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* ''Webcomic/ILoveYoo'': Kousuke's age wasn't revealed until over 100 episodes, despite every other character having explicit ages. It is later revealed that he is 24 years old.

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 he will probably [[NotAllowedToGrowUp not be allowed to get older]].

* The titular Peter from ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' has all his baby teeth (which usually begin to fall out at age five or six) according to both [[Literaure/PeterPan the original book]] and the ''Literature/DisneyFairies'' spinoff series, but his design resembles more of a boy between ten and thirteen.

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

* 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.

* Couette from ''Franchise/{{Noob}}''. She's [[TeensAreShort short]] and acts like a stereotypical teenage girl, but is also the DistaffCounterpart of the franchise ManChild undergoing DivergentCharacterEvolution. Her actress in the webseries is a short adult, but she also hints to still be going to class in some of her dialogue. The comic shows the other contestants at her beauty pageant to be much taller than her and that she lives in her own house, but has her drawn with the same standards as the ManChild in question, making look her like the youngest of all regular players.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' has only two or three confirmed "adult" regulars; the others can be, as the plot requires, young enough to be going to preschool or old enough to be drinking Cold Ones. Even the adult regulars aren't too old to play spaceman with tin foil outfits and cardboard spaceships. Don't even ask about Homsar. [[http://hrwiki.org/wiki/Ages_of_Characters This Page]] on [[TheWikiRule the wiki]] attempts to clear things up a bit. Emphasis on "a bit".

* The titular Peter from ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' has all his baby teeth (which usually begin to fall out at age five or six) according to both the original book and the ''Literature/DisneyFairies'' spinoff series, but his design resembles more of a boy between ten and thirteen.

* Esmeralda's age in Disney's version of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' is hard to distinguish. In the original book she was sixteen, but she's clearly older in Disney's adaptation. The way she talks to Quasimodo (who is twenty) implies she's several years older than him.

* ''Series/UnderTheUmbrellaTree'': Gloria, Iggy and Jacob are supposed to be children, but have no official ages. Sometimes they seem like six-year-olds (Jacob can't even read or tell time), while [[PingPongNaivete other times]] they seem more like middle schoolers. Then there's the fact that they belong to sophisticated clubs for animals, sometimes give speeches, host parties or get jobs like adults, and lived by themselves until [[TeamMom Holly]] moved in with them.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': According to the creators, the Tree Friends are [[ArtisticAge whatever age is necessary for the cartoon to work]], aside from a handful of characters who are consistently adults and one who is visibly an infant.

** Grover works numerous jobs, indicating that he must be an adult, but he often acts immature and lacks the common sense that an adult would possess.

** Scooter's age is even more vague. In ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', most of the main cast refers to him as a kid, his uncle got him the job at the theatre, and in one episode, he mentions still being in school, indicating that he's probably somewhere in his teens. By ''Series/TheMuppets2015'', he's able to go into a bar without getting carded or kicked out, and everyone teases him [[MamasBoy for living and having a disturbingly close relationship with his mother.]] Kermit's nephew, Robin, meanwhile, still appears to be a kid.

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

** He tends to act like a teenager, making juvenile line-crossing jokes, fighting with childhood authority figures like teachers, school bullies and his parents, and if he's got a job (other than being a famous rapper) it's usually a stereotypical working-class teen job like [[BurgerFool burger flipping]]. He also has a ruthless libido for teenage sources of [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbatory amusement]] like PG movies or KidCom shows.

''Website/SCPFoundation'': PlayedForHorror with [=SCP=]-231, a group of girls who were kidnapped and impregnated with the spawn of the Scarlet King. All of their ages are redacted, but the fact that there’s a single black box as opposed to two shows that at least one girl had her age in the [[WouldHurtAChild single digits]], and it’s unclear just how many of them were underaged, with it even being possible that ''all'' of them were minors.

* Wiki/{{Killerbunnies}}: There's [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Killerbunnies-XI-and-XII-Kamu-and-Kanran-444451527 Kamu and Kanran]] who has a condition that makes them look like babies but they don't seem to let them stop them in being damn near malicious and that both are old enough to smoke but their ages are never stated. In that vein, it's hard to pinpoint how old Jeanne is or whether or not she is even a child or through some means or another just looks like one.

* In ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', the girls of Castle Anthrax are "all between the ages of 16 and 19½".

* 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 anywhere from 25 to ''60'' years old at the time of his death.

* The precise birth date of the late Taliban emir and founder Mohammed Omar is uncertain, though variously estimated anywhere between 1950 and 1966. An official 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.

* Almost the entirety of Blackbeard's backstory and life prior to taking up piracy, including his date of birth, has been lost to history. Even his "real name" Edward Teach is widely suspected to be a pseudonym. Historians tentatively estimate that he might've been in his late thirties at death in 1718. If such an estimate is correct, that means that Blackbeard was probably born somewhere in the early 1680s.

* Almost the entirety of Blackbeard's pre piratical life, including his date of birth, has been lost to history. Even his "real name" Edward Teach is widely suspected to be a pseudonym. Historians tentatively estimate that he might've been in his late thirties at death in 1718. If such an estimate is correct, that means that Blackbeard was probably born somewhere in the early 1680s.

* Almost the entirety of Blackbeard's pre piratical life, including his date of birth, has been lost to history. Even his "real name" Edward Teach is widely suspected to be a pseudonym. Historians tentatively estimate that he might've been in his late thirties at death. If such an estimate is correct, that means that Blackbeard was probably born somewhere in the early 1680s.