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Fountain of Youth - TV Tropes. Sheriff: I want you to be honest with me. Absolutely and completely honest. Have you been time traveling?! Stiles: Hang on, what? Sheriff: Because if time traveling is real, you know what?
You're going to be driving ME to Eichen House! Scott: We found him like that. Sheriff *(Already 5. Where? Swimming in the fountain of youth?! Stiles: No. We found him buried in a tomb of wolfsbane in an Aztec temple in Mexico underneath a church in the middle of a town that was destroyed by an earthquake. Sheriff: You told me you were camping!
Stiles: Yeah, we were.. Scott: Derek's been aged backwards. He can't remember anything. We just need to talk to him.
It may be the result of a freak accident, a plot on the part of the bad guys to incapacitate our heroes, or done on purpose so the characters can relive their childhood (at least temporarily). Always central to the plot of a Baby Morph Episode, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Often combined with Raise Him Right This Time. These will of course be sought out by Immortality Seekers. A downside to this version of the trope is that the fountain is usually stationary and often in a remote region, forcing the newfound immortal to permanently stay close to it or at least return regularly, and to keep it a secret from others due to Immortality Immorality.
This may or may not be permanent, but if the character in question was a bad guy, expect it to be permanent; well, at least, until they grow back up the old- fashioned way. If the character's clothes don't change with them in this event (and it's shown onscreen), it's likely to cause Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing.
If the event is offscreen and thus a surprise to the audience or one or more characters, Empty Piles of Clothing results. The Trope Namer was the mythical Fountain Of Youth that Ponce de Leon searched most of Florida to try and find. Compare Really 7. Years Old, where an individual is vastly older than even the maximum natural lifespan for their species, and looks nowhere near as ancient as they actually are; Merlin Sickness, where the individual's aging progresses in a backwards fashion (i. See also Healing Spring. But when he drinks it, he turns into a baby which the announcer says .
In a nursing home, we see empty halls with discarded clothes with no one in sight. A clock is shown moving backwards and then we see naked babies crawling around. An old woman isn't impressed and drinks a water fountain to become young again and says . We see the man again and he's not impressed. We then see the woman has turned into a girl around 1. Everytime this happens she becomes younger from adult to pre teen to child and then to baby.
Then they'd suddenly become children in oversized clothes and continue explaining, in the same voice, the . Sometimes they'd reverse the bit, with a child becoming an adult. Unfortunately, in this case, the son happened to be a bit younger than 1. My Goddess manga (and one episode of the 2. Fortunately, she was able to get an interesting advantage out of it. Seravy and Dorothy are also reverted to kids.
Since descriptions of this substance are usually brief and. A Town Has Turned to Dust is a 1998 update of a 1958 made-for-TV film written by Rod Serling. A Town Has Turned to Dust was originally shown on the Syfy Channel. Town Hall has played an integral part in the electrifying cultural fabric of New York City for more than 90 years. Disclosing a tale of a vibrant group of suffragists (The League for Political Education) whose fight for the. China is building at least one new coal-fired power plant every week and has a seemingly limitless appetite for coal. The Powder River Basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming has a seemingly limitless supply.
Of course, they all turn back at the end. A couple episodes have had Baikinman make a spray that changes anyone (or anything) in contact with it into babies (with objects becoming earlier stages, like a tree becoming a sapling). He does this as ways to make Anpanman weak against him, but it always gets foiled in the end. One theatrical short showed there's an entire lake, one side red, which turns the victim into a baby, the other side blue, which returns them to normal. Another theatrical short had Hiyariko, an aspiring scientist, create a potion to make Baikinman stronger.. When he runs off, she makes what she thinks is an antidote, and sprays it all around the town.. Thankfully, this potion was only temporary, and everyone returned to normal eventually on their own.
ARLENE SEPULVEDA & RUBEN MOLINA The Southern Soul Spinners: Revolving Around the Eastside Sound. Photo: Shaun Roberts/Wired. A Cranky Sea With an Image Problem. The Tempest from Tehachapi, as one researcher called it, spread dirt over an area the size of Maine. Twenty hours afterward, the dust reached Sacramento, four hundred miles north of Bakersfield, in the form of a murky haze.
It is implied they change back at the end of the series. It only lasts one episode (or a few chapters).
For the record, loli- Balalaika is the cutest thing ever. Later Urahara uses his devices to let her return to her original age.
In an episode of Brigadoon: Marin and Melan, Marine eats some weird chocolate that causes her to start hallucinating. Among other things, she imagines herself growing into a young adult, then regressing into a baby. In the end, she ends up fading into nothingness altogether due to overuse.
In Death Note, Shinigami can steal the lifespans of humans by writing their names in Death Notes, which kills the human. Humans who use the Death Notes don't get the lifespans of their victims but if a Shinigami uses their Death Note to save a human's life, the Shinigami dies and the human gets all of their lifespan. It regressed Shinichi Kudo and Shiho Miyano's body by around ten years, causing two Teen Geniuses to live in first graders' bodies. On the other hand, APTX- 4. It turned a young woman and two young girls into babies, and a third young girl into a child, but they all turned back to normal when it got its ass handed to it by Sword. This also happens later with Gian and Suneo, but only temporarily. Roshi and his sister Baba actually drank from a Fountain of Youth, which, rather than restore their youth, fixed them at that age, unable to die from old age.
She's also Third Officer for System Security. When a real world hacker potentially threatens the peace and stability of that virtual world, DEVA, she has to got out into the real world. One problem: her original body is long dead. Fortunalty, the machines that run DEVA always save a DNA sample of every infant they digitize, in case of just such an emergency, so that they can clone new bodies, and uses age- accelerating incubation pods. However, Angela want to get the jump on all the other agents being sent into the real world, so she cuts her new bodies incubation period short, leaving her body at age 1.
She eventually gets trapped in her teenaged body when she rebels against DEVA's cruel and oppressive government. Come on, they deleted ROCK AND ROLL!!! In Fairy Tail, a villain in the Taiyou Village arc named Doriate uses magic that severely weakens people's magical and physical power, and has the added effect of turning them into children. Erza, Natsu and Gray are hit by it, but turned back to normal later.
Also, everyone present is regressed briefly in chapter 3. Including Wendy, who becomes an even younger child). When comes Fran's turn, it comes back to bite her really hard: At first, it works and she becomes a young woman again, but because Fran's research was still very experimental, she soon afterwards turns into a pulsating mess of cancer cells. In Fushigi Yuugi, the trope is invoked when the Time Master. Subaru briefly uses her powers on herself and her husband Tokaki so they can help Miaka and the Suzaku Seishi.
In Gakkou Kaidan (a Yousuke Takahashi manga that's unrelated to the anime. Ghost Stories), a Villainous Harlequin transforms a young girl into a baby and a young female teacher into a kid.
Both turn back to normal when the harlequin gets his ass kicked. Because The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body, the girls gave the twins a pretty hard time looking after them. Of course, Neptune has a pretty hard time looking after them, until Gust gave her the pills to change the girls back.
However, he retains his original personality, and he's not happy about becoming an elementary school girl. This causes mass hysteria across the city, since the rejuvenation virus was rather contagious, but since Iori held the antibody, everyone was later returned to normal. The longer you stand in his shadow (through which Sethan manifests), the younger you get, including your Stand getting weaker (and that's only if you developed your stand at a young age) and in one instance is able to turn a woman into a fetus. Unfortunately for Alessi, when he tries this on Jotaro, he learns the hard way Jotaro was Badass even at age seven.
Due to Joseph already being very old, it only regressed him into his late teens. Unfortunately for Alessi, that was the age when Joseph was at his prime and beat the Pillar Men, who were FAR stronger than any Stand users in Part 3. Joseph maintains his youth for a while after beating Alessi, but it eventually wears off and he returns to normal, wishing it could've been permanent. In a later episode, the same gun turns Fuyuki into a kindergardener. In Koi Koi 7, after Yayoi Asuka (the one with the eyepatch) goes berserk, she's rebooted in one of Otome's spare bodies as a cute young girl named Gantai- chan who doesn't remember much of what happened before.
The aging initially works well, but after Sasami returns to her normal age, she turns into a baby overnight. It's been implied that The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body, resulting in the aged- down characters acting with far lower maturity than usual, though they retain their intelligence. This doesn't work both ways, so their adult forms behave like giddy teens. Lollipop, Rokka temporarily transforms Nina into a baby out of jealousy.
By the time she's introduced, she looks like a child of around 1. She eventually turns back into a baby after a Heroic Sacrifice, and is being taken care of by Chaton and Alan near the end of the series. Depending on the situation, she can change herself into a baby, a nineteen- year old girl, or even regress back into a fetus in order to be reborn as an animal, should she need to. As it turns out, that juice is a rejuvenation potion, that their teacher had mistakenly given to Aoi as juice, and Mishiru regresses into a little girl.
Her teacher tells her the only way to get back to normal is to kiss the person she loves, but tough luck, Mishiru doesn't love anybody. Because she can't go back home as a child, Aoi brings her to his house and allows her to stay there. Guess what she usually does when enemies get in her way?
Unlike Bonney's powers, however, it works on inanimate objects too, and it can only work backwards, whereas Bonney can also age her opponents. Nightin from the 3. D2. Y TV special is an ugly and short 8.