Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** [[FriendlyGhost Bob's grandfather hasn't let something as silly as death stop him from helping.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 14 (click to see context) from:
* '''Inverted''': ??
to:
* '''Inverted''': ??Bob stays fixed at twenty five and his [[MultipleChoicePast backstory shifts with time, usually being a veteran of the last war]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3 (click to see context) from:
* '''Straight''': Bob's grandfather is a World War II veteran, which would have been plausible when the work began in the '90s, but sticks when the story is clearly no longer set in that time period and he wouldn't realistically be alive.
to:
* '''Straight''': Bob's grandfather is a World War II veteran, which would have been plausible when the work began in the '90s, but sticks when the story is clearly no longer set in that time period and he wouldn't realistically be alive.''alive''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 7 (click to see context) from:
** The character is TheAgeless and/or ReallySevenHundredYearsOld. Alternatively, they have an abnormally long lifespan.
to:
** The character is TheAgeless and/or ReallySevenHundredYearsOld. Alternatively, they have an abnormally long lifespan.LongLived (and may also be Really700YearsOld).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 4 (click to see context) from:
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob's grandfather is old enough to have been through ''two'' World Wars, in a work set in the 2020s.
to:
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob's grandfather is established as old enough to have been lived through ''two'' ''both'' World Wars, in a work set in the 2020s.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
'''Basic Trope''': A character's backstory never changes, even when times do and they'd be implausibly old.
* '''Straight''': Bob's grandfather is a World War II veteran, which would have been plausible when the work began in the '90s, but sticks when the story is clearly no longer set in that time period and he wouldn't realistically be alive.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob's grandfather is old enough to have been through ''two'' World Wars, in a work set in the 2020s.
* '''Downplayed''': A character's background as a Holocaust survivor is retained in the 2020's, which strains credulity but isn't ''completely'' impossible to HandWave since they were very young but could still conceivably remember it.
* '''Justified''':
** The character is TheAgeless and/or ReallySevenHundredYearsOld. Alternatively, they have an abnormally long lifespan.
** The character has been de-aged through an AppliedPhlebotinum.
** The story takes place in a RetroUniverse that combines modern life with a historical setting.
* '''Subverted''':
** The character's background is later revealed to have been false.
** The story is revealed to still take place in what was the present day when it began.
* '''Double Subverted''': But then this also turns out to be incorrect.
* '''Inverted''': ??
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Some aspects of a character's backstory stick when times change, others don't.
* '''Lampshaded''': "How old ''are'' they even?"
* '''Averted''': Close attention is paid to the character's backstory, especially in relation to time.
Return to RefugeeFromTime.
* '''Straight''': Bob's grandfather is a World War II veteran, which would have been plausible when the work began in the '90s, but sticks when the story is clearly no longer set in that time period and he wouldn't realistically be alive.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob's grandfather is old enough to have been through ''two'' World Wars, in a work set in the 2020s.
* '''Downplayed''': A character's background as a Holocaust survivor is retained in the 2020's, which strains credulity but isn't ''completely'' impossible to HandWave since they were very young but could still conceivably remember it.
* '''Justified''':
** The character is TheAgeless and/or ReallySevenHundredYearsOld. Alternatively, they have an abnormally long lifespan.
** The character has been de-aged through an AppliedPhlebotinum.
** The story takes place in a RetroUniverse that combines modern life with a historical setting.
* '''Subverted''':
** The character's background is later revealed to have been false.
** The story is revealed to still take place in what was the present day when it began.
* '''Double Subverted''': But then this also turns out to be incorrect.
* '''Inverted''': ??
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Some aspects of a character's backstory stick when times change, others don't.
* '''Lampshaded''': "How old ''are'' they even?"
* '''Averted''': Close attention is paid to the character's backstory, especially in relation to time.
Return to RefugeeFromTime.
