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4Genius is a very rare thing, and it often takes years of education, study and work to attain it. But genius can begin to show itself at a very young age, resulting in {{Teen Genius}}es and [[ChildProdigy Child Prodigies]]. But what happens if it shows up even sooner than that? The result is the Brainy Baby.
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6The Brainy Baby is any infant with the intelligence of a rocket scientist. Not only can he speak, but he can speak 10 different languages fluently, know the complete works of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, and figure out how to invent time travel, all just coming out of the womb. The baby may be an InstantExpert if they're actually shown in the process of learning any of these things, given how little time they've even been alive, or they might just ''know'' them in a similar way to how someone who says ScrewLearningIHavePhlebotinum can increase their knowledge by boosting their intelligence.
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8This is most commonly PlayedForLaughs, especially when the baby's hypercompetent in areas that would call for some amount of physical prowess, rather than just intellect; having a baby be TheAce, besting grown men and women at everything they do, is inherently funny. However, it can also be played straight if the intent is to show that the character has such an exceptional brain that they are to a ChildProdigy what a ChildProdigy is to a "normal" genius.
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10Some cases of this trope are actually smart adults or teenagers who've been subjected to [[FountainOfYouth reverse]] [[MerlinSickness aging]]. Others are some variety of [[{{Immortality}} immortal]] and [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld age much slower physically]] than mentally.
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12Not to be confused with the ''Series/BabyEinstein'' imitator ''Brainy Baby'', or the {{Toys/Furby}} imitator Baby Brainy.
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20* Ads for baby formulas abuses this trope, especially in Hong Kong, with play-school age children demonstrating remarkable vocabularies, problem-solving abilities, and mathematical skills.
21** Parodied in the UK by an advert which showed a baby of about six months who had arranged his alphabet blocks to spell "PAEDIATRICIAN."[[note]]If you're confused, ''paediatrician'' is the British spelling of ''pediatrician.''[[/note]]
22* An ad for a brand of bottled water called "Pump" claims that water produces "mini-mind babies with [=PhDs=]."
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26* Pulmo Allen of ''Amuri in Star Ocean'' is the commanding officer of a SpaceStation, wears make-up and high-heels, and is called 'Professor' by her elders, all at the tender age of 3. The fact that she is an [[{{Mutants}} Adapter]] probably has something to do with it.
27* Himawari from ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' is not only smart for an infant, but has an obsession with jewelry that she can discern an authentic from an imitation. She also swoons over handsome young men just like how her brother swoons over pretty young women.
28* Ivan Whisky/Cyborg 001 of ''Manga/Cyborg009'' plays the trope straight, but in the 2001 one he's a subversion. He's a very powerful telepath and telekinetic with the intelligence level of an adult, but also is trapped in the body of a baby since he was (unwillingly) given all of this through cyborg enhancements. This means, poor 001 is NotAllowedToGrowUp and, unless he's given a new mechanical body, he will remain as a Brainy Baby ''forever''.
29* Turbo from ''Manga/DoctorSlump'' is [[spoiler:killed and then revived by aliens]], [[TouchedByVorlons gaining]] PsychicPowers and a genius-like intellect in the process.
30* ''Manga/GrannyGirlHinataChan'': A side chapter shows the day a newborn Hinata came home from the hospital. Her family sees her folding origami cranes with a dexterity that defies what she should be capable of. Her brother then asks if Hinata is doing it to wish their mother a speedy recovery and gets a very clear, firm nod in response. While this is the result of Hinata being born with the full memory of her previous life, big brother Haruto believes his little sister is a genius.
31* Mannish Boy of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' is one of [[BigBad Dio]]'s superpowered assassins, despite being a baby. In general, whatever process causes someone to develop a [[FightingSpirit Stand]] also causes them to gain the intelligence of an adult human, even animals like ''plankton''.
32* In ''Manga/Reborn2004'', there are the Arcobaleno, who are known to be the 7 strongest babies in the world. They are one of the cases of reverse aging, as they were cursed in the past.
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36* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfBarryWeenBoyGenius'': Barry used to be this, as shown in flashbacks. As an example, he built his first telescope when he was eight months old.
37* Jenny Quantum of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' is able to speak in full sentences by toddlerhood and even before then was able to recognize opportunities where [[GooGooGodLike her powers]] would be of great help towards the Authority.
38* ''ComicBook/Batgirl2000'': While Cassandra Cain is illiterate even as an adult, she had a genius for the martial arts since she was an infant. One flashback panel shows her teething on a shuriken... and then hitting a bullseye with it on a target on a far wall.
39* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Valeria "Val" Richards, the second child of Reed and Susan Richards, was revealed to be a genius... as an '''''infant'''''. She takes after her good old TeenGenius dad, a borderline ChildProdigy himself, who privately speculated that she would start playing chess by the time she reaches '''''age 2'''''. By the time she's about five, it's implied that she's smarter than her father - though, like him, she has occasional problems with empathy, exacerbated by her age. She's since graduated to TeenGenius.
40* ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain'': Margaret "Maggie" Braddock, daughter of Brian and Meggan, is more or less to magic what Valeria is to science, and didn't bother hiding it. As in, she started talking at three ''months''.
41* In ''ComicBook/GenerationZero'', Gamete is a super-intelligent psychic ''fetus''.
42* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'''s licensed comic "It's Just a Phase" reveals that Leni learnt to sew when she was only one ([[TheDitz if only she'd remained smart as she grew older]]) and Lisa started doing experiments whens she was also only one.
43* ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'': Miracleman's daughter Winter Moran demonstrates being able to talk in complete sentences when she's only a week old. When her father discovers this, she claims that she was already able to speak at birth, but chose to be silent after seeing how much it shocked her mother when she said "Mama".
44* Baby Brain in the ''ComicBook/{{Seven Soldiers|OfVictory2005}}: The Manhattan Guardian'' flashbacks to the Newsboy Army was shown to be an intelligent and verbose infant. In the present day, his body never grew older, and he's stuck as a wrinkly infant.
45* ''Comicbook/WhizzerAndChips'':
46** Baby Boffin from "The S.O.S. Squad" whose inventions are all pram-related.
47** "Master P. Brain (Science is his Game)" was a pre-teen, but the first strip showed that as a baby he invented an automatic baby-feeding machine for himself.
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51* Sheldon, in both ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' and ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', is stated to have read newspapers before he was born, thus resulting in him refusing to hatch. He's also the most philosophical member of the cast.
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55* Zigzagged in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' fanfiction ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3395479/1/Anomaly Anomaly]]'' with Captain Janeway's daughter Sarah. Initially, she hit her milestones like sitting up and smiling early, but then she took a while to say her first word... Once she did, however, she started speaking in full sentences, and she remained a prodigy ever since.
56* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' fanfiction ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6983780/1/The-First-Mystery The First Mystery]]'', Velma, who's canonically very smart, could apparently crawl since she was only one day old[[note]]ArtisticLicenseBiology, since crawling is not an intelligence thing, but rather a mobility thing[[/note]] and do basic math at one year.
57* Deconstructed in the ''[=FusionFall=]'' fanfic ''Fanfic/InvisibleSun''. Since infancy, Dexter has been a genius. He could understand his parents long before he could walk and much earlier than he could talk (Dexter mentions he didn't talk until age 3 because he was learning and storing information). Unfortunately, this means that Dexter heard things he wasn't meant to understand, such as [[spoiler:how his parents hadn't wanted a second child due to money issues and how they had wished for another daughter, not a son]].
58* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfics:
59** In ''Fanfic/MySisterLeni'', Lisa could talk at one month and was reading advanced books before she was one. The problem is that she didn't want to interact with others or act like a "normal baby". She preferred to study, rather than play with toys, and would get mad when others patronized her for being an infant:
60--->'''Lisa''': ''"If you stopped to pay attention, then you'll see that I am extraordinary compared to my peers! I'm the antithesis of those slobbering, stupid, primative newborns! And yet here you are lecturing me about how the world operates, not letting me get a word in. You assume that just because I have the physical characteristics of an infant that entitles you to patronize me like I'm one of them!"''
61** Discussed in ''Fanfic/TheNightmareHouse''. Lisa is four years old, but a teddy bear thinks she's a baby who's just using inappropriately big words.
62** In ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/kire5613/art/Lisa-s-Birth-720931982 Lisa's Birth]]'', Lisa started trying to talk when she was only one day old, and she could speak eloquently at two months.
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66* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'', an average kid named Tim discovers his new baby brother can talk (and has the personality of a bossy CEO), and gets roped into [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a scheme to stop puppies from becoming more popular than babies]].
67* In ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', Jack-Jack definitely shows signs of this and Edna herself makes note of his intelligence. He holds his own in a fight against a wild raccoon, knows how to use the TV remote and learns how to shoot lasers from his eyes in bursts after watching a burglar fire a gun in a movie. During the final battle in the climax, he realizes he needs to destroy the goggles on the brainwashed heroes when he sees his mom destroy a pair.
68* Noi in ''WesternAnimation/RayaAndTheLastDragon'', who works with a band of [[MixAndMatchCritters monkey/catfish hybrids]] to con people.
69* "Baby Weems", a segment in ''Film/TheReluctantDragon'', is about a baby who can speak eloquently from birth. He becomes a celebrity and confers with some of the most eminent minds of the day, but all that fame separates him from his parents, who can only see him from afar.
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73* The premise of the movie ''Film/BabyGeniuses'' is that babies have access to all human knowledge until just before they learn to speak, at which point they "cross over" and lose all their memories.
74* In the Creator/RobertRodriguez movie ''Film/{{Shorts}}'', two brothers use a wishing rock to wish one of them were super smart. The wish is granted to their baby sister, who informs them through telepathy.
75* In ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', the super-genius professor becomes one of these after [[spoiler: the [[FountainOfYouth Pacifier]] is fired on him along with the rest of the school. His intellect remains completely untouched, but since his body is that of a baby he needs to use a machine to talk to the cast, even snarking a little about needing a change of diapers later.]]
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79* The eponymous baby in ''Literature/BabyBrains'' can do surgery, and he would've been sent to the moon had he not been too colicky.
80%%* Jake and Zoe's daughter Erin, from the ''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'' series.
81* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': Discussed in "The Third Wheel". Greg thinks he could understand English perfectly even in utero, and that he figured out how to steal the TV remote's batteries as a baby, though these claims are dubious.
82%%* A rare serious version is Bean in ''Literature/EndersShadow''.
83* It is stated in the ''Literature/FrannyKStein'' book ''The Fran That Time Forgot'' that Franny was a mad scientist ever since she was a baby.
84* Implied for Beatrice Bottomwell in ''Literature/TheGirlWhoNeverMadeMistakes''. She made her first ever mistake when she was [[VagueAge somewhere between six and eleven]], which meant that she never made mistakes as a baby.
85* Jon "Jack" Remillard in ''Literature/JackTheBodiless'', by Julian May.
86* Subverted in ''Harriet Spies Again'', the sequel to ''Literature/HarrietTheSpy''. Harriet thinks she said [[BabysFirstWords her first word]] at six months, that it was "proceed", and that she started speaking fluently only a month later. Her mother corrects her, saying that she was actually ''fourteen'' months old, and her first word was "cookie".
87* Baby ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'' was very well-spoken for her age at one and a half. She later taught herself to read from newspapers lying around on the floor at age three.
88* The eponymous ChildProdigy of ''Literature/MillicentMinGirlGenius'' was apparently one, since she mentions that, when she was two, she could read chapter books intended for children around the age of ten.
89%%* [[{{Ubermensch}} John Wainwright]] of ''Literature/OddJohn'' by Olaf Stapledon is also a serious version.
90* Sunny from ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' is fully cognizant in infancy, though [[IntelligibleUnintelligible only her family members understand her]].
91* Discussed in ''Literature/SmartIceCream'' by Creator/PaulJennings. The narrator, Wilfred, is an InsufferableGenius, who claims he could speak from birth, but he was probably lying.
92* [[NoNameGiven The abbot]] in ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', who retains his personality and memories when he [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnates]] and is currently in the body of a toddler.
93* In ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga,'' [[{{Dhampyr}} Renesemee]] is [[InformedAttribute supposedly]] as intelligent as an adult, though it's a bit ambiguous because a.) she also has RapidAging and b.) she still tends to act more like a baby than an adult. Nevertheless she's able to read within a few weeks of birth, at which time she looks about three.
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97* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'': In one episode, Gomez says that Pugsley was "already up to calculus" when he was ''born'', and Wednesday recited The Raven on her first day, though Pugsley by the age of 10 is more of a DitzyGenius who struggles with spelling and basic mental maths but invents a disintegrator gun and helps Gomez build a robot.
98* ''Series/AliensInTheFamily'': Bobut is a baby from a species with superhuman intelligence. When Sally tries to teach him the alphabet, he gets very annoyed and points out how he already knows how to read in multiple languages.
99* Zigzagged for Darren and Samantha's daughter Tabitha in ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''. Since her birth, characters speculated over whether she was a witch, and whether this meant she had above-average intelligence (for instance, when she played with a newspaper, both Darren and [[NosyNeighbour Gladys]] thought she was picking a stock). [[spoiler:When she turns one, it's revealed that she ''is'' a witch, though she still has fairly average intelligence for her age.]]
100* ''Series/Charmed1998'': Three weeks after he's born Piper and Leo's son Wyatt works out that if he cries the magical alarm Aunt Paige set up will go off and bring his family running. He quickly starts setting it off deliberately to get people to pay attention to him.
101* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Exaggerated in the "TV Funhouse" cartoon "Fetal Scooby Doo", where WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo and the gang are solving a mystery ''in utero''.
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105* MC Frontalot's song "Bizarro Genius Baby".
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109* The eponymous character of the medieval Jewish satirical work ''The Alphabet of Ben Sira'', from the moment of birth, is both fully capable of speech and much more intelligent than the adults he encounters (and [[SmugSnake never lets them forget it]], either).
110* Mercury/Hermes was a wayward youth at the age of one day! Not only could he talk, he invented the lyre from a tortoise shell, and stole the cattle of Apollo for a lark. When accused of the crime, his reaction was "What do you want from me? I just a little baby."
111* Taliesin, the legendary bard of Medieval Wales, was not only able to speak at birth but compose poetry and song. This is because he was reborn from Gwion Bach, the poor slave who accidentally drank some of the witch Ceridwen's potion of inspiration.
112* Legends of Myth/{{Merlin}} often have him suddenly speaking perfectly around the time he is weaned. This is convenient, because this is also around the time when his mother is about to be put to death for getting pregnant out of wedlock; Merlin, with his prophetic knowledge, testifies that his mother was [[ChildByRape raped]] by a demon in her sleep and thus gets her spared.
113* According to Literature/TheQuran, UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} (who, remember, is revered as one of the greatest prophets in UsefulNotes/{{Islam}}) spoke shortly after being born to declare he was a prophet of God. It doesn't say if he talked afterward.
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117* According to his poem "The Michael Rosen Rap", Creator/MichaelRosen could walk and talk at birth, swam the English Channel at the age of 1, joined a band at age 5, robbed a bank at age 7, and became Prime Minister of England at age 8.
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121* Aubrey Molehill from the ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' episode, "[[Recap/DinosaursS02E11SwitchedAtBirth Switched at Birth]]" is shown to speak quite sophistically despite only being a year old.
122* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
123** Baby Fats Domino, a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed parody]] of Music/FatsDomino, can speak and sing even though he's a baby.
124** Rocky, another singing baby, also speaks properly despite his being a baby. [[ProneToTears Doesn't stop him from crying for attention, though]].
125** In the ''Literature/{{Goldilocks}}'' parody "The Three Triangles", the baby triangle starts speaking to announce the letter and number of the day, and his parents note his intelligence.
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129* Most Toys/BabyAlive dolls are modelled on babies of about one, yet they're very articulate for their apparent age, saying things like, "Pretend it's my birthday. How about a birthday kiss?".
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133* Baby Head/Hoover from ''VideoGame/CaptainCommando''. He built his own MiniMecha.
134* The Garrickson Baby from ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings''. Unlike most examples on this page, he actually can't speak English. However, using telepathy reveals that the baby has psychic powers. He teaches Ninten and Ana how to use [[WarpWhistle PSI Teleport]].
135* In ''[[http://www.inkagames.com/flash_games/maggie_saw_game_en.html Maggie Saw Game]]'', an unofficial online game using characters from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and the plot from ''Film/SawI'', Maggie can speak, and the "gifted" room in her daycare features one baby who can read novels and another who was testing the string theory.
136* Dr. Fetus from ''VideoGame/MeatBoy'' series takes this to the next level.
137* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' has the Moshling species Glitzy Boo-Hoos. They're [[NotAllowedToGrowUp always babies]] with no teeth, yet can speak and walk upright.
138* Baby King from ''VideoGame/{{Richman}}''. While she can't speak or walk, she not only become the president of a babay product corporation, but also build an amusement park.
139* Baby Amelia Earhart in the ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' episode, "The Tomb of Sammun-Mak". As the series has a tendency to reuse characters, Baby Amelia was present in Season 2, but they're not the same character: in season 2, it was the adult Earhart who had gotten in TheBermudaTriangle and drunk too much from the Fountain of Youth, where in Season 3 it was actually the young Earhart as a baby. Either way, both of them are very eloquent, and the one who ''wasn't'' an adult goes on tomb-raiding adventures in Egypt.
140* If the character profiles in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' are to be believed, the Yoshi race in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series are an entire species born with a very high I.Q.
141* ''VideoGame/FurFighters'' has Tweak, a baby dragon who is proficient in firearms and guerrilla warfare despite ''literally'' being born yesterday.
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145* Downplayed in ''Webcomic/{{Kurami}}''. The titular infant isn't able to speak yet, and still acts like a baby, but considering she can apparently complete a [[GridPuzzle sudoku]] puzzle despite being nine months old ''and completely blind'', she definitely qualifies.
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150* In ''Dante's Infanzia'', because anyone still legally considered a child in their society winds up in Limbo, anyone who can retain their sanity are able to think like anyone their actual age.
151* ''WebAnimation/DrMonster'': Dr. Monster's son Sinfant is only a baby, but is already highly intelligent and able to speak as if he were already a preteen at the most.
152* ''WebAnimation/MinilifeTV'': Before gaining a bigger brain via experimentation from Dr. Espajelly, Baby Crotchrash is able to write (at a fifth grade level) a note explaining why he ran away from his parents.
153* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': When a Neopet is zapped or painted into a baby, they don't change in any way except for appearance. This means that, despite allegedly being babies, they can still speak perfectly, read, fight in the arena, and work in jobs.
154* ''WebVideo/NewFatherChronicles'': In the videos taking place when Amalah and Nayely were babies, their babbling was subtitled with words, to make it seem as though they were speaking and had a developed understanding of the world.
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158* Shown in [[ImagineSpot imagine spots]] involving Mr. Ratburn a good number of times in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''. Specifically:
159** In the prologue to the episode, "Arthur's Baby", when Arthur explains to the viewers that everyone was a baby once, in one spot, an infant version of Mr. Ratburn is seen writing math equations on the wall.
160** In the episode, "Arthur's Substitute Teacher Trouble", Arthur and his friends all worry that Mr. Ratburn's younger sister, Rodentia, is as smart as her brother, imagining that happening even during their childhood years. One of these spots involves an infant version of Rodentia doing calculus on a laptop.
161** In the episode, "Bitzi's Beau", Buster worries that his Mom is [[InterspeciesRomance dating Mr. Ratburn]] and they'll get married and eventually have children. In his ImagineSpot, he is surrounded by triplet toddlers, who being the children of his Mom and Mr. Ratburn, have rat-shaped heads and rabbit ears. The triplets are all hyperintelligent and nerdy, and want him to read them long books in French. One of them even has a chemistry set, which he breaks when he falls over, and [[NeverMyFault blames it on Buster]].
162* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'':
163** Professor Hawk from [[CharlieAndTheChocolateParody "Golden Diskette"]] is described as being extremely smart as a child ("At the age of four, he made history -- by receiving a college degree!")
164** The OriginsEpisode "[[Recap/DextersLaboratoryS2EP38 LABretto]]" shows Dexter talking minutes after being born and building machines while still in the crib.
165* The ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' episode "Where's Baby Smartypants?" has a baby philosopher who is considered the only person that could mediate peace talks between the most warlike races in the galaxy. [[spoiler:Dodgers actually stands in for him and does quite well... then the real philosopher gets them all riled up again.]]
166* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Poof's Anti-Fairy counterpart Foop is an evil genius and able to speak in full sentences the moment he's out of Anti-Wanda's womb.
167* Pictured above: Stewie of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. A big part of the character's humor comes from him being a super-intelligent MadScientist (probably the most intelligent character on the show, in fact), but lacking some extremely basic knowledge that only babies would not know. For example, [[NoObjectPermanence he still gets confused by the peek-a-boo thing]].
168* Time Baby, the superintelligent totalitarian ruler of the dystopian future in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''.
169* A flashback on ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' shows [[HeroAntagonist Dib]] spelling "ALIENS" out with his blocks when he was still in diapers. He also has vague memories of being experimented on, theorizing that extraterrestrials were trying to create a "genius super-baby." Irkens in general are given [=PAKs=] and uploaded with the collective knowledge of their entire species immediately after "[[PeopleJars birth]]." [[GeniusDitz Not that this makes them "smart,"]] though.
170* The ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' episode "I Am My Lifetime" showed that Weasel was intelligent and articulate ever since he was a newborn.
171* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
172** Downplayed for [[TheBabyOfTheBunch Lily Loud]]--while she may not be as intelligent as her sister, Lisa,[[note]]A ChildProdigy who's technically already finished school up through getting a [=PhD=], which is a type of doctorate degree[[/note]] she's shown to be very smart someone her age.[[note]]Lily's stated to only be 15-months-old in the first four seasons of the show[[/note]] For example:
173*** She seems to understand her siblings pretty well, at least enough to get in on the family's shenanigans.
174*** Can work technology like a camera or a cellphone pretty well.
175*** Even Lily tends to find Luan's jokes and puns to be rather lame.
176** In the case of Lisa Loud, it's stated in "It's Just a Phase"[[note]]A licensed comic for the show[[/note]] that she started doing experiments when she was only a year old--and in "Room and Hoard," it's revealed that when Lisa was a baby, she kept her used diapers and studied the bacteria in her pee and poop.
177* Diaper Man in ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyHeroes'' cartoon. He is actually the leader and "brains" of the title group.
178* ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'':
179** Bunsen is the same brilliant inventor as his adult counterpart, only smaller.
180** Also Scooter, being the little computer whiz he is.
181* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': At the ripe old age of ''one month'', Pound and Pumpkin Cake are very intelligent and very ''mischievous'' little foals. And while surges of flight and magic ability are apparently normal for foals, that doesn't quite explain the twins' level of control over their abilities. [[spoiler:They even know how to speak -- their first words are "Pinkie" and "Pie".]]
182* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Numberjacks}}'', One is only one year old, yet she has a concept of addition, and in one episode, she even says a sentence ("I'm only a little number".)
183* In the ''Jamal the Funny Frog'' shorts from ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'', Jamal's little sister Polly is able to speak intelligently even though she's just a tadpole.
184* ''WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat'':
185** Baby Fox is smart enough to build a complicated machine that was able to give him a bottle, lift him up to his bed, and change his diaper. He even used a diagram to build it.
186** "Peg Meets Cat" reveals that Peg could do simple addition when she was only about one or two.
187* A minor character of ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' is a super-intelligent infant who always seems to enjoy pestering Oscar. He speaks in a deep voice and is always outsmarting and embarrassing Oscar Proud. He also doesn't seem to reveal his intelligence to anybody but Oscar.
188* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Maggie Simpson certainly qualifies. She's led a revolt in daycare, successfully driven a car for miles (albeit into a prison wall), and sniped mobsters without being seen...with a shotgun. And the '''''ONLY ONE''''' bold enough to shoot [[KarmaHoudini Mr.]] [[BigBad Burns]] [[spoiler:with his own gun after he stole her candy! It's heavily implied that Maggie knew well beforehand that Burns deserved to get shot. At the town hall meeting, when everyone else was yelling about [[KickTheDog various things Burns had done]], when Marge added that Burns was "causing us all to yell" you could see on Maggie's face that she shared Marge's anger.]] She's saved Homer's life ''how'' many times now? And where did she learn how to swim and fence?
189** Lisa was no slouch herself, being able to change and pin her own diapers as a baby. While Bart, then as now, was [[TheUnfavorite less of a standout]] (Marge apparently had to change ''him'' until he was five years old because he was afraid of the toilet), his preternatural talent for mischief was such that he managed to grab a lighter and set his dad's tie on fire ''the very first time'' Homer held him, when he was ten minutes old.
190* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'': Fittingly enough given the trope name, Brainy Smurf was one of these as a child. While he's an adult in the show proper, a flashback to his infanthood in the Season 5 episode "Papa's Family Album" reveals he started reading before he could even walk or talk.
191* Dr. Babble from ''WesternAnimation/SonicPrime'' is an infant who is smart enough to pilot a dangerous mecha.
192* Ike from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark.'' At age three he can barely speak, but gets to go to kindergarten early and apparently reserves the TV every night to watch the news. In one episode he reads several novels written for adults in the course of one day.
193* The fourth season of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'' reveals Dr. Ezra Greene and his new wife Ana Baranova to have a toddler daughter named [=CeCe=]. While she hasn't yet mastered speech, she does demonstrate being capable of reprogramming the toys her father made for her and holds up all ten of her fingers when her older sister Frankie asks what 2 times 5 is.
194* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': The episode "Clash of the Cousins" introduces Jimmy's baby cousin Eddie, [[EnfantTerrible an evil baby]] with an intelligence that dares to rival his own.
195-->'''Jimmy:''' How could I be so naive? I only checked the DNA of ''adult'' Neutrons! I never guessed that...
196-->'''Eddie:''' A baby could be as smart as you? Heck, I'm ''smarter!'' And I'm only 17½ months old. Wait 'til I hit puberty. ''Ba-BING!''
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199[[folder:Real Life]]
200* Believe it or not, this ''can'' happen -- say hello to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20171020084116/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/10121175/Two-year-old-becomes-youngest-boy-to-join-Mensa.html Adam Kirby,]] who was accepted to Mensa at age two after he taught himself to read and use the toilet at nine months.
201* Christian Heinrich Heineken (1721-1724) of Lübeck, the child for whom [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker Immanuel Kant]] coined the word ''Wunderkind''. He mastered French and Latin at age two and at age three wrote a history of Denmark. Most of his brief life he lived mostly on the milk of his wet nurse. His death is attributed to the then unknown Coeliac disease (he died when his diet switched to grain products like bread, etc.).
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