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* ''Film/{{Hook}}'': Neverland, like most adaptations, is depicted as an island where aging simply doesn't happen. Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys that stayed on Neverland haven't aged a day while Peter Pan grew up as a father in London after deciding to stay and marry Wendy's granddaughter, Moria. The Lost Boys are depicted as a tribe heavily influenced by 80s and 90s slangs and culture, and headed by Peter's successor Rufio. The Lost Boys have been at war with the pirates led by Captain Hook, who has managed to established a pirate colony at the coast in Peter's absence, and their rule with grown-ups is "All grown-ups are pirates... and they kill pirates."

* ''Film/{{Hook}}'': Neverland, like most adaptations, is depicted as an island where aging simply doesn't happen. Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys that stayed on Neverland haven't aged a day while Peter Pan grew up as a father in London after deciding to stay and marry Wendy's granddaughter, Moria. The Lost Boys are depicted as a tribe heavily influenced by 80s and 90s slangs and culture, and headed by Peter's successor Rufio. The Lost Boys have been at war with the pirates led by Captain Hook, who has managed to established a pirate colony at the coast in Peter's absence, and their rule with grownups is "All grown ups are pirates... and they kill pirates."

* ''Film/{{Hook}}'': In this film, Peter Pan actually grew up when he decided to stay London and marry Wendy's granddaughter Moria. However, Neverland's magic keeps its inhabitants from aging, meaning that Peter's ArchEnemy Captain Hook is able to execute his revenge decades in the making without dying of old age. On the plus side, Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys (some of whom had actually met Peter Pan back when he was a child) haven't died of old age either, and thus they're able to help adult Peter regain his fighting spirit and save his children from Hook.

* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': Unlike the novel and the play, Neverland actually does prevent you from aging. This is most prominent in the sequel ''WesternAnimation/ReturnToNeverland'' where Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and Captain Hook's pirate crew all remain unchanged in age despite Wendy growing up as a mother with her own daughter in London.

Music/NeilYoung's SomewhereSong "Sugar Mountain" (although it's really about being evicted from childhood itself):
-->''"Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain, \\

You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain, \\

* ''Film/{{Hook}}'': In this film, Peter Pan actually grew up when he decided to stay London and marry Wendy's granddaughter Moria. However, Neverland's magic keeps its inhabitants from aging, meaning that Peter's ArchEnemy Captain Hook is able to execute his revenge decades in the making without dying of old age. On the plus side, Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys (some of whom had actually met Peter Pan back he was a child) haven't died of old age either and thus are able to help adult Peter regain his fighting spirit and save his children from Hook.

* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': Unlike the novel and the play, Neverland actually prevent you from aging. This is most prominent in the sequel ''WesternAnimation/ReturnToNeverland'' where Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and Captain Hook's pirate crew all remain unchanged in age despite Wendy growing up as a mother with her own daughter in London.

* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': Unlike the novel and the play, Neverland actually prevent you from aging. This is most prominent in the sequel ''WesternAnimation/PeterPanReturnToNeverland'' where Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and Captain Hook's pirate crew all remain unchanged in age despite Wendy growing up as a mother with her own daughter in London.

What happens when NotAllowedToGrowUp affects an entire ''setting''. This is where an entire area, often an [[AdventureTowns Adventure Town]], is entirely populated and governed by children.

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* The ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekS1E8Miri "Miri"]] contains a fairly dark example: A planet of [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld long-lived, unaging]] children who sicken and die upon reaching long-delayed adolescence.

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* Youngtown in ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'', due to AlienAbduction of all of the [[OnlyFatalToAdults adults]].
* Little Lamplight in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has been populated entirely by children for nearly two hundred years. It's not clear how they replenish their population, but citizens are banished to Big Town on their eighteenth birthdays.

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* The Kokiri Forest area in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''.
** Interestingly, it's never revealed why the the Kokiri are immortal, if it's due to all the [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairies that congregate there]], or if it's because of the mysterious protection of the Deku Tree. (The implication in the sequel ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'' is that the wooden Koroks are what the Kokiri transformed into after the Great Flood.)

** Interestingly, it's never revealed why the the Kokiri are immortal, if it's due to all the [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairies that congregate there]], or if it's because of the mysterious protection of the Deku Tree. (The implication in the sequel ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'' is that the Kokiri might just be its humanoid ''children'', with a lifespan comparable to its own.)

** The same principle was the basis for the New Zealand AfterTheEnd kids drama ''Series/TheTribe''

** Interestingly, it's never revealed whether the reason is that the Kokiri themselves are immortal, if it comes from all the [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairies that congregate there]], or if it's because of the mysterious protection of the Deku Tree (the implication in the sequel ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'' is that the Kokiri might just be its humanoid ''children'', with a lifespan comparable to its own)