Basic Trope: A character who dies is later seen younger than they actually were.
- Straight: Alice dies of natural causes at 80. Her ghost appears to Bob as she looked in her twenties.
- Exaggerated: Alice's ghost appears as a baby.
- Downplayed: Alice's ghost appears as she looked in her fifties.
- Justified: Alice's spirit does not have the damage that her physical body was stuck with.
- Inverted: Alice dies young, and her ghost appears to Bob as she would have looked if she'd made it to adulthood.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: It isn't just Alice's body that de-ages; her attitude reverts to that of an immature college student who only wants to party.
- Zig-Zagged: Spirits are capable of age shifting voluntarily.
- Averted: Alice's ghost appears 80.
- Enforced:
- They couldn't get the older Alice's actress to reprise her role, but the younger Alice's actress was still available.
- Alice's younger self is her most recognizable look.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The elderly, broken, almost immobile Alice allows herself to pass so her younger ghost can help her allies fight.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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