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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The Golden Age/Earth-Two Diana and ComicBook/SteveTrevor's daughter Lyta had super strength as a child, and the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]] Diana was shocked when she tried catching what looked like a large beach ball the child was playing with as it was solid steel and much heavier than she expected.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The level of destruction the toddler Lyta Milton (Circe & Ares' child) can cause while playing disturbs quite a few Amazons when she's brought to Themyscira to be raised, but their own immortality and super-strength means they're quite capable of raising her without harm, she just goes through toys at a disturbing rate.

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''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The Golden Age/Earth-Two Diana and ComicBook/SteveTrevor's daughter Lyta had super strength as a child, and the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]] Diana was shocked when she tried catching what looked like a large beach ball the child was playing with as it was solid steel and much heavier than she expected.
* ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The level of destruction the toddler Lyta Milton (Circe (ComicBook/{{Circe}} & Ares' ComicBook/{{Ares|DC}}' child) can cause while playing disturbs quite a few Amazons when she's brought to Themyscira to be raised, but their own immortality and super-strength means they're quite capable of raising her without harm, she just goes through toys at a disturbing rate.
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* Myth/NorseMythology: Magni, the son of Thor and the giantess Járnsaxa. One time, Thor killed the giant Hrungnir, but Hrungnir fell on him and he was pinned. None of the gods could lift him, then Magni, who was three nights old, effortlessly lifted Hrungnir off his father.
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Compare with SmallGirlBigGun, CuteBruiser, LittleMissBadass, PintSizedPowerhouse, and WaifFu. If an EnfantTerrible is this, you're in real trouble. Probably a BadassAdorable. A ChildMage is when they [[WebComic/EightBitTheater "casts the spells that makes the people fall down"]] instead of just pummeling them. For examples where kids are omnipowerful, see GooGooGodlike.

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Compare with SmallGirlBigGun, CuteBruiser, LittleMissBadass, PintSizedPowerhouse, GlacierWaif, and WaifFu. If an EnfantTerrible is this, you're in real trouble. Probably a BadassAdorable. A ChildMage is when they [[WebComic/EightBitTheater "casts the spells that makes the people fall down"]] instead of just pummeling them. For examples where kids are omnipowerful, see GooGooGodlike.
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* In ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'', after Kenpachi's duel with Ichigo, [[KillerRabbit Yachiru]] carries the former on her shoulder to get medical attention. A particularly impressive use of the trope because Kenpachi is very tall and muscular, while Yachiru looks like an eight-year-old but manages to ''effortlessly'' carry him to the top of a building by performing multiple ''two-story high jumps'' while carrying him. One of the author's many hints that she's more dangerous than she looks.

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* In ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'', ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', after Kenpachi's duel with Ichigo, [[KillerRabbit Yachiru]] carries the former on her shoulder to get medical attention. A particularly impressive use of the trope because Kenpachi is very tall and muscular, while Yachiru looks like an eight-year-old but manages to ''effortlessly'' carry him to the top of a building by performing multiple ''two-story high jumps'' while carrying him. One of the author's many hints that she's more dangerous than she looks.



* Chibi America from ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' likes to swing bison around. And he keeps his SuperStrength when he grows into an adult.

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* Chibi America from ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' likes to swing bison around. And he keeps his SuperStrength when he grows into an adult.



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** One of the schoolyard fillies in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E19CrusadersOfTheLostMark Crusaders of the Lost Mark]] is strong enough to lift up one end of the schoolhouse to get at a ball that end up underneath it. Oddly enough, someone tries to BLACKMAIL her with this fact about herself.

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** One of the schoolyard fillies in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E19CrusadersOfTheLostMark Crusaders of the Lost Mark]] is strong enough to lift up one end of the schoolhouse to get at a ball that end ended up underneath it. Oddly enough, someone tries to BLACKMAIL her with this fact about herself.
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** His future daughter Roxy would inherit his strength in by the time she and her brother Chip are born in ''Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby''.

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** His future daughter Roxy would inherit his strength in by the time she and her brother Chip are born in ''Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby''.
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* Early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' occasionally have the title character show strength exceeding a regular child or even an adult human--wrestling a monster twice his size into a lava pit, easily picking up a full grown woman, smashing a dashboard with his bare fists. He's eventually shown as being explicitly superhuman in "Drop Beat Dad": Steven easily lifts music equipment bigger than he is, (a similarly sized box is being lifted by two grown men) causing Marty (a character that only just met Steven for the first time and doesn't know Steven's status as a HalfHumanHybrid) to wonder what kind of food Steven's father feeds the kid.

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* Early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' occasionally have the title character show strength exceeding a regular child or even an adult human--wrestling a monster twice his size into a lava pit, easily picking up a full grown woman, smashing a dashboard with his bare fists. He's eventually shown as being explicitly superhuman in "Drop Beat Dad": Steven easily lifts music equipment bigger than he is, (a similarly sized box is being lifted by two grown men) causing Marty (a character that only just met Steven for the first time and doesn't know Steven's status as a HalfHumanHybrid) to wonder what kind of food Steven's father feeds the kid. [[spoiler: The fact that he is half-''Diamond'' makes a lot more sense.]]
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* The Creator/ShawBrothers film, ''Film/DescendantOfTheSun'', have it's main character as a superman {{Expy}} who as a child was adopted by a lowly human farmer. Sure enough, in one of his childhood scenes he's shown stopping an out-of-control cart with his bare hands.
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->Betty and Barney got a baby named Bamm-Bamm\\
Little Pebbles is his number-one fan\\
He's the strongest toddler in the whole land\\

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->Betty and Barney got a baby named Bamm-Bamm\\
Little Pebbles is his number-one fan\\
He's the strongest toddler in the whole land\\
Tear your arm off if he's shaking your hand
-->--'''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''' (describing Bamm-Bamm from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'') in "Bedrock Anthem"
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*Jotaro Kujo, the protagonist of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' is incredibly strong for a seventeen year old (and actually looks somewhat younger in later parts due to Art Shift), but his crowning moment with this trope is when Alessi, one of the nine Egyptian god stand users sent by Dio, uses his age-reducing ability to transform Jotaro into a child, Alessi thinks that he can easily overpower Jotaro. Twelve-year-old Jotaro simply tilts his oversized hat accompanied by his Catch Phrase, and lands a No-Holds Barred Beatdown on Alessi with just his fists. Yes, this is without his Lightning Bruiser stand Star Platinum.
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* ''Film/UltramanXTheMovieHereComesOurUltraman'': The climax of the movie has the Kurosaki research center collapsing thanks to the kaiju Zaigorg going on a rampage, causing a metal railing to fall on and pin resident scientist Tsukasa onto the ground. Her son Yuuto, among various other adult characters, tries valiantly to lift the heavy railing off her just as the kaiju begins closing in, and in the most dire moment, Yuuto, who had Ultraman Tiga's Spark Lens tucked in his bagpack, was selected to become Tiga's host - at which point the boy suddenly becomes incredibly strong and lifts the metal railing off his mother with his bare hands.
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Conan didn't carry Lana in the episodes where she was captured.


* In ''Anime/FutureBoyConan'', the 11-year-old protagonist Conan is strong enough to lift boulders and fight of armed soldiers. His trademark is to carry a girl named Lana, what he does in almost every episode.

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* In ''Anime/FutureBoyConan'', the 11-year-old protagonist Conan is strong enough to lift boulders and fight of off armed soldiers. In episode 5, he lifts and throws seven men who piled on top of him. His trademark is to carry a girl named Lana, what which he does in almost every episode.most episodes.
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* ''Film/Superman Returns'': Clark and Lois's young son saves Lois from a Luthor henchman by throwing a concert grand piano at him from across the room.

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* ''Film/Superman Returns'': ''Film/SupermanReturns'': Clark and Lois's young son saves Lois from a Luthor henchman by throwing a concert grand piano at him from across the room.
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* ''Film/Superman Returns'': Clark and Lois's young son saves Lois from a Luthor henchman by throwing a concert grand piano at him from across the room.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The Golden Age/Earth-Two Diana and ComicBook/SteveTrevor's daughter Lyta had super strength as a child, and the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]] Diana was shocked when she tried catching what looked like a large beach ball the child was playing with as it was solid steel and much heavier than she expected.



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* Hercules was, in canon and [[Disney/{{Hercules}} the Disney animated movie]], able to strangle two snakes as baby. He would later kill a fellow child in music lessons by hitting the other with a harp of all things. Reaching adulthood just made his feats of strength more impressive.

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* Hercules was, in canon and [[Disney/{{Hercules}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} the Disney animated movie]], able to strangle two snakes as baby. He would later kill a fellow child in music lessons by hitting the other with a harp of all things. Reaching adulthood just made his feats of strength more impressive.
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* Lord Krishna of Hindu mythology was this. While an infant, he strangled a demon sent to kill him while inside a hurricane. The most extreme example of this would be him ''holding up a mountain'' '''with a finger'''.
** Bheem and Duryodhan of Mahabharat had this as well.
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* An episode of ''Series/UltramanEighty'' features the monster Jihibikiran, who can assume the form of a chubby, if somewhat overly-muscular child, who can throw adults around like ragdolls.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'': [[KidHero Greg/Gekko and Armadylan]] both have super strength as their main superpower.

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* Toad in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2''. He's not only super strong, he's also super agile.

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Toad in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2''. He's not only super strong, he's also super agile. His strength is seen again in ''VideoGame/WariosWoods'', while his speed is retained in ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld''.
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** During the epilogue at the end of the ''[[Anime/DragonBallGT GT]]'' series, Goku and Vegeta Jr. prove fully capable of flying and transforming into Super Saiyans.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The level of destruction the toddler Lyta Milton (Circe & Ares' child) can cause while playing disturbs quite a few Amazons when she's brought to Themyscira to be raised, but their own immortality and super-strength means they're quite capable of raising her without harm, she just goes through toys at a disturbing rate.
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* The title character in the [[FrancoBelgianComics Belgian comic]] ''ComicBook/BenoitBrisefer'' (created by Pierre "Peyo" Culliford, the man behind ''Franchise/TheSmurfs'') is a super-strong little boy, who goes around and does good deeds such as lifting buses out of traffic jams, blowing out burning houses and helping kittens down from trees by uprooting them (the trees, not the kittens).

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* The title character in the [[FrancoBelgianComics Belgian comic]] ''ComicBook/BenoitBrisefer'' (created by Pierre "Peyo" Culliford, the man behind ''Franchise/TheSmurfs'') is a super-strong little boy, boy (his last name translates to Ironbreaker), who goes around and does good deeds such as lifting buses out of traffic jams, blowing out burning houses and helping kittens down from trees by uprooting them (the trees, not the kittens).kittens). Unfortunately, he loses it as soon as he catches cold, which is pretty much anytime it's inconvenient or he's telling adults about his strength.

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** The most recent Superboy is Clark and Lois's biological son, Jon Kent, who is 11-12 in his early appearances, but laster has a PlotRelaventAgeUp to about 15.

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* For a period after he came BackFromTheDead, [[Comicbook/{{Robin}} Damien Wayne]] had FlyingBrick powers. Gotham Girl is another FlyingBrick teen in ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'', with tht twist thsat her powers are killing her.

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* For a period after he came BackFromTheDead, [[Comicbook/{{Robin}} Damien Wayne]] had FlyingBrick powers. Gotham Girl is another FlyingBrick teen in ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'', with tht the twist thsat that her powers are killing her.


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* ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'': Baby Clark Kent effortlessly catches the Kent's truck when it almost falls on Jonathan.
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** Also Ron "Captain Clarinet" Peterson, the son of CaptainErsatz Comicbook/{{Superman}}, and Dillion "[[CaptainPatriotic USA Patriot Act]]" Fillmore.

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** Also Ron "Captain Clarinet" Peterson, the son of CaptainErsatz Comicbook/{{Superman}}, and Dillion "[[CaptainPatriotic USA Patriot Act]]" Fillmore.Fillmore, and Bernard Brenner, who is the son of the Hulk expy and has no "normal" form.


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* Pansy Potter the Strongman's Daughter, a character in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' between 1938 and 1949, and periodically thereafter.
* Steve Ford/The 12 1/2p Buytonic Boy/Super Steve in ''Comicbook/WhizzerAndChips'', who gained his powers from [[SuperSerum a tonic]] he bought for 12 1/2p.
* Sidney Braithwaite/Souper Boy in ''Comicbook/TheTopper'', another SuperSerum character, who gained strength from his family's secret soup recipe.
* For a period after he came BackFromTheDead, [[Comicbook/{{Robin}} Damien Wayne]] had FlyingBrick powers. Gotham Girl is another FlyingBrick teen in ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'', with tht twist thsat her powers are killing her.
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Needless spoiler. Being a gem is enough explanation for huge strength.


* Early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' occasionally have the title character show strength exceeding a regular child or even an adult human--wrestling a monster twice his size into a lava pit, easily picking up a full grown woman, smashing a dashboard with his bare fists. He's eventually shown as being explicitly superhuman in "Drop Beat Dad": Steven easily lifts music equipment bigger than he is, (a similarly sized box is being lifted by two grown men) causing Marty (a character that only just met Steven for the first time and doesn't know Steven's status as a HalfHumanHybrid) to wonder what kind of food Steven's father feeds the kid. [[spoiler:It's shown that he gets it from his mom, Rose Quartz, [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter who is actually Pink Diamond,]] as the members of [[UltimateLifeForm the Great Diamond Authority]] are known for being all-powerful beings throughout Gemkind, having SuperStrength that exceeds that of any other Gems.]]

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* Early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' occasionally have the title character show strength exceeding a regular child or even an adult human--wrestling a monster twice his size into a lava pit, easily picking up a full grown woman, smashing a dashboard with his bare fists. He's eventually shown as being explicitly superhuman in "Drop Beat Dad": Steven easily lifts music equipment bigger than he is, (a similarly sized box is being lifted by two grown men) causing Marty (a character that only just met Steven for the first time and doesn't know Steven's status as a HalfHumanHybrid) to wonder what kind of food Steven's father feeds the kid. [[spoiler:It's shown that he gets it from his mom, Rose Quartz, [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter who is actually Pink Diamond,]] as the members of [[UltimateLifeForm the Great Diamond Authority]] are known for being all-powerful beings throughout Gemkind, having SuperStrength that exceeds that of any other Gems.]]

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