Line #39 ReallySevenHundredYearsOld/ComicBooks


1	* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
2	** [[Characters/MarvelComicsApocalypse Apocalypse]] is often referred to as the first mutant, and while the veracity of this boast varies from adaptation to adaptation, he's pretty much the same age across the board -- 5,000 years, give or take a few centuries. He's also a mainstay of various dystopian futures. However, Apocalypse does change bodies, so it's not quite the same age in every body.
3	** [[KnightTemplar Exodus]] and [[EvilutionaryBiologist Mr. Sinister]] were both granted extended/immortal lifespans by Apocalypse, in the 12th and 19th centuries, respectively. Interestingly, they both ended up turning on Apocalypse, though for very [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight different]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards reasons]].
4	** ComicBook/{{Mystique}}, Destiny, [[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]] and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} are "young" immortals who are no more than 150 years old apiece. Of the four, Sabretooth is probably the oldest, being mentioned by Creator/JohnByrne and Creator/ChrisClaremont as being fifty years older than Wolverine who was born in the late 1800s. Destiny isn't far behind, as she is in Marvel continuity the historical Irene Adler of the ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' stories, which places her birth as somewhere in the mid 1800s. Wolverine is younger than those two, as previously mentioned, but not by much. And fitting her codename, Mystique's actual date of birth is completely unknown, but it is known that she was young when she met and began working with Destiny, so she's probably around the same age.
5	** There's also Belasco, who was born in 13th century Florence and met Dante.
6	** Selene's lackey Eli Bard and ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' villain Tyrannus (who the ComicBook/XMen occasionally clash with) are both immortals from the days of the Roman Empire, with the latter being stated as having been the very last Roman emperor before the empire itself collapsed. ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} villain Romulus and his sister Remus ''might'' also be Roman immortals; Romulus has claimed them to be such, though Remus later said he [[UnreliableNarrator made it all up]].
7	** Another ambiguous case of this is Nightcrawler's father Azazel, who claims to have been alive since Biblical times. On the one hand, no hard evidence has been given for this claim, but on the other hand it hasn't been debunked outright either (unlike Romulus), so it could be true.
8	** During the '90s, an entire ''team'' of immortal mutants was established, the so-called [[DarkAgeOfSuperNames Externals]]. A few classic villains were retroactively added to their ranks, but for the most part they were new characters, few of whom were particularly interesting. Between this and the obvious ''Highlander'' parallels, they didn't stick around long. [[spoiler:Most of them were dispatched by Selene in an issue of ''ComicBook/XForce'', though they've since [[ComicBookDeath come back to life]].]]
9	** Perhaps the hardest-invoked of all in Marvel continuity is Selene, the External former Black Queen of the Hellfire Club. It's long been established that she's immortal, despite appearing to be in her mid-thirties at most. Turns out she's really '''17,000 years old'''.
10	** None of the above holds a candle to [[ComicBook/NewXMen John Sublime]]. He is a sentient bacterium who's lived on Earth since the ''beginning of life'' on the planet, making him over 3 '''billion''' years old.
11	** A {{retcon}}ned case of this is none other than [[spoiler:Moira [=MacTaggert=], who was given a completely revised history in 2019's ''House of X'' story. Previously a BadassNormal and TokenHuman, she is now a mutant with BornAgainImmortality who lived at least one of her dozen or so lives to old age before she even met [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor X]]. While no hard dates are stated, this would appear to make her roughly about as old as Mystique and Destiny]].
12	** In Creator/NeilGaiman's take on ''ComicBook/TheEternals'', Sprite is the ''only'' child Eternal, and he's ticked off enough about it [[spoiler: to set off the train of events that turned all the Eternals into ordinary humans and made everyone forget they ever existed]]. He's particularly ticked that [[spoiler:Sersi]] has slept with ''every'' male Eternal except -- guess who?
13	** ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': Because of his unique physiology, when Steve Rogers [[HumanPopsicle took a dip in the ice]] for an indeterminate amount of time (from the late 1940s to [[ComicBookTime whatever time period he happens to step out into]], usually "Present Day"), while he became chronologically decades older, his body did not age since it was effectively cryogenically frozen and he still appears to be a man in his early-to-mid-thirties (depending on the artist). Arcs where Steve has the Super-Soldier Serum removed from his body show him fully aged for all the years that have passed.
14	** ComicBook/DoctorStrange was born in the 1930s and, thanks to sorcery, has stayed in his prime with only the grey temples signifying his age. Strange's wife Clea however makes him seem like a kid in comparison as she’s lived for multiple centuries in the Dark Dimension despite having the body of a woman in her early 20s, ironically making her look much younger than Strange himself.
15	** ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' has a lot of this, due to the cast being immortal Norse Gods:
16	*** It's unknown what Thor's actual age is, but it's been estimated to be over one million years old, since he fought alongside the Vikings as a young man in the 9th Century and was definitely around kicking ass before then too. Apart from the grey-haired King Thor in Creator/JasonAaron's run, he's never looked his age, being a {{Hunk}} for eons. This is not to mention that the 616 Thor that we're all familiar with is actually the 23th [[BornAgainImmortality reincarnation]] of Thor since the previous Ragnarok where he died, so he's likely way older than previously estimated.
17	*** [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]] is likewise millions of years old since he grew up with Thor and that’s discounting the TimeTravel antics he gets into. Averted more recently since Loki has reincarnated [[ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard into a younger body]], so physically he is the youngest of the Marvel Asgardains even if he retains the memory of his former very, very long life.
18	*** Odin of course trumps both his sons and most other Asgardians, as even in 1,000,000 BC hanging out with the cavemen Avengers or fighting the Celestials at the dawn of the universe '''he was still an old man!''' He’s still quite spry for a guy who's many eons old.
19	*** Lady Sif, [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheEnchantress Amora the Enchantress]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsValkyrior Valkyrie]] (although they don't [[MsFanservice look]] it) are likely in the same one 1,000 to one million years old age range. As seen by the events of ''Thor Son of Asgard'' where they were like sisters who grew up alongside Thor and Loki together. Sif in particular has been in love with Thor for eons [[PuppyLove since they were little]].
20	** ''ComicBook/ClanDestine'': Adam Destine is about eight hundred years old and looks more like twenty, having been granted CompleteImmortality by his beloved, the djinn Elalyth. Their children do age, but very slowly, so the older ones count for LongLived. Gracie, for example, is four hundred and looks about sixty or seventy.
21	** Klara Prast from ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' is a bit of a variation. She was born sometime in the late 1890s, but traveled forward a hundred years in 1907, when she was about 11 or 12, so she's still, according to Marvel's ComicBookTime, not quite in her teens. A more straightforward example from the series would be Topher, a vampire who was born around 1900 and was turned when he was 17. He lived to be over 100 years old before he was stupid enough to try and feed on Karolina Dean, whose blood is infused with solar energy. There's also Forget-Me-Not, a villainess encountered by the Runaways when they were stranded in 1907. She boasted that men had been fighting over her for centuries, although whether or not this was true is unrevealed.
22	** The Pureblood vampires in ''ComicBook/{{Blade}}'' age extremely slowly (turned vampires don't age at all). Charlotte looks to be about 12, when she's actually around 200. Overlord Rusk appears to be an adult man and is actually 600.
23	** Atrea from ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'' is somewhere over a thousand years old, but looks no older than her mid-twenties.
24	** In Marvel's old ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'' continuity, the necromancer Thulsa Doom has been around since before the Valusian era. Although visibly undead, this should still make him a rather extreme example, as it means he's well over 20,000 years old.
25	* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
26	** Thought that Arisia, a ComicBook/GreenLantern who originally appeared to be in her late teens (at the oldest) and who had a romantic relationship with Hal Jordan, was 13 years old? That translates on her world to 240 years, considering that she's a member of a species that ages much slower than humans. This was a {{retcon}} to lower the {{Squick}} factor; originally there was a plotline where her feelings for Hal, combined with her [[AppliedPhlebotinum power ring]], caused her to [[PlotRelevantAgeUp go through puberty ahead of time so that she could appear to be of acceptable age]].
27	** [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]] was born in roughly 50,000 BC. He's an immortal caveman who's spent his time with world domination plots. And he invented cannibalism.
28	** ComicBook/{{The Shade\|DCComics}}, of ''ComicBook/{{Starman\|DCComics}}'' fame, was born sometime in the early 1800s, and hasn't aged since the event that gave him his powers. His potential futures see him living for millennia to come.
29	** [[Characters/BatmanRasAlGhul Ra's al Ghul]] looks to be about in his 50s but is really over 600 years old. This is due to his continuous revivals in the Lazarus pits (magical pools of... stuff... that can restore the dead to life).
30	*** Even older is his father, [[OldMaster the Sensei]].
31	*** His daughter Nyssa Raatko is similar, having been born in the 19th century and used a Lazarus Pit to keep herself young.
32	*** The youngest of the family is [[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia al Ghul]], who's a mere 150 years old thanks to the Lazarus Pit, although it's hinted that she may be closer in age to her sister Nyssa. In any case for a very old woman she had no problem seducing ComicBook/{{Batman}} and giving birth to his son.
33	** ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
34	*** The vast majority of the depictions of Superman in any future time period show that he -- and [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} other]] [[ComicBook/PowerGirl Kryptonians]] -- age significantly slower than humans do.
35	*** "ComicBook/TheSuperSteedOfSteel": Comet's human form may look like a man in his early twenties, but he reveals ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} he was an adult in Ancient Greece, making him at least three thousand years old.
36	*** In ''ComicBook/TheThirdKryptonian'', Karsta Wor-Ul looks like a fit fifty-years-old woman, but she's been alive for hundreds of years.
37	*** In the {{Elseworld}}s tale ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'', Batman and Superman's granddaughters get in on the act as well (in fact, one of his granddaughters is stuck in her early teens for over a century before finally getting it fixed so that she can age to adulthood.)
38	** In ''ComicBook/Flashpoint1999'', JFK has been taking anti-aging treatments to stay youthful. Once Barry and Vandal Savage are gone, this wears off and he starts feeling his real age.
39	** ''ComicBook/FrankensteinAgentOfSHADE'': Father Time is commander of a super-secret covert-ops agency, whose latest incarnation is a little Japanese schoolgirl.
40	** Most of the ComicBook/DemonKnights have some form of semi-immortality that has slowed down their aging process, and thus most of them are at least several hundred years old. The sole exception is Al Jabr, who is entirely human, and thus ages accordingly.
41	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
42	*** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' (Vol 1): In the Golden Age the Amazons were women who had arrived on Paradise Island through various means throughout history since Antiquity and had chosen to remain there, taking an oath to uphold the Amazons' ideals on peace and justice and drinking from the fountain of youth to maintain their longevity after undergoing training to allow them to survive drinking from it. Most of the Amazons are well over 1000 years old but few look to be over 50.
43	*** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' (Vol 2): The Amazons date back to Ancient Greece, and aside from Wonder Woman, their population hasn't increased in the 3000+ years of exile - they still look between twenty and forty years old. Elseworld stories show this applies to Wonder Woman as well.
44	*** ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'': Most of the Amazons are mortal with normal human lifespans, but a small handful including Diana's mother Hippolyta opted to become champions to members of the Greek pantheon and stopped aging back in the Bronze Age, and still look like they are in their twenties at the time of the comic in the twentieth century.
45	*** Diana herself has estimated to be at least 3,000 years old as in modern continuity Hippolyta explicitly gave birth to her during the UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire. Although keep in mind, Wonder Woman is likely even older in the previous continuity where she was brought to life out of clay millennia ago, but always looked like a woman in her 20s.
46	** In ''[[ComicBook/TheMultiversity Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors of the Counter-World #1]]'', Earth-20's Immortal Man has been around somewhere in the region of forty to fifty thousand years and looks to be in his 20s/30s.
47	** ComicBook/{{Icon}} had human DNA copied onto himself after he crash landed on Earth in 1839 and assumed the form of an infant. He barely looks 40 by the mid 1990s. In fact, Icon come off more bothered by being lonely and separated from his people rather than being bothered by how nearly two centuries have passed, implying that his race, the Terminans, can easily live for centuries without worry.
48	%%** S'aru the Protector from ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws''.Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
49	%%*** [[spoiler:Essence]]
50	* Creator/VertigoComics:
51	** ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'':
52	*** Most Fables are a few centuries old at least, but particular note goes to Pinocchio; it seems the Blue Fairy was a little too literal when it came to his wish. As he puts it, "I want to get ''laid!''" He aspires to someday meet the over-literal fairy that granted his wish, so that he can "kick her blue ass". At one point, they blackmail a columnist who's threatening to expose the {{Masquerade}} by taking compromising photos of him with Pinocchio while he's passed out, then threaten to use them to "prove" he's a pedophile, so he'll delete his off-site evidence backups.
53	*** Ozma, the third leader of the Thirteenth Floor Sorcerers, looks about ten, but is centuries old, at least.
54	** ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'':
55	*** Several characters, including Mad Hettie and Hob Gadling, are otherwise normal humans who live for several hundred years.
56	*** Several of the Endless, those of human appearance, that is. For example, Morpheus and his sister Death, along with their estranged brother Destruction. All three have been around since the beginning of time, yet none look older than late thirties or early forties. Death in fact looks like she is still in her twenties (supposed to appear about sixteen, at least according to Creator/NeilGaiman's original idea of her).
57	*** The witch Thessaly (later known as Larissa) is several millennia old and one of the last of her kind, but looks to be in her late twenties or early thirties.
58	*** Shivering Jemmy, who is a Lord of Chaos (and therefore presumably pretty old), but takes the form of a little girl in clown make-up.
59	** Several characters from ''ComicBook/TheUnwritten'' are this. Most notably are DeathSeeker BigBad Pullman, who is over 5000 years old, MarionetteMaster LivingDollCollector Madame Rausch, who is over 300 years old, and GoodIsNotNice WellIntentionedExtremist Wilson Taylor, who is over 100 years old.
60	* Creator/{{Wildstorm}}:
61	** Jenny Sparks from ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' looks like she's in her 20s, when she's actually over 100, which gets repeated a lot. She's the spirit of the 20th Century, and eventually gets rebirthed into a new form as the spirit of the 21st Century to repeat the process again.
62	** [[Characters/StormwatchBacklash Backlash]] was born in Atlantis back before it sank, some three-thousand years ago.
63	* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' occasionally gets flack because of the slim, large-headed, waifish proportions of the centuries-old protagonists. This does occasionally get {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d in the plot; for instance, on one occasion Tyleet meets a human couple who can't believe she's old enough to be pregnant.
64	* ''ComicBook/LenoreTheCuteLittleDeadGirl'': Lenore looks like she's ten (which she was in the moment she died), but she's actually a 100 year old [[UndeadChild dead girl]].
65	%%** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Ragamuffin]] from
66	* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
67	** Fay, a centuries-old [[OurElvesAreDifferent Sephi]] Jedi Master from ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'' who understands ThePowerOfLove and has used it to end and prevent wars, doesn't use a lightsaber and doesn't need to, is kept from physically aging past her twenties by her strong connection to the Force, and who if she hadn't given her reserves of Force energy to Obi-Wan to allow him to escape would have recovered from a fatal lightsaber wound. If not for her HeroicSacrifice, Fay would have lived forever but her sacrifice saved him, millions of others, and ultimately TheRepublic.
68	** The Anzat are [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a race of vampiric creatures]] that appear from time to time in the novels, who can live upwards of 900 years or so. Their society is so ancient, their history predates the Jedi ''and'' the Sith, and while they prefer to feed on Force-sensitive creatures, they don't call the Force by that name; they consider that a term that younger races use for it. (They usually call it "luck" or "Sea of Memory" if they want to be fancier.)
69	* Several characters from ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' series fulfill the trope, at least in later installments of the comic, such as ''Black Dossier''. Mina Murray is given immortality by her encounter with Dracula, Allan Quatermain is rejuvenated after bathing in a pool of eternal youth, and Orlando is millenia-old and has changed his sex numerous times during the centuries. None look older than their late thirties; in fact, only Quatermain even comes close to looking even that old.
70	%%* Zeke Vicker from ''ComicBook/StarRaiders''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
71	* Alpha One of ''ComicBook/TheMighty'' looks like he is in his twenties, but he had been operating since he appeared in 1952. [[spoiler:It turns out that he's much older than that. He is an alien who had been around since the Revolutionary War.]]
72	* [[spoiler:Knuckles The Echidna]] and Chaos in ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' were alive during the great war between the Echidnas and the Drakons which happened over eight thousand years ago.
73	** ''Webcomic/SonicTheComicOnline'' adds [[spoiler:Tikal The Echidna]] who was sealed with Chaos, Vichama the God of Death and the reason [[spoiler:Knuckles The Echidna]] is immortal as well as a weapon by the Drakon Empire called [[spoiler:Shadow The Hedgehog]] and the advanced Guardian Robot called the Gizoid.
74	* ''ComicBook/CaballisticsInc'':
75	** Solomon Ravne is suggested to be around 300 years old and must keep up his more youthful appearance through ritualistic {{Blood Bath}}s and other forms of the TheDarkArts.
76	** [[spoiler:Ethan Kostabi]] is in fact a 2000 year old angel who fell to Earth.
77	* Christian Walker from ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' is revealed to be a proto-human hominid that has evolved over tens of thousands of years into a modern human with super powers. Most of which he can't remember. There's hints that many of the major super beings in the setting may also have extremely long lives, or be part of an ongoing reincarnation cycle that brings those powers back again and again.
78	* A group of UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar (Kenneth Irons, Gerald Irons, Sir Renaud de Gaudin and one other person) from ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' became immortal by drinking from the Holy Grail. There is also former Witchblade wielder Katarina Godliffe, who lives in the Faerie realm where [[YearOutsideHourInside time flows differently]], allowing her to live to the present day, and The Survivor, who was born in the universe before the currect one.
79	* Mia of ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'', who usually looks like a teenage girl, has been around for at least a few centuries. Given that she's referred to as a "primordial," she's presumably quite a bit older than that.
80	* Number Five from ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' is an eighty-year-old man trapped in a ten-year-old's body. There's no telling how old he really is, however, as [[spoiler:his aging was halted by The Temps Aertanalis]].
81	* In ''[[ComicBook/AthenaVoltaire Athena Voltaire and the Isle of the Dead]]'', the reason that [[spoiler:de Vargas knew where to find a 400-year-old shipwreck]] is that he was personally present when it was made, and has spent the intervening years getting to the point where he can return.
82	* In ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'', Martians are explicitly said to not age once they reach maturity, nor do they die unless slain. Flashbacks reveal that many characters such as [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Dejah, Thuvia]] and [[BigFriendlyDog Woola]] have lived for at least centuries before John Carter arrived on Mars. That doesn't seem to be always the case, as there are many [[ElderlyImmortal elderly-looking Martians]] such as [[GodEmperor Issus]] and Tardos Mors.
83	* While characters in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' being millions of years old for a start is nothing new, in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', the tiny archivist Rewind is mentioned to be old enough to remember before Nova Prime came to power, making him at least nine million years old. For the record, that's the same given age as Kup, and yet Rewind neither looks nor acts anywhere near as old as him.
84	** Similarly, over in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'', Arcee is also a good nine million years old, having been active in the second Cybertronian war. She also doesn't show any signs of her age. Later reveals in the comic show she's somewhere over twelve million years old, making her the oldest character in the story (not counting Kup, and he had to use time-travel to cheat). Unlike Rewind, she ''does'' act like it.
85	* ''ComicBook/AngelCatbird'': Neferkitty was alive in UsefulNotes/AncientEgypt, as she was in fact Queen Nefertiti. Her actual name is Neferkitty, and Nefertiti came about from a translation error.
86	** Count Catula was a cat in medieval times, and became a vampire after being bitten by Count Dracula.
87	* ''ComicBook/{{Monstress}}'': The [[ImmortalRuler Ancients]] and the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]] are practically {{Time Abyss}}es, having been around for all of recorded history. [[spoiler: Maika's father the Lord Doctor claims to have hosted Zinn for 500 years before passing it to her, but it's unclear if that's an Arcanic trait or a benefit of containing a Monstrum.]]
88	* Troll from ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics'' is thousands of years old, however much he'd like to keep it a secret.
89	* The titular character of ''ComicBook/{{Sasmira}}'' is over 4000 years old. She was the illegitimate daughter of a Pharaoh in AncientEgypt, and was cursed with immortality for reasons unknown to Prudence. [[spoiler:It's revealed in the third book that a priest cursed her because she refused his advances.]]

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