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This is purely an out of universe reaction so it doesn't count for the purposes of the trope. Also, some 15 year olds are short, he's hardly drawn to look shockingly young.
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* KidHero: Downplayed, as he's more a teenager than a kid [[OlderThanTheyLook despite his appearance]]. Not only is he a Gundam protagonist (translation: teenage HumongousMecha pilot with enough skills and firepower to wipe out small armies), but he's part of the rare subset who were superhumanly-skilled warriors before ever seeing the inside of a Gundam's cockpit. It's worth noting, though, that his lethal competence isn't portrayed quite as glamorously as this trope usually implies - in fact, it's sometimes played for outright horror. He is an emotionally-scarred child soldier, after all, and children are ''not'' supposed to be able to kill that easily.
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* KidHero: Downplayed, as he's more a teenager than a kid [[OlderThanTheyLook despite his appearance]].teenager. Not only is he a Gundam protagonist (translation: teenage HumongousMecha pilot with enough skills and firepower to wipe out small armies), but he's part of the rare subset who were superhumanly-skilled warriors before ever seeing the inside of a Gundam's cockpit. It's worth noting, though, that his lethal competence isn't portrayed quite as glamorously as this trope usually implies - in fact, it's sometimes played for outright horror. He is an emotionally-scarred child soldier, after all, and children are ''not'' supposed to be able to kill that easily.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Most viewers don't guess that he's actually fifteen on a first viewing (he's rather short, and the large, baggy coat that he wears continuously when not piloting makes him look smaller, as if he's still growing into his clothes). Probably justified in that malnutrition stunted his growth.
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* DropTheHammer: His preferred melee weapon is basically a giant metal club. While he's given a katana later in the first season, he has incredible difficulty using such a finese weapon until the end of the season. By season 2, he seems to have split the difference with the Lupus' sword mace, a giant, incredibly thick sword that crushes as much as it cuts. When upgrading to the Barbatos Lupus Rex, he uses a mace once again, only this time the mace's head alone is half the size of the entire mobile suit.
