Speaking of which, can this be considered a subtrope of "Pint-Sized Kid?"
Wander Over Yonder inverted this trope with a large alien baby who's the child of these tiny bugs.
Now that Game of Thrones has concluded in season 8, wouldn't it be more fitting to show Drogon from season 7 or 8? He's over four times as big as he was in season 5, and thus illustrates the trope perfectly.
Pulled this:
- In Pacific Rim, a bus-sized fetal kaiju emerges from the corpse of its mountain-sized mother. It's mobile and small enough to chase an individual human target through the rubble of a demolished city street.
Not only the kaiju in question a fetus (thus theoretically smaller than an infant would even be), it's still, you know, the size of a bus. Which is quite large. And certainly large enough to loom over any humans (and say, eat them in one bite).
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This trope is about size of baby relative to size of adult, not relative to humans. It'd be just as valid if a mother the size of a planet has a baby the size of a city, or if a mother the size of a baseball has a baby the size of a sesame seed. Making the baby able to interact with humans more easily is the usual reason why it's used in fiction, but it's not mandatory that the human characters and the baby be particularly similar in size.
In any case, the kaiju fetus's ability to follow its human target through the streets, unhindered by the need to kick over buildings as it moves, is still a case where its smaller size facilitates it interacting with (in this case, trying to eat) a human character. Its mother was so large that she couldn't really have chased him around, just stomped things in hope of crushing him.
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I still think it doesn't really fit the trope as it's not an improbably small size for the adult.
But you bring up an excellent point that it does interact with humans in a way the adults can't, so I'd support it going back on the page with a mention that it's really not an unreasonably small size for its parent.
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I've found what could be the perfect image for this trope (#7 of 11 in the slide show; hotlinking to image is disabled):
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/photos/2016/04/game-of-thrones-kids
It could be summed up as thus: "Drogon goes from sitting on Daenerys' shoulder... to the other way round."
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Aren't the Omnicronians like this? Or is that in "Pint-sized kid"?
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