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+ AgeismTropes
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* AgingWouldBeHipster: A middle-aged character who desperately tries to convince people they're still hip.
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TRS merge


* ChristmasCake: Getting older brings the fear of not being romantically fulfilled after a certain age.
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* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Younger characters are more likely then their elders to engage in stupid, prohibited, or dangerous activities.

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* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Younger Young characters are more likely then than their elders to engage in stupid, prohibited, or dangerous activities.
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* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Younger characters are more likely to engage in stupid, prohibited, or dangerous activities.

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* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Younger characters are more likely then their elders to engage in stupid, prohibited, or dangerous activities.
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* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Younger characters are more likely to engage in stupid, prohibited, or dangerous activities.
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* AgeInsecurity

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* AgeInsecurityAgeInsecurity: An older character is insecure about their age.
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* AgeInsecurity
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* ShapeshifterLongevity: Shapeshifters live longer for some reason.

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* AppearanceAngst: Many people feel distress over the physical changes brought about by the aging process.
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Rouge-launched trope that has been sent back to the Pad.


* HollywoodQuarterLifeCrisis: A 20-something's life crisis about the workforce, relationships and financial situation, usually happening after college.
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* HollywoodQuarterLifeCrisis: A 20-something's life crisis about the workforce, relationships and financial situation, usually happening after college.
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* ChristmasCake: Getting older means becoming undesirable for marriage and the angst of not being romantically fulfilled.

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* ChristmasCake: Getting older means becoming undesirable for marriage and brings the angst fear of not being romantically fulfilled.fulfilled after a certain age.
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* ChristmasCake: Getting older means becoming undesirable for marriage and the angst of not being romantically fulfilled.
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* FirstGrayHair: Someone becoming old is first signaled by finding that there hair is starting to turn gray.

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* FirstGrayHair: Someone becoming old is first signaled by finding that there their hair is starting to turn gray.
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* MaamShock: Referring to female characters as "m'am" reminds them of the youth they lost.

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* MaamShock: Referring to female characters as "m'am" "ma'am" reminds them of the youth they lost.
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Doesn't necessarily need to be a series-wide thing.


* AlwaysAChildToParent: A parent has trouble treating their children like adults as they mature over the course of the series.

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* AlwaysAChildToParent: A parent has trouble treating their children like adults as they mature over the course of the series.mature.
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* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: A character's aging is illustrated through flashbacks to when they had more hair.

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* FreshmanFears: Characters in their first year at a secondary or tertiary educational institution face struggles and fears of their school or university.
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* SeniorYearStruggles: A senior has problems related to growing up and ending their schooling years.
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* FictionalAgeOfMajority: Important steps in a character's life.
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* AppearanceAngst: Many people feel distress over the physical changes brought about by the aging process.
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* SupernaturallyYoungParent: For supernatural reasons, a parent is (or at least looks) younger or the same age as their child.
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->'''''Age''': That period of life in which we compensate for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit.''
-->-- ''Literature/TheDevilsDictionary''
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* GrowingIntoTheirPaws: A (usually non-human) child has some body part that is already at its adult size, and the rest of their body eventually grows so that it becomes proportional.
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+ AgeDissonantIndex
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* LeavingTheNestSong: Songs about leaving home and the familiar behind, commonly because of growing up or moving on to a new stage in life.
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* CharacterAgedWithTheActor: A {{Revival}} or ReunionShow takes place the same number of in-universe years after the end of the series as in real life, to account for cast aging.
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* MusicAgeDissonance: Children listen to music not suitable for them.

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* MusicAgeDissonance: Children listen Characters--children or old people--listen to music not suitable for them.that is outside their age demographic.

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