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Basic Trope: A character never ages in a series.

  • Straight: Bob is 12 when the show starts, and 10 years later he is still only 12.
  • Exaggerated:
    • The shows lasts for a ridiculously long time, but he still hasn't aged a day.
    • Bob actually gets younger over the course of the series.
  • Downplayed: Bob does age, but very slowly. After six years, he's only 15.
  • Justified:
    • Bob has access to the Fountain of Youth.
    • The series is stuck in a time loop.
    • He has some other sort of anti-aging device.
    • He is part of a species that ages rather slowly.
    • The series is a Weekly Yonkoma, and all chapters occur in only one month.
    • The episodes run at strict real time, and all seasons take place in the same year.
  • Inverted:
    • Bob ages at a very ridiculous speed, so that a year later he is now 22.
    • Bob ages normally in scenes set in the present, but in flashback scenes he's the same age he was at the start, even though he should be visibly younger.
  • Subverted:
    • As it turns out, Bob is just short.
    • Bob is just acting like a kid, or lying about his age.
  • Double Subverted:
    • Bob is short, but years later he only aged one year.
    • He's lying about his age, but he still hasn't aged much.
  • Parodied: Hundreds or even thousands of years later, Bob hasn't aged a bit, or hardly aged at all.
  • Zig Zagged: Bob ages at whatever rate the show's writers want him to for their stories. He stays the same age for a few seasons, then suddenly gets bumped up a few years.
  • Averted: Bob ages normally, and one year later he is 13.
  • Enforced: The company doesn't want the show to be canceled or for viewers to lose interest once Bob moves out of the house and gets a job, so they make sure he doesn't reach that age.
  • Lampshaded: Bob remarks that he's been in 7th grade for much longer than he should be.
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed:
    Bob: "I hope this isn't one of those shows where the kids don't age."
    Bob's birthday happens one week later.
  • Conversed: ???
  • Deconstructed: Bob complains about the pain and agony of being a pre-teen forever.
  • Reconstructed: Bob decides that he is perfectly okay with it and that he can enjoy the benefits of being a kid.

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