Basic Trope: Some form of Applied Phlebotinum results in one or more main characters regressing to an earlier age.
- Straight: Bob, an Adventurer Explorer finds a fountain to drink. It turns him into a young boy again.
- Exaggerated: Bob, and old man drinks the fountain, it turns him into a fetus.
- Downplayed: The fountain decreases your age by one year, and you must keep drinking if you want to become younger.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: Bob drinks from a fountain, it makes him older instead.
- Subverted: Bob drinks from the fabled fountain of youth only for nothing to happen to him.
- Double Subverted: The next mourning he finds himself a young boy again.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: The fountain's effects are dependant on what potion is poured into it.
- Averted: The fountain is just a fountain.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Implied: Bob looks slightly younger compared to when we last saw him.
- Invoked: Alice dumps a lot of age regressing potion into a fountain.
- Exploited: Bob tells no one about the fountain to keep up his good looks for himself.
- Defied: Alice thinks of it for a moment and decides to pull back of dumping that potion.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Sooner or later, people find out about the fountain after Bob keeps abusing it, and as a result, the nation that it resides is invaded, it's people abused, and now that area is in an endless war over the fountain.
- Reconstructed: ???
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