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In other words: What happens when a magically [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] character is forced to look her age.
 
Also, usually this [[Immortality Immorality|depends on the particular immortal's place on the sliding scale of morality]]. A really, really nice immortal? Probably was trying to [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|get rid of his immortality]] and live a normal human life anyway, and most of the time starts aging at a normal pace instead of crumbling into old age. A selfish immortal, or an immortal villain, or someone whose immortality was [[Powered By a Forsaken Child]]? Much higher chance of this happening. Even more likely to happen if [[Liquid Assets]] were [[Life Drinker|exploited to cause the youth to begin with]]. [[Shape Shifter Swan Song]] is similar but for shape shifters.
 
Related to [[Age Without Youth]].
 
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== Anime & Manga ==
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== [[Game Books]] ==
* Book 17 of the [[Lone Wolf]] series ''The Deathlord of Ixia'' combines this with [[Load -Bearing Boss]]. Killing the titular [[Big Bad]] breaks the enchantment that kept the city of Xaagon in a suspended state. The moment Lone Wolf strikes the killing blow, milennia of wear and tear catch up to the city, and Lone Wolf has to haul ass out of there. Breaking the spell also removes the permanent cloud cover over the city, allowing sunlight to warm Ixia again.
 
 
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* ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' has Adam Monroe, when he got his ability stolen by Arthur Petrelli.
** They try to explain it by the fact that, over the centuries, Adam has died and was damaged so many times, that his [[Healing Factor]] kicked into overdrive. His cells are continuously dying and recreating. So, when you remove the "recreating" part, it's clear why he suddenly crumpled into dust. It's possible that Claire will have the same problem in a few hundred years.
* ''[[Space: 1999]]'' episode "The Exiles": A man had his youth preserved by a skintight membrane covering his body. When it's ripped, he rapidly ages.
** Also done in the episode "Death's Other Dominion": '''something''' about a certain [[Single Biome Planet|ice world]] kept the survivors of an exploratory ship unaging for centuries. When [[Brian Blessed|one of them]] tries to leave....
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS episode "Long Live Walter Jameson": A man lives thousands of years due to a potion of immortality. When he's shot, the effect wears off and he ages into dust in minutes.
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* A ''[[Freakazoid]]!'' episode has the villainess dying in such a manner when she fails to drain Freakazoid's essence in time.
* The zombies and cat monsters in ''[[Scooby Doo On Zombie Island]]''.
* In a [[Nightmare Fuel]] moment for the ''[[Captain Marvel]]'' cartoon, the villain Black Adam was tricked into saying "Shazam," and reverted to his "mortal form." He hadn't previously assumed that form in several thousand years, being a native of ancient Egypt. He crumbled instantly into dust. An unexpected [[Family -Unfriendly Death]], made worse by the normally [[Technical Pacifist]] heroes manipulating him into killing himself.
** This actually happened in the comic book too.
** And there's a similar sequence in ''[[Batman the Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]''.
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* In ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', Robotnikotep IV actually disintegrates after having the Chaos Emerald of Immortality taken from him by his descendant--however, he seems vaguely happy about this because it frees him from having to deal with [[Generation Xerox|a mummified blue hedgehog]].
* In the ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' episode "Jack and the Lava Monster," Jack defeats a warrior who had been immortal for thousands of years as a punishment from Aku. He immediately ages to look about 80, but that's still pretty spry for someone in their thousands.
* Averted in ''[[Highlander the Animated Series]]'', where most of the immortals had performed some kind of magic ritual that allowed them to transfer their special skills to [[The Chosen One]] without doing [[Buffy -Speak|the whole head-cutting-off-thing]]. Instead of dying upon transfer, they simply lost their immortality and would live out a natural lifespan from whatever their physical age was. Considering they lived in [[After the End|a post-apocalyptic wasteland]], though, this probably wouldn't take very long.
** Especially since, oftentimes, the heroes were one step ahead of Kortan's forces. A few times, the Jettators (former immortals) who had just given their knowledge and power to Quentin McLeod would be forced to face Kortan himself in combat. Not only are they too weak to defeat Kortan, but said magic ritual also means that any Jettator who breaks his oath (i.e. fights another immortal) is destined to die.
*** Their swords being shattered by the ritual probably didn't help either.
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