Basic Trope: Newborn babies end up looking older than they really are.
- Straight: The start of The Adventures of Hiro focuses on the birth of the titular character, though baby Hiro appears more like he's about 3 months old.
- Exaggerated: Hiro is allegedly a newborn baby in this scene, but is clearly being played by a 2-3 year old.
- Downplayed: He has some of the traits associated with newborn babies, but is still clearly too large to be one.
- Justified: Hiro is of a precocial species (whether real or fictional); as in, one that is born/hatched already mostly fully-formed.
- Inverted:
- The Adventures of Hiro starts with A Minor Kidroduction where Hiro is seen as a 3 month old baby, although he still clearly looks like a newborn baby.
- Hiro is born the size of a premature baby.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Hiro is born as a fully-clothed, perfectly clean 5 year old boy, with all of the skills you would expect a boy his age to have. No one ever questions this.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Newborn babies look more like they do in real life.
- Enforced:
- Film sets are unsuitable places for newborn babies, so they have to use one that's clearly older.
- A realistic newborn baby would be too gross-looking for the movie.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Movies had me thinking that newborn babies are a lot cuter than they are in real life..."
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