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* '''Straight''': Alice can manage a shop for a while 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.

** 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).

** 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.

* '''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.

* '''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.

** 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.

* '''Straight''': Alice can manage a shop for a while 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 good grades.

** 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 drink.

* '''Straight''': Alice is able to manage a shop for a while 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 good grades.

* '''Justified''':

* '''Inverted''': Alice is a WomanChild.
* '''Subverted''': Alice looks competent at first, but we see her [[DistractedByTheShiny quickly abandon her adult duties to play with siblings]].
* '''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 {{Diabolical Mastermind}} from taking over the city.
* '''Parodied''': The {{Diabolical Mastermind}} is regularly defeated by a five year old with a yoyo {{Once Per Episode}}, while the "cunning" {{Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits}} who are supposedly the heroes fail miserably due to being {{Man Child}}ren.
* '''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.
* '''Averted''': Alice is just a normal ten year old. She goes to school, laughs at cartoons, gets defensive when she's called {{Just A Kid}}, and enjoys being with her friends.
* '''Enforced''': This shows aimed at kids, we want a {{Kid Hero}} who can handle adult problems. The kids will love her and she'll be a good role model, which will shut the {{Moral Guardians}} up for five seconds.

* '''Invoked''': Alice's parents force her into adult-like situations and problems, in hopes that she'll mature faster.
* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Discussed''': "Ah, great. You're one of those kids who [[ChildrenRaiseYou raise the adults]], aren't you?

** 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 drink.
** 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. adults) refuse to take her seriously because she's so young.

** 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 a merely very hard and stressful at fifteen.
** As she is shunned by her peers for being more mature than them, she finds friends in older people, who accept her intelligence.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is by far the youngest of the {{Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits}} yet while they're all running away from the yeti, she's the one who calmly recognizes that its a statue.
* '''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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** Alice has been orphaned, abandoned, kidnapped and has subsequently forced to grow up faster.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice owns her own shop, complete with license, is raising three brothers, 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]].

** Alice is in her late-teens/early adulthood, but speaks and carries herself with the wisdom of an elderly person.
** Unlike most children, Alice usually thinks outside of the box when a problem occurs.

** Alice had to stop studying to manage the shop efficiently.
** Or, for a more extreme case: Alice suffered from ParentalAbandonment or even PromotionToParent, [[AbusiveParents possibly while fleeing from aforementioned parents]].
** Alice really is an Adult in Mind, Soul, and Spirit but her adult body got turned into that of a kid/teenager's.

** Alice really is an Adult in Mind, Soul, and Spirit but their adult body got turned into that of a kid/teenager's.

** Alice had to stop studying to manage the shop efficiently.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice owns her own shop, complete with license, is raising three brothers, 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.]]

** Or, for a more extreme case: Alice suffered from {{Parental Abandonment}} or even {{Promotion to Parent}}, [[AbusiveParents possibly while fleeing from aforementioned parents.]]
* '''Inverted''': Alice is a [[ManChild Woman Child]].
* '''Subverted''': Alice looks competent at first, but we see her [[DistractedByTheShiny quickly abandon her adult duties to play with siblings.]]

* '''Discussed''': "Ah, great. You're one of those kids who [[ChildrenRaiseYou raise the adults,]] aren't you?

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** 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 [[{{Asexuality}} sexual]] [[ReallyGetsAround development]], [[MoodSwinger damaged]] [[EmptyShell emotions]], or even [[ManChild full-blown regression into the childhood]] [[PsychopathicManchild she'd previously lost]].

* '''Downplayed''': Alice had to stop studying to manage the shop efficiently.

* '''Inverted''': Alice is a ManChild.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Straight''': Alice is able to manage a shop for a while 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 good grades.

* '''Justified''': Alice's parents are away often and there is no one available to babysit her or her siblings. In extreme cases, Alice suffered from {{Parental Abandonment}} or even {{Promotion to Parent}}, [[AbusiveParents possibly while fleeing from aforementioned parents.]]

** Alternately, 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. adults) refuse to take her seriously because she's so young.
** Alternately again, 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.
** Alternately yet again, 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.
** Still alternatively, 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 [[{{Asexuality}} sexual]] [[ReallyGetsAround development]], [[MoodSwinger damaged]] [[EmptyShell emotions]], or even [[ManChild full-blown regression into the childhood]] [[PsychopathicManchild she'd previously lost]].

* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice is shown running her own buisiness in one scene, playing with balloons in another, managing a household in another, and then laughing at cartoons the next scene along.
* '''Averted''': Alice is just a normal ten year old. She goes to school, laughs at cartoons, gets defensive when she's called {{Just A Kid}}, and enjoys being with her friends.
* '''Enforced''': This shows aimed at kids, we want a {{Kid Hero}} who can handle adult problems. The kids will love her and she'll be a good role model, which will shut the {{Moral Guardians}} up for five seconds.
* '''Lampshaded''': "You know, most little girls wait until they're at least eighteen before they start talking to dragons."
* '''Invoked''': Alice's parents force her into adult-like situations and problems, in hopes that she'll mature faster.
* '''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.
* '''Discussed''': "Ah, great. You're one of those kids who [[ChildrenRaiseYou raise the adults,]] aren't you?
* '''Conversed''': "You know, from watching this show you'd think that adulthood begins at ten."
* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is by far the youngest of the {{Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits}} yet while they're all running away from the yeti, she's the one who calmly recognises that its a statue.
* '''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.

* '''Parodied''': The {{Diabolical Mastermind}} is regularly defeated by a five year old with a yoyo {{Once Per Episode}}, while the "cunning" {{Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits}} who are supposedly the heroes fail miserably due to being {{Adult Child}}ren.

* '''Deconstructed''': 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 drink.

* '''Reconstructed''': 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 a merely very hard and stressful at fifteen.

* '''Justified''': Alices parents are away often and there is no one available to babysit her or her siblings. In extreme cases, Alice suffered from {{Parental Abandonment}} or even {{Promotion to Parent}}, [[AbusiveParents possibly while fleeing from aforementioned parents.]]

** Alternately, 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 (ie adults) refuse to take her seriously because she's so young.
** Alternately again, Alice shows ''extremely'' TroublingUnchildhoodBehavior 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.

* '''Inverted''': Alice is an {{Adult Child}}.

* '''Defied''': Alice is quick to palm off any arduous responsibilities onto [[XanatosSucker hapless adults]] whenever the threat of having to handle a serious responsibility rears its ugly head.