Line #9 PlayingWith/WiseBeyondTheirYears


1	'''Basic Trope''': A child shows a level of maturity significantly beyond that expected of their age group.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice can manage a shop for a while her father is out buying groceries/saving the world, and keep her younger siblings in line, despite being only thirteen. And she still completes her homework on time and gets perfect grades.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Alice owns her own shop, complete with license, is raising three younger siblings, and regularly defeats evil all on her own, despite being only ten. Oh, and [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld she manages to keep up at school despite all this]].
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Alice is in her late teens (17 to 19) or early adulthood (20 to 45) but has the wisdom of a person in middle adulthood (45 to 65) or even late adulthood (65 and up).
6	** Alice is only thirteen but has taken on responsibilities associated with someone eighteen to twenty-five years old, like being the designated driver.
7	** Alice may have the maturity of an adult, but she stills enjoy things as kids her age would and will be able to get along with kids her age.
8	* '''Justified''':
9	** Alice's parents are away often and there is no one available to babysit her or her siblings.
10	** Alice has been orphaned, abandoned, or kidnapped and has subsequently been forced to grow up faster.
11	** Alice's parents don't talk down to her, which has allowed her to grow up faster.
12	** Thanks to some AppliedPhlebotinum, Alice has all the memories of a past life.
13	** An OlderAndWiser Alice fell into the FountainOfYouth and is forced to relive her life in the body of a child.
14	* '''Inverted''': Alice is a [[ManChild Womanchild]].
15	* '''Subverted''': Alice looks competent at first, but we see her [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny quickly abandon her adult duties to play with siblings]].
16	* '''Double Subverted''': Alice appears to be abandoning her post in the shop to play with her friends, but as soon as the kids are out of sight, they start planning how to stop the DiabolicalMastermind from taking over the city.
17	* '''Parodied''': The DiabolicalMastermind is regularly defeated by a five-year-old with a yoyo OncePerEpisode, while the "cunning" RagtagBunchOfMisfits who are supposedly the heroes fail miserably due to being {{Man Child}}ren.
18	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Alice is shown running her own business in one scene, playing with balloons in another, managing a household in another, and then laughing at cartoons the next scene along.
19	* '''Averted''': Alice is just a normal ten-year-old. She goes to school, laughs at cartoons, gets defensive when she's called JustAKid, and enjoys being with her friends.
20	* '''Enforced''': This shows aimed at kids, we want a KidHero who can handle adult problems. The kids will love her, and she'll be a good role model, which will shut the MoralGuardians up for five seconds.
21	* '''Lampshaded''': "You know, most little girls wait until they're at least eighteen before they start talking to dragons."
22	* '''Invoked''': Alice's parents force her into adultlike situations and problems, in hopes that she'll mature faster.
23	* '''Exploited''':
24	** Alice's parents get her to do more chores earlier because she's turning out to be [[TheReliableOne more mature]].
25	** Alice's parents may [[DisappearedDad go]] {{missing\|Mom}} for whatever reason(s), good or bad.
26	* '''Defied''': Alice is quick to palm off any arduous responsibilities onto [[UnwittingPawn hapless adults]] whenever the threat of having to handle a serious responsibility rears its ugly head.
27	* '''Discussed''': "Ah, great. You're one of those kids who [[ChildrenRaiseYou raise the adults]], aren't you?"
28	* '''Conversed''': "You know, from watching this show you'd think that adulthood begins at ten."
29	* '''Deconstructed''':
30	** A fourteen-year-old Alice is forced to take on a job and keep a household due to one of her parents being insane and the other missing, and the state she lives in having no child support services. For a while she manages to balance her job, chores, her own and her siblings' education and care for her parent, possibly while avoiding myriad dangers, but the pressure ultimately gets to her and she suffers a breakdown, becoming violent and turning to adult vices.
31	** Alice's maturity causes her to be a FishOutOfWater with everyone; her maturity causes her to have significant problems relating to and making friends with her peers, and people who are more in line with her maturity (i.e., biological adults) refuse to take her seriously because she's so young.
32	** Alice shows ''extremely'' TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour due to her excessive understanding of how the world works and all the necessary evils society needs in order to operate. This can range from apathy towards mass murder all the way to being able to commit murder ''with'' a good justification.
33	** Alice damn well ''knows'' she's wise beyond her years and isn't afraid to flaunt that at every opportunity, which eventually causes her to develop a massive superiority complex.
34	** Alice owes her unusual maturity to unpleasant circumstances that required her to assume an adult outlook on life long before she was ready. As such, her unnatural loss of childhood manifests in severe mental and emotional problems after she reaches physical maturity. Symptoms can range from abnormal sexual [[ReallyGetsAround development]], [[MoodSwinger damaged]] [[EmptyShell emotions]], or even [[ManChild full-blown regression into the childhood]] [[PsychopathicManchild she'd previously lost]].
35	* '''Reconstructed''':
36	** Alice is forced into the above situation, but just before Alice snaps completely the family starts to get helped by the community, her siblings start chipping in and eventually some sort of equilibrium is formed where Alice is still dealing with adult responsibilities but has enough support from friends and family to avoid being unable to deal with them. The fact she's growing up is helping as what was nearly impossible at fourteen is merely very hard and stressful at fifteen.
37	** As her peers shun her for being more mature than they, she finds friends in older people, who accept her intelligence.
38	* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice is by far the youngest of the RagtagBunchOfMisfits yet while they're all running away from the yeti, she's the one who recognizes and calmly says that it's a statue.
39	* '''Played for Drama''': Alice is left to look after her siblings and her insane remaining parent, and is forced to handle things that would be strenuous even for adults.
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