Basic Trope: A Fan Fic where the characters are high school students.
- Straight: There's a fantasy series called Alice and Bob in the Jungle of Mystery. Someone writes a fanfiction of it with Alice, Bob, and the rest of the cast as teens and in school titled Alice and Bob in High School.
- Exaggerated: Even those who are older or younger than the main cast are high school students in the fic.
- Downplayed:
- One character in the fanfic turns into a teen and goes to high school.
- Alice and Bob are teenagers who are high school aged, but school is not a prominent setting.
- Justified:
- Time travel was involved.
- This story is set before the events of the series and is trying to explain Alice and Bob's backstory.
- Alice and Bob are canonically mentioned to have known each other since they were in high school.
- Inverted: A series where the characters are high school students has a fanfic of them as adults.
- Subverted: It turns out to be All Just a Dream.
- Double Subverted: But then Alice wakes up from the dream and finds she's sixteen again and late for school.
- Parodied:
- Something ridiculous
gets a High School AU. - The characters are sentenced to high school as a Fate Worse than Death.
- Something ridiculous
- Averted:
- The characters are not rewritten as high school students.
- The characters are already high school students in canon and the work focuses on their experiences as students.
- Zigzagged: It's set in a high school and Alice and Bob are students, Charlie and Dave who were children in the series are teachers and Emily and Freda who were an old couple in the series have become children.
- Enforced: In an episode, Alice mentions a Noodle Incident that happened in high school to Bob, and the fanfic writer tries to explain that.
- Lampshaded: "Wait...yesterday we were in the Jungle of Mystery, now we're in high school!?"
- Invoked:
- At the beginning of the fanfic, the Big Bad sends them back in time to their high school days.
- After losing many Worthy Opponents, allies, and innocents along the way, learning of the Nothing After Death but winning the final battle which left most of the cast dead save for Bob, who is mortally wounded. He is awarded a wish and uses it to create an afterlife of eternal youth without death.
- Exploited: A dimension-hopper places himself into a different universe where he's in high school to avoid his responsibilities as an adult.
- Defied:
- Bob immediately drops out from the high school and moves on.
- Bob completes his school life with a violent shootout, dons a set of cowboy attire and moves on as a gunfighter.
- Deconstructed: Everybody still has their knowledge and abilities from a completely different universe and things start utterly derailing. Alice completely ignoring school to read books is the start of derailment. Charlie becomes a multimillionaire in a week, and a billionaire in a month, and Diane recreates her Humongous Mecha, and things get even worse as others follow suit. Ironically, the only characters who actually bother to stay in school were either from lower technology world and need to catch up, or had an uneducated background.
- Discussed: "Why are we in high school? Why are you fifteen and I'm seventeen? Where's the Jungle of Mystery?"
- Conversed: "High school fanfics are okay, but only if they don't take away the magic because the magic's the reason why I watch the show."
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