History Main / IntergenerationalFriendship

* Zuri and Nana Banana in ''{{Jessie}}''is about as big of an age gap as you can get. A 7 year old with a woman old enough to be Great-Grandmother when you consider the actual age of both actresses.

* Zuri and Nana Banana n {{Series/Jessie]] is about as big of an age gap as you can get. A 7 year old with a woman old enough to be Great-Grandmother when you consider the actual age of both actresses.

* In the film ''[[Film/SophieSchollTheFinalDays Sophie Scholl - The Final Days]]'', the title character, who is 21, strikes up a friendship with her cellmate Else Gebel, who is in her late thirties.

** King again, in ''PetSematary'', with the Crandalls (both eighty-something) and the Creeds (in their 30s, with two young children who also bond with their elderly neighbors). When they first meet, the narration describes Louis Creed's relationship to Jud Crandall by saying "he called this man a friend, as a grown man must do when he finds the man who should have been his father relatively late in life".

* 8-year-old Literature/{{Papelucho}} strikes one with an old man at least in his 70's, when they're both hospitalised. Papelucho is there after the birth of his little sister Jimena [[spoiler: and being operated on by mistake]], the old man pretty much lives in the hospital since he has no living family. [[spoiler: It turns out the geezer was actually ''loaded'' in cash, and leaves his riches to Papelucho when he dies.]] To a smaller degree, Papelucho also befriends the HospitalHottie who works as the specific caretaker of the old man.
** And we also learn that [[spoiler: said old man once had a much older friend, a rough BigBrotherMentor whom he worked with when he was around Papelucho's age. The older man disappeared all of a sudden, leaving behind a letter in which he promised to return some day and introduce him to his future family, but he never returned. Ione of the reasons why the older man cares for Papelucho so much is that he believes the kid to be the grandson of his long-lost friend.]]

* {{X-23}} has one with Gambit in her current ongoing series. It's not as pronounced as there's only a decade between them at most, but X-23's vulnerability is presented as a sharp counterpoint to Gambit's street smarts and maturity.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', Tiny Tina, a [[HarmfulToMinors troubled]] and [[CuteAndPsycho demented]] thirteen-year-old DemolitionsExpert, has this with Roland (somewhere in his 30s), Brick (around the same), and Mr. Torgue (in his 40s). Roland serves as a ParentalSubstitute, while Brick and Mr. Torgue are enablers to her love of explosives and bringing destruction upon the bandits of the waste.

* In ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', Tiny Tina, a [[HarmfulToMinors troubled]] and [[CuteAndPsycho demented]] thirteen-year-old DemolitionsExpert, has this with Roland (somewhere in his 30s), Brick (around the same), and Mr. Torgue (in his 40s). Roland serves as a ParentalSubstitute, while Brick and Mr. Torgue are enablers to her love of explosives and bringing destruction upon the bandits of the waste.

* Several examples are possible in the ''FireEmblem'' series, thanks to the [[RelationshipValues support system]]. Among the more notable ones is Amelia (~15) and Duessel (old enough to be her grandfather) from ''The Sacred Stones'', who even get a double-ending where Amelia becomes Duessel's [[TheLancer "most trusted companion"]]. [[spoiler:The fact that Duessel reunites Amelia with her MissingMom Melina, whom he rescued from the bandits who kidnapped her when Amelia was a child, probably helps a lot.]]

** There's also Gilliam (likely around his late 30's) and both Franz and Neimi (around Amelia's age, if not slightly older)

** This trope becomes a huge plot point in the Tales Of Ash saga. [[spoiler: 16/17 years old Ash Crimson had this with 27-year-old Elisabeth Blanctorche, who doubled as his OnlyFriend. So to protect the only person he truly loved and cared about, Ash staged a massive BatmanGambit that involved attacking and depowering both Chizuru and Iori, making himself the most hated fighter all around and go against everyone and everything he knew... to keep Elisabeth sage and make sure she won't have to fulfill her destiny to fight the current Nebulous Organization, Those of the Past. So yeah, for his much older friend, Ash ''staged the whole last arc and ended up {{ret gone}}d''.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnythingAVeggieTalesMovie'', the main protagonist George befriends a princess named Eloise. George is a rather old man and he has children back home who are around Eloise's age.

* Jack and North in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians''. Jack is a little over three hundred years old but North, being Santa Claus, existed even longer. And that is not taking their physical appearances into consideration where Jack is a teenager and North is around his fifties or sixties.

* In the prequel ''[[{{Saiyuki}} Saiyuki Ibun]]'', it is played with Toudai (who will be known as the Goudai Sanzo) and the youkai Tenkai who would inherit the Maten Sutra before Koumyou Sanzo. Physically, Toudai appears much older than Tenkai who looks like a young child. But as a youkai, Tenkai could be easily be years older than Toudai while retaining his youthful appearance.

* Iceland (ageless nation, but with the looks of a 17-year-old) and Turkey (also ageless nation, looks like in his mid-to-late 30's) in AxisPowersHetalia. More exactly, the HetaliaBloodbath2010.
** Also France (ageless nation who looks like in his late 20's) and [[spoiler: 19-year-old Lisa, the reincarnation of another 19-year-old girl he was friends with... Joan of Arc.]]

* Any of Break's friendships in ''PandoraHearts'' count as this as although he doesn't look it he's nearly forty. His closest Friends are Reim (26) and Sharon (23, although she looks 13) they've been friends since he was 24.

* Yugi and his friends in ''Anime/YuGiOh'' (all around 16) with Pharaoh Yami ([[{{Reincarnation}} over 3,000]]).

* Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. Best friends, best ballet partners... and she was 19 years older than him. In fact, Dame Fonteyn was about to retire when they started dancing together, but then she decided otherwise and they were a ballet duo for fifteen years.

** Most recently, Marceline and the Ice King, though comparatively closer in age to each other than to the rest of the cast.

* LeonardNimroy and ZacharyQuinto, the [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries two]] [[Film/StarTrek Spocks]] with an age difference of 47 years.

* ''SengokuBasara'' has several examples. There's Masamune (19) and Kojuro (30), who are sometimes joined by Itsuki (12); Yukimura (17) and Sasuke (23); Ieyasu (15) and Motochika (22); Yoshihiro (60s/70s) and Keiji (22); and Mitsunari (19/20) and Yoshitsugu (30s).

* VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}, alongside the already mentioned case of Nanako and the main character's friends, we have the MC and the persons holding the Death (a WidowWoman in her 60's), Temperance (a [[HotMom pretty stepmon]] in her ealry/mid 30's) and Devil (a HospitalHottie in her late 20's) S-Links. They're also seen in TheAnimeOfTheGame, but they're sorta out of focus.

* In the Franchise/StarTrek novel [[StarTrekTyphonPact ''Paths of Disharmony'']], Eklanir th'Gahryn reflects on the value of these. In particular, his friendship with his much younger aide ch'Drena is highly important to him.

** This continues in ''Film/TheHobbit'' where Gandalf becomes friends with Bilbo (who was fifty-ish). Also, Bilbo with the dwarves, particularly Thorin and Balin, who are both nearing the two hundreds. Even the younger dwarves like Fili and Kili are above their seventies.