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This later became the staple of animated series, in which it is possible to keep a character the same age year after year without major psychological harm to the actor (who, on a cartoon, [[Dawson Casting|is usually an adult anyway]]). Since animation doesn't require actual actors, it's much easier to keep it up in works where the creator can control the physical aspects of the characters.
Contrast with [[Plot
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]]
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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
* 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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== Comic Books ==
* Used and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in ''[[Monica's Gang]]''. The comic has been running for over 30 years, but the main cast is always 6. Every year, however, there's a special comic featuring a character's 7th birthday -- which then snaps back and they're 6 again. In a recent example, someone asks Jimmy Five how old he's turning. "Seven," he replies, "just like ''[[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome|evewy]]'' other year."
** Further lampshaded in their ''Teen'' [[Alternate Universe]], via the [[Shout
* In the ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'', Reed and Sue's son Franklin was born in 1968. Aside from an incident of using his powers to temporarily age himself to adulthood, and the usual range of alternate reality versions, he has remained a child for more than four decades of real world time. The fact that he was injudiciously given a [[Story
* Marvel's Kitty Pryde eventually escaped this fate, mostly because Warren Ellis wrote her into a romance with the much older Pete Wisdom. Jubilee, however, was introduced as a fifteen-year-old in 1989, and was sixteen in her short-lived self-titled series in 2004. Unless recent continuity has finally allowed her to age, she's probably ''still'' no older than sixteen. Although Marvel's time system says she should be 21 by that point.<ref> Marvel officially says that 3 years real time is 1 year in the Marvel Universe. In practice this example is more of a rule than an exception.</ref>
** It's never explicitly stated, but she definitely looks a lot older in New Warriors. She was also shown running a halfway home for depowered mutants in [[Wolverine Origins]]. Its safe to say she's at least an adult of around nineteen or twenty these days.
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*** And if rumors are to be believed, [[Lazy Town]] is returning in 2011 and might even have Julianna reprise her role as Stephanie...despite the fact that she is now 20 years old and will still be playing an 9 year old.
* After ''[[Punky Brewster]]'' moved from NBC, Soleil Moon Frye started developing early and went through a massive growth spurt. At first, producers dealt with the situation by binding her breasts while still playing the character off as, physically, a prepubescent child. When the premise became too unbelievable, Punky was finally allowed to have her puberty. The first episode that admitted Punky was growing up begins with Punky marching in on her caretaker at breakfast and announcing proudly ''[[Refuge in Audacity|"Henry, guess what? I'm getting boobs."]]''
** Made even more obvious by the fact that Soleil Moon Frye would eventually have to have breast reduction surgery at 16 because of [
* Many plots of the later seasons of ''[[Leave It to Beaver]]'' had the title character getting involved in similar troublesome situations as the ones he got caught in as an eight-year old, causing the character's [[Flanderization]] into almost an idiot.
** Case in point: "Beaver The Bunny". Would have been better in second or third season instead of fifth.
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* ''[[FoxTrot]]'' uses this trope where the kids in the family ''still'' attend the same schools for the same amount of time for years since the first comic. Even though Peter and Paige sometimes plan what they want to do for college, they never actually get there.
** And ''every year'' Paige has to deal with the stress of starting high school. That's pretty much awful.
** A combined [[Lampshade Hanging]] and [[Shout
** When ''[[Starcraft]] II'' came out, Jason stated that he spent 11 years waiting for the game. He claimed the missing year was "waiting in the womb".
** A recent strip had Jason refusing to acknowledge the new year because, as Rodger pointed out, "you really don't want to turn eleven". Jason says this is because Peter said he was eleven when he started liking girls.
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** Athena is a ''goddess'', though. Common mortals' rules may not apply to her entirely, and some characters do lampshade how she seems to not have aged at all.
* Despite six years passing between the sixth and twelfth ''[[Touhou]]'' game, Reimu and Marisa remain the same age. [[Vague Age|As far as we can tell]].
* While ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'' detail the life of the titular character, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, from 1476 to 1507, Claudia Auditore, his little sister, barely fifteen in 1476, looks exactly the same when she's shown in her early forties, in 1503.
** Lampshaded and justified: since the whole ''[[Assassin's Creed (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed]]'' saga is actually a re-enacting of memories taken from selected individuals in the past, the player gets to see how Ezio remembers his life. And Claudia Auditore really often is seen complaining that, no matter how old she became, Ezio seemingly can't stop to act as she was still the bratty kid he grew with. Instead, characters like Leonardo da Vinci, in Ezio's mindscape, seem to age in a more realistic way (in fact, Leonardo da Vinci ages quite badly).
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] had a birthday in Sonic Generations. He's still fifteen years old.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Batman the Animated Series]]'' had Baby Doll, a villain who was the living incarnation of this trope. She was a [[White Dwarf Starlet|former child star]], Mary Dahl, who quit the show that made her famous to try a more dramatic acting career. This failed, partly because she had a disease that kept her looking like a child. She had a [[Freak
** This may have been inspired by the movie ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane|What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]]'' starring Bette Davis as a former childhood star who, despite being on the wrong side of 50, still dresses and acts the way she did when she was famous.
* Mordred, the spoiled immortal son of Morgan le'Fay in ''[[Justice League]]'', is kept an eternal child by his mother's magic, who's only willing to let him grow up once he has his perfect kingdom. Being a child for millenia has made him an [[Enfant Terrible]] of nightmarish proportions. He ended up breaking the spell, though, which caused him to become a helpless elderly man that his mother now has to take care of.
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** However, floating timelines have their own conditions for each series, where with the Rugrats series, it is possible that the cast were stuck in the year of 1991 (when the series debuted) for 10 years, since no references to the current year or pop-culture were ever made, since the series is set in the point of view of infants and toddlers.
** In the third movie, Chaz states that its his and Kira's first anniversary, yet the babies don't seem to have aged a day.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has this trope in spades; none of the characters seem to grow any older than the age in which they were introduced, and some (like Tails or Charmy Bee) actually had their ages and mannerisms adjusted to be younger than what they were before. The comics avert this, however; a short-lived [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] storyline (set 25 years after the main comics... and is ironically non-canon) shows a great deal of the Freedom Fighters older and wiser, and at least one character (Amy Rose) used magic to actually [[Plot
** Sonic has also had several birthdays over the course of the comic's run.
** For instance, in [[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]], Sonic has two birthdays. Tails is still 4 1/2 over the course of the series.
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* Averted, to the surprise of many, by [[Disney]] with Annette Funicello, on the original [[Mickey Mouse Club]].
** Reluctantly. Before they broke down and accepted it, they pulled many stunts to cover her chest. One method was positioning shorter Mousketeers in front of her, while another involved body doubles and tight closeups on her face. They probably would have canned her if it wasn't for her popularity.
* In China, the medieval practice of [
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