Why do we have this?: Super Strong Child

This is just Cute Bruiser, But More Specific. It even has the same page quote.

P.S.: I made a thread about this yesterday, but it has mysteriously disappeared. Why?

It's Pint-Sized Powerhouse but more specific. Cute Bruiser emphasizes on the cute part "Super Strength" is not required.

edited 9th Sep '11 1:01:43 PM by Raso

Assuming we decide we don't need it, it could always be turned into a redirect for Pintsized Powerhouse.

EDIT: Pintsized Powerhouse is specifically about fighters beating people larger than them. Super-Strong Child need not require that the child be a fighter or that they beat people (large than them or otherwise) in combat.

edited 9th Sep '11 1:15:47 PM by Auxdarastrix

It's a sub/sister trope of Pint-Sized Powerhouse. Subtropes are valid especially when they're common.

Pint-Sized Powerhouse tends to be characters that are full grown, they just are weird races that happen to be tiny and strong. There's a focus that it's just the size that makes it absurd.

There's a difference between a foot high ant creature has super strength, and a young child has super strength.

Also, there's nothing that says that Super-Strong Child has to be small. Just a child.

edited 9th Sep '11 1:17:18 PM by shimaspawn

Pintsized Powerhouse can be best summed up as "these characters are formidable fighters despite (or sometimes because of) their size."

It doesn't necessary mean that they have Super-Strength of the "lift up a car and throw it" variety. Maybe they are really capable in combat because of a good technique or magic. The David and Goliath example of Pintsized Powerhouse is about someone relatively small and weak (David wasn't grown enough to be able to wear adult sized armor) but he beat Goliath because he was a good shot with a ranged weapon, and because (or at least so the story go) he had righteousness and all that fun stuff on his side.

Agree with Shima: this is distinct. Neither Cute Bruiser nor Pint-Sized Powerhouse is about children per se, and a Super-Strong Child doesn't have to be cute or pint-sized.

edited 9th Sep '11 1:46:31 PM by Xtifr

Cute Bruiser's description is rather foggy, but from what I gather from the laconic entry, the examples, and the discussion page, the trope is supposed to be about children, or at least characters who are very young.

Or do I have to take that trope to the repair shop too?

That one was broadened in TRS but whoever wrote the laconic didn't read the new definition. Most of the examples are children because young characters are more likely to be cute than adults. I'll fix it's laconic but that's all that needs fixing.

edited 9th Sep '11 2:03:50 PM by shimaspawn

OK then. I hereby declare this discussion resolved.