History Main / CharacterAgedWithTheActor

* Unintentionally done with ''VideoGame/MaxPayne 3'', which is set about 9 years after the second game. [[Creator/TakeTwoInteractive Rockstar]] had initially planned to [[TheOtherDarrin replace James McCaffrey]] as the voice of Max to reflect the TimeSkip, but due to fan outcry, [=McCaffrey=] was eventually brought back aboard - and by that point, the game had been in DevelopmentHell for so long that [=McCaffrey=] had aged just about as much as Max had (it came out in 2012, following 2003's ''Max Payne 2'').

* ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' has the main characters from the first two films reappearing having aged 30+ years since then, including [[spoiler:the ghost of Egon Spengler, recreating how Creator/HaroldRamis looked during the last years of his life]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Left: Creator/JonathanFrakes as William Riker circa [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration 1990]]\\

** Inverted in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsReChainOfMemories''. While this is set a few days after the first game, it came out ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', but Sora is still voiced by an older Creator/HaleyJoelOsment, both for cutscene acting and in-battle cries, meaning Sora's voice is just as deep as it was in ''II''. In the original GBA version, they used clips of Osment's younger voice, and there was no voice acting in cutscenes.

** It's established that both Vulcans and Klingons age more slowly than humans, meaning that even though ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' aired 20 years after ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and was set roughly 80 years later, Vulcans Spock and Sarek can both appear in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' played by their original actors without trying to conceal their age in either direction, and several Klingons from the original series (namely Kor, Koloth, Kang, and Arne Darvin) can do the same in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''[[note]]although the Klingon case is complicated by the smooth-vs-ridged forehead thing[[/note]]. Spock even manages to return in the Kelvin Timeline movies, no attempt made to hide the fact that he's still older, as it's been quite some time between his ''TNG'' appearance and the well-post-''TNG'' era he time-traveled from chasing Nero.

* When the first ''Anime/{{Aikatsu}}'' series got finished, Ichigo and her seiyuu, Creator/SumireMorohoshi aged.

** This is inverted in the remake of the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance game ''Chain of Memories'' (i.e., [=PlayStation=] 2's ''Kingdom Hearts: Re: Chain of Memories''). In this leg of the story, Sora has not yet aged by more than a few days, but they still use (the older) Haley Joel Osment, both for cutscene acting and in-battle cries (whereas on the GBA they used clips of Osment's younger voice, and there was no voice acting in cutscenes).

** Similarly to Creator/JohnDeLancie as Q, Creator/DanielDavis was in his late 70s when he reprised the role of the holographic [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Professor James Moriarty]] during season 3. So, like Q, the Moriarty hologram now physically appears at that same age, rather than in his forties as he did during TNG. This may be justified in-universe due to the original holodeck programming persisting and Moriarty still experiencing the passage of time even while outwardly deactivated.

** A 137-year-old [=McCoy=] has a cameo in the first episode of ''TNG''. Not being an alien, he had to be aged up, made to look and act quite the same as he appeared during a ''TOS'' episode where some characters were hit with a RapidAging virus.
** Scotty would later make a guest appearance in the ''TNG'' episode "Relics". Although he had spent 75 years stored in a transporter holding pattern, [[note]](a transporter can hold a person, not re-materializing them right away. It's not supposed to be able to do it for 75 years, but if you're a miracle worker like Scotty and it's the only way to survive your ship's crash, you make it work!)[[/note]] the episode spared no opportunity to point out his advanced age. He looks a little older than in the later ''TOS'' movies, a good while but ''far'' from 80 years having passed for him. Mostly, the problem he has in the present is that technology has changed enough that he's gone from TheSmartGuy to a FishOutOfWater who annoys Geordi by screwing up any time he tries to do anything. He does save the day with an unorthodox idea in the end. The ExpandedUniverse has him go on to do exactly what you'd expect from him: familiarize himself with the newer tech and become a miracle worker once more!

** Similarly to Creator/JohnDeLancie as Q, Daniel Davis was in his late 70s when he reprised the role of the holographic [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Professor James Moriarty]] during season 3. So, like Q, the Moriarty hologram now physically appears at that same age, rather than in his forties as he did during TNG. This may be justified in-universe due to the original holodeck programming persisting and Moriarty still experiencing the passage of time even while outwardly deactivated.

* When the first Aikatsu series got finished, Ichigo and her Seiyuu, Sumire Morohoshi got aged.

* Laurie Strode of the ''{{Franchise/Halloween}}'' series of films. Although she invoked DawsonCasting at twenty to play Laurie at seventeen (and then at twenty-three to play her in the ImmediateSequel filmed three years later) - she reprised her role in ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'' and ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'' where the character was now into middle age. She came back again for ''{{Film/Halloween 2018}}'', where Laurie is now a grandmother. Other actors from the original films who played children wanted to come back and play them as teenagers, but were recast; Danielle Harris was replaced with JC Brandy and Brian Andrews with Creator/PaulRudd for ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', Max appeared to be about 14 or 15 and performed by a teenage Jason Marsden. When ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie'' came out five years later, Max was now visibly older and going off to college. Four years after that, Max appears as a young adult in ''WesternAnimation/MickeysTwiceUponAChristmas'' introducing his new girlfriend to his father.