1 | '''Basic Trope''': For some reason, a character goes to school with people significantly older than he/she is. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob is ten, but is starting high school. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Despite being an infant, Bob has a [=PhD=] in astrophysics from Harvard. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Bob is one year ahead in school because his parents felt he was ready to start kindergarten early. |
5 | * '''Justified''': Bob is two grades ahead in school because he had tested out of second grade into fourth. |
6 | * '''Inverted''': Bob is HeldBackInSchool. |
7 | * '''Subverted''': |
8 | ** Bob scored 200 on an IQ test, but he still struggles in his grade and is not moved up. |
9 | ** Bob is [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]]. |
10 | ** Bob is the only one who [[HeldBackInSchool isn't redoing the class]]. |
11 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
12 | ** Bob scores 200 on an IQ test, but he's failing multiple classes. Despite that, he is accelerated in school. |
13 | ** Bob is [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]], but still skipped one grade (even though it looks like he skipped four). |
14 | * '''Parodied''': Bob gets Grade Skipped because the high school wanted his premature abilities at football. |
15 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Bob gets Grade Skipped, but then, years later, is HeldBackInSchool. |
16 | * '''Averted''': Bob is seventeen and entering his senior year of high school. |
17 | * '''Enforced''': The need for a KidAppealCharacter adds twelve-year-old Bob to the main cast of high-schoolers. |
18 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Isn't it strange that we're all sixteen but we hang around with a kid half that age? He should be in elementary school." |
19 | * '''Invoked''': A character applies this trope to his or her child after learning that his or her test scores are far above the other children's scores. |
20 | * '''Exploited''': Due to his grade acceleration, [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Bob acts much older than he is and tries to get people to treat him as if he really is older]]. |
21 | * '''Defied''': |
22 | ** A school administrator says, "[[ThisIsReality I know they move all the smart kids ahead in fiction, but all children should have peers their own age.]]" |
23 | ** ''Bob'' resists any and all attempts to get himself skipped a grade because he enjoys the fun and innocence of childhood. |
24 | * '''Discussed''': "I know that Bob's still a kid, it doesn't necessarily make him the smartest person in the whole school." |
25 | * '''Conversed''': "There's always an annoying kid in every show set at college." |
26 | * '''Implied''': Despite the fact that it's never stated that Bob is a GradeSkipper, the actor playing Bob looks like he's ten years old, and it's canon that Bob still plays with Legos. |
27 | * '''Deconstructed''': Bob becomes depressed after realizing that he is unable to make friends with anyone else at school. |
28 | * '''Reconstructed''': Despite having no friends, Bob isn't interested in socializing, and continues his academic studies normally. |
29 | * '''Played For Laughs''': The series focuses on Bob's lack of knowledge about teenage and adult life. |
30 | * '''Played For Drama''': The series focuses on the isolating elements of it, or Bob's struggles to keep up with his older peers. |
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