History OlderThanTheyLook / FIlm

** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. All because of his Super Healing Factor. He was born in 1823, but as of today, he still physically appears to be a buff as hell mid-to-late 30s. His powers constantly rejuvenate his cellular integrity rendering him seemingly ageless. He's not by any means immortal, he just ages at an incredibly slow rate. By the time he reaches ''Film/{{Logan}}'', he's well over a hundred years old, but even combined with his adamantium poisoning slowing his healing factor, simply looks like a buff-as-hell fifty-year-old.

** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. All because of his Super Healing Factor. He was born in 1823, but as of today, he still physically appears to be a buff as hell mid-to-late 30s. His powers constantly rejuvenate his cellular integrity rendering him seemingly ageless. He's not by any means immortal, he just ages at an incredibly slow rate, if at all.

* ''Franchise/HarryPotter'': Albus Dumbledore (at least Creator/MichaelGambon's version; Richard Harris looked more convincing) looks to be around 65-70 years old but is actually 116 as of [[spoiler:his death]].

*** Due to a combination of PlayingGertrude and that Creator/EllenPage is OlderThanTheyLook, Kitty Pryde is another example.

* Played with in ''{{Film/Dune}}'' with Paul's sister, Alia. She's really only a toddler both physically and mentally, but is imbued with all the knowledge and psychic powers of an adult "Reverend Mother" and so often behaves in a way which implies this trope, despite it not being literally true.

** Similarly Steve Rogers aka Captain America (along with Bucky) due [[HumanPopsicle being frozen]] in the 1940s still looks youthful despite chronologically being in his 70s by the time of ''Film/TheAvengers2012''. [[spoiler: Averted in ''[[Film/AvengersEndgame Endgame]]'' as Steve finally looks his age as through TimeTravel he lived a peaceful life with Peggy. Though this trope is still in effect as the considering the years spent on ice, Steve is approximately 251 years old, way older than he looks]].
*** There’s some FridgeBrilliance reflecting that Tony Stark being 42 at time he met Cap and Thor and was by far the youngest of the trio despite looking older than them (it helps Robert Downey Jr. is his 50s).

* In ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', Qui-Gon Jinn was sixty years old when he encountered Anakin.

* In a scene from the Director's Cut of ''Film/TheTwoTowers'', Eowyn was startled to realize that Aragorn was ''over eighty'' years old. This is because he's a Dunedain, who have a bit of elven blood in them.

** The Grandmaster in ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' is an immortal being and millennia old, but due to having long been stranded on a planet surrounded by wormholes, Time hasn't been able to affect his appearance. He doesn't look ''young'' -- he's played by Creator/JeffGoldblum, who was in his mid-60s when the film was shot -- but he is a decadent SilverFox.

** Carol Danvers aka Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}} thanks to Kree BioAugmentation and [[spoiler: The Space Stone]] has had her aging slowed so she still looks she’s 29 when 23 years have passed and she should one of the oldest women in the cast at 52 years old, if not even older considering all the traveling she’s been doing in space.

* In ''{{Film/Skyfall}}'', Bond meets the new Quartermaster for [=MI6=] and is surprised at how young he looks. While it's true that Creator/BenWhishaw's Q is much younger than Desmond Llewelyn's iconic take on the character in the original film series, Whishaw was still 31 during filming, meanwhile Bond reacts as if he was some 23-year-old kid who just finished his engineering degree. Admittedly, Whishaw does have quite the babyface, and Q's actual age is left vague.

* In ''{{Film/Skyfall}}'', Bond meets the new Quartermaster for MI6 and is surprised at how young he looks. While it's true that Actor/BenWhishaw's Q is much younger than Desmond Llewelyn's iconic take on the character in the original film series, Whishaw was still 31 during filming, meanwhile Bond reacts as if he was some 23-year-old kid who just finished his engineering degree. Admittedly, Whishaw does have quite the babyface, and Q's actual age is left vague.

* Ariel and Eric in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea''. They look slightly older than their daughter, Melody.

* ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' has Finnick, Nick's partner in crime, who looks like a fox pup but is actually an adult. He's the size of an infant because he's a fennec fox, a very small species of fox.
* In ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', Elsa and Anna's mother and father (Iduna and Agdar) look younger than they are. They are both at least in their 40s when they set off on the later shipwrecked voyage.

* Implied in ''Franchise/ToyStory''; Woody and the rest of the ''Woody's Roundup'' toys are TheMerch for a show that got cancelled when Sputnik launched. They've likely all been out of production for decades.

*** There’s some FridgeBrilliance reflecting that Tony Stark being 48 at time he met Cap and Thor and was by far the youngest of the trio despite looking older than them (it helps Robert Downy Junior is his 50s).

** Carol Danvers aka Film/CaptainMarvel thanks to Kree BioAugmentation and [[spoiler: The Space Stone]] has had her aging slowed so she still looks she’s 29 when 23 years have passed and she should one of the oldest women in the cast at 52 years old, if not even older considering all the traveling she’s been doing in space.

*** There’s some FridgeBrilliance reflecting that Tony Stark being 48 at time he meet Cap and Thor and was by far the youngest of the trio despite looking older than them (it helps Robert Downy Junior is his 50s).

** Similarly Steve Rogers aka Captain America (along with Bucky) due [[HumanPopsicle being frozen]] in the 1940s still looks youthful despite chronically being in his 70s by the time of ''Film/TheAvengers2012''. [[spoiler: Averted in ''[[Film/AvengersEndgame Endgame]]'' as Steve finally looks his age as through TimeTravel he lived a peaceful life with Peggy. Though this trope is still in effect as the considering the years spent on ice, Steve is approximately 251 years old, way older than he looks]].

* Appears to be inferred in ''Film/IronMan3''. Dr. Maya Hansen is played by Creator/RebeccaHall both in 2012 scenes and in a flashback set in December 1999. She's either supposed to be a TeenGenius or she's a few years older than Hall (since Hall was born in 1982 and would have been 17 years old in 1999).

* In ''StarWars Episode I'', Qui-Gon Jinn was sixty years old when he encountered Anakin.
** Yoda teases Luke about it in ''Episode VI''. Other members of his species (such as Master Yaddle, or [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Master Vandar Tokare]]) were confirmed to be younger than him, and they looked as old, if not slightly older than him.

** In ''SoloAStarWarsStory'', Han learns how old Chewbacca is.