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* Firo ''tries'' to avert this in later volumes of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', as getting mistaken for a fifteen-year-old is just as annoying at ninety as it is at nineteen. He is spectacularly bad at it, however - he still talks to his wife of ''twenty years'' like a boy asking out his first crush.
* High Elf Archer from ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' is 2000 years old and is far older than the rest of her party, but her behaviour (sheltered, easily provoked, and uncouth) makes her the least mature of them all.
* Chizuru of ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}''. On the one hand, she ''is'' a fox spirit, with all the instincts that entails, but on the other, she's ''four hundred years old'', so you'd think she'd know that trying to rape a young boy is bad manners. Her mom is a little better but still has entirely too much fun with said shota herself.
* Tet from ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'' looks and behaves like a child, despite being the PhysicalGod of Games.
* Holo from ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'' looks and usually acts like a girl in her teens despite being a harvest god hundreds of years old.
* ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'': There are immortal characters who are over a hundred years old, but still act and consider themselves as teenagers. Immortality here stops not only someone's physical maturation, but also their mental and emotional maturation. An immortal who looks 12 years old effectively still is 12 years old regardless of how old and experienced they actually are.
* Played with in nearly every way in ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'', often (but not always) overlapping with EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity.
** Milim Nava is multiple thousands of years old but looks and acts like a middle school girl. She does start to mature a bit as the story goes on.
** Ramiris is just as old as Milim and goes through a constant cycle of death and rebirth, maintaining all her memories from past incarnations. Her current incarnation will fully mature in about 100 years from when the story starts. However, comments from other characters imply she's alway acts like a 20-something NEET.
** Veldora is older than Milim, but tends to look and act like someone in his early 20's absolutely obsessed with manga.
** Veldora's older sister on the other hand both act like dignified adults, looking about the same age as him in human form.
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* Firo ''tries'' to avert this in later volumes of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', as getting mistaken for a fifteen-year-old is just as annoying at ninety as it is at nineteen. He is spectacularly bad at it, however - he still talks to his wife of ''twenty years'' like a boy asking out his first crush.
* High Elf Archer from ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' is 2000 years old and is far older than the rest of her party, but her behaviour (sheltered, easily provoked, and uncouth) makes her the least mature of them all.
* Chizuru of ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}''. On the one hand, she ''is'' a fox spirit, with all the instincts that entails, but on the other, she's ''four hundred years old'', so you'd think she'd know that trying to rape a young boy is bad manners. Her mom is a little better but still has entirely too much fun with said shota herself.
* Tet from ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'' looks and behaves like a child, despite being the PhysicalGod of Games.
* Holo from ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'' looks and usually acts like a girl in her teens despite being a harvest god hundreds of years old.
* ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'': There are immortal characters who are over a hundred years old, but still act and consider themselves as teenagers. Immortality here stops not only someone's physical maturation, but also their mental and emotional maturation. An immortal who looks 12 years old effectively still is 12 years old regardless of how old and experienced they actually are.
* Played with in nearly every way in ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'', often (but not always) overlapping with EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity.
** Milim Nava is multiple thousands of years old but looks and acts like a middle school girl. She does start to mature a bit as the story goes on.
** Ramiris is just as old as Milim and goes through a constant cycle of death and rebirth, maintaining all her memories from past incarnations. Her current incarnation will fully mature in about 100 years from when the story starts. However, comments from other characters imply she's alway acts like a 20-something NEET.
** Veldora is older than Milim, but tends to look and act like someone in his early 20's absolutely obsessed with manga.
** Veldora's older sister on the other hand both act like dignified adults, looking about the same age as him in human form.
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* Firo ''tries'' to avert this in later volumes of ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', as getting mistaken for a fifteen-year-old is just as annoying at ninety as it is at nineteen. He is spectacularly bad at it, however - he still talks to his wife of ''twenty years'' like a boy asking out his first crush.
* High Elf Archer from ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' is 2000 years old and is far older than the rest of her party, but her behaviour (sheltered, easily provoked, and uncouth) makes her the least mature of them all.
* Chizuru of ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}''. On the one hand, she ''is'' a [[AsianFoxSpirit fox spirit]], with all the instincts that entails, but on the other, she's ''four hundred years old'', so you'd think she'd know that trying to rape a young boy is bad manners. Her mom is a little better but still has entirely too much fun with said young boy herself.
* Tet from ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'' looks and behaves like a child, despite being the PhysicalGod of Games.
* Holo from ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'' looks and usually acts like a girl in her teens despite being a harvest god hundreds of years old.
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* The White Queen in ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign''. Her actual age is unknown, but she looks like a teenager, and acts like a small child. [[spoiler:This includes having no empathy for anything except the sole thing she's interested in. She has no problems with destroying the world if it gets her what she wants]].
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* Played with in nearly every way in ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'', often (but not always) overlapping with EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity.
** Milim Nava is multiple thousands of years old but looks and acts like a middle school girl. She does start to mature a bit as the story goes on.
** Ramiris is just as old as Milim and goes through a constant cycle of death and rebirth, maintaining all her memories from past incarnations. Her current incarnation will fully mature in about 100 years from when the story starts. However, comments from other characters imply she's alway acts like a 20-something NEET.
** Veldora is older than Milim, but tends to look and act like someone in his early 20's absolutely obsessed with manga.
** Veldora's older sister on the other hand both act like dignified adults, looking about the same age as him in human form.
* ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'': There are immortal characters who are over a hundred years old, but still act and consider themselves as teenagers. Immortality here stops not only someone's physical maturation, but also their mental and emotional maturation. An immortal who looks 12 years old effectively still is 12 years old regardless of how old and experienced they actually are.
* The White Queen in''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign''.''Literature/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign''. Her actual age is unknown, but she looks like a teenager, and acts like a small child. [[spoiler:This includes having no empathy for anything except the sole thing she's interested in. She has no problems with destroying the world if it gets her what she wants]].
** Milim Nava is multiple thousands of years old but looks and acts like a middle school girl. She does start to mature a bit as the story goes on.
** Ramiris is just as old as Milim and goes through a constant cycle of death and rebirth, maintaining all her memories from past incarnations. Her current incarnation will fully mature in about 100 years from when the story starts. However, comments from other characters imply she's alway acts like a 20-something NEET.
** Veldora is older than Milim, but tends to look and act like someone in his early 20's absolutely obsessed with manga.
** Veldora's older sister on the other hand both act like dignified adults, looking about the same age as him in human form.
* ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'': There are immortal characters who are over a hundred years old, but still act and consider themselves as teenagers. Immortality here stops not only someone's physical maturation, but also their mental and emotional maturation. An immortal who looks 12 years old effectively still is 12 years old regardless of how old and experienced they actually are.
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* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' notes this with Asgardians, who routinely live for over 5000 years (which is summed up as being their 'three score and ten'). While they hit physical maturity [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty at about the same age as humans]], mental maturity is a very different matter. By this standard, the 1500 year old Thor and Loki are... 21. This explains a great deal about their previous behaviour, to the point where Thor's teenage son, Harry, sometimes comes off as more mature than they were until very recently. However, it's also very heavily implied to be circumstantial - Asgard and the other higher realms are pretty static thanks to the long lifespans, meaning that things and people don't have to change very quickly. When they end up on Earth for an extended period (and particularly in Thor's case, have parental responsibilities), they mature much, much faster, to the point where Thor is the Avengers' TeamDad. A similar case appears with Sunniva - who's about 1800 a.k.a. 25 - at the start of ''The Phoenix and the Serpent'', who spends several months on Earth during the last Ice Age following [[spoiler: Harry's]] trail and undergoing a ''lot'' of CharacterDevelopment.
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** White Diamond is the most mature and composed of the Diamonds, but [[spoiler: when her ControlFreak nature is resisted, she quickly loses her cool and shows off how immature she can be about it. Having her childishness tantrum pointed out to her by Steven (after she yelled at him for acting like a child and he responded "I am! What's your excuse?!") more or less immediately causes her HeelFaceTurn by shattering her delusion of being a perfect eternal being.]]
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** White Diamond is the most mature and composed of the Diamonds, but [[spoiler: when her ControlFreak nature is resisted, she quickly loses her cool and shows off how immature she can be about it. Having her childishness childish tantrum pointed out to her by Steven (after she yelled at him for acting like a child and he responded [[ArmorPiercingQuestion "I am! What's your excuse?!") more or less excuse?!"]]) immediately causes her HeelFaceTurn by shattering her delusion of being a perfect eternal being.]]
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** White Diamond is the most mature and composed of the Diamonds, but [[spoiler: when her ControlFreak nature is resisted, she quickly loses her cool and shows off how immature she can be about it. Having her childishness tantrum pointed out to her by Steven (after she yelled at him for acting like a child and he responded "I am! What's your excuse?!") more or less immediately causes her HeelFaceTurn by shattering her delusion of being a perfect eternal being.]]
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': {{Justified}}. [[Characters/HarryPotterMagicalBeings Moaning Myrtle]] is the ghost of a Hogwarts student who died when she was fifteen, sentenced to walk the Earth for eternity (as all souls who choose to return to Earth as ghosts instead of moving on are in this setting). Half a century after she died, she still behaves like an excitable girl with a childish crush on Harry since she's frozen at the age she died at.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': {{Justified}}. [[Characters/HarryPotterMagicalBeings Moaning Myrtle]] is the ghost of a Hogwarts student who died when she was fifteen, sentenced fourteen, fated to walk the Earth for eternity (as all souls who choose to return to Earth linger as ghosts instead of moving on are in this setting). Half a century after she died, she still behaves like an excitable girl with a childish crush on Harry since she's frozen at the age she died at.
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* Discussed in the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fic, ''Fanfic/IWantToUnderstand'', when Vadalia refers to Amethyst as a “kid”, Greg points out that she’s thousands of years old, to which Vadalia counters that she’s still a kid in all practicality.
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* Discussed in the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fic, ''Fanfic/IWantToUnderstand'', when Vadalia Vidalia refers to Amethyst as a “kid”, Greg points out that she’s thousands of years old, to which Vadalia Vidalia counters that she’s still a kid in all practicality.
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* Played with in nearly every way in ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'', often (but not always) overlapping with EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity.
** Milim Nava is multiple thousands of years old but looks and acts like a middle school girl. She does start to mature a bit as the story goes on.
** Ramiris is just as old as Milim and goes through a constant cycle of death and rebirth, maintaining all her memories from past incarnations. Her current incarnation will fully mature in about 100 years from when the story starts. However, comments from other characters imply she's alway acts like a 20-something NEET.
** Veldora is older than Milim, but tends to look and act like someone in his early 20's absolutely obsessed with manga.
** Veldora's older sister on the other hand both act like dignified adults, looking about the same age as him in human form.
** Milim Nava is multiple thousands of years old but looks and acts like a middle school girl. She does start to mature a bit as the story goes on.
** Ramiris is just as old as Milim and goes through a constant cycle of death and rebirth, maintaining all her memories from past incarnations. Her current incarnation will fully mature in about 100 years from when the story starts. However, comments from other characters imply she's alway acts like a 20-something NEET.
** Veldora is older than Milim, but tends to look and act like someone in his early 20's absolutely obsessed with manga.
** Veldora's older sister on the other hand both act like dignified adults, looking about the same age as him in human form.
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* {{Invoked|Trope}} in Creator/NKJemisin's ''Literature/InheritanceTrilogy'' by Sieh, the god of childhood and mischief. Even though he's the [[TimeAbyss unutterably ancient]] first creation of the Three [[TheOldGods Old Gods]], he chooses to embody his affinity fully, and almost always acts like a ten-year-old (albeit an all-powerful TykeBomb one). Indeed, acting like an adult or undermining the concept of childhood sickens and weakens him.
* ''Franchise/TheShadowhunterChronicles'' shows Magnus Bane. He often shows rather immature behavior. It later turns out that this is not uncommon for warlocks. They are immortal, and when nothing can surprise them, they petrify inside.
** Jem Carstairs is not exactly immature, but for someone his age, he still seems quite young mentally. It is later revealed that he is also good at dealing with teenagers when he takes Kit Herondale into his home. Before that, he'd enjoyed being around other teenagers like Clary and Simon.
** Lily Chen is a vampire and is almost 130 years old. Nevertheless, she always tends to joke and other humorous things.
** Jem Carstairs is not exactly immature, but for someone his age, he still seems quite young mentally. It is later revealed that he is also good at dealing with teenagers when he takes Kit Herondale into his home. Before that, he'd enjoyed being around other teenagers like Clary and Simon.
** Lily Chen is a vampire and is almost 130 years old. Nevertheless, she always tends to joke and other humorous things.
* In ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'', this is [[InvokedTrope enforced]] on the immortal [[spoiler: Susebron, [[GodEmperor God King]] of Hallandren]] by [[spoiler: his priests]], who have stunted his emotional growth by cutting out his tongue so he can't speak, refusing to teach him to read and write the common script, and sequestering him within one location and witholding most information about the outside world. As a result, he's incredibly [[WideEyedIdealist naïve and innocent]] for his age, [[LiteralMinded doesn't understand social cues]] such as sarcasm and flirtatiousness, and doesn't even know how children are conceived, having gotten the idea from a children's storybook that all that's required to make a child is for a man and a woman to spend a night in the same place.
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* {{Invoked|Trope}} in Creator/NKJemisin's ''Literature/InheritanceTrilogy'' by Sieh, the god of childhood and mischief. Even though he's the [[TimeAbyss unutterably ancient]] first creation of the Three [[TheOldGods Old Gods]], he chooses to embody his affinity fully, and almost always acts like a ten-year-old (albeit an all-powerful TykeBomb one). Indeed, acting like an adult or undermining the concept of childhood sickens and weakens him.
* ''Franchise/TheShadowhunterChronicles'' shows Magnus Bane. He often shows rather immature behavior. It later turns out that this is not uncommon for warlocks. They are immortal, and when nothing can surprise them, they petrify inside.
** Jem Carstairs is not exactly immature, but for someone his age, he still seems quite young mentally. It is later revealed that he is also good at dealing with teenagers when he takes Kit Herondale into his home. Before that, he'd enjoyed being around other teenagers like Clary and Simon.
** Lily Chen is a vampire and is almost 130 years old. Nevertheless, she always tends to joke and other humorous things.
* ''Franchise/TheShadowhunterChronicles'' shows Magnus Bane. He often shows rather immature behavior. It later turns out that this is not uncommon for warlocks. They are immortal, and when nothing can surprise them, they petrify inside.
** Jem Carstairs is not exactly immature, but for someone his age, he still seems quite young mentally. It is later revealed that he is also good at dealing with teenagers when he takes Kit Herondale into his home. Before that, he'd enjoyed being around other teenagers like Clary and Simon.
** Lily Chen is a vampire and is almost 130 years old. Nevertheless, she always tends to joke and other humorous things.
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* ''Manga/FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd'': Frieren herself acts like a child in many ways and likes being babied despite being at least a millenium old. However, this only applies when they aren't in danger, in which case she's a deadly mage.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': [[spoiler:Qilby]] [[Characters/{{Wakfu}} the Traitor]]. He's a nigh-unique eternal being who's been around for roughly as long as the universe in which he resides, and unlike most of the Eliatrope Council of Six he perpetually retains ''all'' his memories. He's also incredibly selfish, manic, petulant and immature; callously committing acts of planetary destruction so he can satisfy himself by [[spoiler:ensuring he's [[AllergicToRoutine never bored]]]], and throwing tantrums when his BerserkButton is pressed. Then again, it's subtly implied that Qilby might've once been a genuinely wise immortal being, but [[spoiler:the unenviable combination of WhoWantsToLiveForever and ''eidetic memory forcing him to memorize every '''moment''' of eternity'' warped and devolved his mind]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': [[spoiler:Qilby]] [[Characters/{{Wakfu}} the Traitor]]. He's Traitor is a nigh-unique eternal being who's been around for roughly as long as the universe in which he resides, and unlike most of the Eliatrope Council of Six he perpetually retains ''all'' his memories. He's also incredibly selfish, manic, petulant and immature; callously committing acts of planetary destruction so he can satisfy himself by [[spoiler:ensuring he's [[AllergicToRoutine never bored]]]], bored]]]] and throwing tantrums when his BerserkButton is pressed. Then again, it's subtly implied that Qilby might've once been a genuinely wise immortal being, but [[spoiler:the unenviable combination of WhoWantsToLiveForever and ''eidetic memory forcing him to memorize every '''moment''' of eternity'' warped and devolved his mind]].
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* On ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', [[CreepyChild Klarion]] is a HumanoidAbomination who is "ageless" yet looks like he might be twelve. He can cause [[PersonOfMassDestruction worldwide supernatural chaos]] in-between bizarre puns, pouting at other supervillains and getting into arguments with his [[{{Familiar}} cat, Teekl]]. {{Averted}} by the show's other immortals, ComicBook/VandalSavage and [[ImmortalityInducer Ra's al-Ghul]], who are both evil but generally more mature.
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* On ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': [[CreepyChild Klarion]] is a HumanoidAbomination who is "ageless" yet looks like he might be twelve. He can cause [[PersonOfMassDestruction worldwide supernatural chaos]] in-between bizarre puns, pouting at other supervillains and getting into arguments with his [[{{Familiar}} cat, cat Teekl]]. {{Averted}} {{Averted|Trope}} by the show's other immortals, ComicBook/VandalSavage Vandal Savage and [[ImmortalityInducer Ra's al-Ghul]], al Ghul]], who are both evil but generally more mature.
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* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonMonsterX San]], as the former [[MultipleHeadCase left head]] of Ghidorah, is ''billions'' of years old and yet his personality is evocative of an abused puppy, or a child with eldritch power that just wants to play with toys and later just wants a genuine sister to love. It's implied that [[TheSociopath the middle and right heads]]' severe abuse [[spoiler:and the trauma Ghidorah went through before its turn to villainy]] stunted San's psychological development across the eons.
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* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonMonsterX San]], as the former [[MultipleHeadCase left head]] of Ghidorah, is ''billions'' of years old old, and yet his personality is evocative of an abused puppy, or a child with eldritch power that just wants to play with his toys and later just wants a genuine sister to love. It's implied that [[TheSociopath the middle and right heads]]' severe abuse [[spoiler:and the trauma Ghidorah went through before its turn to villainy]] stunted San's psychological development across the eons.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'': In stark contrast to the 500-year-old Oogway, the equally-old immortal/undead [[Characters/KaiFuPanda3 Kai]] is a highly childish individual who takes little if anything seriously and quite simply hasn't grown up in any shape or form.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'': In stark contrast to the 500-year-old Oogway, the equally-old immortal/undead [[Characters/KaiFuPanda3 [[Characters/KungFuPanda3 Kai]] is a highly childish individual who takes little if anything seriously and quite simply hasn't grown up in any shape or form.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'': {{justified}}. [[Characters/HarryPotterMagicalBeings Moaning Myrtle]] is the ghost of a Hogwarts student who died when she was fifteen, sentenced to walk the Earth for eternity (as all souls who choose to return to Earth as ghosts instead of moving on are), and she still behaves like an excitable girl with a childish crush on Harry nearly half a century after she died, frozen at the age she died at.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'': {{justified}}. ''Literature/HarryPotter'': {{Justified}}. [[Characters/HarryPotterMagicalBeings Moaning Myrtle]] is the ghost of a Hogwarts student who died when she was fifteen, sentenced to walk the Earth for eternity (as all souls who choose to return to Earth as ghosts instead of moving on are), and are in this setting). Half a century after she died, she still behaves like an excitable girl with a childish crush on Harry nearly half a century after she died, since she's frozen at the age she died at.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': [[spoiler:Qilby]] [[Characters/{{Wakfu}} the Traitor]]. He's a nigh-unique eternal being who's been around for roughly as long as the universe in which he resides, and unlike most of the Eliatrope Council of Six he perpetually retains his memories of ''all'' of it. He's also incredibly selfish, manic, petulant and immature; callously committing callous acts of planetary destruction so he can satisfy himself by [[spoiler:ensuring he's [[AllergicToRoutine never bored]]]], and throwing tantrums when his BerserButton is pressed. Then again, it's subtly implied that Qilby might've once been a genuinely wise immortal being, but [[spoiler:the unenviable combination of WhoWantsToLiveForever and ''eidetic memory forcing him to memorize every ''''moment'''[==]'' gradually warped and devolved him into what he is now]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': [[spoiler:Qilby]] [[Characters/{{Wakfu}} the Traitor]]. He's a nigh-unique eternal being who's been around for roughly as long as the universe in which he resides, and unlike most of the Eliatrope Council of Six he perpetually retains his memories of ''all'' of it. his memories. He's also incredibly selfish, manic, petulant and immature; callously committing callous acts of planetary destruction so he can satisfy himself by [[spoiler:ensuring he's [[AllergicToRoutine never bored]]]], and throwing tantrums when his BerserButton BerserkButton is pressed. Then again, it's subtly implied that Qilby might've once been a genuinely wise immortal being, but [[spoiler:the unenviable combination of WhoWantsToLiveForever and ''eidetic memory forcing him to memorize every ''''moment'''[==]'' gradually '''moment''' of eternity'' warped and devolved him into what he is now]].his mind]].
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* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonMonsterX San]], as the former [[MultipleHeadCase left head]] of Ghidorah, is ''billions'' of years old and yet his personality is evocative of an abused puppy, or a child with eldritch power that just wants to play with toys and later just wants a genuine sister to love. It's implied that [[TheSociopath the middle and right heads]]' severe abuse [[spoiler:and the trauma Ghidorah went through before its turn to villainy]] stunted San's psychological development across the eons.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'': In stark contrast to the 500-year-old Oogway, the equally-old immortal/undead [[Characters/KaiFuPanda3 Kai]] is a highly childish individual who takes little if anything seriously and quite simply hasn't grown up in any shape or form.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': [[spoiler:Qilby]] [[Characters/{{Wakfu}} the Traitor]]. He's a nigh-unique eternal being who's been around for roughly as long as the universe in which he resides, and unlike most of the Eliatrope Council of Six he perpetually retains his memories of ''all'' of it. He's also incredibly selfish, manic, petulant and immature; callously committing callous acts of planetary destruction so he can satisfy himself by [[spoiler:ensuring he's [[AllergicToRoutine never bored]]]], and throwing tantrums when his BerserButton is pressed. Then again, it's subtly implied that Qilby might've once been a genuinely wise immortal being, but [[spoiler:the unenviable combination of WhoWantsToLiveForever and ''eidetic memory forcing him to memorize every ''''moment'''[==]'' gradually warped and devolved him into what he is now]].
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* Simon the gremlin in ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollz}}'' is over 3000 years old but looks lke a 9-year-old with the bratty, selfish personality to match.
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* All of the Endless in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' display this to a greater or lesser extent: Delirium is eternally childlike, and even dignified Dream has his moments of angsting like a lovelorn teenager. On the other hand, Death looks and talks like a teenage PerkyGoth, but she is also one of the most mature and philosophical characters in the series and clearly knows the weight of her age and responsibility. Later issues imply that Death matured ''to'' become the quasi-teenage PerkyGoth we all know and love: in her "youth," billions and billions of years ago, she was cold and cruel.
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* All of the Endless in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' display this to a greater or lesser extent: Delirium is eternally childlike, and even dignified Dream has his moments of angsting like a lovelorn teenager. On the other hand, Death looks and talks like a teenage PerkyGoth, but she is also one of the most mature and philosophical characters in the series and clearly knows the weight of her age and responsibility. Later issues imply that Death matured ''to'' become the quasi-teenage PerkyGoth we all know and love: in her "youth," billions and billions of years ago, she was cold and cruel.
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** The Doctor, who stole a (admittedly outdated) hyper-advanced time machine and left the most advanced civilization in the universe so that they could go ''sightseeing'', and in general shuns any sort of responsibility. Special mention goes to Four, who provides the page quote and ran around munching on [[GeniusSweetTooth candy]], and Eleven, who is obsessed with looking cool and gleefully proclaims that he's a madman with a box. Even One got in on the act, starting out acting like a spoiled teenager. And despite being one of the more mature-looking of the Doctors, the Twelfth Doctor eventually took on the persona of an aging rocker.
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** The Doctor, who stole a (admittedly outdated) hyper-advanced time machine and left the most advanced civilization in the universe so that they could go ''sightseeing'', and in general shuns any sort of responsibility. Special mention goes to Four, who provides the page quote and ran around munching on [[GeniusSweetTooth candy]], and Eleven, who is obsessed with looking cool and gleefully proclaims that he's a madman with a box. In "A Christmas Carol", Eleven tried to use the psychic paper to claim he was "universally recognized as a mature and responsible adult", this was a lie so big it ''broke'' the psychic paper. Even One got in on the act, starting out acting like a spoiled teenager. And despite being one of the more mature-looking of the Doctors, the Twelfth Doctor eventually took on the persona of an aging rocker.
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* In ''Fanfic/IncarnationsOfLegends'', the immortal goddess Amaterasu's fun-loving and tomboyish personality comes in stark contrast to the position she holds in real mythology as the highest god in Shinto mythology. She hates courtly etiquette and often speaks far more casually than she should, and she's so enraged when Haruhime's father disowns her that Amaterasu rolls up her sleeves and prepares to beat the crap out of him for it.
* Disscussed in the Steven Universe fic, ''Fanfic/IWantToUnderstand'', when Vadalia refers to Amethyst as a “kid”, Greg points out that she’s thousands of years old, to which Vadalia counters that she’s still a kid in all practicality.
* In a ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' fic by Creator/AAPessimal, Elrond glomily reflects on the problem with Elves being practically immortal is that those ''difficult'' teenage years - where your daughter sulks, throws tantrums, and brings home ''totally'' unsuitable boyfriends just to shock her parents - carry on for ''centuries''.
* Disscussed in the Steven Universe fic, ''Fanfic/IWantToUnderstand'', when Vadalia refers to Amethyst as a “kid”, Greg points out that she’s thousands of years old, to which Vadalia counters that she’s still a kid in all practicality.
* In a ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' fic by Creator/AAPessimal, Elrond glomily reflects on the problem with Elves being practically immortal is that those ''difficult'' teenage years - where your daughter sulks, throws tantrums, and brings home ''totally'' unsuitable boyfriends just to shock her parents - carry on for ''centuries''.
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* In ''Fanfic/IncarnationsOfLegends'', ''Fanfic/IncarnationOfLegends'', the immortal goddess Amaterasu's fun-loving and tomboyish personality comes in stark contrast to the position she holds in real mythology as the highest god in Shinto mythology. She hates courtly etiquette and often speaks far more casually than she should, and she's so enraged when Haruhime's father disowns her that Amaterasu rolls up her sleeves and prepares to beat the crap out of him for it.
*Disscussed Discussed in the Steven Universe ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fic, ''Fanfic/IWantToUnderstand'', when Vadalia refers to Amethyst as a “kid”, Greg points out that she’s thousands of years old, to which Vadalia counters that she’s still a kid in all practicality.
* In a ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' fic by Creator/AAPessimal, Elrondglomily gloomily reflects on the problem with Elves being practically immortal is that those ''difficult'' teenage years - where your daughter sulks, throws tantrums, and brings home ''totally'' unsuitable boyfriends just to shock her parents - carry on for ''centuries''.
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* In a ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' fic by Creator/AAPessimal, Elrond
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* In ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', the gods are pretty much just 30-year-olds (or even 12-year-olds that look 30) with big egos. Surprisingly accurate to the original mythologies, in which most of the pantheons were {{Jerkass God}}s.
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* In ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', the gods are pretty much just 30-year-olds (or even 12-year-olds that look 30) with big egos. Surprisingly accurate to the original mythologies, in which most of the pantheons were {{Jerkass God}}s.JerkassGods.
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** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem: Tiki, a Manakete (basically a WereDragon) looks and acts like a little girl, in contrast to the other manaketes who act maturely. This is eventually [[{{JustifiedTrope}} justified]] as its revealed all but 10 of Tiki's years of life was spent in a forced sleep and in the ten years she had awake, she spent with her stepfather Bantu raising her as a normal girl. Also [[spoiler: Xane]] is revealed to be a Manakete as well and looks like a teenager, yet he usually acts like a childish clown. This is eventually revealed to be partly an act as [[spoiler: Xane]] is eventually revealed to be [[SadClown sad and cynical on the side]] after having seen the fall of dragon kind.
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** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem: ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem Mystery of the Emblem]]'', Tiki, a Manakete (basically a WereDragon) looks and acts like a little girl, in contrast to the other manaketes who act maturely. This is eventually [[{{JustifiedTrope}} justified]] as its revealed all but 10 of Tiki's years of life was spent in a forced sleep and in the ten years she had awake, she spent with her stepfather Bantu raising her as a normal girl. Also [[spoiler: Xane]] is revealed to be a Manakete as well and looks like a teenager, yet he usually acts like a childish clown. This is eventually revealed to be partly an act as [[spoiler: Xane]] is eventually revealed to be [[SadClown sad and cynical on the side]] after having seen the fall of dragon kind.
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** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'':
** In ''Fire Emblem Awakening'' (a [[BroadStrokes loose]] sequel to ''Shadow Dragon''), Tiki is the much revered and millennia old Voice of the Divine Dragon, who normally acts wise and aloof, but her profile explicitly mentions that she also has a more childish side. [[LadyOfWar Say'ri]] experiences this firsthand when Tiki first [[BlowingARaspberry Blows A Raspberry]] at her and then tries to stuff her mouth with an apple in their B support.
** In ''Fire Emblem Awakening'' (a [[BroadStrokes loose]] sequel to ''Shadow Dragon''), Tiki is the much revered and millennia old Voice of the Divine Dragon, who normally acts wise and aloof, but her profile explicitly mentions that she also has a more childish side. [[LadyOfWar Say'ri]] experiences this firsthand when Tiki first [[BlowingARaspberry Blows A Raspberry]] at her and then tries to stuff her mouth with an apple in their B support.
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* A variant happens with Megumi of ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof''. As a ghost, she's technically immortal until she moves on, and as someone who died 30 years ago in her first year of high school, should be around 45 years old. Nevertheless, she acts significantly more childish compared to Sachi, who died 80 years ago in her third year of high school, which is why Yuna(a second-year) refuses to give her the respect owed to an elder, despite being more polite to Sachi (e.g. using the "-san" honorific on Sachi, who responds in kind).
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** Thor provides the page image. He's bit of a frat boy at heart, but he's also one of the gods who actually cares for mortals, [[spoiler:especially when the other gods contemplate ending the world to contain the threat of the Snarl.]]
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A darker take of this would be where the immaturity is a facade, and the character does indeed have inner angsts and turmoils that most mortals actually wouldn't be able to relate to. For example, [[MayflyDecemberFriendship being immortal but having mortal friends]] would mean watching them age and eventually perish while you remain unchanged, and while you wouldn't have to wonder about what awaits you in the afterlife, the question of [[WhoWantsToLiveForever what will happen to you when the world ends and there are no more people]] remains. Thus, inner angst is generated over stuff that mortals don't have to worry about, but is kept hidden except for special circumstances when the immortal character gets the spotlight, when such issues are thrown into light for for HiddenDepths or CharacterDevelopment.
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A darker take of this would be where the immaturity is a facade, and the character does indeed have inner angsts and turmoils that most mortals actually wouldn't be able to relate to. For example, [[MayflyDecemberFriendship being immortal but having mortal friends]] would mean watching them age and eventually perish while you remain unchanged, and while you wouldn't have to wonder about what awaits you in the afterlife, the question of [[WhoWantsToLiveForever what will happen to you when the world ends and there are no more people]] remains. Thus, inner angst is generated over stuff that mortals don't have to worry about, but is kept hidden except for special circumstances when the immortal character gets the spotlight, when such issues are thrown into the light for for HiddenDepths or CharacterDevelopment.
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** This is justified and {{deconstructed|Trope}}, as each gem is BornAsAnAdult and will never die by natural means. They have no lifespan or life cycle and as such have no natural reason or method with which to change over time, barring extreme circumstances that they subsequently never move on from. It takes Steven, who as a HalfHumanHybrid does age and developed, to teach various gems how to grow as people.
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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':
** In the ''VideoGame/FireEmblemArchanea'' games: Tiki, a 740 Manakete(basically a WereDragon) looks and acts like a little girl, in contrast to the other manaketes who act maturely. This is eventually [[{{JustifiedTrope}} justified]] as its revealed all but 10 of Tiki's years of life was spent in a forced sleep and in the ten years she had awake, she spent with her stepfather Bantu raising her as a normal girl. Also [[spoiler: Xane]] is revealed to be a Manakete as well and looks like a teenager, yet he usually acts like a childish clown. This is eventually revealed to be partly an act as [[spoiler: Xane]] is eventually revealed to be [[SadClown sad and cynical on the side]] after having seen the fall of dragon kind.
** In the ''VideoGame/FireEmblemArchanea'' games: Tiki, a 740 Manakete(basically a WereDragon) looks and acts like a little girl, in contrast to the other manaketes who act maturely. This is eventually [[{{JustifiedTrope}} justified]] as its revealed all but 10 of Tiki's years of life was spent in a forced sleep and in the ten years she had awake, she spent with her stepfather Bantu raising her as a normal girl. Also [[spoiler: Xane]] is revealed to be a Manakete as well and looks like a teenager, yet he usually acts like a childish clown. This is eventually revealed to be partly an act as [[spoiler: Xane]] is eventually revealed to be [[SadClown sad and cynical on the side]] after having seen the fall of dragon kind.
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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':
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** Inthe ''VideoGame/FireEmblemArchanea'' games: ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem: Tiki, a 740 Manakete(basically Manakete (basically a WereDragon) looks and acts like a little girl, in contrast to the other manaketes who act maturely. This is eventually [[{{JustifiedTrope}} justified]] as its revealed all but 10 of Tiki's years of life was spent in a forced sleep and in the ten years she had awake, she spent with her stepfather Bantu raising her as a normal girl. Also [[spoiler: Xane]] is revealed to be a Manakete as well and looks like a teenager, yet he usually acts like a childish clown. This is eventually revealed to be partly an act as [[spoiler: Xane]] is eventually revealed to be [[SadClown sad and cynical on the side]] after having seen the fall of dragon kind.
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** In ''Fire Emblem Awakening'' (a [[BroadStrokes loose]] sequel to ''Shadow Dragon''), Tiki is the much revered and millennia old Voice of the Divine Dragon, who normally acts wise and aloof, but her profile explicitely mentions that she also has a more childish side. [[LadyOfWar Say'ri]] experiences this firsthand when Tiki first [[BlowingARaspberry Blows A Raspberry]] at her and then tries to stuff her mouth with an apple in their B support.
*** From the same game, Nowi is another Manakete and a young Tiki Expy, just like her she is more than hundreds years old, but has the looks and mindset of a young girl. English only material says that this is at least partly a case of ObfuscatingStupidity. Japanese material and english DLC says its ProportionalAging.
*** From the same game, Nowi is another Manakete and a young Tiki Expy, just like her she is more than hundreds years old, but has the looks and mindset of a young girl. English only material says that this is at least partly a case of ObfuscatingStupidity. Japanese material and english DLC says its ProportionalAging.
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** In ''Fire Emblem Awakening'' (a [[BroadStrokes loose]] sequel to ''Shadow Dragon''), Tiki is the much revered and millennia old Voice of the Divine Dragon, who normally acts wise and aloof, but her profile explicitely explicitly mentions that she also has a more childish side. [[LadyOfWar Say'ri]] experiences this firsthand when Tiki first [[BlowingARaspberry Blows A Raspberry]] at her and then tries to stuff her mouth with an apple in their B support.
*** From the same game, Nowi is another Manakete and a young Tiki Expy, just like her she is more than hundreds years old, but has the looks and mindset of a young girl. English only material says that this is at least partly a case of ObfuscatingStupidity. Japanese material andenglish English DLC says its ProportionalAging.
*** From the same game, Nowi is another Manakete and a young Tiki Expy, just like her she is more than hundreds years old, but has the looks and mindset of a young girl. English only material says that this is at least partly a case of ObfuscatingStupidity. Japanese material and
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** The train of events that led to UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar began with Eris getting pissed over not being invited to a wedding. The modern day religion of UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}} uses this tale as its jumping-off point.
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** The train of events that led to UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar began with Eris getting pissed over not being invited to a wedding. The (The modern day religion of UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}} uses this tale as its jumping-off point.) Granted, she's the goddess of discord, but the fact that [[TheHighQueen Hera]], [[LoveGoddess Aphrodite]] and ''freakin' [[BadassBookworm Athena]]'' took the bait and let a beauty contest escalate into a decade-long war shows how shortsighted the gods can be.
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* ''Literature/PeterPan'' is all about this, his skills with a blade on par with those of Captain Hook notwithstanding. Justified in his case, since his overwhelming desire to be immature is why he became immortal in the first place.
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* ''Literature/PeterPan'' is all about this, this: he's a child who doesn't grow up, either physically or mentally. This has some disturbing implications. For example: learning to accept death is a major milestone in growing up, meaning that Peter can't do it--if someone he knows dies, then he'll just forget that they ever existed. There are also times when he can't tell his skills with a blade on par with those of Captain Hook notwithstanding. Justified in his case, since his overwhelming desire to be immature is why he became immortal in the first place.own games and daydreams from reality.
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* [[CuteMonsterGirl Mavis Dracula]] in ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'' behaves like a typical teenage girl... despite being 118. [[{{Dracula}} Her dad]] has a few moments as well. It's justified in Mavis' case since she's been sheltered for much of her life and hasn't seen any of the world beyond her home, so she's not very mature as a result.
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* [[CuteMonsterGirl Mavis Dracula]] in ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'' behaves like a typical teenage girl... despite being 118. [[{{Dracula}} Her dad]] has a few moments as well. It's justified in Mavis' case since she's been sheltered for much of her life and hasn't seen any of the world beyond her home, so she's not very mature as a result. However, dialogue suggests that [[ProportionalAging a vampire at 118 is the equivalent to a human at 18]].
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* Chibiusa, a.k.a. Sailor Chibi-Moon, from ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' looks and behaves like a five-year old. According to the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], she's about 900. She still seems to find primary school to be challenging. Averted in the 90s anime, where she is around seven years old.
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* Chibiusa, a.k.a. Sailor Chibi-Moon, from ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' looks and behaves like a five-year an 8-year old. According to the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], she's about 900. She still seems to find primary school to be challenging.However, it's explained that her physical and mental growth was stunted and she should ''not'' have the body and mind of a child. Averted in the 90s anime, where she is around seven years old.
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'''The Doctor:''' Well, of course I am! There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."''
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'''The Doctor:''' Well, of course I am! There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."''
