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** [[MemeticBadass Avatar Kyoshi]] found out she was the Avatar at 16 but not in the traditional way (it also was not her birthday). The previous Avatar Kuruk's friends were unable to find her for some fourteen years due to her being the child of outlaws and not staying in one place for long enough for their methods to track her down. They ended up picking [[ThePoorlyChosenOne the wrong kid]]. Kyoshi worked in the estate where said wrong kid, Yun, was being trained for a few years and then they figured out it was her, not him.

* The premise of the series ''ComicBook/DarkChylde'' is that the main character develops the ability to become monsters from her nightmares starting at age 16.
* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/SupergirlBeingSuper'', [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] turns sixteen. Or at least, so she approximates - no one knows her exact age or birthday because she was found in a field years ago. At sixteen is when Kara realizes she's an alien.

Subtrope of LiminalTime. Often overlaps with BirthdayBeginning as the ''precise'' moment at which everything hits the fan. Compare Bittersweet17, for when seventeen is more of a melancholic growing-up age, and ThirteenthBirthdayMilestone for when [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]] is sometimes considered a similarly dangerous age. See Also: ABirthdayNotABreak, when bad things happen on any particular birthday; DiedOnTheirBirthday; when a character dies on their own birthday. If the "danger" is supernatural and it's not just a coincidence, it overlaps with SpecialOccasionsAreMagic.

* To some sixteen-year-olds, to be a tribute in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' on the Reaping Day (coincidentally their birthday) could have been seen as this.

* Creator/JackLChalker's ''Literature/HorrorsOfTheDancingGods'': Both Lampshaded and Averted as a sign of the generally high level of intelligence endemic to the setting: The heroine quizzes the LivingMacGuffin about her birthday before she realizes that the girl (who has been kept in hiding for nearly her entire life) probably doesn't even know her real birthdate anyway.
* ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'' (and it's anime adaptation) has Lief beginning his quest to find the seven gems to free Deltora on his sixteenth birthday.

* In Scott Westerfeld's ''Literature/{{Uglies}}'' series, people get the pretty operation at 16 (though it is mentioned to the later in some cities). Of course [[spoiler: the operation gives you brain lesions that leave you bubbleheaded]]. It is also mentioned by Tally that it was said "they could make the operation work on 15-years-old now, waiting until sixteen was just a tradition".

Subtrope of LiminalTime. Often overlaps with TheHerosBirthday as the ''precise'' moment at which everything hits the fan. Compare Bittersweet17, for when seventeen is more of a melancholic growing-up age, and ThirteenthBirthdayMilestone for when [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]] is sometimes considered a similarly dangerous age. See Also: ABirthdayNotABreak, when bad things happen on any particular birthday; DiedOnTheirBirthday; when a character dies on their own birthday. If the "danger" is supernatural and it's not just a coincidence, it overlaps with SpecialOccasionsAreMagic.

Subtrope of LiminalTime. Often overlaps with TheHerosBirthday as the ''precise'' moment at which everything hits the fan. Compage Bittersweet17, for when seventeen is more of a melancholic growing-up age, and ThirteenthBirthdayMilestone for when [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]] is sometimes considered a similarly dangerous age. See Also: ABirthdayNotABreak, when bad things happen on any particular birthday; DiedOnTheirBirthday; when a character dies on their own birthday.

* Every one of the main characters in the ''Mindwarp'' series are explicitly stated to have manifested powers on their 16th birthday. Including silver blood. Which, if they had been born with, would have been rather hard not to be aware of.

* Pacifica from ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' is destined to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt on her sixteenth birthday.