Older Than They Look/Playing With

Basic Trope: Someone looks younger than they really are.
 * Straight: Bob is fourteen but looks ten/eleven.
 * Exaggerated: Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Bob even acts the age he looks.
 * Downplayed: Characters assume Bob is 12, but he's really 13.
 * Justified: When he got a tumor removed from his brain once, it also removed that part that makes him look older.
 * Bob only looks like normal human. He's actually of a magical race that appears human in every sense, except they stop appearing to age after about ten years.
 * OR: Bob just has good genes, or just happens to take good care of himself.
 * Inverted: Younger Than They Look
 * Subverted: He appears to be in the same class as Charlie, as well as Danny and Eli, who are in sixth grade.
 * Double Subverted: He's repeating grades.
 * Parodied: Bob looks like a baby, but is really middle aged.
 * Deconstructed: He can't buy M-Rated games or go into PG-13 movies without an adult.
 * Reconstructed: ...But the law states that age requirements are only based on mental or psychological ages, not physical ages.
 * Played for Laughs: Bob goes to get his drivers license and gets rejected for being too young. Frustrated he goes to an American bar, shows his ID and orders a drink.
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: Bob is really as old as he looks.
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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