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* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'': Sherlock Holmes adopts a tortoise named Clyde who used to belong to a VictimOfTheWeek and muses to Watson that the tortoise will outlive them both. In a later season Sherlock's father estimates that Clyde is only a few years old meaning he will definitely outlive his current owners.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Dwarfs become respected elders at 150 and tend to live around 200 years, barring misfortune, but their natural lifespan varies hugely. Those who reach 400 are revered as living ancestors and are (privately) said to be those simply too stubborn to succumb to age; the oldest is over 1600.

** Variations on the SuperSoldier serum are implied to have this effect (though no one's sure if the radioactive aspects of the Hulk reduce Bruce's lifespan, increase it, or mean it breaks even). While Steve's too young for it to be obvious, Natasha (who took the Infinity Formula) is past 80 without looking as if she's even hit 30 yet, and [[spoiler:Alison Carter]], who has the original serum, reaching her early 60s without ageing a day past 25.

* [[SpaceElves Asari]] live up to a thousand years in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe. [[ProudWarriorRace Krogan]] live even longer; their upper age limit is unknown, and they are suspected to be biologically immortal. In particular, Wrex is a 1500-year-old krogan warlord, and another krogan is encountered who is implied to be over two-thousand years old.

See ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, for when these characters look younger than their age. On the other hand, if they still keep getting older-looking and more decrepit as they age past "normal old age" and into "Methuselah is jealous", they may have AgeWithoutYouth. Also compare TheAgeless, for when the character in question doesn't die of old age. When a long-lived race ages at an equivalently slower pace, they may be subject to ProportionalAging. Exceptionally long-lived characters may have gone through a TimeAbyss.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[spoiler:Ghidorah's middle head]] implies in Chapter 14 that [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnon Monster X]] is this at the very least, and it's probably even TheAgeless like Ghidorah is.

** Humanity tends towards a long lifespan. People who are over a century old but still fairly active are uncommon but not strange, and some characters refer casually to their "first fifty". When Niall dies shortly before ''The Ship Who Returned'', Helva reflects that he [[HandyHelper became her brawn]] in his forties and they had nearly eighty years together, and doesn't consider that to be a short life by "softshell" standards. In another book, a senile ex-celebrity is about a hundred and seventy. Particularly fortunate people can make it to two hundred.
** Shellpeople such as Helva are humans [[ManInTheMachine shut into life support capsules]] early in life and acting as [[WetwareCPU the cores of ships and larger installations]]. How long ''they'' live isn't known in universe but it's much longer than "softshells".

** The Jaffa can live for 150-200 years, having been engineered from TransplantedHumans to carry [[PuppeteerParasite Goa'uld symbiotes]] until maturation. In practice, few of them live that long. Either their symbiote matures and a replacement can't be found in time (Jaffa don't have a working immune system with the symbiote acting as replacement), or they are killed in battle. The two oldest Jaffa shown are Teal'c and his mentor Master Bra'tac. Both lose their symbiotes in an ambush but survive thanks to a drug called tretonin that must be taken daily to keep their immune system active. Teal'c further ages many decades during the GrandFinale and shows grey hair. However, he is as strong as ever and is able to hold his own in a ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' crossover episode in an hour-long slugfest with [[Creator/JasonMomoa Ronon Dex]].

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'':
** Basically all {{youkai}} have lifespans significantly longer than that of a human. It's unclear exactly how long, though there's been some that are known to be over a thousand years old while others, like magicians and vampires, are outright TheAgeless by nature.
** Among individual examples, Yuuka Kazami stands out as she's said to be [[WorldsStrongestMan one of the most powerful youkai in Gensoukyou]] [[StrongerWithAge by sheer virtue of the fact that she's also one of its oldest residents]], but as she's both [[TheGadfly the most unpleasant]] and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality most dangerous]] individual to be around in the setting, no-one except for the local judge of the dead knows for sure how old she really is, and said judge of the dead only comments upon Yuuka's age in so far as to warn her that she's gotten so old by now that her age alone could get her sent to hell when she dies. For perspective, this is a warning commonly reserved for mere mortal {{Hermit Guru}}s who've massively overstayed their time in the world of the living.
** Sages learn how to extend their lifespans through rigorous training and studying. Once they've extended their lives for so long that they're starting to mess up the CelestialBureaucracy's books and balances, a {{shinigami}} is sent to check up on them, remind them to not overstay their lifespan for too long and offer to [[{{Psychopomp}} escort them to their judgment]]. Hermits who still won't take a hint, or outright refuse to rejoin the cycle of life and death to the extent that they fight off the shinigami who are sent for them, are eventually hunted down by the Kishin, the Oni generals of Hell. The Taoist Hermit Seiga Kaku has been attacked by the Kishin general Suiki in the past and has expressed a certain amount of contempt of the Ministry of Right and Wrong labeling it a sin to live for too long, and the issue is also brought up by the Hermit Kasen Ibara who wonders what implications the sin of living too long carries for the naturally long-lived youkai.
** Finally there are the Celestials and {{Lunarians}}, who are theoretically immortal. "Theoretically" because Celestials are, much like Hermits, eventually checked up upon by shinigami who remind them to rejoin the cycle of life and death, and Lunarians can only live forever specifically ''because'' they've isolated themselves from impure things like death and mortality, and though they can effectively live forever they can also only do so for as long as the Moon remains pure. [[ImmortalsFearDeath Neil Armstrong made them shit bricks back when he endangered their eternal lives by setting a mere mortal foot on their world]].
* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Fairies]] live longer than all other races in this universe; both recurring fairy characters have ages in the hundreds. However, this appears to only apply to full-blooded fairies; Sebek, who's half human, has a normal two-digit teen age like everyone else.
* [[SpaceElves Asari]] live up to a thousand years in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe. [[ProudWarriorRace Krogan]] live even longer; their upper age limit is unknown, and they are suspected to be biologically immortal. In particular, Wrex is a 1500-year-old krogan warlord, and another krogan is encountered who is implied to be over two-thousand years old.
** Humans and turians live to 150 years of age on average, while drell can reach 80.[[note]]Drell lifespans are cut short by a terminal disease called Kepral's Syndrome that they almost universally develop around that age, due to living in an environment they are not at all suited for.[[/note]] Salarians and vorcha [[WeAreAsMayflies invert this trope]] however, as they rarely live past 40 and 20 years old, respectively.
** [[DesignerBabies Genetically engineered humans]] such as Miranda are said to be able to live fifty percent longer than normal, pushing their potential lifespan up to 225. Similarly, while it is never directly confirmed, it's ''possible'' that due to the numerous cybernetic implants enhancing and maintaining their vital functions, Shepard's own lifespan might have also been increased as a result.
** The angara of ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' are implied to be this, when able to grow old naturally. Moshae Shefa is one of their oldest living people, at around a hundred and ten, and she's still pretty damn sprightly (though it's mentioned she'd like to retire some time soon). She also doesn't ''sound'' particularly old. Meanwhile, their enemies the kett might also fall here. Their leader has been trying to wipe them out for eighty years, with no indication that his higher-ups are asking what the delay is, timescale-wise, or that he's getting on in years.
* There are several races in the ''Franchise/WarcraftExpandedUniverse'' whose lifespans are unknown aside from "''much'' longer than humans." Suffice to say that there are [[ProudScholarRace draenei]] still living who still remember getting the hell outta Argus... ''twenty-five thousand years ago''.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Bugenhagen mentions his 130th birthday is coming up when Cloud and friends meet him. [[IntellectualAnimal Red XIII]]'s tribe is stated to live even longer than that -- as shown by [[spoiler:Nanaki himself being alive and well [[DistantFinale 500 years later]].]]
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': Sage Guido reveals he's hundreds of years old [[spoiler:while fighting Exdeath. Then again, he is a tortoise]].
* The [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' have lifespans that can last for several millennia. These long lifespans also give way to BlueAndOrangeMorality: to a dragon, a century is but a fleeting moment. As such, to some dragons, crimes committed against them by the races of man several centuries ago, by those who had long passed away, feel as recent as a mere few days ago.
* The Lemurians from ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' live much longer than other people thanks to the [[FountainOfYouth Lemurian Draught]] they drink. One child in their village, who appears to be about 12, casually remarks that he will be a child for at least another 20 years.
* The D'ni people in the ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' series typically live well into their second century, with some making it as long as 350 years. Offspring of D'ni with humans get some of that longevity: Atrus himself lived to at least 150.
* Dragons in ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' can live for thousands of years, and are even described as "almost immortal" in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade''. [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-dragons]] can also live a very long time, though not quite the extremes of pureblooded dragons. In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'', the dragon tribe is the longest lived of all [[{{Animorphism}} Laguz]], with herons coming in second. Other tribes live for at least two or three centuries. [[HalfHumanHybrid Branded]] only avoid living quite as long as their Laguz ancestors because they age as humans [[Dangerous16thBirthday for the first sixteen years]].
* [[OurElvesAreDifferent Elves]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', and their related spin-offs live for a thousand years. [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-elves]] live for the same length of time. It's a great source of angst for Genis Sage and Arche Klein that they'll out-live their friends for such a long period of time. Seemingly {{averted|Trope}} for [[UnevenHybrid quarter-elves and even more distant elven descendants]].
* The Minions of ''Videogame/{{Overlord}}'' do apparently age, since an elderly minion named Gnarl acts as the Overlord's advisor. However, no one knows the actual lifespan of a Minion, since no Minion has ever died of old age. Gnarl for one is old enough to remember the long extinct dragons.

* The Varl of ''Videogame/TheBannerSaga'' live for hundreds of years, and nobody knows exactly what their natural lifespan is, because they were created only a few centuries ago and they're likely to fall in battle before they die of old age. Ubin is trying to live as long as possible to find out, and if his white hair is any indication, he's closer to achieving that end than any other Varl so far.
* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'':
** The Protoss can potentially live for many centuries. The oldest known Protoss is Matriarch Raszagal, who was 1045 when she was killed (not "died of old age"; it's possible that Protoss can live considerably longer than even that).
** The Xel'Naga are long lived even by Protoss standards, but they are not immortal. This is why their Cycle [[spoiler:(whereupon a worthy successor race inherits their essence and power to become the next generation of Xel'Naga)]] is needed to ensure that there will always be someone seeding life in the universe.

* The ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series has its fair share of centenarians, many of them [[OldSoldier still in fighting shape]]. In release order, the first was ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty MGS2]]'''s Old Boy, whose age is vaguely stated to be "over 100" at the time of his death, at which time he's still an active member of Dead Cell. This was then followed up by The End, a member of the Cobra Unit in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater MGS3]]'', who is explicitly stated to have extended lifespan because of a parasite that, among other things, gave him [[PlantPeople photosynthetic qualities]]. He's stated to be over 100, though also stated to have been born "in the 1860s", placing his age at no more than 104. Another character introduced in that game would go on to top that, as Big Boss's CO, Major Zero (age 55 at the time of the game) is discovered to still be alive, albeit on life support, in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots MGS4]]'', set half a century later. Finally, ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV MGSV]]'' has Code Talker, who, like The End, is explicitly stated to be "over 100" and cannot be any older than 104 based on the decade given for his birth, though unlike the other three, he survives his debut game/the game in which he's revealed to be alive and over a century old.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** The Prophets/San'Shyuum are definitely this, thanks to various life-extending technologies, with a quarter of their population being super-bicentenarians; the original trilogy's BigBad, the High Prophet of Truth, is 156 years old, while his rival Regret is 91 and considered ''young'' for a Prophet of his rank. [[spoiler:They lived even longer during the age of the Forerunners, with the First Prophet living to be over 9,000 years old.]]
** The Elites/Sangheili are implied to be this; Elites in their [=60s=] and [=70s=] tend to be ''stronger'' than younger Sangheili, 64 is considered young for a clan leader, and one Elite in ''Literature/HaloBrokenCircle'' is implied to be several decades older than 100, with no indication that this is unusual in anyway.

* Emperor Oberon of ''VideoGame/CryingSuns'' has ruled the galaxy for seven centuries, using immortality technology to extend his lifespan. Many of the Empire's nobles refer to him as "the Old Man" because of this. [[spoiler:In one ending, you use the same technology to rule over the Empire for a thousand years.]]
* While searching for evidence of the Garden of Eden at the bottom of the sea, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/WaterWombWorld'' discovers fish that have been alive since the Jurassic period along with a skull of one of the sons of Adam, who he estimates to have lived for around a millennium.
* [[OurElvesAreDifferent Leaf]] (and by extension, Petal and other elves) from ''VideoGame/MySims'' is revealed to be this in ''Agents''. If you speak to him at the HQ while you're investigating Boudreaux Mansion, he'll say this:
-->'''Leaf:''' Maybe I should have a will written. It's almost my 15238th birthday, and Elves don't live forever.
* VideoGame/TheSims3 has this apply to a number of the supernatural life states a Sim can gain in the expansion packs, which is achieved by their lifespan being multiplied in comparison to the lifespan set in the game’s options. This started with the introduction of mummies, who have their lifespan multiplied by 5, a multiplication that vampires also have. Genies were later introduced, with a lifespan double that of a human. Werewolves get their lifespan increased by 50%, while fairies get the same 5 times multiplier as vampires and mummies. In the Pets expansion, there are unicorns which have such a multiplier applied to the horse lifespan, specifically living 3 times longer than an average horse.
* ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'': [[BrainyBrunette Xin Xianying of Jin]] was born in 191, during the Allied campaign against Dong Zhuo, participated in the Battle of Chibi at 17 years old, lived to see the collapse of the Han Dynasty, the creation of the Three Kingdoms, the conquest of Shu by Wei, and the establishment of the Jin dynasty. She passes away in 269 at the ripe of old age of 78, making her the longest-lived character in the entire series at least among the characters with confirmed birth and death dates, beating out even [[OlderSidekick Jia Xu]] (147 - 224, died aged 77). Not bad going for a woman born in a time period where the average lifespan is [[WeAreAsMayflies around 35]].
* In ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'' and ''VideoGame/OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps'', both Ori's and Naru's species are examples. Tree spirits like Ori are essentially juvenile [[WorldTree Spirit Trees]], with all the longevity that implies. Even those spirits that don't end up becoming full Spirit Trees are long-lived: Eki and Sol are implied to have been alive when Nibel's Spirit Tree was a sprout, and they only died when the forest was plunged into darkness during the events of the game's prologue. Naru, meanwhile, played with those spirits when she was a child and later lived long enough to see Niwen's new Spirit Tree [[spoiler:(Ori)]] grow to full-sized maturity.
* [[PlantPerson Grassmen]] from the ''VideoGame/BreathOfFire'' series are long-lived. Young Grassmen can spend well over a century traveling and amassing knowledge before eventually settling down and metamorphosing into a WiseTree, which lives even longer. Official materials put Spar, the playable Grassman in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'', at 111 years old, which is roughly the equivalent of a human at 16.

* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': The drow and other fae are ''technically'' not immortal but stop aging at the human equivalent of 30 years old as long as they have a sufficient mana supply (otherwise they start aging much as a human would and can eventually die) since it's stated that fae do have a finite lifespan, with evidence pointing to it being somewhere upwards of 1,000 years. Most never get close to this and die long before then.

* In the ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'' trilogy, merpeople and selkies grow to adulthood at the normal speed, after which their aging slows way down. They typically live about a thousand years, as long as they spend enough time in the water. If they move on land, they age at the same speed as humans.

** The alien Cabal and Eliksni naturally live for many centuries. The former Cabal emperor, Calus, was well over a thousand years old when he died and had grown weak and sickly (before his paracausal rejuvenation), but it's possible he'd simply destroyed his body through his rampant hedonism. Truly elderly Cabal begin [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva gradually transforming into bone]], but this wasn't evident in Calus.

* Humanity in ''Literature/TheShipWho'' tends towards a long lifespan. People who are over a century old but still fairly active are uncommon but not strange, and some characters refer casually to their "first fifty". When Niall dies shortly before ''The Ship Who Returned'', Helva reflects that he [[HandyHelper became her brawn]] in his forties and they had nearly eighty years together, and doesn't consider that to be a short life by "softshell" standards. In another book, a senile ex-celebrity is about a hundred and seventy. Particularly fortunate people can make it to two hundred.

** It's unclear how long dragons live, but it's mentioned in an early episode that they can take [[LazyDragon century-long naps]].

** According to the ''Journal'', they first raised the Sun and Moon as teenagers, which was 1,111 years ago as of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E7HorsePlay Horse Play"]], making them between 1,123 and 1,130. Although said book is [[CanonMarchesOn questionably canon]].

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'':
** High Entia are known to possess lifespans that number in the centuries: Melia, at 88 years old, was barely considered an adult. Exactly how long their lives are is unclear, but given some contextual clues regarding the [[spoiler:Machina]], it would seem to be less than a millenium.
** The [[spoiler:Machina]] are even longer lived. Most of the ones seen have their ages counted as between 1000 and 5000 years, and a few of them have been around since the Bionis and Mechonis actually fought, which happened "many eons ago". One sidequest does imply that they can eventually die of old age, but from everyone else's perspective they're effectively immortal.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'':
** The Indoline can easily live for centuries. Most obvious with Praetor Amalthus, who looks as young now as he did 500 years ago during the Aegis War. [[spoiler:In fact, Amalthus's lack of aging ''at all'' is remarked upon: even with an Indoline lifespan he should be approaching advanced age by now. He passes it off as being a side effect of being the Driver of an Aegis, but in fact the reason he's retained his youth is that he's a Blade Eater that consumes the Core Crystals of Blades delivered to the Praetorium.]]
** Blades can easily live for millennia at the least, but every time their Driver dies, their memories are erased as they revert back to a Core Crystal, so they don't remember anything before their most recent awakening. The [[PerplexingPlurals Aegises]], naturally, are an exception: they keep their memories forever and are suggested to be ageless, capable of living forever if they're not killed. [[spoiler:Flesh Eaters meanwhile are Blades who [[CannibalismSuperpower consume human cells]] and consequently lose their Blade immortality in exchange for independence from a Driver and possibly other new powers, but they still have exceptionally long lifespans. Cole/Minoth and Jin are Flesh Eaters who have survived for 500 years since the Aegis War, though both of their bodies are starting to break down in the present, Cole's moreso since he's visibly aged though that's in part due to the environment he's living in. It's implied Nia, whose Flesh Eater powers include incredible healing and regenerative abilities, will easily live even longer than that in good health.]]
** Titans live for so long that entire ecosystems rise and fall on and sometimes within their bodies. Rex's "Gramps" Azurda is around 1300 years old by the time the game proper starts and was there when the [[GreatOffscreenWar Aegis War of 500 years ago]] went down. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Titans are actually the final form of a Blade's evolution, which means all of them have lived thousands of years as a Blade before becoming a Titan.]] They are not immortal, however, which forms the crux of the plot: the Titans are dying off, and no new Titans seem to be being born to serve as landmasses for society [[spoiler:which is revealed to be because Amalthus' Core Crystal "cleansings" that make it easier for them to resonant with Drivers is eliminating the accumulated data the Blades build up for the course of their many incarnations to eventually evolve into Titans.]]
** Mikhail is an adult in the present, but it's eventually revealed he was a child [[spoiler:who survived the Aegis War and the destruction of the Tornan Titan 500 years ago before he was taken by Amalthus for his Blade Eater experiments and subsequently escaped.]]
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': It's explained that the Queens of Keves and Agnus are both from species that are exceptionally long-lived; the Kevesi queen is a High Entia, and the Agnian queen is a Flesh Eater Blade. Of course, there's also the added wrinkle that the main characters only live ten years; they consider the sixty year-old Vandham to be unspeakably ancient, so the idea that the Queens could be hundreds if not thousands of years old floors them completely. [[spoiler:Furthermore, the "Endless Now" muddles things further. The original assumption was that the Queens had outlived most of their old friends, but some things imply that the merging of the worlds happened only a few decades after the events of the first two games, which froze the world in place. However long the Endless Now lasted, Melia and Nia spent most of that time sleeping, so it's unclear how long that was either]].

* Dragons in ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' can live for thousands of years, and are even described as "almost immortal" in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade''. [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-dragons]] can also live a very long time, though not quite the extremes of pureblooded dragons. In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'', the dragon tribe is the longest lived of all [[{{Animorphism}} Laguz]], with herons coming in second. Other tribes live for at least two or three centuries. [[HalfHumanHybrid Branded]] only avoid living quite as long as their Laguz ancestors because they age as humans [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday for the first sixteen years]].

** In "A Small Talent for War", the alien ambassador's race live for at least several hundred years.
** In "The Storyteller", Micah Frost admits to his teacher Dorothy Livingston that his family have managed to keep his 141-year-old great-great-great-grandfather alive for so long by reading him part of a story every night but not finishing it until the next night. For generations, the Frosts have believed that the only thing keeping him alive is the anticipation. Dorothy is extremely skeptical and questions whether it is right to keep someone alive past their natural time. After Micah falls from a tree and breaks his arm, he has to spend the night with the local doctor and his wife. He is concerned that the old man will die without his nightly story. Although Dorothy is not convinced, she reads him the rest of the previous night's story and begins another one as she does not want to risk the old man dying. [[spoiler:In the final scene, the elderly Dorothy is telling her mother the story of an apparent sighting of the adult Micah in 1986 but she does not finish it in order to keep her mother alive for one more night.]]
** In "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich", the demon Volkerps is 32,000 years old.

* Zhaan in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' is over 800 cycles old (a cycle being equivalent to one Earth year). Some aliens are over 100 cycles old. The Hynerian emperor spent over 100 cycles in prison.

* Lezaford in ''FanFic/TheTaintedGrimoire'' is at least 300 years old.