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1'''Basic Trope''': A baby is very smart
2* '''Straight''': Bob the Baby knows the equivalent of a high school or college graduate at 6 months old.
3* '''Exaggerated''':
4** Bob knows literally everything as a newborn.
5** Alternatively, Bob the ''Fetus''.
6* '''Downplayed''': Bob can speak in sentences at 1 year old.
7* '''Justified''':
8** Bob has been given AppliedPhlebotinum to increase his intelligence.
9** Reincarnation exists in this universe, and Bob is using his previous life's knowledge.
10* '''Inverted''': Bob the Adult is extremely dumb.
11* '''Subverted''': It was told Bob was smart and we hear just babbling.
12* '''Double Subverted''': ... but the babbling means complex thoughts in baby language.
13* '''Parodied''': ''All'' the babies in the show are extremely smart. When the babies enter toddlerhood though, there's a chance of them either becoming average intelligence or they retain their intelligence.
14* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob is smart, but Alice the Baby isn't. Then comes along Charlie the Baby, who is smarter than Alice, but dumber than Bob.
15* '''Averted''': Bob the Baby knows the equivalent of... a baby.
16* '''Enforced''': "We need to make Bob smart, but he's just a baby! Just give him AppliedPhlebotinum to make him smarter."
17* '''Lampshaded''':
18-->'''Alice the Adult''': "Wait, this is Bob the Baby?! He's so.. smart!"
19* '''Invoked''': Bob's parents give him AppliedPhlebotinum to increase his intelligence.
20* '''Exploited''': Bob [[ObfuscatingStupidity fakes being stupid]] because nobody will suspect Bob's secretly a KidHero. (or in this case, Baby Hero.)
21* '''Defied''': Bob's parents are given the chance to give AppliedPhlebotinum to Bob in order to increase his intelligence. They either deny it or use it only when Bob's no longer a baby.
22* '''Discussed''': "So Bob's here. He might be smart."
23* '''Conversed''': "I bet that Bob will be smart! He's a baby!"
24* '''Implied''': Bob is seen [[GeniusBookClub reading things that older people should be reading.]]
25----
26-->'''Bob the Baby''': "Back to BrainyBaby."
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28%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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30%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
31%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
32%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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