* Raz from [[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]] is often considered a [[Child Prodigy]], what with all of that [[Million
* We meet [[Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones (Video Game)|Prince Innes]] as an adult in his early-to-mid 20's, but Moulder's supports with Vanessa explain that he was one of these. At age 10-12 he was already defeating famous adult archers with ease ''and'' doing so via his own efforts. (i.e., he refused help or advantages when he was offered., etc.)
* Leon Gheste from ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story (Video Game)|Star Ocean the Second Story]]'' is a prime example of this trope. Aside from being a doctor at age 12, he is also the sharpest mind in the largest country on the planet and the creator of the [[Wave Motion Gun|Lancour Hope.]]
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* Stewie from ''[[Family Guy]]'' can build time machines and a multi-verse transporter and yet he is only one year old.
* Gretchen Grundler from ''[[Recess]]''
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Twilight Sparkle]].
* ''[[Western Animation]]/Cyberchase Inez''. Case in point: this 9-year-old girl knew the scientific family that hawks belong to.
* ''[[Hey Arnold]]''
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