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* ''Series/KamenRiderAmazons'': Chihiro is born at some point during the five-year TimeSkip between the two seasons. Because of his Amazon genes, his aging is accelerated and he is already 17 years old by the start of S2. This makes him only 13 years younger than his mother, [[spoiler:Nanaha]], despite having been born when she was in her late 20s.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'':
** Takeru Sato, the lead actor, left the franchise after the TV series; so for future movies and spin-offs, they de-aged Ryotaro into an 11 or 12-year-old boy, making him younger than his grandson Kotaro who is around 18.
** Due to the characters being taken from different points in their timelines, 19-year-old [[spoiler:Yuto Sakurai]] is around the same age as his daughter, [[spoiler:Hana. Hana's mother, Airi, is in her late 20s and thus only a decade or so older than Hana.]]
* ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'':
** Thanks to time travel, father and son Otoya and Wataru meet when they are 23 and 18 years old respectively. In the finale, [[spoiler:Wataru meets his own teenage son from the future.]]
** Wataru and Taiga's mother Maya who, being a Fangire, doesn't age at the same rate as a human and looks around 20 years old; appearing younger than Taiga, who is in his mid-to-late 20s.

* [[spoiler:Conrad Gibbs]] of ''Goldfisch'' turns out to be one. Due to an accident with an [[ImmortalityInducer immortality-granting artifact]], he reverted to the same age as his son. [[spoiler:Since he was being hunted for stealing the artifact, Conrad concluded that the safest way to still remain in his son's life was to pose as his long-lost twin brother, Spencer]].

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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E26S5E1Redemption Redemption]]", we are introduced to the half-Romulan Sela (born 2345), daughter of the human Tasha Yar (born 2337). The way this happened is that in an alternate timeline episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E15YesterdaysEnterprise Yesterday's Enterprise]]" Tasha Yar time traveled back with Enterprise C to the point where history had changed. The return of Enterprise C had restored the timeline, but Tasha remained part of the past.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E03TheVisitor The Visitor]]", Captain Benjamin Sisko becomes de-synced from normal time following an engineering accident. As time passes normally for his son Jake, whenever Ben reappears for a brief time in normal space, he is the same age as he was during the accident. Eventually, Jake ends up older than his father.

* The KidFromTheFuture variant occurs in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. [[spoiler:In fact, one occurs for each pair of units that reaches S-rank.]] If the Avatar marries one of those kids, the parents become Supernaturally Young ''Grand''parents.

** This trope applies to some characters from ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' in most crossovers, but ''not'' in main games. To elaborate: TheHero of ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2'', Kyle, is son of Stahn and Rutee from Tales of Destiny. Tales of Destiny 2 is set 18 years after first game, and all returning characters, naturally, aged. However, in various crossovers Stahn and Rutee appears as their [=ToD=] selves, when they were in their late teens, alongside their 15-years old son. Things gets awkward. In various ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheWorld'' games Kyle's usually straight-up KidFromTheFuture, but in ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheRays'' he and his parents was copied in the world of the game from different points in time. The same applies to Lilith and Rimul, who also were reunited in Rays as teens.

* Celica in ''Literature/AkashicRecordsOfBastardMagicInstructor'' looks to be around the same age as her son Glenn (who's a young man), due to being TheAgeless. Granted, she adopted him, but she looks the same age now as she did when she adopted him.
* Due to being the fully human child of an immortal parent, Chane Laforet of ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' is more often assumed to be Huey Laforet's sister or lover than his daughter.

* A really bizarre case in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' with Bella Swan-Cullen and her daughter Renesmee. She gave birth to her just before her nineteenth birthday, but since she got turned into a vampire at the same time AND her daughter's [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty Immortality Begins at Seventeen]] eventually they'll look about the same. Carlisle and Esme Cullen are also way too young to have all of those teenage kids, even if they are adopted.
* ''The Lost Stars'', a spinoff of ''Literature/TheLostFleet'', features a pair of military officers in their late twenties[=/=]early thirties who are in a vicious professional rivalry, but the male one is also incredibly protective of the female one despite her contempt for him. Many people assume they're in some kind of SlapSlapKiss sexual relationship, but he insists that they are not and seems genuinely disgusted by the idea, despite her being immensely attractive. The truth is eventually revealed: she's his biological mother, despite being seemingly a year younger than him. When she was 19, she volunteered for an assassination mission which involved being [[HumanPopsicle frozen]] and placed in a capsule which was then launched at her target at sublight speeds, taking decades to reach it. A medical exam beforehand revealed she was pregnant, which would have disqualified her; and so the doctor, the male officer's birth[=/=]legal mother, removed the fetus and implanted it in herself. She then gave birth to him and presented him as her son. By the time he was old enough to join the military, his biological mother had returned, physically the same age she was when she left.

* Bo in ''Series/LostGirl'' is 28 years old in the first season, while her mother looks like she's in her late thirties (she is actually Fae and hundreds of years old). Creator/AnnaSilk, who plays Bo, is actually four years ''older'' than the actress playing her mother.

* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'':
** The playable characters, along with [[HiddenAgendaVillain Alex]] and [[CoolOldGuy Kraden]], were all exposed to age-slowing amounts of Alchemy at the end of ''[[VideoGame/GoldenSunTheLostAge The Lost Age]]''. So thirty years later, in ''[[VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn Dark Dawn]]'', the former player characters all appear to be in their mid-to-late twenties, with [[SpinOffspring teenage or young adult children]]. [[spoiler:Alex was exposed to more of Alchemy's power than anybody else and is basically immortal: The only reason he looks older than his child at all is because the kid in question [[OlderThanTheyLook doesn't look nineteen]].]]
** Karis complains about the ramifications of this trope... which makes sense when you remember that her father, Ivan, was the youngest of [[VideoGame/GoldenSun1 the original protagonists]], and probably doesn't look much older than Karis herself now (and probably [[MayDecemberRomance far younger than her mother]]).
* This trope applies to some characters from ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' in most crossovers, but ''not'' in main games. To elaborate: TheHero of ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2'', Kyle, is son of Stahn and Rutee from Tales of Destiny. Tales of Destiny 2 is set 18 years after first game, and all returning characters, naturally, aged. However, in various crossovers Stahn and Rutee appears as their [=ToD=] selves, when they were in their late teens, alongside their 15-years old son. Things gets awkward. In various ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheWorld'' games Kyle's usually straight-up KidFromTheFuture, but in ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheRays'' he and his parents was copied in the world of the game from different points in time. The same applies to Lilith and Rimul, who also were reunited in Rays as teens.
* From ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', [[spoiler:Kratos]] has [[Really700YearsOld been physically been around 28]] for [[spoiler:4,000 years]], which helps him hide the fact that he is [[spoiler:Lloyd's]] father from the child, or else it would have appeared that he had fathered him at the age of 11.
* Nina Williams from the ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' series is 22 years old, and thanks to a 19-year-long cryogenic sleep, is only 2 years older than her son, 20-year-old Steve Fox.
* In ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', [[{{Miko}} Sanae Kochiya]] is a ''distant descendant'' of the goddess Suwako Moriya. Suwako actually looks much younger than Sanae, though since she's a goddess who's been around for a long time it's likely that she didn't always appear to be so young.

* The KidFromTheFuture version also happens at the beginning and end of ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuest Space Quest IV]]'' with Roger Wilco and Roger Wilco Jr. This also creates a StableTimeLoop, as Roger Jr. shows his father a holo of his mother, thus compelling Roger Sr. to go after Beatrice when he finally meets her for real.
* ''VideoGame/FantasyLife'' has the de-aging variant [[spoiler:for King Erik who looks like a young boy but has an at least teenage daughter. It turns out that his rival in magic based prank war did this to him]].
* While it's technological rather than supernatural, in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', [[spoiler:after the PlayerCharacter's infant son is kidnapped and their spouse killed, s/he is put back into [[HumanPopsicle cryogenic stasis]] for another 60 years. By this time, the now 60 year-old Shaun has become the head of the Institute.]]

* Due to Gears maturing far faster than humans, Dizzy from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' was a mother before she turned 5. She and her son also look fairly close in age due to her having spent several years in temporal suspension.

* ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'': Shatoyarn is over 600 years old, but has stayed as a beautiful young woman thanks to an advanced cloning process to stay alive. Prior to the first game, she also gave birth to Shiva.

** Maria Delacroix and her husband, Eugene, don't look a day older than their late 20s, despite being over two centuries old. She's even [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/no_buts raised 13 children]], yet you'd never know it from looking at her. {{Justified}} since they're both vampires, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent who're capable of having children]], like humans can.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'': Dagmar was turned into a statue for 15 years and didn't age during that time. When her daughter Bean revives her, their apparent age difference is about a decade.
* A variant in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Professor Farnsworth is a distant descendant of Fry's older brother, making him Fry's many-times-grandnephew. Their familial relationship rarely comes up, but when it does they refer to each other as "uncle" and "nephew", despite Fry being ([[HumanPopsicle physically]]) young enough to be the elderly professor's grandson.

** In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' not only does Diana look the same age as her mother, her maternal grandfather ComicBook/{{Ares|DC}} also looks to be in his twenties, though like Hippolyta he is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld much older than he looks]].

* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': Ellen Ripley is supposed to be in her 30s, but when she wakes up after an extended 57 year-long cryo-sleep, she receives news that her daughter Amanda has died a few year prior at the age of 66 (they used a photo of Creator/SigourneyWeaver's [[RealLifeRelative real-life mother]] to portray the elder Amanda).

* ''FanFic/ConversationsWithACryptid'': All for One is 200 years old, but since he has a longevity quirk, he looks like he's in his mid-20s (grotesque maiming aside). He most certainly doesn't look old enough to be [[spoiler:Izuku's]] father, but he is (even he was surprised, though it was more because he thought he was too ''old'' to have kids).

* ''FanFic/TheReturn'', Sunshine comes across as one of these to {{Muggles}} due to the ''complicated'' nature of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Succubae]] relationships (in purely chronological terms she could actually be younger than 2 of her kids).

* Nina Williams from the ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' series is 22 years old, and thanks to a 19-year-long cryogenic sleep, is only 2 years older than her son, 20-year-old Steve Fox.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', [[{{Miko}} Sanae Kochiya]] is a ''distant descendant'' of the goddess Suwako Moriya. Suwako actually looks much younger than Sanae, though since she's a goddess who's been around for a long time it's likely that she didn't always appear to be so young.

* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', [[KidFromTheFuture Bart]] travels back in time to the same day that his grandmother, Iris, found out that she was pregnant. (She hadn't even had a chance to tell Barry yet.) He's also stuck there, so the season three episode "Home Fires" confirms that he's around to babysit.

'''Bart:''' [[RunningGag Oops! Spoiler...]]

** ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E143QueenOfTheNile Queen of the Nile]]", [[spoiler:it turns out that the elderly woman Viola Draper is actually the ''daughter'' of the [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld younger-looking]] Pamela Morris, an {{immortal|ityImmorality}} witch who maintains her youth by [[LifeDrinker draining the life out of men]]]].
** ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Father & Son Game", the 79-year-old Darius Stephens' [[BrainUploading consciousness is placed]] in a {{cyborg}} body resembling a man in his late 30s. As such, he looks more than ten years younger than his 50-year-old son Michael.

* In ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'', Henry looks about 40 (i.e. the age of the [[Creator/IoanGruffudd actor playing him]]). However, being immortal (both of TheAgeless and ResurrectiveImmortality kinds) means that the son he adopted in the [=1940s=] as a baby (after rescuing him from a Nazi concentration camp) now looks twice his age. They made a decision that Abe would never introduce his girlfriends to Henry because they would eventually realize he wasn't aging; when they finally try to arrange a dinner for them to meet in "The Ecstasy of Agony", Abe's twice-over ex-wife Maureen assumes Henry is Abe's son from a past relationship.

* In ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'', Henry looks about 40 (i.e. the age of the [[Creator/IoanGruffudd actor playing him]]). However, being immortal (both of TheAgeless and ResurrectiveImmortality kinds) means that the son he adopted in the [=1940s=] as a baby (after rescuing him from a Nazi concentration camp) now looks twice his age. They made a decision that Abe would never introduce his girlfriends to Henry because they would eventually realize he wasn't aging; when they finally try to arrange a dinner for them to meet, Abe's twice-over ex-wife Maureen assumes Henry is Abe's son from a past relationship.

* In ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'', Henry looks about 40 (i.e. the age of the [[Creator/IoanGruffudd actor playing him]]). However, being immortal (both of TheAgeless and ResurrectiveImmortality kinds) means that the son he adopted in the [=1940s=] as a baby (after rescuing him from a Nazi concentration camp) now looks twice his age. Some people misinterpret their relationship and assume that Henry is Abe's son.

* Adam Destine of ''Comicbook/ClanDestine'' hasn't aged since the genie Elalyth made him invulnerable when was about twenty... eight hundred years ago. Since then, he and Elalyth have had a great many children, all of whom age normally until adulthood, then slow way down. Most of his children actually look ''older'' than him, except for the twins (twelve years old) and Samantha and maybe Dominic (who look about the same age as he does).
* When Comicbook/{{Darkseid}} is temporarily made into a baby he winds up being raised by his own daughter, Grail. He has several other adult children.

** Franchise/{{Batman}} is consistently depicted as a man on the cusp of middle age, despite three of his four [[Characters/{{Robin}} “sons”]] consecutively aging from boys to young men on his watch.
** [[Franchise/TheFlash The Flash Family]]: When Wally West first became Kid Flash, he was a young teen and Barry Allen was a mature man. Now Bart Allen and Wallace West are about as old as Wally was back in the day, Wally is probably only a few years younger than Barry was when they met and has kids of his own, and Barry is if anything depicted as ''younger'' than he was in TheSixties.

* From the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] comic, the organization known as ''The Pantheon'' is lead by centuries-old, but adolescent looking Agamemnon. His immortality kicked in while young. His many sons, grandsons and grand-grandsons looks older than him.

* In one ''[[Comicbook/TheSandman Sandman]]'' volume it's remarked that Orpheus' mother doesn't seem old enough to be his mother. This is understandable, since she is Calliope, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld an immortal muse from Greek myth]].

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** Comicbook/{{Cable}} is about twice the biological age of both his parents, [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]] and Madelyne Pryor; he was born in the present but was spirited away and raised in a distant future. Additionally, his mother was a clone of ComicBook/JeanGrey, and chronologically only a couple of years old when he was born. ([[TangledFamilyTree It's complicated]])... Just remember that he's a time traveller. Things were further complicated with the introduction of Kid Cable, Cable's time-traveling teenaged self who ''is'' young enough to be Scott's kid and has taken up residence in the present.

* In ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', teenaged heroine Empress's parents were killed by her dad's archenemy (and father-in-law) Agua Sin Gaaz/The Baron, who then created child versions of them. Empress's teemmate Secret was able to use her {{Psychopomp}} abilities to place their original souls in the child bodies, and Empress found herself looking after them. Empress and her kid parents later appeared in the ''ComicBook/Supergirl2005'' storyline ''ComicBook/WayOfTheWorld''.

* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/SupermansReturnToKrypton'', Superman goes back in time and meets his birth parents when they are a bit younger than him.
-->'''Superman:''' "It's weird having a father who is practically your own age!"

-->'''[[Comicbook/{{Magneto}} Erik]]:''' I let you date the robot ''for this specific reason and it still happens.''

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' brings characters from the beginning of the series to several decades into the future, causing confusion and discomfort. This is especially uncomfortable for Cassie Cage, who is still mourning her recently-deceased mother, when she meets her mother's past self who's barely older than she is.