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* ChildProdigy: Victor has a superhuman intellect, able to read and memorize the whole dictionary and encyclopedia in less than a day, at the age of four, and even before gaining all current human knowledge was smarter than any adult he meets.
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* FreeRangeChildren: When Victor is four, his mother already lets him wander about unsupervised. When he looks at her, she finds herself unable to stop him from doing what he wants.
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* FreeRangeChildren: When Victor is four, his mother already lets him wander about unsupervised. When he looks at her, she finds herself unable to stop him from doing what he wants. [[spoiler:This leads ultimately to his death by drowning]].
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* ShaggyDogStory: Victor Stott, the world’s first superhuman intelligence, leaves no impact on the world because he [[spoiler:drowns in a pond at the age of eight]].
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* MaternalImpression: Ginger's plan was for Victor to have no exposure to cricket until the age of fourteen so that Ginger could train him properly, without any bad playing habits forming in his childhood. The narrator thinks that Ginger's desire for Victor to have no preconceptions caused him to be born without any instincts at all - he had no heartbeat at birth, and had to be taught everything that other infants know instinctively. The narrator thinks that it is this lack of instincts that allowed his mind to become so advanced.
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* {{Omniglot}}: Victor can pick up new languages almost instantly, and has read the Bible in the original languages.
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* MyBrainIsBig: Victor's head is so huge that during his infancy, everyone who saw him thought he had hydrocephalus.
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* MyBrainIsBig: Victor's head is so huge that during his infancy, everyone who saw sees him thought thinks he had has hydrocephalus.
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* OldMaid: A fate narrowly avoided by Victor's mother, Mary Ellen Jakes, who is so plain that she is still single at forty-two. She has resigned herself to spinsterhood when she learns that Ginger is looking for a wife. She goes up to him and makes her case for why he should marry her, and Ginger, who is borderline asexual and willing to marry any woman who can give him a child, agrees.
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* OldMaid: A fate narrowly avoided by Victor's mother, Mary Ellen Mary Jakes, who is so plain that she is still single at forty-two. She has resigned herself to spinsterhood when she learns that Ginger is looking for a wife. She goes up to him and makes her case for why he should marry her, and Ginger, who is borderline asexual and willing to marry any woman who can give him a child, agrees.
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* ActingYourIntellectualAge: Victor judges the whole human culture an "elementary, inchoate, disjunctive patchwork" at age four and a half.
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* NoInfantileAmnesia: When Victor is an infant, Challis tells his mother, "It is very necessary that the child should have air." When Victor is four, he tells Challis, "It is very necessary to have air." Challis is shocked, thinking that Victor remembers what he said back then, but Lewes thinks it's just a coincidence.
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* SuperSpeedReading: When Henry Challis and Gregory Lewes first take Victor to a library, he can already read at an adult's pace. He starts to read the dictionary, and within days has improved to the point where he can read as fast as a normal person would count lines on the page. In fact, his tutors suspect he is merely pretending to read, until they test him and find out that he retains and understands every word.
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* FreeRangeChildren: When Victor is four, his mother already lets him wander about unsupervised. When he looks at her, she finds herself unable to stop him from doing what he wants.
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* CreepyChild: Victor has a stare that others find highly unsettling.
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* CreepyChild: Victor has a highly unsettling stare that others find highly unsettling.makes people feel like they're being sized up and rejected.
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* OldMaid: A fate narrowly avoided by Victor's mother, Mary Ellen Jakes, who is so plain that she is still single at forty-two. She has resigned herself to spinsterhood when she learns that Ginger is looking for a wife. She goes up to him and makes her case for why he should marry her, and Ginger, who is borderline asexual and willing to marry any woman who can give him a child, agrees.
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* DirectLineToTheAuthor: The narrator is an unnamed journalist who was acquainted with Ginger during his time as a cricket star and years later decided to research Ginger's son.
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* DirectLineToTheAuthor: The narrator is an unnamed journalist who was acquainted with Ginger during ElectiveMute: Before his time as a cricket star and years later decided second birthday, Victor never speaks to research Ginger's son.anyone, instead communicating in grunts. Once his parents hear him talking to himself in the garden, showing that he is capable of speech but chooses to remain silent. He finally starts speaking in sentences after his father leaves.
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* CreepyChild: Victor has a stare that others find highly unsettling.
* DisappearedDad: Ginger walks out shortly after Victor's second birthday because he can't stand living with the "freak." Victor never sees him again.
* DisappearedDad: Ginger walks out shortly after Victor's second birthday because he can't stand living with the "freak." Victor never sees him again.
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''The Hampdenshire Wonder'' is a 1911 novel by J.D. Beresford, describing the early life of the ChildProdigy Victor Stott.
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!!''The Hampdenshire Wonder'' contains examples of:
* CareerEndingInjury: Victor's father, George "Ginger" Stott, was a cricket player who enjoyed two years of incredible success before he cut his finger on the seam of a ball. The cut became infected, and Ginger didn't see a doctor until it was too late and the finger had to be amputated. Ginger decided to get married as quickly as possible in order to have a son he could raise into a great cricket player, although once Victor was born it quickly became apparent that that wouldn't happen.
* DirectLineToTheAuthor: The narrator is an unnamed journalist who was acquainted with Ginger during his time as a cricket star and years later decided to research Ginger's son.
* MyBrainIsBig: Victor's head is so huge that during his infancy, everyone who saw him thought he had hydrocephalus.
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!!''The Hampdenshire Wonder'' contains examples of:
* CareerEndingInjury: Victor's father, George "Ginger" Stott, was a cricket player who enjoyed two years of incredible success before he cut his finger on the seam of a ball. The cut became infected, and Ginger didn't see a doctor until it was too late and the finger had to be amputated. Ginger decided to get married as quickly as possible in order to have a son he could raise into a great cricket player, although once Victor was born it quickly became apparent that that wouldn't happen.
* DirectLineToTheAuthor: The narrator is an unnamed journalist who was acquainted with Ginger during his time as a cricket star and years later decided to research Ginger's son.
* MyBrainIsBig: Victor's head is so huge that during his infancy, everyone who saw him thought he had hydrocephalus.
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