History OlderThanTheyLook / Webcomics

** 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.
** Worse is Alexia Murtaugh, who's military experience stands above Kaff's, and is third only to those of Karl Tagon and Thurl.

* [[AmbiguousDisorder 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.

* ''Webcomic/{{Gosu}}'': By taking the function of makeup UpToEleven, 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.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Embi, a member of Master Payne's Circus of Adventure, is apparently well over a 100-years-old.

* Toivo in ''Webcomic/IngressAdventuringCompany'' looks like he's in his mid-twenties or thirties, but in actuality is around 70-years-old.

* ''Webcomic/MrBoop'': Betty Boop is 90-years-old.

* ''Webcomic/{{Sidekicks}}'': As a result of his [[PowerUpgradingDeformation superpower manifesting]], [[MeaningfulName Hacky]] looks like a young child despite being well over 20-years-old.
* 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.

* ''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 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''.

* 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]].

* ''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 keeps a collection for fashion and disguise purposes.

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** [[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.

* Magic users in ''Webcomic/{{Evon}}'' age slower than normal people. Evon looks like a twelve-year old ([[InformedAttribute allegedly]]) but is actually in her mid-20s.
* Da-Jeong from ''Webcomic/TheFriendlyWinter'' is a nineteen year old who looks like a seven to eight 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.

* 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.
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Embi, a member of Master Payne's Circus of Adventure, is apparently well over a hundred years old.

* Toivo in ''Webcomic/IngressAdventuringCompany'' looks like he's in his mid-twenties or thirties, but in actuality is around 70 years old.

* 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 twenty-three year old as "young man" and used to run around with [[spoiler:Yuki's mother, Meimi]], which pushes her estimated age closer to ''forty''.

* ''Webcomic/MrBoop'': Betty Boop is 90 years old.

** 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.

* ''Webcomic/{{Sidekicks}}'': As a result of his [[PowerUpgradingDeformation superpower manifesting]], [[MeaningfulName Hacky]] looks like a young child despite being well over 20 years old.
* 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.

* ''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 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''.

* Sock from ''Webcomic/WelcomeToHell'' is officially fifteen-to-twenty however he looks more like a ten-to-thirteen year old. He's short, rather androgynous, and in the animated short is [[CrossdressingVoices voiced by a girl]].
* Sung Sumin from ''Webcomic/WhatDoesTheFoxSay'' is a thirty four 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.

** 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 longf [[OurElvesAreDifferent elf]] [[WeAreAsMayflies lifespans]].

** 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 [[OurElvesAreBetter long elf]] [[WeAreAsMayflies lifespans]].

** [[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 [[OurElvesAreBetter he's an elf]].