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5[[caption-width-right:350:[[http://isaia.deviantart.com/art/First-Crush-125866525 "Just thinkin' about someone special..."]] ]]
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7-> '''Charlie Brown:''' I think our teacher is in love.\
8'''Linus:''' I was afraid of that. I've always hoped that she'd wait until I grew up, and then marry me.\
9'''Charlie Brown:''' How would you support her?\
10'''Linus:''' We could live off her retirement pay.
11-->-- ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1989/03/21 March 21, 1989]]
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13Children [[PuppyLove having "crushes" on one another]] isn't uncommon. To most children, loving someone just means ''liking'' them a lot. They have no notions of sexual--and sometimes even romantic--love. Their crushes are, for the most part, [[ChildrenAreInnocent innocent.]] They may make a ChildhoodMarriagePromise with their best friend just because, and even pretend to get "married." Older kids generally have a basic idea of [[TheTalk the birds and the bees]], but still have to deal with [[HormoneAddledTeenager raging hormones]] and lots of confusion.
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15What happens when kids get crushes on ''adults?''
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17[[FilleFatale In some cases]], {{Squick}} happens. In most instances, you have an ordinary kid who has to deal with the ordinary awkwardness of having a crush on someone ''way'' out of their league.
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19The Precocious Crush is any instance of a child (usually pre-teen or younger, though young teenagers are sometimes susceptible) having a crush on someone considered at least one age level older than them. [[TeacherStudentRomance Teachers are common targets]], as are other, non-related caretakers. While having this kind of crush is more often associated with girls, it is also common to portray boys as having this kind of crush. Usually, nothing ever comes of it--at least not until the character in question is [[SheIsAllGrownUp much older]], and even then, it still might seem a bit {{Squick}}y to some. In animation, the trope can be invoked without fully using it in the case of teenagers, where one character is only a few years younger than their crush, but [[OlderThanTheyLook differing rates]] of [[YoungerThanTheyLook physical development]] makes the crush look a lot older than them.
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21This trope is TruthInTelevision. ''Lots'' of kids get crushes on their teachers or on their older neighbors, or friends of their older siblings--and older siblings of their friends, or even celebrities. (One resolution is for differences between the older and the same-age siblings to be mostly maturity; when the kid and the same-age sibling grow up, SettleForSibling can be a happy ending.)
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23See also PuppyLove, where two little kids crush on each other, and FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother, which relies on an innocent inability to distinguish between different types of love. If the interest is clearly sexual, then it's DirtyKid.
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25If the object of the crush happens to be a hot single mom (commonly known as a MILF), see StacysMom. Should anything actually ''happen'' in the relationship, see WifeHusbandry, JailBaitWait, TeacherStudentRomance, and MayDecemberRomance. See also LikesOlderMen, LikesOlderWomen, FilleFatale and {{Kidanova}}. Possible ways this crush can work out is if [[PlotRelevantAgeUp the kid becomes older]] or [[FountainOfYouth their crush becomes their age]].
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33* In Skuld's special episode at the end of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', she begins exhibiting this trope towards Keichi, but Urd tried to sabotage it and deliberately create a SnapBack--commenting to herself that it was for Skuld's own good. As it turned out, however, Skuld was only getting emotional as a part of Goddess puberty, and her full powers were kicking in. Once that settled, she mostly dropped said crush. In the manga version of the story, she merely suspects that she has a crush on Keiichi and sets out to prove that she doesn't.
34* ''Baby Love'' is about a girl who fell for an older boy as a little kid and promised herself that she would marry him. Four years later they meet again but he [[ForgottenFirstMeeting doesn't remember her]]. There's only a four year age difference but Seara is an elementary schooler while her crush is ending middle school and looks older.
35* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'':
36** CuteWitch Schierke: Intelligent, talented, and crushing furiously on Guts, who's twice her age.
37** And then there was Jill (during the Fairy Arc), who looks to be around Schierke's age, and was likewise crushing furiously on Guts. To the point where she persistently followed him around, trying to get him to agree to allow her to stay by his side. [[spoiler: In fact, he was pretty much her main reason for [[WeCanRuleTogether not agreeing to become one of]] [[DarkMagicalGirl Rosine's]] [[WeCanRuleTogether faeries]] when given the chance--her hesitation was shown to be mainly because of her crush on him.]]
38** Likewise, in the Hawks camp, young Sonia is head over heels for Griffith.
39* ''Manga/BlackButler'':
40** Angelina aka Madame Red was revealed to have harbored a deep PrecociousCrush on [[spoiler: Earl Vincent Phantomhive, Ciel's father]]. At the time, she was quite a bit younger than him. Unfortunately for her, he ended up [[spoiler: marrying her older sister Rachel, Ciel's mother. And some years later, ''both'' Vincent and Rachel were messily killed.]]
41** In the anime, the teenaged Finny also has one on Angela.
42* [[CuteBruiser Eve]] (who is assumed to be around 11) from ''Manga/BlackCat'' has a crush on Sven (30 years old), to the point where she actually feels a [[UnknownRival rivalry]] towards Train, wanting to replace him as Sven's [[HeterosexualLifePartners partner]].
43* Pinoko, from ''Manga/BlackJack''. Not only does she know things someone her age shouldn't, she's really the only person who can assist Black Jack in surgery, gets jealous when he pays any attention at all to other women (well, women, at least), and tends to get around just fine in areas Black Jack doesn't want her around. This is played with, because [[spoiler:Pinoko is actually 18 years old ''at least''. She was originally a sentient tumor (and possible parasitic twin) in the body of a teenage girl, and Black Jack extracted her from her sister's body and gave her an artificial body of her own, shaped as a little girl. She went to live with him after her "twin sister" freaked out and rejected her.]]
44* Garcia Lovelace (no older than 13) from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' has a crush on his MamaBear maid Roberta (mid-to-late 20s). [[spoiler: Confirmed in ''El Baile de la Muerte'', where ''[[http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo91/StayuplateInsomiac/Black%20Lagoon/1256542123920.jpg he kisses her.]]'']]
45* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
46** Arguably, [[spoiler:Neliel]]. "Arguably" because [[spoiler:Neliel]] isn't exactly a little kid. [[spoiler:She's a full grown adult ActionGirl who ended up stuck in a SleepModeSize after a serious injury.]] However, she still shows affection to Ichigo [[ManChild like a child does.]]
47** Momo clearly has a crush on Aizen, but she's around Hitsugaya's age so looks about fourteen while Aizen looks quite a bit older.[[spoiler:Even after Aizen proved to be quite the ManipulativeBastard and only saw her as a pawn, Momo sadly still believes he's not evil.]]
48* When Shura Kirigakure from ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' first met Shiro Fujimoto when she was a child, she immediately declared her love for him and that she wanted to marry him.
49* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'':
50** Sakura Kinomoto initially has a crush on the teenaged Yukito, though they give it a plot-related propping up towards the end and the two of them ultimately end up with other people ([[spoiler:Sakura falls for Syaoran; Yukito, for Sakura's ''brother'' Touya. Both of them are around their love interests' same ages]]).
51** Then there's Rika Sasaki's huge crush on her adult teacher, Yoshiyuki Terada, which is a point of contention with fans since in the manga he apparently accepts and reciprocates it (though he tells her to wait until she's of age). In the anime, he remains oblivious and she's way too shy to let anyone know.
52** Played with in Syaoran's case, since he spent over half of the anime seemingly crushing on Yukito, but it was then revealed that [[spoiler:he was subconsciously attracted to Yue's magical energy. He learned this when he started to fall in love with Sakura.]]
53* Played with in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' chapters 925 through 927. Ai Haibara takes it badly when she learns her favorite athlete, Ryusuke Higo (in his early-to-mid 20s), is rumored to be dating local idol Yoko Okino (around his same age). She refuses to listen to Yoko's songs anymore and even hires Kogoro, a fan of Yoko's, to investigate the affair. When they all inevitably get involved in a murder case, Haibara's interaction with the pair include things like instantly agreeing to whatever Ryusuke says and ''dis''agreeing with Yoko, even if they're saying essentially the same thing. After everything is resolved, we learn the rumors are fake and Ryusuke personally thanks Haibara for her help in the case and even makes an offhand remark about putting her on his team. The final panel shows Haibara insisting on playing soccer despite stormy weather and singing Yoko's newest song. The twist that plays with the trope is that Haibara is actually an 18-year-old [[FountainOfYouth physically regressed]] to about age 7 and is typically a LittleMissSnarker on top of that... [[HilarityEnsues yet her behavior throughout these chapters ends up matching almost exactly what one would expect of her grade-schooler appearance.]]
54* ''Manga/ChocoMimi'': Misaki, an eighth-grader, has a crush on Mr. Take, who is in his mid-forties. This attraction is frequently PlayedForLaughs.
55* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
56** Kaguya Sumeragi is 14 when she proclaims herself Zero's future wife and proceeds to become the show's TokenMiniMoe. She even proposes the {{polyamory}} when someone else tries to tease her about the other women in Zero's life. It's worth noting that Lelouch himself is 16/17 years (although everyone assumes the masked vigilante Zero is much older under the mask), so the age difference is quite small, and both are WiseBeyondTheirYears, though Kaguya prefers to act younger than she is, most of the time. And also ''looks'' younger than she is for that matter. Nothing becomes of it, regardless. [[spoiler:She's promised to Zero, not Lelouch, so the only thing Lelouch's death and Suzaku taking the name does is add KissingCousins to the mix, and that ignores that she was [[ArrangedMarriage originally supposed to marry Suzaku in the first place]].]]
57** Also, some people interpret Empress Tianzi's thoughts towards her guardian Li Xingke that way. The squick is greater since Tianzi is 13 and Xingke is 24, and she's known him for half her life.
58** Mao apparently developed one for C.C. at an early age when they lived alone in the wild together, eventually developing into full fledged {{Yandere}} love when [[ShesAllGrownUp he gets older]]. He even takes it to StalkerWithACrush and LoveMartyr proportions.
59* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'': Shin, who is in kindergarten, falls in love with college student Nanako Oohara; meanwhile his classmate Ai Suotome has a crush on him.
60* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper's'' Future Trunks Arc featured both Present Trunks and Mai crushing on each other's alternate future selves.
61* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'':
62** Shinra Kishitani has been harboring an intense and ''very'' vocal crush on his [[HeadlessHorseman Dullahan]] housemate, Celty, for the last 20 years. He's only 24. Do the math.
63** His friend Shizuo Heiwajima, as a child, had a huge crush on a cute shopkeeper from his neighborhood. [[spoiler:She got seriously injured when Shizuo had a psychotic breakdown while trying to protect her from thugs, and several years after that, he still considers the terrible incident as his greatest failure.]]
64* ''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu'': Ten year old Ash has a crush on Blue's teenage sister May.
65* Naota Nandaba develops a crush on Haruko Haruhara in ''Anime/{{FLCL}}''. It's implied that he's around 12, and she's ''at least'' 19. An interesting case, in that he only decides he loves her after she spends several episodes flirting with him and teasing him and basically doing everything [[{{squick}} short of molesting him]] to get him to notice her. Then when he finally responds to her advances she plays this trope straight, saying that he's too young for her [[spoiler: and leaving him behind when she leaves Earth. But not before he plants a kiss on her. By the end of the series, after Haruko leaves, he appears to be getting away from the trope and instead developing a relationship with his classmate Eri Ninamori.]]
66* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has May Chang, who at first has a crush on Ed… [[LovingAShadow and then she actually meets him]]. From there her crush shifts to Ed's much more polite brother Al, who's around her same age. [[spoiler:It is heavily implied that they end up together years later.]]
67* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'', 16-year-old Takiko has had a crush on her father's assistant Takao ever since she was a little girl. Said assistant is at least 10 years older than she is… and HappilyMarried [[spoiler: with a daughter named Suzuno]].
68** In the 3rd OVA to the original ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' series, Mayo falls in love with the 20-something Taka at an ice cream parlor while she is in JuniorHigh. Her unrequited feelings become a major plot point as she tries to rewrite the Universe of the Four Gods so that ''she'' becomes Taka's wife instead of Miaka.
69* In ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'', Inui, a high school student, has a crush on Yukari who is the school's secretary and HappilyMarried with a young child. His middle-school aged sister Mika likes Hayato, a high school student like her brother.
70* While not as major as some, ''Manga/GameXRush'' has Sayako, a 13-year-old TeenGenius, crushing on 19-year-old Memori who doesn't seem to notice. (Granted, he's [[DeusAngstMachina a little preoccupied]].) This continues 3 years into the future, when Sayako is 16 and Memori 22.
71* In ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'', nine-year-old Mamoru's classmate Reiko has fallen for the "long-haired hunk" aka the twenty-year-old Guy Shishioh who never notices her crush. She is highly annoyed to discover he is already taken. Another episode has her ogling soldiers at a military base, so she may just be a DirtyKid in general.
72* In ''Anime/TheGardenOfWords'', 15-year-old Takao slowly develops a crush on the mysterious (to him) 27-year-old Yukari Yukino. Although Takao wouldn't call it a crush, he is mature enough to admit it might be of that nature. This is incredibly awkward for Yukino, [[spoiler: she having been forced out of her job as a teacher at Takao's school as a result of malicious false rumours about her reciprocating a crush from a different student.]]
73* Mika from ''VideoGame/{{Gungrave}}'' (who is about 14) develops one for Grave, who's saved her on numerous occasions and is also not just her bodyguard, he's also her mother's former sweetheart. However, Grave's also undead and is way older than her (he was about 29-30 at time of death and reanimation stopped his aging but still). It doesn't go much further than that, as Grave specifically tells her that all he can do for her is to serve as her Guardian.
74* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'':
75** Henrietta seems to have quite a crush on her handler Jose. This is never really built on, but remains Henrietta's most notable character trait, and is contrasted with Elsa's [[spoiler:fatally]] disabling crush towards ''her'' handler.
76** Triela has a crush on her handler Hilshire. She refuses to reveal her feelings as she's well-aware that at least a part of her feelings are conditioned by the treatment that made her a TykeBomb, ''and'' also knows that he's not much more likely to be romantically interested in a girl half his age.
77** Hasta is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld just as old]] as Nyarko and Cuuko (they went to Space Kindergarten together). Everyone just treats him like a kid.
78* ''Manga/HanamaruKindergarten'' is about a 5-year-old little girl's [[{{Moe}} adorably bungled]] attempts to get her kindergarten teacher to love her. She's convinced he has a crush on her, since… he called her "Little Lady." Unlike ''Kodomo no Jikan,'' this plays its subject matter for [[RuleOfFunny laughs]] and [[RuleOfCute d'aawwws]].
79* Nagi (13) in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' has a crush on Hayate (16). He cares deeply for her, but not ''that'' way.
80* In a {{Filler}} episode of ''Anime/HeatGuyJ'', a girl named [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Hime ("Princess")]] decides that she likes Daisuke's older brother [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Shun]]. HilarityEnsues.
81* ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'':
82** Fifth-grader [[{{Tsundere}} Kyoko]] has a harmless, unrequited crush [[TeacherStudentRomance on her 25 year-old teacher]], Nube, due to a combination of RescueRomance from several years ago, and a BodyguardCrush from a previous life (in which they ''were'' the same age.) However, both Kyoko and Nube have other love interests (Hiroshi, for Kyoko; [[spoiler: [[BettyAndVeronica Yukime and Ritsuko]] ]], for Nube, so it never goes any further than that (despite [[GossipyHens Minki]]'s teasing).
83** To a degree, high school-aged Yukime's crush on Nube counts too. She fell in love with Nube when she was 11 and he was in his very early 20s, and [[RescueRomance he saved her from being shot to death]] by a JerkAss hunter who feared [[AnIcePerson her ice powers]]. [[spoiler: She actually ''does'' get together with him, though. [[EarnYourHappyEnding After much struggling and misfortune]].]]
84* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', Little Romano (South Italy) develops one of these on resident CoolBigSis [[http://pics.livejournal.com/melcratch/pic/00003xx2/ Belgium]]. Even if he does [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments back away]] when she cheerfully indulges him.
85* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Happens to Miroku (of course) and a young girl named Koharu, although we only see the second half of it.
86* In ''Anime/JewelpetTwinkle'', Labra the toddler Jewelpet develops a crush on Akari's 6th grader friend, Yuuma.
87* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'':
88** The Official Doujin spin-off turns Kaguya and Shirogane's mutual attraction into this in a [[HighSchoolAU Kindergarten A.U.]]. Notably, Toddler!Kaguya is far more open about her crush on Teacher!Shirogane than her main series counterpart.
89** Within the main series, [[spoiler:Moeha is revealed to have a crush on Shirogane during the culture festival. While the gap between them is only three years (she's 14 and he's 17), it's large enough that [[ClinglyJealousGirl Kaguya]] is comfortable enough using it to write her off as a threat.]]
90** According to supplemental material, Shirogane was tutored by Fujiwara's older sister Toyomi when they were in elementary school and middle school respectively, though his crush was never anything serious and for all intents and purposes Kaguya is his FirstLove.
91* ''Manga/TheLegendOfZelda''
92** Subverted in the first ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' manga. It appears that the prepubescent-looking Link has this sort of crush towards the teenaged Zelda, however Zelda is actually ''younger'' than Link. As Link is [[HalfHumanHybrid half-elf]], he ages slower than humans. Link is older than Zelda [[spoiler: and is in fact her [[BrotherSisterIncest older]] [[SurpriseIncest brother]].]]
93** In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'', Roperi has one on Sir Raven, and later shifts focus to Link.
94* In ''Manga/LoveHina'', one of the first girls to start crushing on Keitaro is [[ShrinkingViolet Shinobu]], who is only thirteen at the story's beginning while Keitaro is nineteen.
95* In ''Anime/MagicalShoppingArcadeAbenobashi'', 12-year-old Sasshi has the hots for [[MsFanservice Mune-Mune]], which is ironic considering [[spoiler: she's really his grandmother, who looks perpetually like her 19-year-old self, thanks to a time paradox]]!
96* In the Alma Torran flashback in ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'', Solomon was 5 years older than the 12-year-old Sheba when he [[RescueRomance saved her]]. After a few years, she developed feelings for him but he didn't take her seriously as he saw himself as a ParentalSubstitute for her. However he eventually reciprocated and they [[OfficialCouple became a couple]].
97* Early in ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'', Kentaro Ichinose (the little boy) announces that when he grows up he's going to marry Kyoko, so Godai better back off. Kyoko is amused by it. Later he falls even harder for Kyoko's niece Ikuko, so it wasn't an issue for long. Ibuki gets a big crush on Godai; she's 7 years younger but at least she's in high school.
98* ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'': It's heavily implied that Ruri harbors a crush on Akito, although she doesn't chase after him like the others do. Subtle signs for it include her believing in his Gekiganger 3 knowledge to save Omoikane, picking him as her first choice for her knight when she was called a princess, and the biggest example, the lyrics (and the title) of "I Want to be your Number One", her ImageSong from the beauty contest episode are implied to be for him.
99* Rita in ''Anime/MichikoAndHatchin'' is a 10-year-old foundling with a Precocious Crush for the man who discovered her and adopted her into the circus he worked in. Since the object of her affections is about to settle down with a woman, she's intensely jealous. However, she gets over it.
100* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' has an ArrangedMarriage set up between [=McGillis=] Fareed (20s) and Almiria Bauduin (9). While [=McGillis=] is generally shown to be somewhat uncomfortable whenever this is brought up (probably due to the age difference), Almiria could not be happier with the arrangement.
101* Tomoe Marguerite from ''Anime/MyOtome'' develops a crush on a teen-aged Shizuru as a pre-teen girl, even going so far as to sneak onto campus to get a look at her. Several years later when Tomoe is 15 and a student in Garderobe, it becomes ''very'' {{Squick}}y when [[spoiler: she sexually manipulates an adult, captive Shizuru (who is now a staff member at the school Tomoe attends) and basically rapes her.]].
102* ''Manga/NanakaSixSeventeen'': Kuriko, a kindergartener, gets a crush on high-schooler Nenji because he saves her from some bullies and looks like her older brother, who is abroad.
103* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
104** Asuna Kagurazaka (14) is crushing on Takamichi (mid to late 30s). May be subverted as [[spoiler:Asuna is [[OlderThanTheyLook older than she looks]] and may very well be as old or older than Takamichi. She just [[LaserGuidedAmnesia doesn't remember it]].]] However, Asuna getting turned down also has nothing to do with her age, oddly enough. Takamichi simply feels unworthy of love, [[spoiler:especially from royalty.]]
105** Asuna also has a similar attraction to the mid-to-late-40s Eishun Konoe, the father of her best friend Konoka, and had a bit of a similar reaction the first time she saw Nagi [[spoiler: in a dream]]. Given that [[spoiler: they, also, adventured with her and had a hand in, basically, raising her,]] this ''may'' be feeling for them as parents (except Takamichi), misplaced due to amnesia.
106** As a kid no older than 15, [[spoiler: Kurt Godel]] used to have a huge crush on [[spoiler:Negi's mother,]] Queen Arika. Now that he's in his 30s, he's still in love with her [[spoiler:even though she's very likely dead by that point]].
107** Evangeline, who has the body of a 10-year-old, had a crush on Nagi, Negi's father. He only treated her as an annoying kid because he wasn't into little girls. When she pointed out she's ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, he turned it around that she was far too old for him and [[{{Squick}} that it was still creepy]].
108* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
109** Asuka has an obvious and vocal crush on Kaji, her guardian. She's 13/14 (her birthday is partway through the series), he's somewhere in his late 20s. To Kaji's credit, despite his [[ChivalrousPervert womanizing habits]], he always rebuffs Asuka's advances, having no intention whatsoever of starting anything with her. This being ''Evangelion'', Asuka handles rejection badly since it feeds her complex of being "unwanted".
110** In the ''Evangelion'' world, the guardians get all the love. Shinji fantasizes about his own guardian, Misato, who is around Kaji's age. But, in marked contrast with Asuka, Shinji is thoroughly disgusted with himself for these feelings, which he never admits to anyone. And toward the end of the series, [[spoiler: when a distraught and lonesome Misato suggests to an even more distraught and lonesome Shinji what seems to be an offer of 'comfort sex',]] he not only balks but soon thereafter runs away for good. In the show's GeodesicCast, [[OfficialCouple semi-official couple]] Misato and Kaji are the respective adult parallels of [[OfficialCouple semi-official couple]] Asuka and Shinji.
111** {{Jerkass}} guardians get love, too. As horrible as Gendou is to pretty much everyone, his ward Rei included ([[TheWoobie if not most of all]]), at the start of the series, Gendou seems to be the only character to whom Rei has developed any sort of emotional attachment. [[spoiler:As the series progresses, Rei's feelings gradually transfer from Gendou to his son Shinji, and [[HeroicSacrifice intensify enormously]] in the process. This alters rather than alleviates the {{Squick}}iness, since she's the clone of Gendou's wife/Shinji's mother, Yui, with [[TwoDonorClone Lilith's DNA mixed in]]... making her Shinji's sort-of half-sister.]]
112* ''Manga/NobunagaNoChef'': 5-year-old Ranmaru Mori is smitten with Natsu, the protagonist's LoveInterest.
113* Isami in ''Anime/{{Noein}}'' has a rather obvious crush on his teacher Ms. Yukie, which his friends tease him endlessly over. Several future timelines show him eventually getting into a real relationship with his childhood friend Ai.
114* Ririka's friend Karin from ''Manga/NurseAngelRirikaSOS'' falls for a cookie shop owner who ends up being a member of Dark Joker. When he disappears after being defeated, she falls for a hamburger shop owner. Apparently she [[SmittenTeenageGirl falls for men often,]] [[RunningGag usually men from various food venues.]]
115* In ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', Hasta falls in love with Mahiro after he shows him kindness and even repeatedly asks if they can be lovers. Mahiro refuses because Hasta's a child, [[IncompatibleOrientation they're both boys]], and he's really the avatar of [[EldritchAbomination Hastur, The King in Yellow]].
116* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
117** 8-year-old [[DirtyKid Momonosuke]] has a crush on 20-year-old Nami, who, true to the trope, remains oblivious and lets him sleep in her bed. [[spoiler:After Momonosuke is aged to 28-years old, he still tries to hit on Nami, to which the woman is clearly less than pleased.]]
118** Justified during the Egghead arc with [[spoiler:S-Snake, a ModifiedClone of Boa Hancock who inherited her original's massive crush on Luffy due to her [[GeneticMemory Lineage Factor]]. This fascinates her creator, [[AbsentMindedProfessor Dr Vegapunk]], since she wasn't programed for such things.]]
119* ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'' has Ringo, who falls for Keiju Tabuki when she's a little girl. He's old enough to be her schoolteacher, and ''is'' in fact the teacher of the Takakura brothers Kanba and Shoma. [[spoiler: And he was the boyfriend of Momoka, Ringo's dead older sister.]]
120* Poor, poor Masato (Max) from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire'' (who is not old enough to be a Pokémon trainer) developed such a crush on the youngest Kachinuki (Winstrate). She is more naive than he and ends up breaking his heart.
121* ''Anime/PrettyCure'' is brimming with these:
122** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'': Nagisa's younger brother Ryouta has a crush on her best friend Honoka. Unfortunately for Nagisa, he's much nicer to Honoka than to herself.
123** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'': Saki (14) has a crush on her best friend's older brother Kazuya who is around 2 to 3 years older than her.
124** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'': Nozomi (14) and Komachi (15) have a crush on Coco and Natts, respectively, who are both adults. Fortunately, these guys have feelings for them, too. Bizarrely enough, Coco and Natts are [[NonHumanSidekick fairy mascots]] (and princes) who can transform into humans.
125*** Rin (14) has a few crushes on older guys. In the sequel, she and Karen (15) had both a crush on the villain [[BigCreepyCrawlies Mucardia]] who used his human form as a disguise.
126** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': A young boy named Hayato is revealed to have a crush on Yuri (17), and Tsubomi, Erika and Itsuki set out to help him reveal it. He's temporarily shot down (and turned into a Desertian) when Yuri says she considers him like a little brother, but when he recovers and she learns how he feels, he realizes he should start small and decides he'd be there to protect her [[spoiler:which he does--he's one of the few survivors when the world becomes [[ApocalypseWow a desert]] and is there to help the Precures out of their DarkestHour.]]
127*** Tsubomi herself had a crush on the "handsome young man" [[spoiler:who is later revealed to be her grandmother's [[NonHumanSidekick fairy mascot Coupe]] who transformed into Tsubomi's ''grandfather''.]]
128** ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'': [[NonHumanSidekick Raquel]] (around 10) has a crush on his Cure partner Rikka (14). [[spoiler:He can transform into a human now, unfortunately, only into a child instead into someone in Rikka's age.]]
129* Marie has a crush on the older Ageha in ''Manga/{{Psyren}}''. Things get a bit complicated when [[spoiler: Ageha travels to the future and discovers that, along with her PlotRelevantAgeUp, she is still crushing on him.]]
130* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' begins with Akane Tendo having a one-sided crush on Dr. Tofu, a chiropractor who has apparently been something of the family physician for many years, having been responsible for treating Akane's sprains and bruises since she was a little girl. He is completely oblivious to her feelings for her, though, and this coupled with his freakish [[LoveMakesYouCrazy obsession with her elder sister Kasumi]] helps her to get over it. She eventually grows out of it some time after Ranma's arrival.
131* In ''Manga/RisingImpact'' there are at least 2 cases like that:
132** The main character (who is a 9-year-old boy) and this 21-year-old pro-golf player lady who took care of him for some time. Well they did get along quite well, so it's no wonder that [[spoiler:they actually got married years later]].
133** One of the students at the golf school in America had a really strong crush on his female teacher. It all started when he was brought to the school as a small boy and cried a lot. Said teacher tried to replace his mother (with whom he had little contact while in school), but the boy developed feelings for her which very different from those one has for his parent. [[spoiler: In the end nothing came out of this crush]].
134* Princess Adele in ''Manga/TheRoyalTutor'' has a crush on the titular character Heine. She is three years old, the youngest out of King Viktor's children, while Heine's age has yet to be revealed but he reminds others that he is an adult and at one point, muses to himself that Adele is young enough to be his daughter. It also doesn't help that Heine [[OlderThanTheyLook physically appears only a few years older than Adele]].
135* In ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', a girl named Tsubaki (who's at most 13/14) is a bit of a {{Tsundere}} to Anji (early-to-mid 20s), the gentle and peaceful Buddhist monk [[ParentalSubstitute who took her and a bunch of other orphaned children in.]] The younger kids swear by this trope [[ShipperOnDeck and actively ship them together.]] [[spoiler: Too bad Tsubaki and the other children are killed by their greedy townspeople, which makes poor Anji cross the DespairEventHorizon and have a FaceHeelTurn.]] Interestingly, the anime studio saw potential in that (and even the manga's author, Nobuhiro Watsuki, admitted that they ''could'' have some sort of relationship), therefore [[AdaptationExpansion the anime added]] [[ShipTease some more heartwarming scenes]] of the two of them interacting. Including one that happens [[SnowMeansLove in the snow]].
136* ''Manga/SailorMoon'':
137** In the anime Usagi's little brother Shingo develops a crush on Ami. This really isn't all that unreasonable given that the age difference between them is just about 4 years (Shingo's around 11, Ami is 15) exactly the same for his older sister and Mamoru, in fact the Ami/Shingo pairing isn't even all that uncommon in fan fiction. It helps that Shingo is often presented as more mature than his sister.
138** Chibiusa has a precocious crush on Mamoru, despite knowing that he's her ''[[KidFromTheFuture future father]]''.
139** Chibiusa also thinks Shingo (who, for the record, is her uncle and goes from pre-teen to young teenager in the series itself) is pretty cute.
140* Kyouko Kadokura, the sensei of ''Manga/SenseiLockOn'' has had a tendency to attract these, with boys in the elementary school she teaches at actively trying to flirt with her or otherwise vie for her attention. The very first of these boys, Kazuki Yamato, fell for her on her first day teaching his class. He re-enters her life when he turns twenty and convinces the now thirty-three year old Kyouko to become his girlfriend.
141* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': Anya's classmate Becky has a crush on Anya's adoptive father Loid, and one chapter focuses on her (extremely unsuccessful) attempts to seduce him. While she's convinced that she knows all about romance thanks to the TV dramas she's watched, it's made clear that she's too young to really know what she's doing and the manga's narration notes that she's detached from reality.
142* The short ''The Structural Formula of First Love'' is about a woman whose best friend and unrequited love became pregnant in high school 13 years ago and dropped out. Her friend's daughter is absolutely in love with the protagonist and the protagonist worries it's due to a "curse" she stated--that her friend's child would fall in love with her. The manga ends with implications of [[MayDecemberRomance the two dating]] when Chisato finishes high school.
143* In ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', 12-year-old Silica develops a crush on the 15-year-old Kirito after he helps her resurrect her dragon familiar Pina and [[RescueRomance protects her from Titan's Hand]]. Unfortunately for her, he sees her as a little sister and, by the time he and Silica meet up again, he's already in a relationship with Asuna.
144* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'':
145** Sasami has occasionally expressed some interest in Tenchi (but [[ChickMagnet who hasn't?]]) but it is double subverted by her age. She's really [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld over 700…]] but ''by Juraian standards'', she's still considered a little girl.
146** Played straight with Ryo-Ohki, who is shown to dream of being with Tenchi, where they are picking carrots together. Technically, she's a child, but she's also a centuries-old living warship that was reborn after its destruction.
147* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'':
148** Protagonist Kotetsu's 10[=/=]11-year-old daughter Kaede develops a crush on her dad's 24-year-old partner Barnaby after [[spoiler: he saves her life in the second episode.]] Kotetsu's a bit annoyed about it.
149** Blue Rose/Karina is in her teens and harbours a massive crush on Kotetsu who is in his late 30s. When she discovers he is widowed and has a young daughter, she [[HeroicBSOD goes into a state of shock]] but by episode 25, she seems to have recovered and is intent on making Kotetsu fall for her.
150* In ''Manga/{{Tsukigasa}}'', one of Azuma's young students tries to disrupt Kuroe's lessons because he has a crush on Azuma and sees Kuroe as his rival. It's PlayedForLaughs considering how worked up Kuroe gets over it.
151* ''Manga/WanderingSon'':
152** Kaneda is an attractive young teacher who attracts the attention of a lot of his middle school students. Out of the main cast Maho, Makoto, Chizuru, and possibly [[spoiler:Takatsuki]] have all crushed on him. Saisho doesn't get much attention but there is a minor character who keeps on hitting on him, to his discomfort.
153** Subverted with Takatsuki and Yuki. Takatsuki was awfully excited when Yuki flirted with her however it was because she was excited that [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity she was passing for a boy]]. Though Yuki was MistakenForPedophile by her boyfriend when he met Takatsuki, the two have a platonic IntergenerationalFriendship where Yuki is a CoolBigSis.
154** Doi has a crush on Yuki for a few chapters and gets Nitori to let him meet her. The crush goes away [[UnsettlingGenderReveal once he learns]] that she is [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} a trans woman]].
155* ''Manga/YouAndMe'':
156** In preschool Kaname had a crush on his teacher. As a teenager he still LikesOlderWomen and when they meet again he still likes her.
157** When the boys volunteer at a kindergarten several of the girls fall for the twins Yuuta and Yuki.
158* ''Literature/YouLikeMeNotMyDaughter'': Takkun has had a crush on [[StacysMom Ayako]] since he was a kid, but now that HeIsAllGrownUp it's blossomed into real love.
159* 8-year-old Rebecca Hopkins from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' has one of 15-year-old Yuugi. It's less {{Squick}}y in the Japanese version, where she's 12.
160* When stuck in a hidden village DisguisedInDrag Taichi from ''Manga/{{Yuureitou}}'' catches the eye of a boy. Taichi isn't the most attractive {{crossdresser}} and it's stated that the boy is only attracted to Taichi because he is the only young female he's met.
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164* In ''ComicBook/AForce'', the child-like Singularity is ''very'' fond of her teammate Nico, to the point that fans wondered if they might become a couple. The creators have said that Singularity does, in fact, have a crush on Nico, but Nico sees her as a little sister.
165* In Creator/PeterMilligan's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'', Lucinda Angel is a young girl who has a crush on Buddy Baker and doesn't seem to care much that Buddy is a married man in addition to being old enough to be her father.
166* ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderThePromise'' introduces Penga, one of Toph's students at the Metalbending Academy. As soon as Penga meets Sokka she is obviously smitten with the adolescent boy. Sokka responds with amusement and kindness, but of course no similar infatuation.
167--> '''Sokka:''' How old are you, Penga?\
168'''Penga:''' Almost sixteen.\
169'''Sokka:''' And by "almost," you mean...\
170'''Penga:''' Nine.\
171'''Sokka:''' I see.
172* In ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', Damian Wayne, who is at best, biologically 12 (New 52 Damian definitely has accelerated growth, and 5 years old chronologically, at best) has several: [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]], ComicBook/{{Katana}}, [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]] and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}.
173* The 2005 graphic novel of ''ComicBook/TheDeadBoyDetectives'' by Jill Thompson has Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland help the students of an all-girls school investigate the disappearance of their friend Elizabeth. The youngest of the girls is a five-year-old named Frederika, who takes a liking to 12-year-old Edwin and refers to him as her "husband". Edwin plays along.
174* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Frequently forgotten is that Susan Storm knew and had a thing for Reed Richards since he was a college undergrad… and she was 13. At least one writer since then has retconned this in their version of the Four's backstory, explicitly ditching this element and establishing their first meeting as occurring when the two of them are both in college and at around the same age.
175* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'':
176** Arisia was a 13-year-old member of the Green Lantern Corps with an unrequited crush on Hal Jordan. After a PlotRelevantAgeUp, the two hooked up, but the whole thing was so creepy that Creator/GeoffJohns later {{Retcon}}ned it by saying that 13 on Arisia's planet is [[OlderThanTheyLook around 240 on Earth]].
177** During Creator/JuddWinick's run, Kyle Rayner learns that the 16-year-old Terry Berg is gay and has a crush on him. After helping Terry come to terms with his sexuality, Kyle tactfully explains to Terry that he can't reciprocate his feelings [[IncompatibleOrientation because he's straight]] and because the age gap is too wide.
178* A late 70s issue of ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats'' centered around a little boy who appeared to be stalking Josie and Melody. When Alexander finally apprehends him, the young stalker tearfully admits he had a crush on Melody, who is so flattered she kisses the boy smack on the lips. The kid launches off into space.
179* Cypher of ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' nursed an unrequited crush on Comicbook/{{Psylocke}}.
180* Molly from ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' has a crush on Wolverine, until she finds out what a jerk he is. (To be fair to Logan, she was [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee shrieking at an unbearable level]] and asking to touch his hair.)
181* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'':
182** In Jeff Smith's ''Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil'', Billy Batson has a crush on beautiful reporter, Helen Fidelity (a blonde expy of Lois Lane). [[LovesMyAlterEgo Helen likes Captain Marvel]] (who is a separate personality in this version). This dynamic continues into the sequel series, ''ComicBook/BillyBatsonAndTheMagicOfShazam.''
183** This is also what the other heroes believed when he and Stargirl started dating since they looked like a teenage girl and a late-20s man instead of two teenagers. The eventually broke up to maintain Billy's secret.
184* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': John Hartigan, 60, saves Nancy Callahan, 11, from a pedophile. When he is set up as a scapegoat and sent to jail she confesses her love and promises to wait. [[spoiler:When he is released 8 years later he discovers that she kept her promise. While [[JailbaitWait she is technically legal]], he still refuses to make a move on her because of the age difference and their history.]]
185* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', Amy Rose, is an 8-year-old who has a huge crush on Sonic, who is 16. Later after a half-retcon-half-timeskip in the series they are 12 and 15 respectively.
186* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story arc ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the titular Bizarro character -who looks like a teenager but is only six-weeks-old- has an one-sided crush on Bizarro!Luthor -who looks like a middle-aged man, albeit he's months old-, much to the real Kara's disgust.
187** Kara herself had a crush on [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]], expressing attraction to him several times in her 2005 run. [[LikeBrotherAndSister She grows out of it.]]
188* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanWarbringer'': When Alia was younger she sent a love letter to her older brother's best friend Theo, who thought it was cute and was genuinely surprised by the nice things she said about him even if she was younger and he didn't reciprocate. She never fully got over the crush and by the end of the tale, where their age gap means much less as fellow young adults, they go on a double date with Nim and Nim's new love interest.
189* A variation of this occurs in ''ComicBook/XFactor''. WaifProphet Layla Miller doesn't act like she has a crush on Jamie Madrox, but several times told him that they were eventually going to get married. [[spoiler:They did get together and eventually married after she received a PlotRelevantAgeUp.]]
190* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
191** The young X-Girl [[GenkiGirl Megan Gwynn/Pixie]] developed a crush on team leader Cyclops during her earlier appearances, and it occasionally pops back up from time-to-time. Scott meanwhile seems to view her as a daughter (something his ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny'' self outright states [[spoiler:when she dies]]), and given the age gap there's little-to-no chance of them going anywhere... but her and the Young!Scott that came to the present following ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' seems to be a slowly growing FanPreferredCouple in some circles.
192** Tempus, a teenage mutant, also developed a crush on Cyke, pretty much the moment she met him. She didn't hide it particularly well, and everyone knew how she felt about him. However, even with her PlotRelevantAgeUp, Scott still appears to be in his forties (this is outright stated), while Tempus is at best in her very early 20s.
193** [[spoiler:Young!Jean]] also starts to have a crush on Cyke [[spoiler:since he's the man she hoped Young!Scott would grow up to be.]] Cyke shuts this down immediately since he knows it's inappropriate on so many levels.
194** It's been implied on occasion that ComicBook/{{X23}} may also be attracted to Cyclops, which is [[DatingWhatDaddyHates awkward]] [[OppositeSexClone for]] [[TheRival multiple]] [[HoYay reasons]]. Hellverine tried to seduce her by assuming his form, and during her brief stint with the ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'', she and Young!Scott spent a not insignificant amount of time hugging and comforting each other.
195** During a BDSM session with the Red Queen, Empath admitted to having a crush on ComicBook/EmmaFrost while she was his teacher.
196** The first ''ComicBook/XForce1991'' annual had a story centered on how Wiz Kid had a crush on his teacher, to the point of being jealous and distrustful of her boyfriend. As it turned out, said boyfriend was part of a group of anti-mutant extremists and was only dating her to gain access to files on the school's mutant kids; after the group's arrest, Wiz Kid offers himself up as an option "if [she's] willing to wait a few years", which manages to cheer her up a bit.
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200* ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' shows Michael Caesar having a crush on Music/JenniferLopez, though according to his horoscope he may have moved on to Music/{{Beyonce}}.
201* One ''Cow and Boy'' strip showed that Billy's friend Martin had a crush on Billy's older sister, Stacy. However, when Martin went to see Stacy, he sees that Stacy already has a boyfriend, so he goes up to the older boy and kicks him in the leg, much to Stacy's shock.
202* ''ComicStrip/{{Crabgrass}}'': In a story arc that started with [[https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass/2020/07/08 this comic]], Kevin develops a crush on Miles' mother.
203* In ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', Linus' crush on his teacher Miss Othmar.
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207* In ''Fanfic/AllAmericanGirlShinzakura'', Sam Martinez reveals that he has had a crush on [[spoiler:Princess Celestia]] since he first saw her at age 11. [[spoiler:He gets the chance to act on it 20 years later]].
208* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In "The Teacher," Penny falls for the new HotTeacher at school despite their notable age difference. He rejects her advances, though.
209* In ''Fanfic/CardcaptorRad'', Alexis has one on Rachel.
210* After Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/{{Superman}}, and Franchise/WonderWoman physically and mentally [[FountainOfYouth regress into children]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10329793/1/Chance Change]]'', they gain a crush on [[ComicBook/Robin1993 Tim Drake]] after he spends the afternoon taking care of them.
211* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4600290/1/Comedy_of_Errors Comedy of Errors]]'', a ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfiction, Toph, who is somewhere in her midteens, has a crush on Iroh, who is about 70. The twist comes when [[MayDecemberRomance he returns her affection]].
212* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8319428/1/Daisy-Ring Daisy Ring]]'', 5-year-old Harry decides he's going to marry his teacher and kisses her on the cheek before leaving for the summer.
213* The ''Series/{{Heroes}}''/''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' crossover "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12045706/1/Dark-Days Dark Days]]" briefly teases this when Jasper and Peter half-jokingly comment to Bella that Micah seems to be particularly attached to her, even though he's only twelve and Bella is [[spoiler:physically early twenties and a vampire]].
214* The ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' fanfic [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1318474 "What No One Else Had Seen"]] implies that 9-year-old Harley may have a little crush on Jonathan, who is 16. The fic, being about the pair finding a dead body, manages to be sweet and macabre at the same time.
215* ''Fanfic/FateHaremAntics'': Subverted. When Shirou meets his adoptive sister Illya for the first time, she makes her massive crush on him perfectly obvious ([[{{Yandere}} partly by trying to kill the girls standing too close to him]]). Shirou ignores her crush without too much trouble, since she's just a kid. Except later, she explains that [[OlderThanTheyLook her aging was stunted]], and she is in fact his ''older'' sister. At which point Shirou realizes he's being straddled by an eighteen year-old woman who knows ''exactly'' what she's doing.
216-->'''Shirou:''' I... would you please get off me before we keep talking?\
217'''Illya:''' ''[grinning]'' Is there something wrong onii-chan?
218* PlayedWith in ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/10264509/336/Tales-of-Fairies The Gender Bend Omake: Sting's Crush]]''. Prior to the 7-year timeskip, Sting Eucliff, age 11 to 12, had a crush and admiration for [[GenderFlip Natsu Dragneel]]. During the Grand Magic Games, he is 19 while Natsu hasn't age, and he thinks he has a chance for her. Natsu herself is uninterested, because one, she likes Luca Heartfilia, and two, she dislikes Sting for bragging about murdering his foster father and laughing when Minerva was torturing Luca.
219* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}''/''Franchise/Ben10'' fanfiction ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6331445/7/Hanging-Ten Hanging Ten]]'', 10 year old Briana gains a crush on 15 year old Ben Tennyson after seeing how much of a NiceGuy he is (him being handsome certainly helps).
220* Deconstructed in the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10''s fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4267279/1/Hero-High-Sphinx-Academy Hero High Sphinx Academy]]''. [[GodIsEvil Lord]] is able to detect the old scars in Gwen's heart when she had feelings [[KissingCousins for her cousin Ben]] back when they were kids. It is revealed that due to her disgust to these feelings she hurt him in response when he was just trying to cheer her up after a bad day at school, which is the reason why they have not gotten along for nearly a decade after. Lord nearly cripples Gwen mentally revealing this fact to her.
221* This ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/10607?page=1 fan comic]] is about [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Jotaro]] asking the [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable high-schooler Josuke]] to watch over his 7-years-old daughter [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Joylne]] while he's hunting a Stand User. While Josuke is unsure and Jolyne is shy at first, the two soon get along. After Jotaro picks Jolyne up, she asks him if she can marry Josuke when she is older, which nearly knocks out Jotaro.
222* ''Fanfic/LinkedInLifeAndLove'': Blake's crush on old family friend Adam was originally this, as he was ten or so years older than her. Blake's mother Kali wasn't particularly concerned and figured it would go away on its own, but Blake's father Ghira took Adam aside and told him in no uncertain terms that he was ''not'' allowed to encourage Blake's attraction. Adam promised he wouldn't do anything. Kali is therefore ''pissed'' when she finds out that Adam tried to Mate with her daughter, and that's before she finds out that Blake ran away from the White Fang [[MindlinkMates because of what she saw in Adam's soul]].
223* ''Fanfic/TheLionTheWitchAndTheFairysTail'': In ''Return to Narnia'', 13-years-old Prince Caspian has one on [[Manga/FairyTail Erza Scarlet]], who's not only 6 years older than him biologically but was one of Narnia's Four Rulers after defeating the White Witch over a thousand years before Caspian was born.
224* ''Fanfic/LittleHandsBigAttitude'': Agent Tower's grandfather wishes he was born a few years earlier so he could have a chance to be with Maria. Maria died fifty years ago.
225* ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'': {{Inverted|Trope}}. Some of the girls are older than Danny yet he manages to win them over.
226* In ''Fanfic/MyDreamIsYours'', both Olympia and Oona, who are in the 10-12 age range, have crushes on the band members of Soundcheck, with Oona being in love with Danny T. while Olympia is in love with Tony D. Oona's love for Danny T. goes far beyond Olympia's love for Tony D., however, as Oona's recurring dream involves Danny T. serenading her while the pair ride a gondola.
227* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
228** ''Fanfic/BeneathYourFeetWhatTreasures'' is about Spike dealing with the fact that he is [[DidNotGetTheGirl not going to get Rarity]].
229** ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsMagicTheAdventuresOfSpike'': Spike apparently had one on Cadance when he was younger, but got over it.
230** ''Fanfic/LifeInManehattan'': Since Twilight and Spike [[AlternateUniverseFic never went to Ponyville]], they never met Rarity, so Octavia instead becomes the object of Spike's affections.
231** ''Fanfic/MyChoicesTwistedTalesThroughTime'': As a filly, Trixie develops a crush on Shining Armor while visiting at Twilight's house, and is horrified to learn that he already has a marefriend.
232** ''Fanfic/RainboomsAndRoyalty'': A recurring plot point is that when filly Rainbow Dash moved to Canterlot to become Celestia's student, she met Shining Armor when he became a member of the Royal Guard and started crushing on him. Hard. And [[EveryoneCanSeeIt obviously]]. At the end of the story, Shining finally talks to Dash about it, and gets her to accept that he only cares for her like a sister, and she seems to move on. Until the second sequel, ''Hot Heads, Cold Hearts, and Nerves of Steel'', reveals that she still has lingering feelings for him. This becomes a serious source of tension due to the Mane Six being accompanied by him and Cadance on their mission.
233** "Seeds of Magic", a [[RecursiveFanfiction recursive]] AlternateUniverse spinoff of the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', has something similar happen to that universe's version of Applejack -- she meets Shining Armor due to befriending Twilight in school and develops a crush on him. She claims to have long since gotten over it, however.
234** ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': Sweetie Belle has a crush on Cheerilee, her teacher, at one point.
235* In ''[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KCdq0ZqferZJ6VPowmY5RAmXhHR8LkkEq2FmTD6b88c/edit My Wish Order Brother]]'', [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Kiba]] gains a crush on [[DudeLooksLikeALady Deidara]] (who he thinks is a girl, no one bothers correcting him) because he's really cool and really pretty. When he does find out Deidara is male, he's at first shocked, [[AmbiguouslyBi but he still decides to fanboy over him]].
236* Deconstructed in the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''x''VideoGame/Persona5'' crossover ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12860516/1/Of-Magical-Girls-and-Phantom-Thieves Of Magical Girls and Phantom Thieves]]''. Because both Nanoha and Fate are WiseBeyondTheirYears, Ren is unable to dismiss their romantic attraction to him as a simple crush. However, in the end they are still children while he's nearly eighteen leaving him with no choice but to deal with an admittedly "half-assed" JailbaitWait promise.
237* In ''Fanfic/ThePiratesSoldier'', Sasami's crush is directed towards Heero's friend and fellow Gundam Pilot Trowa Barton. Like in canon, it's played around since she's a Juraian and thus centuries older than him, but by her species standards she's still a pre-teen girl.
238* A sidestory of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' reveals that Ash, when he was younger, had a crush on [[CoolBigSis Daisy Oak]], Gary's older sister. [[MySisterIsOffLimits The latter]] ''[[MySisterIsOffLimits wasn't]] ''[[MySisterIsOffLimits amused.]]
239* ''Fanfic/APossibleEncounterForAPhantom'': Danny has a crush on Shego, who is [[VagueAge probably]] a decade older than him. She's flattered but not interested in a hero younger than even her usual teen nemesis.
240* ''Fanfic/PrecociousCrush''. A ''Kick-Ass'' fanfic that's primary plot point is that Hit-Girl, who at the start of the fic is 11, wants Kick-Ass, who is 6 years older.
241* ''Fanfic/RazputinVodelloAU'':
242** After Lizzie gives him a kiss as part of some light teasing, Raz winds up developing a crush on her. After a quick heart to heart, the two of them manage to diffuse it before it escalates.
243** Gisu tells Raz that she had a crush on a much older teenager. She spent years without telling him, only to suffer heartbreak when she found out that he was gay.
244** Lizzie confesses to Raz that she can relate to Raz's crush on her because she had a crush on [[spoiler:Milla Vodello]].
245* In ''Fanfic/TheStalkingZukoSeries'', Katara had a crush on her father's friend Bato when she was 12, a mere 2 years before the start of the story. She got over it quickly, and as such, hopes that the 12-year-old Aang will get over his crush on her. The author also points out that she doesn't think much of this trope, saying that people don't wind up with those they're interested in when they're 12.
246* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10264509/25/Tales-of-Fairies Tales of Fairies]]'' Asuka, [[Manga/FairyTail Alzack and Bisca's]] six-year-old daughter, tells her father that she's in love with Pantherlily, the sullen and tall Exceed who while not having his age revealed is at least older than Mystogan. Alzack doesn't take it well, and tells Lily to stay away from Asuka, much to the latter's befuddlement.
247* ''Fanfic/TimeFixersNicktoonsOfTheFuture'':
248** Timmy Turner's daughter, Tammy (who is 10), has a huge crush on Jimmy Neutron (who is in his 30s) and is even the president of his fan-club. At the start of Season 2, she starts to get over her feelings for him after he marries Cindy, but she still tends to fangirl over him.
249** Kida (a 6-year-old) has a crush on Darry Fenton (a 14-year-old). He either doesn't seem to notice or even care.
250* ''Fanfic/TherellBeAnotherTime'': Stephanie has a huge crush on Sportacus.
251* A downright ''horrifying'' example from ''Fanfic/TheVerySecretDiary''. Ginny is, of course, mooning over Harry, but she also seems to be developing feelings for her new friend, a handsome sixteen year old boy that acts as her only confidant. She comments on how good-looking he is, and even kisses him at one point. (Out of gratitude, allegedly.) This boy's name? Tom Marvolo Riddle. [[MindGameShip Yep.]]
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255* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012'' has 12-year-old Ted crushing for high school girl Audrey.
256* Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' has Skippy's sister remarking how handsome Robin is. Robin never addresses it and it's only brought up in that one scene.
257* The little penguin Arnold in ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'' has one for local lifeguard Lani, to the point where he routinely attempts to drown himself, just so she can rescue him.
258* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed''. Ming gets angry when she finds out that Meilin has a crush on Devon, the clerk of Daisy Mart, and publicly confronts him for corrupting her "innocent little daughter." Except Meilin and Devon are only four years apart (she is 13 while he is 17, although Ming [[YoungerThanTheyLook mistakes him for a 30-year-old at first]]), and Meilin is undergoing puberty so having a fickle crush like that is perfectly normal for her age.
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262* In ''Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros'' (''The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros''), 12-year-old Maxi, a boy from a family of petty criminals in the Manila slums, falls in love with a handsome rookie cop. They become friends and the cop, whose sexuality is left ambiguous, grows quite fond of Maxi, but nothing happens between them except the cop telling Maxi he's pretty and stroking his hair and Maxi stealing a quick peck on the cheek.
263* Creator/NataliePortman plays another adolescent with a crush in ''Film/BeautifulGirls'', where Marty, her character, develops feelings for Willie (Timothy Hutton), her neighbor.
264* Jenny in the movie ''Film/BigFish''. When she meets Edward Bloom, she's 8 and he's 18. She tells him that once she gets older, the age difference won't matter as much. Years later he meets her again, him now married and her divorced.
265-->'''Jenny:''' I was 18, he was 28. Turns out it was a big difference.
266* ''Film/BlankCheck'' has a {{Squick}}-ish moment in that the young boy actually gets a brief on-the-mouth kiss from the adult woman at the end, who tells him to look her up when he's older.
267* ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'': Jesse has a crush on his music teacher, [[Creator/ZooeyDeschanel Ms. Edmunds]].
268* ''Film/CrazyStupidLove'': Robbie has a longstanding crush on Jessica, his babysitter. He's in middle school (so about 12) and she's about 17.
269* Nick, the main character and focus of the titular ''Film/TheCrush'', thinks of Darien's infatuation with him this way… at first. His coworker/girlfriend is the first one to realize that Darien is AxCrazy and dangerous, though Nick gets there soon after.
270* There's an Irish short film called ''Film/{{The Crush|2010}}'' about a little boy who has one on his teacher. Turns into SeriousBusiness when he challenges her boyfriend to a duel.
271* ''Film/Desperados2020'': A kid at the hotel ends up getting a crush on Wesley after she has a bunch of AccidentalPervert run-ins with him. It's played more for CringeComedy than adorableness and it gets Wesley MistakenForPedophile by the boy's mother and the hotel staff.
272* In ''Film/TheDevilsBackbone'', one of the students has a wholesome crush on a teacher. The teacher's boyfriend, when he was a student, was engaged in [[TeacherStudentRomance a less wholesome relationship]] with the principal.
273* ''Film/TheFall'': It's hinted that Alexandria develops one on [[Creator/LeePace Roy]] during their time together. She draws a picture of them together with a heart on it and [[AnywhereButTheirLips kisses his face several times]] when he passes out [[spoiler:during his suicide attempt]]. She also pictures him as the Black Bandit in their story and gives the LoveInterest some of her characteristics (favorite food, eye color etc.). On the other hand she [[SelfInsert inserts herself]] into the story as the Bandit's daughter, so her exact feelings for him remain unclear.
274* ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'': According to Mia, Letty fell in love with Dom when she was a child, and there is at least a ten-year age gap between the two. Dom only started noticing her [[SheIsAllGrownUp when she turned 16]].
275* A very disturbing example in ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie''. Dodger is a 15-year-old boy who falls in love with Tangerine, a 20-year-old woman who uses seduction tactics to manipulate him. It is noteworthy that in real life, the actress was only a year older than the actor (they even dated in real life), but you would never believe it for the appearances of the duo in the movie.
276* ''Film/TheHunt2012'': Klara develops a strange crush on Lucas, a teacher at her daycare (and a friend of her father's). He (rightly) refuses to return these feelings. This does not end well for him.
277* A rare meta example: Apparently, during the filming of ''Film/TheHuntsmanWintersWar'' [[Creator/CharlizeTheron Charlize Theron's]] son developed a mad crush on Creator/EmilyBlunt, who plays Freya. [[https://youtu.be/pd3YMQiVjZwm Have a look.]]
278* Also in ''Film/{{Jack|1996}}'' when the titular character gets a crush on his [[Music/JenniferLopez school teacher]]. Played with and justified since he suffers from a disorder that speeds up his aging four-fold (so he looks and appears 40 when he's actually 10 at heart), he sees it as OK because he looks like a grown-up (which eliminates girls his own actual age). The teacher understands this, but still turns him down, because he is 10 at heart and it would still be wrong regardless of what he looks like.
279* ''Film/JojoRabbit'': The 10 year old Jojo slowly develops a crush on Elsa, the teenage Jewish girl hidden by his mother.
280* In the film version of ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', {{Tomboy}} [[PlayfulHacker hacker]] Lex Murphy clearly has a crush on paleontologist Alan Grant, even before he saves her life. In [[Literature/JurassicPark the novel]], Lex is much younger, so this subtext is absent.
281* ''[[Film/TheKid2000 Disney's The Kid]]'' has an interesting case in which an 8-year-old kid asks a grown woman to marry him, [[SubvertedTrope but he's not actually asking for himself]], he's asking for his future 40-year-old self who's been in love with her for some time and is [[LoveEpiphany just starting to realize it]].
282* The Indian girl from ''Film/LegendsOfTheFall'' started like this, and then [[ShesAllGrownUp she won]].
283* K. Roth from ''Film/TheLivingWake'' had a crush on his nanny as a child. When he discovers he's terminally ill as an adult, he decides to finally ask her out, despite her being ninety and married. She goes with it, but her husband is ''not'' happy and tags along, leaving K. Roth's best friend Mills to try and distract him. [[spoiler:At K. Roth's [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral wake at the end]], he gives her a kiss... and then lays one on her irritated husband, too.]]
284* German classic ''Film/MadchenInUniform'' is about a 14-year-old girl who falls for her female teacher.
285* In ''Film/{{Malena}}'', 12-year-old Renato becomes obsessed with the titular Malena, a woman whose husband has gone to fight in the military overseas and is presumed dead. It becomes at least a little disturbing when he develops StalkerWithACrush tendencies, and even ''has sex with a local prostitute'' while fantasizing about Malena.
286* In ''Film/MyGirl'', Vada has a crush on her teacher, Mr. Bixler. [[spoiler:She confesses to him while breaking down after Thomas J.'s funeral, and he tries to gently let her down and informs her he is getting married. This makes her feel even worse.]]
287* Neil in ''Film/MysteriousSkin''. It's not so much a crush as it is an instant 'sledgehammer' of desire he feels upon seeing his baseball coach for the first time. And unlike most other examples of this trope, it does not go unrequited. Horrible, horrible, horrible events ensue.
288* Teenage girl Megan has a crush on the at least 30-something Preacher in ''Film/PaleRider''.
289* Anakin Skywalker towards Padmé Amidala in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. She likes the kid well enough, but doesn't really return the feelings until HeIsAllGrownUp in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
290* In ''Film/TheProfessional'', the adolescent Mathilda has a crush on her savior and mentor, Leon. The original cut of the film makes her crush less innocent, and she actually propositions him for sex.
291* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'':
292** Used for a throwaway joke. One of Indy's female students has penned "LOVE YOU" on her eyelids so that they're visible when she oh-so-fetchingly bats her eyelashes at him. Indy loses his train of thought in mid-lecture and is visibly unsettled.
293** There's also a less lighthearted treatment of it in the film. Marion was the daughter of one of Indy's mentors, and had such a crush on him, which apparently led to the two becoming involved. The fallout from that resulted in the destruction of Indy's relationship with Marion's father and quite a fair bit of bitterness on Marion's part, hence why when Marion sees Indy one of the first things she does is hit him and scream "I was a child! I was in love! It was wrong and you knew it!" WordOfGod is that she was definitely underage at the time.
294* In ''Film/TheSandlot'', Michael "Squints" has a crush on the lifegaurd at the swimming pool, knockout blonde Wendy Peffercorn. Actually, all of the boys do, but Squints is the only one who acts on it. He can't swim, so he jumps into the deep end of the pool so she'll perform CPR. It works. The kids all get banished from the pool forever. [[spoiler:Once they're grown up, Squints and Wendy get married and have 9 kids.]]
295* While a borderline example due to the ages involved, this trope is the main plot point of 1979 movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079935/ Sooner or Later]]''.
296* [[spoiler:Edison]] has one of these in ''Film/ValentinesDay'', recognized and redirected near the end by the target of his crush.
297* ''Film/TheWorldOfHenryOrient'' is about two 14-year-old girls who follow a third-rate concert pianist around because one of them has a crush on him. He in turn knows ''something's'' going on, but mostly because they keep turning up whenever he's trying to have an affair with a married woman.
298* In the first two parts of the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', the teenage Rogue has a crush on the ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Logan. This seems to vanish by ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', where she's in a steady relationship with Bobby.
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302* Creator/RobertAHeinlein:
303** ''Literature/TheDoorIntoSummer''. An adult male time traveler is friend/honorary uncle to an 11-year-old girl, who falls in love with him. He goes into [[HumanPopsicle cold sleep]] [[spoiler:twice]] into the future. The girl waits until she's 21, then enters cold sleep herself, to awake when he returns.
304** In ''Literature/PodkayneOfMars'', Podkayne's younger brother develops a crush on a lady traveling with them on the space voyage to Venus.
305** A similar situation happens in ''Literature/TheCatWhoWalksThroughWalls'', except she joins a time-and-dimension-traveling agency and works for them until she ages up enough. From her crush's perspective, it was only a few days.
306* 15-year old Lydia in ''Literature/AfterAlice'' has a crush on the 20-something year old Mr. Winter.
307* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Relkin has one towards Lagdalen in the first novel. He helps her when she's in trouble and even invites her on a date. However, it doesn't work out for obvious reasons — he is just a poor, uneducated orphan and lowly dragonboy, while she is a noblewoman and personal assistant to one of the most important people in Argonath. In the end, Lagdalen rejects his advances since she sees him only as a friend (also because he's "too young and too stupid" for her). She eventually falls in love with and marries Captain Hollein Kesepton, but she and Relkin remain good friends for the rest of the series.
308* In Creator/ConnieWillis's ''Literature/{{Blackout}}'', the adolescent Colin explains to Polly that he hopes through some TimeTravel tricks to end up her own age. [[spoiler:At the end of ''All Clear'', he's done it, not for the crush, but in a desperate attempt to save her and another time traveler from death.]]
309* Jesse has a crush on his music teacher in ''Literature/BridgeToTerabithia''.
310* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Jerin mentions having had a crush on his teacher, and recognizing the early signs of the same in his brother, Doric. As she's the only non-related woman they see on a regular basis, it is not surprising. Jerin is apparently over it; when the teacher points out that he needs to wear a veil because his beauty could attract kidnappers, he doesn't feel flattered, more surprised.
311* In Hilary [=McKay's=] third book in the popular ''Literature/CassonFamilySeries'', the implication in ''Permanent Rose'' is that Rose (who is only 8/9 at the time) has a crush on Tom Levin, who is at least 12/13 at the time, but she isn't aware of it herself that she has a crush on him, whereas everyone else in her family is cognizant of it.
312* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfDorsa'': Linna developed a crush on Tasia when she was fourteen while the latter was then a young woman about six years older, but it soon faded. She knew Tasia loved Joslyn, her mentor, and even if Linna had been older would never think of her that way.
313* Zigzagged in the fifth book of the Dutch children's horror series ''Literature/DeGriezelbus'' (The Spooky Bus). VillainProtagonist Paul Onnoval, an immortal combination between a werewolf and vampire has a crush on the mortal school teacher Liselore, making this a MayflyDecemberRomance. However, after defeating [[{{Satan}} Ferluci]], Onnoval asks Ferluci to allow him to become a mortal human again, so he can spend time with his love Liselore. Ferluci does so, but reincarnates Onnoval into the body of a child and one of Liselore's pupils, essentially making it a strange version of this trope.
314* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Molly Carpenter had this for Harry. Harry is fully aware of the reason for it, and provides the current page quote on LikeParentLikeSpouse when he gently tries to explain the situation to her. Unfortunately, rather than growing out of the crush, it changes into definite sexual feelings when she's a teenager and it eventually becomes genuine unrequited love when she's in her 20s. By this point she has matured enough to let her relationship with Harry stay platonic, and consequently Harry assumed that she had gotten over her childish crush and was surprised and saddened to discover the depths of her feelings, since he knew he could not reciprocate them. (Though with the shift in power dynamic between the two as of ''Literature/ColdDays'', Harry himself doesn't rule out the eventual possibility of something happening between them. The fact that her own father has come to the mistaken conclusion that they're already in one but hasn't taken his head off helps).
315* Played [[TearJerker for]] [[PlayedForDrama massive tragedy]] in the Chilean novel ''El niño que enloqueció de amor'' ("The boy who lost it for love"). An unnamed boy no older than 12 falls in love with his beautiful neighbor Angélica [[StalkerWithACrush and becomes]] [[CrazyJealousGuy obsessed with her]]… [[spoiler: When it turns out she has a fiancè named Jorge and the kid catches them kissing, he has a MASSIVE FreakOut and, from then on, he [[GoMadFromTheRevelation completely loses his mind]].]]
316* Although she's not seen in the actual story until she's an adult and the Queen of Elenia, ''Literature/TheElenium'' trilogy by Creator/DavidEddings indicates that Ehlana had one of these for Sparhawk from the age of 7 onward, sparked because he was one of the few people she could truly trust. Of course, they end up married despite the 20-odd-year age difference, so it was a bit different from most crushes of this sort.
317** Of course, when they later have a daughter, she announces by age 4 who she's going to marry. Considering [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld what she is]], she probably will.
318* A [[LiteralMetaphor literal]] example exists in ''Literature/{{Eludoran}}'' between Malachi and Marissa. Since he's a wolf and she's a bear, she's not only an older teenager but also easily 3 times his size.
319* Similar to the above example, Glokta's backstory in ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'' makes mention of him, the dashing war hero, visiting the home of his subordinate and friend, Collem West. Little sister Ardee West was just a child at the time, but thought Glokta was the man of her dreams. When they meet again some 10 years later, the child he vaguely recalls has grown up beautiful, he starts falling for her, and she… well… 2 years of torture make a man somewhat less dreamy, and she's more interested in Jezal than a girlhood crush. [[spoiler: Jezal kicks her to the curb in the end, though, and Glokta gets the girl. Kind of.]]
320* In ''Literature/TheGirlWithAllTheGifts'', Melanie has a hero-worshipping crush on her teacher, Miss Justineau.
321* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
322** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', 12-year-old Hermione has a crush on Professor Lockhart, but then, so do most of the girls in Hogwarts (not to mention Molly Weasley and the other mothers.)
323** And in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' most of the girls (but not Hermione) have a crush on [[OurCentaursAreDifferent Firenze]].
324** Fleur's sister Gabrielle has a crush on Harry. They met when he was 14 and she was about 8.
325* In Creator/LinneaSinclair's ''Hope's Folly'', Rya was 10 when her father brought one of his subordinate officers home for dinner. While Philip vaguely remembers her as an obnoxious little girl hellbent on bothering him, she remembers him as the ultra-cool friend of her father who took the time to teach her how to shoot properly. When they meet up, in her mid-20s and his late-40s, Rya's crush reignites and she pursues a MayDecemberRomance with him.
326* The narrator of ''Literature/JacobHaveILoved,'' at the age of 14 develops a crush on Captain Wallace, a man who, at 70, is ''older than her grandmother''.
327* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'':
328** Raki Bladi has a crush on the lieutenant of her squad, Aegis. She regularly calls him "old man" despite his protests that he's only 28. Her own age isn't specified but as the elder sister of Mia she's likely in the upper teenage range. He acts more like her BigBrotherMentor.
329** Zettai quickly falls for Eric after [[RescueRomance he rescues from the gallows]] and then immediately [[TeacherStudentRomance becomes her personal magic tutor]]. He doesn't notice because of unrelated magical things like WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
330* The main plot of ''Joy School'' by Elizabeth Berg. Jimmy takes it extraordinarily well, all things considered.
331* 9-year-old Phaedra has one of these on 18-year-old bull-leaping star Theseus in Creator/MaryRenault's ''Literature/TheKingMustDie''--especially unfortunate because by the sequel she has grown up to be a full-fledged FemmeFatale.
332* In Christpher Moore's ''[[Literature/LambTheGospelAccordingToBiff Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal]]'', the titular Biff confesses to growing up with a crush on Jesus's mom Mary.
333* In Ronald Frame's ''The Lantern Bearers'', a 14-year-old boy soprano spends the summer singing for a young composer and becomes attracted to him. [[spoiler: When the boy's voice suddenly breaks he is summarily kicked out--shades of Benjamin Britten's boys--and in revenge falsely accuses the composer of having "touched" him, with tragic results.]]
334* ''Literature/LegacyOfTheDragokin'': Benji is 10 and has a crush on the 15-year-old Lydia, who is functionally an adult because she's an officer in her country's military.
335* 14-year-old Evelyne, from ''{{Literature/Malevil}}'', has a severe infatuation with Emmanuel. Unfortunately, she gets possessive, Emmanuel bows out of his Apocalypse-induced {{Polyamory}} relationship, and he becomes accused of being a paedophile.
336* In the ''Literature/MyWeirdSchool'' book, "Miss Cooney is Looney", A.J. tells his friends, Ryan and Michael, about his crush on the school nurse, Miss Cooney. [[ShmuckBait Sure enough,]] [[WithFriendsLikeThese they make fun of him.]]
337* In the ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' series:
338** Annabeth Chase first met Luke Castellan when she was 7 and he was 15, and has never stopped loving him since.
339** [[spoiler: Nico di Angelo's]] crush on [[spoiler: Percy Jackson]] started out as this, with [[spoiler: Nico]] being about 10 or 11 and [[spoiler: Percy]] being 14. [[UnrequitedLoveLastsForever By the time they're both teenagers, this doesn't really apply]].
340* In the ''Literature/{{Petaybee}}'' series, 'Cita, who was raised by a cult and married off at the age of 12, develops a thing for [[BigBad Matthew Luzon]]. [[{{Jerkass}} She probably isn't the only one]], but still.
341* In ''Literature/RachelGriffin'', the eponymous Rachel has a short-lived crush on the apparently very good-looking gym teacher, Mr. Chanson. Rather realistically, it lasts for about half a chapter, before she meets someone her own age.
342* In ''Literature/RebuildWorld'', it's all but stated that Akira (a boy in his early teens) has significant feelings for Sara and Elena, veteran hunters who are many years his senior, for both their beauty and for being so kind to him. He reacts differently to them than any other girl, his words and actions more resembling an innocent child's than his usual bluntness, and he immediately rushes over to help when he gets a call from them.
343* In ''Literature/TheRomanMysteries'', Flavia, at the age of 10, has a crush on Publius Pollius Felix, who is in his 30s, married, has a daughter her age, [[spoiler: and is later found out to have slept with most of his slave-girls and a good deal of other women, causing his wife to try and poison herself. Eventually she sees him for what he really is and gets over him.]]
344* In ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'': ''Dark Days'', Davina Marr mentions Valkyrie's crush on Skulduggery. Marr mocks Valkyrie's crush on her much, much older mentor and best friend again in ''Mortal Coil''. Valkyrie doesn't confirm it, but neither does she deny it.
345* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
346** Bran crushes on [[ActionGirl Meera]]. She only has about 4 or 5 years on him, but since he is only 9, a few years makes a very big difference. In any case, his crush has the archetypal innocence and {{Moe}}ness of this trope.
347** Depending on how much you consider her a child (she is 12 but the [[HeroicFantasy Medieval Fantasy]] setting makes this old enough to marry,) Sansa could be said to have one for [[KnightInShiningArmour Ser Loras]]. Possibly, you could say she has a PrecociousCrush on Ser Loras, (since she thinks of him in childish fairy-tale terms.) Her friend, Jeyne Poole has a similar crush on Beric Dondarrion.
348** Cersei Lannister was smitten with Prince Rhaegar Targaryen when she was 10 and he was 17. She never forgave her father for failing to get her betrothed to Rhaegar and hated Robert Baratheon for killing him in battle. (After the war when her father made a political marriage between Cersei and Robert, that relationship worked out just about as well as you'd expect.)
349* In the novelization of ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', Saavik is a tutor to Scotty's nephew Peter Preston. She herself does not realize this until Spock asks why Scotty wants Peter to discontinue their tutorial, she explains what Peter said to her the last time they had a session, and he pointed out what a crush was, what Peter was probably feeling, and that she would have to be careful how she handled it.
350* Franchise/StarWarsLegends:
351** There's a form of this in ''[[Literature/XWingSeries Starfighers of Adumar]]'', where dueling champion Cheriss gets a crush on New Republic hero Wedge Antilles. Compared to [[ProudWarriorRace Adumari]] pilots, he's [[ImprobablePilotingSkills practically a god]]. He considers her to be somewhat younger than what he'd call adult, although she ''is'' risking her life in blastsword duels. It's never stated how old she is; in a previous book Wedge treated 16-year-old [[KidAppealCharacter Gavin Darklighter]] like an inexperienced adult, but he called Gavin "kid", and he never does that to Cheriss. He's embarrassed by the crush and tries to ignore it. She sees Wedge's OldFlame as competition of sorts, and when Wedge actually hooks up with his old lover again, Cheriss tries to commit suicide by honorable combat. Wedge talks her out of it while finally getting out his dislike for this ProudWarriorRace society.
352** In ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear,'' 13-year-old Tash Arranda meets 19/20-year-old Luke Skywalker and takes an immediate liking to him. He carries a lightsaber like the Jedi Knights she so idolizes, he's kind to her and doesn't dismiss the [[SpiderSense weird feelings]] she gets like everyone else she's ever met, and she feels like she's been waiting all her life to meet someone like him. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Of course, it's not a crush; she's too old for those]]. When he leaves, this happens.
353---> An electric tingle rose up Tash's hand as Luke shook it. The tingle lasted long after the ''Millennium Falcon'' had blasted into the sky.
354** In ''Literature/StarWarsKenobi'', after Ben Kenobi saves her in a BigDamnHeroes moment, seventeen-year-old Kallie Calwell can't get enough of the man (who has about 20 years on her), going so far as to sneak out to his place and eavesdrop on his meditations. Ben's ''actual'' LoveInterest is Kallie's mother Annileen, a widow.
355* ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
356** Firestar was barely an apprentince when he fell for Spottedleaf, who was already an adult and had been working as a medicine cat for a while. Spottedleaf was 4 years old when she died while Firepaw wasn't even 1 at the time.
357** The plot of ''Spottedleaf's Heart'' revolves around Spottedpaw's crush on Thistleclaw.
358* Dameon in ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' gets one for Mrs. Jewls, but fears being teased by his friends, so he plays pranks on her. When he admits the truth, Mrs. Jewls replies that she [[BaitAndSwitchSentiment loves him and everybody]], but loves Mr. Jewls in a more specific way.
359* Julian Desjardin's novel ''White Lightning'' has this as part of Detective Andrews' backstory, PlayedForDrama. He apparently spent a year pining over his sixth grade teacher, and when not very gently turned down, came to the conclusion it was because he 'looked wrong'. Thus began his lifelong obsession with passing for white, including a name change taken from a book she'd assigned him to read. 20 years later, in 1927, she meets him again, and realizes the damage she's done when she addresses him by his Korean birth name and he legitimately doesn't react to it.
360* While the age difference is not that huge, in the ''Literature/WindOnFire'' series, 8-year-old Pinto has a crush on Mumpo, who is 15 (legally able to be married in the world the two live in) and in love with her older sister Kestrel. [[spoiler: She gets him in the end after Kestrel "dies", though.]]
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364* Let's just say Creator/DisneyChannel loves this trope when they get a chance to use it for all its worth. To list:
365** ''Series/HannahMontana'': The first episode of Season 2 has Rico crushing on Miley, even going so far to manipulate her into going out with him because he knew Miley was scared that "He knows her secret and will spill it out" (she thought that the "secret" was being Hannah Montana). In the end, turns out that the secret was [[spoiler:She still has her teddy bear with her, despite being in high school.]]
366** ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'': The episode "Working Girl" had this in effect when Matt was depressed, then Miranda gave him advice, and then he starts falling for her. This went as far as ''asking her on a date''.
367** ''Series/ANTFarm'' has Fletcher immediately liking Paisley whenever the latter notices him. Examples are in the episodes "[=TransplANTed=]" and "[=ManagemANT=]", but luckily, Chyna doesn't seem to mind. Doubles as a "just for his adorableness" pedophilia in Paisley's part.
368** ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'': Cory towards Chelsea in early episodes. Later, Stanley towards Raven.
369** ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' has this with Zack over Maddie throughout the show. By ''On Deck'', he got his kiss from her. One of the most memorable moments is in the episode "A Prom Story" where they shared a prom dance.
370*** Also from ''On Deck'', the 8-year-old prince of Liechtenstamp crushing on Maddie. He even was near to marrying her, too! On this same same episode, Zack still had feelings for Maddie, but it evolved into a LikesOlderWomen situation.
371** ''Series/ShakeItUp'' had this in one episode's B-plot, where Ty is teaching Flynn how to attract the girl he likes. The said girl is older than him and is portrayed by the same actress who plays Paisley in the ''A.N.T. Farm'' example above (Allie [=DeBerry=]).
372** Luke is this to ''Series/{{Jessie}}''… sometimes. He also did this with Shaylee Michaels in "Jessie's Big Break".
373** ''Series/CrashAndBernstein'' has Pesto, about age 12 is this towards Amanda who is 16 and clearly older than him.
374** ''Series/LivAndMaddie'' has this one time with Parker having it towards Liv's BFF South in "BFF-A-Rooney", complete with jealousy with he sees South flirting with Diggie.
375** ''Series/{{Jonas}}'' has Frankie falling for Macy in "Direct To Video", but only for awhile, because the moment Frankie tasted her baked cookies, it was over.
376* On ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', Tommy got a crush on his music teacher Miss Frost, with the aliens not realizing how inappropriate a relationship between them would be.
377-->'''Tommy''': Well, I met this woman that I really like and I think she likes me, but she's a little older. 31.\
378'''Dick''': Tommy, do you really think a woman of that age would be interested in you?\
379'''Tommy''': Sure.\
380'''Dick''': Wow, good job!
381** Later on, Tommy, operating under the delusion that Miss Frost will soon return his affections, decides to gracefully break up with August and tell her that he'll be with Miss Frost now. August, who can barely contain her laughter, says that it's all right because she'll be with Creator/ValKilmer, but he [[SarcasmBlind misses the sarcasm]]. ([[SnapBack Tommy and August are back together in the next episode.]])
382** This example is complicated by Tommy technically being older than Miss Frost since he's the senior member of the crew.
383* In ''Series/TheAmericans'', one of Phillip's assignments is to befriend Kimmy, the lonely teenage daughter of a CIA operative so that he will have a pretense to visit her house and plant bugs in her dad's office. Much to Phillip's disgust, Kimmy develops a very obvious crush on him, which the Centre encourages him to exploit.
384** Meanwhile, his son Henry tells their neighbor Stan about a teacher he has a crush on.
385* British satire show ''Big City'' (a satire of american preteen shows) features Liam Youngs, an 8-year-old kid who has a huge crush on his older sister's friend, Mia Sanders who's 16. In one episode, Liam tricks Mia into going on a date with him.
386* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': for one episode Marcia wanted to become "Mrs. Marcia Dentist", having a crush on her dentist at the time (and not knowing his last name!).
387** In another episode, Greg's grades start dropping, and his parents discover it's because he's in love with someone named Linda. Turns out Linda is his teacher.
388* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', as part of the false memories created by the Monks, Dawn has had a crush on Xander for years (it likely started in Season 1 or 2 where she would have been 10 or 11). [[spoiler: And they're together as of Season 8]].
389** Also, when she was 14, Dawn seemed to have a brief crush on [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Spike]], whom she seemed to view as a DracoInLeatherPants. (Xander is offended.) However, she's also acutely aware that Spike [[VillainousCrush is in love with Buffy]], a fact which [[ObliviousToLove she hasn't realized yet]].
390* In an episode of ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'', Clarissa develops a major crush on local weatherman, Flip Fontana, and spends the entire episode obsessing over him. She eventually gets a chance to meet him, only for her crush to fizzle out as quickly as it came upon discovering [[SmallNameBigEgo the guy has an ego the size of Texas.]]
391* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Given respective ages, almost any female (and at least one male) companion for the Doctor. In the literal sense, Amelia Pond and Mels for the Doctor.
392* In the Swedish kids' TV series ''Ebba och Didrik'', 12-year-old hopeless romantic Didrik falls hard for 23-year-old Yrla. They become friends, but she's definitely not interested in him that way, and may not even be fully aware of his crush.
393* In many an episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Frasier's 8-year-old son Frederick exhibits a huge crush on Daphne, much to Niles' chagrin.
394* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': Rachel spent an episode infatuated with Mr. Schuester. It didn't last past that one episode. Suzie Pepper, on the other hand…
395* In the ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'' episode "Young Love", Emma's younger brother Elliot develops a mad crush on Rikki after she saves him from drowning, something which Rikki does not take very well. Despite her best efforts to turn him down gently, he continues to annoy her to the point where she loses it and angrily tells him to leave her alone with some BrutalHonesty, unintentionally hurting his feelings in the process, and getting her at risk for her mermaid secret to get blown off after she finds him.
396* In season 3 of ''Series/HappyDays'', Joanie develops a short-lived crush on Potsie after, during a performance rehearsal, he sings "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" to her.
397* ''Series/{{House}}'':
398** The 8-year-old brother of one of House's child patients gets an enormous crush on Cameron. It starts with him stealing flowers for her, then he grabs her butt, and later he attacks Chase. This eventually leads to House solving the case, as he is wont to do.
399** There's the little girl with cancer who convinces Chase to kiss her.
400* Samantha Puckett on ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' revealed her crush on Spencer in the episode ''iGet Pranky''. Although she's seriously close to the age where the "precocious" part doesn't apply any more.
401* Kenan's sister Kyra was comically interested in Kel in ''Series/KenanAndKel''.
402* In ''Series/KimsConvenience'', old childhood/teenage letters from Janet that Nayoung kept reveal that Janet used to have crushes on all of her older brother Jung's friends, including Kimchee. Janet is embarrassed about the last one and goes out of her way to avoid revealing this to Jung and Kimchee until Nayoung spills.
403* ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'':
404** An episode had Beaver having a crush on his 2nd grade teacher.
405** A later episode has Beaver hit puberty, only to find the girl he's crushing on has a thing for ''Wally'' instead.
406* Lizzie develops a crush on her soccer coach in one episode of Series/LifeWithDerek.
407* Neighbor boy Glen in ''Series/MadMen'' develops a crush on Betty Draper. This winds up greatly embarrassing Betty when she humors the crush a little bit. Years later, after he's turned 18, he tries to come on to Betty, who politely turns him down.
408* In the ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' episode "Life's a Beach", the Bundys go to the beach and Bud makes a bet with Kelly, that he will "get a squeeze" before her. [[CasanovaWannabe As usual, he's rebuffed by women]], but a little girl becomes enamored with him after he fixes her bucket, and calls him her boyfriend; thus he technically wins the bet.
409* In the first episode of ''Series/ModernFamily'', 10-year-old Manny writes a love poem to a 17-year-old girl.
410** Another Season 1 episode sees Manny feeling romantic connection with a woman in her 20s, due to both of their love of vampire fiction.
411** Manny also has a crush on 16/17-year-old Haley Dunphy, at least in the first few seasons. No, the fact that they're uncle and niece (by marriage) doesn't bother him.
412*** An early episode suggests that he also has a crush on Haley's sister Alex, who is 13 at the time.
413** In yet another episode, Cam and Mitchell think that 7-year-old Lily has a crush on a boy in her grade. Turns out her crush is actually for the boy's DAD.
414* ''Series/{{Mortified}}'': In "The Talk", Taylor develops a crush on a teenage martial arts instructor and signs up for classes just to see him. She is not pleased when he starts dating her big sister.
415* ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' episode "Film/Tormented1960", with the jazz protagonist and little Sandie, baby sister of his fiancee.
416* In ''Series/NewGirl'', Jess babysits her boyfriend's daughter, who falls in love with Nick, though she gets over it by the end of the episode. There's also an episode where the gang helps Jess chaperone a school dance, and Winston (to his chagrin) turns out to be strangely popular with middle school girls.
417* JJ Powell from ''Series/NoOrdinaryFamily'' has had one on Katie since episode 7. At least, this is the first time it's mentioned.
418* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': In early seasons, April's crush on Andy was treated this way. It still got referenced in later seasons on occasion, even after she grew out of it [[HappilyMarried and into another trope]].
419-->'''Andy:''' Oh, babe, you had a crush on me? That's embarrassing.\
420'''April:''' We're ''married''.\
421'''Andy:''' Still.
422* ''Series/{{Photon}}'' has an episode where Chris has to deal with a young princess who hits on him. But she's just a jerk, it wouldn't work even if she was older.
423* Series/PunkyBrewster was an established {{tomboy}}, and in season three (first syndicated season) she developed a crush on a boy some 7 years older than her.
424* Sam of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' was attracted to his piano teacher as a young teenager. In the episode "Catch A Falling Star", he leaps into an actor working on a production with her, and attempts to use the opportunity as a second chance for himself. In other episodes, he also mentions having had crushes on his kindergarten and first grade teachers.
425* ''Series/{{Search}}'': Ten-year-old Su-yeong has a crush on twenty-eight-year-old Dong-jin. In their very first meeting she tells him she wants to marry him, so he'd better make a lot of money, and laments he wasn't born later.
426* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'':
427** In "The Comeback," [[spoiler:Elaine falls in love sight unseen with a video store employee named Vincent after he begins calling her up when she repeatedly rents his staff picks. Entranced by his taste in movies and his enigmatic, moody personality (he's never at the store because he sets his own hours), she figures out where he lives and ends up arriving to surprise him at the same time as his mother, who's horrified to find a grown woman carrying a gift of vodka and cigarettes to her 15-year-old son.]]
428** "The Serenity Now" has Elaine rejecting the advances of a 13-year-old after he gives her a ForcefulKiss at his Bar Mitzvah. It's noted that after he bragged to his friends about it, she got invited to six more Bar Mitzvahs.
429--->'''Jerry:''' Well, this kid's not just a man; he's a ''man's'' man.
430* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
431** One story concerns Elmo naively [[InterspeciesRomance wanting to marry Gina]]. On learning this, she explains to him that she ''does'' love him very much, but that the relationship they have is "[[TheFourLoves a 'friend' kind of love]]."
432** Among Maria's admirers were Big Bird and Snuffy, who are supposed to be read as children.
433** In ''Sesame English'', a video series intended for ESL learners, Tingo has a crush on his teacher Ms. Huong.
434* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
435** PlayedForDrama in "Heat", where then-16-year-old Clark (so he's just barely passing for this trope) develops a crush on the new HotTeacher, who's currently engaged to his best friend, ComicBook/LexLuthor. However, it turns out the teacher is a GoldDigger with the power to make men fall so much in love with her they do whatever they can to please her, which she usually uses to make boys that fall into this trope try and bump off the rich man she's just tricked into marrying so she can make off with their millions, leaving them to take the fall.
436** In "Infamous", a little girl deliberately jumps off a building so Clark will catch her, then kisses him on the cheek.
437* ''Series/StargateSG1'': In "Birthright", Ny'sa, a young, female Jaffa on the cusp of puberty, develops "quite an affection" for Daniel, in the words of her older sister. Who doesn't have a crush on Daniel, though?
438* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': In "Harmony", the titular 13-year-old queen develops a crush on Sheppard, like many other alien women before her. She even suggests that he should be her king. He is squicked, of course, but she doesn't seem to realize anything is wrong with her suggestion.
439* ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'': Joey Carston, an adolescent girl, develops a crush on Starsky when he busts her for shoplifting, leading her to stow away in the back of the Torino. She returns a season later and tries to hit on Starsky while he's undercover, blowing his cover and almost getting him killed.
440* In the first episode of ''Series/StrangerThings'', it's implied Dustin has a crush on Nancy, Mike's older sister.
441* In ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'', Cat's son, who is around 12, has a crush on supergirl, who's in her 20s.
442* ''Series/TheWonderYears'':
443** In one episode, Paul had a crush on Kevin's mom Norma.
444** Kevin had an ongoing crush on his teacher, Miss White/Mrs. Heimer.
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446
447[[folder:Manhwa]]
448* In ''Manhwa/DemonDiary'', Leeche (about 8) manages to kiss Raenef (15 or so), after their near-AccidentalMarriage was effectively annulled, and makes him promise to wait 10 years for her and not just go ahead and marry some other girl. He seems to be [[ChasteHero even more clueless than she is]].
449[[/folder]]
450
451[[folder:Music]]
452* Music/ConwayTwitty's top 10 hit from 1975, "Don't Cry, Joni," a duet with his daughter, Joni Lee Jenkins, is about a 15-year-old girl (Joni, sung by Joni Lee) who develops a huge crush on her 22-year-old neighbor: the "boy next door"--Jimmy, whose part is sung by Twitty. She goes so far as to mail letters to him pledging her undying love and commitment to him and, well aware of their age differences and that she is still below the age of consent, asks him to make the same pledge to wait until she's 18 so they can be married and live happily ever after. Jimmy eventually explains the age differences and that he needs to find love from someone his own age and that they will never be married. Jimmy moves away but is unable to forget Joni's plea… and 5 years later, he returns, realizing that Joni may be the woman for him after all. However, the now 20-year-old Joni has gotten married (and in a cruel twist of irony, to Jimmy's best friend, John).
453* Music/RufusWainwright's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ReFah2lCQ The Art Teacher]]" is about a woman who fell in love [[TeacherStudentRomance with her art teacher]], and has "never loved a man since then."
454-->He was not that much older than I was\
455He had taken our class to the Metropolitan Museum
456-->He asked us what our favorite work of art was,
457-->But never could I tell it was him
458-->Oh, I wish I could tell him --
459-->Oh, I wish I could have told him
460* Steve Wariner's "I'm Already Taken" uses 3 adaptations of the title phrase, the first relating to the narrator pursuing a woman who is "already taken" by another. By the time they get married in the third verse, their son says "mommy, will you marry me?" in an innocent context, and she repeats the title to him.
461* This is the TomatoSurprise of "Go Home Girl" by Music/GaelicStorm: the girl following the singer around is only eight years old.
462* "Penelope" by Zak Waters is about a man who fell for his teenage babysitter as a kid and wants to find her so he can ask her out.
463[[/folder]]
464
465[[folder:Mythology and Legends]]
466* In the Myth/ArthurianLegend, Mordred has a crush on and later proposes to Guinevere who is old enough to be his mother.
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468
469[[folder:Pinball]]
470* In ''Pinball/WhoDunnit1995'', 8-year-old Trixie develops a crush on her father's business partner, Tony, after they enter a deal to open a hotel-casino together.
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472
473[[folder:Print Media]]
474* A bit older, but [[https://local.theonion.com/girl-would-be-terrified-if-she-knew-teacher-had-crush-o-1819570540]] ''Website/TheOnion'' article covers it.
475[[/folder]]
476
477[[folder:Theme Parks]]
478* Play a Franchise/DisneyPrincess at a {{Ride/Disney Theme Park|s}}, and at some point this will happen to you.
479[[/folder]]
480
481[[folder:Video Games]]
482* Tiny Tina of ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', explicitly said to be 13, displays a certain amount of interest in Maya (27) and [[MsFanservice Moxxi]] (age unknown, but she has adult children).
483* In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'', Ryu's crush on Deis (AKA Bleu). Although not [[{{Anvilicious}} stated outright]], it's made very obvious when he turns beet red when he [[NakedOnArrival first sees her naked]], and the player is later shown to be given one of the few choices of [[SilentProtagonist saying something]], wherein both answers make him express great romantic interest in her. Unfortunately for him, it's pretty impossible, as she's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld hundreds (if not thousands) of years old]], while he's a young teenager.
484* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' has 2 examples:
485** In the [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness first game]], flashbacks and diary entries reveal that Etna developed one as a child on the first person to show her kindness, [[spoiler: King Krichevskoy.]] As such, she absolutely ''hated'' his wife, and when [[spoiler: Laharl]] was born, she had no idea what to think of him.
486** In the [[VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories sequel]], Adell's younger sibling Taro ''really'' likes Rozalin--to the point that he asks to be [[HappinessInSlavery to be her slave]]. She accepts, and [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments the game titles his class "Rozy's slave".]]
487* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
488** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
489*** Little Priscilla develops a crush on Cloud after he saves her life.
490*** To some extent, Yuffie's crush could also be considered this. She's 16, Cloud's 21. Their date scene is very awkward because it's glaringly obvious that he's not interested.
491** Eiko in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' has a crush on Zidane. He's 16, and she's six. A plot-mandated mini-game even involves Eiko trying to woo Zidane ThroughHisStomach. [[spoiler:Eiko even tells Zidane she loves him right before he goes to rescue Kuja after beating the final boss. But, by that point, it's obvious that [[LadykillerInLove Zidane's heart really belongs to Dagger]].]]
492* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
493** This can potentially happen in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', if either [[ChildMage Ricken]] or [[CountryMouse Donnel]] (both in their very early teens) develop feelings for any girl older than them. (Including a [[PlayerCharacter Female Avatar]] with Build 1 or 3, which make her look like in either her late teens/very early 20s or mid/late 20s respectively.)
494*** And if you make Lissa (also in her early teens) and probably Maribelle (early-to-mid teens) support romantically with an old enough guy. (Again, including a Male Avatar with Build 2 and specially 3.)
495*** Toyed with if any Avatar hooks up with any [[spoiler:second generation]] character, since said charas are [[VagueAge in the teen spectrum]] but [[spoiler:save for Lucina, ''[[TimeTravelRomance they aren't even born yet]]''.]] Even more--Nah is the one who looks the youngest, but she's a [[HalfHumanHybrid half]]-[[OurDragonsAreDifferent manakete]], so…
496** In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem New Mystery of the Emblem]]'', Mallesia, who looks to be around her early to mid teens, has a comically over-the-top crush on [[TheHero Marth]], who is 19 and ''already engaged''.
497** In the localization of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEchoesShadowsOfValentia'', 13-year-old Delthea crushes furiously on 27-year-old Clive, who is SickeninglySweethearts with the local LadyOfWar Mathilda.
498* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'':
499** In the first ''VideoGame/GoldenSun1'', a young girl NPC in the town of Altin would try to kiss Isaac if you talked to her after defeating the Living Statues plaguing the town.
500--->You defeated the monsters? Let me thank you… with a kiss!
501--->Hey, [[LuminescentBlush you're turning beet-red!]]
502** In ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'', a later cutscene mentions that Rief's sister [[OneSceneWonder Nowell]] is off pursuing a crush on Piers, about whom the least we can assume is that he's older than her mother, if not [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld much more so]]. The [[OlderThanTheyLook youthful design]] of ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' characters does mean that Nowell kind of pushes the "child" aspect of this trope, but it fits otherwise.
503* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'':
504** The [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] Church Boy from [[VideoGame/HarvestMoon1 the SNES original]] has a crush on Maria. There is a girl his age though that [[PuppyLove likes him]] but he insists she isn't his girlfriend. [[spoiler:He can fall for her though.]]
505** Lumina, the local sad little rich girl, from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'' has a crush on the protagonist. In the [=PS2=] version she is 18 (16 in Japan) and is a [[PromotedToLoveInterest potential bride.]] When you get married she ends up running away crying. Lumina in her ''own'' right can end up being the recipient of a PrecociousCrush herself: Your son can fall for her, even though she's [[MayDecemberRomance over 15 years his senior]] at minimum.
506** May, granddaughter of the local animal rancher in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature Back To Nature]]'' and ''Friends Of Mineral Town'' has her crush object, Pete--the player character.
507* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Beth is one of the kids from Ordon Village and said to be 14. She nurses a crush on Link near the beginning of the game, but shifts her affections to Ralis after finding out he's the prince of the Zoras.
508** An NPC child in Lynna Village admires Ralph in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle of Ages]]''. The linked game climaxes of ''Oracle of Ages'' and ''Oracle of Seasons'' also feature some young boys with crushes on Princess Zelda.
509* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': Liara's feelings for Shepard (age 29 in [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 the first game]]) can be interpreted this way. While she is 106, she is "barely more than a child" by Asari standards. In human terms that would make her roughly between 19-23.
510** Speaking of whom, the final DLC story implies Grunt has a minor crush on Liara. Grunt is a krogan [[DesignerBabies designer-baby]] who was "born" as a teenager or young adult, with his memories and vocabulary already implanted. Also complicating the matter, Krogan are one of the few species who can match the Asari in terms of lifespan (both species can reach 1,000 years barring unnatural causes).
511* WordOfGod has confirmed that Emil from ''VideoGame/NieR'' has a crush on the eponymous protagonist (who is canonically in his mid-teens to early 20s, though there is the alternate version of him where he's in his 40s). This is an odd one; Emil is physically around 12 or so, yet he's also [[spoiler:an ancient weapon, created [[Really700YearsOld before humanity was wiped out by white chlorination syndrome]], and seems to be incapable of physically aging as a result.]]
512* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
513** ''VideoGame/Persona3'':
514*** The subject of the Hanged Man Social Link is a troubled-yet-adorable 8-year-old girl whose parents are going through a divorce. Once you reach a certain stage, she decides that she's going to get married to the protagonist when she's old enough. Neither you nor the protagonist have much say in the matter, but when her father finds out about this "marriage promise" in the epilogue of the game, he's none too pleased about the matter and tells you to stay away from his daughter.
515*** In ''Persona 3 Portable'', should you choose to play as a female, the Justice Social Link is changed to be Ken Amada. And over the course of the social link, Ken develops a crush on the main character, which the player can choose to reciprocate.
516** ''VideoGame/Persona4'':
517*** If you max her Social Link, 7-year-old Nanako will attempt to make a ChildhoodMarriagePromise to her 17-year-old cousin (the protagonist), to which her father has differing opinions on depending on if his own Social Link was completed.
518*** In Sayoko's Social Link, she reveals that one of her old patients was a little boy who wanted to marry her. You only find this out after she learns he's passed away.
519** ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Caroline and Justine, the twin Velvet Room attendents who are this game's Strength confidant, start acting this way toward Joker as he completes their Confidant route. Played with given that they're Metaverse beings rather than human.
520* ''VideoGame/PokemonSuperMysteryDungeon'': Shellmet, who is school-aged, has a crush on Audino, the school nurse.
521* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'''s {{Token Mini Moe}}s all fit into this category: Iris (9), who wants Ogami (19) to be her boyfriend; Coquelicot (11), also with a crush on Ogami; and Rika/[[DubNameChange Rosita]] (11), who's in love with Shinjiro (19).
522* ''VideoGame/StarOcean'':
523** Cute catboy Leon has a crush on ''all'' of the girls in ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory''. How it gets resolved depends on who you have him talk with.
524** ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'': Because [[BrattyHalfPint Roger's]] [[BeastMan a Menodix]][[note]]he's only 3½ ft. tall[[/note]], just about ''any girl'' is taller than he is. But it doesn't stop him from hitting on them, [[LikesOlderWomen especially older women]] like Nel:
525*** If she's in your party, when you rescue him from the Thieves Hideout, you'll get an extra bit of dialog where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIxFI-wYXrk he tries hitting on her.]] But she completely ignores him.
526*** The manga takes it further by having Roger latch onto her butt the moment he's released from his cage. He also addresses her as, "OneeSama" and does whatever she says without question. Depending on the scene, Nel's reaction ranges from indifference, to exasperation.
527* Latooni's crush on Ryusei seems to invoke this in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'' at times, but the fact that she's only 3 years younger than him (14 and 17 respectively) means it may not be like that forever (see also Mai, age ''16'', but actually shorter than Latooni). Shine's crush on Rai, however, is played fairly straight.
528* Genis' crush on Presea in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' is half this. [[spoiler:It starts when he thinks she's the same age, but his feelings don't change after he discovers that she's older.]] It's also downplayed due to an event in the plot. [[spoiler:Presea's aging was suspended and she lived like an automaton in the interim, so she didn't age mentally either.]]
529* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', the young player character can flirt with a very wide variety of monster citizens. Toriel, an elderly [[BeastMan goat lady]], gets [[BrainBleach pretty disturbed]] if they flirt with her after asking to call her "[[ParentalSubstitute Mom]]".
530* ''VideoGame/WarioWare'':
531** Mona is a high school student who has a crush on the adult Wario [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim despite him being a greedy cheapskate]]. She gushes about him and his sense of fashion in her ''Gold'' stage's intro, and per the [[AllThereInTheManual manual]] of the [=GameCube=] game she even wanted to take him out for some banana parfaits at one point.
532** ''VideoGame/WarioWareGold'': Lulu, a young girl, becomes infatuated with the teenage [[{{Bishounen}} Young Cricket]], clinging onto his arm at the end of his level and Cricket just sees her as a lost child.
533[[/folder]]
534
535[[folder:Visual Novels]]
536* During Prince Keith Alford's sequel route in ''VisualNovel/BeMyPrincess'', one of the boys at the orphanage where Keith and the protagonist are doing volunteer work develops a crush on the protagonist, who is in her early 20s. To the protagonist's bemusement, Keith insists on taking it seriously, arguing that to do otherwise would be an insult to the boy's feelings.
537* On the beach trip in ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'', Amanda mentions that her attraction to the protagonist started as one of these (when he saved her from drowning), and never went away.
538* A subversion from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. Ilya ''looks'' like this at first, appearing to be perhaps 10 and obviously displaying a good deal of affection for 18-year-old Shirou. However, she [[ArtificialHuman turns out be]] slightly ''older'' than he is… and her idea of "affection" is seriously messed up. Plus, her completely genuine affection [[spoiler:stems from Shirou's foster father Kiritsugu being Ilya's biological father, though she has no intention of telling him that.]]
539** On the other hand, he appears to know in ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'' at least about the way they're linked, though he still treats her as a little kid. Which is okay because she definitely acts like one. However, there's a genuine example of the trope in that Taiga used to have a huge crush on Kiritsugu which caused her to initially get along poorly with Shirou. Given that she's only 24 now, he died 5 years ago and she had that crush for a pretty lengthy amount of time, you can guess that the crush started when she was no older than middle school age.
540* ''VisualNovel/GalaxyAngel'': In the first game, Shiva (10) can potentially develop this on Tact (20) if you complete the sub-route that reveals she's actually a girl disguised as a boy, as she talks in her sleep about wanting to marry him and later even confesses her love for him.
541* In ''VisualNovel/InYourArmsTonight'', some laughs are had at Koichi's expense thanks to the prepubescent son of one of the protagonist's close friend, who is bold enough to consider himself a rival for the affection of Koichi's 32-year-old ''wife''. The lady in question and the boy's mother laugh it off; Koichi is considerably less amused.
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545* ''WebAnimation/HelloKittyAndFriendsSupercuteAdventures'': Kuromi has one on Badtz-Maru, complete with SayItWirhHearts.
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549* In ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES'', [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Relm]] has such a crush on Sabin. The implications of this are heavily lampshaded, but Sabin is freaked out by Relm (due to the [[GoodBadBug Sketch Glitch]], he thinks she's a RealityWarper). When another young girl (who turns out to be a genuine RealityWarper) responds with more interest to Sabin being a prince than Edgar being a king, Sabin is not pleased.
550* The title character of Webcomic/ContemplatingReiko has a harmless kiddie crush on an older fellow. That fellow being TheGrimReaper.
551* ''Webcomic/EvilDiva'': Michelle on the mystery dude.
552* ''Webcomic/{{Forestdale}}'': Racheal Kendricks, Kyle's little sister, has a massive crush on Jake Noel. Downplayed in that both of them are kids with a two year age gap between them, Racheal being eight and Jake being ten.
553* ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' (a ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' comic where most of the characters are child versions of themselves) demonstrates the UnfortunateImplications of the trope with its SpinoffBabies (where the ages are reversed). Chibi Alice and Patchouli competing for adult Marisa's attention? Adorable. Two grown women stalking a young girl? ''Creepy as fuck.''
554* In [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/443 this strip]] of ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}'', Ben's little brother on Jodie.
555* The next-door neighbor's son in the webcomic ''Webcomic/OutAtHome'' has a crush on Katie's best friend. He's 10; she's 17.
556* According to ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'', Goblin King Jareth (as a child) traveled to the future and managed to get a crush on a woman he met there, [[Film/{{Labyrinth}} Sarah]]. [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld He]] then [[TheJailbaitWait waited for her to be born, grow up]]; ''[[TricksterMentor helped]]'' her to become the very woman he fell for. Sarah still isn't impressed... and this is more than [[SingleTargetSexuality obsession]].
557%%* ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'' is about %this%, much of the time, verging on Squick at times since the characters claim to be 12 or 13 but the situations can be somewhat old for that scenario. %%Is about what? Clarify with the characters. Is a kid crushing an on adult? A teenager? Another kid? A raccoon? Who is falling in love?
558* In ''Webcomic/TrueVillains'', CheerfulChild Mia has shades of this with Bayn. Complicated by the fact that she sees him as just a kid like her, while he's an 88-year-old EvilSorcerer [[FountainOfYouth trapped in a de-aged body]].
559* ''Webcomic/WelcomeToDoomtlis'': A weird ''platonic'' variant occurs with this trope. Skigin, a young boy, wants to be the teenaged Khiome's [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} moirail]], but Khiome thinks of him as a regular old friend.
560* ''Webcomic/WhaleStarTheGyeongseongMermaid'': That young girl Nokju wants to marry Haesu, who is much older than her, is initially treated as an endearing quirk before it's explained that the two of them are survivors of a tragedy that struck their hometown.
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564* ''WebAnimation/KarekoreTheHalfBlood'': A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VegrN4rHmDo elementary-school kid]] falls in love with high schooler Hisame. When he confessed his feelings to her, she let him down gently. He didn't take it well but soon thought that Hisame meant for him to figure it out on his own and is now determined to get her love.
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568* WebVideo/{{Googlebrains}} once pretended to have a crush on Pan-Pizza from ''WebVideo/RebelTaxi'' for comedic purposes.
569* [[https://notalwaysright.com/young-boys-love-player-time/ This little boy]] on ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'' is smitten with the professional photographer taking his picture. She plays along, teasing him about his name and jokingly promising to call him [[JailBaitWait in 20 years]].
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573* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime,'' [[KidHero Finn]] (initially 12) was crazy about [[EmperorScientist Princess Bubblegum]] (looks 18, but later revealed to be ReallySevenHundredYearsOld). When Bubblegum is temporarily [[FountainOfYouth aged down]] [[TheMindIsThePlaythingOfTheBody she appears to reciprocate]], but when she turns back to normal Finn is back in the FriendZone. By the end of the series, the two are (physically) the same age, though by this point, Finn has moved on from his crush on Bubblegum [[spoiler:and is [[MaybeEverAfter implied]] to have gotten together with Huntress Wizard]], while Bubblegum [[spoiler:gets together with Marceline]].
574* Jimmy's friend Carl Wheezer on ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' has a crush on Jimmy's mother Judy to the point where he has a picture of her and "him" where he's pasted a cut-out of his own face over Hugh Neutron, Judy's actual husband and Jimmy's dad.
575* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ALVINNNAndTheChipmunks'', "Principal Interest", shows that Alvin has a crush on the principal.
576* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': The Warner siblings, who, despite being canonically created in 1929, are kids, tend to be {{Abhorrent Admirer}}s to any attractive adult of the opposite gender, most notably Hello Nurse for Yakko & Wakko and Creator/MelGibson for Dot.
577* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': Arthur Read is a preteen boy with a crush on his teenage babysitter.
578* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'', Ginger (12-ish) attempts to ask her teacher on a date with her. While competing in a school quiz competition. Which is being televised. ''Yikes.''
579* ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
580** Aang's (12) feelings for Katara (14) in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' are so close to the border limit for this trope that they actually ''cross'' it over the course of the series. A childlike fondness soon becomes a crush that grows as he matures over the course of his journey.
581** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
582*** [[BlowYouAway Meelo]] (who is 5) has a crush on [[GeniusBruiser Asami]] (who is 18). Mako (Asami's then-boyfriend) really gets a kick out of it:
583---->'''Meelo:''' You're pretty, can I have some of your hair?
584---->'''Mako:''' Looks like I have some competition.
585*** In "[[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS4E4TheCalling The Calling]]" the now-8-year-old Meelo is clearly trying to flirt with a girl several years older than him; when his sister drags him away, he says that she "drove away the love of my life."
586*** Kind of a downplayed example, but Ikki (one of Meelo's older sisters) is implied to have a crush on Opal's older brother, [[EmoTeen Huan]]--for example, in the series finale, Ikki ends up dragging Huan out onto the dance floor on Varrick and Zhu Li's wedding.
587* A mild example in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero'', in which 12-year-old [[HeartwarmingOrphan Kunac]] shows some signs of crushing on college-aged Barbara Gordon when she's been kidnapped by Kunac's guardian Mr. Freeze. Barbara clearly picks up on this, and makes a point of throwing in a compliment on his maturity when trying to get him on her side.
588* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdz}}'', Eddie Storkowitz has one of these on his teacher, Miss Finch.
589* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' episode "The Crush", Rudy (who's 10) gets a chance to see Queen Rapsheeba's creator, Trina (who appears to be around 14), and instantly develops a crush on her. Because of that, he joins the same theater group as her (even though he had made fun of one of their productions earlier in the episode), and asks Rapsheeba what she likes in a guy, hoping that what she likes would apply to her creator as well. After many attempts to get her to fall in love with him, she realizes that he has a crush on her. His crush wears off at the end of the episode when she tells him that while he's a sweet kid, she's too old for him and he should be doing all the things he did for her for a girl his own age.
590* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'':
591** Numbuh Four started to get a crush on his fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Thompson. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, that turned out kind of weird later, when it turned out she was the Were-Dog Queen, cursed with lycanthropy by her jealous ex-husband. (He was able to break the curse in the end.)]]
592** Likewise, Numbuh Two also had a crush on Numbuh Five's older sister, Cree, which created a lot of problems since Cree was a teenager and didn't return his feelings for her.
593* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' has a teenager-and-adult example in its first three seasons, when [[TheSnarkKnight Daria]] had a crush on her best friend's brother, [[EruditeStoner Trent]], who is 5 years older than her. She's smart enough to realize that it would never work out, for their personalities if not the age difference, but [[NotSoAboveItAll it still takes a while to shake off]].
594* ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep2015'': In "Lonesome Jim", it is revealed that Ant has a crush on Fontaine's best friend Jess Gorman (who is Fontaine's age or slightly older).
595* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': Dexter has a crush on his teenage babysitter in one episode, and it doesn't end well when he ages up, making the result... not so great, and a punch to the face by her boyfriend!
596* In the ''WesternAnimation/DreamWorksDragons'' episode "Gone Gustav Gone", Gustav Larson (16) develops a crush on Astrid (19) the same way Snotlout does, which in a way also grosses her out.
597* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', while on a vacation in Hawaii with his parents, Timmy grows a crush on a hula girl.
598* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''
599** In "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter", Stewie has a crush on his new babysitter, but when he finds out she has a boyfriend, he tries to kill him.
600** In one episode, Chris has a crush on his substitute teacher who is very buxom.
601---> '''Peter:''' Our son...would like to plow you.
602* The ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' episode "Lice Lice Baby" is about the two prepubescent main characters having crushes on the school nurse Pam. They fight each other over her before they eventually learn that Pam is Man-Arctica's girlfriend.
603* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Mac (8) and Bloo (chronologically 5) and some random imaginary friend and a pizza delivery guy develop a crush on Frankie (22). Mac and Bloo's 'feelings' for her are referenced a couple more times in later episodes.
604* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
605** Dipper (12) has a crush on Wendy (15). He finally confesses it in the second season and Wendy reveals she already knew (as it was pretty damn obvious to ''everyone'') and gently lets him down. During a time travel episode later that season, the 12-year-old Dipper meets a 5-year-old Wendy and ''she'' crushes on ''him'', something Dipper finds a little uncomfortable and awkward about addressing, which sparks an epiphany over how Wendy probably felt.
606** Likewise Mabel (also 12) crushes on older boys, such as sock puppeteer Gabe in the episode "Sock Opera". Her reaction to one of her crushes (that she actually gets her first kiss from) having managed to grow a very precocious mustache is to pretty much squee, and judging from Dipper's complete non-reaction to her dating a teenager in the first episode this is not a new thing for her.
607* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold,'' [[OnlySaneMan Arnold]] develops a crush on a substitute teacher. HilarityEnsues when he overhears her talking about planning a romantic evening with "Arnold," since [[OneSteveLimit that happens to also be her fiancé's name]].
608** He also crushes on Ruth [=McDougall=], a sixth-grader, early on. In the Valentine's Day episode he actually talks to her and realizes that [[LovingAShadow she's not anything like he expected]], so he moves on. [[RunningGag And then]] there was that one BeachEpisode with one-time love interest two-timing him...
609** This may or may not count but that one episode where Gerald's little sister Timberly (who's about 5 or 6) had a crush on Arnold (who's 9). The age difference is small but Arnold acts much more mature than Timberly.
610** Alongside Arnold, Gerald had one too in the episode "Sixth Grade Girls". He also has another one in "Gerald vs. Jamie-O" with his new neighbor Chloe (who was middle-school aged). But she was only agreeing to hang out with him because she had a crush on his brother Jamie-O (who is high school aged).
611* In ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'', Jason develops a crush on the school nurse.
612* In ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', a young neighbor girl named Suzy is said to have a crush on the titular character, who (while his age is never revealed or confirmed) is probably roughly a decade older than her. Suzy clings to Johnny at every possible, and he usually must go to great lengths to get rid of her.
613** Though soon after the art style shift happened in the show, her implications of having a crush on him disappeared. Likely as it would be mildly creepy to have a girl infatuated with the town lecher.
614* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Violasse, a toddler, seemingly has a crush on Quack-Quack, who [[VagueAge is roughly around the pre-teen age range]]. Quack-Quack obviously does not reciprocate and has a girlfriend who is around the pre-teen age range as well.
615* In ''WesternAnimation/AKindOfMagic'' Tom has a crush on his teacher Miss Tinker. By the second season he's over it and moved on to his sister's friend Sophia.
616* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' has Bunga, a preteen Honey Badger who has a crush on Dhahabu, an adult Golden Zebra.
617* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', Lincoln Loud's best friend, [[BlackAndNerdy Clyde McBride]], had a crush on Lincoln's oldest sister, Lori, in the first two seasons of the show -- Lori's at least six years older than Clyde and she made it clear to Clyde that she wasn't interested in him (especially since she already has a boyfriend). Likewise, Bobby's 8-year-old cousin, Carl, also has a crush on Lori.
618** In the episode "Study Muffin", Lincoln brings home a tutor from a local college to help him pass his exams, all of his sisters (minus Lily, the baby) fall head over heels for him, with the youngest sisters being 8, 6, and 4. It's later revealed that the reason Lincoln keeps failing his exams is because he, along with the entire male student body, all have crushes on the new teacher.
619* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'': 11-year-old Orel develops a crush on Stephanie, who works at the town's only sex shop. She turns him down nicely at the end of the episode and they retain an IntergenerationalFriendship. Even if there weren't an age gap, IncompatibleOrientation would have set in. In the second season, Doughy develops a crush on his teacher Miss Sculptham, who ends up taking advantage of him so he'll (and later by extension, Mr. Creepler) [[GoldDigger keep buying her expensive gifts.]]
620* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Spike, who is basically an adopted younger brother to Twilight Sparkle, and in personality is much like a preteen. He gained a major crush on Rarity, who is [[VagueAge at least an older teen, if not a young adult]], the moment he saw her. She (and everyone in town) knows about the crush and Rarity has gently brushed him off, but she's not above exploiting it for her own benefit; to the point where a season nine episode involves her panicking when Spike begins hanging out with a girl around his own age, as she's come to rely on his labor a lot over the years.
621* In ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'', it's implied that the reason why [[TheDragon Fink]] [[InsistentTerminology insists]] on referring to her [[ParentalSubstitute adoptive father-figure]] Professor Venomous as "Boss" rather than "Dad"--even firmly correcting Darrell when he calls Venomous "[your] daddy"--is because she has this sort of crush on him. This is also heavily hinted to be the reason she dislikes Boxman (who becomes Venomous's LoveInterest) for such a long time before he finally manages to win her over and get her to warm up to him. Since she's very subtle about it and ''acts'' far more like a BrattyTeenageDaughter than a SmittenTeenageGirl, he never seems to catch on, always loving her like his daughter and very much treating her like one.
622* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/BeMyValentineCharlieBrown'', Linus' crush for Miss Othmar is seen, but then cooled off quickly when he sees his teacher ride off with her boyfriend. Cue Linus chucking every chocolate from a big heart-shaped candy box over the bridge… and Snoopy and Woodstock getting a free treat for every toss!
623* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
624** Ferb ([[VagueAge "less than 15"]], probably about 10) has a crush on Vanessa Doofenshmirtz (16). She's dating someone else and doesn't seem to notice his crush, but he's saved her life and given her helpful advice, and WordOfGod actually supports the idea of them getting together "[[JailBaitWait when the age thing won't matter as much]]." In the flash-forward episode "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbActYourAge Act Your Age]]", [[spoiler: Ferb and Vanessa end up getting together]].
625** [[LoonyFan Irving]] hits on [[AntiHero Candace]] and/or [[AsianAirhead Stacy]], though this was probably just meant as a single one-off joke in this show's perpetual ShipTease.
626** [[WordOfGod Thanks to his voice actor Bobby Gaylor]], we now know that Buford ([[VagueAge same age as Ferb]]) has a crush on Candace (15). As evidenced by his sneaking his number into her cellphone, and being very upset when she won't abide by the Bully Code and serve him for his having saved her life. This might also explain why he refused to let Candace and Jeremy into the restaurant in "Chez Platypus"; he wanted to ruin their date out of jealousy.
627* Buttercup in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Buttercrush." She has a crush on Gangreen Gang leader Ace, which lasts up until she sees the Gang about to kill Blossom and Bubbles. The short-lived crush is even lampshaded in a comic book story ("Five Green Vandals," issue #16). They're full-on dating in the game ''VideoGame/FusionFall'', though she doesn't seem much older than 13.
628* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': It's really easy to think that Jet has a crush on Sean's mom as of "Visit to Mom's Office". When he first sees her, he immediately gives her a big hug (Sean's mom looks surprised, Sean looks annoyed, and Sydney looks sad, since she has frequent ship tease with Jet and possibly likes him), and even calls her "Dr. Sean's Mom" even though he knows that their last name is Rafferty. He is later seen smiling widely at her and raising his eyebrows trying to catch her attention, which also made Sydney upset. To top it off, he seemed all too excited to tell her that he is from Bortron 7. This crush can also be seen in other episodes. In "Ice Moon Enceladus", when Dr. Rafferty is passing by Sean's snow cone stand, Jet immediately greets her, even though she ignores him, and in "Mindy's Meteorite Stand", when Dr. Rafferty was inspecting Mindy's "meteorite", Jet also looked through a magnifying glass to impress her. In "Asteroid Patrol", Sean's telescope needs adjusting and Jet happily offers to go to Sean's house to get some items. Of course, when he sees Sean's mom, he acts awkward around her. However, in later episodes, the crush is no longer apparent.
629* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "The Voice" has Mikey (9) developing a crush on his music teacher (24). His friends explain to him that they won't be able to get together due to the age difference. As Mikey's about to prove them wrong, he ends up walking in on his teacher's boyfriend proposing to her.
630* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'': The 11-year-old Zak has a crush on Abbey Grey who used to be his babysitter. This causes some serious jealousy issues when she starts dating his uncle Doyle.
631* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
632** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E19LisasSubstitute Lisa's Substitute]]", Lisa gets a crush on the ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin substitute]]) teacher Mr. Bergstrom. (Voiced by Creator/DustinHoffman, who just can't seem to find a happy medium with respect to the [[Film/TheGraduate ages of women who fall for him]].)
633** In earlier seasons, Lisa is obsessed with ''Corey'' magazine and its hotline, all full of boys who were at least in their teens. One example in the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E14BrotherFromTheSamePlanet Brother from the Same Planet]]" subplot, when Marge found out about Lisa's phone calls to the hotline, she revealed to Lisa that she was in the same situation in her childhood when she had a crush on Bobby Sherman:
634--->'''Marge Simpson:''' Oh, honey, I know how you feel. When I was a girl, I had a crush on Bobby Sherman…\
635''[Lisa bursts out laughing]''\
636'''Marge Simpson:''' ''[annoyed]'' The point is, I want you to stop making these calls!
637** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E8NewKidOnTheBlock New Kid on the Block]]", Bart develops a crush on new neighbor Laura Powers, who was in her mid teens. When he found out she was going out with Jimbo, one of the bullies who picks on him, he arranged a plan to break them up. It was successful -- by the end of the episode, Laura had broken up with Jimbo and even told Bart that she would date him if he were older. The character was never seen again.
638** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS24E20TheFabulousFakeBoy The Fabulous Faker Boy]]", Bart falls for his piano teacher, Zhenya.
639** In one episode, in regards to Marge, Milhouse says "She's HOT! ...sorry that just slipped out."
640** Also happens in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E5TheDevilWearsNada The Devil Wears Nada]]" with Nelson and Milhouse looking at a pin-up calender featuring Marge.
641** Lisa's other older crushes include teenaged environmental activist Jesse Grass from "Lisa the Tree Hugger" and 13-year-old ranch hand Luke from "Dude, Where's My Ranch?"
642* Many of the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' boys fell for a cute substitute teacher in an early episode. Aside from the age difference, there was also a case of IncompatibleOrientation.
643** Not a "crush" per se, but apparently all the sixth-graders, and [[CheerfulChild Butters]], are attracted to [[OnlySaneWoman Stan's mom]]'s large breasts. (Note that, in the show's [[StylisticSuck style]], [[InformedAttractiveness she looks completely flat]].)
644** Butters also has a crush on Kim Kardashian.
645* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'': Ronnie Raymond, one half of Firestorm, is a teenager who is demonstrated as having a crush on Wonder Woman in his debut on the franchise's penultimate iteration ''Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show''.
646* In season 1 of ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'', the fourteen-year-old Varian is shown to have one of these on 22-year-old Cassandra, to the point of [[TeenGenius naming an element after her.]]
647* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
648** In [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 the 2003-series,]] Donatello (who, along with his brothers, is 15) is implied to have a crush on April, who, according to some sources, is 23 at the start of the series (making her at least eight years older than the turtles). But in [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 the 2012-series,]] Donnie's confirmed to have a crush on April, who's 16 (and a high school student), instead of being a woman in her twenties.
649** In [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 the original cartoon from the 1980s,]] all four of the turtles have obvious crushes on April (who, according to some sources, is supposed to be 28). However, other than the fact that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin they're simply "teenagers,"]] [[VagueAge it's never said how old the turtles are]] (and in contrast to most continuities, this version had the Turtles be full-grown upon mutation rather than still being infants and growing to adolescence).
650* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'': The 13-year-old Dwayne Jr. develops a crush on Carrie (who looks about 18 years old) and was planning to ask her out until her friend Devin informed him that she doesn't date "younger men".
651-->'''Devin:''' But hey, give it a couple years. She might change her mind.
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