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'''Basic Trope''': A character is mistaken for being older or younger than [=he/she=] actually is.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character is mistaken for being older or younger than [=he/she=] they actually is.are.



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* '''Subverted''': Alice looks young, but it turns out Claire's aunt is the the Alice working in Line 17, not 4.

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* '''Subverted''': Alice looks young, but it turns out Claire's aunt is the the Alice working in Line 17, not 4.
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* '''Straight''': Bob is at the grocery store and notices Claire, a little girl, looking for her aunt. He and Claire discover that Alice is a young woman at one of the registers.

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* '''Straight''': Bob is at the grocery store and notices Claire, helping Alice, a little girl, looking for her aunt. He and Claire discover that Alice is a young woman at one of the registers.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character is mistaken for being older or younger than he/she actually is.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character is mistaken for being older or younger than he/she [=he/she=] actually is.



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* '''Exploited''':

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* '''Lampshaded''':
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* '''Exploited''': ???



* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''':
* '''Deconstructed''': Claire and Bob find out that Alice suffers from a rare genetic disorder that causes her to physically age much slower than the average woman.
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Played For Laughs''':
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice is actually Claire's older sister. Claire's mother was pregnant with Alice when she was a teenager, and soon after revealing she was pregnant, the father-to-be left her. When Alice was born, Claire's grandmother raised Alice like a second daughter.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Claire and Bob find out that Alice suffers from a rare genetic disorder that causes her to physically age much slower than the average woman.
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* '''Played For Laughs''':
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* '''Played For Drama''': Alice is actually Claire's older sister. Claire's mother was pregnant with Alice when she was a teenager, and soon after revealing she was pregnant, the father-to-be left her. When Alice was born, Claire's grandmother raised Alice like a second daughter.



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'''Basic Trope''': A character is mistaken for being older or younger than he/she actually is.
* '''Straight''': Bob is at the grocery store and notices Claire, a little girl, looking for her aunt. He and Claire discover that Alice is a young woman at one of the registers.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice and Claire are much older than they look. They maintain their youthful appearances by drinking and bathing in water channeled from the Fountain of Youth beneath their home.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob finds Alice and she is just a bit younger than he expected.
* '''Justified''': Alice is adopted by Claire's grandmother shortly before Claire's birth, explaining the large age gap between Alice and Claire's birth mother, Donna.
* '''Inverted''': Claire's aunt is a middle-aged woman who has worked at the register for twenty years.
* '''Subverted''': Alice looks young, but it turns out Claire's aunt is the the Alice working in Line 17, not 4.
* '''Double Subverted''': However, the Alice working on line 4 looks even younger than the previous one.
* '''Parodied''': Bob finds out that Alice is really an infant who is adopted by Claire's grandmother, who is being carted around in the same registry line as ''Cashier'' Alice.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Alice is Claire's middle-aged aunt.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''':
* '''Invoked''':
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''': Alice acts, dresses, and often practices with her make-up in an attempt to make herself look older.
* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''':
* '''Deconstructed''': Claire and Bob find out that Alice suffers from a rare genetic disorder that causes her to physically age much slower than the average woman.
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Played For Laughs''':
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice is actually Claire's older sister. Claire's mother was pregnant with Alice when she was a teenager, and soon after revealing she was pregnant, the father-to-be left her. When Alice was born, Claire's grandmother raised Alice like a second daughter.
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