Pint-Sized Kid/Playing With

Basic Trope: Animated children are far shorter than adults, even for their age.

• Straight: Alice is half as tall as her mother on her eighth birthday.
• Exaggerated: Alice is half as tall as her mother on her twelfth birthday.
• Downplayed: Alice is half as tall as her mother on her fourth birthday.
• Justified: The series is Super-Deformed, newborns are born relatively premature to compensate for the size of the head compared to mom's hips, and children take a while to catch up in growth. (Analysis)
• Inverted: Alice is just starting to hit her teen-age growth spurt and she's already almost taller than her mother.
• Subverted: ???
• Double Subverted: ???
• Parodied: ???
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Alice is half as tall as her mother on her second birthday.
• Enforced: The writers don't want to show adult faces.
• Lampshaded: ???
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: Being half adult height makes a two-tier Totem Pole Trench believable.
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???