History Main / VagueAge

Compare MistakenAge. Compare and contrast ReallySevenHundredYearsOld.

** The protagonist of the "Music/CryBaby" ConceptAlbum. She's played by 20-year old Melanie in music videos but the actual character is vague in age. In the "Pity Party" music video there are nine candles on her birthday cake (though fans do argue if it's symbolic of something else) and artwork depicts her as a little girl. She also dresses in stereotypically "childish" attire such as pastel dresses with ribbons, but that's a popular fashion for adults as well. The overall lyrics and tone of her songs makes her sound like someone in her late teens or early twenties. It could be a bad case of TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior.

** Cinder is older than the main characters, but can pass herself off as a 17-21 year old to infiltrate the academies. Her Volume 8 backstory flashback is confirmed by the creators to end when she's aged 15, but there's no confirmation of time passage between those events and the start of the show. She is therefore somewhere between the ages of 21-30. [[spoiler:The creators have confirmed that the Maiden boundary is approximately 30 years old, meaning anyone who becomes a Maiden has to be younger than 30.]]

** The Volume 6 character short for Adam introduces vagueness about Adam, Blake and Ilia's ages. Blake and Ilia are implied to be the same age, with Adam a few years older. However, the short is a flashback that covers Adam's ascension through the White Fang and therefore covers an unknown span of time. It begins while Ghira is still the leader of the White Fang, a role he stepped down from five years before the show begins. However, that would make Blake 12 years old or younger because she starts the show aged 17. As the main show's character models are used in the character short, no-one looks five years younger; the time scale of events and character ages are therefore impossible to determine.

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A TV character may be implied to be some sort of ''adult'' compared to other characters who are clearly kids or teenagers, or vice versa, but this is largely an illusion in case the writers still want them in plots to which a younger audience can more easily relate. The only nominally-aged character is usually the lead, and this is only useful to make his same-aged audience feel better, since s/he will probably [[NotAllowedToGrowUp not be allowed to get older]].

* Creator/GracieAllen used to claim in a signature joke that she was born in 1906, but her birth certificate was lost in the great San Francisco earthquake, which occurred three months before her July birthday that year. When her foil pointed this out, she would say, "Well, it was an awfully big earthquake." When she died, the year given on her crypt was 1902, which was presumably provided by her widower, Creator/GeorgeBurns. Census and school records indicate she was actually born in 1895, meaning she was six months older than him.

-->'''Blanche:''' [Being bombarded by reporters] Get away from me, you bloodhounds. I have nothing to say to you. Except this: From now on, when my name appears in print, it had better read "Blanche Devereaux, 39".\\

* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' has Blanche Devereaux, who prides herself on her looks and as such constantly lies about her age, usually implying herself to be in her early forties or even her late ''thirties''. The other girls of the house however are not fooled despite her overconfident facade, and several jokes have been poked at how they can't pinpoint her exact age. In one episode Rose manages to acquire her birth certificate from her home state of Georgia, only to find her age "[[NoodleIncident Deleted By Authority of the Governor]]". Adding to this, the season two opener sees Blanche coping with menopause, suggesting she is indeed well into her fifties. All hints aside though, Blanche usually succeeded in keeping herself relatively youthful looking for a woman her age.

* Creator/Charo was either 26, 31 or 36 when she began appearing on ''Series/TheLoveBoat'' depending on whose account you believe. She claims she was born in 1951, even though that would make her only 15 when she married 66-year-old Xavier Cugat in 1966. Immigration records indicate she was really born in 1941.

* Creator/JoanCrawford's exact date of birth is unknown, except that it was sometime in the 1900s (1904 at the earliest, 1908 at the latest).

* Charo. She was born January 15 of either 1941 (what her birth certificate says), 1945 (what Website/TheOtherWiki says) or 1951 (what she says).