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'''Cordelia''': [[Lampshade Hanging|Tell me]] we don't live in a soap opera.|''[[Angel]]'', "A New World"}}
Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome (or SORAS) is the device by which
On daytime soaps, pregnancy is a staple storyline. However, the resulting child is rarely seen after his paternity and/or baby switch has been resolved. When a few years have passed, he returns as a teenager old enough to have a summer romance.
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== Film ==
* Gordon's kids in the Nolan films. In ''[[Batman Begins]]'', a scene where Batman goes to talk to then Sergeant Gordon briefly shows Gordon's wife feeding two little kids in high chairs, one a toddler boy and the other a baby. Only about one or two years are supposed to have passed between ''[[Batman Begins]]'' and ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', but the kids now look to be a lot
** [[Word of God]] states that ''Dark Knight'' begins six months after the end of ''Batman Begins''.
*** To make it worse, in their brief appearance at the end of ''The Dark Knight Rises'' his daughter appears to be twelve-ish and the ''older'' of the siblings.
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**** GH also contains one of the more notable aversions in American daytime: Robin Scorpio, who's been played by the same actress (Kimberly McCullough) since 1985, when both were six years old.
**** Both an example and an aversion, also on ABC, is the character of Starr Manning on ''[[One Life to Live]]''. The character was born in 1996, and aged to six when Kristen Alderson started playing the character several months before her seventh birthday in 1998. Since then, the character and actress have aged at the same rate.
*** Also on [[General Hospital]], Sonny Corinthos' son Michael was put into a coma that lasted for a year. When he awoke, he was at least
* Luke Snyder, from ''[[As the World Turns]]'' , was originally born in 1995. Since then, his character has been SORAS-ed two times; in 2001, when nine-year-old Christopher Tavani took over the role, and 2005, when fifteen-year-old Jake Weary played the part.
** Chris Hughes who was born on-screen in 1986 is now a doctor.
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* On the first season of ''[[Degrassi High]]'' several of the freshman were only in seventh grade the season before, on ''Degrassi Junior High'', the most obvious being Arthur's younger cousin Dorothy, who's now in the same grade as him.
* In the first season of ''[[The OC]]'', Kaitlin Cooper is referred to as a fifth-grader. Two seasons later, she's fourteen, which means an extra year has been added on somewhere.
* Quentin Kelly went from being around eleven to about fifteen on ''[[Grace Under Fire]]'' when Jon Paul Steuer left the show.<ref>Allegedly his mother pulled him out due to Rhett Butler's increasingly erratic off camera behavior, the last straw being an incident where Butler decided to "show off" her new breast implants by flashing the cast and crew ''[[Squick|including (12 year old) Steuer]]''</ref>
* ''[[Full House]]'' was a little bit more subtle about this. Jesse and Rebecca's twin boys Nicky and Alex go from infants in season 5 to pre-verbal, long haired toddlers in season 6. Not as egregious as most examples, but a bit noticeable.
** Completely averted with Michelle, who starts off about 1 year old and grows at normal speed.
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*** The Guildmaster from the first game is an old man when you're a child, and is STILL an old man when the player is.
* ''[[Diddy Kong Racing]]'' [[Updated Rerelease|DS]] introduced the current design for Tiny Kong, who now looks considerably more developed than her older sister Dixie Kong.
* In the various ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' games, the aging of your child is rarely consistent with reality. But the most [[Egregious]] example is probably in ''Animal Parade'', with the rival children. Two weeks after they're born,
* Bipin and Blossom's son in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Oracle Games]]'' grows from a baby to a child during the course of the first game you play, then into a teenager during a linked game.
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