Line #28 PlayingWith/GradeSkipper


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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