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*** [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] is alternate Cable/Cable's half-brother, as he's made from Scott and Jean's DNA by [[EvilutionaryBiologist Sinister]], grown to the age of 17, and now looks 20-something. Or he did. His SkunkStripe, and later BadassBeard, MysticalWhiteHair at the end of ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan'' makes it hard to tell what age he is - with the beard, he actually looked ''older'' than his mother. With the white hair, he just looked sort of ageless. Meanwhile, his parents are somewhere around 30. This tracks with Nate at one point lampshading this in ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' and noting that if you do as much dimension-shifting as he does, you end up with a dad only ten years older than you.

*** [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] is alternate Cable/Cable's half-brother, as he's made from Scott and Jean's DNA by [[EvilutionaryBiologist Sinister]], grown to the age of 17, and now looks 20-something (though his SkunkStripe, and later MysticalWhiteHair at the end of ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan'' makes it hard to tell what age he is) while parents are somewhere around 30 - which tracks with Nate at one point lampshading this in ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' and noting that if you do as much dimension-shifting as he does, you end up with a dad only ten years older than you.

*** And later, at Kitty and Colossus' wedding, one panel has the adult Jean disapprovingly remarking on her younger self drinking champagne, which Teen Jean dismisses as Adult Jean "momming" her and tells her that if she should be doing that to anyone, it's Rachel. [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Rachel,]] meanwhile, is in the middle and wishing for an alien invasion to end her mortification.

* In ''{{Film/Touch Of Satan}}'' it turns out that the young woman Melissa is actually a 127 year old witch, as a result of selling her soul to save her sister. Said sister is also 127 but ''looks it''. The two live with Luther and Molly, two walnut farmers who pose as Melissa's parents and look at least twice her age, and are presumably actually descendants of one of the sisters. Maybe; it's never made explicit what their true relationship is.

** [[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 that Barry was when they met and has kids of his own, and Barry is if anything depicted as ''younger'' than he was in TheSixties.

* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', [[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:''' ''(waves at Iris' abdomen)'' Hi, Dad! Hi, Aunt Dawn!\\
'''Barry:''' Wait--there are two in there?!\\

** The episode "Evolution" sees the immortal Comicbook/VandalSavage interacting with two of his daughters: Cassandra, who is a young adult, and Olympia, a senile old woman who could probably pass as his mother. Of course, the episode reveals that he's outlived countless children over the millennia.

* ''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.

*** Even before that, Goku looked too young to be the father of his professor Son Gohan (also keeping in mind that Gohan's own kid brother, Goten, is a teenager) but this is because Saiyans remain in their prime longer than humans. Neither Bulma nor Chi-Chi are thrilled, and you can guess how the latter reacts to her husband's further de-aging.
** Also, Goku's age was stilted by about 8 years (which is about the difference between Goku and Vegeta's dates of birth to begin with) due to times he spent dead. And he was only 19 when Gohan was born to begin with.

* 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 ''Way of the World''.

* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'''s player 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]].]]

** Thor and Loki both look like they're in their mid twenties, have looked that way for the last thousand or years, and probably will for the ''next'' thousand or so years. Harry, Thor's son (he was incarnated as James Potter. ItMakesSenseInContext), starts the story at thirteen and is growing up fast, to the point where, with SkunkStripe, he can pass for 18 in the sequel.
** It turns out that Steve had [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy an apparently posthumous daughter]] with Peggy, who was only barely pregnant when the Valkyrie went down (literally the only person who knew was Doctor Strange, resident time-travelling {{Seer|s}}). This resulted in grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Since Steve is physically and mentally in his twenties, he unsurprisingly finds this rather difficult to adjust to when he finds out - But adjust he does, particularly where [[{{Deuteragonist}} Carol]] is [[ParentalSubstitute concerned]].

*** [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] is alternate Cable/Cable's half-brother, as he's made from Scott and Jean's DNA by [[EvilutionaryBiologist Sinister]], grown to the age of 17, and looks 20 (though his MysticalWhiteHair at the end of AgeOfXMan makes it hard to tell what aage he is) while parents are getting toward 30
*** ComicBook/RachelSummers is Scott and Jean's daughter, returned from a BadFuture that may or may not still occur.

** Ladies and gentlemen, [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BXhN5SU-_Uw/Uf9zTnTrrvI/AAAAAAAACKk/Lus2bNRMZoQ/s1600/ANXMEN2012015-int-LR-2-61977.jpg Rachel Summers]] [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SuOKHDZJjQU/Uf9zVFzaZJI/AAAAAAAACKw/7hwQ6u9SN4M/s1600/ANXMEN2012015-int-LR-3-56b23.jpg meets]] the timely-displaced (younger and '''teenager''') version of her mother Jean Grey.

** It turns out that Steve had [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy an apparently posthumous daughter]] with Peggy, who was only barely pregnant when the Valkyrie went down (literally the only person who knew was Doctor Strange, resident time-travelling {{Seer}}). This resulted in grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Since Steve is physically and mentally in his twenties, he unsurprisingly finds this rather difficult to adjust to when he finds out - [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments But adjust he does]], particularly where [[{{Deuteragonist}} Carol]] is [[ParentalSubstitute concerned]].

** Martin Baker is a RevenantZombie who died and was revived at age 23 (though some parts of him may be from older people). He's married to Angela Baker, a [[HumanOutsideAlienInside Johrlac]], who have lifespans in excess of human ones and age much more slowly.

** Maria Delacroix and her husband, Eugene, don't look a day older than their late 20's, 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.

* ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'' being a franchise about MentalTimeTravel, you'd expect this to be one thing that isn't possible. [[spoiler:However, the third game has Diana (old enough to be already divorced once, but doesn't seem to be much older than her late 20's) and Sigma (physically 22, mentally 67) be the parents of 20 year-old Phi and 124 year-old Delta (as well as another Phi, who is implied to have raised her younger version and would also be 124 year-old if she was still alive). Without Diana even having given birth to them yet.]] It's time travel, [[TimeyWimeyBall of course things are gonna get weird]].

** ComicBook/GreenArrow and ComicBook/BlackCanary have barely aged a day since TheSeventies, despite Roy Harper growing up and having a kid of his own. It’s honestly kind of silly for Dinah to have a “granddaughter” [[spoiler:in her teens]] and still be as beautiful and curvaceous as ever.

** Franchise/{{Batman}} is consistently depicted as a man on the cusp of middle age, despite three of his four [[Characters/{{Robin}} “sons”]] aging from boys to young men consecutively.

* Due to ComicBookTime, this is pretty noticeable in a ParentalSubstitute way for a lot of Creator/DCComics’ mentor[=/=]sidekick pairings. When the original ComicBook/TeenTitans were introduced in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]], they were in their early teens and their mentors were probably in their early-to-mid thirties. Skip forward to the modern era, the first generation of sidekicks have grown up and been replaced by multiple generations of new characters, while the heroes who were parental figures to them have at best aged only a couple of years.

* Due to ComicBookTime, this is pretty noticeable in a ParentalSubstitute way for a lot of Creator/DCComics’ mentor[=/=]sidekick pairings. When the original ComicBook/TeenTitans were introduced in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]], they were in their early teens and their mentors were probably in their late twenties to early thirties. Skip forward to the modern era, the first generation of sidekicks have grown up and been replaced by multiple generations of new characters, while the heroes who were parental figures to them have at best aged only a couple of years.

* Due to ComicBookTime, this is pretty noticeable in a ParentalSubstitute way for a lot of Creator/DCComics’ mentor[=/=]sidekick pairings. When the original ComicBook/TeenTitans were introduced back in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]], they were in their early teens and their mentors were probably in their late twenties to early thirties. Skip forward to the modern era, the first generation of sidekicks have grown up and been replaced by multiple generations of new characters, while the heroes who were parental figures to them have at best aged only a couple of years.

** [[Franchise/{{Flash}} 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 that Barry was when they met and has kids of his own, and Barry is if anything depicted as ''younger'' than he was in TheSixties.

* Moka's mother Akasha in ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' is [[Really700YearsOld well over 200]], but looked like she was in her early twenties (she looked like just like her daughter's good side, in fact). Justified, since Shinso Vampires are said to be immortal.

** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Bulma to Future Trunks, her KidFromTheFuture. He's even blushed upon seeing her once because he's surprised how bombshell she was as a young woman.

* Aaron and Wendy Rhodes, the main protagonist's parents in ''{{ComicBook/Birthright}}''. As a result of being sent into another dimension where [[YearInsideHourOutside time flows slower than on Earth]], their teenage son Michael returns home as fully-grown adult.

* ''Comicbook/XMen'':