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Times when characters are OlderThanTheyLook in fan works.FanWorks.



[[AC:''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'']]
* Nadia from ''Fanfic/SliceOfHeaven'' was in her 40s when she died but Rover accidentally turned her ResidualSelfImage into a child.

[[AC:''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'']]
* Hiro Hamada from ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/3744697 Keep Your Head Down]]'' is a 26 year old man who still looks like a young teenager. He's really tired of young girls flirting with him, thinking that he's their age.



[[AC:''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'']]
* Nadia from ''Fanfic/SliceOfHeaven'' was in her 40s when she died but Rover accidentally turned her ResidualSelfImage into a child.

[[AC:''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'']]
* Hiro Hamada from ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/3744697 Keep Your Head Down]]'' is a 26 year old man who still looks like a young teenager. He's really tired of young girls flirting with him, thinking that he's their age.



* Invoked by Danny in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29773263/chapters/73241475 Operation I'm Totally 300]]'' when he gets Clockwork to help him travel to the past with the intent of getting sighted so that people will believe that Phantom is centuries old instead of a normal teenager.

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* Invoked {{Invoked|Trope}} by Danny in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29773263/chapters/73241475 Operation I'm Totally 300]]'' when he gets Clockwork to help him travel to the past with the intent of getting sighted so that people will believe that Phantom is centuries old instead of a normal teenager.



* ''FanFic/{{Hivefled}}'''s Grand Highblood, as a purple-blood troll, would have lived potentially thousands of years anyway, but after a life-extending kiss from Condesce he's lasted much longer than he should have. An elderly seatroll, whose caste usually live even longer than the purples, notes that when he was born GH was already an adult in his prime.

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* ''FanFic/{{Hivefled}}'''s ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}'''s Grand Highblood, as a purple-blood troll, would have lived potentially thousands of years anyway, but after a life-extending kiss from Condesce he's lasted much longer than he should have. An elderly seatroll, whose caste usually live even longer than the purples, notes that when he was born GH was already an adult in his prime.



* ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'': Blankman, [[VillainProtagonist Jade's]] EnigmaticMinion, looks middle aged despite the fact that a flashback to his childhood is set in ''1929''.

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* ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'': ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'': Blankman, [[VillainProtagonist Jade's]] EnigmaticMinion, looks middle aged despite the fact that a flashback to his childhood is set in ''1929''.



* Played for laughs in a [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10027490 fic]] in which [[Creator/SebastianStan Dr. Beck]] admits that he got a lot of [[Series/DoogieHowserMD Doogie Howser]] jokes while in med school and couldn't buy alcohol until he was 23 because he looked considerably younger than he actually was and no one would believe his ID was real.

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* Played for laughs PlayedForLaughs in a [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10027490 fic]] in which [[Creator/SebastianStan Dr. Beck]] admits that he got a lot of [[Series/DoogieHowserMD Doogie Howser]] jokes while in med school and couldn't buy alcohol until he was 23 because he looked considerably younger than he actually was and no one would believe his ID was real.



[[AC:''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'']]
* ''Fanfic/MiraculousLadybugSaltShots'': {{Discussed|Trope}} in several stories; typically, Ladybug brings it up to point out that the {{Glamour}}s meant to protect their secret identities may be utilizing this.
** In ''Love Isn't Something That's Deserved'', she attempts to dissuade Chat Noir's [[EntitledToHaveYou sense of entitlement towards her]] by pointing out that they don't know anything about each other, not even their age! He brushes her off, only hesitating when she brings up how she might already be in another relationship.
** ''Reflection'' has her [[ShamingTheMob shame a mob]] of [[ShipperOnDeck LadyNoir shippers]] by {{Invok|edTrope}}ing this and outlining how none of them know whether or not they're already acquainted with her secret identity, forcing them to reconsider their actions in light of that:
--->'''Ladybug:''' I could be fifteen years old. I can be in my mid-thirties. I can be eighty years old and my miraculous just make me younger. I could be ''thousands'' of years old. But that doesn't matter to anyone, does it? I'm a superhero. A superhero for others to look up to. For others to ship me with my partner.\\
'''Nadja:''' I don't understand. What do you mean by that, Ladybug?\\
'''Ladybug:''' I could be ''anyone''. I could be your sister. I could be your mother. I could be your boss. Your co-worker. Your wife. Your best friend. Your daughter. How would you feel if someone close to you were getting ''shipped'' with a person that they said they had no romantic interest in?\\
'''Nadja:''' I--\\
'''Ladybug:''' You'd be disgusted, right? Angry even. You just don't understand why people keep shipping her with someone that they don't like. Why people keep pushing them to be a couple when the feelings are clearly one-sided. Even when she says no. But it's fine. It doesn't matter that we don't know the ages of either hero. Since one hero is clearly interested in the other, they're meant to be. Right? If I was your mother, anyone close to you and you ''knew'' my identity -- would you ''continue'' to ship us? Even if I have a relationship of my own. Would you still ship us and tell me to get together with him even when I don't want to date him and see him strictly as a partner?



* ''FanFic/MyLesbianLifeWithMonsterGirlsMonsterYurisume'': Mara looks to be fourteen, but is in fact twenty years old by small-breed arachne standards. In fact, according to her, her sisters think she actually looks ''older''.

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* ''FanFic/MyLesbianLifeWithMonsterGirlsMonsterYurisume'': ''Fanfic/MyLesbianLifeWithMonsterGirlsMonsterYurisume'': Mara looks to be fourteen, but is in fact twenty years old by small-breed arachne standards. In fact, according to her, her sisters think she actually looks ''older''.
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* In Fanfic/SunsetsIsekai, Sunset never visibly ages, despite owning the Isekai for thousands of years.

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* In Fanfic/SunsetsIsekai, ''Fanfic/SunsetsIsekai'', Sunset never visibly ages, despite owning the Isekai for thousands of years.
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* In Fanfic/SunsetsIsekai, Sunset never visibly ages, despite owning the Isekai for thousands of years.

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* Despite still technically being a "baby" dragon in ''WebVideo/MyLittlePonyTotallyLegitRecap'', Spike reveals he is actually old enough to be considered a legal adult by Equestrian standards and even engages in some the more risque actions the other characters partake in. This understandably makes things awkward, after he reveals this to Starlight, who apparently gave him a belly rub off screen, thinking he was just a little kid.
--> '''Spike:''' You think that was weird for ''you''?




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* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'' uses this as a joke. Spike (who is stated to be a "baby dragon" in canon) turns out to be 67 years old.
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* In ''[[Fanfic/TheLightningStrike The Broken Day]]'', after Harry accidentally creates an alternate reality mixing his home reality with the world of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, part of this new reality features Dumbledore and Grindlewald as leaders of the wizarding world's conflict against Hydra even into the present. It is noted that the two men don't look the century-plus they actually are, with other parties speculating they have access to a Philosopher's Stone to justify their relatively youthful appearance.
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