Not Growing Up Sucks: Difference between revisions

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Common causes for not being able to grow up include but are not limited to: Being a robot, [[Brain Uploading|virtual copy]], [[Golem|magically animated puppet]], being [[curse]]d or an [[Undead Child]].

May or may not overlap with [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]] and [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad]]. [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Blessed with Suck]]. Not to be confused with [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]], which is about characters being forced to remain the same age via [[Executive Meddling]], not any in-story reason. Closely related to [[Never Grew Up]] (which is a voluntary decision by the child to not grow up).

May or may not overlap with [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]] and [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad]]. [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Blessed with Suck]]. Not to be confused with [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]], which is about live-action characters being forced to remain the same age via [[Executive Meddling]], not any in-story reason -- despite their actors growing up in the roles. Closely related to [[Never Grew Up]] (which is a voluntary decision by the child to not grow up).

Contrast [[Elderly Immortal]].

== [[Anime]] And [[Manga]] ==

* [[Dance in the Vampire Bund]], humans turned vampires don't grow any older than they are. The queen is stuck in a constantly childlike state.

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* Evangeline A. K. McDowell from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. However, she can alter her appearance to look adult.

** {{spoiler|It has been stated in chapter 342 that Negi is now the same as Evangeline and will likely be stuck at a young age forever, with the possibility of growing a few years more.}}

** In the sequel ''[[UQ Holder!]]'', Evangeline routinely goes around in her adult form, and discovering she can look like a 10-year-old is a major shock for the main character, ''whom she raised''.

* V.V. from the anime ''[[Code Geass]]'' is a perfect example, It seems that the immortality in the Code Geass world works keeping your body unchanged so if you receive it being a 10 years old boy you'll be a 10 year old boy forever.

* For the first 900 years of her life, manga Chibiusa of [[Sailor Moon]] is magically kept at the physical age of five until her powers kick in. This is stated to be unnatural even considering the extremely long lifespans of the citizens of crystal Tokyo (such as her twentysomething-looking parents), because of how early it kicked in, but is never fully explained. The television series, unsurprisingly, [[Adaptation Distillation|avoids the weird subplot entirely]].