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9	* Several characters including the title character in ''Webcomic/AliceGrove'' are [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld much, much older than they look]]. [[spoiler: Alice and Sedna have known each other for at least 5000 years. Mr. Church is at least that old as well.]]
10	* If ''Webcomic/AllenTheAlien'''s [[AllThereInTheManual character sheet]] is anything to go by, Allen is about 51 and Bonnie is about 47. They don't look it.
11	* The ''WebComic/AwkwardZombie'' page [[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?comic=040813 "Minor Setback"]] is about the character Nowi from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', a millennia old Manakete (a [[{{Weredragon}} dragon in human form]]) who creeps the party of heroes with her AgeInappropriateDress. It ends with her hitting on one of them who promptly leaves the scene while shouting [[MistakenForPedophile "I don't want to go to jail!"]]
12	** The last panel achieved MemeticMutation levels, and so did a variation of it with the character blushing and now shouting [[WorthIt "I]] ''[[WorthIt DO]]'' [[WorthIt want to go to jail"]].
13	* ''Webcomic/CityOfTrees'' makes a point to call attention to the fact that many magical character have much longer lifespans then their appearances would suggest.
14	-->'''Amir:''' Seriously, Jas, he probably only looks fifteen. I bet you anything he's really older than this whole city.
15	* ''Webcomic/DHSComix'': Mana Ryushin, from ''Random Encounter'' and ''Way Back Home'', initially appears as a young child, despite having lived hundreds of years in the afterlife. Eventually she gives herself an adult body, which still doesn't look a day over thirty.
16	* Greg, boyfriend of Kili in ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'', is really 60 but looks about 20-something. However, he's not alone, as apparently quite a lot of people are able to purchase rejuvenation in the setting. Mori takes it further by being 170.
17	* The titular ''Webcomic/DrFrost''. Seonga is shocked to learn that he's thirty-five. It gets promptly lampshaded by another character who mentions that he still looks like he’s in his twenties.
18	* Dina from ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge''; college-aged, but about half the size of her classmates and lacking in social skills. {{Lampshaded}} when Raidah and her friends think she's a child, and later after she makes friends with Riley.
19	-->'''Amber:''' Dina, I think she's like ''twelve.''\
20	'''Dina:''' I have been deceived!\
21	'''Riley:''' Wait, ''you're'' not twelve?\
22	'''Dina:''' I see no answer to that which would not tarnish my dignity.
23	%%* Nearly everyone in ''Web/{{Earthsong}}''
24	* ''Webcomic/EerieCuties''
25	** [[ZigzaggingTrope Zigzagged]] with Nina Delacroix, who's initially pint-sized and acts like a 12-year-old, despite being 14[[note]]from Vol.0 until the start of Vol.3[[/note]]. It's eventually revealed that her growth was being stunted because she refused to drink blood like a proper vampire. But once she finally ''does'', she grows a few inches taller and now looks the same age as her friends.
26	** Played straight with Tia Darkness, who appears to be the same age as Nina once did. However, there were subtle hints that she was older than she let on, such as when she referred to Nina as, "little one". While Tia's actual age is never specified, the ''"Tia &Me"'' epilogue short story finally confirmed that she's at least several hundred years old, if not ''thousands''. According to ancient historical texts [[spoiler: Tia is actually Dementia Oblivion, a grand chaos demon and sister to both Artemis and Hecate from ''Webcomic/MagickChicks'']]!
27	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
28	** [[BadassTeacher Mr. Raven]] looks fifty-ish, but he's old enough to have taught a current student's mother (herself about forty). At one point, we see him unconscious, and he actually looks ''[[YoungerThanTheyLook younger]]'', implying he has some sort of illusion spell going to make himself look older. Oh, and [[OurElvesAreDifferent he's an elf]].
29	** Grace is 18. Not all that implausible, but this has caused some in-story surprise when people found out that she's the oldest person among the main cast.
30	* In ''Webcomic/ErrantStory'': Meji, age seventeen, looks twelve (she's a half-elf). All kinds of angsting and insecurities ensue. Fellow half-elf, Ian, is 45 and looks like he hasn't hit 20 yet.
31	%%** Also, to some extent, [[http://www.errantstory.com/2007-11-23/735 Anita]].
32	* Magic users in ''Webcomic/{{Evon}}'' age slower than normal people. Evon looks like a 12-year old ([[InformedAttribute allegedly]]) but is actually in her mid-20s.
33	* Da-Jeong from ''Webcomic/TheFriendlyWinter'' is a 19-year-old who looks like a seven to 8-year-old. She has a thyroid condition that stunted her growth. She could have gone on estrogen to have her grow but by the time they figured out it was too late. Her mother abandoned her ten years ago because she couldn't handle her daughter's disability. Da-Jeong hates that she's forced to masquerade as a little kid (including wearing childish clothing and having a kiddie bike) and no one believes her when she says she's an adult.
34	* In ''Webcomic/{{Frivolesque}}'', the reveal that the small, child-like Flore is slightly older than her much more mature looking sister comes off as a surprise. This seem to apply to their father as well.
35	* Parodied in ''Webcomic/GhastlysGhastlyComic'' with the character Chibi Sue, a 36-year-old woman who appears to be under twelve due to being from a race of SuperDeformed.
36	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Embi, a member of Master Payne's Circus of Adventure, is apparently well over 100 years old.
37	* ''Webcomic/{{Gosu}}'': By taking the function of makeup up to eleven, this is played straight with Song Chohyang. Normally she looks like a small elderly woman with wrinkles and grey hair. However, once she applies her makeup, she quite literally transforms into a beautiful young woman. Chohyang's makeup skills are so transcendental that she made a mother unrecognisable to her own children.
38	* ''Webcomic/GourmetHound'': Lucy's cute face, short stature, and bright demeanor lead people to think she's a teenager. It's especially bad when she gets a hair cut, with some folks wondering if she's a lost child.
39	* Jones of ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' looks like she is around thirty. She has always looked like that. Always. [[spoiler:She is actually billions of years old and no more human than a rock is.]]
40	* Hanna (of ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName'') is [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/wp-content/gallery/hannarts/hanna_ref.jpg twenty-four.]] [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=151 Believe it or not.]] [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Whether or not this is natural]] or the result of [[AmbiguouslyHuman something magic]] has not been explained.
41	* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'': Dave's Bro looks to be in his early to mid twenties, and the age gap isn't too wide between him and Dave, in reality he's as old as Rose's Mom [[spoiler: as a Paradox clone sent to earth on a meteor, he arrived at the same time she did]] making him in his thirties-forties.
42	* In ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'', it's been hinted at that Sabrina is a lot older than the other pets usually seen in the strip. [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/2013/10/23/ages-ago/ Old enough to remember when not everyone had cell phones.]] This adds a potentially different implication to her relationship with Fido.
43	* Toivo in ''Webcomic/IngressAdventuringCompany'' looks like he's in his mid-twenties or thirties, but in actuality is around 70 years old.
44	* The heroines of ''Webcomic/JetDream'' are chronologically in their 30s or 40s, but appear to be young women in their early 20s. When the former men of the Thunderbird Squadron were [[GenderBender turned into girls]] by [[AppliedPhlebotinum Virus-X]], the effect also rejuvenated them.
45	* Weijuaru of ''Webcomic/{{Juathuur}}''. The thing is... he's a shift user.
46	* Miho of ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}'' has stated outright that she's older than she looks (about seventeen), though Largo thinks she's [[Really700YearsOld ancient]]. She also refers to a 23-year-old as "young man" and used to run around with [[spoiler:Yuki's mother, Meimi]], which pushes her estimated age closer to ''forty''.
47	* Verre in ''Webcomic/{{Memorabilia}}'' doesn't look much older than twenty, but as he tells the old woman at the grave, he's much older than he looks.
48	* ''Webcomic/MrBoop'': Betty Boop is 90 years old.
49	* Nearly everyone in Oz in ''WebComic/{{Namesake}}''. The spell placed on Oz prevented the inhabitants from aging, meaning only those who really ''wanted'' to age did so. Ozma in particular appears very young, in her younger teens, despite being [[Really700YearsOld however old she really is.]] In a horrifying twist on the trope [[spoiler:the Dorothies don't appear to age physically, but die of old age anyway, to Ozma's despair.]]
50	* ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'': All of the characters' ages veer into TimeAbyss, but Earth and Sun have OlderThanTheyLook apply within what's normal for their species. Earth is stated to be stated to Venus' ''older'' sister, despite not looking any older than her and having more than a bit of ImmortalImmaturity. Sun, meanwhile, is mentioned by the other characters to be have existed since before ''anyone'' else did, even though he looks about the same age as them.
51	* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
52	** Pompey the half-elf is approximately sixteen both mentally and physically; chronologically, he's forty-three, and [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0258.html complains about being called "kid"]] when it's revealed that he's taking orders from a (human) 21-year-old.
53	** Vaarsuvius has two elf children, aged twenty-six, who look and act like small kids and are currently in kindergarten. Both of these are the result of long [[OurElvesAreDifferent elf]] [[WeAreAsMayflies lifespans]].
54	** Redcloak still looks like a goblin teenager thanks to the Crimson Mantle despite being over fifty (which, for a goblin, is beyond venerable age).
55	* ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'': [[spoiler:Locke is actually Millie's father and in his world, everyone ages backwards. He's actually just a few years away from death.]]
56	* ''Webcomic/{{Platformers}}'': [[VideoGame/{{Klonoa}} The High Priestess]] is 50 years old, but she looks no older than a young adult.
57	* ''WebComic/{{Precocious}}'': Tiffany in [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2011/08/18 this]] request strip showing the kids as teenagers.
58	* Angela from ''Webcomic/QueenOfWands'' and ''Webcomic/PunchAnPie''. She doesn't seem to mind it much, because hey, ordering off the kid's menu is cheaper and you get to color on the placemats.
59	* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', [[spoiler:Amir]] turns out to be about ten years older than he looks.
60	* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
61	** As of the Credomar arc, Kaff Tagon is 49. This is brought down in particular by Elf, who [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-10-18 in this strip]] claims he's older than her dad, and yet she had a crush on him a few arcs earlier.
62	** Worse is Alexia Murtaugh, who's military experience stands above Kaff's, and is third only to those of Karl Tagon and Thurl.
63	* Sera from ''Webcomic/SerenityRose'' is extremely short, and the art for the comic is fairly age-ambiguous, to the point that the artist has on at least one occasion included a disclaimer stating she's in College.
64	* Made fun of in ''[[http://www.shapequest.net Shape Quest]]'', when it is [[http://www.shapequest.net/?id=114 revealed how old Clark is.]]
65	* ''Webcomic/{{Sidekicks}}'': As a result of his [[PowerUpgradingDeformation superpower manifesting]], [[MeaningfulName Hacky]] looks like a young child despite being well over 20 years old.
66	* Torg and Riff of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' had been old enough to drink for multiple years (They had been giving each other beers for Christmas) at the start of the comic in 1997. Their comic makes note of major holidays, making ComicBookTime and real time correspond to a rough degree. But despite the fact that those two should be close to 40 years old now, neither they (nor anyone else in the strip) has noticeably aged.
67	* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' looks like a teenager but she's actually a grad student in her mid- to late twenties. This contrasts with "Evil Spinerette," who looks considerably older than the 16 years she turns out to be.
68	-->'''Tiger:''' Wow, kids grow up fast these days.\
69	'''Mecha-Maid:''' You talking about the supervillainy or the ''ginormous boobs?''\
70	'''Tiger:''' Both, I guess.
71	* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Tuuri is 21, but is also quite short for an adult, has youthful looks, and an enthusiastic personality that can be accurately described as child-like. When someone she just met recently tries to guess her age, they go for 16.
72	* ''Webcomic/TodayNothingHappened'': Also a RealLife one, since it's from a JournalComic, but Shazzbaa looks a lot younger than her current age at least since she was eighteen. It's not just ArtisticAge -- WordOfGod has insisted that she really does look abnormally young, and she's addressed it in the comic [[http://www.shazzbaa.com/index.php?c=217 more]] than [[http://www.shazzbaa.com/index.php?c=333 once]].
73	* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' is an undisputed king of this Trope. Manipulating the FunctionalMagic of their world known as Shinsu, allows for a person who becomes skilled enough with it to become [[TheAgeless nigh immortal]]. Since the entire cast and ''everyone'' in the story setting can use Shinsu, almost all of them are already much older than they look. A prime example is Anaak Jahad who has a body of what seems like a child yet is over ''[[Really700YearsOld 300]]'' years old. They ''need'' to be [[TheAgeless nigh immortal]] as well, since their ultimate goal is to reach the top of the Tower that makes up their world and just reaching the 134th Floor[[note]](The highest anyone has ever gotten)[[/note]] takes the average person ''500 years''.
74	* ''Webcomic/TrueVillains'': [[LadyOfBlackMagic Elia]] is in her eighties but has the looks of a twentysomething... quite literally, as she's a {{Necromancer}} who flays young female victims and magically [[KillAndReplace transplants the skins]] onto her body. She [[FaceStealer keeps a collection]] for fashion and disguise purposes.
75	* ''Webcomic/VampireGirl'': Levana appears and behaves like a woman who is no older than perhaps her twenties, and even her transformation into a mortal has no affect on either of these triats, but considering she was a vampire and literally possessed immortality, she could have even been centuries old.
76	* Vinci, of ''Webcomic/VinciAndArty'', is often mistaken for a child, in spite of being well into adulthood.
77	* Sock from ''Webcomic/WelcomeToHell'' is officially fifteen-to-twenty however he looks more like a 10 to 13 years old. He's short, rather androgynous, and in the animated short is [[CrossdressingVoices voiced by a girl]].
78	* Sung Sumin from ''Webcomic/WhatDoesTheFoxSay'' is a 34-year-old that looks significantly younger. The protagonist doesn't even believe her age at first. Sumin's age is a ''huge'' BerserkButton for her, as in the past she was disrespected for looking young, so the protagonist [[InnocentlyInsensitive innocently questioning it]] makes their relationship start on rocky terms.
79	* Both Max and Ivan from ''Webcomic/YoungerDays'' fit this trope. Max is 9 but looks more like a toddler aged about 4, and Ivan looks like he might be 7 but is actually closer to 11.
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