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* ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' issue 865 had the Toyman assume that Jimmy Olsen is 17. Jimmy indignantly corrects Winslow Schott that he's actually 22.
* In the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', the Thing frequently mentioned his 'Aunt Petunia', with the implication that she was an old woman. When she finally appeared in the comic during Creator/JohnByrne's run, Petunia (she prefers 'Penny') was revealed to be his uncle's second wife and an attractive woman about the Thing's own age.
* A flashback had a then-teenage ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} meeting ComicBook/GreenArrow for the first time. He casually flirts with her and cradles her. Barbara begins laughing and says his cologne smells like her father, which causes a {{squick}}ed Oliver to back off. In hindsight Barbara says her costume [[YoungerThanTheyLook made her look at least twenty]].

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* ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' issue 865 ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'': A flashback had a then-teenage Batgirl meeting ComicBook/GreenArrow for the Toyman assume that Jimmy Olsen is 17. Jimmy indignantly corrects Winslow Schott that he's actually 22.
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first time. He casually flirts with her and cradles her. Barbara begins laughing and says his cologne smells like her father, which causes a {{squick}}ed Oliver to back off. In the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', the hindsight Barbara says her costume [[YoungerThanTheyLook made her look at least twenty]].
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Thing frequently mentioned his 'Aunt Petunia', with the implication that she was an old woman. When she finally appeared in the comic during Creator/JohnByrne's run, Petunia (she prefers 'Penny') was revealed to be his uncle's second wife and an attractive woman about the Thing's own age.
* A flashback had a then-teenage ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} meeting ComicBook/GreenArrow for ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #865, the first time. He casually flirts with her and cradles her. Barbara begins laughing and says his cologne smells like her father, which causes a {{squick}}ed Oliver to back off. In hindsight Barbara says her costume [[YoungerThanTheyLook made her look at least twenty]].Toyman assumes that Jimmy Olsen is 17. Jimmy indignantly corrects Winslow Schott that he's actually 22.
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* In the prequel ''Literature/TalesOfDunkAndEgg'' novella "The Sworn Sword", Dunk is sent to meet Lady Rohanne Webber, who he knows to be widowed multiple times (and rumored to have [[BlackWidow murdered her husbands]]) and who has a terrible reputation for cruelty. As a prank, Dunk is introduced to one of Lady Webber's attendants and is told that she is Lady Webber, and he believes it, because the elderly and [[{{gonk}} unpleasant looking]] woman jibes with his assumptions about what Lady Webber would look like. He then learns that a pretty young [[HeroesWantRedheads redheaded]] woman practicing archery nearby is Lady Webber, and that she is not nearly as bad as her reputation suggests.

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* In the prequel ''Literature/TalesOfDunkAndEgg'' novella "The Sworn Sword", Dunk is sent to meet Lady Rohanne Webber, who he knows to be widowed multiple times (and rumored to have [[BlackWidow murdered her husbands]]) and who has a terrible reputation for cruelty. As a prank, Dunk is introduced to one of Lady Webber's attendants and is told that she is Lady Webber, and he believes it, because the elderly and [[{{gonk}} unpleasant looking]] woman jibes with his assumptions about what Lady Webber would look like. He then learns that a pretty young [[HeroesWantRedheads redheaded]] redheaded woman practicing archery nearby is Lady Webber, and that she is not nearly as bad as her reputation suggests.

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* ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' introduced a YoungerAndHipper version of Aunt May than is traditionally depicted in the ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' franchise. Her first scene involves some LeaningOnTheFourthWall where Tony Stark expresses surprise at how young she is, to which she responds that an aunt can be any age. Her age is perfectly plausible, since Creator/MarisaTomei was 51 at the time.



* {{Wrestling/Paige}} had to remind fans that she turned 30 in 2022, in response to being treated as though she was still 19 as she had been when she first debuted in WWE (although 21 when she made it to the main roster).



* WebVideo/ContraPoints will sometimes {{Squee}} about taxi drivers asking her about college, meaning they think she's young enough to be a student. She's in her early thirties (as of when this example was written).

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* WebVideo/ContraPoints will sometimes {{Squee}} once {{Squee}}d about a taxi drivers driver asking her about college, meaning they think she's liking that she was still seen as young enough to be a student. She's She was in her early thirties (as of mid-30s when this example the video was written).uploaded.



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