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[[File:17_phixr.jpg|link=Batman: The Animated Series|frame|Sorry, Baby Doll, but you're stuck on this side of the mirror.]]

 

'''Eli:''' Yes, but I've been this age for a very long time.|''[[Let the Right One In]]''}}

 

* ''[[Let the Right One In]]'' is a film about a 12 year old boy's friendship with a vampire who was turned at about the same age.

* Claudia in ''[[Interview With a Vampire]]'' felt the pain most keenly.

'''Claudia:''' And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never, ever grow up. Tell me how it came to be that I am this...''thing''. }}

* The entire plot of ''[[Orphan]]''.

* In ''[[Tuck Everlasting]]'', Winnie is harshly warned not to drink from the fountain of immortality until she grows older. However, the villain threatens to force her to drink from it so that he can use her as a demonstration for whatever business plans he can concoct.

* Claudia from ''[[The Vampire Chronicles]]'': ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]''.

'''Claudia:''' And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never, ever grow up. Tell me how it came to be that I am this...''thing''. }}

* Ben from ''Castaways of the Flying Dutchman'' is stuck at about fourteen: just old enough to fall in love, but still young enough that if he stays in one place too long, it will become obvious very quickly that he's not aging.

* Mordred in ''[[Justice League]].'' This was infinitely preferable to {{spoiler|ending up [[And I Must Scream|eternal life without eternal youth]].}}

* In ''[[Wakko's Wish]]'', the King is contemplating what he will wish for, leading him to ponder eternal youth, and Dot giving us this gem:

* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' had "Baby Doll," an actress who played [[The Cutie]] in a sitcom and had a medical condition that stunted her physical growth, thus giving her the appearance of a child despite the fact that in the series she was in her Thirties. ([[No Celebrities Were Harmed|No celebrities]] named [[Diff'rent Strokes|Gary]] or Emmanuel were [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|harmed]]). Her inability to gain a legitimate career after her show was canceled made her obsessed with the show, resulting in her kidnapping the cast so that they could re-enact their "family." In the end however, she's treated as [[The Woobie]].

* ''[[Tutenstein]]'' features the [[Undead Child]] version. Since boy-king Tutankhensetamun died at the age of ten, his reign was cut short and he never had the chance to do great deeds and make a name for himself as pharaoh. Once he's resurrected as a mummy, he tries to make up for lost time, and [[Hilarity Ensues]] (as well as [[Fridge Horror]], since Tut gets several chances to escape the trope and grow up, but always ruins them through childish mistakes).