Baby: A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, ...

An index page listing Birth Tropes content. Delivering a newborn into this brave new world. For some animals, this overlaps with eggs.

And expect the newborns to be named after dead friends or teammates who had made Heroic Sacrifices during the course of the story, clearing the path for the ...

A baby can improve the situation and solve everyone's problems just by turning up. At least, according to this trope. Babies mend broken relationships, ...

The Spin-Off Babies trope as used in popular culture. Works of fiction get spun off into new shows with younger versions of the original characters.

A magical hot spring turns characters back into babies! Example of: Fountain of Youth. Maho Girls Precure. Little Queen.

Designer Babies are what occurs when you create or genetically engineer embryos with desired traits. Then simply return them to their womb (or a Uterine ...

A villain/overlord so evil that they literally eat babies. Advertisement: This is often used as an indication that a character is well beyond the Moral ...

A subtrope of Dawson Casting, one specifically about newborns, or at least TV so-called newborns. Whenever a supposedly just-born child appears on TV, ...

The Baby of the Bunch trope as used in popular culture. Being the youngest of your group typically comes with some perks and challenges.