History Main / TimeAbyss

* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'': Judging by the fact that he personifies good dreams, it seems that [[TheSandman Sandy]] has existed since humans first started to dream, which means that he is as old as humanity itself. As is [[EvilCounterpart Pitch]].

** Gaia, [[MotherNature the Spirit of Earth]]. If what her EvilCounterpart, [[BigBad/WesternAnimation Zarm]], said about her in "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS2E17And18SummitToSaveEarth Summit to Save Earth]]" can be believed, she's about the age of Earth itself... or ''older''. And considering that a century-long sleep is "a little nap" for her, Zarm might have actually told the truth.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': If [[BigBad/WesternAnimation Zarm's]] words from "Summit to Save Earth, Part 2" are to be believed, [[MotherNature Gaia]] is about the Earth's age... or ''older''.
-->'''Linka:''' What have you done to Gaia?!\\
'''Zarm:''' Gaia is simply starting to show her true age. (''mockingly:'') What is it, Gaia? Five, six ''billion'' years old?
** Considering that a century-long sleep is "a little nap" for her, he might have told the truth, though.

* Played for laughs in ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim''. Evil the Cat claims he "existed before the dawn of time and will continue to exist past its end!" Jim and Peter escape from him as he tries to explain the logic.
* Cosmo and Wanda from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' have been married for nearly 10,000 years and physically seem to be in their 30s. Cosmo's mother is still alive and well and doesn't appear to be past middle age.

* The half-life of the isotope Xe[[superscript:124]] is 1.8×10[[superscript:22]] years, more than ''12 times'' the current age of the universe. Nevertheless, an Italian team detected in 2019 a double-neutron capture [[note]]essentially, two neutrons (which are the subatomic particles orbiting an atomic core) were pulled in & absorbed by protons to become neutrinos)[[/note]], in a neutrino detector (which usually measures neutrinos emitted by the Sun passing through the Earth). It is thought to be the rarest occurence ever, statistically-speaking.

* Several interdimensional characters (some eldritch, some not) in ''Website/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'' are incredibly old immortals. Lord Thymon has ruled the VoidBetweenTheWorlds for "aeons", Madame Tarsa is described as older than him and calls herself "several septendecillion years old", and WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere casually recalls events that happened to her millions of years ago.

** ''Fanfic/TheWritingOnTheWall'': The "tomb" is seventy-one thousand years old, and by far the oldest structure ever discovered. It is so old that conventional dating methods fail and its age can only be determined accurately thanks to an astronomical calendar helpfully left inside by its builders. Of the many, many languages represented on the eponymous wall, only the newest one is even recognizable to the explorers, and even that language is so old they don't have the reference materials they need to translate it on hand.

* White dwarfs, such as what our sun will become once it runs out of fuel, slowly cool into black dwarfs for their final stage of existence, and the time it takes for any white dwarf to eventually become a black dwarf far exceeds the current age of the universe (which is shy of 14 billion years, to recap). However, beyond even that, a sufficiently large black dwarf may undergo a further change: Thanks to quantum tunneling, it's still possible for a large enough black dwarf to fuse atoms inside it by itself, albeit in an ''extremely slow'' pace, until it reaches a state where its core is populated by iron atoms and it initiates a runaway reaction that causes a supernova, much like gigantic stars of bygone times who builds up iron in their cores before exploding. The time it may take for these black dwarfs to go supernova ranges from 10^1,100 years to a staggering ''10^32,000 years'' (yes, one followed by 32 '''thousand''' zeroes)

** Tui and La, the Moon and Ocean spirits, [[spoiler:crossed to the mortal realm]] "very near the beginning" according to [[CreepyAwesome Koh]]. He is himself an example, as he's the only spirit besides them old enough to remember that happening. The sequel graphic novel ''[[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch The Search]]'' has the Gaang meet Koh's mother, the so-called Mother of Faces -- the spirit who first gave humans the concept of ''identity''.

** Most of [[BigBadEnsemble the Seven]] are 'merely' a millennia or two old (most having been born during [[TheGreatOffscreenWar The Universal War]]), but Gog-Agog is canonically a ''lot'' older than that and (if AllThereInTheManual is to be trusted) had already assimilated her entire homeworld centuries before The Second Conquest began and exposed her homeworld to TheMultiverse, making her at least ten thousand years old (still a baby by angel standards). Except in the last arc, some notes imply that [[spoiler:she survived ''since the previous incarnation of the Wheel'' (if not earlier than ''that''), surviving the StableTimeLoop by hiding her worms in every corner of the multiverse]], which would mean she's older than ''literally'' everyone.

** Most of [[BigBadEnsemble the Seven]] are 'merely' a millennia or two old (most having been born during [[TheGreatOffscreenWar The Universal War]]), but Gog-Agog is canonically a ''lot'' older than that and (if AllThereInTheManual is to be trusted) had already assimilated her entire homeworld centuries before The Second Conquest began and exposed her homeworld to TheMultiverse, making her at least ten thousand years old (still a baby by angel standards).

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* Website/ChuckNorrisFacts: When God said "[[Literature/BookofGenesis Let there be light]]", Chuck Norris said "Say please".
* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': In her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Keedran gives to Melissa in 'Confronting the Dark', she reveals she's dealt with the judgment of humanity for thousands of lifetimes.

* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue: The Shisno Paradox'' introduces the [[OurGodsAreGreater Cosmic Powers]], who are (essentially) gods that have been in existence since the beginning of time. Their creator, the [[OurTitansAreDifferent Titan]] [[BigBad Chrovos]] is ''even older'' than them [[spoiler:thanks to a StableTimeLoop making them at least twice as old as the current universe]].

* Literature/WhateleyUniverse

* White dwarfs, such as what our sun will become once it runs out of fuel, slowly cools into black dwarfs for their final stage of existence, and the time it takes for any white dwarf to eventually become a black dwarf far exceeds the current age of the universe (which is shy of 14 billion years, to recap). However, beyond even that, a sufficiently large black dwarf may undergo a further change: Thanks to quantum tunneling, it's still possible for a large enough black dwarf to fuse atoms inside it by itself, albeit in an ''extremely slow'' pace, until it reaches a state where its core is populated by iron atoms and it initiates a runaway reaction that causes supernova, much like gigantic stars of bygone times who builds up iron in their cores before exploding. The time it may take for these black dwarfs to go supernova ranges from 10^1,100 years to a staggering ''10^32,000 years'' (yes, one followed by 32 '''thousand''' zeroes)

** All the angels are technically almost as old as Creation, though most have died (and ressurected) multiple times since then and all but forgotten their first lives as a result (angels lose about 90% of their memories when they die). Then there is the Metatron, who hasn't died even once and therefore has lived all those thirty Kalpa, plus whatever time before Michael's first death, uninterrupted.