History PlayingWith / CompulsorySchoolAge

** [[OlderAlterEgo Charlie]] gets aged upward and now has to drop out of school and get a job despite having no skills and the emotional maturity of an elementary school student.

** ][[OlderAlterEgo Charlie]] gets aged upward and now has to drop out of school and get a job despite having no skills and the emotional maturity of an elementary school student.

** Alternatively, [[OlderAlterEgo Charlie]] gets aged upward and now has to drop out of school and get a job despite having no skills and the emotional maturity of an elementary school student.

** 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]].

** Charlie's classmates are also de-aged, and the school they go to is a front to hide this.

** Charlie was born an old man and [[MerlinSickness ages in reverse]]. When he's eventually forced to go to school, he [[EarlyGameHell has to start with PhD-level courses]] and work his way [[DisappointingLastLevel back down to kindergarten]].
* '''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.

* '''Lampshaded''': Charlie: "Aww dammit I'm going to have to go back to school aren't I?" Alice: "Don't curse! And yes".
* '''Invoked''': Charlie misses his old school life, so de-ages himself and goes back to school on purpose.

** Bob suggests that Charlie do this. "That is the stupidest thing I have heard!"

* '''Discussed''': "Now that you're 15 again, shouldn't you be attending high school?"
* '''Conversed''': "Charlie should just take a competency test, be labeled a prodigy and grab thousands of dollars in grant money".
* '''Deconstructed''': Charlie already had problems just from getting de-aged. Despite his efforts they 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.

* '''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.
* '''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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** [[OlderAlterEgo Dave]] gets aged upward yet still attends school with his actual age-mates.
** Alternatively, [[OlderAlterEgo Dave]] gets aged upward and now has to drop out of school and get a job despite having no skills and the emotional maturity of an elementary school student.

** Charlie was born an old man and ages in reverse. When he's eventually forced to go to school, he [[EarlyGameHell has to start with PhD-level courses]] and work his way [[DisappointingLastLevel back down to kindergarten]].

* '''Parodied''': 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.

The results get thrown out after a massive scandal at the testing lab, and Charlie is shipped off to school.

* '''Double Subverted''': The results get thrown out after a massive scandal at the testing lab, and Charlie is shipped off to school.

* '''Subverted''': 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.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Parodied''': Everyone starts treating Charlie like he's much younger despite knowing his mind was unaffected. They also have him sent back to younger than his actual age.

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

* '''Deconstructed''': Charlie already had problems just from getting de-aged. Despite his efforts they refuse to [[ChildProdigy let him go to get another degree in college.]] Getting forced into school makes him thoroughly miserable {{Delinquent}} thanks to being stuck "learning" what he already knows, patronized by adults and being magnitudes ahead of his peers.

* '''Straight''': [[TheProfessor Charlie]] ends up going to high school with his son after he gets de-aged.

* '''Deconstructed''': Charlie already had problems just from getting de-aged. Despite his efforts they refuse to [[ChildProdigy let him go to get another degree in college.]] Getting forced into school makes him thoroughly miserable {{Delinquent}} thanks to being stuck "learning" what he already knows, patronized by adults and being magnitudes ahead of his peers.
* '''Reconstructed''': He helps his peers with all kinds of troubles with his WiseBeyondTheirYears knowledge.
* '''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.

* '''Lampshaded''': Charlie: "Aww dammit I'm going to have to go back to school aren't I?" Alice: "Don't curse! And yes."

* '''Conversed''': "Charlie should just take a competency test, be labeled a prodigy and grab thousands of dollars in grant money."
* '''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.
* '''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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** Charlie is an [[{{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]].

* '''Justified''': [[TheMasquerade The de-aging involved alien technology that must be kept secret.]]

* '''Inverted''': [[OlderAlterEgo Dave]] gets aged upward yet still attends school with his actual age-mates.

* '''Defied''': Bob suggests that Charlie do this. "That is the stupidest thing I have heard!"

* '''Double Subverted''': The results get thrown out when a massive scandal at the testing lab gets the results thrown out, and Charlie is shipped off to school.

** Alternatively, [[OlderAlterEgo Dave]] gets aged upward and now has to drop out of school and get a job despite having no stills and the emotional maturity of an elementary school student.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Enforced''': Originally Charlie was going to assist [[KidHero Dave]] and play hooky but [[ExecutiveMeddling the producers]] were worried about occurred due to worry that MoralGuardians would say he was setting a bad example and had him start attending.

* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???