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* '''Straight''': Alice, an 84-year-old woman, is the leader of a community of plague survivors.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is more than 100 years old, cannot walk or see anymore and is a ScatterbrainedSenior. Anyway, she is the leader of a survivor community.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice is 61 years old and one of the older survivors in her community, and leads them.

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* '''Straight''': Alice, an 84-year-old woman, a woman in her 80s, is the leader of a community of plague survivors.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is more than 100 years old, cannot walk or see anymore and is a ScatterbrainedSenior. Anyway, Despite this, she is the leader of a survivor community.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice is 61 years old around her fifties, and one of the older survivors in her community, and being the one that leads them.

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* '''Basic Trope Description''': An elderly, wise leader of a community of survivors in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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* '''Basic Trope Description''': An elderly, wise and usually heroic leader of a community of survivors in a post-apocalyptic setting.



* '''Inverted''': Alice is four years old and the leader of a survivor community.
* '''Subverted''': Alice, the leader of a survivor community, seems rather old, but is YoungerThanTheyLook.
* '''Double Subverted''': Nevertheless, still rather old.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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Alice is four years old and the leader of a survivor community.
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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Alice, the leader of a survivor community, seems rather old, but is YoungerThanTheyLook.
YoungerThanTheyLook.
** Alice is a benevolent leader at first, but becomes more and more corrupt and evil with time.
* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
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Nevertheless, still rather old. old.
** Then she has a HeelRealization and becomes a benevolent leader again.



* '''Played for Drama''': Alice cannot help her community when they are attacked by raiders due to old age.

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* '''Played for Drama''': Alice cannot help her Keeping such a RagtagBunchOfMisfits community when they are attacked by raiders due to of survivors together is a rather hard job, especially for a single old age.woman. Alice faces conflict every day and has to step up to prevent them from disintegrating frequently.
* '''Played for Horror''': Alice is in fact the EldritchAbomination that brought the apocalypse, and plots to lead the survivors into their final doom.
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* '''Basic Trope Description''': An elderly, wise leader of a community of survivors in a post-apocalyptic setting.

* '''Straight''': Alice, an 84-year-old woman, is the leader of a community of plague survivors.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is more than 100 years old, cannot walk or see anymore and is a ScatterbrainedSenior. Anyway, she is the leader of a survivor community.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice is 61 years old and one of the older survivors in her community, and leads them.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice is one of the rather rare survivors with experience in positions of authority.
** Alice happens to be very wise, trustworthy and life-experienced.
** Alice is the founding mother of the community.
* '''Inverted''': Alice is four years old and the leader of a survivor community.
* '''Subverted''': Alice, the leader of a survivor community, seems rather old, but is YoungerThanTheyLook.
* '''Double Subverted''': Nevertheless, still rather old.
* '''Enforced''':
** The author needs someone for the position of TheMentor.
** The executive producers want to attract elderly viewers by giving them a character to identify with.
* '''Averted''': All survivor communities have rather young leaders.
* '''Zigzagged''': Alice's age is never so clear: one day she seems old, the other day not.
* '''Parodied''': Alice is so senile that she believes everything, and her advisors can use her to enact the strangest stuff.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh yes, the wisdom of many years!"
* '''Discussed''': "Should we really allow this old woman to lead us?" "Why not, she is wise." "But old people are often...well...scatterbrained..."
* '''Conversed''': "How sweet. She is like a grandma for everyone there."
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is a ScatterbrainedSenior who needs help with everything due to old age and NoHealthcareInTheApocalypse. Therefore not a good leader.
* '''Reconstructed''': But she is the oldest and wisest member of her group, and they help her with everything to allow her to focus on leading.
* '''Implied''': Bob, a young survivor, tells Charlie that his community is lead by his grandma.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice is a CoolOldLady always ready for some jest with her younger charges after all the cruelty of the apocalypse hit.
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice cannot help her community when they are attacked by raiders due to old age.

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