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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]].
-* '''Deconstructed''': The trope is played in such a way to show various logical and moral problems with the trope as normally played.
+* '''Deconstructed''': Julius feels sad when he sees the evidence of his immortality because that evidence makes him to remember that time will never come back.
-* '''Reconstructed''': The trope is played straight, but with the problems brought up by the Deconstruction dealt with or addressed.
+* '''Reconstructed''': Julius learns to see the memories of the era he lived with nostalgia instead of sadness.
-* '''Zig Zagged''': The trope is Played With several times over until it becomes a [[Mind Screw]].
+* '''Zig Zagged''': Some immortals give evidence of their immortality and age, other don't.
-* '''Averted''': Neither the trope nor the situation in which it would occur is ever brought up.
+* '''Averted''': Julius doesn't give any proof of his immortality.
-* '''Enforced''': Something in [[Real Life]] that causes [[Executive Meddling]] and/or the authors to use the trope.
+* '''Enforced''': The writer wants to demonstrate the viewer how old Julius is .
 * '''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?"
-* '''Invoked''': A [[Genre Savvy]] Character sets up a situation where the trope can occur.
+* '''Invoked''': Julius wants to impress his friends with all the old things that he has to prove he is an ancient Roman.
-* '''Exploited''': A [[Genre Savvy]] Character takes advantage of the fact that the trope will occur, possibly-- but not necessarily-- Invoking it in the process.
+* '''Exploited''': [[Big Bad|Patricius]] uses this to expose Julius as an immortal to the world and make him to become a test subject for [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]].
+* '''Defied''': Julius try to avoid to be discovered as an immortal being because [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]] could try to make he to get into 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 Savvy]] Characters talk about the trope in a situation where it is likely to happen.
+* '''Discussed''': "I have a cup used in the Roman Empire, a text written in the year 43, and a table that was common in Roman houses".
 * '''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 who does he shares this evidence with, because some [[Mad Scientist]] could be obsessed with use 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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