Line #29 PlayingWith/CompulsorySchoolAge


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character ends up de-aged and ends up getting sent to school for their age.
2	* '''Straight''': [[TheProfessor Charlie]] ends up going to high school with his son after he gets de-aged.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent The President]] after being hit by a de-ageing ray is dragged by his bodyguards to attend elementary school again.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Charlie is almost done with his Ph.D. thesis when he's de-aged three years, and his adviser makes him start the thesis from scratch.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** [[TheMasquerade The de-aging involved alien technology that must be kept secret.]]
7	** Charlie is an [[Franchise/{{Highlander}} immortal]] who suffered his first death in his early to mid-teen years and goes to high school [[TheMasquerade as part of his cover]].
8	** The de-aging was complete enough that Charlie forgot everything he learned since he was really that age, so he has to go back to school to learn it again.
9	** The authorities have no way of knowing Charlie is [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]], and it's easier not to get on the wrong side of them.
10	** Charlie didn't actually ever graduate from high school, and he decides he might as well do it now.
11	* '''Inverted''':
12	** [[OlderAlterEgo Charlie]] gets aged upward yet still attends school with his actual age-mates.
13	** [[OlderAlterEgo Charlie]] gets aged upward and now has to drop out of school and get a job despite having as much skills skills and emotional maturity of a kindergarten kid.
14	* '''Subverted''':
15	** When he was about to be sent off to school, Charlie demonstrates that he is who he says he is on his driver's licence through genetic testing.
16	** Charlie's classmates are also de-aged, and the school they attend is a front to hide this.
17	* '''Double Subverted''':
18	** The results get thrown out after a massive scandal at the testing lab, and Charlie is shipped off to school.
19	** This school teaches the students basic math and reading as if they were the children they appear to be.
20	* '''Parodied''':
21	** Everyone starts treating Charlie like he's much younger despite knowing his mind was unaffected. They also have him sent back to a class younger than his physical age.
22	** Charlie was born an old man and [[MerlinSickness ages in reverse]]. When he's eventually forced to go to school, he must [[EarlyGameHell start with PhD-level courses]] and work his way [[DisappointingLastLevel back down to kindergarten]].
23	** Charlie [[NotGrowingUpSucks stopped growing during childhood]], and he has to [[HeldBackInSchool repeat his current year over and over]], even though he is ready to be promoted.
24	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Charlie ends up de-aged and going back to school. However this is because he also lost his memories. Then he regains them and ends up not attending school. Then he is forced back into school. However once TheMasquerade is lifted he continues his adult life mostly unaffected apart from the extra lifespan and dating difficulties.
25	* '''Averted''': Charlie continues to adventure with the rest despite appearing underaged.
26	* '''Enforced''': Originally Charlie was going to assist [[KidHero Dave]] and play hooky but [[ExecutiveMeddling the producers]] were worried due to worries that MoralGuardians would say he was setting a bad example and had him start attending.
27	* '''Lampshaded''':
28	-->'''Charlie''': Aw, dammit! I'm going to have to go back to school, aren't I?
29	-->'''Alice''': Don't curse! And yes.
30	* '''Invoked''': Charlie misses his old school life, so he de-ages himself and goes back to school on purpose.
31	* '''Exploited''': Bob de-ages Charlie to force him to attend school, allowing Bob to have extra time to complete his EvilPlan while Charlie's in class.
32	* '''Defied''':
33	** Bob suggests that Charlie do this. "That is easily the StupidestThingIveEverHeard!"
34	** When asked, Bob claims to be homeschooled.
35	* '''Discussed''': "Now that you're fifteen again, shouldn't you be attending high school?"
36	* '''Conversed''': "Charlie should just take a competency test, be labeled a prodigy and grab thousands of dollars in grant money."
37	* '''Implied''': Charlie asks someone where he should go now that he's been de-aged. [[AnswerCut Cut]] to the first SuckySchool he ever attended.
38	* '''Deconstructed''': Charlie already had problems just from being de-aged. Despite his efforts, the authorities refuse to [[ChildProdigy let him go to get another degree in college.]] Getting forced into school makes him a thoroughly miserable {{Delinquent}} thanks to being stuck "learning" what he already knows, patronized by adults and magnitudes ahead of his peers.
39	* '''Reconstructed''': He helps his peers with all kinds of troubles with his WiseBeyondTheirYears knowledge.
40	* '''Played for Laughs''': The FountainOfYouth is common knowledge but due to legal inertia all de-aged adults are required by law to attend school. Everyone points out that this doesn't make sense but goes along with it.
41	* '''Played for Drama''': Charlie was a socially awkward former ChildProdigy before the de-aging and never had a normal childhood. The story revolves around him trying to cope and have the childhood he denied himself.
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43	Shouldn't you be in CompulsorySchoolAge, troper? Return there before the NonGivingUpSchoolGuy shows up!
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