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Compare [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]] and [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]. Not to be confused with [[Adult Child]]. When the same effect causes hardship and angst for the eternal child, it's [[Not Growing Up Sucks]].
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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.
* In ''[[Fate Zero]]'', Kiritsugu's daughter is absolutely tiny despite being eight. She's actually growing more than most [[Artificial Human|homunculi]] of her type do but he thinks there's a 90% chance she'll stop growing before hitting puberty. [[Fate Stay Night|In the next Grail War ten years later]] she's slightly older than Shirou yet is still the game's [[Token Mini
* 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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