Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
213,889
edits
Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: Difference between revisions
m
→Literature: no need to shout a title ... and using lower-case lets us link to the work's wiki page
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta10ehf1)) |
m (→Literature: no need to shout a title ... and using lower-case lets us link to the work's wiki page) |
||
Line 29:
* In "Twenty Years After," the sequel to "The Three Musketeers," King Louis XIV is underage and thus being manipulated by the regents, his mother and her lover. In some scenes he seems like a precocious ten-year-old (i.e. when the people demand to see that he is asleep in bed, and not fleeing the city), and he is referred to as a child. However, towards the end the queen remarks that in a year he will be of age-making him a young man in his late teens. It's possible that Dumas just called him a child because he wasn't an adult yet, but his actions don't quite seem to match up.
* Deliberately invoked by the witches in ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'' when the witches realize their Hero is only 3 years old. Instead of waiting for him to grow older, they {{spoiler|move the entire kingdom of Lancre 15 years into the future}}
* In the novel ''[[The Amorous Umbrella]]'' (sequeal to ''[[The Incredible Umbrella]]''), Our Hero ends up in a universe based in 1950's soap opera tropes, where he is trapped for several years. Being a dimensional outsider, he ''notices'' the SORAS cases, but nobody else does, even when it's pointed out to them. It worries him that a stepson he acquired, now an infant, will be an adult in five or six years and may - in an ''[[Oedipus Rex]]''-inspired plotline common with 1950's soap operas - attempt to kill him.
* In Robert Heinlein's ''
* In the ''[[Adrian Mole]]'' series, Glenn is born in 1990, but is already twelve years old in 1997 (when Adrian discovers he is Glenn's father) and then becomes a soldier in 2002 at age seventeen.
* In ''[[Rome]]'', the teenage Octavius goes off to war for a year or two and returns as a man, played by a new, older actor. Several characters note how different he looks, with one blaming military rations. The physical change coincides with a change in Octavius' character from the clever child Octavius to the [[Magnificent Bastard]] Caesar Agustus.
== Soap Opera ==
| |||