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Leap Day
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The twenty-ninth day of February comes only once every four years note except for years divisible by 100 but not 400. As the only date in the calendar that doesn't occur in every year, it has some comedic potential, especially when it's someone's birthday: Any event happening on someone's "Xth birthday" won't actually happen until he's 4 times X years old note plus another 4 years if crossing a century common year. People born on this day are known as "leapers" or "leaplings." This can be a hassle if said character wants to celebrate their birthday every year. One way to do this is to celebrate it on February 28 (since they were not born in March) or March 1 so technically they'd still 'age' normally. This is what legal jurisdictions will do for the purposes of determining when someone reaches the age of majority, though whether it's the day before or after depends: the UK and Hong Kong consider March 1 as the day for leapers, while New Zealand and Taiwan use February 28. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })February 29 is also known as Bachelor's Day, the day on which, by tradition, women were allowed to propose marriage to a man in Ireland. It was also chosen as the day for rare diseases awareness. Examples |
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Bennett from Genshin Impact is extremely unlucky and was born on a Leap Day. | |
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A gag in Otaku no Musume-san revolves around Kanau's birthday being on February 29. | |
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On Wings, Roy was born on Feb. 29th and held a birthday party for himself every four years, saying he was 10 when he was 40 or whatever the precise dates were. While Roy acknowledged his real age, the tradition was that everyone would throw him a kids' party based on his Leap Year age. | |
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Jerry on Parks and Recreation was born on this day. Naturally, being the Butt-Monkey he is, it hardly gets celebrated. | |
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My Hero: Piers Crispin's father told him his birthday was on February 29th, thereby ensuring he only got one present every four years. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Haman formally declares the founding of the Neo Zeon movement on February 29, UC 0088. Fans have used this to try and determine at what point the calendar transitioned from AD to UC. | |
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King of Prism: Shin and Louis' birthdays are both on February 29, and the fact that their birthdays are on the same day makes it a Significant Birth Date. | |
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In one Nedroid comic, Leap Day goes horribly wrong. | |
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The Pirate Movie, being based on The Pirates of Penzance, shares its source material's 21st year/birthday plot point. | |
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It used to be that Leap Day was the day on which women could propose to men, instead of the other way around as was the informal custom of the time. Carol Ferris tried to take advantage of this in an issue of Green Lantern. | |
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The Middle: Sue Heck is a Leap baby who dreamt of actually celebrating her 16th birthday on Feb 29, 2012. | |
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Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary is among those born on February 29. | |
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Milo Murphy's Law has Leap Days be the result of time travelers Balthazar Cavendish and Vinnie Dakota accidentally going back to ancient Rome with a time grenade capable of wiping a day off the face of the calendar, and the "once every four years" thing was caused by the time grenade being one-quarter disarmed. | |
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Tokyo Ghoul: Big Bad Kichimura Washuu was born on this day. | |
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Facebook wishes a happy birthday to persons born February 29 twice in the years when there's no February 29 — on February 28 and on March 1. | |
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In The Pirates of Penzance, the Pirate King and Ruth inform Frederick that he is bound to serve them, not until his twenty-first year, but until his twenty-first birthday. | |
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In the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons & Dragons, there is a day called Shieldmeet, which occurs only once every four years on the day after Midsummer, making it an in-universe leap day. | |
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Yunyun from KonoSuba was given this birthday. She was Born Unlucky, as she only gets to celebrate her true birthday every four years and nobody comes to her birthday parties. | |
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Touya Kinomoto from Cardcaptor Sakura has his birthday on February 29. His mother always added it to her date calendars. | |
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30 Rock elevates Leap Day to a full Fictional Holiday, in which Leap Day William emerges from the Marianas Trench dressed in blue and yellow on February 29th to bring sweets to the good children. There is even a movie about him starring Jim Carrey in the vein of The Santa Clause. The actual Leap Day William appears in the episode as well and is revealed to be a fanged Humanoid Abomination. | |
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Weirdly, this trope is not part of the 1921 comedy Leap Year, which has a Non-Indicative Name. | |
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Michelle from the webcomic Scrambled Eggs was born on February 29. The birthday parties this Dumb Blonde holds every four years have become Cool and Unusual Punishments for the other characters. | |
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The Ouran High School Host Club manga explains that senior student Honey looks younger than the freshman students since he was born on February 29. | |
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Pandaman from One Piece, a Easter Egg character that appears hidden in nearly every chapter was given this birthday in the SBS Vol. 85. | |
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In the SuperMarioLogan episode, "Cody's Birthday!", it is revealed that Cody was born on February 29. Cody makes the mistake of telling Bowser Junior and Joseph that he's eight years old, but technically due to the laws of time, actually two years old. As a prank, Junior and Joseph go as far as to make a baby-themed birthday party for him and pretend that he's a baby himself. | |
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In And Shine Heaven Now, this is how Annie Warbucks explains how she looked no older than 30 (in 1998) and still could be alive during World War II: because she was born on this day, she ages at the quarter of a rate of a normal human. Of course, she could just be pulling Seras's leg. (That particular comic was posted on April Fool's Day, after all.) This is based on the canonical explanation for why Annie hasn't aged in sync with the real world, incidentally. | |
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Baelz Hakos of hololive English has Leap Day as her birthday. Apparently when the gods plucked her from her home dimension it caused some temporal shenanigans that Kronii had to fix, which lead to the creation of February 29. | |
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Cameron on Modern Family is also a Leap Day baby. Phil also takes Feb. 29 off to enjoy this "bonus day". | |
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When the characters' official birthdays were revealed in Dance Central 3, Dare's birthday was on February 29. | |
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Your villagers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons will continue to celebrate your birthday every year even if your birthday is on February 29th, although they will have slightly different dialogue to reflect this (including on both non-leap years and on leap years) | |
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In Karin, Kenta was born on 29 Feb 1988. Elda threatens to wipe his memory back to his fourth birthday, not realizing that she is doing so on his fourth birthday. | |
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Cain Dressel from Valvrave the Liberator is given this birthday in the series site. Fitting since Cain is Older Than He Looks. | |
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Before Crisis on Infinite Earths, Superman's birthday was February 29 (as in, the date on Earth when he was born on Krypton). He celebrates the day the Kents found him separately, as Clark Kent's birthday. | |
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The Frasier episode "Look Before You Leap" takes place on a Leap Day.note February 29, 1996. The episode originally aired two days earlier, on February 27. Frasier encourages everyone to "take a leap" and try something new. One of Martin's friends was also born on Leap Day. | |
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In the novel series How to Train Your Dragon, Hiccup was born on Leap Day. | |
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