History Main / AdultsAreMoreAnthropomorphic

* Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'': King's kids behave more like rowdy puppies than human babies early on, getting everywhere and into everything and teething on ropes to keep their canines healthy.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'', the adult sonichus are anthropomorphic ripoffs of Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog, but their young forms are teddy bear-like monstrosities with PokemonSpeak called rosies (if female) and sonees (if male).

In fiction, often, adult FunnyAnimals will be shown looking considerably more anthropomorphic than child ones. Their own offspring might even look like {{Nearly Normal Animal}}s. Once they grow up, they suddenly start looking more humanoid than they did as children.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'': The young kitten in "The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse" is a quadrupedal NearlyNormalAnimal who behaves like a normal kitten whereas Tom is a bipedal CivilizedAnimal or FunnyAnimal adult cat.

* In the classic ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' games all the younger dragons (Spyro, Ember, Flame, hatchlings, etc) are quadrupeds, while the elder dragons and other adults are bipedal and/or wear pieces of clothing.
** [[VideoGame/SpyroReignitedTrilogy The remastered versions of these games]] only contributes to this trope since not only have all of the elder dragons receive notable updates to their designs along with some new attire, but the ones that were quadruped before now have a bipedal body.
* In ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' your evolutionary state doesn't signify age (for example, a Flareon could have been born yesterday while a Pikachu could be decades old, at least in [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries the anime]]), however, some Pokémon start as a RidiculouslyCuteCritter, but become anthropomorphic once they evolved. The list includes (but is not limited to):

* In ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak'' Dolf goes from a FunnyAnimal with almost human-like anatomy but with no clothes (as a child), to a still unclothed and anthropomorphic but decidedly more crow-like appearance with visible tail and wings -that are always clearly wings while everybody else's wings turn into hands when convenient- and ability to fly when many other bird characters can't or won't (as a teen), back to FunnyAnimal / FullyDressedCartoonAnimal (as an adult). When it comes to other characters, the trope is played with, like Pikkie, who retains his very magpie-like anatomy his whole life.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'', Bluey's cousin Socks is one, and behaves like a puppy rather than a human baby. Older puppies, including Socks's sister Muffin, act like human children. Both noticeably mature in this spectrum over time.

* Inklings from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' are born normal-looking squids and grow steadily more anthropomorphic over time until the age of 14, at which point they become fully humanoid with the ability to shift back to squid form at will. The Octolings of their sister race, the Octarians, are presumably the same way.