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Never Grew Up

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Never Grew Up	comment	As you know, Growing Up Sucks. Some children, however, have found a way to halt their aging at childhood via Applied Phlebotinum or some supernatural means. Most of the time they'll have the mind, emotional maturity, and/or sensibilities of a child as well as a prepubescent body; adults in children's bodies are more likely to find it inconvenient or downright sucky, which is the Sub-Trope, Not Growing Up Sucks. Note that this must happen in-universe to count. If characters in a long runner series stay forever in a given age simply to keep the setting the way it is (like The Simpsons all being the same age for any time longer than a period of say, roughly three to five years - as has been the case in Real Life since the show's debut - despite how differences, such as children's' growth, would be noticeable by then), that's Comic-Book Time. Older Than They Look is the Super-Trope of this. Compare Not Allowed to Grow Up, and Really 700 Years Old. Compare also with Immortality Inducer, which tends to include "anti-aging" as part of the package. Contrast Rapid Aging. Not to Be Confused with One of the Kids. Do not confuse with Manchild.
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Never Grew Up / int_131dd753	comment	Some characters in Tower of God play adult roles in spite of looking like children or teenagers. Anaak Jahad is an obvious example — she's implied not to be half as young as she looks (which is something like barely in puberty), is one of the most powerful fighters among the Regulars, and doesn't much change in terms of looks during a Time Skip of years. It's revealed in the wiki that some people in the Tower just don't physically grow up. It's also said that they are considered as having childish personalities as well, though how true this is isn't clear. Anaak, for example, gives little clue: does her emotional coldness reflect a secretly damaged child or secretly damaged adult? The wiki also reveals that a character with a permanently childish appearance (in this case, Eurasia Blossom) can be in a relationship and have a child with an adult-looking adult (Po Bidau Gustang).
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Never Grew Up / int_1ad4d09c	comment	In A Beautiful Mind, Dr. Nash figures out that his hallucinations are exactly that, when he realizes that Marcee has not aged a day in the years that he has "known" her.
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Never Grew Up / int_1c57dce8	comment	Lost Storms: Stormy's Forgotten Past: In Rainbow Land, people don't age. Stormy has hardly grown an inch since she was six. She's currently over seven hundred.
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Never Grew Up / int_1d699932	comment	In Black Jack, Pinoko is mentally eighteen years old but never grew past being a fetus due to being trapped inside of her twin sister as a parasite. After being surgically removed by Black Jack she is placed in an artificial body that looks like a preteen.
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Never Grew Up / int_1e8f2466	comment	Kaori Yuki's Cain Saga manga series features an extremely sympathetically-presented member of the Nebulous Evil Organization, Cassian, a middle-aged man in the body of a prepubescent boy, formerly employed as a knife-thrower in a circus. He joined the organization because they have weird, futuristic occult-medical hybrid technology in development which might give him some way to get an adult body. He's assigned to be the primary minion of a high-up member of the organization, Doctor Jizabel Disraeli, who's around twenty and as we get his backstory, increasingly pitiful. Dealt with well in that Cassian, even though all visual cues are against it, sees Disraeli as a kid. Cassian is fatally wounded about as soon as his pseudo-paternal attachment to Disraeli is properly developed, and Jizabel transplants his brain into the head of a fellow villain they both hate who was recently thwarted by hubris and idiocy. (And the hero, in one of the hero's few success stories.) Cassian goes on the lam, and reappears as a handy plot device toward the end of the series' climax. Disraeli eventually dies in his arms, lamenting the fact that he spent all this time trying to please the wrong father, Alexis, the twisted Man Behind the Man, when he should have been looking up to Cassian. Cassian has many levels in awesome.
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Never Grew Up / int_24003723	comment	Philippe from Achewood also seems like he will always be five, especially if this strip is canon...
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Never Grew Up / int_2cb2e5ed	comment	Breath of Fire IV has an entire town of these; the town of Chek is entirely populated by what appear to be kids but are actually people in their teens on up to elderly people. It's also a town entirely populated by summoners and shamans, and it's outright stated in the game that it's their proximity to the summoning temple for the gods in that universe that keeps them young.
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Never Grew Up / int_35ada324	comment	The Alien fic "Alien- Nemesis" is a sequel to Alien: Resurrection that sees Hicks, Newt and Bishop being revived in the present. At the fic's conclusion, damage and illnesses Newt has suffered as a result of her revival force a doctor to inject her with xenomorph DNA taken from Ripley 8 and Hicks (who was revived using some xenomorph samples himself), with the combination of the injuries and the treatment leaving Newt with minor brain damage that will prevent her from growing beyond her current emotional level while her body will essentially be frozen at its current age.
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Never Grew Up / int_3bce4381	comment	The Trigun anime reinterpreted Zazie the Beast this way, apparently. Since the eternally-respawning humanoid avatar of the sand-worms' group intelligence would have been too complicated to deal with in one episode. Hell, the manga doesn't really deal with it completely.
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Never Grew Up / int_404622d6	comment	The imaginary friends from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends are real, and childlike, but never grow up, which becomes tragic when their creators grow out of them and eventually abandon them. Some, however, are likely needed for life, such as an imaginary friend created to help his blind creator. Other few get the luxury to be passed down to their creators' children.
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Never Grew Up / int_43a9c333	comment	The Cowboy Bebop episode "Sympathy for the Devil" features a Creepy Child. The Hyperspace Gate explosion that stopped his aging also made him bullet- and explosion-proof.
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Never Grew Up / int_44e0b783	comment	Several Garfield strips have stated that the cute kitten Nermal is actually Older Than They Look. He never outgrew looking and acting like a kitten.
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Never Grew Up / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: Generator is 14-15, but has looked like she's 11 from since she was that actual age.
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Never Grew Up / int_4ed7cac8	comment	Nowhere Stars: Children who become Keepers physically cease to age, remaining at whatever age they were when they made the Promise, and only children and young teenagers are elligible. Iona Fianata, the oldest Keeper in New Claris, looks like a teenage girl but is well into her nineties.
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Never Grew Up / int_52e8fba	comment	Invoked in the Land of Oz books. A person can only age in Oz if they so wish to. Thus, Dorothy can stay a Kid Hero forever if she wants. In one book she is sent back to America and turns from a 5-12 year old to a middle aged woman.
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Never Grew Up / int_58808436	comment	Rika from Higurashi: When They Cry is stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop where she is the only one who remembers each universe. She is between nine and thirteen but has been stuck in the cycle for hundreds of years.
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Never Grew Up / int_5b6f7ffb	comment	Oskar, the protagonist of GÃ¼nter Grass's novel The Tin Drum, deliberately stunts his growth at age three, by hurling himself down the stairs, so that he can avoid being part of the horrific adult world around him. He attempts to shield himself further from adult horrors by drowning them out with his titular drum. In the end, however, a blow to the head ages him instantly.
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Never Grew Up / int_610a28dd	comment	Just like in the original Disney adaptation, Peter Pan doesn't age in Disney Fairies. In the first book however, Mother Dove starts to slowly die and all the magical elements of Neverland begin dying with her. Peter begins growing and losing all his baby teeth. When Mother Dove is saved, Peter de-ages back to his original age.
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Never Grew Up / int_610a694a	comment	In PokÃ©mon Adventures, despite the fact that it is well over three years old, X's baby Kangaskhan never grew nor left its mother's pouch, mirroring its trainer's Hikikomori lifestyle.
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Never Grew Up / int_64726bce	comment	In the series Operation: S.O.U.L.M.A.T.E., this is the result of being vaccinated against adulthood virus. During the story Eternal Youth, as Wally and Kuki are about to be vaccinated, they encounter Numbuh 2.35:1, who has been vaccinated 20 years ago, and is stuck at 10 years old forever despite being 30.
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Never Grew Up / int_72f08b60	comment	Theresa Apocalypse from Honkai Impact 3rd is an experimental clone that cannot physically develop beyond roughly 12 years of age. Though chronologically in her 50s or older, she doesn't mind her stunted body and instead delights in playing up the "cuteness" of her appearance as the "world's #1 cutie Teri-Teri". In spite of her childlike appearance, Theresa commands respect as a senior Valkyrie and the Principal of St. Freya Academy.
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Never Grew Up / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: "Steven's Birthday" reveals that Steven seems to have stopped aging at 8 years old. However, the end hints that he is growing old somewhat, and earlier episode showed his body's maturity depends on his mental state. By two years after the original series, he has grown noticeably older.
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Never Grew Up / int_7a7102f5	comment	In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, there's a radio advertisement for the fictional sitcom Just the Five Of Us, in which one character is a 42-year-old investment banker with a rare disease that makes him look 10 years old.
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Never Grew Up / int_82894b2a	comment	The Children's Crusade (Vertigo) revolves around a Children's Covert Coterie called Free Country, a magical realm intended to serve as a safe haven for children who have been harmed and abused and is run by children who have never aged.
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Never Grew Up / int_848d6e83	comment	Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny has Yuri Eberwein, the formerly human Unbreakable Darkness who achieved Complete Immortality when she became what she is now. The Sound Stages set after the game mention that, now that she could control her unlimited powers, she could let herself grow up as normal again.
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Never Grew Up / int_8756f1a5	comment	Deconstructed in The Twelve Kingdoms. When kings are chosen to rule their nation they are granted immortality, along with their families. Princess Shoukei was 13 when her father became king, so she is locked at that age. However, her parents keep her sheltered and spoiled and do not allow her to grow up both physically and in maturity, so when her tyrannical father is overthrown decades later, she still looks and acts like a Royal Brat despite being chronologically in her forties. Learning to grow up and get past her stunted maturity is the major part of her Character Development.
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Never Grew Up / int_88b348e8	comment	Eriol Hiiragizawa in Cardcaptor Sakura is mostly this with a bit of Not Growing Up Sucks. He specifically chose to halt his aging, but while he looks like a child, he's mentally an adult. He doesn't have any angst over his age dissonance shown, but since he only stopped his aging so he could blend in with Sakura's classmates better, it would probably make his life after the series more complicated and restricted if he can't restart his aging.
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Never Grew Up / int_88b580f0	comment	Werewolf: The Apocalypse: One of the character templates in the White Howler tribebook is a Metis woman whose deformity leaves her human form similar to a prepubescent girl (and her natural War Form no larger than an ordinary human adult). She serves as a spy and infiltrator.
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Never Grew Up / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series: Actress Mary Louise Dahl from "Baby-Doll" suffers from a very rare disease that prevents her from physically aging past the age of about 6 or so. She was a sitcom star for a while, playing a little girl named Baby Doll. Eventually, she quit and tried to become a serious actress, with less than no success. After a series of failures, she resorts to kidnapping her old castmates in an attempt to relive her glory years and drawing the attention of Batman.
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Never Grew Up / int_91209b29	comment	Xenosaga: Rubedo, who's an artificially created human with the power to slow down cellular growth, stopped his own aging at around age 12. This means while he's technically older than Guignan, he presents himself as Guignan's son, Guignan Jr. or just plain Jr.
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Never Grew Up / int_967347ea	comment	Akio, Anthy, and possibly Mikage from Revolutionary Girl Utena all have some form of this, with the former two are implied to have been at Ohtori Academy for centuries. At the very end of the series Anthy decides to leave by "graduating" as a metaphor for growing up.
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Never Grew Up / int_9a7088bc	comment	The Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Miri" revolves around a planet where an anti-aging drug led to a society of 300-year-old children, and no adults. (Although technically the children are growing up, just incredibly slowly.)
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Never Grew Up / int_a037ae41	comment	In Fate/Zero, Ilya, Kiritsugu's daughter with Irisviel von Einzbern, is absolutely tiny despite being eight. She's actually growing more than most homunculi of her type do but he thinks there's a 90% chance she'll stop growing before hitting puberty. In the next Grail War ten years later she's slightly older than Shirou yet is still the game's Token Mini-Moe.
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Never Grew Up / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project has an interesting case of this trope being fuelled by Immortal Immaturity: according to Word of God, resident vampire sisters Remilia and Flandre Scarlet have forfeited their growth and maturity in exchange for eternal life. In other words, the sisters have the appearance and mentality of ten-year-old children because one of them is a Royal Brat, and the other confined herself to their basement for 500 years, which stunted her mental and emotional growth.
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Never Grew Up / int_a6f1b17e	comment	Tiny Sapient Ungulates: Spike's growth is stunted and he is stuck in his infant size due to his incomplete diet. The changelings' "evil" forms are interpreted as their juvenile form, and Chrysalis prevented them from reaching adulthood.
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Never Grew Up / int_a8729c90	comment	Timmy from The Fairly OddParents! seems to be stuck in the common trap of cartoon children never aging. The episode "Timmy's Secret Wish" deconstructs this. It turns out that Timmy actually wished that nobody could ever age. In real-world time, the show was under ten years old, but in-series, 50 years have passed (meaning the show takes place in the 2050s). At the end of the episode, Timmy reverses the wish so that everyone can age again.
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Never Grew Up / int_aaa65d7e	comment	In a completely unexpected move, Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0 has Shinji wake up from stasis 14 years after the end of the previous film and confronted by a 28 year old Asuka who still looks very much like her 14 year old self plus an Eyepatch of Power. Asuka mentions that it happened because of the "Curse of Eva"; personality-wise, she's considerably less bratty and quite bitter. Mari also appears to be affected but Rei isn't, considering that it's not the same one Shinji knew.
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Never Grew Up / int_ad69db83	comment	The first episode of Eerie, Indiana involves two identical twins called Bert and Ernie who never got older than twelve and had to repeat seventh grade for thirty years because their mother locked them inside age-retarding Foreverware each night. As they state in unison, "It's a living hell". The main character pops their Foreverware open at the end of the episode, and they in turn do it to their mother, who used the same trick to stay youthful; the next morning, the twins are happily in their forties, and their mother is now an old woman.
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Never Grew Up / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Kokiri from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time are given life by the Great Deku Tree and automatically stop aging at around 10. But as seen in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, they can have their form changed by the Deku Tree in order to protect them (in this case, the great flood) so the tree may have given them this attribute.
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Never Grew Up / int_b067b820	comment	Heather Dale's "Changeling Child" is a Changeling Tale about a woman who couldn't have children of her own. She bargained for The Fair Folk to give her a baby but, being Literal-Minded, the fairies give her a baby, not a normal child who can age:
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Never Grew Up / int_b23c5d78	comment	The imaginary friends in Drop Dead Fred don't grow up. It is implied that those who do not grow out of needing their imaginary friends are ultimately prescribed pills that hurt or kill the imaginary friends.
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Never Grew Up / int_b2ec030b	comment	Invoked by Pippi Longstocking, who, in the end of the last novel, takes a pill together with Tommy and Annika, which together with a rhyme, allegedly stops aging.
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Never Grew Up / int_b627b68d	comment	In Rainbow Brite and the War of Darkness, Rainbow and the other Color Kids are several million years old but have the bodies of little kids. They're at least more mature than normal children.
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Never Grew Up / int_b8c3cc30	comment	In Young Justice (2010), Superboy still looks the same after a five-year Time Skip. One of the side effects of the cloning process that created him is that he will always look sixteen. He still ages internally, so he's not immortal.
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Never Grew Up / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Juvenat treatments in Warhammer 40,000 allow a person to fix themselves at the age they want to look like (some people go for eternal youth, others in positions of authority go for The Patriarch look) in addition to prolonging their lives by a century or two.
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Never Grew Up / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: All Senet Beasts are Time Abysses from the First World, created before the Gods even came up with the concept of growing up and aging. The waterwomen appear to be of all ages, but the baby ones are as ageless and unchanging as the others.
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Never Grew Up / int_bee7440	comment	Seere from Drakengard, who sacrificed his ability to age as part of his Pact with his Golem. It is more apparent in the sequel which takes place eighteen years later.
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Never Grew Up / int_c0369f1b	type	Never Grew Up
Never Grew Up / int_c0369f1b	comment	In The Powerpuff Girls' Dark Fic The Utonium Trials, the girls are permanently stuck looking five years old due to being Artificial Humans. They're nine years old (five chronologically) but still look five. Their young looks cause them to be bullied by their classmates and causes even worse problems once the government takes note of them.
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Never Grew Up / int_c4076b9e	comment	The cyborgs in Gunslinger Girl are implied to be physically stunted by their conditioning. They're preteen and teenage girls who have been given cybernetic implants and medicine to make them Child Soldiers. None of the first generation lived long enough to see if they could grow into adults.
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Never Grew Up / int_d1fbfbbc	comment	The Twilight Saga: Vampirism halts someone's development, locking them into their current state forever, but enhancing their natural characteristics. If it happens to young children, they become utterly adorable, causing people to fall in love with them at first sight, but they never learn self-control; they could slaughter entire villages whenever they became thirsty, and they would never grow out of it. The Volturi studied them for a while, but eventually decided that there was nothing to be done, executing them all and making the creation of more a capital crime.
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Never Grew Up / int_d3cd6289	comment	In I Hate Fairyland, Gert gets sent to Fairyland at the age of six and remains in the body of a child for the next 27 years. The fact that she's been stuck on a Snipe Hunt for decades without aging is one of the reasons why she's so violently psychotic by the time of the story. This is averted in the sequel, which takes place after she returns to Earth and thus has physically grown into a woman.
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Never Grew Up / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door: An ugly girl at Gallagar Elementary has been secretly using the Fountain of Youth hidden in a cave underneath the school to sustain her youth and has managed to stay a child for hundreds of years.
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Never Grew Up / int_d861bfb	comment	The Infinite Loops: Children can become loopers. Depending on how long the their baseline loop lasts, this might mean they are stuck as children for a long time. In The MLP Loops, Spike has an extra problem when he gets married. He and his wife are thousands of years old and he has age-shifting magic to easily transform into a form more appropriate for his wife, but as far as non-loopers are concerned he's still a child, and certainly not of legal age to marry. With the exception of lucky variant loops where he's older, they have to keep their relationship secret.
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Never Grew Up / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City has Matilda "Tillie" Armstrong, a ten-year-old girl who uses her psychic powers to stay young forever. She could grow older if she wanted to, but then she would no longer be able to manifest the dapper hero The Gentleman.
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Never Grew Up / int_e11de2a2	comment	Doom Patrol (2019): In contrast to her counterpart in the source material being a young teenager who ultimately was Taken Off Life Support after being comatose for four years, this continuity's Dorothy Spinner is established to be over 100 years old while still retaining the appearance of a young girl. By the season two episode "Dad Patrol", she gets her first period and finally has puberty catch up to her after accepting that she can't remain a child forever so she can confront the Candlemaker, with appearances after that point showing that she is visibly maturing.
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Never Grew Up / int_e58add6f	comment	In The God of High School, Taejin Park was born with myriad physical deformities that have prevented her from growing up past the age of 5 or 6. She struggles to fit in with anyone her apparent age as a result and she's constantly ridiculed for her resemblance to Mubong/Mujin Park, her biological father.
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Never Grew Up / int_eda6d96a	comment	A bit of a supernatural occurrence happens in Spirited Away, where it's implied that Yubaba's overly coddling of her son Boh made him stay physically and mentally a baby.
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Never Grew Up / int_f14260fb	comment	Hard Being Pure: Dr. Emilly is stuck at the appearance of a 10-year-old girl, and hates how she gets treated like a child even though she is mentally a 27-year-old.
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Never Grew Up / int_fe6f6ef7	comment	Claudia from Interview with the Vampire is a literal case of a little girl who is Really 700 Years Old. She was a five year-old girl who was bitten by Lestat to save her from the plague and being part of Lestat's "family". Ultimately, the denial of adulthood drives her to insanity.
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Napping Princess / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Revolutionary Girl Utena / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Astro City (Comic Book) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Eternals (2006) (Comic Book) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Stillwater (Image Comics) (Comic Book) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Terror, Inc. - Apocalypse Soon (Comic Book) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
The Children's Crusade (Vertigo) (Comic Book) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Seinen Kakumei Utena / Fan Fic / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Alien Exodus (Fanfic) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Cadance of Cloudsdale (Fanfic) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Five Funny Nights at Freddy's (Fanfic) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Highlander Penance (Fanfic) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
The Fairy Sapphire (Fanfic) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
The Fansus (Fanfic) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Drop Dead Fred / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Flight of the Navigator / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Interview with the Vampire / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Kid Detective (2020) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Peter Pan (Franchise) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Peter and the Starcatchers / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Peter Pan / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
The Age of the Five / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
The Future Is Wild / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
The Sisters Grimm / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
The Tin Drum / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Tribe of One / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
LittleMai	seeAlso	Never Grew Up
Lumine	seeAlso	Never Grew Up
Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Quiet, Please (1947) (Radio) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
CDT Adventure (Roleplay) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Errorverse: Tropes J-S (Roleplay) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Doom Patrol (2019) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Gilmore Girls / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Invisible Sun (Tabletop Game) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight (Tabletop Game) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Breath of Fire IV (Video Game) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Dragon City (Video Game) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Drakengard (Video Game) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Nightfall Mysteries (Video Game) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
The Evil Within 2 (Video Game) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Videogame / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Tiny Bunny (Visual Novel) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Twitch Plays Pokémon Randomized TriHard Emerald (Web Video) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon: The Gauntlet (Web Video) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
A Tale of Two Rulers (Webcomic) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Growing Up Gerudo (Webcomic) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
The God of High School (Webcomic) / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Superman Unbound / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up

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