'''Basic Trope''': A character is mistaken for being older or younger than they actually are.
* '''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.
* '''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 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.
* '''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.
----
Back to MistakenAge.
----
%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
%%
%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???