Immortal Immaturity: Difference between revisions

* Lampshaded with the "teenaged" vampires in [[Discworld]]'s ''Carpe Jugulum'', who are three hundred years old, and wish their parents would treat them as such... but don't act it.

** Also, Granny Weatherwax to the [[The Fair Folk|Queen of Elves]] in ''Lords and Ladies'':

** Discworld's gods tend to be rather lacking in maturity as well as brains. (Thinking is what worshipers are for.) Small gods, who haven't attracted any followers, are even moreso: a pinch of ego and some willpower.

* Sam and Hailey from ''[[Only Revolutions]]'', who are "allways [sic] sixteen".

** Spike, a vampire over a hundred and forty years old, mopes like a teenager when Drusilla breaks up with him. He gets some motherly advice from Joyce Summers, a human woman a fraction of his age. (The fraction in this case being 'less than a third but more than a quarter'.)

** Buffy's original college roomate, Kathy. She acts like a typical college freshman, but it turns out she's a demon and thousands of years old. (She's also in big trouble from her guardian.)

* The teenage vampire on ''[[Moonlight]]'' in the episode "Arrested Development". He was 200 years old and acted like an angsty teenager. It was blamed on permanent hormones, but the writers seem to have forgotten that 200 years ago, someone his age could get married and would be treated as, and act as, an adult member of society.

* In the TV shows ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' and ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', the gods are pretty much just 30-year-olds (or even 12-year-olds that look 30) with big egos.

** All fairies are excellent examples of this trope.

** Fans think that this may be [[Spoiled Brat|Tenshi Hinanawi]]'s problem. Most Celestials achieve their status through diligence and careful introspection in their lives, as well as the ability to fight back against [[Shinigami|death]]; her clan was quickly whisked up to the heavens by a ''kami'' for good work maintaining geologic keystones.

Tenshi: [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|I don't want to go on living the boring life of a celestial forever.]] }}

* ''[[Mother 3]]'' has {{spoiler|Porky. He will stay that way forever due to both time warping too many times and for trapping himself in the Absolutely Safe Capsule at the end of the game.}}

* Both used and subverted in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. The magician Kesandru ''has'' grown [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070620 more mature over the centuries]. However, he also still seems to think that [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070618 pulling a rabbit out of his hat] should be enough to frighten people into submission.

* Misa from ''[[Errant Story]]'' is about 1,500 years old yet frequently acts like she's 15. She ''has'' been doted on her entire life though.

* In ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' Xykon is not particularly mature for an immortal lich with more than a century of life behind him. ''[[Start of Darkness]]'' reveals that he was never very mature to begin with, even as an eighty-year old man. He even lampshades how, even at his advanced age, his "life's wisdom" boils down to little more than "sure, being a badass villain is a barrel of laughs, but what's the point if you can't even enjoy the little things in life" (which to him is mostly watching people die gruesomely and drinking coffee). That said, Xykon can be surprisingly clever and patient if he ''wants'' to.

** Redcloak is another example, played in a different way. His aging processes has been retarded by the magical cloak he wears, and he's eventually called out on this by his ([[Big Little Brother|normally aging]]) younger brother: He's spent most of his time following the Dark One's directives (and later, Xykon's) and hasn't used any of that time to actually live a life; and because he never ages, he hasn't been forced to move on from [[Doomed Hometown|the tragedy]] of their past the way Right-Eye had to.