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* ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' continues from the animated version by having the late fifties Creator/EmmaThompson play Mrs Potts, meaning she had to be in her forties when she had her children. Given that the movie deliberately sets itself in pre-Revolutionary France (as opposed to the animated version's vague setting), it raises more questions, again with exposition stating that anyone cursed by the Enchantress was locked in the age they were.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Clangen}}'': There isn't an upper age limit on when a cat can have kits. Though this is TruthInTelevision - humans are one of only a few species who go through menopause, and cats are not included in that list.
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* In ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'', Season 1's episode "If I Wake Before I Die" involves an old woman pretending she died in the hopes that her children finaly visit her during her 80th birthday, including her youngest Andy, who's said to have disappeared 15 years earlier after enlisting on Civil War when he was 19. Doing the math, he's now 34 when his mother turns 80, meaning she had him at 45/46.

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* In ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'', Season 1's episode "If I Wake Before I Die" involves an old woman pretending she died in the hopes that her children finaly children, who essntially abandoned her, finally visit her during at her 80th birthday, including her youngest Andy, who's said to have disappeared 15 years earlier after enlisting on Civil War when he was 19. Doing the math, he's now 34 when his mother turns 80, meaning she had him at 45/46.
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* An episode of ''Series/ChicagoMed'' has a couple in their fifties come into the hospital with the wife suffering from a mystery ailment. At one point, she gets up to go to the bathroom and releases a lot of fluid as soon as she gets out of bed. Dr. Choi realizes that the "urine" is actually amniotic fluid and immediately gets her to the maternity ward.

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* An episode of ''Series/ChicagoMed'' has a couple in their fifties come into the hospital with the wife suffering from a mystery ailment. At one point, she gets up to go to the bathroom and releases a lot of fluid as soon as she gets out of bed. Dr. Choi Sexton realizes that the "urine" is actually amniotic fluid and immediately gets her ready to the maternity ward.deliver a baby.
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* In ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', the reformed Zangyack leader Jerashid falls in love with a middle-aged human woman (her actress was 55 years of age) and they quickly elope. It is later shown in a spin-off that they have had a baby, although how this is possible may be explained by Jerashid's alien biology.
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* In ''Film/CrimsonPeak'', Beatrice Sharpe died when her only children were 14 and 12 years old. But in her portrait, she looks over 60 at least- possibly even in her 70s. She had a highly abusive husband, so it's possible that the stress aged her, but it's hard to imagine a woman 14 years away from looking THAT elderly could conceive at all. (The reasonably youthful appearances of said children as adults in their mid-30s, despite even more traumatic lives, makes their mother's rapid aging even less believable).
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Randy Marsh is in his forties, his father Marvin "Grandpa" Marsh is 102, meaning he'd have been in his sixties when Randy was born.
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* Subverted and darkly justified in ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel''. Joe Secondopinionson's father is not only elderly, but losing his mind from dementia. Joe himself is 12 years old, but has a half-sister who's an adult. The reason for the massive gap in their ages is due to the fact that Dr. Secondopinionson raped Joe's mother, Nurse Bendy, and got her pregnant. It's implied she was Joe's current age when it happened.
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* In ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'', Season 1's episode "If I Wake Before I Die" involves an 80-year-old woman pretending she died in te hopes that her children finaly visit her, including her youngest Andy, who's said to have disappeared 15 years earlier after enlisting on Civil War at 19. Doing the math, he's now 34 when his mother turns 80, meaning she had him at 46.

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* In ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'', Season 1's episode "If I Wake Before I Die" involves an 80-year-old old woman pretending she died in te the hopes that her children finaly visit her, her during her 80th birthday, including her youngest Andy, who's said to have disappeared 15 years earlier after enlisting on Civil War at when he was 19. Doing the math, he's now 34 when his mother turns 80, meaning she had him at 46.45/46.
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*** While not as extreme, her daughter Alyssane and descendant Rhaella both had their last children in their early 40s.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Poptropica}}'': On Back Lot Island, there’s a woman with grey hair and glasses, which is what Poptropica uses to show that a person is elderly. That woman has a daughter, and while it can be hard to estimate ages in Poptropica, she talks and is treated as a young child.



* ''VideoGame/{{Poptropica}}'': On Back Lot Island, there’s a woman with grey hair and glasses, which is what Poptropica uses to show that a person is elderly. That woman has a daughter, and while it can be hard to estimate ages in Poptropica, she talks and is treated as a young child.
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* In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', Rue looks like she's the Chemist's age (roughly early 20s), yet her mother Mariele has graying hair.

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* In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', Rue looks and Runeheart look like she's they're the Chemist's age (roughly early 20s), yet her mother their respective mothers Mariele has and Opalheart have graying hair.
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* In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', Rue looks like she's the Chemist's age (roughly early 20s), yet her mother Mariele has graying hair.
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* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', Wonsu turns 19 in the middle of the game, yet his mother Jane looks old enough to be his grandma.
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* Victoria Coren Mitchell, presenter of ''Series/OnlyConnect'', was 51 when she gave birth to her second daughter.
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* This [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_over_age_50 webpage]], which lists numerous examples of mid-life/late-life pregnancies. Even more shocking are how many of them occurred naturally (Janet Jackson etc.) without the use of fertility treatments.

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* This [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_over_age_50 webpage]], which lists numerous examples of mid-life/late-life pregnancies. Even more shocking are how many of them allegedly occurred naturally (Janet Jackson Jackson, etc.) without the use of fertility treatments.

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