Not Allowed to Grow Up: Difference between revisions

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Not to be confused with [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] or [[Not Growing Up Sucks]], which is about '''characters''' who are somehow unable to age when the rest of the cast does for in-story reasons. [[Comic Book Time|Mostly]]. Part of [[Status Quo Is God]]

== Anime and Manga ==

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* The characters in ''[[Kochikame]]'' never age when the present date goes along with real life and being a [[Long Runner]] manga series for over 30 years. Kankichi Ryotsu's flashbacks always takes place 30 years in the past in the 1950s. [[Da Chief|Daijiro Ohara's]] grandson is the only character appear to age who was a toddler to now about ten years old.

* ''[[Mitsudomoe]]'' will always be in the sixth grade, no matter how long it runs. Which is why so many Christmases have passed.

* The characters from ''[[Ah My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' have been college age for nearly 23 years now. Their surroundings keep getting adjusted to match the times. Even though Skuld has remained a kid for that whole time (except [[Overnight Age Up|that one time]]), she [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|doesn't count]].

* The characters from ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' have been college age for nearly 23 years now. Their surroundings keep getting adjusted to match the times. Even though Skuld has remained a kid for that whole time (except [[Overnight Age Up|that one time]]), she [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|doesn't count]].

* A bit of a supernatural one occurs in ''[[Spirited Away]]'' where it's implied that Yubaba's overly coddling of her son Boh made him stay physically and mentally a baby.

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** In one episode, Homer muses sadly about how work is keeping him away from his kids. "I'm missing out on Bart's whole childhood. He won't be ten forever!"

** One particularly bad case is "Lisa's First Word". The entire episode is basically one long joke about [[The Eighties]], when Lisa was born. Nowadays she can't have been born until this millennium. Pretty much all the flashback episodes must be [[Canon Dis Continuity]] to some degree.

** In one episode, Gil [[~~Its~~ Been Done|moves into their house]] for the best part of a ''year'', as demonstrated by an [[Exploding Calendar]] stopping at each holiday. Notably absent are any of the characters' birthdays, which according to this episode must all take place between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

** In one episode, Gil [[It's Been Done|moves into their house]] for the best part of a ''year'', as demonstrated by an [[Exploding Calendar]] stopping at each holiday. Notably absent are any of the characters' birthdays, which according to this episode must all take place between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

** One recent episode centered around reviving the "Angry Dad" character Bart created during the late '90s Internet bubble. Those exact words were stated in the show, and no hint of an explanation whatsoever was given as to why Bart's still ten years old.

*** Matt Groening once pointed out in an interview that one of best parts of doing an animated show was the kids didn't ''have'' to grow up. He cited the absurd number of times they'd done a show about Bart's tenth birthday as an example.

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** To complicate matters more the Cookieville Minimum-Security orphans (who are much younger), haven't aged at all.

* [[The Powerpuff Girls]]. They were five years old in Craig McCracken's school film, the pilots, 75 series episodes in the space of five years (including an episode where they celebrate their birthday), a movie and two specials. Perhaps [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that they were [[Artificial Humans|created in a lab]].

* [[Johnny Test]]: [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]] by Dukey in the episode "The Return of Super Smarty Pants" after Johnny had been taken over by his crazy [[Yandere]] pants created by his sisters in a previous episode that gave him intellectual abilities by [[I Know You're in There Somewhere Fight|imploring him to remember]] of all the times they spent together juxtaposed by flashbacks of episodes of their adventures since 2007.

* [[Johnny Test]]: [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]] by Dukey in the episode "The Return of Super Smarty Pants" after Johnny had been taken over by his crazy [[Yandere]] pants created by his sisters in a previous episode that gave him intellectual abilities by [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight|imploring him to remember]] of all the times they spent together juxtaposed by flashbacks of episodes of their adventures since 2007.

{{quote| '''Dukey''': Remember me?! we've been together for years, but surpisingly haven't aged very much. }}