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16->''"If a woman says she's 20, and looks 16, she's'' '''12'''''."''
17-->-- '''Creator/ChrisRock''', "No Sex (in the Champagne Room)" [[note]]The following line is "If she tells you she's 26, and ''looks'' 26, [[OlderThanTheyLook she's damn near forty!]]"[[/note]]
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19Some characters are OlderThanTheyLook ([[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld much older, even]]). Some, meanwhile, are younger. Maybe they're [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots robots]], clones, some other kind of [[ArtificialHuman artificial construct]], or just unhealthy. Maybe there's a [[PlotRelevantAgeUp supernatural reason, such as a curse]]. [[BeleagueredBureaucrat Or maybe they are under such constant stress and work that they are aged prematurely by it]]. Or they're just overdeveloped. One way or another, this character may look like an adult(/teenager/pre-teen), and even [[WiseBeyondTheirYears act and talk like one]], but chronologically speaking, they aren't.
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21Other times there may be a young adult with the appearance of a middle aged or even older man/woman. [[PrematurelyGreyHaired Gray hair]], a [[PrematurelyBald prematurely receding hairline]], generally cause someone to look older. Certain types of facial hair also can make a younger man seem older.
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23Subtropes include OlderAlterEgo, a magical ability for younger kids to temporarily turn into adults and back, and PlotRelevantAgeUp, the same permanently.
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25Similar, but not to be confused with ArtisticAge, where this is due to art rather than in-story causes. If, in live-action, their age is surprising to the viewer but not anyone in story, it's a bad side-effect of DawsonCasting.
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27SuperTrope to BornAsAnAdult, ReallyWasBornYesterday. Compare CompulsorySchoolAge, MistakenAge, AgeInappropriateDress. Contrast AnimationAnatomyAging. See also Really17YearsOld (where someone is younger than they ''claim'' to be).
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29!!Example subpages:
30[[index]]
31* YoungerThanTheyLook/AnimeAndManga
32* YoungerThanTheyLook/LiveActionTV
33* YoungerThanTheyLook/VideoGames
34* YoungerThanTheyLook/WesternAnimation
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37!!Other examples:
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40[[folder:Advertising]]
41* The mascot for the Japanese ice pop brand Garigari-kun is meant to be a middle schooler, but due to the rather {{Gonk}}-ish way he's drawn you'd be forgiven for thinking he's a middle aged man.
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44[[folder:Comic Books]]
45* Snowbird of ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' was a fully grown woman at the age of six.
46* Played for drama with the ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' superhero Atomicus. While physically he looked like a fully-grown adult in his mid-thirties, emotionally he was a child, less than a year old. This causes problems when a PluckyGirl IntrepidReporter [[NoGuyWantsToBeChased misinterpreted his shyness as a challenge to discover his secret identity.]]
47* Jenny Quantum of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' looks about 14 or 15 in the 2000s. Actually, she was born at the turn of the century -- she was just really sick of being treated like the little kid she was, and had the [[RealityWarper reality-warping power]] to change that.
48* PlayedForLaughs with Reptil in ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'', [[FreakyFridayFlip who temporarily ended up trapped in the body of his 30-year-old self from the future]]. Komodo from the [[ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative Avengers Initiative]] flirted with him on the assumption that he was an adult, and was absolutely horrified to discover she had been macking on a teenage boy. She immediately stormed out [[PaedoHunt after claiming that he couldn't prove anything in court]].
49* Like Billy and Mary, there's Colin Wilkes from ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Streets of Gotham]]''. With the Venom in his sytem activated, he's as brawny as Bane and looks completely like an adult thug. He's a hero and around the same age as Damian Wayne, who he (sort-of) befriends.
50* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Goum is just 7-years-old, just like his twin sister, but was cursed to be fully grown so he could fight in the arena.
51* PlayedForDrama with M.M.'s BrattyTeenageDaughter in ''ComicBook/TheBoys''. She has the looks and mentality of a young adult (or at least a rebellious teenager), but near the end of the series it's revealed that she's chronologically twelve but aged at an accelerated rate due to the [[SuperSerum Compound V]] in her system. By the end of the series she's quietly living on her own with no issues. [[spoiler: Regardless of her physical age it still [[WhamLine hits like a truck]] finding out a ''12-year-old'' did [[AbusiveParents mother]]-[[ParentalIncest daughter]] porn.]]
52* Dorothy Spinner in ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' looks like she's in her late teens and early twenties DependingOnTheArtist and is shown living by herself at one point (plus she especially looks mature for her age in her depiction on the cover to the ''Vertigo Jam'' one-shot), but is indicated to be a minor during Rachel Pollack's run, where Cliff Steele tells Dorothy she's "too young" to know about phone sex lines in the 68th issue and the recap page of the 70th issue explicitly states she is 14. She would not canonically reach adulthood until John Arcudi's run, where she was rendered comatose since the events of Pollack's run and was ultimately TakenOffLifeSupport at the series' conclusion, as it was stated that the incident that put her in a coma occurred four years prior to the events of Arcudi's run, meaning that she was at least 18 years old when Robotman begrudgingly allowed her to die.
53* Bart Allen (aka Impulse, then Kid Flash, then Franchise/TheFlash) in Franchise/TheDCU aged unusually quickly for the first few years of his life due to an exceptionally fast metabolism. The reverse is true for his EvilTwin Inertia, who took over 50 years to develop to the physical age of 15.
54** As indeed is ComicBook/{{Superboy}} (as in the Superman clone introduced in Return of Superman), who's presumably even now well under ten comic years old, but looks at least fifteen. He was supposed to look even older, as his growth was being accelerated to the point where he could replace the original Superman, but he was broken out before he was ready.
55* When Helen goes on her first date with ComicBook/AtomicRobo in ''The Deadly Art of Science'', she does not react well to the discovery that Robo is only 7-years-old.
56-->'''Robo:''' Intellectually I'm twenty to twenty-five. It's not ''that'' bad.\
57'''Helen:''' I need... [[INeedAFreakingDrink I think what I need is a drink]]. And what'd going to the movies have to do with solving this case anyway?\
58'''Robo:''' Well, sometimes it helps to step away from a problem.\
59'''Helen:''' And sometimes you realize your boyfriend is ''8-years-old.''\
60'''Robo:''' Seven. But, hey! Now "robot" isn't the weirdest part of our relationship.
61* The children of [[ExplosiveBreeder Mother of Champions]] from ''ComicBook/GreatTen'' age 10 years every day. Between this, the fact that they all have SuperStrength, and the fact Mother can produce a new batch every three days, they are considered cannon fodder of the finest kind.
62* Sometimes superhero costumes can make people look older than they are. [[http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0vxqoakXX1r88vgmo3_1280.jpg One issue]] had ComicBook/GreenArrow meeting a teenaged ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} for the first time. He mistook her for an adult until she mentioned he smelled like her dad due to his cologne.
63* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': Skaar, The Hulk's son. He looks like an adult in Hulk form, a teenager when in 'human' form, but in actual fact is only a couple of years old, thanks in part to his mother being an alien with an accelerated aging rate. His twin, Hiro-Kala, looks like a young teen.
64* In ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', Starr meets Eisenstein, a key figure in the Grail in the 1970s, the man showing a horribly wrinkled face, hunched body and leaning on a cane. Almost 30 years later, Starr is shocked to meet with Eisenstein again, openly hissing "how can he be alive, he looked like a hundred when we met!" As if he's heard him, Eisenstein states that "I have looked like this since I was 12-years-old."
65* Creator/MarvelComics hero [[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Elvin_Haliday_(Earth-616) Rage]] was about 14 when he started his superhero career, but looked like he was at least 30 due to his gargantuan size and muscles. Prior to getting his powers he looked like a regular kid. In any case, this gives him the distinction of being the youngest Avenger ever -- so young that when the team discovered his true age they sent him to the ComicBook/NewWarriors and told him to come back when he was 18.
66* In ''ComicBook/TheRavagers'', Ridge is actually the youngest member of the team, but his monstrous form makes him look older.
67* [[spoiler:Victor Mancha]] of ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''. [[spoiler:He's a cyborg implanted with false memories. He was built as a teenager, so he's approximately 15 years younger than he looks. Molly even comments that she forgot that he's younger than her.]]
68* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': Both Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel, thanks to OlderAlterEgo. Lampshaded in ''[[ComicBook/SuperBuddies Formerly Known as the Justice League]]''. At one point, Captain Marvel had to break up with the teenaged superhero Stargirl because even though they were the same age, it just looked really creepy. It used to be even more extreme; Billy and Mary had the exact same superhero forms when they were pre-teens. Though ComicBookTime makes this a ''very'' slow process, they're narrowing the age gap with their alter-egos. Given ComicBook/BlackAdam's example, eventually they'll be OlderThanTheyLook, as their Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel forms don't age at all.
69* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In ''ComicBook/SinsPast'', Gabriel and Sarah Stacy look to be the same age as Peter Parker--in their early [=20s=]--but are only a few years old, having (purportedly) been born shortly before their mother Gwen was murdered.
70* ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'': There was a point in the Clone Wars where some Separatists were cloning Nikto, presumably to supplement the droids. The facility was discovered and went under siege, and the cloners decided to respond by bumping up the growth rate to get as many new adults as possible. This didn't work out too well in the end.
71* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': DependingOnTheArtist, Clark was this as a teenager. His Kryptonian genetics caused him to be naturally taller and more muscular than the other kids at his school.
72* The final arc of ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'', "Redemption," takes place a decade after the Great Sith Wars. By that time Ulic Qel-Droma would be in his late thirties at most, but he looks like a 50-year-old man (albeit a [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:SadUlic.jpg buff one]]). Given the grief and guilt he's been carrying as an exile looking for somewhere to die, it's not surprising.
73* Master Splinter, the [[OldMaster aged mentor]] of the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, is younger than you'd think. Rats generally live less than three years (five is ''exceptional'', and seven is the record). When the series begins (about fifteen years after his mutation) he'd still be less than 20-years-old. Taken even farther in the [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW IDW comics]], where the story begins only 18 months after their mutation, making them all less than 5- to 7-years-old at the most. Justified [[spoiler: in that Splinter, and the Turtles to a lesser extent, have some memories of a past life]].
74* Representative Joshua Freeh, of ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'', is [[spoiler:the product of a "Bastard Farm" given a wetware upgrade so he has full higher brain functions, created so the BigBad would have a running mate with a clean-slate past]].
75-->'''Spider Jerusalem:''' [[spoiler:Josh Freeh was the perfect running mate. He had no skeletons in his closet. Hell, he's only ''2-years-old!'']]
76* Prime of ''ComicBook/{{Ultraforce}}'' is really a 13-year-old boy who takes on an adult appearance when powered up. Makes for some raised eyebrows when he proudly announces that the 13-year-old girl he has a crush on is his girlfriend.
77* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': The Colonel is a teenager, but as a super soldier he looks like he's in his mid-thirties.
78* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' Laurie aka Silk Spectre II was only 16 in the FlashBack of the gathering of Crimebusters, however, Dave Gibbons draws her looking the same as she is in the main story where she's in her 20s. Dr. Manhatten's girlfriend Janey even points out that Laurie was most certainly a minor at the time when she learns Manatten has cheated on her.
79* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
80** Magneto is old enough to have lived through the Holocaust, but has been de-aged and re-aged back into his 20s/30s. You'd never expect he and Xavier are the same age.
81** The Stepford Cuckoos are clones of Emma Frost who had been aged up from birth to their teens in order to infiltrate the X-Men. They're only a few years old chronologically.
82** Magik of ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' fame spent half her life in a realm of Limbo [[YearInsideHourOutside outside the normal timestream]]. As a result, she was a teenager despite technically being born 6 years prior to her abduction, much to the X-Men's shock, since seconds passed on Earth for them.
83** Madeline Pryor, former wife of Scott Summers (Cyclops) and the mother of his son, is a clone of Jean Grey (Phoenix). The villain Mister Sinister created her while Jean was dead to lure Scott into a relationship with her, the goal being the creation of a child with the mixed genetics of those two powerful mutants that would be vastly more powerful still. She had false memories implanted, resulting in her being physically and mentally an adult woman while actually being in the low single digits chronologically.
84* Cassie Lang/Stature/[[IHaveManyNames Stinger]] from ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers''. She was 14 when she joined the team, but most artists draw her as looking much older. This led to a minor controversy when she joined the cast of ''ComicBook/AstonishingAntMan''. The artist began drawing her closer to how an actual 14-year-old would look, which caused some fans to claim [[RealityIsUnrealistic that Cassie was being "infantilized"]].
85* Badrock from ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics'' is a 12 foot tall rock monster. At the start of the original series he's in his very early teens.
86* Any adult member of the [[InsectoidAliens Thraxan]] race in ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' is this, as they only live 9 Earth months. This applies to [[NonHumanHumanoidHybrid half-Thraxan/half-Viltrumite]] Oliver Greyson as well, who has the body of a grown man despite only being a few years old, though his Viltrumite longevity [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty promptly kicked in]] and preserved him as a youthful adult for at least a few hundred years.
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90[[AC:Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon]]
91* ''Fanfic/WickedWiles'': Grumpy looks like an old man, but he's actually young by dwarf standards.
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94* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'':
95** PlayedForDrama with Carol. She's about 14 or 15 when the story starts, but thanks to her height and, ah, physical development, can pass for her early twenties. This gets her lots of unwanted male attention, and makes it hard to fit in with people her own age.
96** Harry looks his age until the sequel, whereupon a rapid growth spurt, a skunk stripe [[NotQuiteBackToNormal as the result of being possessed by an Elder God]], and six months of his mind being separated from his body means that he looks more like 18 or 19 than 14. The fact that he usually ''acts'' older than he is doesn't help, either, to the point where people have to remind themselves that he is ''still'' a kid.
97* In ''Fanfic/PlatinumPirate'', it's difficult for pirates and Marines to gauge the age of Lucas's Pokemon given that their life cycles are entirely different from anything found on the Grand Line. Lucario, one of Lucas's primary frontline fighters, explains that he's a few months away from being four years old, surprising the Straw Hats and the Revolutionaries who are impressed by Lucario's fighting ability. Though Lucas explains that Lucario is a fully-grown adult because of how evolution works for Pokémon.
98* ''Fanfic/MandiesNewTarget'' (''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' & ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents''): [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Mandie]] is a [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]] example due to alien biology. In Boudacian (her species) years, she's 17, while in Human years, she's 13, which is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fairlyoddparents/images/a/a5/Princess_Mandie.png/revision/latest?cb=20181226065135&path-prefix=en This is what she looks like]].
99-->She is way younger than she looks!
100* ''Fanfic/APossibleEncounterForAPhantom'' (''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' & ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''): Ember [=McLain=] reveals she's 16 and Skulker is 19 in human years, thus meaning it's technically legal for her to hit on and kiss Danny Phantom, who is 14.
101* ''Fanfic/TheWeddingCrashers'' (''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' & ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''): Sam and Dean are disturbed when they find out that the bride-to-be at the titular wedding looks 17, but is actually around 10. [[OnlySaneMan Few others find a problem with this]].
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104* ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'' (Franchise/TheDCU & ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''): Eri has an OlderAlterEgo as the stunningly beautiful and mature Shazam... which means
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107* ''Website/FamilyGuyFanon'' has Kimi, Quagmire's wife for seven seasons, who looks like an adult despite being sixteen years old! She looks so adult she can easily pass as one to strangers. In fact, Quagmire thought for a long time she ''was'' an adult until "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Quagmire%27s_Mom Quagmire's Mom]]". This becomes important later when they divorce in the "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Quagmire_Show_(Episode) The Quagmire Show]]", with Kimi's reason is to return to her normal life as a teenager and finish high school.
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110* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[spoiler:Amongst the HalfHumanHybrid [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures Zmeyevich]]]], two of them are already built more like toddlers than any remotely human newborns.
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113* Harry in ''Fanfic/ForLoveOfMagic'' spends a few years looking older than he actually is due to using runes to age himself faster, only to have to use more to stop it because by 13, he was six feet tall and had to shave daily.
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115[[AC:''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'']]
116* ''Fanfic/CicadaPsalms'': Due to age and stress, Miyo looks a bit older than she actually is. She has more wrinkles and lines than most women her age.
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118[[AC:''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'']]
119* In ''Fanfic/LiesOfOmission'', Peter manages to convince everyone at Stark Tower that he's twenty when he's actually still sixteen. It's when his parents find out where he's been does he come clean about his actual age because of how bad it would look when they inevitably leak it to the press.
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122* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/11535858 Child(ish)]]'', Weapon X's experiments gave young [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] an OvernightAgeUp, so his apparent PsychopathicManchild tendencies come from being an actual child (later teenager) running around in the body of an unkillable 30-year-old.
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124[[AC:''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'']]
125* ''Fanfic/MiraculousTalesOfScarletBeetleAndIkatiBlack'': Despite his older apperance, Théo is actually an art lycée student and is closer in age to his crush Scarlet Beetle and [[RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation his half-sister Mireille]].
126* In ''Webcomic/ScarletLady'', it turns out this applies to Theo, who is actually [[spoiler:the same age as the main cast and attends the same school]]. It's implied that he deliberately invokes this effect with his goatee; when one of the adults yells at him about how he should shave it off, he protests that it's the only reason his clients respect him.
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129* ''Fanfic/EscapeFromTheMoon'': In the later sequel ''Scavenge for the Future'', Spliced Genome hasn’t aged in six thousand years.
130* In ''Fanfic/TheTwoSidesOfDaringDo'', the Daring Do clone looks identical in age to Yearing herself, but is only a few days old max by the end of the story. [[spoiler:Even in the ending where she [[FountainOfYouth is aged down to a filly so she can have an actual childhood]], she's the Cutie Mark Crusaders' age rather than her actual age.]]
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132[[AC:''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'']]
133* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Belladonna Tyrian is 16, but due to [[StatuesqueStunner her height]], curves and deep voice, people tend to assume she's older.
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135[[AC:''Manga/SgtFrog'']]
136* ''Fanfic/YinAndYangSeries'': Kirere, who is, time-wise, around 3-years-old. Biologically and maturity-wise, she's eleven, [[PlotRelevantAgeUp thanks to her dad's Aging Ray Gun]].
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138[[AC:''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'']]
139* Koopa don't age like humans in ''Fanfic/MyPainMyThrill''. Bowser Jr. was only one during ''Super Mario Sunshine'' and three during ''New Super Mario Bros Wii'', but he seemed several years older. It's implied that koopa age quickly early on but slow down over time.
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142* ''Fanfic/LegacyOfChRihan'': Morgan t'Thavrau is 49, which is barely middle-aged for the Vulcan-descended Romulans, but she looks a lot older from having spent 21 years working in field and vineyard.
143* Professor Crescendo from ''Fanfic/TheDearSweetieBelleContinuity'' is in his mid-thirties but has a gray mane due to a misfired spell and glasses from corrective surgery [[spoiler:that keep Sweetie from realizing at first that he is her father]].
144* We have this in ''Webcomic/KillLaKillAU'', with Shinseiji, who was "born" a toddler. However, she is, as her name suggests, a newborn. Justified in that she is an ArtificialHuman created by Nui to be her little sister from her parents' DNA.
145* ''Fanfic/ShinobiOfTheHighSeas'': Byron suspects that[[spoiler: based on her immature attitude and how hard she fought against the effects of the truth serum when asked how old she was, that Jewelry Bonney is really a young girl using her devil fruit powers to look older]].
146* In ''Fanfic/WhatAboutWitchQueen'', OriginalCharacter baron Hakan Madsen is said to look like elderly statesman, while being active army general, largely because he grayed early. In contrast, his son Kai is a case of OlderThanTheyLook.
147* Due to the series' DawsonCasting, this comes up in ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-17276-122/TheLaughingMan+My+Archive+Of+One+Shots.htm Smoke and Mirrors]]'' where Literature/HarryPotter is baffled that every teen in Series/{{Smallville}} looks to be at least college age. This especially comes up when Harry wonders how the six foot and 200+ pounds of muscle Clark is bullied and when he tries to pick up Chloe at first only to realize she's fifteen.
148* Shmi Skywalker in ''Fanfic/TheHavocSideOfTheForce'' is noted as being prematurely aged due to her life as a slave on Tatooine. Once she gets access to a doctor and a real shower (instead of a sonic one), she looks a decade younger.
149* Subverted in ''Fanfic/{{Overlady}}''. Guiche and Montmorency assume the taller, bustier Kirche is 15 like them but she's actually 20. [[LampshadeHanging When they're surprised by it, she points out that not only has she been enrolled (and expelled) in multiple academies, but she's taller and bustier than all of their classmates]].
150* Exploited in ''Fanfic/TheSecretReturnOfAlexMack''; Terawatt's costume is deliberately crafted to look older than Alex (taller, more "developed", deeper voice). Most people assume she's around 25.
151* In the ''Harvest Moon 64'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1412591/1/ Karen's Story]]'', stress has aged Karen's mother Sasha prematurely.
152* Taylor/Renée in ''Fanfic/{{Gambit}}'' is about the same age as she was at the start of ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' canon, being 15-years-old, but she physically looks more like a 20-year-old college student.
153* Izuku in ''Fanfic/AGreenDragonsHoard'' spends some time looking considerably older than he is. As a year old toddler, he looks 6-years-old and when he's seven, Manami Aiba mistakes him for a young teen around her age. Though it's only a couple years later when Izuku grows so large that it's impossible to mistake him as merely being older. By 9-years-old, Izuku's just shy of nine feet tall.
154* In ''Strawhat Theatre: Our Mrs. Monkey'', [[Manga/OnePiece Luffy and Nami's]] daughter, Acenath, nicknamed Ace, is only two years old, despite having the appearance and maturity of a five-year-old.
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158* Principal Milliken from ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman''. Dave mistakes her for being over-fifty, when she's really only thirty. She still has her blonde hair though. Her ([[InformedDeformity apparent]]) early aging is due to how stressful her job is; she's getting an early retirement.
159* Maruti in ''Animation/TheReturnOfHanuman'' grows to be a primary school student by the age of 3... ''months''.
160* Christopher Robin in ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' [[NotAllowedToGrowUp chronologically remains 6-years-old]], but he's tall enough to pass for a pre-teen of nine or ten.
161* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', according to Ming, the seventeen-year-old Devon looks like he's 30.
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165* ''Film/AnimalHouse'': "I'm only thirteen!" Hilariously, this was semi-unintentional on the part of the creators. They originally wanted her to be 16, but thought the censors would not allow (off-screen) sex between a minor and a college student. They decided to make her 13, expecting just such an objection so that they could [[{{Censor Decoy}} propose a revised age of 16 as a reasonable compromise.]] [[{{Surprisingly Lenient Censor}} To their surprise, the censors didn't complain at all]].
166* ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'': The BigBad, Durand Durand, is stated to be around 25-years-old when the president describes him while briefing Barbarella, but looks middle-aged because living close to the [[EldritchAbomination Mathmos]] for about a year has aged him up considerably.
167* Creator/TomHanks' character in ''Film/{{Big}}'' is a child in the body of an adult, thanks to a magic wishing machine.
168* J F Sebastian in ''Film/BladeRunner'' is in his twenties, but he looks around fifty due to an aging disease (most likely Werner's syndrome, but named in the film as "Methuselah Syndrome"). The Replicants are ''created'' as young adults and have a four year lifespan.
169* In the famous 1951 film adaptation of ''Theatre/TheBrowningVersion'', the main character, Andrew Crocker-Harris, looks like an old man despite being only 43. This is {{Justified}} in that Crocker-Harris has a chronic heart condition and has aged prematurely due to his unhappy life. Actor Creator/MichaelRedgrave, who was also only 43 when he was cast, had to bleach his hair white and shave the back of his head to create a bald patch in order to look the part of Crocker-Harris.
170* In ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'', 16-year-old Frank Abagnale is played by 28-year-old Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio. This is justified by the fact that the real-life Abagnale also looked much older than he was, and in fact, his deceptive looks were a key part of how he was able to pull off his scams. After Agent Hanratty encounters him for the first time, he profiles Frank as someone being in his mid-to-late twenties.
171* Due to the maturity of the role in ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' -- about a girl discovering her sexual awakening -- many fans assumed that the actress playing Rosaline was older than the character's age of twelve-thirteen. But Sarah Patterson actually ''was'' twelve.
172* The titular character of ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'', who starts life looking as an old man and dies as a baby, so as a child looks like a small 80-year-old. He even says to another character early in the movie, "Seven. But I look a lot olda."
173* In ''Film/{{Elf}}'', while Buddy is working as a mail sorter, he and a fellow employee [[DrinkingOnDuty share a flask the latter has smuggled in]], and the latter drunkenly laments the state of his life now that he's "26-years-old." In fact, the actor was in his mid-forties, and it shows. According to Favreau, this was meant to get a laugh.
174* In ''Film/TheFirstWivesClub'', movie star Elsie confronts her ex-husband, Bill, who's sleeping with his latest star Phoebe (Elizabeth Berkley). Bill is smug talking of Elise obviously jealous of him with Phoebe as Elsie asks her age. When Bill says she's 21, Elsie smirks "In five years." She then produces a high school yearbook revealing Phoebe is actually only sixteen, a dropout using her more mature looks to get ahead in Hollywood. Bill is rocked to realize he's been sleeping with a minor, which Elsie uses to get him to help the Wives out.
175* Martin Brundle in ''Film/TheFlyII'' [[RapidAging grows to physical adulthood by age 5]] due to the fly DNA he inherited from his late father Seth Brundle. Then his condition takes a turn for the [[BodyHorror much, much worse]].
176* In ''Film/Frankenstein1970'', Victor von Frankenstein has been aged considerably by his treatment at the hands of the Nazis. He is the same age as his friend Gottfried, but looks decades older.
177* ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'': The Major and Kuze are both a bit younger than their 30-something cyborg bodies, as they're actually [[spoiler:teenage runaways who were kidnapped by Hanka Robotics and converted against their will.]]
178* Peter Selleck (Rob Riggle) from ''[[Film/TheGoodsLiveHardSellHard The Goods]]'', who is stated to be 10, despite looking like he's in his forties.
179* ''Film/TheHeat'': PlayedForLaughs with Captain Woods, Mullins' superior, who points out the amount of stress Mullins causes him:
180-->'''Woods:''' This job is destroying me. ''[to Ashburn]'' Do you know how old I am?\
181'''Ashburn:''' Uh, 58?\
182'''Woods:''' ''I'm 43-years-old!'' I have a 5-year-old son who calls me Grandpa!
183* ''Film/TheIsland2005'' has clones that appear to be various ages, from thirties up to their sixties. It turns out that oldest ones are no more than 4-years-old.
184* The concept to ''Film/Jack1996'' starring Creator/RobinWilliams was about a boy that ages four times faster than normal, with him having the body of a 40-year-old with the mental age of 10.
185* In ''Film/{{Morgan}}'', Morgan is an ArtificialHuman who ages faster than normal. She looks to be in her mid- to late teens but is only 5.
186* A deleted scene in ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'' has the mustachioed transfer student Pedro exploit this to buy a lottery ticket. ''Peluca'', the short film on which ''Napoleon Dynamite'' is based, has this scene as part of its central plot. The lottery scratcher gives the characters just enough money to [[spoiler:buy a wig for another character who had shaved his head]].
187* James Norrington in the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' franchise is introduced at age 19, but as he's already played by then 29-year-old Jack Davenport, he comes off ''much'' older than Will and Elizabeth, who are only supposed to be about six years younger than he is but are played by child actors in the prologue. It's further complicated by the white wig he wears through the entire rest of ''Curse of the Black Pearl'' as part of his formal naval uniform. Averted in the sequel, ''Dead Man's Chest'', where he has fallen from grace and his real (brown) hair has outgrown the wig, making him look his actual age. By the third film, ''At World's End'', he's back in the white wig, but the effect is different, as he's much less comfortable in his EITC uniform and the wig is made to look even more artificial and unsuitable.
188* ''Film/SeeingDouble'' had clones of S Club and various other celebrities that were artificially aged so they could take their places, but kept in a childlike state.
189* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
190** Many characters in the Original Trilogy are this. This was largely the result of ContinuityDrift. Prior to the Prequel Trilogy, it seemed that the Clone Wars and the rise of the Empire took place several decades before the events of ''Film/ANewHope'', but once the prequels came out, it was established that only nineteen years had passed between the end of the Clone Wars and the events of ''A New Hope'', leading to many OT characters looking far older than their newly established ages, especially compared to how they looked in the prequels:
191*** Obi-Wan Kenobi is 57 in ''Film/ANewHope'', but looks to be in his mid-late sixties to early seventies. Creator/AlecGuinness was 62 when ''A New Hope'' was filmed, but could pass for older due to his appearance and acting. The ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' series takes place only ten years after ''Revenge of the Sith'' but Obi-Wan looks to have aged twice that amount [[note]]Because Creator/EwanMcGregor was 32 during the filming of ''Revenge of the Sith'' and 50 during the filming of ''Obi-Wan Kenobi.[[/note]], suggesting that the harsh living on the desert of Tatooine rapidly aged him.
192*** Owen and Beru Lars looked to be no older than their twenties in the prequels, placing them somewhere in their forties in ''A New Hope'' (According to the ''Legends'' continuity, Owen was 52 and Beru was 47 in ''A New Hope'', which is presumably still the case in Canon.), but they look to be in their late fifties at least. Like Obi-Wan, they were likely prematurely aged by Tatooine's harsh conditions.
193*** In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Anakin Skywalker is portrayed by Sebastian Shaw, who was in his late 70s. Anakin was only ''45'' at this point; a combination of [[EvilMakesYouUgly heavy Dark Side corruption]], [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith getting burned alive and mutilated on Mustafar]], and just generally living a very harsh and stressful lifestyle left him looking several decades older than he really was.
194** The clones are altered to grow twice as fast in order to be battle-ready sooner. The Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse features a Jedi being confused because she senses a child in the Force, but sees a grown man. Even taking their biological ages into account, the oldest clones are 26 by [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith the end of the Clone Wars]], but look like they are in their late 30s (whereas Creator/TemueraMorrison was in his early 40s at the time of filming).
195** During Episode III, the soon-to-be-Emperor Palpatine is 63, but ends up horribly deformed after getting his own [[ShockAndAwe Force Lightning]] redirected into his face by Mace Windu, leaving him looking like he's in his ''hundreds''. Disturbingly enough, it is implied that this was ''[[BodyHorror his actual, natural appearance]]'' thanks to decades of immersion in the Dark Side, with the normal-looking visage he had before being a {{Glamour}} that broke down during his fight with Windu.
196** Padmé in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' is a [[AChildShallLeadThem 14-year-old]] queen who wears a lot of ceremonial makeup and elaborate costumes, apparently to disguise the fact that she's so young. Even still, she's actually the elected leader, so the people must be well aware of her age. It doesn't help that Creator/NataliePortman was around 16 during the filming of ''The Phantom Menace.''
197** Luke and Leia are in their early fifties in the sequel trilogy, but look at least a decade older (Creator/MarkHamill was in his mid-sixties during production and Creator/CarrieFisher was in her late fifties/early-sixties).
198* ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'': Mark Renton meets Diane in a club, then goes to her house where they have sex. Immediately after the act she kicks him out of her room and he sleeps on a sofa. In the morning, he's shocked to discover her wearing in a school uniform and realizes that the house he's in is her parents'. She's quite underage, but she threatens to report him for sex with a minor if he doesn't see her again. She's played by a 19-year-old Kelly Macdonald.
199* One horror example exists in ''Film/Warlock1989'', in which the title character curses the female protagonist to age 10 or 20 years for each night that passes. She remarks to Redfern, "This is worse than death", to which he replies, "That's what he had in mind."
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202[[folder:Jokes]]
203* A German joke, sometimes attributed to Heinz Rudolf Kunze: "A few minutes later he straightened with agonizing effort again and lurched to the sink in the corner. He stared at a hideous goblin with spotty face and strands of hair stuck in dried vomit; his emaciated bones stood out of the skin hanging down in flabby flaps; his stomach was bloated, his legs were crooked and arthritic, the face of one beaten poor devil at the end of a long and lonely ride... Waitaminnit! He looked at a poster of Music/IggyPop."
204* A young woman walked up to a man who was sitting in a rocking chair on his porch.
205-->'''The Woman:''' You look so happy. What do you consider the secret to a long and happy life?\
206'''The Man''': Well, you see, every day I smoke six packs of cigarettes, drink nothing but whisky until I pass out every night, eat nothing but candy and desserts, and I never ''ever'' exercise.\
207'''The Woman:''' That's amazing! If you don't mind me asking, how old ''are'' you?\
208'''The Man:''' Twenty-three.
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211[[folder:Literature]]
212* In the works of Creator/StephenKing:
213** In ''Literature/TheGreenMile'', a supposedly elderly couple turned out to watch [[spoiler:John Coffey's execution]]. They turn out to be the 30-something parents of the two dead girls that drove the story.
214** In ''Literature/TheStand'', Nadine has prematurely grey hair which later turns completely white. She's in her mid-30s.
215* ''Literature/TheAliceNetwork'': When Eve points out that Cameron's cover as her uncle is less than plausible given that he isn't ''that'' much older than her, he tells her that he looks 10 years older than he is [[OlderThanTheyLook (and that she looks 5 years younger than she is)]]. Eve conjectures that this is due to stress.
216* Laura Danker in ''Literature/AreYouThereGodItsMeMargaret'' is eleven but she hit puberty around fourth grade. As a result she's quite physically mature for her age. She's also a HugeSchoolgirl who is taller than the boys and is almost as tall as many of the adults.
217* ''Literature/BookOfTheNewSun'': With most characters treating him as an adult (you gotta grow up fast when you’re living AfterTheEnd) and his constant boasting about his maturity, it’s easy to forget that [[VillainProtagonist Severian’s]] only about eighteen ''at most'' during the events of the story. Definitely adds another layer to his constant [[UnreliableNarrator unreliable narration]].
218* In ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' this is mentioned as an attempt to create lower-caste proletarian workers who efficiently skip all those useless developmental years, but the 6-year-old men and women are too mentally under-developed, and the program fails.
219* Somewhat subverted in ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye''. Holden Caulfield's hair is starting to grey on one side as a teenager, and he claims several times that it makes him look more mature than he is, but hardly anyone is fooled when he tries to pass for older.
220* ''Literature/ChakonaSpace'':
221** Shadowcrest is only 12 or 13 when she is critically wounded. After being "[[LongevityTreatment processed]]", she is once again intact but she looks like she's 20.
222** Leanna and most other artificially-grown slaves wind up suffering this trope for a while.
223* ''Literature/{{Chalion}}'': Lupe dy Cazaril from ''Literature/TheCurseOfChalion'' is only in his mid thirties, but not only is his beard mostly grey but by the time he mostly recovers from the debilitating aftereffects of his time in a SlaveGalley he [[spoiler:comes down with miracle-induced terminal cancer]].
224* ''The Dancing Girl of Izu'' [[spoiler:is actually a 14-year-old little girl despite looking like a young woman. Luckily the protagonist does not continue crushing on her after finding this out.]]
225* Derek from ''Literature/DarkestPowers'' is only sixteen but looks several years older. When Chloe's dad says that Chloe has been kidnapped, people who recognize Chloe believe Derek kidnapped her.
226* Alfie, a Scottish Deerhound, from ''Dear Hound'' is only a puppy but due to his huge size he is mistaken for an adult.
227* The "old man" in "Literature/{{A Descent Into the Maelstrom}}" by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe is this as well as LockedIntoStrangeness.
228* Eve of ''Literature/DragomirsDiary'' was born a baby, but within months grew to the size of a teenager. This may have something to do with the story being set in a video game -- or it could be something ''far more sinister.''
229* Wilbur Whateley of Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'' grew unnaturally quickly -- he could speak like an adult and read books by the age of one year and seven months, and was adult-sized by the age of ten. [[spoiler: Though that's hardly the most inhuman thing about [[HalfHumanHybrid him]]...]]
230* ''Literature/{{Dragonvarld}}'': After he sees her again six years after the last time they met, Draconas sees Bellona has aged greatly, looking much older than in her early thirties, being very gaunt and her black hair [[PrematurelyGrayHaired already going gray]].
231* In the ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novel ''Salvation's Reach'', Meritous Felyx Chass is actually 11, but juvenat and other bio-treatments were used to age him up to 17 effective.
232* While it's unclear how old ''Literature/TheGiver'' actually is, it's (very briefly) mentioned that the stress of keeping all the memories is part of the reason he looks so old.
233* ''Literature/GoToSleepAJeffTheKillerRewrite'': The 17-year-old Randy is described to have a bit of facial hair which makes him look a bit older than he actually is, adding to his intimidating aura. As an adult, a lot of hard drugs gives him an even more aged appearance.
234* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
235** Although it's not emphasized as much in the books (and is dispelled somewhat by the later novels), the popular image of Severus Snape falls into this trope. Partly due to AdaptationDisplacement by the much older Creator/AlanRickman's brilliant performance as Snape in [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movies]], partly due to his being a peer to much older characters like Dumbledore and [=McGonagall=], and partly due simply to Snape's own scowling personality, it's very easy to forget that he was barely in his thirties when the series began.
236** This is averted by Lupin in the books. Although he is described as ill-looking and prematurely greying (implied to be a side effect of his lycanthropy), he still looks his age:
237--->Though quite young, his light brown hair was flecked with grey.
238** Also Peter Pettigrew, described as a balding, unkempt-looking man, despite being only in his early thirties when exposed by Sirius and Lupin. Explainable by the fact that he's spent nearly thirteen years on the run, and in the guise of a rat.
239* One character in ''Literature/Haunted2005'' has progeria (which makes him look like an old withered man), and lives in a nursing home. He tells his nurses that he's 18 and wants to experience sex just once before he dies. After they fall for his con, he tells them the truth: [[spoiler:he's 13, [[MagnificentBastard and he'll report them to the authorities if they don't give him all of their money]]]].
240* In ''Literature/HomecomingDrizzt'', Yvonnel Baenre II looks like a beautiful young woman despite being an infant chronologically. This is because she was infused with the memories of her namesake (the most powerful Drow Matron Mother of all) while in the womb. She was thus born self-aware with the magical knowledge of her predecessor. Deciding that being an infant was boring, she purposefully used an older version of the Haste spell that had RapidAging as a side-effect to become a young adult.
241* In ''Literature/HowlsMovingCastle'', Sophie is a teenager who ends up trapped in the body of an old woman because of a curse.
242* In ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', Archdeacon Claude Frollo is only 36-years-old yet he is nearly bald. The story takes place in medieval France. 40 was considered pretty old, so to be bald at 36 is not unreasonable. (And even today, many men go bald in their mid-twenties.) There's also the medieval Catholic custom of "taking the tonsure," which meant that members of the clergy shaved a circle on top of their head that coincidentally resembled male-pattern baldness. This is why [[Myth/RobinHood Friar Tuck]] is always portrayed as bald, by the by.
243* [[TheGoodChancellor Phereniq Kala]] and Augon Hunnamek in ''[[Literature/{{Indigo}} Infanta]]'' are supposed to be of an age. However, Phereniq's [[LoveMartyr work to further Augon's ambitions]] has aged her before her time.
244* In ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'', Charlotte's small size is countered by the air of competence she exudes, and Tessa says she had assumed her to be ''much'' older than twenty-three.
245* Cured humans in ''Literature/JanitorsOfThePostapocalypse'' are born as [[TechnicallyLivingZombie animalistic "ferals"]] and selected in adulthood to be [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted]]. They remember almost nothing of their lives before that point and count their ages from rebirth on. The protagonist Mops, the oldest human serving on the EMC ''Pufferfish'', a veteran who's attained the highest rank available to humans and who has gray in her hair and lines on her face, counts herself as twelve. Her subordinate Wolf claims herself as twenty-six because she's only been a person for eighteen months, and other humans scoff at her over it.
246* The {{creepypasta}} character Literature/JeffTheKiller? He's only '''thirteen'''! Then again, your bound to not look your age if you survived getting your face bleached and eyelids removed.
247* ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'': After first meeting Kvothe, Chronicler has to amend his impression of the man's age several times, first realizing that he's younger than 30, then deciding that he's not a day over 25. Kvothe has seen and done quite a lot in his short life.
248* In Creator/MaryRenault's ''The King Must Die'', Theseus says he is 19 because he worries that people will think 16 is too young for a king.
249* In ''Literature/LordOfLight'', a {{teen|Genius}}aged Yama caused an explosion which mortally wounded him, and necessitated his transfer into the only available body -- that of a 60-year-old man.
250* ''Literature/MaloryTowers'': Zerelda Brass from the third novel is a fourth former (16 years old) when she arrives at the titular school, but because of her thick make up, she looks like someone in her 20s. The form mistress mistook her as a new teacher, rather than a student, when she comes into class. Subverted in that she looks her age when she's not wearing make-up.
251* ''Literature/MaximumRide'':
252** Nudge. Angel even [[LampshadeHanging wonders]] if a boy looking at her in ''Fang'' that's around sixteen knows that Nudge is only twelve.
253** Dylan appears to be around Max's and Fang's age, but really nine months old.
254** Ari. His appearance is that of an adult man, but really is only around 7-years-old.
255** In the manga, Max looks like she's in her ''late twenties''.
256* Constance from ''Literature/TheMysteriousBenedictSociety'' looks and acts like an elementary aged BrattyHalfPint who is probably younger than eight. She is [[spoiler:''two'']].
257* At the start of ''Literature/NoLongerHuman'', we are shown three pictures of the main character Yozo at different points in his life: one as a child, one as a college student, and one in old age. By the end of the book, it is revealed that Yozo's life was so horrendously stressful that the photo of him in old age (described as looking around 40) is actually him at age 27.
258* Played with in the ''Literature/OldKingdom'' books. In order to get Sam to leave her alone, Lirael lies and tells him she's a very young-looking 35. She's 19. He believes her.
259* Nancy from ''Literature/OliverTwist'' says she is "younger than you would think, to look at me", having been prematurely aged by a hard life of poverty and prostitution.
260* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': In "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor" Holmes' client, the titular Lord Robert St. Simon, is 41 years old but due to a slight stoop in his posture and his hair being grizzled along the sides he looks older.
261* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
262** Eddard Stark looked older than 35 because of the streaks of white on his beard and the way he carried himself in general.
263** The youthful Asha Greyjoy sees an unfamiliar old man who calls her by name. It takes her a moment to realize that he's [[spoiler:her younger brother Theon, who has been broken by torture]].
264* In ''Literature/StarTrekNewFrontier'', Xy, the son of Burgoyne and Selar, is the chief science officer of the ''Excalibur''... at 5-years-old. He's cursed to rapidly age and die very young thanks to the intermingling of Hermat and Vulcan DNA [[spoiler:until his mother gives her life to find him a life-extending drug]].
265* In another ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'' novel, "Immortal Coil", Rhea [=McAdams=] becomes the new security officer of the ''Enterprise''...despite [[spoiler:being a barely two-week old android]].
266* The protagonists of ''Literature/StoneBurners'' discover that [[spoiler:Olivia]] is much younger than expected while dealing with [[spoiler:John Doe]].
267* In ''Literature/SuperStories'', [[spoiler:Veldron's robot duplicates are always built to look older and less attractive than him. This is because, when given the opportunity to make a false image, most people would assume the opposite]].
268* In ''Teacher Trouble'' by Alexander [=McCall=] Smith, the 12-year-old heroine looks so mature for her age that on her first day of high school she is mistaken for a teacher and left in charge of a class.
269* Of all places, Thomas Hardy's ''Literature/TessOfTheDUrbervilles'' gives a passing mention to how Tess, at 15, possesses a "fullness" [[ButtMonkey that suggests that]] [[NaiveEverygirl she appears much more mature]], [[ShrinkingViolet physically and emotionally,]] [[BreakTheCutie than she really is]].
270* In ''Literature/ThoseWhoSurvive'', Thomas Hind looks and behaves like an elderly man. He's really barely forty. Justified, since the book's a WildernessSurvivalPlot that takes place on an extremely unfriendly planet.
271* In ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', [[spoiler:Edward and Bella's daughter Renesmee]] will look like she's 17 at the age of ''seven'' due to [[spoiler:her being a hybrid]].
272* Victor Dashkov from ''Literature/VampireAcademy'' is in his forties. The disease which is slowly killing him, also prematurely ages him so that he looks twice his actual age.
273* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
274** Miles Vorkosigan tends to straddle this trope and its [[OlderThanTheyLook inverse]]. His short height, slight build, and high-pitched voice cause people to subconsciously register him as a child; however, the facial lines caused by constant pain for most of his life means that only a slight adjustment of tone, expression, and body language is needed to convince people he is at least a decade older than he actually is.
275** The same goes for Mark as well as all the clones created for illegal brain transfer surgery. They were all artificially aged as part of the cloning process since no one wants to wait around for their clones to age naturally. It's a plot point in Mark's case; if Mark had looked his actual age, it would have been a dead giveaway to his actual identity.
276* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Bluestar was only 6 1/2-years-old when she died. For cats, this is middle-aged at most. Despite this, prior to her death, she is repeatedly mentioned as seeming elderly and old. This is due to the mental strain caused by her SanitySlippage combined with the rough life of a feral cat (nevermind being TheLeader of a large clan). WordOfGod is that she also suffered from dementia.
277* The ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
278** Many, many newly emergent Exemplars look much older than they really are, due to the wish-fulfillment aspect of the Exemplar power. Fey, along with most of the other Venus, Inc., models, are frequently described as having bodies that look very mature for a teen. Similarly, Crimson Comet!!! is thirteen when she first arrives, but is described as having the body of a 20-year-old and the face of a 17-year-old. Sadly, she doesn't seem to have the mental part of the Exemplar powerset, and in fact seems to have [[ParodySue the maturity of an exceptionally dim 11-year-old]].
279** One of the school psychiatrists at the Whateley Academy is in his mid-thirties (or so, based on author descriptions) but looks like Dr. Bellows from "I Dream of Jeannie", so he appears to be 55 or 60. One protagonist has even researched the psychiatrist, and has {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this.
280** 15-year-old Chou Lee (Bladedancer) apparently looks like Zhang Ziyi.
281** [[spoiler: Belphoebe]] is a clone of [[spoiler: Jobe's ideal girlfriend]] with the memories of [[spoiler: Belphegor. Phoebe is then legally entered as Jobe and Belphegor's daughter, with Jobe the mother (as he accidentally used the Drow transformation serum on himself and is [[GenderBender turning into the aforementioned ideal girlfriend]]). Phoebe therefore ReallyWasBornYesterday.]]
282* Aeduen from ''Literature/TheWitchlands'' is very close to Iseult's age, but she initially assumes he's much older because of the serious, reserved way he speaks and carries himself.
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285[[folder:Music]]
286* Music/JacksonBrowne's song "Cocaine" has a line that goes "Son, it says here you're 27, but that's impossible. You look like you could be 45," due to the protagonist's cocaine use.
287* Implied in Music/TanyaTucker's "I Believe The South Is Gonna Rise Again" with the line about her sharecropper father who "died a tired old man at 44."
288* Jim Carroll's signature single "People Who Died" had the lyrics saying, "Bobby had leukemia - 14 years old. He looked like 65 when he died, he was a friend of mine!"
289* [=DJ=] Jazzy Jeff and [[Creator/WillSmith the Fresh Prince]] and their 1988 rap hit "Parents Just Don't Understand." The entire second verse deals with a situation where the 16-year-old protagonist, while driving around in his father's Porsche that he had taken without permission, picks up what he thinks is a hot, hot, hot, '''''HHHHHHHHOOOOOOOTTTTT!!!!!''''' (wolf-whistle) girl about his age to go out for a ride and maybe start a relationship. At one point, the girl begins to unbutton her blouse and begins acting suggestive toward the teen-aged boy. However, he is caught speeding by the police ... and then learns the girl is not 16 '''''BUT A 12-YEAR-OLD RUNAWAY!!!!!''''' (Needless to say, as implied by the protagonist's lament at the end, his parents were not happy; in the very least, he's jailed for grand theft auto, harboring a runaway, driving without a license and various traffic charges and had the cops not pulled him might have done something with the girl constituting a sex crime, leading to him being on the offender registry. Face it, wanting to be cool may cost him decades in prison.)
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292[[folder:Mythology & Religion]]
293* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
294** OlderThanFeudalism: The Greco-Roman goddess Athena/Minerva was born fully grown (most images depict her as being about in her mid-twenties at the time of her birth). It's very telling that this is one of the ''less'' incredible aspects of her birth story. She [[TheAgeless doesn't age]], so it quickly turned into a case of OlderThanTheyLook.
295** When Artemis was born, her mother Leto gave her some nectar and ambrosia (the food of the gods), which caused her to grow up within a day. As such she was able to serve as midwife for the birth of her twin brother, Apollo.
296* ''Literature/TheCattleRaidOfCooley'' of Myth/CelticMythology suggests that Cu Chulainn matured quite a bit earlier than most people do -- he apparently wooed Emer and took up training with Scáthach at age ''six''.
297* In Literature/TheTalmud, Rabbi Elazar is temporarily appointed to lead the Sages [[TeenGenius at the age of eighteen]]. His wife comments that it's inappropriate for someone without any white hairs to lead his elders, so a miracle occurs and [[PrematurelyGreyHaired gives Elazar]] MysticalWhiteHair.
298** Taanit 5b states that the prophet Samuel looked much older than 52 when he died. God wanted people to think that he was older, lest they assume that his relatively short life was some kind of divine punishment.
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301[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
302* WWE Diva Wrestling/MollyHolly. In 2002, Molly dyed her hair brown (she's a natural brunette, but years of bleaching her hair blond had fried it) and adopted a prude persona, wearing very matronly-looking outfits. Fans said she looked like "a middle-aged soccer mom" and Wrestling/JerryLawler frequently made jokes about her being old and ugly, even though she was only in her mid-20s and was among the youngest women in the company. Ten years on from her retirement, she got comments that she looked ''younger'' than when she was first in the company.
303* Wrestling/LivMorgan and {{Wrestling/Aliyah}} did a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=224yloPUvPM live Q&A]] with fans once where they invited people to guess their age (they are both the same age at the time) and [[ActuallyPrettyFunny burst out laughing]] when the first guess was 'thirty' (another guess said forty-five, but that was probably just trolling). They were twenty-one at the time, which to be fair was another guess, showing that this trope is sometimes in the eye of the beholder.
304* Tyler Bate debuted for ''Over the Top'' wrestling in Ireland when he was only nineteen. Due to his muscular physique and mustache, he looked about mid-twenties. He was the same age when he became the inaugural WWE UK Champion; he eventually grew a full beard and gained even more muscle mass and definition, and [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EXCVhcsiB04/maxresdefault.jpg could easily pass for a man of at least thirty, if not older]]. He's ''twenty-two'' in that photo.
305* Irish wrestler Jordan Devlin began his career at the age of twelve and once he put on muscle, looked considerably older than he actually was. Now his looks match his actual age.
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309* ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey'' had an episode where two boys get stuck inside a computer and meet a boy named Gregory who despite looking like an old man of 70 was in fact 12 due to having his life sucked away by playing computer games. The adventure (along with Gregory) was just a virtual reality simulation.
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313* [[ScaryBlackMan Robert "Bobby"]] [[AntiVillain Jacks]], [[AntiHero Adam Dodd]], and [[HotLibrarian Nicole Husher]] from ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' are all teenagers, yet they look like young adults. Bobby is a large, muscular, professional boxer who has spent almost his entire life devoted to the sport, causing him to look much older; Dodd had always looked a bit older than he actually was, but the horrors of the first game added a great deal to that; Nicole, meanwhile, developed very quickly due to an early onset of puberty, causing her to appear to be a few years older than she actually is, with predictable results when she reached middle school-age.
314* In ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'', most Pelvanida experiments are ''much'' younger than they look. This is {{justified| trope}} because they were grown with accelerated growth chambers.
315** Neku looks and acts like a 17-year-old but is 6.
316** Snow looks and acts like a 20-year-old but is the same age as Neku.
317** Chase looks and acts like a 12-year-old. He is 2-years-old.
318** John "Johnny" Smith is an extreme case. He looks and acts like a 34-year-old. He is '''seven'''.
319** Sabre 9 looks and acts like a 31-year-old. He is eight.
320** Ice looks and acts like a 32-year-old. He is the same age as Sabre 9.
321** Walter "Wally" O'Pierce looks and acts like a 34-year-old. He is ten.
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325* Every Ganymedian in the Tethus range on ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'''s Venus is younger than they look. After the Soviet ship they were on board crash landed, the plant-like Ganymedians found that the soil and plant-life of Venus caused them to grow much faster and with more fertility. This means that all the Ganymedian children on the range and grassland have the minds of infants and that the adults are aging at an incredible rate.
326* ''TableTopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5th edition comes with an optional table to generate your character's age that tends to create this trope if you were expecting to play a character in their mid-20s or 30s (like most of the in-book illustrations). According to the table, humans reach adulthood at 15 and players roll 1d4/1d6 (for martial classes) or 2d6 (for magical classes) to add to that, meaning you have a pretty high chance of starting your campaign as a teenager.
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330* The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' stage play ''Turnabout Teleportation'' has Tsubaki Tenma, who is 30 years old despite his white hair and somewhat disheveled appearance making him appear much older. Being the village chief is stated to have taken quite the toll on him.
331* ''Theatre/KimberlyAkimbo2021'': Kimberly is only 16 but looks like a grandma due to a rare disease that ages her quickly.
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335* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
336** Since Phoenix was 24 and Apollo 22 when becoming a lawyer, many people believed Athena Cykes would be in her early 20s, but she is actually 18. No player would have suggested she is only 18 because it should be impossible for her to finish high school with such age and work as a lawyer so fast. Not helping that Pearl Fey (who is a year behind her) appears in the same games she does and looks like in her early teens at best.
337** Simon Blackquill, with a height of 6' 2', shadows under his eyes and partly white hair looks older than Phoenix, but he is just 28. This becomes rather unsettling when you realize his [[OlderThanTheyLook 37-year-old sister]] looks much younger than him. Though this may be to show that being in prison took ''that much'' of a toll on him.
338** Professor Aristotle Means looks like he'd be an old man with his grey beard and fatherly demeanor, but he's only 45.
339** Franziska von Karma looks like she's in her twenties, but in her debut game, ''Justice For All'', she revealed to actually be the same age as Maya (18!).
340** [[NonIndicativeName Bonnie Young]] from ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Investigations 2]]'' is 60-years-old, but looks like she's pushing ''600''. She's all shrivelled and hunched over, hobbles around with a cane, and her voice is so weak she has to speak directly into her granddaughter's ear and have her relay what she says to everyone. [[BunnyEarsLawyer She's still the best damn coroner in the business, though]]. Compare Blaise Debeste, [[OlderThanTheyLook who is 68-years-old and looks like he's in his 50s]]. [[spoiler:Even without his wig and fake beard, he still doesn't look that much older]].
341* ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' has Nekomaru Nidai, who looks like a huge muscular man with HotBloodedSideburns but is implied to be only 17, and ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' has Gonta Gokuhara, a 6'6" GentleGiant who WordOfGod states is the ''youngest'' of the high-school aged cast.
342* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' -- TokenMiniMoe Ilya's maids and apparent caretakers appear to be around twenty and are a bit... strange, and have about five minutes total screentime. They're actually [[spoiler:''2-year-olds''. They're also fairly lethal combat homunculi, whom ''Ilya'' made]].
343** Ilya's mother Irisviel in ''Literature/FateZero'' is a grown woman who's only nine; indeed, it's a pattern that von Einzbern homunculi are created with the bodies of twenty-somethings and stay that way. Only Ilya herself was born normally, and is [[OlderThanTheyLook very much the opposite]] of the rest.
344* The Sonozaki twins in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' look to be in their older teens, but they're only 14, still in middle school.
345* Kurugaya from ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' looks ([[CoolBigSis and acts]]) as though she could be in her twenties, but in reality she's exactly the same age as the rest of the cast bar [[BigBrotherMentor Kyousuke]]. It's particularly notable when she's interacting with Kud, [[OlderThanTheyLook who looks as though she could be in middle school]].
346* ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpaAnother2'': Syobai Hashimoto's unkempt appearance, ExhaustedEyebags and scraggly beard makes him appear to be in his 30s while he's still a teenager like everyone else. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted: turns out that he ''is'' as old as he looks]].
347* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': While the 800-year-old Arcueid only looks like she's in her late teens to early twenties [[spoiler:she may well be much younger than that, mentally, as she was put into sleep mode when she wasn't killing Fallen True Ancestors, and after the True Ancestors died out, whenever Roa's incarnations were inactive]].
348* Sigma, the PlayerCharacter of ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'', is only 22, but other characters occasionally comment on him being "old". Which is strange, since he certainly looks 22 in the opening cutscene and in flashbacks, which are the only times we get to fully see him since the rest of the game is in first person. [[spoiler:This is because he has unknowingly [[MentalTimeTravel mentally time-travelled]] to the future and is now physically 67 years old. This fact is deliberately kept concealed from him (and by extension us) by a [[TomatoInTheMirror conspicuous lack of mirrors and other reflective surfaces around the facility]] (there is one, but it's so dirty you can't see anything in it, and nobody bothers to clean it). Said facility was also built on the Moon to keep Sigma from noticing his older body is physically weaker than the one he left, as the lower gravity balances it out, and to keep him (and the other characters) from noticing the lower gravity, they were all infected with a disease that alters their perception of reality, making it feel like Earth's normal gravity. However, no explanation is given for how [[FailedASpotCheck Sigma fails to notice]] that he suddenly sounds like Creator/JamiesonPrice (it's hidden from us by not having any of Sigma's lines voiced, but that obviously isn't the case in-universe), or that he suddenly has a large cybernetic eyepiece protruding from his face. The person who orchestrated all of this was the actual 67-year-old Sigma, who is also [[BigBad Zero]]]].
349-->'''Phi:''' You must have done a lot of drugs to look like ''that'' at 22.
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353* ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'':
354** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5-dEqK3QVc Akane]] ends up looking way older than Kuroki after her divorce with him, despite both of them being the same age.
355** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQK8BH56jHU Yuzuriha]] looks like a grown-up woman, however she is actually 11.
356* WebAnimation/HanazukiFullOfTreasures: Lampshaded in episode 2.
357-->'''Sleepy:''' Were you born yesterday?
358-->'''Hanazuki:''' Well, yes, I was.
359* [[TomTheDarkLord The Great and Mighty Kevin]] from ''WebAnimation/HunterTheParenting'' looks like an emaciated CrazyHomelessPerson with a scraggly beard. He was turned into a vampire at 27, and blames his appearance on his psoriasis and the stress of his accounting job.
360* ''WebAnimation/ObjectTerror'' did this with Trowel, as he stated he is actually 2-years-old in "Killoto the Minoto," even though he looks much older.
361* ''WebAnimation/{{Otakebi}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRSRiVDyVkY Yomeko's ex-husband]] ate a lot of overly salty food, this causes him to have several health problems and his appearance changes as well, now he looks more like an old man, despite his young age.
362* In one of the user-submitted stories on ''WebAnimation/PlanetDolan'' in the episode OUR HORRIBLE FIRST DATES, a teenaged boy asked a cute girl out on a date and her mother stayed with them for the entire date. He was confused by this until the mother explained to him that her daughter was actually a 9-year-old with the body of a 15- to 16-year-old.
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366* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': Gordito looks older than his actual age of twelve due to his extreme mustache.
367* ''Webcomic/BelovedL'' begins when Wei Wei hooks up with a younger woman she met at a bar. The "woman" turns out to be a 16-year-old girl.
368* ''Webcomic/CultFollowing'': Rick, the main antagonist, is 19, but you wouldn't guess it from his beard and moustache. Despite being several years younger than the protagonist, he still calls him "kid".
369* ''Webcomic/TheCyantianChronicles'': All of Exotica Genoworks' [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke creations]] suffer from this since they are designed to mature to something like 12 to 15 in only 4 or 5 years.
370* ''Webcomic/DragonSanctuary'': Half-elves. Nima is twenty and looks at least a hundred by elven standards, since they age so slowly, but by human standards she looks her age.
371* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
372** Ellen is a magical clone of Elliot who was 17-years-old and female at the time. This becomes a plot point, as a magic-user from another dimension has a religious belief that if the soul is younger than the body, it will cause problems. So she gives Ellen dreams of a second life to age up her soul to match, with the side benefit that it gives her own duplicate a friend in that second life.
373** Subverted with Grace and her brothers. The scientists who made them tried to come up with a way to age them faster in order to accelerate their development and get them combat-ready faster. "It was a hypothesis based on another hypothesis based on a theory based on several episodes of ''Franchise/StarTrek''. It was worthless." We never find out exactly what the scientists did, but it actually slowed down the aging process a little bit; at the time Grace finds this out, she looks about sixteen, but she's actually eighteen.
374* ''Webcomic/{{Feywinds}}'': Kit is a fox turned girl and, as fox age doesn't equal human age, she looks early twenties but is actually not anywhere near that. She acts accordingly, though, with a childish but quirky personality, and can be very naïve. She looks like an adult, age wise is a child but has the mentality of a girl in her mid to late teens, albeit a clueless one. Though the author of the comic has said she likes us to not think about how old the character actually is.
375* ''Webcomic/{{Hooky}}'':
376** Alex really thought Mark was old enough to drink.
377** Aisha has been mistaken multiple times as being younger than the rest of the cast due to her short height, much to her chagrin.
378* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'': Molly the Peanut Butter Monster has yet to celebrate her first birthday. Her recently generated sister Galatea is even younger.
379* ''Webcomic/MaggotBoy'': Lazaro is a twentysomething in the body of a decrepit old man, complete with DiseaseBleach, an IncurableCoughOfDeath, and permanent [[ExhaustedEyeBags eye bags]], thanks to pouring [[CastFromLifespan most of his life force]] into an astounding city-wide feat of {{Necromanc|er}}y.
380* ''Webcomic/MagIsa'': [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119788 Kyle]] looks old for a 23-year-old. Must be all those damn steroids...
381* ''Webcomic/NectarOfTheGods'': Bacchus' father, Apollo, is MUCH younger than he looks, he has the goatee, the Benjamin Franklin hairdo, the old man glasses, the wrinkles and near white hair to make it almost obvious he's in his mid 70s.... he's actually 46.
382* ''Webcomic/{{Outsider}}'': [[SpaceElves Loroi]] mature much faster than humans, and reach adulthood at around eight years of age. Two of the Loroi in the main cast, the systems analyst Beryl and the pilot Talon, are 14 and 13 respectively but look to be the same age as the lone human character who is in his early twenties.
383* ''Webcomic/PvP'': Cole Richards looks like he's in his mid-40s, but he states in an early strip that he's about to turn 30. Moreover, he was college roommates with Brent, Robbie and Jase, who look about right for being in their late 20s.
384* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'':
385** Played straight with Steve's relationship with Ellen, mildly averted in that Ellen was only a few weeks short of her birthday. Steve (who tends to be the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Man]] )was quite relaxed about this, discussed it with Marten and just held back. Ellen was written out of the comic after breaking up with Steve, departing on a marine biology field trip
386** Played with in the case of the various AI characters. May looks and acts as though she were mid- to late-twenties, but Momo (who sometimes remarks on her chronological age of about two-and-a-half years) actually looks like a Pre-teen and can be quite naive, although this isn’t consistent and at times she is quite mature. Bubbles is clearly older, although quite how old she actually is, and how much is due to her PTSD-like symptoms from her trauma in service, isn’t clear. Winslow is quite child-like and maintains this in his new chassis. Pintsize is a smart-Alec of indeterminate age, but has clearly been around for quite some time. Meanwhile, local spookybot Yay Newfriend is very insistent about reminding people that AI age doesn't map to maturity like it does in humans because they're embarrassed about their incongrously young chronological age of about ''two''.
387* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'', there was a lot of surprise when "Evil Spinnerette" turned out to be just 16-years-old, she looks like she should be in her late twenties at least. This acts as a point of contrast with "good" Spinny, a grad student who gets mistaken for a teenager.
388* ''Webcomic/StringTheory2009'': Dr. Schtein is apparently only 34 despite the lines on his face and his completely white hair. The {{workaholic}} attitude, poor self-care, and [[FunctionalAddict rampant drug use]] might have something to do with that.
389%%* ''Webcomic/ToddAllisonAndThePetuniaViolet'': In the first chapter, Petunia tries to guess Todd's age and ends up seven years off.%%Which way?
390* ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'': Keidrans age much faster than humans -- Flora, one of the main characters, looks and acts as if she is in her early twenties but is only eleven years old -- but [[spoiler:also only live into their early twenties. Late twenties at best]].
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394* ''Website/{{Killerbunnies}}'': This is unclear in the case of Test Subject 001892300012 or "Lucy", as she claims to be three, although, that could have something more or less to do with the fact that, being an escaped test subject, three might highest number she might be able to count to or, alternatively, if she is an artificial lifeform, then she might actually be three, as in having existed for about three years.
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398* In earlier videos where he shows his face, WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter appeared to be in his late twenties or early thirties, even though he was actually in his early twenties. This isn't the case now, where he looks almost the same as before, but actually ''is'' in his late twenties.
399* Now much OlderThanTheyLook, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic looked about fifteen years older than he actually was when he first started his reviews, thanks to shitty lighting and baggy clothes.
400* From the same website, WebVideo/TheRapCritic was born in ''1992'' and is the youngest of the Website/ChannelAwesome crew, making him 26 as of 2018, despite appearing to be in his early 30s. He was only ''18-years-old'' in his earliest videos (the ones where he has no facial hair). See it and you won't believe it.
401* Due to the fact that he's one of Creator/RoosterTeeth's first employees, close friendship with Geoff that created Creator/AchievementHunter, and his thick beard, it was a RunningGag in videos that Jack Pattillo is quite old. In fact, Fiona Nova legitimately thought he was 45 like Geoff when she was first hired, much to his dismay. She's even commented that Jack acts more like her middle-aged father than her actual father and it's frequently joked about that their dynamic is more like a father-daughter relationship. In reality, Jack is 40 and the oldest member of the group after Geoff, having worked at RT since his mid-20's and has finally approached looking his age.[[labelnote:Note]]He was the third-oldest member, being a year and half younger than former member Ryan Haywood, who was pushing 40 at the time of his departure.[[/labelnote]]
402** After Fiona's departure, new member Ky Cooke's dynamic with Jack is also joked about like a father-daughter relationship, especially after he was very dismayed after she didn't understand a joke he made and because she and Fiona are the same age. He also shared the same dynamic with [=BlackKrystel=], who is also approximately the same age as Ky and Fiona, and is much smaller in size when standing next to him.
403* WebVideo/SpectrumPulse: Mark was born in 1990 (31 as of 2021), but due to his intelligence and receding hairline, he's often been mistaken for being in his 30s ever since he was in his ''early twenties''.
404* WebVideo/{{Vsauce}}:
405** Michael is in his mid-thirties, but due to his beard, intelligence and the fact that he has already lost most of his hair, you'd think he was closer to his mid-forties.
406** This phenomenon is analyzed in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjqt8T3tJIE Did People Used To Look Older?]]" [sic]. Decades ago people didn't take care of their body as much as today, which made them age faster... but there's also a strong psychological component that accounts for most of the effect.
407* Because she's the only cat in ''WebVideo/{{Kittisaurus}}'' who's had kittens and thus coming across as more mature, it's easy to forget Nana is younger than Chuchu, Lulu and Lala. Only her sons, Toto and Dodo are younger than her.
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