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'''Basic Trope''': An adult, who usually isn't a {{Manchild}}, suddenly thinks/behaves childishly.
* '''Straight''': Alice starts behaving like a little girl; calling her father "Daddy", throwing tantrums, and talking about having to go to school.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice starts behaving like a ''baby''.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice starts behaving like a college student.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice is in shock.
** Alice is under strain and wants to revert to a time when she felt safer.
** Alice wants to be a child again to make up for a bad childhood.
** Alice is delusional and actually believes she's a little girl.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice, a little girl, begins behaving like a grown woman -- drinking coffee, using logic perfectly, and wanting to go to work.
** Alice starts behaving like a senior -- walking with a cane, going on WhenIWasYourAge rants, and acting hard of hearing.
* '''Subverted''':
* '''Double Subverted''':
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zigzagged''': Alice fluctuates between acting like herself, like a little girl, like a baby, like a teenager, and like an old lady.
* '''Averted''': Alice acts her age.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''': "That's stopped being normal for you about thirty years ago."
* '''Invoked''': Emperor Evulz drugs Alice with a formula that makes her think she's a kid.
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''': "I may be dealing with a lot, but I won't regress!"
* '''Discussed''': "What are the symptoms of emotional regression?"
* '''Conversed''': "That was so creepy that episode where Alice went into shock and thought she was a kid!"
* '''Implied''':
* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice has to have DinnerWithTheBoss, but she thinks she's a little girl due to a head injury, leading to her husband Bob trying to save her career.
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice is having a grief-induced SanitySlippage.
* '''Played for Horror''': Alice's FaceHeelTurn turns her into a [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathic womanchild]].
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* '''Straight''': Alice starts behaving like a little girl; calling her father "Daddy", throwing tantrums, and talking about having to go to school.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice starts behaving like a ''baby''.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice starts behaving like a college student.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice is in shock.
** Alice is under strain and wants to revert to a time when she felt safer.
** Alice wants to be a child again to make up for a bad childhood.
** Alice is delusional and actually believes she's a little girl.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice, a little girl, begins behaving like a grown woman -- drinking coffee, using logic perfectly, and wanting to go to work.
** Alice starts behaving like a senior -- walking with a cane, going on WhenIWasYourAge rants, and acting hard of hearing.
* '''Subverted''':
* '''Double Subverted''':
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zigzagged''': Alice fluctuates between acting like herself, like a little girl, like a baby, like a teenager, and like an old lady.
* '''Averted''': Alice acts her age.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''': "That's stopped being normal for you about thirty years ago."
* '''Invoked''': Emperor Evulz drugs Alice with a formula that makes her think she's a kid.
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''': "I may be dealing with a lot, but I won't regress!"
* '''Discussed''': "What are the symptoms of emotional regression?"
* '''Conversed''': "That was so creepy that episode where Alice went into shock and thought she was a kid!"
* '''Implied''':
* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice has to have DinnerWithTheBoss, but she thinks she's a little girl due to a head injury, leading to her husband Bob trying to save her career.
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice is having a grief-induced SanitySlippage.
* '''Played for Horror''': Alice's FaceHeelTurn turns her into a [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathic womanchild]].
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