Basic Trope: A character transforms into the older version of themself.
- Straight: Ten-year-old Alice transforms into her sixteen-year old self, Candy.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice, a month-old baby, can transform into adult buxom beauty Candy.
- Ten-year-old Alice transforms into Cool Old Lady Candy.
- Downplayed: Alice, a twelve-year old, can turn into a thirteen-year old.
- Justified:
- Candy is Alice's Magical Girl alter ego, and age changing is part of the shtick that makes no one find out about it.
- Candy is actually the spirit that inhabits Alice's Amulet of Concentrated Awesome. They're really just swapping places temporarily.
- Inverted: Candy can transform into her younger self Alice.
- Subverted: Alice gains the ability to transform, but her new body turns out to be about the same age as her original one.
- Double Subverted: The transformation takes a few minutes, and after Alice thinks she's done, her body continues rapidly aging.
- Parodied:
- Alice turns into Candy, but still acts and dresses like a ten-year-old.
- Alice turns into Candy, who's incredibly wrinkly, withered, and otherwise much too old to be fighting evil.
- Zig Zagged: While Alice's sixteen-year old body looks like that age, she has the body maturity of a twelve-year old.
- Averted:
- Alice is just dreaming of the transformation.
- Alice can transform, but remains the same age.
- Enforced: "We can't show a child fighting and putting herself in danger. We'd better find a way to make her seem more adult."
- Lampshaded: "Man, it is awful convenient I age like this..."
- Invoked: Magical girls must be a certain age to use their power. The Powers that Be, age Alice during transformation exploiting a loophole.
- Exploited: Alice deliberately seeks out the Orb of Transformation in hopes that it will make her look old enough to watch an R rated movie at the movie theater.
- Defied: Alice is supposed to age when she transforms, but is cursed by the villain to not do so.
- Discussed: "Candy sure is immature for her age, like she's actually a ten-year-old."
- Conversed: "Knowing that Candy is really Alice, who's only ten, makes me feel kind of skeevy about the fanservice in this show."
- Deconstructed: Alice develops mental problems due to having an older body.
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