History Main / VagueAge

** In the ''Literature/BookOfGenesis'', the story of Isaac's near-sacrifice has him speaking to his father Abraham the way a young child would, asking him, on the way up the mountain, where the sheep was for their burnt offering, and Abraham replying evasively, "God will see to the sheep for his burnt offering, my son," as though to shield him from the horrible truth until the last moment. However, based on the internal chronology of the book, Isaac would've been thirty-seven years old at the time. Thus, the Jewish sages of late antiquity deemed Isaac as old enough to give informed consent to his own sacrifice.

*** Throughout the ''Relapse'' album he's imagined as an older, [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent weirdly accented]] GothicHorror-themed serial killer who lives in a nice house with candles and wooden panelling and mostly preys on younger women and men.

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* ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'': Coldygury is fairly large and has a deep voice, but acts very childish and speaks in YouNoTakeCandle.
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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': Exactly how old the Supermen are is up for debate, as their exact age is never given. With that said, they're clearly children; they're shown to be in third grade in one episode, and in another, Happy S. mentions being too young to drink wine.
* Leafie from ''Animation/LeafieAHenIntoTheWild'' is an adult but exactly what age she is when she leaves the factory farm is unknown. This is muddled further by the English dub, where she has a rather young sounding voice. [[spoiler:Leafie ages quickly over the film but it seems to be more from malnutrition and poor living conditions than her aging]].
* In ''Animation/QumiQumi'', Juga, Yusi, and Shumadan are obviously young, though their personalities can range from being eight-year old children to eighteen-year old teens in various episodes.
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* Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'': This is the whole schtick of the Paul Reuben's Pee-wee Herman character. He's played by an adult man wearing a suit and lives alone in a house, but he behaves in a childlike manner and is often called a "boy" by those around him.

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': Kenneth appears a bit too old to be in the age bracket likely to work as a network intern, but there's also quite a bit of evidence that he might actually be [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he appears]]. No definitive answer has ever been given. Seriously, just check out the OlderThanTheyLook section on the series' main page. If he's to be believed, Kenneth has been working for NBC since '''''[[spoiler:1936]]''''', and it's been implied that he's [[spoiler:immortal.]]

** In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Dr. Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy has a [=PhD=] and a career as a botanist, meaning she would be in her late 20's at the youngest but is most likely in her 30's, and her comments toward Robin suggest that she sees him as the proverbial Younger Man. Creator/UmaThurman is only two months older than Chris O'Donnell.

* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'': Has never given any definitive ages for its cast, though WordOfGod has it that of the four leads, Morgana is the oldest, followed by Arthur, with Merlin and Guinevere clocking in as late teenagers when the show begins. When taking into account the {{Time Skip}}s that occur between seasons, nearly ten years have passed in-show, meaning that the cast (all in their mid-twenties when filming began) went from DawsonCasting to PlayingGertrude.

** Ernie and Bert seem like adults most of the time, but other times they seem rather childlike. For instance, they live by themselves but are quite naive, seemingly lack jobs (though Bert's twin brother Bart works as a salesman and they are occasionally shown working in the claymation ''Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures'' shorts), play with toys, and take naps.

** Telly generally acts like a six-year-old but goes to daycare.

* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'': Tutter's age is a mystery: He has his own mouse hole, which is kind of like living alone, but then again it's connected to the rest of the house. He has his own FirstDayOfSchoolEpisode, which logically puts him at around five or six, but maybe mice start their education as adults. And in "When You've Got to Go", he has to learn about not procrastinating with bathroom breaks, yet is able to play checkers, which is a relatively sophisticated game, competently. On the more kiddish side, he sleeps with a stuffed toy, spends a lot of his time playing with kids, and relies on Bear for a lot, despite his claim that a mouse has to do things for himself.

* The precise birth date of the late Taliban emir and founder Mohammed Omar is uncertain, though variously estimated anywhere between 1950 and 1966. An offical biography released by the Taliban dated his birth at 1960, though specific detail are still quite lacking. Not helping matters is that Omar was born in a remote Afghan village that never kept reliable records.

* The exact age of the Bocksten Man, a bog perseved body of a medieval Swedish man, has been rather difficult to determine. From dental and skeleton analysis, he could've been as young as 25 to as old as 60 at the time of his death.

** Ernie and Bert seem like adults most of the time, but other times they seem rather childlike. For instance, they live by themselves but are quite naive, seemingly lack jobs (though Bert's twin brother Bart works as a salesman and they are occasionally shown working in the claymation ''Adventure'' shorts), play with toys, and take naps.

** Grover works numerous jobs, indicating that he must be an adult, but he often acts immature.

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** Ernie and Bert seem like adults most of the time, but other times they seem rather childlike. For instance, they live by themselves but are quite naive, seemingly lack jobs (though Bert's twin brother Bart works as a salesman), play with toys, and take naps.

** Grover works numerous jobs, indicating that he must be an adult, but he sometimes acts immature.
** Telly acts like a six-year-old but goes to daycare.

** Cookie Monster seems sort of like a kid sometimes and an adult other times.

** Ernie and Bert seem like adults most of the time, but other times they seem like kids. For instance, they live by themselves but are quite naive, seemingly lack jobs (though Bert's twin brother Bart works as a salesman), play with toys, and take naps. The Grouches seem like adults but their ages are unknown, Ingrid and Humphrey have a baby so they must be adults, but their exact ages are unknown, Grover has jobs but sometimes acts immature, Telly acts like a six-year-old but goes to daycare, Snuffy sometimes acts six (like his pal Big Bird) and sometimes like an adult, and Cookie Monster seems sort of like a kid sometimes and an adult other times.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Though some characters' ages are known (Big Bird is six and Elmo is three for instance), some are not. Ernie and Bert seem like adults most of thetime, but other times they seem like kids. For instance, they live by themselves but are quite naive, seemingly lack jobs (though Bert's twin brother Bart works as a salesman), play with toys, and take naps. The Grouches seem like adults but their ages are unknown, Ingrid and Humphrey have a baby so they must be adults, but their exact ages are unknown, Grover has jobs but sometimes acts immature, Telly acts like a six-year-old but goes to daycare, Snuffy sometimes acts six (like his pal Big Bird) and sometimes like an adult, and Cookie Monster seems sort of like a kid sometimes and an adult other times.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Though some characters' ages are known (Big Bird is six and Elmo is three for instance), some are not. Ernie and Bert seem like adults most times, but other times they seem like kids. For instance live by themselves but are quite naive, seemingly lack jobs (though Bert's twin brother Bart works as a salesman), play with toys, and take naps. The Grouches seem like adults but their ages are unknown, Ingrid and Humphrey have a baby so they must be adults, but their exact ages are unknown, Grover has jobs but sometimes acts immature, Telly acts like a six-year-old but goes to daycare, Snuffy sometimes acts six (like his pal Big Bird) and sometimes like an adult, and Cookie Monster seems sort of like a kid sometimes and an adult other times.

** Every kids sports film ever will have the underdog team with a mix of little kids, pre-teens and obvious teenagers. Rival teams will normally be made up entirely of teenagers, whom the little kids on the hero team would never have been playing against in real life. However, because no ages are ever categorically stated, these films get away with all the characters being in the same age bracket/league.

* ''Series/{{FraggleRock}}'': The main characters live on their own without parents or guardians, and have jobs (that take them half an hour a week), but they seem to be pretty childlike in a lot of respects. Then again, ''all'' Fraggles are childlike in a lot of respects, with the definitely older ones (Uncle Travelling Matt and the World's Oldest Fraggle) often being the worst. Early episodes showed baby Fraggles, but the creators decided that actually, they didn't really want to open this question. The same goes for Junior Gorg -- is he a kid by Gorg standards, or a young adult who hasn't moved out of his parents' house because he's got nowhere to go?

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Though some characters' ages are known (Big Bird is six and Elmo is three for instance), some are not. Ernie and Bert for instance live by themselves but are quite naive, seemingly lack jobs (though Bert's twin brother Bart works as a salesman), play with toys, and take naps. The Grouches seem like adults but their ages are unknown, Ingrid and Humphrey have a baby so they must be adults, but their exact ages are unknown, Grover has jobs but sometimes acts immature, Telly acts like a six-year-old but goes to daycare, Snuffy sometimes acts six (like his pal Big Bird) and sometimes like an adult, and Cookie Monster seems sort of like a kid sometimes and an adult other times.

* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'': Tutter's age is a mystery: He has his own mouse hole, which is kind of like living alone, but then again it's connected to the rest of the house. He has his own FirstDayOfSchoolEpisode, which logically puts him at around five or six, but maybe mice start their education as adults. And in "When You've Got to Go", he has to learn about not procrastinating with bathroom breaks, yet is able to play checkers, which is a relatively sophisticated game, competently.

* ''WebAnimation/GoryToons'': Mostly invoked by the creator, as the Toons are [[ArtisticAge whatever age is necessary for a given episode to work]], aside from a handful of characters who are consistently adults, children, and infants.