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* AnAesop: You Only Live Once.

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* AnAesop: In Tuck's words: “Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You Only Live Once. don't have to live forever. You just have to live.”
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Winnie grows up and dies instead of becoming immortal with Jesse.]]

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* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Winnie grows up and dies instead [[spoiler:Instead of becoming immortal with Jesse.Jesse, Winnie grows up, marries someone else, has children, lives out her life and dies a natural death.]]

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** A mild example. Winnie wishes to get away from her family. Then she's kidnapped. [[StockholmSyndrome But the experience turns out to be not so bad after all]].

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** A mild example. Winnie wishes to get away from her family. Then she's kidnapped. [[StockholmSyndrome But the experience turns out to be not so bad after all]].all.



* BrickJoke: The Toad.
* CantGrowUp: The Tucks, obviously.
* CompleteImmortality: They don't age and they are NighInvulnerable.
* DealWithTheDevil: The Tucks are suspected of this in-story.

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* %%* BrickJoke: The Toad.
* CantGrowUp: The Tucks, obviously.
Jesse Tuck, frozen at age 17, will never become a fully adult man. He's apparently fine with this and claims to enjoy immortality, but his parents and brother have more mixed views on it.
* CompleteImmortality: They The Tucks don't age and they are NighInvulnerable.
near-impervious to damage, particularly demonstrated in the movie when [[spoiler:Miles and Jesse get shot by the sheriff and are knocked down, but then casually get back up, shrugging off the bullets.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: The Tucks are suspected of this in-story.Discussed. Miles's wife, upon realizing that he was not aging like she was, believed that he'd been possessed or made a deal with Satan for immortality and left him.



* ImmortalitySeeker: The Man in the Yellow Suit is this.

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* ImmortalitySeeker: The Man in the Yellow Suit is this.wants the spring water for himself, but also desire to use it to make money by selling it to other people seeking immortality.



* LonelyRichKid: Winnie.

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* %%* LonelyRichKid: Winnie.



* TheMenInBlack: Well, yellow in this case.



* NoNameGiven: The Man in the Yellow Suit.

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* NoNameGiven: The Man in the Yellow Suit.Suit is only ever referred to as such and never named, even after [[spoiler:his murder at Mae's hands, and her arrest for the same.]]



* RebelliousPrincess / SpiritedYoungLady: Winnie longs for a life outside her gates and her upper class lifestyle and learns to become a somewhat modern woman after her escapade with the Tuck family. The 2002 film takes this up by a greater degree. Said film also shows her trying her hand at playing baseball with a group of boys.



* SpiritedYoungLady: Winnie longs for a life outside her gates and her upper class lifestyle and learns to become a somewhat modern woman after her escapade with the Tuck family. The 2002 film takes this up by a greater degree. Said film also shows her trying her hand at playing baseball with a group of boys.



* WhoWantsToLiveForever: This is a major theme. Angus Tuck in particular dislikes his immortality and [[spoiler:despite being sad over Winnie's passing, praises her in the book for choosing to not drink the water and live a normal life.]]

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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: WhoWantsToLiveForever:
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This is a major theme. Angus Tuck in particular dislikes his immortality and [[spoiler:despite being sad over Winnie's passing, praises her in the book for choosing to not drink the water and live a normal life.]]
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* RepulsiveRingmaster: The Man in the Yellow Suit's ultimate goal is to sell the magical spring water and turn the Tuck family into "freakshow" performers in order to demonstrate its power.


* BittersweetSeventeen: Jesse Tuck is seventeen forever, and is carefree and adventurous... but the fact is, he's still a child who can ''never'' grow up, never achieve adulthood and never truly integrate with society because of his secret. He says his immortality is a blessing, but it's very clear he's BlessedWithSuck.

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* BittersweetSeventeen: Bittersweet17: Jesse Tuck is seventeen forever, and is carefree and adventurous... but the fact is, he's still a child who can ''never'' grow up, never achieve adulthood and never truly integrate with society because of his secret. He says his immortality is a blessing, but it's very clear he's BlessedWithSuck.
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The story has been adapted into a film twice: in 1981 by Office of Communications and in 2002 by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Productions]]. A [[TheMusical musical adaptation]] was produced in 2013, and premiered on Broadway in 2015.

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The story has been adapted into a film twice: in 1981 by Office of Communications and in 2002 by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Productions]].Pictures]]. A [[TheMusical musical adaptation]] was produced in 2013, and premiered on Broadway in 2015.
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* StockholmSyndrome: Winnie is technically kidnapped by the Tucks, but they didn't mean any harm by it.

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* StockholmSyndrome: TheKindnapper: Winnie is technically kidnapped by the Tucks, but they didn't mean any harm by it.

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* AdultFear:
** Winnie runs away and goes missing for days. Her family is understandably frantic.
** Miles describes how he outlived his children, and his wife. Immortality aside, parents and spouses have faced this fear. In the film, it's worse; his daughter died when she was a teen, and his wife was committed to an asylum.


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** Miles describes how he outlived his children, and his wife. Immortality aside, parents and spouses have faced this fear. In the film, it's worse; his daughter died when she was a teen, and his wife was committed to an asylum.

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