Never Grew Up: Difference between revisions

As you know, [[Growing Up Sucks]]. Some children, however, have found a way to halt their aging at childhood via [[Applied Phlebotinum]] or some supernatural means. Most of the time they'll have the mind, emotional maturity, and/or sensibilities of a child as well as a prepubescent body; adults in children's bodies are more likely to find it inconvenient or downright [[Not Growing Up Sucks|sucky]], although not always.

 

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* One episode of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' features a [[Creepy Child]]. Supposedly, whatever stopped his aging also made him bullet- and explosion-proof.

* The ''[[Trigun]]'' anime {{spoiler|reinterpreted Zazie the Beast this way, apparently. Since the eternally-respawning humanoid avatar of the sand-worms' group intelligence would have been too complicated to deal with in one episode. Hell, the manga doesn't really deal with it completely.}}

* And Kaori Yuki's ''[[Cain Saga]]'' manga series features an extremely sympathetically-presented member of the [[Evil Organization]], Cassian, a middle-aged man in the body of a prepubescent boy, formerly employed as a knife-thrower in a circus. He joined the organization because they have weird, futuristic occult-medical hybrid technology in development which might give him some way to get an adult body. He's assigned to be the primary minion of a high-up member of the organization, Jizabel Disraeli, who's around twenty and {{spoiler|as we get his backstory, increasingly pitiful.}} Dealt with well in that Cassian, even though all visual cues are against it, sees Disraeli as a kid. {{spoiler|Cassian is fatally wounded about as soon as his pseudo-paternal attachment to Disraeli is properly developed, and Jizabel transplants his brain into the head of a fellow villain they both hate who was recently thwarted by hubris and idiocy. And the hero, in one of the hero's few success stories. He goes on the lam, and reappears as a handy plot device toward the end of the series climax. Disraeli eventually dies in his arms, lamenting the fact that he spent all this time trying to please the wrong father, Alexis, the twisted [[Man Behind the Man]], when he should have been looking up to Cassian.}} Cassian has many levels in awesome.

 

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== [[Real Life]] ==

* [[wikipedia:Brooke Greenberg|Brooke Greenberg]], who has a mysterious medical condition that has caused her mind and body to remain in infancy for 17 years and counting (with some anomalies, such as her bone age being around that of a ten-year-old). There's [[This Is Reality|no obvious supernatural involvement]], although her first five years or so of life were full of medical catastrophes that spontaneously resolved without leaving any damage (for example, a brain tumor that spontaneously disappeared).

 

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