Anime & Manga
- Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, and Sasuke throughout the years
◊. As children, pre-teens, teenagers, young adults, and full-grown adults/parents. - Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri from Case Closed grow up together.
- Tai and Hikari Kamiya from the Digimon franchise as they eat together while growing up.
- The Rose of Versailles: Here◊.
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Gimmy and Darry as children◊, teens◊, and adults.
- Pretty Cure:
- Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star: Saki as a child and as a teen.
- Yes! Pretty Cure 5: Nozomi and Rin as children and as teens.
- HeartCatch Pretty Cure!: Kaoruko in her youth vs as a grandmother.
- Suite Pretty Cure ♪: Hibiki as a child and as a teen.
- Smile PreCure!: Nao as a child and as a teen.
- Doki Doki! PreCure: Mana as a toddler vs. as a teen.
- Go! Princess Pretty Cure: Minami as a child and as a teen.
- Maho Girls Pretty Cure!: Mirai as a newborn, a baby, a teen, and an adult.
- KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode: Ichika as a child and as a teen.
- HuGtto! Pretty Cure: Hana as a child, as a teen, and as an adult.
- Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure: Elena as a teen and as an adult.
- Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure: as a child and as a teen.
- Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure: Manatsu as a child and as an adult.
- Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure: Yui and Takumi as children and as teens.
- Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure: Sora as a child and as a teen.
- Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star: Saki as a child
Films — Animation
- From How to Train Your Dragon animated franchise:
- Hiccup maturing from infancy to adulthood.
- Astrid from child to grown woman, as seen here◊.
- Both of them transitioning from arguably distant peers to friends to boyfriend/girlfriend to betrothed to husband and wife to parents.
- Both of them transitioning
- Hiccup maturing
- Disney Animated Canon:
- Encanto:
- Anna and Elsa from Frozen growing up.
- Simba The Lion King goes from a newborn baby to cub to adolescent to adult, as shown here.
- Princess (later Queen) Ariel from The Little Mermaid growing from child to mother.
- Moana goes◊ from toddler to child to teenager.
- Tarzan goes from◊ infant to boy to man.
- Princess Odette from The Swan Princess aging up◊.
- Ice Age: Peaches as a baby, child, and adult◊.
- Turning Red: Child vs. teen.
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Miles Morales
Franchises
- Star Wars:
- A quick gifset of Obi-Wan and Anakin aging from their time in The Phantom Menace to Revenge of the Sith from Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures.
- Ahsoka Tano growing◊ from a small child to a grown woman roughly in her forties from Star Wars: The Clone Wars to Star Wars Rebels.
- A quick gifset
Western Animation
- Avatar: The Last Airbender:
- Aang — Baby, child, with hair (mid-series)◊, at end of series, as an adult, as an elderly man.
- Katara — Child, at start of series, at end of series, adult (with older Aang and Momo)◊, and elderly woman.
- Sokka — teen, and adult.
- Toph — Child◊, her during the series, adult, and old woman.
- Zuko — Here◊.
- Aang — Baby
- Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm growing up throughout The Flintstones.
- Muppet Babies vs. The Muppets:
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power:
- Adora — Baby◊, child, young teen, young adult, (possible) older self.
- Catra — Child, kid, young teen, at start of series◊, during season four◊, end of series, (possible) older self.
- Glimmer — Here.
- Adora — Baby
- Carmen Sandiego:
- Carmen — Baby◊, young child◊, tween◊, teenager◊, adult◊.
- Shadow-san — Child, teen, young adult, current age◊.
- Carmen — Baby
- The Legend of Korra: Here.
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Meteora Butterfly (first life)
- Arcane: Vi
- The Dragon Prince: Callum
- The Owl House: Gus Porter
- Ben 10: Omniverse: Ben Tennyson
- Amphibia: Sasha Waybright
