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Childhood Brain Damage

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Childhood Brain Damage	comment	A explanation for a character's eccentricity, ditziness, lack of intelligence, brashness or the like is for them (or others) to harm their head as a infant or a child. A possible cause of this trope could be that they were accidentally dropped by their Alcoholic Parent, who had a little too much to drink. In some cases, they were actually pretty intelligent before the incident happened. One variation of this trope is that the character's mental deficiencies are not from a head injury but by them ingesting something harmful and toxic such as paint chips or alcohol. Another is that the brain damage was due to the character being deprived of something that's essential or substantial to having a relatively healthy body. If this trope is Played for Laughs, a character may jokingly or cheerily suggest to the others that a daft moment that another character (who usually has no disabilities and is mostly functional otherwise) just had was due to them injuring their head in their childhood. However, if it's Played for Drama and the character genuinely had head trauma in the past, it's used as an indication that the character was abused as a child or had a very dysfunctional childhood (they may also have a head deformity because of it). Related to Easy Amnesia, Tap on the Head, Hard Head, Circling Birdies. Contrast Early Personality Signs, which are hints of someone's future personality but unlike Childhood Brain Damage, it's implied that it's natural and not the result of an injury. A classic example of a Hilariously Abusive Childhood.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: "Lead" has a murder suspect who licked lead-based paint off his toy cars as a child; the seizure and the ensuing brain damage caused him to grow into a Psychopathic Man Child with a Hair-Trigger Temper. The toy company was sued and forced to pay his medical bills.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_18acb3a5	comment	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air has a slight variation, when Will asks Carlton if he was deprived of oxygen.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Cyclops suffered brain damage when he was a child after being pushed out an airplane with his brother (Havok) with only one parachute. Besides amnesia, the part of his brain that would have regulated his optic blasts was damaged, causing them to be "on" all the time. The blasts are only controlled by his ruby quartz visor and his eyelids.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_1f1d832c	comment	Shadow of a Doubt: The film implies that a brain injury suffered when he was hit by a car as a child is what caused Uncle Charlie's "problem".
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_200f0be8	comment	Tommy Boy: A Running Gag has people ask his character if he ate paint chips (or lived near powerlines) as a child.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_2221ecbd	comment	A victim of the week on CSI: NY had this after trying to fly from a window as a little kid. He lived in a home and got killed trying to stop a orderly from selling medicine. He still liked being a superhero and was found dead in his costume after trying to stop a sale on the street.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_2223d84d	comment	In Bunk'd, it is revealed that the reason Finn acts so strangely is when he was a baby, Lou accidentally bumped his head against the refrigerator door. This resulted in her being afraid of babies, or rather, hurting one by accident.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_22cf7df9	comment	The Goonies: It's implied that Sloth's deformity was caused by being dropped as a baby. When Ma Fratelli tries to calm him down by singing "Rock-a-bye Baby", Sloth reacts to the line "the baby will fall" as if it has unearthed Repressed Memories, precipitating his Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_22d87fc9	comment	That '70s Show, Kitty asks Kelso (aka The Ditz) if he was dropped on his head, as seen in the above quote.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_23c8980e	comment	A Child Is Waiting is set at an institution for mentally disabled children. It's explained that one of the most common causes of their disabilities is being deprived of oxygen during birth.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_24ffd341	comment	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: In "The Gang Buys a Roller Rink", it is revealed that Dee Reynolds used to be a cheerful, kind, and ambitious young woman before she received a traumatic brain injury when she lost control at a roller rink and hit her head on the floor (due to Charlie tampering with her skates), giving her the rude, aggressive, impulsive, and selfish personality she is famous for.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: "HOMÐ¯" reveals that Homer is an idiot because he stuck a crayon up his nose as a child and got it jammed into his brain. When it's removed, his intelligence actually becomes above average. That doesn't last, of course. In "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie", Homer tells Bart when he was a kid, he wanted a bike, but his dad wouldn't let him, so he tried holding his breath so his dad would give in. He passed out and had to be rushed to the hospital, where the doctors said he suffered brain damage. A flashback in "Moms I'd Like to Forget" shows Ralph Wiggum, a notoriously oddball character known for saying strange things, being held by his father as a baby drinking from a bottle when his father accidentally drops him. Afterwards, Ralph is no longer able to find the bottle with his mouth. In "My Octopus and a Teacher", Homer says that as a kid, he had a crush on his school nurse, and would repeatedly hurt himself to get to visit her. The fact that he lists the same method twice implies that he now has memory issues.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_27c9b5a7	comment	Chocoholic Mysteries: In Frog Frame-Up, Patsy Waterloo states that her brother Hershel Perkins (who's widely regarded as the town crank, has gone missing and is soon to become the book's murder victim) was officially diagnosed with "minimal brain damage caused by a birth injury". In Castle Clue, Kathy Street is noted as having had some kind of brain damage at birth; her older twin sister Margo has been taking care of her for most of her life.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_296a03c9	comment	Emily of New Moon: Emily's Cousin Jimmy is "simple," due to her Aunt Elizabeth causing him to fall into the well when they were children.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_2db2ff29	comment	F is for Family: Kevin is noted to have been drowning at the bottom of a motel pool for two minutes as a child. Implied with Phillip's younger brother Anthony, who barely speaks in full sentences, after Phillip played with Anthony's soft spot.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_2eafc5ca	comment	Team 8: Kurenai wonders if Gai had been dropped several times on his head as an infant. She concludes more realistically that the stronger a jonin is, the more wackier they behave (and fears that she will become eccentric as well).
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_2f0328c1	comment	Ducktales: The remake has Scrooge ask Launchpad if he suffered head trauma when he was younger in the Amazon level.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_334120fc	comment	8-Bit Theater: Black Mage asks Fighter whether he was dropped on his head a lot as a child, to which Fighter answers, "Maybe..." This is immediately followed by a flashback to Fighter's childhood, with young Fighter exclaiming how happy he is to have power lines in his back yard and plenty of paint chips to eat.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_34d42e85	comment	Harriet: Played for Drama with brutal historical accuracy. Harriet Tubman really did have her skull fractured in childhood, when an angry overseer threw a two-pound lead weight at another slave and she accidentally got in the way. She survived, but suffered from fainting spells for the rest of her life.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_37b56f7	comment	Baldur's Gate II: Should a male player character make the mistake of saying that he "doesn't rightly know" where to go next with Jaheira during a very bad time for her, she will accuse him of sounding like he'd been dropped or kicked on his head as a child.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_4037825e	comment	Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Liu Shan is renowned as an inadequate successor to Liu Bei, with his childhood nickname "Adou" becoming a Chinese byword for someone utterly useless. This is probably because his father had dashed his infant son to the ground in anger that his general Zhao Yun had risked his life to rescue the kid, saying, "[b]rothers are as hands and feet; wives and children are as clothing. You may mend your torn dress, but who can reattach a lost limb?". Worth noting that this is basically a liberty taken by the author; in the actual history that the novel was based on, Liu Bei didn't throw the infant Liu Shan on the ground and inflicting him with the trope, his inadequacy came rather naturally.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_41ec4f3c	comment	Kill la Kill AU: Nui fell on her head when she was a year old and, apparently, Satsuki chocks the fact that she doesn't take messages too well because of that.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield: Jim Davis opens the comic's 20th anniversary book by claiming that "I was born July 28, 1945, in Marion, Indiana, and was promptly dropped on my head — which explains my lifelong desire to become a cartoonist." In the strip itself, Jon's often-eccentric behavior has been implied on a few occasions (such as this one) to be an effect of several head injuries he suffered growing up on a farm.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children had a flashback in which Kelly (The Ditz) was shown to be very intelligent as a young girl, until she hit her head during a car ride.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_46a4b34d	comment	The Elenium: The main characters meet a secondary, clearly handicapped character who was hit on the head when young by a cow.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_47c236d9	comment	In Mr. Revere and I, Sherry's original owner, Sir Cedric, has a stutter because he fell from the nurse's arms when he was two.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_4d677d1	comment	Bio-Dome: In a flashback, Doyle's mom is seen holding his friend Bud underwater in an attempt to teach him to hold his breath. It's implied that she did the same thing to Doyle too, which may explain why they act so immature as adults.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_546d9ccb	comment	Alice Through the Looking Glass reveals that the Queen Of Hearts used to be normal until she fell and hit her head as a child, which caused it to swell to the size that it is.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_5472938f	comment	Madgie, what did you do?: This is why Doki has cerebral palsy. When she and Toki were born, she was deprived of oxygen at birth, being born second and at a later time than the latter. The same would apply Vielle, as she also cerebral palsy and her debut story doesn't say how long her mother was in labor.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_55ef2655	comment	Kenan & Kel: Kenan explains in a minor Running Gag that Kel's lack of common sense (and otherwise intelligence) was the result of him being dropped on his head as a child. Kel invariably agrees: "Yes - Many times!" This is usually in situations where he needs to excuse Kel's odd behaviour, so it may or may not be true.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_569093cc	comment	DuckTales (2017): After the family meets Donald's fellow Caballeros, JosÃ© lets it slip that when Huey, Dewey and Louie were still eggs, Donald bet he could juggle them and ended up dropping one. Hearing this, Huey and Louie look at Dewey, who is not paying attention and blinks his eyes out of sync. Huey and Louie nod in silent agreement that the egg was probably his.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: A flashback explains Elan being The Ditz as a result of his brother Nale continually Dope Slapping him when they were babies, as seen in the page picture. Later on, when Durkon's mother Sigdi asks to hold an infant, Durkon's son, her grandchild, Hilgya briefly questions whether it's safe to do so with one arm. Sigdi points out she raised Durkon with one arm, and Hilgya relents, with the caveat that nothing in her interactions with Durkon suggests he wasn't dropped on his head as a child.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_58c15fb0	comment	Hurog: Subverted. Ward pretends that a violent beating by his father caused brain damage to make his father believe he's a harmless idiot. (His father introduced the tradition of Klingon Promotion and fears that Ward might want to continue it.) The brain damage did leave him with a speech difficulty and force him to relearn a lot of motor functions, but his intellect is fine.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_59cbd290	comment	Two Best Friends Play: In one episode, Matt's being more of a ditz than usual, so Pat asks him whether he [Matt] ate paint as a child. Matt immediately answers, "You mean wall candy?"
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_5cac47dd	comment	The Urinal Game gives the player the opportunity to try to share urinals. If you do it with the large, muscular guy, you get the message "How many times were you dropped as a child?".
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_604b7b58	comment	Boots from Cemetery Bird was shoved down a staircase by his father when he was six. His heart stopped for five minutes, during which he had a Near-Death Experience in which Jesus and the angels brought him back to life. Ever since then he's suffered from severe seizures, for which he is heavily medicated.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: The Punisher: A variation of the trope occurs with Martin Soap. We see the nurse dropping him on his head just after being born, but he doesn't end up with any mental handicap for it — it's just there to show that the crap life shoves on him started very early and never let up. X-Men: Cyclops suffered brain damage when he was a child after being pushed out an airplane with his brother (Havok) with only one parachute. Besides amnesia, the part of his brain that would have regulated his optic blasts was damaged, causing them to be "on" all the time. The blasts are only controlled by his ruby quartz visor and his eyelids.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_63c1175b	comment	Ultra Fast Pony: Rainbow Dash is aggressively stupid. "Pinkie's Day In" implies this to be due to her foster parents throwing her around when she was a child.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_640d9be1	comment	Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade: The poison that a teenaged King Zephiel was tricked into taking as a young man is repeatedly stated to have been the catalyst that left him not quite the same. A number of similar poisons in the real world (such as mercury) can and do result in personality-warping brain damage, including paranoia, increased aggression, and decreased impulse control... just like it happened to him.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_678f32e0	comment	Big Hero 6: The Series: Season 1's primary antagonist, Obake, had contracted a brain tumor from an experiment gone horribly wrong, and lost the ability to tell right from wrong. Not that he minds.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_6b3cfe38	comment	Bob and George: When Mega Man actually Helmut in disguise continues talking about his evil plan even though Roll is right behind him, she asks if he ate paint chips as a child. He states that it's very possible.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_6c1d09b1	comment	Fallout: Max Stone, one of the character presets, was dropped on his head by the labor bot in his backstory.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_6e33f3df	comment	The Beatles: In one episode, John sews the money from last night's concert into Ringo pocket to keep it from getting lost. When he comments that it's "safe as in a mother's arms", Ringo replies that his mother dropped him once. John says he knows — that's why he didn't sew it in his hat.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_7a7df0b7	comment	The Light in the Piazza: Margaret reveals that the reason for her daughter Clara's childlike behavior is that she was kicked in the head by a pony, causing her to fall and hit her head. This left her essentially stuck mentally at the age of 12, even though she's now 26. This is why Margaret and her husband oppose her marrying Fabrizio though Margaret comes around at the end of the show without telling Roy.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: The villain Black Mask was dropped on his head by his parents while being born. This was just the first incident in a long line of abuse and neglect his parents inflicted on him. It's implied that the incident may have been a contributing factor in Black Mask's unstable mental state and extreme mood swings.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_7d494418	comment	Nicky from Dominick and Eugene "fell down" and hit his head when he was a kid, resulting in a learning disability and total amnesia of everything that happened before the accident. Later he learns it was actually caused by his father violently beating him.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_7f98d337	comment	Darwin Carmichael Is Going to Hell: (Mostly) Played for Drama. Due to Darwin's negligence as a baby sitter, the future Dalai Lama falls out of his high chair as a baby. Consequently he has the mental capacity of only a child as an adult.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_82632a99	comment	The Hearth Series: Germany can't remember his childhood as the Holy Roman Empire because of injuries. Given that the series has Holy Roman Empire going to war before his "death", it's not that big of a leap.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_83ad4daa	comment	PokÃ©mon: The First Movie: This is possibly the reason Mewtwo goes insane. As a child, he was not allowed to come to terms with fellow clone Ambertwo's passing away naturally. The scientists gave him a heavy tranquilizing serum to put him back to sleep until he developed into an adult. He wakes up confused, bitter and angry with little to no memory of why.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_859f63e3	comment	Dragon Ball Abridged: Much like his canon counterpart, Goku fell on a rock head-first when he was still a child. And he's noticeably more ditzy and absent-minded than his canonical self. The accidental dosage of bleach while at the hospital after defeating Vegeta likely didn't help matters.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_90b9ae74	comment	Farce of the Three Kingdoms: Liu Shan is implied to have brain damage from being flung on the ground as a baby. He's actually quite Genre Savvy, but extremely passive.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_946f58c1	comment	All Grown Up! mentions that Dil is so strange because Phil and Lil dropped him on his head when they were babies. Dil's mother Didi doesn't quite buy that, though, and thinks it's genetic from his father's side of the family, which isn't that farfetched a theory.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_970f5307	comment	Like Normal People: Virginia was removed from the womb with forceps, leaving her with a dent in her skull and a limp in addition to her intellectual disability.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_9ce851a3	comment	Malcolm in the Middle: Dewey's odd behavior is apparently the result of Lois standing in front of a microwave oven while she was pregnant with him.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	Regular Show: Mordecai and Rigby travel back in time and meet young Pops, acting lucid and sane, unlike the Cloud Cuckoo Lander he is in the present. Later during a car chase, they hit Pops, who then starts giggling like present-day Pops.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_9f48001f	comment	Joker (2019): After reading his adoptive mother's records from Arkham Asylum, Arthur discovers that he has suffered brain damage in his childhood due to the abuse he received from her and her boyfriend, which can serve as a possible explanation for his mental issues.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_9fc0dbb7	comment	The Grapes of Wrath: Pa Joad blames himself for his son Noah's slowness, as he tried to deliver him on his own, and ended up distorting his head.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_a08bab8b	comment	Yogi the Easter Bear: Paulie at one point asks his stupid henchman Ernest if his mother dropped him when he was a child.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_a5a0dd85	comment	Brave New World: It's rumoured that Bernard Marx's eccentricities are caused by an excess of alcohol in his blood-surrogate while he was being grown. Excess alcohol in a fetus's blood-surrogate is deliberately done to those destined to be in the Delta or Epsilon classes, so that they're the right amount of intelligence needed for their designated task and no more. Notably, Huxley wrote about this before Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was recognized and named.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_aba46ec7	comment	Fairly English Story: Minato suffered from brain damage in the car accident which killed his parents. However, this didn't harm his intellect or emotional maturity. Rather, it leaves him unable to naturally convey emotions without intentionally trying.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_aca7b22d	comment	The Amazing World of Gumball: In "The Origins", as an infant, Sussie can speak and dreams of being a lawyer. Then she's dropped on her head and starts speaking in the same gibberish she spouts as a junior high student. In "The Vase", the Watterson kids attempt to break the titular vase by giving it to Richard, whose hands are covered in butter, while telling him not to drop it. He doesn't, causing Gumball to angrily ask his father "Why couldn't you have managed that when I was a baby?" It's not exactly clear if he's being serious or accurate.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_ad3e7810	comment	Witching Hour: According to village rumor, Nick is always happy because he was once kicked in the head by a mule when he was younger.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_ae01886	comment	Looming Gaia: Itchy got brain damage as a toddler from his mother attempting to drown him, resulting in developemental issues as a child and irrational behavior as an adult.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Tyrion Lannister recalls the story of his cousin Orson, who was dropped on his head by a wet nurse when he was a baby. Every day he would sit in the gardens, smashing beetles with a rock, and Tyrion could never figure out why he was doing it. He did it for the rest of his life until he died from being kicked in the chest by a mule.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_b445a53d	comment	The Amanda Show: In one segment, Debbie is asked if she was dropped on her head as a child. Her answer is "Sure, lots of times!"
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_b7db5642	comment	Stranger Things: Steve Harrington apparently learned how to crawl backwards as a baby, eventually sending himself tumbling down a staircase and hitting his head. Nancy, upon hearing this story, notes that it explains a lot about his current persona.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_b80e5912	comment	My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!: The story starts with Catarina getting a massive blow to the head at age eight and getting Past-Life Memories in the process. By fifteen, she has developed an impulsive and spacey personality that leads several characters to wonder in-universe if she's suffered some brain damage from the blow to her head. Out-of-universe, it's implied but never stated that the "Monkey Girl" persona from her previous life has completely overwritten whatever personality and reasoning Catarina had previously.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_b9dc08f3	comment	The Thundermans: Billy is easily the dumbest member of the family. It's because Barb apparently gave birth to him in mid-air (Hank was frantically flying her to a superhero hospital), an experience she doesn't want to repeat with any other kid.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: It's often suggested that Patrick's stupidity is the result of frequent head injuries. In "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost", Patrick mentions that he knows a lot about head injuries, then spaces out mid-sentence. In "Big Pink Loser", SpongeBob tries to discourage Patrick from mimicking him by hitting himself with a hammer, to which Patrick responds, "I've been doing this way before I started copying you." In "Cephalopod Lodge", Squidward asks SpongeBob if he was dropped on his head as a baby. SpongeBob confirms it and is amazed at how Squidward found out ("Psychic powers").
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_bca72091	comment	Animal Crossing: Cranky villagers will state that Pascal was hit by a soccer ball in the head when he was a child, and after that he began spouting unusual philosophy. It's unknown if that's true or just the animals being rude.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_bd3f6ba4	comment	Gensokyo 20XX: Played with with Reimu and Chen. In Reimu's case, this is a variant and a subversion in that, aside from being age-regressed, she technically isn't a child but this trope comes into play when she eats rat poison in 20XXV, the effect of which leaves her near-blind and a heavy sleeper, though her intelligence remains intact, then again, in 20XXII, she was injected with sedatives every few hours for screaming, so that may have also had an effect on her that either faded with time or wasn't so apparent until now. In Chen's case, she was brain damaged as a result of her suicide attempt by drowning during the events of 20XXIV, which left her unable to talk. This explains her speech impediments that we see during 20XXV.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_be1d5042	comment	Happy Feet: The fact that the penguin Mumble's egg was dropped by his father is the main reason he can't sing, and the film does everything it can to compare it to this trope without actually saying it.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_bf4d73fe	comment	Angela's Ashes: Angela's brother and Frank's uncle Pat is slow-minded and is said to have been dropped on the head as a baby.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer: When the ogre warlord Ghark Ironskin was still a whelp, his father grew annoyed at how slowly he ate and hit him over the head with his iron-banded war club. One of the nails remained lodged in Ghark's cranium, where it remains and rusts to this day, and is rumored to be the origin of his obsession with iron.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_c0da5437	comment	The Punisher: A variation of the trope occurs with Martin Soap. We see the nurse dropping him on his head just after being born, but he doesn't end up with any mental handicap for it — it's just there to show that the crap life shoves on him started very early and never let up.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_c1a47d69	comment	Otto of the Silver Hand: Brother John fell from his nurse's arms when he was a small child. His parents didn't know what to do with a mentally disabled son, so they sent him to live at the monastery.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_c34ab4c	comment	This Bites!: According to Ace, Luffy didn't get enough oxygen as a child, and chewed on the bars of his crib, which had lead paint. Also, Garp apparently believes that concussions don't have any side effects, and passed this belief on to Luffy. Cross comments that that explains so much.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_c511c682	comment	Asterix: Obelix got his Super-Strength from falling in a cauldron of magic potion when he was small. Although it gives him a useful power, it's played as this trope, and there's several implications that it permanently altered his personality into the sweet, childlike attitude we see — for instance, when reverted to childhood by magic, he loses his power and becomes serious, deep-thinking and quite grumpy.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_c7ced1f1	comment	Asylum (Daemon of Decay): Rainbow Dash had an accident as a foal that left her disabled. She can fly but even with physical therapy she isn't on par with most other pegasi. She received head trauma that left her with a Speech Impediment, and which might be part of the reason for her temper.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_ccf875f7	comment	The unsub in the Criminal Minds episode "Proof" didn't get enough oxygen while he was in the womb, which lead to him being developmentally disabled. This isn't given as an explanation for his killing spree (one of the only times a mental disorder isn't brought up as a cause), just to provide context for his ruse: he appears harmless and confused, which prompts women to get into a vulnerable position while trying to help him.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_d8a841f4	comment	The Longest Journey: Played for Drama. April's dad was drunk and dropped her when he held her as a baby for the first time, causing a serious cranial trauma that took several years to heal, during which she couldn't walk or speak. Although she eventually grew up normal (as normal as a half-dragon Shifter can be, anyway), her father's repressed guilt over the incident resulted in her very strained relationship with him and eventually led to her running away from home before the start of the game.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_dcce62c2	comment	Bad Santa: In the first movie, Willie asks "the Kid" if he's intellectually slow due to the fact that he was dropped on his head as an infant.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_df4a1ce1	comment	Of Mice and Men: George tells the ranch owner that Lennie was kicked in the head by a horse as a child to explain why he's mentally slow. Lennie has to ask George about it afterwards as he doesn't know whether it's true or not — George then says it's not true.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_e5c6748d	comment	Moe Howard was dropped on his head as a toddler by his big brother Samuel, a.k.a. Shemp. (Way to go, knucklehead.) He landed on his face, damaging the nerves in his nose and eyes, and as a result, Moe was blind for almost a year.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: A Cutaway Gag showed that Stewie used to be a hyperactive kid with a normal-shaped head, until he hit his head on the ceiling while jumping on the bed, squashing his skull into its current football shape and altering his personality. In "Peter's Daughter," Meg believes she's pregnant and is planning to marry the baby's father. Since Meg is against getting an abortion, Lois implies she could simply "Drink and smoke a lot." And then immediately adds if Meg's gonna go with that option she shouldn't stop halfway because otherwise she'll "Be stuck with Chris," implying this is the reason Chris is such an idiot. According to a couple of episodes, Peter is an example. After getting pregnant by Mickey McFinnigan, Thelma went to Mexico for an abortion, which was really getting beat like a pinata until Peter came out, while another suggests that he's the way he is because he got sick as a kid (he's shown unable to kick a soccer ball).
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_ec1eac0e	comment	Empires SMP Season 1: Jokes have been made at Jimmy Solidarity's behest when it's revealed that he was born from a small, damaged egg in contrast to his sister Lizzie's large, undamaged egg.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_ecac4861	comment	1970s punk rock groupie Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious, led a short and extremely troubled life fraught with mental illness and was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 15. She screamed all the time as a baby, threw tantrums over everything as a toddler, became suicidal at 11, regularly screamed insults at and attacked her parents and siblings, tried to kill a babysitter with scissors, and got into heroin and meth as an adult. While never conclusively proven, her mother Deborah believed that Nancyâ€™s behavior originated from her traumatic birth, when she came out severely cyanotic and nearly died of oxygen deprivation from her umbilical cord being wrapped around her neck.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_ecf31fa3	comment	Battle Royale: Kazuo Kiriyama is emotionless due to brain damage he sustained at a very young age. In the manga, being shot in the head restores his ability to feel right before he dies.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_f5799bd9	comment	The Critic: Jay Sherman's father admitted in a video will that he dropped Jay on his head when he was a baby, all day long.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: Niles tells Frasier than one of Daphne's brothers, who mostly speaks in incomprehensible mumbling, was dropped as a child. Worse yet, he was actually dropped on another brother.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: When Ross and Monica are reminiscing about some of the ways they fought as kids, Ross mentions he once stuck a broom handle into the spokes of Monica's bike, causing her to flip over and hit her head on the curb. Monica doesn't remember that happening, but she does remember people telling her it happened.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_f9742e61	comment	Dragonriders of Pern: Played for drama. The mentally-disabled servant Camo, a secondary character in the Harper Hall trilogy, is eventually revealed to have suffered severe oxygen deprivation during his birth.
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Childhood Brain Damage / int_fe0af5c6	comment	The Good Doctor: Melendez's little sister was brain-damaged by a tree-climbing accident as a child. The family became very poor because of her medical bills, and she now lives in a group home.
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