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* Yumika in ''Manga/AmaiSeikatsu'' is 25, later 26, and nearly everyone (including herself) treats her like she's an old woman.
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* ''Fear and Trembling'' is a semi-autobiographical novel by Amélie Nothomb in which she describes her disastrous experience as a foreign OfficeLady in a Japanese corporation, her immediate superior is an unmarried 29-year-old woman. It's hinted that her parents are desperate to see her get married before she turns 30 (which she doesn't).
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* ''Fear and Trembling'' ''Literature/FearAndTrembling'' is a semi-autobiographical novel by Amélie Nothomb in which she describes her disastrous experience as a foreign OfficeLady in a Japanese corporation, her immediate superior is an unmarried 29-year-old woman. It's hinted that her parents are desperate to see her get married before she turns 30 (which she doesn't).
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Supertrope to MaidenAunt. All other examples should be listed here. [[SpearCounterpart Male counterparts]] to this would be the result of LonersAreFreaks, BasementDweller and YouNeedToGetLaid. Compare and contrast WhiteDwarfStarlet. But don't confuse with [[OldRetainer an actual domestic servant of advanced age or experience.]]
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Supertrope to MaidenAunt. All other examples should be listed here. [[SpearCounterpart Male counterparts]] to this would be the result of LonersAreFreaks, BasementDweller and YouNeedToGetLaid. Compare and contrast WhiteDwarfStarlet. But don't confuse with [[OldRetainer an actual domestic servant of advanced age or experience.]]
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* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': Rossweisse stresses about never even having had a boyfriend... despite being similar in age to her sudents, and a Valkyrie (later half-Devil) in a series where supernatural beings have life expectancies in the quadruple digits. Her previous employer was a DirtyOldMan who was undermining her self-esteem to improve his own chance (yes, that's ''Odin'' by the way). That said, of all of Issei's lovers/fiancees, Rossweisse is the one who dresses and acts like an adult: VagueAge aside, Rossweisse is a ''teacher''.
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* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'': Rossweisse stresses about never even having had a boyfriend... despite being similar in age to her sudents, and a Valkyrie (later half-Devil) in a series where supernatural beings have life expectancies in the quadruple digits. Her previous employer was a DirtyOldMan who was undermining her self-esteem to improve his own chance (yes, that's ''Odin'' by the way). That said, of all of Issei's lovers/fiancees, Rossweisse is the one who dresses and acts like an adult: VagueAge aside, Rossweisse is a ''teacher''.
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* ''Literature/AmericanFuji'': Alex meets a 25-year-old woman who is unhappy with her current boyfriend, but fears that if she leaves him, she will not be able to find another boyfriend. The trope is also a source of much misery for expatriate Gaby, who keeps getting lectured by older men about how, now that she's in her thirties, she should try and settle down with a man.
* ''Fear and Trembling'' is a semi-autobiographical novel by Amélie Nothomb in which she describes her disastrous experience as a foreign OfficeLady in a Japanese corporation, her immediate superior is an unmarried 29-year-old woman. It's hinted that her parents are desperate to see her get married before she turns 30 (which she doesn't).
* In the novel ''Literature/FlowerDrumSong'', Helen Chao is a plain girl who hopes to marry Ta because she's getting on in years (she's mid-twenties and unmarried!) to the degree that she gets him drunk and date rapes him. [[spoiler: When he rejects her, she kills herself rather than live as an OldMaid]]. For what it's worth, in 1950s Chinatown, laws prevented marrying outside one's ethnicity and immigration quotas meant that there were more men than women - meaning females could be very particular about who they married.
* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': Rossweisse stresses about never even having had a boyfriend... despite being similar in age to her sudents, and a Valkyrie (later half-Devil) in a series where supernatural beings have life expectancies in the quadruple digits. Her previous employer was a DirtyOldMan who was undermining her self-esteem to improve his own chance (yes, that's ''Odin'' by the way). That said, of all of Issei's lovers/fiancees, Rossweisse is the one who dresses and acts like an adult: VagueAge aside, Rossweisse is a ''teacher''.
* ''LightNovel/NoRin'': Bekki Natsumi claims to be 40 years old, but only looks to be in her mid-20's. She often makes it a point to mention her single status to her class a lot as well, which often sours their mood but also breaks up any arguments that may have been occurring too.
* ''Literature/{{Sexiled}}: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out So I Teamed Up With A Mythical Sorceress!'' Tanya, a 25 year-old mage, is unceremoniously kicked out of her adventuring party by her fellow party member Ryan. His justification? She's around the age where she should start thinking about settling down, finding a husband, and starting a family.
* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': GenderInverted: For a poor male noble like Leon, their only chance at having a decent life is to attract a wife before turning 21, and just having to hope it's not someone abusive. Otherwise, they will be CannonFodder likely to die by UriahGambit for widow pensions, or MadeASlave by the Forest of Ladies conspiracy. As such, a significant part of the story is Leon learning to throw [[TeaIsClassy the perfect tea party]] as part of these efforts. Basically, the story treats being assessed by a GoldDigger criteria as being equivalent to a woman being assessed only for her body, and uses that for a PersecutionFlip.
* ''Fear and Trembling'' is a semi-autobiographical novel by Amélie Nothomb in which she describes her disastrous experience as a foreign OfficeLady in a Japanese corporation, her immediate superior is an unmarried 29-year-old woman. It's hinted that her parents are desperate to see her get married before she turns 30 (which she doesn't).
* In the novel ''Literature/FlowerDrumSong'', Helen Chao is a plain girl who hopes to marry Ta because she's getting on in years (she's mid-twenties and unmarried!) to the degree that she gets him drunk and date rapes him. [[spoiler: When he rejects her, she kills herself rather than live as an OldMaid]]. For what it's worth, in 1950s Chinatown, laws prevented marrying outside one's ethnicity and immigration quotas meant that there were more men than women - meaning females could be very particular about who they married.
* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': Rossweisse stresses about never even having had a boyfriend... despite being similar in age to her sudents, and a Valkyrie (later half-Devil) in a series where supernatural beings have life expectancies in the quadruple digits. Her previous employer was a DirtyOldMan who was undermining her self-esteem to improve his own chance (yes, that's ''Odin'' by the way). That said, of all of Issei's lovers/fiancees, Rossweisse is the one who dresses and acts like an adult: VagueAge aside, Rossweisse is a ''teacher''.
* ''LightNovel/NoRin'': Bekki Natsumi claims to be 40 years old, but only looks to be in her mid-20's. She often makes it a point to mention her single status to her class a lot as well, which often sours their mood but also breaks up any arguments that may have been occurring too.
* ''Literature/{{Sexiled}}: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out So I Teamed Up With A Mythical Sorceress!'' Tanya, a 25 year-old mage, is unceremoniously kicked out of her adventuring party by her fellow party member Ryan. His justification? She's around the age where she should start thinking about settling down, finding a husband, and starting a family.
* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': GenderInverted: For a poor male noble like Leon, their only chance at having a decent life is to attract a wife before turning 21, and just having to hope it's not someone abusive. Otherwise, they will be CannonFodder likely to die by UriahGambit for widow pensions, or MadeASlave by the Forest of Ladies conspiracy. As such, a significant part of the story is Leon learning to throw [[TeaIsClassy the perfect tea party]] as part of these efforts. Basically, the story treats being assessed by a GoldDigger criteria as being equivalent to a woman being assessed only for her body, and uses that for a PersecutionFlip.
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* Professor Manuela from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' is a former opera diva in her mid-thirties and frequently bemoans the fact that she's getting older and thus less likely to find her true love. Dorothea, in her late-teens [[TimeSkip and then early twenties]], worries about the same thing as she pursues her own romantic interests, believing that once she gets too old, no one will care about her beauty or her BeautifulSingingVoice enough to marry and take care of her.
* Bonnie [=MacFarlane=] from ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' is only 29, but given the time period [[DeliberateValuesDissonance (1911)]] she's considered a spinster. When she gets kidnapped towards the end of the first act of the story, the InUniverse newspaper says that it can't have been for "personal" reasons (meaning rape) because she's a washed up old spinster and no man would find her attractive. She develops a crush on the protagonist John (who unbeknownst to her for a while is HappilyMarried) when he shows up as a charming and mysterious stranger to her father's ranch. The crush is so obvious that even his wife Abigail teases him about it. However, it's mentioned in the epilogue that takes place three years later that she has gotten married.
* Professor Manuela from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' is a former opera diva in her mid-thirties and frequently bemoans the fact that she's getting older and thus less likely to find her true love. Dorothea, in her late-teens [[TimeSkip and then early twenties]], worries about the same thing as she pursues her own romantic interests, believing that once she gets too old, no one will care about her beauty or her BeautifulSingingVoice enough to marry and take care of her.
* Bonnie [=MacFarlane=] from ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' is only 29, but given the time period [[DeliberateValuesDissonance (1911)]] she's considered a spinster. When she gets kidnapped towards the end of the first act of the story, the InUniverse newspaper says that it can't have been for "personal" reasons (meaning rape) because she's a washed up old spinster and no man would find her attractive. She develops a crush on the protagonist John (who unbeknownst to her for a while is HappilyMarried) when he shows up as a charming and mysterious stranger to her father's ranch. The crush is so obvious that even his wife Abigail teases him about it. However, it's mentioned in the epilogue that takes place three years later that she has gotten married.
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* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'': If the Hero doesn't marry Debora, she will complain about nobody wanting her because she is older.
* Professor Manuela from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' is a former opera diva in her mid-thirties and frequently bemoans the fact that she's getting older and thus less likely to find her true love. Dorothea, in her late-teens [[TimeSkip and then early twenties]], worries about the same thing as she pursues her own romantic interests, believing that once she gets too old, no one will care about her beauty or her BeautifulSingingVoice enough to marry and take care of her.
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'':
** One of the potential LoveInterests, Sadayo Kawakami, has a second job in a [[PlatonicProstitution Maid Service]] that requires her to put on an [[TheIngenue sweet and naive act]] for her clients. Because she's older, this makes it harder for her to pull off, and as result, she doesn't get many customers. As such, she gives this as justification for why she's ok with the Protagonist using her service, despite being his homeroom teacher. The reason she has said second job? [[spoiler: Being blackmailed by a former student's abusive guardians for money after he died in an accident, shortly after she'd been forced to stop tutoring him. As such, Joker's arc with her is to change them to break her free of her debt and renew her passion for teaching.]] She is the most hesitant entering in a relationship with Joker, with her becoming a form of mother-figure to him if their bond is platonic.
** Sae Niijima is hinted to be in her early 20s. When [[spoiler:her new boss is told that she won't be allowed to prosecute Shido]], he condescendingly reminds her that she hasn't found a husband yet, and suggests that she can use her time off to find one, which doesn't make Sae any happier about the news.
** Ichiko Ohya is one of the potential love interests. At one point during her Confidant arc, [[UndercoverAsLovers Joker pretends to be her underage boyfriend]] to her boss (to justify why she'd been so tight-lipped about her recent behavior -- she'd actually been investigating something he'd explicitly ordered her not to). He says that she's too old an unattractive for him to believe that she could possibly be going out with someone as young and good looking as Joker.
* Bonnie [=MacFarlane=] from ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' is only 29, but given the time period [[DeliberateValuesDissonance (1911)]] she's considered a spinster. When she gets kidnapped towards the end of the first act of the story, the InUniverse newspaper says that it can't have been for "personal" reasons (meaning rape) because she's a washed up old spinster and no man would find her attractive. She develops a crush on the protagonist John (who unbeknownst to her for a while is HappilyMarried) when he shows up as a charming and mysterious stranger to her father's ranch. The crush is so obvious that even his wife Abigail teases him about it. However, it's mentioned in the epilogue that takes place three years later that she has gotten married.
* The thirty year old Muffy from the ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' series is always lamenting her failure with men (one of them even dumped her specifically because of her age), and in the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS,'' her parents even try to arrange a marriage for her (in the American version, they just try setting her up on a blind date)! She's also one of the available marriage candidates in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'' and ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS'' -- in DS, she'll also eventually end up marrying Griffin if the player doesn't marry her, though in ''A Wonderful Life,'' she and Griffin will merely remain in a state of perpetual [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]].
* Raine Sage of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' makes more than one reference to worrying about her age. All the more ridiculous because, as an elf [[spoiler:or, rather, half-elf]] she'll live for about a thousand years. She can, indeed, pursue romantic involvement with the much younger main character.
* Professor Manuela from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' is a former opera diva in her mid-thirties and frequently bemoans the fact that she's getting older and thus less likely to find her true love. Dorothea, in her late-teens [[TimeSkip and then early twenties]], worries about the same thing as she pursues her own romantic interests, believing that once she gets too old, no one will care about her beauty or her BeautifulSingingVoice enough to marry and take care of her.
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'':
** One of the potential LoveInterests, Sadayo Kawakami, has a second job in a [[PlatonicProstitution Maid Service]] that requires her to put on an [[TheIngenue sweet and naive act]] for her clients. Because she's older, this makes it harder for her to pull off, and as result, she doesn't get many customers. As such, she gives this as justification for why she's ok with the Protagonist using her service, despite being his homeroom teacher. The reason she has said second job? [[spoiler: Being blackmailed by a former student's abusive guardians for money after he died in an accident, shortly after she'd been forced to stop tutoring him. As such, Joker's arc with her is to change them to break her free of her debt and renew her passion for teaching.]] She is the most hesitant entering in a relationship with Joker, with her becoming a form of mother-figure to him if their bond is platonic.
** Sae Niijima is hinted to be in her early 20s. When [[spoiler:her new boss is told that she won't be allowed to prosecute Shido]], he condescendingly reminds her that she hasn't found a husband yet, and suggests that she can use her time off to find one, which doesn't make Sae any happier about the news.
** Ichiko Ohya is one of the potential love interests. At one point during her Confidant arc, [[UndercoverAsLovers Joker pretends to be her underage boyfriend]] to her boss (to justify why she'd been so tight-lipped about her recent behavior -- she'd actually been investigating something he'd explicitly ordered her not to). He says that she's too old an unattractive for him to believe that she could possibly be going out with someone as young and good looking as Joker.
* Bonnie [=MacFarlane=] from ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' is only 29, but given the time period [[DeliberateValuesDissonance (1911)]] she's considered a spinster. When she gets kidnapped towards the end of the first act of the story, the InUniverse newspaper says that it can't have been for "personal" reasons (meaning rape) because she's a washed up old spinster and no man would find her attractive. She develops a crush on the protagonist John (who unbeknownst to her for a while is HappilyMarried) when he shows up as a charming and mysterious stranger to her father's ranch. The crush is so obvious that even his wife Abigail teases him about it. However, it's mentioned in the epilogue that takes place three years later that she has gotten married.
* The thirty year old Muffy from the ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' series is always lamenting her failure with men (one of them even dumped her specifically because of her age), and in the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS,'' her parents even try to arrange a marriage for her (in the American version, they just try setting her up on a blind date)! She's also one of the available marriage candidates in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'' and ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS'' -- in DS, she'll also eventually end up marrying Griffin if the player doesn't marry her, though in ''A Wonderful Life,'' she and Griffin will merely remain in a state of perpetual [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]].
* Raine Sage of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' makes more than one reference to worrying about her age. All the more ridiculous because, as an elf [[spoiler:or, rather, half-elf]] she'll live for about a thousand years. She can, indeed, pursue romantic involvement with the much younger main character.
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* In ''Manga/ABridesStory'', it is mentioned that the newly-wed Amir is a bit old for marriage. She's twenty, and her husband is twelve. A bit of TruthInTelevision because Asian girls at the time did tend to be married off in their early teens.
* ''Manga/CaseClosed'':
** Subverted. 28-year-old detective Miwako Satou was offered a matchup by her mother since she looked as if she MustHaveLotsOfFreeTime, and hence, would become a Christmas cake. Which turned out to cause a WeddingDeadline-like moment for her ''boyfriend'', Detective Takagi. Really not helped by how the guy Satou Sr. wanted for her daughter was Takagi's ''romantic rival'', Detective Shiratori.
** Subverted in an earlier case, too. The victim is Sayuri Matsumoto, a Christmas Cake that was Shinichi and Ran's middle school teacher, and even when she's getting married now, she's still past the "average age" of 25. [[spoiler: The would-be killer was... the groom, hell-bent with revenge since her OverprotectiveDad caused his mother's death many years ago. They ''do'' reconcile and get married for real... but only several years later.]]
** In the "Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case", the eldest daughter Nobuko not only is single while her younger sister Yasue is married and her brother Hieomi is engaged... she is already ''39''. It doesn't help that she treats her brother's girlfriend Miyuki (herself a little past the limit) like shit; her father reacts via openly citing the trope.
-->'''Nagato''': I apologize for my daughter's behavior... [[LampshadeHanging I believe she's like this since she hasn't been able to get married]].
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Conan]]''' (inner thoughts): With a personality like ''[[HairTriggerTemper th]][[JerkAss at]]'', she never will.
* A recurring ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' character is Ume Matsuzaka, the class teacher for Futaba Kindergarten's Rose Class, whose lack of a boyfriend at age 24 is a RunningGag mentioned more than once throughout the series.
* In ''Manga/GirlFriends'', Narumatsu-sensei is rather sensitive about her age, since after she mentions that she hasn't been on a date since she was in high school ten years ago, she insists that Mariko "Mari" Kumakura, one of her students, not try to calculate her age. [[spoiler:Of course, she has recently gotten married, but she's not very happy about her husband]].
* ''Anime/GregoryHorrorShow'': The Second Guest is an unmarried woman who is, if Judgement Boy's observation is true, in her late twenties/early thirties. The fact that she chose her career over her boyfriend (resulting in him breaking up with her) and that she had to watch her best friend marry the guy actually turns out to be the root of [[SanitySlippage all her mental problems.]] [[TheWoobie Poor woman...]]
* ''Happy Negative Marriage'' has a RareMaleExample, and one more focused on the social expectations than on the individual's own insecurities. Keita doesn't particularly want to be married, but the company he works for expects that men will be married by 30. Its compensation plans are set up to favor married men, project management is unofficially restricted to men who can head a family, and its singles dorm kicks out anyone who turns 31. Keita's boss also forces him into [[ArrangedMarriage a marriage interview]] at the instigation of his mother; ignoring a "request" from one's boss is tantamount to suicide. But, you know, nobody's ''forcing'' him to get married. [[spoiler: [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage Everything goes well for completely unrelated reasons]].]]
* ''Manga/HighSchoolNinjaGirlOtonashiSan'': Aya Kunitachi is still husband hunting at age thirty. To her dismay, the man she falls for, Kariya, is a {{Jerkass}} who considers her an AbhorrentAdmirer due precisely to her age, despite being 32 himself. To him, there is a significant difference between thirty years old for a man and for a woman.
* Midori from ''I'll Bring You Mille-Feuille!'' is almost twenty-seven and obsessed with finding a husband... Despite being gay. Her friend is unamused by her wants to have a [[TheBeard beard]] and states she's only hurting herself.
* ''Manga/CaseClosed'':
** Subverted. 28-year-old detective Miwako Satou was offered a matchup by her mother since she looked as if she MustHaveLotsOfFreeTime, and hence, would become a Christmas cake. Which turned out to cause a WeddingDeadline-like moment for her ''boyfriend'', Detective Takagi. Really not helped by how the guy Satou Sr. wanted for her daughter was Takagi's ''romantic rival'', Detective Shiratori.
** Subverted in an earlier case, too. The victim is Sayuri Matsumoto, a Christmas Cake that was Shinichi and Ran's middle school teacher, and even when she's getting married now, she's still past the "average age" of 25. [[spoiler: The would-be killer was... the groom, hell-bent with revenge since her OverprotectiveDad caused his mother's death many years ago. They ''do'' reconcile and get married for real... but only several years later.]]
** In the "Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case", the eldest daughter Nobuko not only is single while her younger sister Yasue is married and her brother Hieomi is engaged... she is already ''39''. It doesn't help that she treats her brother's girlfriend Miyuki (herself a little past the limit) like shit; her father reacts via openly citing the trope.
-->'''Nagato''': I apologize for my daughter's behavior... [[LampshadeHanging I believe she's like this since she hasn't been able to get married]].
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Conan]]''' (inner thoughts): With a personality like ''[[HairTriggerTemper th]][[JerkAss at]]'', she never will.
* A recurring ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' character is Ume Matsuzaka, the class teacher for Futaba Kindergarten's Rose Class, whose lack of a boyfriend at age 24 is a RunningGag mentioned more than once throughout the series.
* In ''Manga/GirlFriends'', Narumatsu-sensei is rather sensitive about her age, since after she mentions that she hasn't been on a date since she was in high school ten years ago, she insists that Mariko "Mari" Kumakura, one of her students, not try to calculate her age. [[spoiler:Of course, she has recently gotten married, but she's not very happy about her husband]].
* ''Anime/GregoryHorrorShow'': The Second Guest is an unmarried woman who is, if Judgement Boy's observation is true, in her late twenties/early thirties. The fact that she chose her career over her boyfriend (resulting in him breaking up with her) and that she had to watch her best friend marry the guy actually turns out to be the root of [[SanitySlippage all her mental problems.]] [[TheWoobie Poor woman...]]
* ''Happy Negative Marriage'' has a RareMaleExample, and one more focused on the social expectations than on the individual's own insecurities. Keita doesn't particularly want to be married, but the company he works for expects that men will be married by 30. Its compensation plans are set up to favor married men, project management is unofficially restricted to men who can head a family, and its singles dorm kicks out anyone who turns 31. Keita's boss also forces him into [[ArrangedMarriage a marriage interview]] at the instigation of his mother; ignoring a "request" from one's boss is tantamount to suicide. But, you know, nobody's ''forcing'' him to get married. [[spoiler: [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage Everything goes well for completely unrelated reasons]].]]
* ''Manga/HighSchoolNinjaGirlOtonashiSan'': Aya Kunitachi is still husband hunting at age thirty. To her dismay, the man she falls for, Kariya, is a {{Jerkass}} who considers her an AbhorrentAdmirer due precisely to her age, despite being 32 himself. To him, there is a significant difference between thirty years old for a man and for a woman.
* Midori from ''I'll Bring You Mille-Feuille!'' is almost twenty-seven and obsessed with finding a husband... Despite being gay. Her friend is unamused by her wants to have a [[TheBeard beard]] and states she's only hurting herself.
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'':
** Midnight, who is a history teacher at U.A. High, flies into a rage when Mt. Lady takes a jab at her age (she's 31) and the two end up in a CatFight in a talk show. Doesn't help that Midnight is known as the 18+ Hero (with an S&M motif) so has an obligation to maintain a sexy image.
** Pixie-Bob, a member of the Wild Wild Pussycats, gets so sensitive about her age, she grabs Midoriya by the face and tells him "I'm 18 at heart!" forcing him to agree. Moreover, she's desperate enough to "call dibs" on Midoriya, Bakugo, Iida, and Todoroki "[[JailBaitWait in three years]]." [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by teammate Mandalay when Aizawa asks about it: "She's getting desperate. She's at ''that'' age."
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Shizune, as shown in one of ''Shippuden'''s {{omake}}s where she whines about how she's unmarried at age 31, (due to having spent alot of years accompanying Tsunade and having to make sure she did not get into too much trouble) unlike Kurenai who has already a boyfriend. [[spoiler: Becomes HarsherInHindsight when said boyfriend, Asuma, dies.]]
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Touko Kuzunoha is the calm and composed Shinmeiryuu mentor of Setsuna. At least, she's calm and composed most of the time. When the scheme of the BigBad in the Mahora Festival StoryArc went off without a hitch, ruining her love life, and leaving her a future where she'll remain an unmarried 30-something, she snapped.
-->'''Kataragi:''' It could still work out...
-->'''Touko:''' I'll be in the magic world, and on top of that, an [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment ermine]]! What the ''[[SoundEffectBleep bleep]]'' kind of long-distance relationship is that!?
* ''Manga/NotLoveButDeliciousFoodsMakeMeSoHappy'': As you might expect, the protagonist Y-naga cares more about food than romance, but she still stresses about being 31 and unmarried, and struggles to find a man.
* ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'': Shinobu is in her mid-late 20s and a dedicated police captain of the Special Vehicles 1st section. As such, her mother worries about her chances of marriage, fearing she may be injured before she finds a husband. While Shinobu appreciates her mother's concern, she appears to be in no rush to get married. Though, [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple given the way she and her fellow captain, Gotoh, relate to each other]], you'd think she already ''was''.
* ''Anime/PhantomQuestCorp'': Ayaka realizes she isn't getting any younger and wonders if she'll ever find that "special someone". So she sometimes asks Madam Sumei to read her fortune, only to be told her chances are nil. Though it's {{subverted}}, since she knows Detective Karino is in love with her and she isn't above flirting with him. [[PlayingHardToGet But she doesn't make it easy for him either.]]
* ''Anime/RahXephon'': Haruka Shitow is 29 years old and has presumably remained unmarried due to still [[TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest carrying a flame]] for her childhood sweetheart [[spoiler:Ayato]], whom she lost when she was 16.
* ''Anime/ReadOrDie'': Yomiko Readman is 25 years old in the OVA, and [[spoiler:30 in the TV series]] and lives by herself in an apartment full of used books. She used to have a boyfriend/lover in Donnie Nakajima, but he died [[spoiler:...and it turns out that Yomiko was the one who sent him to his end in the manga. In the anime, it's implied Joker killed him off, though it's never explained what happened. Though, the manga clarifies that it's both: Joker arranged for Yomiko to be forced to kill Donnie. When Yomiko found out at the end of the manga, the events of the anime backstory happen.]] She still has a couple potential suitors. It's just that [[LesYay neither of them are men]].
* ''Manga/RecoveryOfAnMMOJunkie'': Moriko Morioka is 30, unmarried, and a socially awkward NEET. She believes herself, at 30, to be "practically an old maid" and wonders why any male would be interested in her, and thinks wearing a bikini is something for younger women to do, not herself.
* In ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', Mizore Shirayuki is a yuki-onna, and her race can only bear children from the mid teens to mid twenties. She is forced into an ArrangedMarriage so she can marry and have kids. She tries to escape by going to the one she is in love with, [[spoiler: stripping, tackling him, straddling him and begging him to have sex with her.]] The next three chapters show very explicitly- Mizore's problem is not that she personally wants to have children. It's the fact that her [[SacrificialLamb particular]] version of 'arranged marriage' means 'legally bound, forever, to be the SexSlave, or watch said slaver destroy your hometown and everyone in it.' Nothing justifies her [[spoiler: attempted rape]] of Tsukune, but it's understandable that she got a little crazy. (We see Mizore's fiancée sexually violating her later in the manga, incidentally. [[spoiler: It is the trauma of this that drives her to attempt suicide.]]
* ''Manga/SchoolMermaid'': The third story has a school gym teacher named Noriko join in on the mermaid hunt because she nearing 30 and desperately wants a boyfriend that's she willing to invoke the mermaid spell to get one. [[spoiler: The disturbing thing however the object of her curse is a ''school-aged boy''.]]
* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': Yor finds a man who's willing to be in a FakeRelationship with her (and later a MarriageOfConvenience), but only because an unmarried 27-year-old woman draws the scrutiny of the SecretPolice, and that's the last thing an assassin needs. However, her and Loid's marriage slowly undergoes a RomanticFakeRealTurn as they both grow to care for one another and Loid's daughter Anya.
* ''Manga/YoureMyPet'': Sumire is viewed by her coworkers with a mixture of awe and hostility for being a 28-year-old working single woman whose high education and intelligence scares away men. She does find a patient boyfriend in her first crush, Hatsumi, but in the end [[spoiler:goes the LikesOlderWomen route and hooks up with Takeshi who is 8 years her junior.]]
** Midnight, who is a history teacher at U.A. High, flies into a rage when Mt. Lady takes a jab at her age (she's 31) and the two end up in a CatFight in a talk show. Doesn't help that Midnight is known as the 18+ Hero (with an S&M motif) so has an obligation to maintain a sexy image.
** Pixie-Bob, a member of the Wild Wild Pussycats, gets so sensitive about her age, she grabs Midoriya by the face and tells him "I'm 18 at heart!" forcing him to agree. Moreover, she's desperate enough to "call dibs" on Midoriya, Bakugo, Iida, and Todoroki "[[JailBaitWait in three years]]." [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by teammate Mandalay when Aizawa asks about it: "She's getting desperate. She's at ''that'' age."
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Shizune, as shown in one of ''Shippuden'''s {{omake}}s where she whines about how she's unmarried at age 31, (due to having spent alot of years accompanying Tsunade and having to make sure she did not get into too much trouble) unlike Kurenai who has already a boyfriend. [[spoiler: Becomes HarsherInHindsight when said boyfriend, Asuma, dies.]]
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Touko Kuzunoha is the calm and composed Shinmeiryuu mentor of Setsuna. At least, she's calm and composed most of the time. When the scheme of the BigBad in the Mahora Festival StoryArc went off without a hitch, ruining her love life, and leaving her a future where she'll remain an unmarried 30-something, she snapped.
-->'''Kataragi:''' It could still work out...
-->'''Touko:''' I'll be in the magic world, and on top of that, an [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment ermine]]! What the ''[[SoundEffectBleep bleep]]'' kind of long-distance relationship is that!?
* ''Manga/NotLoveButDeliciousFoodsMakeMeSoHappy'': As you might expect, the protagonist Y-naga cares more about food than romance, but she still stresses about being 31 and unmarried, and struggles to find a man.
* ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'': Shinobu is in her mid-late 20s and a dedicated police captain of the Special Vehicles 1st section. As such, her mother worries about her chances of marriage, fearing she may be injured before she finds a husband. While Shinobu appreciates her mother's concern, she appears to be in no rush to get married. Though, [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple given the way she and her fellow captain, Gotoh, relate to each other]], you'd think she already ''was''.
* ''Anime/PhantomQuestCorp'': Ayaka realizes she isn't getting any younger and wonders if she'll ever find that "special someone". So she sometimes asks Madam Sumei to read her fortune, only to be told her chances are nil. Though it's {{subverted}}, since she knows Detective Karino is in love with her and she isn't above flirting with him. [[PlayingHardToGet But she doesn't make it easy for him either.]]
* ''Anime/RahXephon'': Haruka Shitow is 29 years old and has presumably remained unmarried due to still [[TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest carrying a flame]] for her childhood sweetheart [[spoiler:Ayato]], whom she lost when she was 16.
* ''Anime/ReadOrDie'': Yomiko Readman is 25 years old in the OVA, and [[spoiler:30 in the TV series]] and lives by herself in an apartment full of used books. She used to have a boyfriend/lover in Donnie Nakajima, but he died [[spoiler:...and it turns out that Yomiko was the one who sent him to his end in the manga. In the anime, it's implied Joker killed him off, though it's never explained what happened. Though, the manga clarifies that it's both: Joker arranged for Yomiko to be forced to kill Donnie. When Yomiko found out at the end of the manga, the events of the anime backstory happen.]] She still has a couple potential suitors. It's just that [[LesYay neither of them are men]].
* ''Manga/RecoveryOfAnMMOJunkie'': Moriko Morioka is 30, unmarried, and a socially awkward NEET. She believes herself, at 30, to be "practically an old maid" and wonders why any male would be interested in her, and thinks wearing a bikini is something for younger women to do, not herself.
* In ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', Mizore Shirayuki is a yuki-onna, and her race can only bear children from the mid teens to mid twenties. She is forced into an ArrangedMarriage so she can marry and have kids. She tries to escape by going to the one she is in love with, [[spoiler: stripping, tackling him, straddling him and begging him to have sex with her.]] The next three chapters show very explicitly- Mizore's problem is not that she personally wants to have children. It's the fact that her [[SacrificialLamb particular]] version of 'arranged marriage' means 'legally bound, forever, to be the SexSlave, or watch said slaver destroy your hometown and everyone in it.' Nothing justifies her [[spoiler: attempted rape]] of Tsukune, but it's understandable that she got a little crazy. (We see Mizore's fiancée sexually violating her later in the manga, incidentally. [[spoiler: It is the trauma of this that drives her to attempt suicide.]]
* ''Manga/SchoolMermaid'': The third story has a school gym teacher named Noriko join in on the mermaid hunt because she nearing 30 and desperately wants a boyfriend that's she willing to invoke the mermaid spell to get one. [[spoiler: The disturbing thing however the object of her curse is a ''school-aged boy''.]]
* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': Yor finds a man who's willing to be in a FakeRelationship with her (and later a MarriageOfConvenience), but only because an unmarried 27-year-old woman draws the scrutiny of the SecretPolice, and that's the last thing an assassin needs. However, her and Loid's marriage slowly undergoes a RomanticFakeRealTurn as they both grow to care for one another and Loid's daughter Anya.
* ''Manga/YoureMyPet'': Sumire is viewed by her coworkers with a mixture of awe and hostility for being a 28-year-old working single woman whose high education and intelligence scares away men. She does find a patient boyfriend in her first crush, Hatsumi, but in the end [[spoiler:goes the LikesOlderWomen route and hooks up with Takeshi who is 8 years her junior.]]
* In ''Film/LateSpring'' (1949) and ''Film/EarlySummer'', two films by Creator/YasujiroOzu, Creator/SetsukoHara plays a woman in her late 20s named Noriko who is unmarried. She is pretty much OK with being unmarried, but in both movies her family thinks that this is a major problem, and they decide to make an ArrangedMarriage. In both she gets matched up basically against her will to an older man the audience never sees. The difference is the ending; one is a DownerEnding in which she's badgered and pressured into going through with the marriage, while the other is a less depressing ending in which she instead marries a different man she has genuine feelings for.
* ''Series/ADifferentWorld''. When the girls go out to celebrate Whitley's birthday, Freddy's order is described by the waitress as "the spinster special". When Freddy takes offense to the name, the waitress snarks back, "You got a man?" At this point, Jalesa sheepishly declares, "Better make that ''two'' spinster specials." When the waitress asks if anyone else wants it, ''all'' of the women in the group raise their hands.
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* Miss Prissy from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''. Many of her appearances involve her trying to snag Foghorn Leghorn as a husband, by hook or by crook. [[RollingPinOfDoom Or by rolling pin.]]
* Patty and Selma from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. They were shown to be (for the most part) rather content with their lives, until their MaidenAunt Gladys passed away and (despite opening her video will with a reading of "The Road Less Traveled" by Creator/RobertFrost), implored them to find husbands and not [[DyingAlone die alone]] like her. (She even gave Selma her grandfather clock as [[VisualPun a reminder]] that [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking her biological clock is ticking]]. Selma takes this as intended, while Patty just views it at face value.) Selma begins a ''desperate'' search for a husband (and though she ''does'' find several, all her marriages end in divorce). Patty doesn't seem to care much about finding a man, and it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler: [[ComingOutStory she's a lesbian]]]]. Both of them were often depicted as [[HollywoodHomely hideously ugly]], with revolting personalities to match, and voices that were unattractively deep and raspy. (Partly because it's InTheBlood, and partly because of decades' worth of heavy smoking.) Their aunt Gladys was even mistaken for a man at her open-casket funeral! (She was also shown to be something of a CloudCuckoolander in her video will, such as keeping a pet iguana that she held like a baby, and referring to a bunch of irregularly-shaped potato chips as her "children.") It's also revealed that at least ''part'' of their intense dislike and maltreatment of Homer stems from resentment that their younger sister got married before they did.
* Miss Censordoll of ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel''. To make it worse, even though she's only 40, she looks even ''older'' than that. [[spoiler: It's implied that having her reproductive organs removed as an infant caused her to age badly.]]
* Miss Prissy from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''. Many of her appearances involve her trying to snag Foghorn Leghorn as a husband, by hook or by crook. [[RollingPinOfDoom Or by rolling pin.]]
* Patty and Selma from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. They were shown to be (for the most part) rather content with their lives, until their MaidenAunt Gladys passed away and (despite opening her video will with a reading of "The Road Less Traveled" by Creator/RobertFrost), implored them to find husbands and not [[DyingAlone die alone]] like her. (She even gave Selma her grandfather clock as [[VisualPun a reminder]] that [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking her biological clock is ticking]]. Selma takes this as intended, while Patty just views it at face value.) Selma begins a ''desperate'' search for a husband (and though she ''does'' find several, all her marriages end in divorce). Patty doesn't seem to care much about finding a man, and it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler: [[ComingOutStory she's a lesbian]]]]. Both of them were often depicted as [[HollywoodHomely hideously ugly]], with revolting personalities to match, and voices that were unattractively deep and raspy. (Partly because it's InTheBlood, and partly because of decades' worth of heavy smoking.) Their aunt Gladys was even mistaken for a man at her open-casket funeral! (She was also shown to be something of a CloudCuckoolander in her video will, such as keeping a pet iguana that she held like a baby, and referring to a bunch of irregularly-shaped potato chips as her "children.") It's also revealed that at least ''part'' of their intense dislike and maltreatment of Homer stems from resentment that their younger sister got married before they did.
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* Patty and Selma from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. They were shown to be (for the most part) rather content with their lives, until their MaidenAunt Gladys passed away and (despite opening her video will with a reading of "The Road Less Traveled" by Creator/RobertFrost), implored them to find husbands and not [[DyingAlone die alone]] like her. (She even gave Selma her grandfather clock as [[VisualPun a reminder]] that [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking her biological clock is ticking]]. Selma takes this as intended, while Patty just views it at face value.) Selma begins a ''desperate'' search for a husband (and though she ''does'' find several, all her marriages end in divorce). Patty doesn't seem to care much about finding a man, and it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler: [[ComingOutStory
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* In China, women who are unmarried past the age of 27 are called "sheng nu", or [[http://shanghaiist.com/2013/02/05/chinese_women_spend_thousands_of_yu.php "leftover women"]] even in ''state-run media''.
* This trope inspired the name for [[https://talesofthecocktail.com/recipes/social-stigma a cocktail]] consisting of muddled strawberries, light rum, cognac, pear liqueur, vanilla syrup, lime juice, and egg white (for body). Originally, it was called "The Bachelor", but it was more popular with women (particularly older single women), so it was renamed "The Spinster". When one customer complained to the bartender that he "might as well call it the Social Stigma", the name stuck.
* The oft-quoted [[http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/terrorist.asp article from 1985]] about a study (now recognized as ''severely'' flawed [[note]]The study looked only at white, college-educated women of the Baby-Boomer generation who had never been previously married, and it used a parametric model, which was meant for making sense of the past, not predicting future events. It also looked primarily at census data, meaning it did not account for cohabitation, which was becoming more and more popular at the time.[[/note]] ) that states that a woman over the age of 30 has a better chance of getting killed by a terrorist than of getting married.
* In China, women who are unmarried past the age of 27 are called "sheng nu", or [[http://shanghaiist.com/2013/02/05/chinese_women_spend_thousands_of_yu.php "leftover women"]] even in ''state-run media''.
* This trope inspired the name for [[https://talesofthecocktail.com/recipes/social-stigma a cocktail]] consisting of muddled strawberries, light rum, cognac, pear liqueur, vanilla syrup, lime juice, and egg white (for body). Originally, it was called "The Bachelor", but it was more popular with women (particularly older single women), so it was renamed "The Spinster". When one customer complained to the bartender that he "might as well call it the Social Stigma", the name stuck.
* The oft-quoted [[http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/terrorist.asp article from 1985]] about a study (now recognized as ''severely'' flawed [[note]]The study looked only at white, college-educated women of the Baby-Boomer generation who had never been previously married, and it used a parametric model, which was meant for making sense of the past, not predicting future events. It also looked primarily at census data, meaning it did not account for cohabitation, which was becoming more and more popular at the time.[[/note]] ) that states that a woman over the age of 30 has a better chance of getting killed by a terrorist than of getting married.
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* Miss Censordoll of ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel''. To make it worse, even though she's only 40, she looks even ''older'' than that. [[spoiler: It's implied that having her reproductive organs removed as an infant caused her to age badly.]]
* Miss Prissy from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''. Many of her appearances involve her trying to snag Foghorn Leghorn as a husband, by hook or by crook. [[RollingPinOfDoom Or by rolling pin.]]
* Patty and Selma from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. They were shown to be (for the most part) rather content with their lives, until their MaidenAunt Gladys passed away and (despite opening her video will with a reading of "The Road Less Traveled" by Creator/RobertFrost), implored them to find husbands and not [[DyingAlone die alone]] like her. (She even gave Selma her grandfather clock as [[VisualPun a reminder]] that [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking her biological clock is ticking]]. Selma takes this as intended, while Patty just views it at face value.) Selma begins a ''desperate'' search for a husband (and though she ''does'' find several, all her marriages end in divorce). Patty doesn't seem to care much about finding a man, and it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler: [[ComingOutStory she's a lesbian]]]]. Both of them were often depicted as [[HollywoodHomely hideously ugly]], with revolting personalities to match, and voices that were unattractively deep and raspy. (Partly because it's InTheBlood, and partly because of decades' worth of heavy smoking.) Their aunt Gladys was even mistaken for a man at her open-casket funeral! (She was also shown to be something of a CloudCuckoolander in her video will, such as keeping a pet iguana that she held like a baby, and referring to a bunch of irregularly-shaped potato chips as her "children.") It's also revealed that at least ''part'' of their intense dislike and maltreatment of Homer stems from resentment that their younger sister got married before they did.
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* In China, women who are unmarried past the age of 27 are called "sheng nu", or [[http://shanghaiist.com/2013/02/05/chinese_women_spend_thousands_of_yu.php "leftover women"]] even in ''state-run media''.
* This trope inspired the name for [[https://talesofthecocktail.com/recipes/social-stigma a cocktail]] consisting of muddled strawberries, light rum, cognac, pear liqueur, vanilla syrup, lime juice, and egg white (for body). Originally, it was called "The Bachelor", but it was more popular with women (particularly older single women), so it was renamed "The Spinster". When one customer complained to the bartender that he "might as well call it the Social Stigma", the name stuck.
* The oft-quoted [[http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/terrorist.asp article from 1985]] about a study (now recognized as ''severely'' flawed [[note]]The study looked only at white, college-educated women of the Baby-Boomer generation who had never been previously married, and it used a parametric model, which was meant for making sense of the past, not predicting future events. It also looked primarily at census data, meaning it did not account for cohabitation, which was becoming more and more popular at the time.[[/note]] ) that states that a woman over the age of 30 has a better chance of getting killed by a terrorist than of getting married.
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* Miss Censordoll of ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel''. To make it worse, even though she's only 40, she looks even ''older'' than that. [[spoiler: It's implied that having her reproductive organs removed as an infant caused her to age badly.]]
* Miss Prissy from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''. Many of her appearances involve her trying to snag Foghorn Leghorn as a husband, by hook or by crook. [[RollingPinOfDoom Or by rolling pin.]]
* Patty and Selma from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. They were shown to be (for the most part) rather content with their lives, until their MaidenAunt Gladys passed away and (despite opening her video will with a reading of "The Road Less Traveled" by Creator/RobertFrost), implored them to find husbands and not [[DyingAlone die alone]] like her. (She even gave Selma her grandfather clock as [[VisualPun a reminder]] that [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking her biological clock is ticking]]. Selma takes this as intended, while Patty just views it at face value.) Selma begins a ''desperate'' search for a husband (and though she ''does'' find several, all her marriages end in divorce). Patty doesn't seem to care much about finding a man, and it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler: [[ComingOutStory she's a lesbian]]]]. Both of them were often depicted as [[HollywoodHomely hideously ugly]], with revolting personalities to match, and voices that were unattractively deep and raspy. (Partly because it's InTheBlood, and partly because of decades' worth of heavy smoking.) Their aunt Gladys was even mistaken for a man at her open-casket funeral! (She was also shown to be something of a CloudCuckoolander in her video will, such as keeping a pet iguana that she held like a baby, and referring to a bunch of irregularly-shaped potato chips as her "children.") It's also revealed that at least ''part'' of their intense dislike and maltreatment of Homer stems from resentment that their younger sister got married before they did.
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* In China, women who are unmarried past the age of 27 are called "sheng nu", or [[http://shanghaiist.com/2013/02/05/chinese_women_spend_thousands_of_yu.php "leftover women"]] even in ''state-run media''.
* This trope inspired the name for [[https://talesofthecocktail.com/recipes/social-stigma a cocktail]] consisting of muddled strawberries, light rum, cognac, pear liqueur, vanilla syrup, lime juice, and egg white (for body). Originally, it was called "The Bachelor", but it was more popular with women (particularly older single women), so it was renamed "The Spinster". When one customer complained to the bartender that he "might as well call it the Social Stigma", the name stuck.
* The oft-quoted [[http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/terrorist.asp article from 1985]] about a study (now recognized as ''severely'' flawed [[note]]The study looked only at white, college-educated women of the Baby-Boomer generation who had never been previously married, and it used a parametric model, which was meant for making sense of the past, not predicting future events. It also looked primarily at census data, meaning it did not account for cohabitation, which was becoming more and more popular at the time.[[/note]] ) that states that a woman over the age of 30 has a better chance of getting killed by a terrorist than of getting married.
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* ''Manga/AsobiAsobase'': Chisato Higuchi isn't that old, but she has a huge complex over not being married yet (especially considering three-fifths of her female friends during high school are already married), and at one point notes that she's older than her mother was when she gave birth to her. A RunningGag consists of her having Music/FelixMendelssohn's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_March_(Mendelssohn) Wedding March]] as her phone's ring tone, further showing how fixated she is on the issue.
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* ''Manga/LuckyStar'': The main characters' world history teacher, [[SenseiChan Nanako Kuroi]], is 27 years old and is secretly insecure about still being single. She mistakenly assumes that Konata's cousin Yui is also single and attempts to bond with her over it, even though Yui is actually in a commuter marriage.
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* Chilean night SoapOpera ''Soltera otra vez'' (''Single again'') has a ChristmasCake named Cristina as the main character, following her in her search for a new flame and her interactions with others. The radio ads for the series took the trope and ran away with it, too.
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* Straight example with Cristina, the main character of Chilean night SoapOpera ''Soltera otra vez'' (''Single again'') has a ChristmasCake named again''). The series follows Cristina as the main character, following her in her search for a new flame and her interactions with others. The radio ads for the series took the trope and ran away with it, too.
* Discussed on ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Not only is middle-aged [[ActionGirl Brienne of Tarth]] unmarried and never been in love, she had never even had sex before falling in love with Jamie. Before him, the few men who approached the subject with her were either [[AbhorrentAdmirer not her type]] or [[AttemptedRape not concerned about her consent]]. However, occasional hints are dropped that she may be asexual rather than unlucky in love, with a SingleTargetSexuality towards Jamie.
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* Discussed on ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Not only is middle-aged [[ActionGirl Brienne of Tarth]] unmarried and never been in love, she had never even had sex before falling in love with Jamie. Before him, the few men who approached the subject with her were either [[AbhorrentAdmirer not her type]] or [[AttemptedRape not concerned about her consent]]. However, occasional hints are dropped that she may be asexual rather than unlucky in love, with a SingleTargetSexuality towards Jamie.
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* Grandfather Antonio brings up this trope when he is discussing cousin Patria's marriage prospects:
-->'''Antonio''' ''(in Spanish)'': Those who wait too long have to settle for choosing among the discarded ones or...the so-so ones[[note]]Original: "Las que esperan mucho tienen que conformarse con escoger entre los descartados... o los "medio-medios"[[\note]].
-->'''Antonio''' ''(in Spanish)'': Those who wait too long have to settle for choosing among the discarded ones or...the so-so ones[[note]]Original: "Las que esperan mucho tienen que conformarse con escoger entre los descartados... o los "medio-medios"[[\note]].
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* ''22'' in which Lily Allen laments for her 30-year-old protagonist:
--> It's sad but it's true how society says her life is already over,
--> There's nothing to do and there's nothing to say,
--> Until the man of her dreams comes along picks her up and puts her over his shoulder,
--> It seems so unlikely in this day and age.
--> It's sad but it's true how society says her life is already over,
--> There's nothing to do and there's nothing to say,
--> Until the man of her dreams comes along picks her up and puts her over his shoulder,
--> It seems so unlikely in this day and age.
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* ''22'' in which Lily Allen Music/LilyAllen laments for her 30-year-old protagonist:
--> It's sad but it's true how society says her life is alreadyover,
-->over,\\
There's nothing to do and there's nothing tosay,
-->say,\\
Until the man of her dreams comes along picks her up and puts her over hisshoulder,
-->shoulder,\\
It seems so unlikely in this day and age.
--> It's sad but it's true how society says her life is already
-->
There's nothing to do and there's nothing to
-->
Until the man of her dreams comes along picks her up and puts her over his
-->
It seems so unlikely in this day and age.
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--> I'll take my stool and sit in the shade,
--> for I'm determined to be an Old Maid,
--> and I'll not marry at all, at all,
--> and I'll not marry at all.
--> for I'm determined to be an Old Maid,
--> and I'll not marry at all, at all,
--> and I'll not marry at all.
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--> I'll take my stool and sit in the shade,
-->shade,\\
for I'm determined to be an OldMaid,
-->Maid,\\
and I'll not marry at all, atall,
-->all,\\
and I'll not marry at all.
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for I'm determined to be an Old
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and I'll not marry at all, at
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and I'll not marry at all.
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---> ''and later, when Frederic asks Ruth herself:''
-->'''Frederic:''' Compared with other women, are you beautiful?
-->'''Ruth:''' I have been told so, dear master.
-->'''Frederic:''' Ah, but ''lately''?
-->'''Ruth:''' Oh, no; years and years ago.
-->'''Frederic:''' Compared with other women, are you beautiful?
-->'''Ruth:''' I have been told so, dear master.
-->'''Frederic:''' Ah, but ''lately''?
-->'''Ruth:''' Oh, no; years and years ago.
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-->'''Frederic:'''
--->'''Frederic:''' Compared with other women, are you
-->'''Ruth:'''
'''Ruth:''' I have been told so, dear
-->'''Frederic:'''
'''Frederic:''' Ah, but
-->'''Ruth:'''
'''Ruth:''' Oh, no; years and years ago.
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* '"Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Despite being at least in her mid-20s, Yukari implies that she's never been in any romantic or sexual relationships, which clearly bothers her. She once gives her class a pop quiz just because one of her friends got married. The next day, however, she seems smug that her friend had apparently "rushed into things". This is in sharp contrast to Nyamo, who [[InVinoVeritas drunkenly]] reveals that she has a ''very'' [[ReallyGetsAround storied past]] in this regard... and yet, she's also single throughout the series, to her dismay. This trait is generally less present in the manga compared to the anime, which dedicates a whole episode to Yukari and Nyamo's marriage woes.
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* '"Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Despite being at least in her mid-20s, Yukari implies that she's never been in any romantic or sexual relationships, which clearly bothers her. She once gives her class a pop quiz just because one of her friends got married. The next day, however, she seems smug that her friend had apparently "rushed into things". This is in sharp contrast to Nyamo, who [[InVinoVeritas drunkenly]] reveals that she has a ''very'' [[ReallyGetsAround storied past]] in this regard... and yet, she's also single throughout the series, to her dismay. This trait is generally less present in the manga compared to the anime, which dedicates a whole episode to Yukari and Nyamo's marriage woes.
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* '"Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Despite being at least in her mid-20s, Yukari implies that she's never been in any romantic or sexual relationships, which clearly bothers her. She once gives her class a pop quiz just because one of her friends got married. The next day, however, she seems smug that her friend had apparently "rushed into things". This is in sharp contrast to Nyamo, who [[InVinoVeritas drunkenly]] reveals that she has a ''very'' [[ReallyGetsAround storied past]] in this regard... and yet, she's also single throughout the series, to her dismay. This trait is generally less present in the manga compared to the anime, which dedicates a whole episode to Yukari and Nyamo's marriage woes.
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* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''
** Katarina's personal maid Anne is in her early 20s and approaching the point where women find it difficult to marry. Katarina and her father, Duke Claes, are both worried about her not being able to get married, so when Anne's father comes with a marriage partner the duke is relieved. However, Katarina can't bear to part from her maid and close friend and begs her not to go, leaving Anne to call it off. However, Anne is secretly relieved because even apart from her proposed fiancee being a creep, she doesn't like her own father and didn't want to get married in the first place. She's much happier serving Katarina and truly adores her, so becoming an old maid isn't just okay, it's actually what she wants. If she doesn't marry she can stay with Katarina forever.
** The head maid is a straighter example. She wasn't as pretty or outgoing as her sisters, so she focused on her career instead. When she got promoted to head maid she focused even harder to show she deserved the job. Before she knew it, she had become the strict no-fun boss that nobody really likes even though she's actually quite a kind person and has lots of girly hobbies like making sweets. Katarina helps her open up a little and, unlike Anne, she ''was'' rather lonely and is surprised to find a young gardener courting her not long after.
** Katarina's personal maid Anne is in her early 20s and approaching the point where women find it difficult to marry. Katarina and her father, Duke Claes, are both worried about her not being able to get married, so when Anne's father comes with a marriage partner the duke is relieved. However, Katarina can't bear to part from her maid and close friend and begs her not to go, leaving Anne to call it off. However, Anne is secretly relieved because even apart from her proposed fiancee being a creep, she doesn't like her own father and didn't want to get married in the first place. She's much happier serving Katarina and truly adores her, so becoming an old maid isn't just okay, it's actually what she wants. If she doesn't marry she can stay with Katarina forever.
** The head maid is a straighter example. She wasn't as pretty or outgoing as her sisters, so she focused on her career instead. When she got promoted to head maid she focused even harder to show she deserved the job. Before she knew it, she had become the strict no-fun boss that nobody really likes even though she's actually quite a kind person and has lots of girly hobbies like making sweets. Katarina helps her open up a little and, unlike Anne, she ''was'' rather lonely and is surprised to find a young gardener courting her not long after.
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* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''
** Katarina's personal maid Anne is in her early 20s and approaching the point where women find it difficult to marry. Katarina and her father, Duke Claes, are both worried about her not being able to get married, so when Anne's father comes with a marriage partner the duke is relieved. However, Katarina can't bear to part from her maid and close friend and begs her not to go, leaving Anne to call it off. However, Anne is secretly relieved because even apart from her proposed fiancee being a creep, she doesn't like her own father and didn't want to get married in the first place. She's much happier serving Katarina and truly adores her, so becoming an old maid isn't just okay, it's actually what she wants. If she doesn't marry she can stay with Katarina forever.
** The head maid is a straighter example. She wasn't as pretty or outgoing as her sisters, so she focused on her career instead. When she got promoted to head maid she focused even harder to show she deserved the job. Before she knew it, she had become the strict no-fun boss that nobody really likes even though she's actually quite a kind person and has lots of girly hobbies like making sweets. Katarina helps her open up a little and, unlike Anne, she ''was'' rather lonely and is surprised to find a young gardener courting her not long after.
** Katarina's personal maid Anne is in her early 20s and approaching the point where women find it difficult to marry. Katarina and her father, Duke Claes, are both worried about her not being able to get married, so when Anne's father comes with a marriage partner the duke is relieved. However, Katarina can't bear to part from her maid and close friend and begs her not to go, leaving Anne to call it off. However, Anne is secretly relieved because even apart from her proposed fiancee being a creep, she doesn't like her own father and didn't want to get married in the first place. She's much happier serving Katarina and truly adores her, so becoming an old maid isn't just okay, it's actually what she wants. If she doesn't marry she can stay with Katarina forever.
** The head maid is a straighter example. She wasn't as pretty or outgoing as her sisters, so she focused on her career instead. When she got promoted to head maid she focused even harder to show she deserved the job. Before she knew it, she had become the strict no-fun boss that nobody really likes even though she's actually quite a kind person and has lots of girly hobbies like making sweets. Katarina helps her open up a little and, unlike Anne, she ''was'' rather lonely and is surprised to find a young gardener courting her not long after.
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* Professor Manuela from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' is a former opera diva in her mid-thirties and frequently bemoans the fact that she's getting older and thus less likely to find her true love. Dorothea, in her late-teens [[TimeSkip and then early twenties]], worries about the same thing as she pursues her own romantic interests, believing that once she gets too old, no one will care about her beauty or her BeautifulSingingVoice enough to marry and take care of her.
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* ''Literature/TheYoungDiana'':
** The titular protagonist is a spinster in her forties who lives with her parents. When she was a young woman, she was strung along for seven years by a man who eventually abandoned her, and was unable to find another one before she became too old to be considered marriageable. Her parents are desperately ashamed of her, no matter how hard she works around the house to make them comfortable.
** Diana's friend Sophy Lansing is a happily unmarried thirty-five-year-old suffragette who is grateful to have escaped the AwfulWeddedLife of many of her friends.
** The titular protagonist is a spinster in her forties who lives with her parents. When she was a young woman, she was strung along for seven years by a man who eventually abandoned her, and was unable to find another one before she became too old to be considered marriageable. Her parents are desperately ashamed of her, no matter how hard she works around the house to make them comfortable.
** Diana's friend Sophy Lansing is a happily unmarried thirty-five-year-old suffragette who is grateful to have escaped the AwfulWeddedLife of many of her friends.
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* Katherine Hepburn fit this trope in at least three different leading roles: ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'', ''Film/{{Summertime}}'' and ''Film/TheRainmaker''.
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* Katherine Hepburn fit this trope in at least three different leading roles: ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'', ''Film/{{Summertime}}'' and ''Film/TheRainmaker''.''Film/TheRainmaker1956''.
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* Katherine Hepburn fit this trope in at least three different leading roles: ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'', ''Summertime'' and ''The Rainmaker''.
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* Katherine Hepburn fit this trope in at least three different leading roles: ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'', ''Summertime'' ''Film/{{Summertime}}'' and ''The Rainmaker''.''Film/TheRainmaker''.
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* ''Manga/MrRightTurnedOutToBeAYoungerWoman'' stars Haruki Shiina, a 33-year-old woman who is desperate to find a boyfriend while she still can, not to mention sensitive at how Risa Takagai, a woman ten years her junior, is already about as good at her job as she is. While Haruki is treated sympathetically overall, her desperation sometimes leads her to make rash decisions, and is implied to have ended her relationship with her last boyfriend.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In the [[{{Filler}} anime]], Rangiku Matsumoto's age is a very sore point for her, with one filler episode going so far as to even create a male version for the sole purpose of having one [[BrattyHalfPint kid]] press two {{berserk button}}s by referring to Rangiku as "oba-san" and Yumichika as "o-san" in the same conversation. The anime later takes Rangiku's age references even further by making it such a big issue in the Zanpakutou Arc that it's actually the reason why Rangiku's zanpakutou, Haineko, is angry with her. Averted in the manga, where it's never an issue for either Rangiku or Yumichika, making it an anime-only trope.
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* Ellen Mary Jakes from ''Literature/TheHampdenshireWonder'' narrowly escapes this fate, being so plain that she is still single at forty-two. She has resigned herself to spinsterhood when she learns that former cricket champion George "Ginger" Stott is looking for a wife in order to have a son he can train into a great cricket player. She goes up to him and makes her case for why he should marry her, and Ginger, who is borderline asexual and willing to marry any woman who can give him a child, agrees.
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* ''Literature/RosaleenAmongTheArtists'':
** Rosaleen is adopted as a child by three middle-aged siblings: Morton, Amy, and Julie Humbert. None of them ever married.
** As Nick's cousin Caroline reaches her late twenties, she becomes increasingly afraid that this fate will befall her. Her greatest desire is for a husband, but while many men are attracted to her, none of them want to marry her.
** Rosaleen is adopted as a child by three middle-aged siblings: Morton, Amy, and Julie Humbert. None of them ever married.
** As Nick's cousin Caroline reaches her late twenties, she becomes increasingly afraid that this fate will befall her. Her greatest desire is for a husband, but while many men are attracted to her, none of them want to marry her.
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When a female character reaches a certain vaguely-defined age threshold (anywhere from 25-40, depending on whom you ask), she will eventually be subjected to the most terrible of insults: '''"Old Maid"'''. The underlying assumption is, of course, that [[NeverASelfMadeWoman a woman's value exists only in how successfully she serves and pleases her husband and family]], so a woman who is unable to snag a husband is [[LoserProtagonist a pathetic worthless failure at life]] who deserves contempt and ridicule, particularly in older stories from times where traditional gender roles were more strongly enforced. A woman doesn't even have to be called an old maid outright to be threatened; even the hint that someday she ''might become'' an old maid -- usually because she's not acting in a [[AcceptableFeminineGoals sufficiently conformist]] way -- is enough to make her either conform or fall into despair.
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When a single female character reaches a certain vaguely-defined age threshold (anywhere from 25-40, depending on whom you ask), she will eventually be subjected to the most terrible of insults: '''"Old Maid"'''. The underlying assumption is, of course, that [[NeverASelfMadeWoman a woman's value exists only in how successfully she serves and pleases her husband and family]], so a woman who is unable to snag a husband is [[LoserProtagonist a pathetic worthless failure at life]] who deserves contempt and ridicule, particularly in older stories from times where traditional gender roles were more strongly enforced. A woman doesn't even have to be called an old maid outright to be threatened; even the hint that someday she ''might become'' an old maid -- usually because she's not acting in a [[AcceptableFeminineGoals sufficiently conformist]] way -- is enough to make her either conform or fall into despair.
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Why did I add Linking To An Article Within The Article? Whoops; I was kind of asleep at the wheel when I wrote that. Also rewording this since it's a supertrope.
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MaidenAunt is another variant of OldMaid. All other examples should be listed here. [[SpearCounterpart Male counterparts]] to this would be the result of LonersAreFreaks, BasementDweller and YouNeedToGetLaid. Compare and contrast WhiteDwarfStarlet. But don't confuse with [[OldRetainer an actual domestic servant of advanced age or experience.]]
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Old Maid is a [[{{supertrope}} parent trope]] to the following {{subtrope}}s:
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* ChristmasCake: Japanese consider 25 to be a defined moment in which women become "Old" Maids. (Note this may not be TruthInTelevision, but the term is strictly defined and commonly used in the culture.)
* MaidenAunt: Old Maids who have remained unmarried and (theoretically) virginal into their twilight years, transferring their resources and familial affection to their siblings' children.
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All other examples should be listed here. [[SpearCounterpart Male counterparts]] to this would be the result of LonersAreFreaks, BasementDweller and YouNeedToGetLaid. Compare and contrast WhiteDwarfStarlet. But don't confuse with [[OldRetainer an actual domestic servant of advanced age or experience.]]
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* ChristmasCake: Japanese consider 25 to be a defined moment in which women become "Old" Maids. (Note this may not be TruthInTelevision, but the term is strictly defined and commonly used in the culture.)
* MaidenAunt: Old Maids who have remained unmarried and (theoretically) virginal into their twilight years, transferring their resources and familial affection to their siblings' children.
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All other examples should be listed here. [[SpearCounterpart Male counterparts]] to this would be the result of LonersAreFreaks, BasementDweller and YouNeedToGetLaid. Compare and contrast WhiteDwarfStarlet. But don't confuse with [[OldRetainer an actual domestic servant of advanced age or experience.]]
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* ChristmasCake: Japanese consider 25 to be a defined moment in which women become "Old" Maids. (Note this may not be TruthInTelevision, but the term is strictly defined and commonly used in the culture.)
* MaidenAunt: Old Maids who have remained unmarried and (theoretically) virginal into their twilight years, transferring their resources and familial affection to their siblings' children.
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