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6	* Mr. Garcia, Jonesy's father, from ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}''. He looks more as the older brother of his children. Heck, he looks younger that his new wife, Emma Masterson, Jen and Courtney's mother.
7	* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode, "The Vault", Finn sees a vision of his past life, a girl named Shoko, who encountered [[Characters/AdventureTimePrincessBubblegum Princess Bubblegum]] during the early days of the Candy Kingdom. Bubblegum looks exactly the same then as she does now, suggesting she is far older than the nineteen she claims. She only laughs nervously when Finn points out this discrepancy at the end of the episode.
8	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Steve Smith is 14, but he looks closer to ten or eleven. This also applies to Steve's friends Snot, Barry and Toshi.
9	* Mookie from ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'' is said to approximately 35 years old, but many viewers believed he was only about 18 to 22 years old due to his youthful appearance and the fact that he lives with his mother.
10	* Taken to an extreme with [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang Aang]] in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', who, thanks to a century spent as a HumanPopsicle, is technically 112 years old. He's still not the longest-lived Avatar, though; Avatar Kyoshi lived to [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld the ripe old age of 230]] without needing to go into a deep freeze, and while never looking any older than 40 any of the times she appears onscreen. Unfortunately for Aang, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' reveals that the time he spent in suspended animation came to bite him later in life, as he only lived to be 66.
11	** Come ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Zuko is a downplayed example. He still fights almost as well as he did while he was young, and travels the world alone aside from his dragon to ride on. Zuko at this point is well over 80 years old, but could pass for someone in his 60s.
12	* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': For the 2022 revival series, there are at least two characters who, in the 24 year TimeSkip that had occurred for B&B, still look youthful and/or unchanged relative to their age.
13	** David Van Driessen was in his 40s for the 90s iteration but for the 2022 revival, should be in his 60s and possibly eligible for social security. However, besides some extra bags under his eyes, he still looks the same as he did back in the 90s with not a strand of grey hair.
14	** Tom Anderson was a veteran of two wars, including WWII, and was already an old man in the 90s show. However, when he shows up again in the revival set 24 years later, he looks completely physically unchanged and can get around fine on his own even though he should be in his late 90s and pushing 100.
15	* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': The one-shot villain Mr. B looks like a baby and calling him one is his BerserkButton. In his only episode, he tries using the KND's satellite network to fire an age changing ray down on everyone to turn everyone into babies, so that no one will be able to call him one. At the end he [[HoistByHisOwnPetard gets hit by the beam]] and he reverts to a baby for real, though his appearance doesn't change a bit.
16	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cybersix}}'': Jose Von Richter looks like he's only 8-10 years old, but in reality has been alive for almost half a century. Von Richter the first arrested his clone's aging process so Jose would not be too old to eventually inherit his father's criminal empire. This actually puts a rather dark spin on Jose's childish and bratty behavior, making him appear far more sociopathic.
17	* Batgirl in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' looks like she's about 12-14, but she's in high school and in season 5, is a college freshman, making her at least 18 years old.
18	* In ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'', Lisa must have been in her mid-late 40s at least after a 20-year time skip from the prologue but looks the same as she did when she first met Dracula.
19	* ''WesternAnimation/TheChocolix'': Chocolyne, Chocomark, and Max are the same age, despite Max not being as tall as either Chocolix, leading the Chocolix to believe that Max is younger than them when they first meet him. Max explains that there was a big avalanche of chocolate balls in the Chocolate Kingdom when he was born, which directly affected his mother enough to cause his shortness.
20	* Due to the [[PuniPlush art style]] for ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000'', most of the kids (Li'l D, Eddie, Kim, Kam, Madison) look about 9 or 10, not helped by most of them being below average in height. They are all in fact around 12 years old.
21	* In ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'', Aelita is chronologically 22-23, but ten of those years were spent in stasis as a DigitalAvatar in Lyoko. Because of this, she has far more knowledge and intelligence than any ordinary teenager, but she's still physically and emotionally 12-13, and is in a relationship with Jérémie, who's physically the same age.
22	* There was a clever variation in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' with the episode "Conway the Contaminationist", in which the eponymous Conway is in his 130s and can backflip around at will if he feels good -- but, instead of looking distinctly elderly, he just looks bizarrely deformed.
23	* The eponymous duo in ''WesternAnimation/CupcakeAndDinoGeneralServices'' have this going on, as do some of their friends; it's easy to mistake them for kids, but Cup and Dino in particular are either in their late teens or early twenties -- at any rate, they're both old enough to be running their own business.
24	* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':
25	** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' has Mary "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE11BabyDoll Baby-Doll]]" Dahl, a former actress-turned-criminal who, due to a rare genetic disorder, continued to look like a small child even after reaching adulthood. Her anguish over being an adult trapped in such a body, and the public's refusal to respect and treat her like her true age, is the source of her criminal mindset -- because she looks younger, she couldn't get into other roles besides child ones (she tried ''Macbeth'' but that didn't go well), and she has a case of self-hate and resentment because of this. In a later episode, "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE9LoveIsACroc Love Is a Croc]]", she romantically teams up with Killer Croc, a similarly outcast bruiser who looks like a human crocodile.
26	--->'''Batgirl:''' What do you suppose they do on a date?\
27	'''Batman:''' [[BrainBleach I don't want to think about it]].
28	** By the time of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', a case could be made for [[Characters/DCAUBatman Batman]] himself being a more downplayed version of this: he's in his early forties at this point, but his appearance and physical abilities are still relatively unchanged from ''TAS''. Justified because his entire lifestyle is tailored towards keeping himself in absolute top shape.
29	** In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS3E10E11TheCall The Call]]", [[Characters/DCAUSuperman Superman]] (thanks to his Kryptonian DNA) is revealed to look like he's in his fifties even though he's around Bruce's age (late seventies to early eighties).
30	** Batgirl is this in ''The New Batman Adventures''. She's in her mid-twenties and has graduated college to work as a data analyst for the GCPD, but she looks like a teenager and younger than she looked in ''BTAS''. She'd be in her thirties during the flashback in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' and she still doesn't look any older. She finally aged by the time of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', where she would be in her sixties.
31	** The same goes for Robin (Tim Drake). He's 13 in ''The New Batman Adventures'' but looks more like a preteen. He should be in his late teens by the time of the ''ROTJ'' flashback, and while his voice is a little deeper, he still looks mostly the same physically. But like Barbara, he's properly aged up in the main ''Batman Beyond'' timeline.
32	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'', it turns out that [[spoiler:Lynch]] is actually seventy or so years old and masquerading as a teenager with the help or a wig, MagicPlasticSurgery, actual magic, and a teen slang dictionary ([[JiveTurkey whose effectiveness is highly debatable]]).
33	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'' episode "In Her Own Write" Bean meets a woman named Mary who's 23 but looks like she's about 12 to 14 years old. She claims it's because she drinks too much coffee and it stunted her growth.
34	* Gwizdo from ''WesternAnimation/DragonHunters''. Just imagine a shorty in his early thirties who deservedly wears a pilot's suit but mostly looks like a youngster in his early twenties or even like a boy of twelve years. His emotional development is at the same level (for example, his experience of falling in love is minimal), but, at least, his intellect is actually adult.
35	* Strawberry Sweetcake of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' ''was'' the smallest ass they could legally tap, after all.
36	-->'''Spanky Ham''': ''"Wait, wait, wait, how old are you?"''
37	-->'''Strawberry Sweetcake''': ''"Silly, I'm eighteen... but I taste eight."''
38	* ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'': Elena was trapped inside the Amulet for 41 years, and its magic somehow prevented her from aging. Although physically 16, she's technically ''57''.
39	* Timmy Turner and his classmates from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', from their short statures and Timmy’s shrill squeaky voice, especially in the later seasons, you’d think they’re seven or younger, but they’re ten.
40	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
41	** [[Characters/FamilyGuyGlennQuagmire Glenn Quagmire]], who looks about 40 at most, has a driver's license that indicates he's 61. His secret is carrots.
42	** Speaking of Quagmire, Quagmire's transgender father Ida from the episode "Quagmire's Dad" barely looks any older than her son. Quite impressive, given that she would have to be in her eighties at the youngest.
43	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
44	** Before Slurms Mackenzie makes his HeroicSacrifice, he says that his party girls have served him well during the past 40 years. The two of them look to be about 20 years old.
45	** Bender accuses the Planet Express ship of this because the ship has tubes.
46	** [[Characters/FuturamaPhilipJFry Philip J. Fry]] is 1000 years older than he looks, thanks to being a HumanPopsicle.
47	** In one episode the entire crew jumped into an alien fountain of youth to reverse their rapid anti-aging and as a consequence all came out physically younger than their original ages (except for the Professor, who got even older). Which explains how after over ten years they all still look roughly the same age.
48	** Cubert Farnsworth is 12 but looks and acts like he's around 9.
49	** Although Dr. Zoidberg's age is pretty ambiguous given his alien appearance and his species' multitude of life stages, he is often treated to be, at most, the same age as Hermes (late 30s to early 40s). But in "The Tip of the Zoidberg", it's revealed he's known the Professor since 2927, suggesting he is ''at least'' over a century old (possibly the same age or older than Farnsworth).
50	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': Gargoyles don't age during stone sleep, so they mature at half the rate of a human; Goliath, for example, was chronologically 56 years old at the time of the Wyvern Massacre, but was biologically equivalent to a 28-year-old man.
51	* Ed, the eponymous protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/GetEd'', is mentally and physically a young teenager but is chronologically a few years older at most. Because of this, he's a dorky WideEyedIdealist who needs to have things like parties explained to him. He also doesn't know how to use cologne (which he pronounces "colon") properly.
52	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
53	** Dipper Pines and Mabel Pines are 12 (and turn 13 near the show's finale) years old but are shorter than the average 12- to 13-year-old, being more around the size of a 7-year-old. It's not just compared to Wendy (who is 15 years old), but also compared to all the adult characters on the show who dwarf them in height. Mabel's childlike personality, interests and Cloudcuckoolander status doesn't help either. It's also not just the twins: Candy, Pacifica, Gabe, all the girls in the "Roadside Attraction" episode... they're all rather short and look much younger than 12-13. In the twins' case, it could also be a visual way of indicating how the kids and the teens are different from each other and inhabit two different worlds, which ties into the theme of growing up—specifically Dipper wanting something that he’s not ready for yet. In the original pilot, they looked more of a normal preteen height.
54	** Gideon looks like he's 4 years old with his babyface, YouthfulFreckles, voice and height, but he is 9 to 10 years old in the present.
55	** Shandra Jiminez appears to be in her thirties (perhaps even late twenties), but the timeline showing her as a teenager thirty years prior, places her as at least in her mid-forties.
56	* Harold Berman from ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' is revealed to be 13 years of age, being held back in the fourth grade four times, and despite his weight, he's around the same height as most of the other fourth grades and even smaller than most of the fifth graders (not to mention he even lets himself get pushed around by them).
57	* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': [[Characters/InvaderZimZim Zim]] is described by Creator/JhonenVasquez as "older than any human alive". Whether that puts him into ReallySevenHundredYearsOld territory or just OlderThanTheyLook is the subject of much fan speculation.
58	* Monster Girl from ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' she looks like she's about 12 years old, in actuality she's 24, she is cursed to look younger after she uses her powers to become a giant monster, and laments how much it sucks for her.
59	* Heloise from ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' is officially 14 but looks like an elementary student.
60	* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
61	** Probably Mrs. Dr. Anne Possible. In fact, in one episode ("Mother's Day"), Dr. Drakken truthfully believes that she's Kim's sister.
62	--->''"Is he hitting on me?"''
63	** Shego looks to be only a few years older than Kim and Ron, but in one episode Ron tells an amnesiac Kim that she's much older than she seems (presumably around 30) and offends her.
64	** Betty Crocker {{expy}} Granny Crocket after extensive surgery.
65	--->'''Granny Crocket:''' Well, Granny had a little work done.
66	* Bobby Hill of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' even though he's 13 to 14 years old in later seasons, due to his childish appearance, short stature, and immaturity you'd think he's around 10.
67	* Benson from ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'' appears to be the same age as Kipo, although [[WordOfGod he’s actually 16.]] Also consider Wolf, who is 10 years old and debatably short for her age.
68	* Lynn, Luan, and Luna from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' are 13, 14, and 15, respectively.[[note]]In Season 5, they get aged up to 14, 15 and 16, without a single change in their designs.[[/note]] However, by looking at them, you couldn't be blamed for thinking they are around the age of their 11-year-old brother Lincoln. None of them have visible breasts, Lynn is shorter than Lincoln, Luan has braces and is a KiddieKid and Luna has YouthfulFreckles. Downplayed for the latter two, as Luna and Luan are at least the same height as most girls their age. In fact, the art style of the show is done so that most teenage characters under 16 lack visible breasts, with 13-year-old minor character Maggie and 16-year-old Luna from Season 5 onwards being an exception to this rule. Still, Luna's wild side and Luan's childlike behaviour along with their lack of 'development' and other childish features do serve to make them seem younger at first glance.
69	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'', Flapjack encounters what appears to be a creepy, annoying, wide eyed little boy who won't leave him alone. Finally, he tells him "You need to grow up", and the "boy" responds "Grow up? I'm 38 years old!", which is followed by a GrossUpCloseUp of his wrinkled face.
70	* Gina Dupain from ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' acts and looks very youthful. And while her age is not known, it speaks volumes just knowing that she's Marinette's ''grandmother''.
71	* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'':
72	** Shapey and Block look, talk and act like 3-year-olds but they are actually seven.
73	** Doughy's parents still dress and act like high school kids, on top of treating Doughy like an AnnoyingYoungerSibling at best, and an expendable pet at worst. The last name "Latchkey" is [[ThemeNaming extremely fitting]], indeed.
74	* Crystal Zilla from ''WesternAnimation/MyDadTheRockStar'', who looks barely older than her daughter! In one episode, a flashback set 20 years prior to series shows her looking exactly the same as in the present.
75	* Henry and June of ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam!'' are supposedly around 8 to 11 years old...yet depending on the artist for the episode, they look about 5 (could also be RuleOfCute in effect)
76	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
77	** Played with between [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicPinkiePie Pinkie Pie]] and [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicFluttershy Fluttershy]]. Many might assume Fluttershy to be the youngest of the Mane Six given her shy demeanor and childlike innocence (though Pinkie is also very childish), and Pinkie even jokingly tells Fluttershy in season one to think of her as "auntie"... but Fluttershy replies, a bit petulantly, that she's actually ''a year older'' than Pinkie Pie. In the flashback to their youth, Fluttershy looks taller and more lanky/gawky than the rest of the cast, indicating she may actually be the oldest.
78	** [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicPrincessCelestia Princess Celestia]] and [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicPrincessLuna Princess Luna]] take this to the extreme, being at least [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld several thousand years old]] in spite of their youthful appearances.
79	** Of all the Mane Six's parents, Twilight Sparkle's mother and father look the exact same age as her, and actually ''younger'' than their son Shining Armor. Having been introduced early in the series when characters [[OnlySixFaces only had six faces]] is largely responsible for this, as the rest of the Six's parents look noticeably older.
80	** Mrs. Cake/Cup Cake is old enough to be the mother of Big Macintosh, yet just had babies of her own.
81	** ''WesternAnimation/EquestriaGirls Rainbow Rocks'': The Dazzlings were banished from Equestria, by Starswirl the Bearded, over 1000 years ago.
82	** Though it was never officially confirmed in-universe, it was mentioned in a BABSCon 2020 interview by [[WordofGod Nicole Dubuc]] that Cozy Glow was written as an adult who has retained her childlike filly appearance and uses it to her advantage. This may fall into WriterConflictsWithCanon, though, as the show implies she is an actual filly (albeit a villainous one).
83	* Darius from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is somewhere in the ballpark of 45-50, but has aged far more gracefully than his contemporaries due to [[AgentPeacock how particular he is about his appearance]] and could probably pass for a man in his 30s.
84	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Lawrence looks like he's about 45, yet he is implied to be in his late 50s ''at least'' as he apparently spent almost the entire 1980s working as an anthropologist in Africa, and apparently he was acquainted with the Beatles back in the early 60s.
85	* The ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s'' episode "How to Found a Pound" revealed that the Puppy Pound was founded by an old woman named Millicent Trueblood. She doesn't look any older than her 60's, but Cooler explicitly mentions that she was 101 during her death scene.
86	* Implied with Ms. Keane, Ms. Bellum, and Professor Utonium from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998''. The series takes place in TheNineties but they go back to their childhood in TheFifties. That means they're around fifty to sixty, while they don't look any older than their mid 30s.
87	* Jet from ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' looks like a tween, but "Earthday Birthday" reveals that he's actually 63 years old in Bortronian years.
88	* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' reveals in the movie ''[[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLifeStaticCling Static Cling]]'' that Rocko and his friends have returned to their home planet after 20 years in space looking not the slightest bit older than they looked since then. In fact, the only characters in the show that look far more different in age are Filburt's children, who are now young adults.
89	* ''WesternAnimation/RyanDefratesSecretAgent'': Deb Defrates looks like a normal middle-aged woman with a teenage son. But then, in episode six, The Towering Turkey, it is revealed that she has a married adult daughter with two grandchildren who look to be 10 or 11 years old. That would put her age in the 40s or 50s when she looks young enough to be in her early 30s.
90	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretWorldOfSantaClaus'': Most main characters are much older than they actually look.
91	** Santa himself seems to be very old already. While it is never said how old he is exactly, he is shown to have brought gifts to Mozart, Da Vinci and King Arthur.
92	** The elves seem to be pretty old as well, despite looking like children. Guilfi, while being TheApprentice, is shown to have helped Santa in his mission to bring King Arthur a gift, and is thus probably the oldest of the elves.
93	** Gruzzlebeard is also shown in the episode with King Arthur, and is thus pretty old as well.
94	* In ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', all of the aforementioned princesses are teenagers (with Frosta just ''barely'' being one). The lone exception is Entrapta, who despite her short stature and exuberant demeanor, is actually in her early 30s according to [[WordOfSaintPaul the character designer]].
95	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
96	** Kearney Zzyzwich (the bald, fat bully with the white T-shirt, blue pants, and studded wristbands): Even though he looks old enough to be in high school (yet he's been held back in the fifth grade for a long time, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4mzqCoNQxo&feature=relmfu Nancy Cartwright (Kearney's voice actress) claims that Kearney is actually 14 years old]]), Kearney is actually older than that. He was alive when the Watergate scandal and the 1976 Bicentennial happened ["Lisa the Iconoclast"] (which would make him around 22 or 23 years old for a start), he has been shown shaving multiple times, has a child from a divorce ["A Milhouse Divided"], was in Otto the bus driver's third grade class ["The Mook, The Chef, The Wife, and Her Homer"], is old enough to drink in a bar ["El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer"] (though he often uses fake [=ID=]s ["Much Apu about Nothing"] or tricks Homer into getting him alcohol ["Last Tap Dance in Springfield" and that Mary Poppins parody episode from season 8]), was tried as an adult and put in an actual prison ["Realty Bites"], voted in a U.S. Presidential Election ["Treehouse of Horror XIX"], pays taxes ["Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life"], and drives a car ["Lisa's Date with Density"], even though he can sometimes be seen on the school bus. Of course, this can be interpreted as a satire on how children grow up too fast and how the most childish of men are somehow fathers before they're emotionally ready (it is ''The Simpsons'' after all) or, as mentioned before, yet another sign that the show does not want their characters to age.
97	** Ned Flanders: All outside appearances seem to imply that Flanders is around the same age as Homer (late 30s/early 40s), but in season 10's "Viva Ned Flanders", Flanders reveals that he's 60 years old and looks young because he's never done anything sinful and crazy in his life. In the episode "Dangerous Curves", a flashback is shown of Homer and Marge as teenagers meeting Flanders and Maude, who appear to be in their late 20's to early 30's.
98	** Krusty the Clown appears to be the same age as most of the prominent adults on the show, but it's implied that he's actually much older. Considering his harsh lifestyle, this is pretty impressive. Even more impressive when you remember the episode where Krusty, while taking a summer hiatus, puts on a rerun of his show from 1961 (which is in black and white). And the scenes from his childhood (in the episode where he [[SuddenlyEthnicity first reveals his Jewish roots]] and Bart and Lisa work together to reunite Krusty with his estranged father) look like they're from the 1920s or '30s ''at the latest''[[note]]Further adding to the AnachronismStew, Rabbi Krustofski advises a man to buy a Chrysler with power steering, the earliest model is the 1951 Imperial[[/note]].
99	** According to the {{Mockumentary}} episode "Behind the Laughter," the "[[AnimatedActors real]]" Simpsons kids, who, after all, have been [[ComicBookTime doing this for a decade]] (when the episode was broadcast; two decades now). According to Lisa's tell-all book, Homer [[{{NotAllowedToGrowUp}} puts anti-aging]] [[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}} drugs into their cereal]].
100	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'': The young adult male Smurfs are really about 100 years old (150 in the cartoon show), while [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Papa Smurf is 542]]. Of course, this could also be referred to as the VagueAge where it's uncertain what particular human age their ages are supposed to correspond to. Their human friends Selwyn and Tallulah are more than ''200 years old'', according to a Season 8 episode.
101	* Tails in ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' talks and acts like he's younger than his 8-year-old counterpart from the video game series, but he is apparently 10, according to Sally in "Drood Henge".
102	* [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsTitularCharacter The titular character]] of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' is 33 as of July 2019, though with his youthful appearance and childlike demeanor he could easily pass for being in his late teens.
103	* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': Despite her fellow ensigns thinking that [[Characters/StarTrekLowerDecksBeckettMariner Beckett Mariner]] is the same age as them (i.e., early 20s), Mariner's service history implies that she is considerably older than that. One of her academy classmates has made it to captain, making her late 20s at the youngest but more likely early 30s. She doesn't really act her age though.
104	* Thanks to the events of "Running with Scissors" having him reside in a [[YearOutsideHourInside time-accelerated dimension]] called the Neverzone for several years, [[Characters/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilMarcoDiaz Marco Diaz]] from ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' is chronologically in his early 30s, despite still being physically and emotionally a teenager. It's only when he returns to the Neverzone does he look and act older.
105	* [[Characters/StevenUniverseCrystalGems The Crystal Gems]] from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' all appear to be in their twenties-thirties, but are all thousands of years old. [[Characters/StevenUniverseStevenQuartzUniverse Steven Quartz Universe]] himself looks like a pre-adolescent, but celebrated his fourteenth birthday late in the second season--according to a photo album, he hasn't grown since age eight. The episode "So Many Birthdays" shows that Steven can age depending on the age that he ''feels.'' Steven actually looks his age by the time we rejoin him in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'', in which [[TimeSkip two years had passed since the events of the fifth season]], indirectly telling us he started feeling like he was older.
106	* Mrs. Ridgemount, Lo's mom, from ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}''. Let's give an example: look at [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110227040557/stoked/images/4/4e/Mrs._Ridgemount_and_Lo.jpg this]] picture. One of these women is a ''middle-aged woman'' with ''three'' kids, the other is a girl in her late teens. Guess which is which.
107	* ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'', and her similarly aged friends, are implied to be this in the 2003 incarnation. She ages noticeably through the series yet never appears older than thirteen. This is despite the fact her sister aged from infancy to at least 6 years old, she can drive a car, and she even ''moves out''. Her 2009 counterpart probably applies too, looking like a teenager but being able to own her own store.
108	* Apparently, according to the two-parter ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' Season 1 finale "Time Police", the Warden is actually chronologically in his hundred-teens despite looking to be in his late 20s and early 30s! Perhaps it's because he's a RealityWarper.
109	* In ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'', Stevens, one of General Steel's soldiers, is able to [[AdultsDressedAsChildren sneak into Sherman High undercover]] because of this trope. He even says he's nicknamed "Babyface" because he looks young.
110	* Two examples from ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' that double as KiddieKid:
111	** Zach the TagalongKid looks and sounds like an 8- or 9-year-old, but states that he's "almost fourteen".
112	** Buffy Shellhammer from "Poor Little Rich Turtle" states that she's fifteen but looks and acts like she's about 8 to 10 years old.
113	* In the BadFuture portrayed in [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S5E18RaphaelMutantApocalypse the Mutant Apocalypse trilogy]] of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' where the Turtles have grown bigger and more muscular over the 50 years since the apocalypse, with Michelangelo and Raphael even growing hair (even though they’re reptiles), Ice Cream Kitty, due to being made of ice cream, still looks pretty much the same as she does in the present day.
114	* Quite a few characters fall under this in ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''. Characters such as Thomas and Percy are often portrayed as the younger of the engines. However, going by the original novels, Thomas was built in 1915 and Percy in 1897. Which means, if anything, they're OLDER than most, if not ''all'' of the big engines.
115	** Skarloey and Rheneas have somewhat youthful looking faces in the model seasons, and both are physically smaller than Thomas, but they're actually supposed to be the ''oldest'' engines on Sodor.
116	* Cute, pink-haired assassin Claire from ''WesternAnimation/TitanMaximum'' looks like she's eight, but Gibbs points out she's 24.
117	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
118	** Despite being 16 like his fellow contestants, Cody looks a little like a 13-year-old boy.
119	** A lampshaded example is Chris, who looks about 25, but is actually in his mid-thirties. Becomes more noticable in ''Island (2023)'', which is explicitly stated to take place fifteen years after ''Island (2007)'': Chris is now in his early forties, but doesn't look like he has aged a day.
120	** Despite being 16, Cameron is small enough that he looks more like a preteen -- likely a result of being a BubbleBoy.
121	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': Ratchet is physically the oldest of the Main cast, with Bumblebee, Bulkhead, and Optimus being built after the war, however, later episodes reveal that Prowl was a draft dodger back in the war, and he looks about as old as Oprimus, he spent centuries meditating on a rock, so perhaps that slowed his aging process. Arcee doesn't look old either, but, unlike Ratchet, she was in medical care after she met him, so likely that's why she didn't age.
122	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', Phantom Limb is in his late sixties and was a professor while [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether Rusty and the others were college kids]], but looks about twenty years younger. It's implied that the limb enhancer machine [[FreakLabAccident that gave him his powers]] also imparts youth, as he [[RapidAging ages rapidly]] when he doesn't have access to it in ''The Revenge Society''.
123	* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': Lord Dominator, especially in her debut appearance, looks and sounds like a teenage girl, and Craig actually had to come out and confirm she is NOT one after 'The Greater Hater' aired. However, she definitely has the personality of one, being a hyperactive [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]] who gets her kicks from being a [[TheBully sadistic bully]] on the scale of an OmnicidalManiac.
124	* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Daphne is much older than she looks [[spoiler:after she is brought back to a mortal body]]. When she died, she was an accomplished magic user and at least in her mid-teens, and then twenty-one years passed. [[spoiler:After her resurrection, she appears to only be in her twenties like the main characters, not almost twice that, and marries Sky's cousin, who is close to Sky in age (22). It appears she did not age for all the time she spent at the bottom of Lake Roccaluce.]]
125	* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'':
126	** Judging by the age of her daughter, Susan Vandom is about 45 years old and works in IT. Judging by appearances she's about 25 and a professional glamor model. Compared to her, Cornelia's mom and Irma's mom are less mindblowing, but still look ''nowhere near'' what middle-aged women should (or do) look like. Though we do get an idea where their daughters get it from...
127	** This further reinforced when Will's father pops back into her life in season two; he's engaged to a younger woman who has the same coloration as Susan with the only real difference being a [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent sexy if nebulous accent]]. Serena Sanchez is most likely in her mid-to-late twenties (unless she's also an example of the trope,) and the implications that Tony either HasAType or [[ReplacementGoldfish is symbolically replacing his exwife]] are pretty obvious to older viewers... except appearancewise Serena and Susan could be sisters with only a few years difference in age at best, so it's hard to tell if Tony is "trading up" or not.
128	** Halinor, the blonde bombshell of the previous team of Guardians, still looks quite good for her age, with only a few facial wrinkles. She definitely doesn't look like she's pushing 60, and Yan Lin even comments on Halinor's youthful appearance when the two see one another in a second season episode. Similarly, when we meet Kadma (basically a grown-up version of the AlphaBitch) she's supposed to be at least in her sixties, maybe seventies. Physically she has, like, a line under her eyes and white hair... otherwise she maintained her [[MostCommonSuperpower prized assets]] and slender, youthful looks perfectly. Compared to her contemporaries, Yan Lin (who looks her age) and Narissa (who looks the Universe's age) one has to assume she's been either getting very good plastic surgery over the years or tapping her magic to stay young.
129	* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'':
130	** Magneto is at least as old as his [[Film/XMenFilmSeries movie counterpart]] but looks only middle-aged the first time we see him without his helmet. In a later episode it turns out he uses his knowledge of genetics to maintain vitality and the appearance of youth, and when this fails him, he reverts to his true age. ''Then'' he uses the [[SuperSerum Rebirth formula]] to de-age himself again and looks like a young white-haired man for the remainder of the show (on the rare occasions he's seen without his face concealing helmet).
131	** Thanks to Wolverine's self-regeneration power, his true age will never be revealed but it's shown he was at least old enough to have served the military along with Captain America. Magneto was a kid back then.
132	* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'':
133	** Miss Martian is actually 48 years old in Earth years, but since Martians age slower than humans, she has the mentality and maturity of a 16-year-old... which makes it weird that her love interest, Superboy, is [[YoungerThanHeLooks less than six months old]] at the start of season 1.
134	** Superboy is a bizarre example -- he's technically YoungerThanHeLooks (being that he is chronologically 5 1/2 years old by the second season) but is mentally 21 in the body of a 16-year-old. It's stated that due to the cloning process, he will look 16 for the rest of his life.
135	** Arsenal is in his 20s but is physically around 15 years old since he was [[HumanPopsicle cryogenically frozen]] for eight years.

Context OlderThanTheyLook / WesternAnimation