- Basic Trope: A character was already fully-developed when they were first born/created.
- Straight: Alice was born of as a physically 25-year-old woman and has the emotional and psychological development of one.
- Exaggerated: Alice was born of as a physically 60-year-old and is a wizened Cool Old Lady despite being only chronologically 2 years old.
- Downplayed:
- Alice was born as a child and aged to adulthood, but never was a baby or toddler.
- Alice is born fully mature physically, but her mind is childlike and inexperienced.
- Justified:
- Alice wasn't born, but artificially created in some way.
- Due to Bizarre Alien Biology, members of Alice's species are already fully formed as soon as they're born.
- Alice is aging backwards.
- Inverted:
- Alice was born very prematurely and was born much smaller than most babies.
- Alice ages normally, but reverts to infancy the instant she dies.
- Subverted: Alice wakes up with no memory and is told by Bob that she's an android he had just created. However, this turns out to be a lie, and Alice is just a normal human adult who is suffering from amnesia.
- Double Subverted: After regaining her memories, Alice realizes that she's a member of an alien race that are conceived as fully grown adults. She is actually only three years old despite looking 25.
- Parodied: While Alice enters the world in an adult body, she still has an infantile mind and behaves like a baby.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice was actually born a baby, but was subjected to a procedure shortly after her birth that accelerated her to adulthood. This is believed to be standard procedure for her species, but we later learn that there are some specimens who choose to let their offspring grow and age normally.
- Averted: Alice was born as a regular baby and aged to adulthood.
- Enforced: The creator wants to introduce a character as an adult without a time skip.
- Lampshaded: "How does it feel to be an adult without ever being a child?"
- Invoked: Applied Phlebotinum is used to accelerate the development of fetuses so they become full-grown adults the instant they're out of the womb, with additional technology used to ensure they're born with the required knowledge to take care of themselves and survive the outside world.
- Exploited: Because Alice was already an adult as soon as she was born, she could already do many things on her own.
- Defied: Alice is given a potion to de-age her body to match her chronological age.
- Discussed: "It's cool that you came to the world as you are right now, but it makes me sad knowing you never had a chance to grow up. Also, I'm quite confused on how the age of consent applies to you."
- Conversed: "It really creeps me out when they make it so that certain characters who appear to be adults were actually born like that and have only existed for a short time. It's impossible for me to see those characters hook up with other people and not think 'you're dating a pedo!'"
- Implied: When the cast compare baby pictures, Alice doesn't have one, nor is she given any indication of ever being a child.
- Deconstructed: Alice entering the world as an adult raises questions of ethics when someone wants to sleep with her, as the fact that she Really Was Born Yesterday in spite of physically being a full-grown adult and having an adult-level maturity means that having sex with her would technically count as pedophilia.
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