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* '''Parodied''':
** The immortal maintains a huge and obvious collection of artifacts that actually aren't proof of his long life.
** Julius makes a [[Visual Pun|literal exposition in a museum-like style]] with all evidence that he lived in the Ancient Rome. With texts in Latin.
** The trope in the form of a [[Visual Pun]].
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* '''Lampshaded''': The immortal may say something like "What, did you think I'd keep something proving I'm a thousand years old lying around where anyone can find it?"
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* '''Defied''': Julius tries to avoid the discovery that he is immortal because [[Mad Scientist]]s [[They Would Cut You Up|would want him as a test subject]], so he hides all evidence of his antiquity.
* '''Defied''': A [[Genre Savvy]] Character tries to prevent a trope from happening.
* '''Discussed''': [[Genre"I Savvy]]have Charactersa talkcup aboutused in the tropeRoman Empire, a text written in the year 43, and a situationtable wherethat itwas iscommon likelyin toRoman happenhouses".
* '''Conversed''': [[Genre Savvy]] Characters talk about the trope in a [[Show Within a Show]].
* '''Played For Laughs''': Declarations of immortality are met with flat disbelief or a character who is depicted as very old, but never directly referred to as immortal, does something that suggests they are. Like claiming your place of birth is a prehistoric continent.
* '''Played For Drama''': Julius has to be very careful about whom he shares this evidence with, because some [[Mad Scientist]] could be obsessed with using him as test subject to get immortality secrets.
* '''Played For Drama''': The trope is played in the most melodramatic way possible.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The (normally unintentional) trope is used quite intentionally.
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