History Main / TotallyEighteen

* Played with in the season 1 finale of ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime''. Beth Lestrade is seventeen as "Dynamics of a Point" begins, but due to [[Series/DoctorWho wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff]], she's truly eighteen in "Every Good Fairytale" (when she ''does'' marry Literature/SherlockHolmes. [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness In the original transcript]], she described herself as a seventeen-year-old during the honeymoon, and Sherlock pointed out that she was a fully mature adult as far as anyone was concerned. This was later altered when Beth's writer realized some convenient but no less real implications of Beth being a TemporalParadox.

* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' comes with a disclaimer that all characters are 18 or older, regardless of the creator's statements that the protagonist -- a second-year Japanese high-school student -- is 17. Since characters can be nude (albeit with CensorSteam) and taking shots of panties is a game mechanic, the developer felt the need to stay on the safe side.

* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' comes with a disclaimer that all characters are 18 or older, regardless of the creator's statements that the protagonist -- a second-year Japanese high-school student -- is 17. Since characters can be nude (albeit with CensorSteam) and taking {{Panty Shot}}s is a game mechanic, the developer felt the need to stay on the safe side.

Compare OlderThanTheyLook and ReallySevenHundredYearsOld as well as YoungerThanTheyLook and ReallySeventeenYearsOld. See also MinorWithFakeID

* All Western-released materials of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' come with a disclaimer that all of the characters are 18 or older, despite Shirou, Rin, and Sakura being 17 and 16 respectively in the Japanese version, with Saber being physically a year younger.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' has a sketch where two underage teens (host Creator/ShiaLaBeouf and Creator/AndySamberg) try to pass themselves off as adults to buy beer. When the clerk (Creator/KenanThompson) insists on identification, they first give him excuses to explain why they've misplaced their licenses, before resorting to another friend (Creator/BillHader) showing up as a fake police officer to congratulate the clerk on complying with the law. Eventually, after their plan to get the beer without showing [=IDs=] gets more and more convoluted, [[spoiler:they just bribe the guy to look the other way.]]

* ''Cherry Comics'' regularly goes out of its way to point out that Cherry and her [[AnythingThatMoves equally promiscuous]] school friends have "just turned 18."

* Parodied in the English localization of ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'', where at the end of elementary-school girl Kotoko Utsugi's mini-boss with Genocide Jack (in which [[ClothingDamage she gets stripped down to her underwear]]) she will loudly (and unconvincingly) claim that she's actually 18 without any prompting. [[spoiler:Not helped by Kotoko's [[RapeAsBackstory horrific backstory]]]].

* All Western-released materials of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' come with a disclaimer that all of the characters are 18 or older, despite Shirou, Rin, and Sakura being in their second year in high school — making them between 16 and 17 in the Japanese version — with Saber being physically a year younger.

* In one issue of ''[[http://matsjonssonbloggen.blogspot.com/ Mats Jonsson]]'', the protagonist is having a relationship with a girl who pretends to be 21. When it's revealed that she's studying at high school rather than the university, she changes it to nineteen. When she later confesses that she's actually sixteen and begs forgiveness for her dishonesty, he breaks all contact with her and spends the rest of the episode angsting over having been messing around with someone so young. The story takes place in Sweden, where the age of consent is fifteen - so his angst is purely emotional, without any legal issues.

* Music/{{Madness}}'s "House of Fun" is a comic song about a teenage boy trying [[TrojanGauntlet to buy condoms]] on his sixteenth birthday[[note]]The UK age of sexual consent[[/note]], with the age repeatedly mentioned.

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' creator Dan Salvato claimed in [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/389567762143379458/400781271883841547/1508196969537.png a Discord post]] that all the high-school aged characters in the game are 18, even though the only sexual content in the game is [[SkirtsAndLadders the protagonist accidentally seeing up Natsuki's skirt when she's climbing]][[note]]nothing explicit is shown to the player[[/note]] and Yuri mentioning [[ADateWithRosiePalms touching herself]].

* ''Manga/HaventYouHeardImSakamoto'': In one chapter, Acchan and his cronies blackmail Sakamoto into renting them a porn DVD. Sakamoto has a good PokerFace and [[RefugeInAudacity rents out a dozen movies instead of just one]], ''for only a day'' (implying he was going to watch them all within 24 hours), successfully bluffing the clerks.

Compare OlderThanTheyLook and ReallySevenHundredYearsOld as well as YoungerThanTheyLook and ReallySeventeenYearsOld. See also MinorWithFakeID.

* The game ''[[http://www.pown.it/4498 Bear Gunner]]'' is technically about hunting bears. However, the protagonist is an 8-year-old girl armed with a machine gun, and the bears she's gunning down are all the pedobear logotype and busy chasing little girls (including you). When you kill one, he sometimes moan some dying words, such as "Argh!", "I see a bright light", "why me?", "I'm just a guy in a suit" or "I swear she was eighteen".

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' creator Dan Salvato claimed in [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/389567762143379458/400781271883841547/1508196969537.png a Discord post]] that all the high-schools aged characters in the game are 18, even though the only sexual content in the game is [[SkirtsAndLadders the protagonist accidentally seeing up Natsuki's skirt when she's climbing]] and Yuri mentioning [[ADateWithRosiePalms touching herself]].

* In WesternAnimation/CloneHigh, the underage clone of AbrahamLincoln recruits the underage clone of Genghis Khan to buy beer for a party, telling him all he has to do is tell the clerk he's 21.

Compare OlderThanTheyLook and ReallySevenHundredYearsOld as well as YoungerThanTheyLook and ReallySeventeenYearsOld. See also MinorWithAFakeID.

Compare OlderThanTheyLook and ReallySevenHundredYearsOld as well as YoungerThanTheyLook and ReallySeventeenYearsOld.

* Ever since the infamous "Pedophile's Guide" incident on Amazon.com late in 2010, Amazon.com has been rather squeamish about selling any erotic literature featuring underage sex and/or incest. This led to a number of erotic authors' stories [[http://teleread.com/amazon-removes-incest-related-erotica-titles-from-store-kindle-archive/ being yanked from distribution with no warning and little to no explanation]]. Since then, many erotic authors such as Selena Kitt have lately reworked a lot of their stories to specify that everyone in them is ''totally'' eighteen or over; also that they're ''totally'' NotBloodRelated. Almost invariably, any stories about--for instance--"daddy's little girl" will have the girl saying something to her daddy about how she can decide things for herself since she's eighteen now, and will mention in passing or work into the plot some reason why [[DisappearedDad her biological father is gone]] and this guy is actually her ''step''-daddy. [[WebVideo/HonestTrailers So it's OK for them to pork.]]

When done in-universe it's usually framed as a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial of one kind or another, though keep in mind that it's actually ''true'' just as often as not. The trope is sometimes connected to tropes such as JailBait and JailbaitWait for the character, or tropes such as MoralGuardians and GettingCrapPastTheRadar for the work itself.

* In one issue of ''[[http://matsjonssonbloggen.blogspot.com/ Mats Jonsson]]'', the protagonist is having a relationship with a girl who pretends to be 21. When it's revealed that she's studying at high school rather than the university, she changes it to nineteen. When she later confesses that she's actually sixteen and begs forgiveness for her dishonesty, he breaks all contact with her and spends the rest of the episode angsting over having been messing around with someone so young. The story takes place in Sweden, where the age of consent is fifteen - so his angst is purely emotional, without any JailBait issues.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' sometimes treats the fact that a certain character is over 18 as an annoying technicality that makes it harder to arrest people for having sex with them:

* A common thing to happen in fan made porn parody video games. Despite changing absolutely nothing of a female character's appearance, the game itself will flat out state the characters in the game are 18 years or older.

* ''Cherry Comics'' regularly goes out of its way to point out that Cherry and her equally promiscuous school friends have "just turned 18."
* The TorturePorn comic house ''Fansadox'' includes multiple disclaimers in its web and comics claiming that all characters are "at least 18 years old". If said comic "stars" TheIngenue and shows her in high school, the narration and dialogue will tell you several times that she just turned eighteen. For some reason, this make it perfectly okay to rape, torture and often murder her.

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* This is part of the reason why R. P. [=MacMurphy=] in ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'' is locked in a mental institution; he had sex with an underage girl he says he thought was eighteen.

* It is explicitly mentioned in ''Film/SuckerPunch'' in regards to Baby Doll. She's 20 according to the script.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', [[OlderThanTheyLook Rapunzel could easily be mistaken for being much younger than she is]], but [[TheHerosBirthday her eighteenth birthday is a plot point]], presumably to avoid the issue of her finding her true love as a teenager.
* In a rare ''under''-18 example, ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' makes a point of establishing Ariel as 16. Since King Triton (eventually) consents to her marriage to Prince Eric, this would (just barely) be legal throughout much of the world in the modern age; in vaguely-old-timey Denmark (or wherever; it's not clear if the setting is the same as Creator/HansChristianAndersen's [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid original story]]) it's presumably perfectly normal.

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInThePinkShoes'': While they make a point about Kristyn being only 17, it's because she's trying not to be Theatre/{{Giselle}}. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Albrecht and Hilarion don't realize that she considers herself too young for marriage, and instead consider her too old for marriage.]]
* Valentina in ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'' specifies that she's about to turn sixteen, then immediately mentions that that's the age of consent in UsefulNotes/{{Britain}}.

* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Monica shaves a few years off her age (dropping her into the early 20's) then finds that the man she just made love to was a high school senior, not a college senior as he told her. When he defends himself from her anger by saying she lied too, her response is "Well, my lie didn't [[ArtisticLicenseLaw make one of us a felon in 48 states!]]"

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the spring festival Noble Garden includes an achievement where you are supposed to put bunny ears on one female character of each race, and it has to be a character that is at least level 18. Some complaints about this achievement made it into the newspapers - some female player who felt like it was sexual harassment - other achievements about putting hats or whatever on other characters was not a problem, but the "level 18" requirement made this one sexualized in her eyes. The actual reason it was added was to prevent players from trivializing the achievement by making level 1 alts, as some had done with an earlier event (that it was 18 specifically was probably just RuleOfFunny).

* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' comes with a disclaimer that all characters are 18 or older, regardless of the creator's statements that the protagonist -- a second-year Japanese high-school student -- is 17. Since characters can be nude (albeit with CensorSteam) and taking {{Panty Shot}}s is a game mechanic, the developer felt the need to stay on the safe side.

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' creator Dan Salvato claimed in [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/389567762143379458/400781271883841547/1508196969537.png a Discord post]] that all the high-schools aged characters in the game are 18, even though the only sexual content in the game is [[SkirtsAndLadders the protagonist accidentally seeing up Natsuki's skirt when she's climbing]] and Yuri mentioning [[ADateWithRosiePalms touching herself]].

* ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'': The main reason why TheRival's wizard is a wanted criminal; apparently, 18 years old in Halfling years is NOWHERE near adulthood or even puberty.

-->'''Grace:''' I'm eighteen! I'm a ''major!''
-->'''Raven:''' As though ''that'' makes you an adult.
-->'''Grace:''' Legally it ''does''. You can do all ''sorts'' of stuff with me!

* In one issue of ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'', Cheerleader, hoping to impress some college-age guys, insists she and So-and-So are in college. So-and-So, however, undermines this by simultaneously admitting to being in eighth grade. Cheerleader tries to backpedal by claiming that So-and-So is her younger sister by five years, but the boys don't buy it (and then she's hit by a [[DiabolusExMachina SAILING MISHAP]]!)
* A certain pornographic website, frequently advertised on Creator/ComedyCentral, announces that its actors are 18 right in the URL.