History Main / ReallySevenHundredYearsOld

** Lunarians are canonically ReallySevenHundredYearsOld in respect to their age but young in appearance, all of them. "[[BossSubtitles Brain of the Moon]]" Eirin Yagokoro is said to be [[UpToEleven old even by their standards]] and says of herself that [[TimeAbyss her true age]], divided by 500, would mathematically be equivalent to [[DivideByZero zero]].

* Evangeline from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' was turned into a vampire when she was about ten and consequently has not aged at all in the hundreds of years since. She actually expresses a desire to become and be seen as a beautiful, mature woman rather than a child, and projects an illusion of such a form whenever she can.

* Son Goku in ''{{Saiyuki}}'' was been imprisoned in a rock for 500 years without aging before being freed by Sanzo. Goku's apparent age is supposed to be 18, but he looks 12.

* The Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho'' currently looks to be in his mid-twenties (or even younger), but is over a thousand. Stated onscreen as 1103 as of 2011, though {{Fanon}} maintains that it's been well into the quadruple digits long before that, with his age ''decreased'' from 953 to 900 in 2005. It's often assumed he's lying about his age. StevenMoffat [[WordOfGod has said]] that the Doctor doesn't ''actually'' know his true age.

* In John Ringo's ''CouncilWars'' series, Bast the Wood Elf is over a thousand years old but looks 14. A very well developed 14 mind you if the cover art is anything to go by.

* [[spoiler:Knuckles]] in ''SonicTheComic''. He was born [[spoiler:during Tikal's time]], which was several hundred years before the beginning of the story. He was put into suspended animation for those years.

*** Most history monks don't bother with reincarnation. It's the ''Abbot'' who can't get the hang of "circular aging"...

* Used in Creator/DavidEddings' ''Literature/{{Belgariad}}'', where all the sorcerers are at least 3,000 years old. Nobody points out that when Polgara [[spoiler:marries Durnik, who is around thirty, that he is approximately one hundredth of her age. Of course, a few pages after the wedding we learn that he, too, is now a sorcerer, so all's well and good. Or something like that.]]

** Also, the dryads from the same series. There's a fairly hilarious scene towards the end of the series when one character learns Garion and Ce'Nedra are likely to be young and, er, fruitful for a long, long time.

* The trope name is pretty much exactly true for Caerula Sanguis from ''[[{{Gunnm}} Battle Angel Alita: Last Order]]''. Her age is actually quite significant. She has spent most of them learning and refining both her [[LadyofWar wu shu straightsword techniques]] and her [[BatmanGambit comprehensive combat strategies]] in the service of protecting humankind.

* [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} Ra's al Ghul]] looks to be about in his 50s, but is really over 600 years old. This is due to his continuous revivals in the Lazarus pits (magical pools of... stuff... that can restore the dead to life).

* The vast majority of the depictions of {{Superman}} in any future time period show that he ages significantly slower than humans do. In the elseworld's tale "Generations" Superman does fit this trope, Batman gets in on the act as well and Superman's granddaughters do as well (in fact, one of them is stuck in her early teens for over a century before finally getting it fixed so that she can age to adulthood.)

* ''SonicUnleashed'' has [[spoiler:Light Gaia AKA Chip]] who is the same age as the Earth.

* OffWhite: The wolves Sköll and his brother Hati are at least over 300 years old. Yes, it's [[NorseMythology that Sköll and Hati.]]

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue's'' local ElegantGothicLolita {{Vampire}}, Rachel Alucard is at least 100 years old physically. By the True End of ''Calamity Trigger'', [[spoiler:she [[TimeAbyss remembers 72,500 years]] of time-looped history]].

** Pretty much Tenchi's whole family aside from him. His sister who looks to be in her mid to late 20's is 80. His father is 200 and looks like he is in his early 40's. His Grandmother ([[BerserkButton whom no one should ever call her by that name]]) looks maybe mid 30ish and is well over 700 years old (As does his Grandfather, but he keeps a disguise up to make him look 60-ish). And his great grandmother looks to be in her mid 30's too. The parents of Azusa, emperor of Jurai, Tenchi's great-great-grandparents, show up in GXP and look to be in their 40's. Tenchi's other great-great-grandparent, Seto, shows up in the OVA and GXP and looks to about mid 30's despite being 5,000 years old.

** ''Doctor Who'' has a lot of this. Ood Sigma from "Planet of the Ood" has barely aged a day a century on in ''The End of Time''. In series 5's "The Beast Below" The Star Whale, carrying the United Kingdom for 200 years is described by Amy as "very old and very kind", much like someone else. Due to slowing down her biological systems, Queen Elizabeth X of the UK is 300 years old in the same episode (and lives at least another 2,000). Despite their mayfly-like lifespan in their normal states, if a member of the Family of Blood took the lifespan of a Time Lord, he could live as long (it's unknown if regeneration ability comes with it, or if they can take the lifespan of other creatures.)

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'' has its elves following this very well, along with many of their vampires. The Slann seem to look the same no matter how many thousand years they have lived, and daemons do not age.

* The ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' RPG by White Wolf has tons of examples of this, of course. One of the more notorious should be Ur-Shulgi, who looks like a small child but is thousands of years old. There's even one über-ancient vampire, the progenitor of the mad Malkavian clan, that appears at one point as ''12'' small girls with glowing eyes.

* [[TheGunslinger Roland Deschain]] of Creator/StephenKing's ''TheDarkTower'' series turns out to be ReallySevenHundredYearsOld due to the space time continuum of his world being ripped apart. He managed to survive the destruction of his entire civilization.

* [[spoiler:Rose]] in ''LegendOfDragoon''. [[spoiler:She was a part of the first group of Dragoons...over ''ten thousand years ago.'']]

* The minions of ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'', surprisingly enough. According to the developer's {{FAQ}}, no one knows how old minions get because no minion has ever died of natural causes. Gnarl, in particular, is by his own account old enough to remember what the long-extinct dragons were really like, and Giblet has served at least three different Overlords.

ReallySevenHundredYearsOld is an extreme version of OlderThanTheyLook, which covers ancient, perhaps immortal beings, and (usually) the total opposite of ReallyWasBornYesterday. Subjective age only--a form of SuspendedAnimation alone does not count. [[OurElvesAreBetter Elves]] tend to fall into this trope quite a bit in modern fantasy thanks in part because their BeautyIsNeverTarnished. If it's purely artistic rather than biological, it's ArtisticAge. For characters who look far younger than they are, but haven't yet lived longer than a human possibly could (say, an 80 year-old woman who looks 20), they're OlderThanTheyLook. See also ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty, NotGrowingUpSucks. For the really, ''really'' extreme version, see TimeAbyss . For the inverse, see ReallySeventeenYearsOld. Optimistic characters will say [[LivingForeverIsAwesome this trope is sweet.]]

** Later, when [[spoiler: Watanuki takes over Yuuko's shop after her death, he goes into a similar un-aging and anomaly-to-the-universe state. By the end of the series he's over 100 years old but physically looks barely older than the teenager he was when the series started.]]
** Fai from the same continuity looks to be in his twenties, but isn't. [[spoiler:His real age is never said, but Yuko commented that despite his apparent youth he had already lived several lifespans.]]

** It also seems that [[spoiler: Zect, the boy from the flashbacks was ''Nagi's master'', and was several centuries old himself]].

ReallySevenHundredYearsOld is an extreme version of OlderThanTheyLook, which covers ancient, perhaps immortal beings, and (usually) the total opposite of ReallyWasBornYesterday. Subjective age only--a form of suspended animation alone does not count. [[OurElvesAreBetter Elves]] tend to fall into this trope quite a bit in modern fantasy thanks in part because their BeautyIsNeverTarnished. If it's purely artistic rather than biological, it's ArtisticAge. For characters who look far younger than they are, but haven't yet lived longer than a human possibly could (say, an 80 year-old woman who looks 20), they're OlderThanTheyLook. See also ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty, NotGrowingUpSucks. For the really, ''really'' extreme version, see TimeAbyss . For the inverse, see ReallySeventeenYearsOld. Optimistic characters will say [[LivingForeverIsAwesome this trope is sweet.]]

** Kurama also counts but there's a twist. His human form really is a teeanger because Youko Kurama merged with a fetus when it was still in the womb. Thus he is a genuine teenager with the memories of someone really seven hundred years old. H

** [[spoiler: Asuna]] turns out to be over 100 years old. We don't really know how much over hundred years old she is, but she could very likely be 700 years old, although in the first anime she's dead by the age of 14 at the end of episode 23, so it's deabatable.

* [[spoiler:Eriol Hiiragizawa]] of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' has a double case of this; he's the reincarnation (complete with memories) of the several-centuries-old magician Clow Reed, and in his "new life", he stopped himself from aging physically for decades.
** [[spoiler:Yukito. He's Yue's alternate form, and Yue was created by Clow in his original life. Kero is approximately (if not the exactly) the same age.]] It's unconfirmed how old [[spoiler:Spiniel Sun]] and [[spoiler:Ruby Moon]] are, but they could also be this trope.

* All the demons in ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' fall under this, but Chrono in particular. Thanks to a need to conserve his spiritual energy, his [[SleepModeSize typical form]] makes him look like twelve years old, and even in his true form he looks like he's in his early twenties. However, there's at least about 60 years that he's confirmed to have lived, and it's likely he's much, much older. His former comrades, the sinners, all appear to be in their late teens or early twenties, but they're all near the same age. There's also [[spoiler:Father Remington]] (who appears to be in his early thirties at the latest but is seen dueling Chrono half a century prior in a flashback), and in the manga finale [[spoiler:Fiore/Floretta and Satella]] (due to SuspendedAnimation).

* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'''s eponymous character, Aang, was a HumanPopsicle for a hundred years before the series began, meaning that he's physically no older than 12.