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== Western Animation ==
* In one episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Similarly, the result of [[Fountain of Youth|youth tar]] in ''[[Futurama]]'' is compounded when bacteria meant to eat it instead spread it throughout their bodies and continually making them younger. As Farnsworth put it "We'll face a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: ''pre-life''. Then death." They reverse this with a fountain of ''aging''.
* A few years back, there was an animated short on the Disney Channel called ''Flip-Flopped'' that featured an entire world of people like this. It was considered to be perfectly normal. There's a rumor going around that it's being considered for a series.
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== Comic Books ==
* One of [[Alan Moore]]'s [http://againwiththecomics.blogspot.com/2009/05/man-reversible-moores-alan.html ''Future Shocks'' strips]{{Dead link}} was about a man aging backwards: he started lying in the street undying of a heart attack, got better, he started a job and got demoted until he was the teaboy, his kids moved into his house and finally vanished (would have more unpleasant for their mother), split up with his wife, moved home, went to school to forget things...
** Bonus points for a [[Death Is Dramatic|dramatic]] [[Inverted Trope|birth.]]
* The vampires and other undead of the French graphic novel series ''[[Requiem Vampire Knight]]'' age in reverse in the world of Resurrection.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In the manga version of ''[[Dokkoida?!]]'', the [[Knight of Cerebus|enemy]] Sweet Pea is like this.
* Lin-Fa in the manga ''Zombie Fairy''. She's from a race of people that age extremely slowly anyway, but became dismayed when the first tiny sign of aging really showed up (a single wrinkle). Her friend tried to help by casting a spell on her, unfortunately -permanently- reversing the aging process. By the time the manga starts, Lin-Fa has regressed from being a full-grown adult into the series' [[Token
* Amber from ''[[Darker than Black]]'' has a variation of this as her [[Power At a Price|remuneration]]; she regresses in age every time that she uses her powers, though it's never specified whether she also ages forward normally. {{spoiler|In the end, she ends up fading into nothingness altogether due to overuse.}}
* Kurama gets hit with a weaponized version of this in the Dark Tournament arc of ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. The gas takes him to childhood, then infancy, then pre-natal, and then shifts him to his previous incarnation, Youko Kurama, who proceeds to torture the man who did this for information as to how.
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