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* The Sprite in ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana''.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' reimagines [[AgeLift Zatanna Zatara]] as one, joining the Team at age 14.

* While many characters in ''Manga/FairyTail'' are mages, few are also children:

* Some ''Tales'' games play with this trope: Meredy from ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' is 16, and looks about 12. However, on her home planet, not only is she considered an adult and and owns her own lavish house, she's ''one of the most accredited and famous engineers in the world.'' Beryl Benito from ''VideoGame/TalesOfHearts'' likewise looks prepubescent, but is actually 18, and simply revels in her youth.
* Genis from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' is the BlackMage and the youngest in the group.
* Rita from ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' is the second youngest member of the group at age 15, and the party's only SquishyWizard. [[HandWave Handwaved]] with Rita being a prodigy in the fields of magic and blastia.
* Elize from ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'' and ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'' is the youngest member of the group at age 12 (13 in the sequel). Her magical prowess stems from the fact that [[spoiler: her living doll Teepo is actually a booster; a device that increases one's combat capability at the expense of their lifespan.]]

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* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', Illyasviel von Einzern ''appears'' to be one, but she's actually an 18-year-old homunculus that only looks 10 years old.
* In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', [[spoiler:Maria]] is one of these, but she's a little bit... ''[[CreepyChild different]]''. [[spoiler:Her claiming to be a mage can also be seen as just a way to cope with being friendless.]]
* Trucy Wright from the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series is a realistic example, being a talented {{stage magician}} at the age of fifteen.
** Pearl Fey, if spirit channelers count. She's only nine and is already at least as powerful as her eighteen-year-old cousin who is of the more powerful 'main family' bloodline rather than Pearl's 'branch family'. If Maya was out of the way she'd probably be first in line to be the Kurain Master. [[spoiler:Which is why Pearl's mother keeps trying to kill Maya.]]
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* In ''Webcomic/HaruSari'' magic can only really be used by "elves", people born with a mutation, either naturally or more commonly artificially induced. The downside of that power? Elves physically stay prepubescent children forever, at least until their thirties -- when their magic has poisoned their bodies enough to kill them. And that does not even count in the common psychological disorders and bad social standing.

** Alphinaud and Alisaie in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' are about sixteen years old and are the youngest members of the Scions. Both of them are powerful Arcanists, but their fighting styles change by the ''Stormblood'' expansion; Alphinaud further refines his class, allowing him to summon a more powerful Carbuncle that boosts the party's attack power while Alisaie becomes a RedMage where she mixes magic with sword fencing.

* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': Mint, a RedMage who's a 12-year-old ill girl.

** Justified and downplayed with the Wickan warlocks intoduced in the second volume, ''Literature/DeadhouseGates''. They are all children attached to the army as if they were grown adults. It is then shown that all of these children are the [[{{Reincarnation}} reborn]] warlocks that were executed by Empress Laseen ten years prior to curb a Wickan rebellion. They retain all of their PastLifeMemories, knowledge and skills. However, Imperial Historian Duiker theorizes that all of them, as knowledgeable as they might be, still lack the physical stamina for the really powerful stuff they used to be capable of. This is confirmed when Nil and Nether have to sacrifice a mare, an animal that is sacred to their tribes, in order to cast a truly powerful spell, which then takes it's toll from the mare and ''still'' leaves both Nil and Nether exhausted. In fact, all the child warlocks and witches but these two die during the course of the book from their bodies being unable to handle the strain.

* In ''Literature/TheInheritenceCycle'' Riders, Elves, and Dragons all live a really long time because of their magic. When Eragon is crushing on Arya, she explains that in her culture, she's the youngest of adults and he's barely out of diapers. Even ignoring the fact that it's his job to defeat Galbatorix and [[DistractedByTheSexy she's not helping]] with that and the fact that she's affectionate for him, she tells him to wait a few decades before she'd really consider it.

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* Oliver in ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni''. He subverts the SquishyWizard status when he gets to a high enough level, due to him being TheHero.
* In ''VideoGame/FantasyLife'', if you take the mage path, the first of your colleagues that will be willing to accompany you in battle is Nox, who's still a child.
* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': Mint, a RedMage who's a 12-year-old ill girl.
* ''VideoGame/Wizard101'': Player characters seem to be teenagers at most.
* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' features quite a few mages who are either children or young teenagers - comparatively rare in the setting given that most forms of magic require years of education to master:
** [[BewareTheNiceOnes Carter]] was telekinetic ''at birth'', and eventually grew so powerful that she was accepted into [[WizardingSchool Innsmouth Academy]] at twelve - the youngest student on record. At the start of the game, she's about sixteen years of age and capable of causing ''[[PersonOfMassDestruction thaumonuclear explosions at will]].''
** [[TheSpock Hayden Montag]], [[TheWonka Headmaster]] of Innsmouth Academy and Carter's tutor, actually started out as one of these: despite not having [[TheGift the genetic capacity]] for magic that distinguishes most of the child mages in the setting, Montag was casting eldritch magic at an early age simply because [[ChildProdigy he had the intellect and the drive to learn it]]; tragically, his early experiments resulted in the accidental deaths of his mother and neighbors - which is one of the reasons why the adult Montag is so insistent on Carter learning control of her powers.
** [[TheWoobie Callie James]], a fifteen-year-old homeless girl, demonstrates a powerful grasp of pyromancy - having accidentally burned down school buildings when her powers were awakened. As such, she's had recruitment offers from both the Templars and the Illuminati, but for now Callie's okay with serving as a [[CloudCuckooLandersMinder squire]] to [[TheAlcoholic John Gallahad]].
** [[ProfessionalKiller Uta Bloody Valentine]] AKA [[spoiler: The Rabbit Killer]] also started out as this, having been born with powerful BloodMagic as a result of her [[FetusTerrible assimilating her twin sisters in the womb]]; indeed, given that it's not established how old she really is and you never see her face, it's possible she's actually a teenager.
** [[CreepyChild Emma Smith]] takes the cake: she's an unimaginably powerful mage capable of blasting massive craters in the Earth, cutting down whole swathes of Filth-monsters, telepathically sensing events in the past, leaving ghostly "memories" of herself to guide players, teleporting with the same ease that most people walk, ''curing the Filth with a kiss,'' and even [[spoiler: ''' ''controlling the [[CosmicKeystone Gaia Engines]]'' ''']]... and she can't be a day older than ''twelve.''
* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': The Tenno are considered this [[spoiler:due to being TouchedByVorlons children with unstable Void powers. They are capable of fighting by themselves, though most of the time combat is done by channeling said powers into the Warframes that serve as a stronger vessel than the Tenno's preteen bodies.]]

* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', Illyasviel von Einzern ''appears'' to be one, but she's actually an 18-year-old homunculus that only looks 10 years old.

* Orko from ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983''. Very small compared to the others, ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, but he certainly acts like a kid.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'': Baby Smurf, believe it or not. He was occasionally seen casting spells (although none of the others see this), and is heavily implied to be Papa Smurf's successor.

%% ** Explored on a similar vein in an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'', with a [[FountainOfYouth kiddified]] John Stewart unable to settle on what he wants until Wonder Woman yells at him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', in the backstory of "Long Way to Morning," the Magus was both very young and a good enough mage to cure the prince. (Granted, he did need the [[MacGuffin Grimorum]] to do it...)

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* Aladdin in Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic.

* While he normally isn't shown casting a lot of magic, Shouta from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' is implied to be very skilled for his age. He's capable of casually blocking Elma's attempts to find him via clairvoyance, and he took down an older mage with what is implied to be a high level sleep spell.

* The aptly titled ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy from the DC Universe, who's appeared in the ''ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}'' comics and various cartoons.

* Wally the Wizard, from Marvel Universe, who has appeared in the homonym comic book.

* In Raven Child's ''Fanfic/TheSmurfetteVillage'' series, Baby Smurf's DistaffCounterpart Babette is also born one, and over time grows into her adult role as Sorcerette while Baby becomes Sorcerer.

* The Literature/{{Discworld}} series:

* In ''Literature/TheDeathGateCycle'', Bane is a ten-year-old magical prodigy. Unfortunately, he's also [[EnfantTerrible evil]].
* Zilpha Keatley Snyder's ''The Changeling'' keeps it charmingly ambiguous whether the three-year-old Josie is this or whether her sister and friend just convince themselves she is.
* In TheInheritenceCycle Riders, Elves, and Dragons all live a really long time because of their magic. When Eragon is crushing on Arya, she explains that in her culture, she's the youngest of adults and he's barely out of diapers. Even ignoring the fact that it's his job to defeat Galbatorix and [[DistractedByTheSexy she's not helping]] with that and the fact that she's affectionate for him, she tells him to wait a few decades before she'd really consider it.
* Ged is this early on in ''Literature/AWizardOfEarthsea'' before he goes on to become [[TheArchmage Archmage]]. His aunt, a witch, notes that he has unusual magical power, and when he was eight or nine, he saved his entire village from the [[BarbarianTribe Kargs]] using a spell he essentially made up on the spot. Some time after, he goes to Roke, which, as it's the [[WizardingSchool Hogwarts]] of Earthsea, is also ''full'' of child mages.
* The ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series by Diane Duane states this trope a good number of times in many books. Child wizards are naturally stronger because of their imagination and removal from a serious life. Older wizards balance this out with their knowledge and experience.
* Petra, the younger sister of the protagonist of ''Literature/TheChrysalids'' by Creator/JohnWyndham is the most powerful telepath of the group. It's the strength of her powers that bring the woman from [[UsefulNotes/NewZealand Sealand]] to rescue the group.

* In ''Literature/TheDubiousHills'' by Creator/PamelaDean, all young children are "magicians", while older magic users are "wizards". Most magicians lose their powers around age ten, a few years before coming into their "knowledge", the one area or subject that they understand instinctively and completely; the exceptions are future wizards, whose knowledge ''is'' magic.
* Played around with in Literature/TheCandyShopWar. While all the actual magicians are grown-ups (and nearly all are Really700YearsOld, because nearly every magician knows how to freeze aging and it takes a while to learn magic), magic is much stronger when used on or by children, and it is all but impossible to reverse non-magical aging. For that reason, mages can grant tremendous power to children but not use it themselves. The plot of the first book hinges on this catch-22, as [[spoiler: the villainess is trying to acquire a drink from the Fountain Of Youth. The combination of childish power and adult knowledge makes her a PhysicalGod.]]
* This is deconstructed in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' with the character Bran Stark. At seven years old he's the most talented skinchanger in the world, capable of taking over the consciousness of other humans while other skinchangers can only manage to control animals. However, despite being a basically good person, Bran lacks the emotional maturity to use his powers wisely or understand how they hurt others, particularly his mentally handicapped companion Hodor. Bran, having lost the use of his legs, [[GrandTheftMe likes to use Hodor's body as a substitute for his own]]. He justifies it to himself like a typical seven-year-old boy might talk himself into "borrowing" his brother's bicycle, but for Hodor it's [[AndIMustScream an absolutely horrifying experience]]. [[spoiler: It's also implied that the ritual that unlocks his full greenseer powers is BloodMagic that's PoweredByAForsakenChild, a level of moral compromise that Bran is most definitely ''not'' prepared for.]]
** Bran's little brother, Rickon, is in a similar, yet different, pickle. Bonding with a direwolf at the age of three-almost-four... has problems attached. As in: (CanisMajor + [[ParentalNeglect Accidentally Isolated Tot]])([[CrapsackWorld Stress + Loss]]) = 2('''[[TheBerserker RAGE]]'''). Many people get mauled/killed by the two berserkers working in tandem. Now, remember that regular wolf puppies go through puberty after only several months, so direwolves might be only a touch slower... Yeah: at about the age of five, Rickon is having to deal with Shaggydog's maturation into young adult as they practically share each other's skulls 24/7. Nobody at Winterfell has the first clue how to bring a warg and their BondCreature up together healthily, let alone with this age complication in the mix. In return, the developmentally maturer ''Shaggy'' is left more or less having [[RaisedByWolves to babysit]] [[FieryRedhead Rickon]] [[SymbioticPossession from the inside]] to a great extent since the war started... thus, WildChild. The power dynamic between the two is about as messed-up and confused as the pair is. [[spoiler: If they're lucky, the Skagosi they may have been sent to by Osha know more about bringing up skinchangers than even most Free Folk.]]
* ''Literature/TheLockedTomb'': In her backstory, Harrowhark was the most talented {{Necromancer}} of the Ninth House, even managing the impossible feat of [[spoiler:opening the Locked Tomb]] at age 10. However, she was nearly DrivenToSuicide by [[spoiler:the knowledge that her parents sacrificed 200 children to conceive her]], and, in the present day, is ''desperate'' to accomplish something to make it all worthwhile.
* In the ''Literature/FairyOak'' world, Magicals start expressing before their premolars finish growing, so at 12 years old at most. When they do, they are taught by their aunts or uncles how to fly, transform and do other spells, which usually end up being used in games and pranks, but can also be used in life-or-death situations. The most powerful character in the series, Shirley Poppy is barely 10 years old.
* ''Literature/SplitHeirs'': Wulfrith began to learn magic at age two. He was impressing his master Clootie with the spells he could already do by age three.
%%* Lily in ''Literature/RuneSoldierLouie''.
* Lina Inverse of ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' started out with magic pretty young, and still gets mistaken for a kid occasionally due to being short and, ah, [[ACupAngst petite]].
* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** Lessar of New Light is a middle-schooler wind magician.
** Leivinia Birdway is the 10-year-old leader of a magical cabal.
* ''Literature/KonoSuba'' has Megumin, the party’s main offensive magic user. Unfortunately for the party, Megumin is a young {{Chuunibyou}} with terrible skill-point management. She refuses to learn any offensive spells but Explosion, the most powerful spell possible... but also the most demanding in [[ManaMeter MP]]. Since she refuses to learn simpler skills and refuses to invest any points in more MP, her contributions to the party are a once-a-day nuke that leaves her exhausted to the point of being incapable of moving.

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* Eden and (arguably) [[spoiler:baby Jewel]] in ''Series/MaddigansQuest'', young even by the other [[KidHero Kid Heroes']] standards.
* A grade-school aged male witch with psychokinetic powers appeared in the first season of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}''. Once the Magic School was introduced, there would be several more.

%%* ''TabletopGame/WizKids''.
* While averting the trope with magicians, 3rd Edition ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' had the Otaku- children capable of accessing the Matrix without any technological apparatus, who lost their abilities as they aged. 4th Edition changed this, however- the abilities stay with age and they're known as Technomancers.

* Yuu in ''VideoGame/LuminousArc3''.

* Genis from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' is the BlackMage and the youngest in the group.

* Caillou from ''VideoGame/RecettearAnItemShopsTale''. He's rather adamant that people don't treat him like a child, though... right before he demands you to sell him some candy.
* Ivan from ''VideoGame/GoldenSun1'' is the youngest party member and he's the BlackMage. In ''VideoGame/GoldenSunTheLostAge'', Sheba also fills in this role. In ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'', Himi is even younger at twelve.
* Some ''Tales'' games play with this trope: Meredy from ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' is 16, and looks about 12. However, on her home planet, not only is she considered an adult and and owns her own lavish house, she's ''one of the most accredited and famous engineers in the world.'' Beryl Benito from ''VideoGame/TalesOfHearts'' likewise looks prepubescent, but is actually 18, and simply revels in her youth.

* The ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series has many mages that are children.
** Lugh in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Binding Blade]]'' is about thirteen, and his adult support partners express surprise or dismay that a child like him is on the battlefield until he points out he's not much younger than KidHero Roy. (Lugh's twin Raigh is also a magic user, but he avoids getting those comments thanks to his "jerk facade" while Lugh is kind and cheerful.)
** Nino in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Blazing Sword]]'' is fourteen, but her appearance and personality strongly evoke this trope too--she's a kindhearted, cheerful, lonely girl who's starved of affection from her "mother" and treats the other members of her organization as elder brothers (except Jaffar, who's a potential love interest). She also has major MagikarpPower and is indicated to be a magic prodigy in her support conversations, which is why she was abducted and raised by a group of assassins.
** Ewan from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones Sacred Stones]]'' is an apprentice, not even part of the full-fledged mage class, and he starts as the weakest spellcaster in the game, but [[MagikarpPower if you spend the effort to train him...]]
** Also Subverted in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Radiant Dawn]]'' with two of the most important mages, Soren and Micaiah. [[spoiler:they're both products of breeding between the two species, meaning they age slower. By the end of the second game, they're both in their twenties while still appearing to be in their mid-teens.]] Empress Sanaki and Tormod before he grew up, however, fit this trope.
** The twins Yubello and Yumina, a mage and cleric respectively are, at 13-14 years old, the youngest party members you can have in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem''.
** Ricken from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Awakening]]'' certainly evokes the trope. Although his age is never given, he is the youngest member of Chrom's Shepherds, looks like a kid, and is treated as the kid of the group even though he is of marriageable age. This can be somewhat amusing as it is possible that [[spoiler: his child from the future will look older than him.]]
* Leon of ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' is the youngest potential recruit, being only twelve, and is a prodigy who excels at magic. He's also a bit of a jerk, though he [[spoiler: softens up after having a HeroicBSOD after his parents and everyone save Claude appear to be wiped out in a shipwreck. This is also the point where he becomes permanently recruit-able, though he's only accessible if you're playing as Claude.]]
* Toyed within the mage origin of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''. The campaign starts with the player character finishing his/her Harrowing, marking him/her as an adult and fully-fledged mage, but is noted to be young to be taking the Harrowing, and is almost certainly the youngest member of the party aside from perhaps Alistair, whose mother met [[spoiler: king Maric]] in 9:10 Dragon, making him 18 or 19 during the siege of Ostagar.
** [[spoiler: Arl Eamon's son Connor]] is a straight example. As a very young mage, he can barely cast simple spells, but is just as capable of [[spoiler: not so]] accidentally tearing the Veil to the Fade (the realm of demons, spirits, and dreams) as any other mage.
* [[SquishyWizard Skulls]] in ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' games are shown to be young boys. Their female counterparts who also appear in other non-Disgaea Creator/NipponIchi titles look no older than grade school-aged as well. (Interestingly enough, the Cleric class is always depicted as older, and the female Clerics in particular much better stacked.)
** Emizel in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4|APromiseUnforgotten}}'' is this for the group.
** Majolene in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 6|DefianceOfDestiny}}'' [[Really700YearsOld looks like one]], but she was a 10,000-year old lady before her irreversible transformation.
* Charlotte of ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'' plays with this. She's fifteen, but for [[HalfHumanHybrids half-elves]] in this game [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty Immortality does]] ''[[AvertedTrope not]]'' [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty begin at twenty]], so Charlotte is roughly as physically and mentally developed as a human five-year-old.
* Playable mages of either gender in ''VideoGame/DungeonFighterOnline'' look like children, and females usually have the GenkiGirl personality to match. As all PC mages are nonhuman immigrants (and the males may be undead), this may be [[OlderThanTheyLook only skin deep]], and roleplayers often play them as adult. The mage character in the AnimeOfTheGame is of similarly uncertain maturity.
* Annie from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''. Doubles as a CreepyChild because of her [[PlayingWithFire propensity for burning things]].
* Alvin from ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' has an inherent gift that makes him the most powerful mage known. Unfortunately, it's so powerful it's a hazard to himself and others, and he needs help keeping it under control. In the books, Ciri had a similar role, but she managed to seal it and swear off magic when [[GrowingUpSucks she grew up]].
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has Kennith. He's first met as a child in a quest. The next quest in the series, he's a young adult, and together with two other characters and the player he forms a party of four. The player's age is discussable, but Kennith most probably is the youngest member of said party. And he can cast even the high-level spells without any effort or even material components usually needed for casting.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' has Bianca and Madchen. While Bianca is not that strong until she grows up, Madchen, however, has no excuse for being able to cast powerful ice spells and transform into a dragon at the age of 8. Her twin brother Parry also learns some of the strongest spells in the game, including the Zap line of Lightning spells, exclusive to the Chosen Hero.
** Veronica in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'' is the party's resident child-sized BlackMage, but she only [[OlderThanTheyLook looks like a child]] because she was cursed shortly before you meet her. She's actually as old as her WhiteMage sister, Serena.
* Played with in ''VideoGame/SimonTheSorcerer'' games, where Simon is a regular British kid from our world who ends up in the magical realm. However, he doesn't have any magical abilities on his own.
* Ernie Eaglebeek in ''VideoGame/TheSpellcastingSeries'' may possibly be considered this, except he's in his late teens and has plenty of sex, something not normally associated with a child mage (especially a nerd).
* Ram and Rom from ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}''. Gust fits the bill as well, but only in appearance.

** The first Master and founder of Fairy Tail, [[BigGood Mavis Vermillion]], at the age of 13 had already studied and mastered Illusory magic to bring to life numerous vivid images capable of deceiving the senses of most people and creatures (and unknowingly even herself ). At the same age, she was also able to learn in a very short span of time some of the most powerful spells in the branch of BlackMagic none other than [[BigBad the legendary dark wizard Zeref]] did; in particular, she proved to be able to use the dangerous Law spell that consists in partially [[RealityWarper rewriting the reality]] entered a certain area and over the years she has managed to perfect it by eliminating the side effect.

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* Ariana Rael in ''Webcomic/VanVonHunter''.

* The students in ''Webcomic/WizardSchool'' are already experienced mages -- as opposed to Graham, the adult, who is clueless. Alas, everyone is subject to GoodIsDumb.

* In ''Webcomic/YokokasQuest'', Kalliv is a 13 year old boy whose only meaningful contribution in combat has been to bind the [[BigCreepyCrawlies king centipede]] in [[TentacleRope magic vines]]. Inky is a 14 year old boy who provides [[WhiteMagic healing and support magic]] for his party, as his father won't let him use attack magic until he's older. Mao is shown to know how to cast {{fireballs}} as a child during [[TroubledBackstoryFlashback a flashback]], and states that he and Yokoka have known a spell to [[NightVisionGoggles see in the dark]] since they were kids.

* Lily in ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie''.
* Lina Inverse of ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' started out with magic pretty young, and still gets mistaken for a kid occasionally due to being short and, ah, [[ACupAngst petite]].
* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** Lessar of New Light is a middle-schooler wind magician
** Leivinia Birdway is the 10-year-old leader of a magical cabal.

* ''Literature/KonoSuba'' has Megumin, the party’s main offensive magic user. Unfortunately for the party, Megumin is a young {{Chuunibyou}} with terrible skill-point management. She refuses to learn any offensive spells but Explosion, the most powerful spell possible... but also the most demanding in [[ManaMeter MP]]. Since she refuses to learn simpler skills and refuses to invest any points in more MP, her contributions to the party are a once-a-day nuke that leaves her exhausted to the point of being incapable of moving.

* Lina Inverse of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' started out with magic pretty young, and still gets mistaken for a kid occasionally due to being short and, ah, [[ACupAngst petite]].
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':

* ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}'' has Megumin, the party’s main offensive magic user. Unfortunately for the party, Megumin is a young {{Chuunibyou}} with terrible skill-point management. She refuses to learn any offensive spells but Explosion, the most powerful spell possible... but also the most demanding in [[ManaMeter MP]]. Since she refuses to learn simpler skills and refuses to invest any points in more MP, her contributions to the party are a once-a-day nuke that leaves her exhausted to the point of being incapable of moving.

** The first Master and founder of Fairy Tail [[BigGood Mavis Vermillion]] at the age of 13 had already studied and mastered Illusory magic, to bring to life numerous vivid images capable of deceiving the senses of most people and creatures (and unknowingly even herself ). At that same age she was also able to learn in a very short span of time some of the most powerful spells in the branch of BlackMagic none other than to [[BigBad the legendary dark wizard Zeref]], in particular she proved to be able to use the dangerous Law spell that consists in partially [[RealityWarper rewriting the reality]] entered a certain area and over the years she has managed to perfect it by eliminating the side effect.

** Harry's first spell was to propel himself really far in the long-jump at school. He fought off his first EldritchAbomination and won his first MagicalDuel by eighteen.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'': Baby Smurf, believe it or not. He was occasionally seen casting spells (although none of the others see this), and is heavily implied to be Papa Smurf's successor.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' have convinced [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-239 SCP-239]] that she is witch in attempt to keep her RealityWarper powers (which operate under ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve logic) under control and to boost morale of personnel.

* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': Mint, a RedMage who's a 12-year-old IllGirl.

* In ''Fanfic/BrilliantLightsWillCeaseToBurn'', Izuku is a 13-year-old who is responsible for collecting the Sakura Cards, giving him access to powerful magic that puts most Quirks to shame. He subverts the SquishyWizard part by being skilled in the use of a [[MartialArtsStaff baton as a melee weapon]] and his extensive use of [[CoolSword Sword]].

* In ''Fanfic/BrilliantLightsWillCeaseToBurn'', Izuku is a 13-year-old who is responsible for collecting the Sakura Cards, giving him access to powerful magic that puts most Quirks to shame. He subverts the SquishyWizard part by being skilled in the use of a [[SimpleStaff baton as a melee weapon]] and his extensive use of [[CoolSword Sword]].

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