Absurdly Youthful Mother: Difference between revisions
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.2
prefix>Import Bot (Import from TV Tropes TVT:Main.AbsurdlyYouthfulMother 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Main.AbsurdlyYouthfulMother, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license) |
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.2) |
||
(24 intermediate revisions by 9 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
[[File:
▲[[File:CableAndCyclops_7562.jpg|link=X-Men (Comic Book)|right|[[Tropes Are Flexible|It works for dads, too]].]]
When you subtract the age (or apparent age) of a child from that of their parent, this results.
Line 11 ⟶ 8:
In [[Real Life]], a girl can conceive as soon as she has her first menstrual cycle, generally around 11 or 12 years old... although in rare cases this can occur at an even younger age, such as ''five years old''.<ref>She was the youngest mother ever recorded, though she was too young to fully remember the pregnancy and so her parents raised the baby as her brother. While the father was cleared of rape charges, there's still the [[Fridge Horror]] question of who the parents allowed around their daughter.</ref>
Somewhat justified if [[Hollywood History|set in the past when girls might get married at 12-14 and boys at 15-19]]. In modern times, it [[We All Live in America|depends on your country]] [[Values Dissonance|and the culture]] you live. Avoid posting examples of why you [[May
Compare [[Playing Gertrude]] if the actress playing the mother is absurdly youthful. [[No Real Life Examples Please]]. This is for [[Fridge Logic]] parent ages where the issue is swept under the rug, not parent ages that could (hypothetically) be possible.▼
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
==== Actual parent-child relations with small age difference ====▼
Compare [[Playing Gertrude]] if the actress playing the mother is absurdly youthful.
== Pregnancy at a young age is clearly implied or stated ==▼
▲
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* In ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu|Haré+Guu]]'', Hale is 10 while his mother Weda is 24. {{spoiler|It's the reason she lives in the jungle: Her city family kicked her out.}}▼
* ''[[Kodomo no Omocha (Manga)|Kodomo no Omocha]]'': {{spoiler|Sana's}} birth mother Keiko was {{spoiler|fourteen}} when she gave birth. {{spoiler|And it's implied in the manga that Sana was the product of ''[[Child By Rape|sexual abuse]]'', as apparently her dad was Keiko's uncle. It also would've been borderline statutory rape, since the age of consent in Japan is in between 13 and 18, and this means Sana was conceived when Keiko was 13.}}▼
▲=== Pregnancy at a young age is clearly implied or stated ===
* ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka (Manga)|Great Teacher Onizuka]]'': Kunio Murai's mother Julia was 13 when she gave birth to him. (It was a [[Surprise Pregnancy]].) The [[Live Action Adaptation]] ups the age.▼
▲==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====
* Atsuko Urameshi from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' gave birth to Yusuke when she was just 15.▼
▲* In ''[[
▲* ''[[
▲* ''[[
▲* Atsuko Urameshi from ''[[
* Banji's mother in [[Go Nagai]]'s ''[[Delinquent in Drag]]'' (''Oira Sukeban'') gave birth to Banji in her early teens, explicitly stated in dialogue.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Devil Hunter Yohko]]'', Yohko's mother Sayoko was 15 when Yohko was born. It was [[Good Bad Girl|Sayoko's youthful indiscretion]] that [[Virgin Power|prevented her from becoming a devil hunter]], so Yohko must take her grandmother's place.
* ''Boys Empire'' has this with almost everyone eventually, but it is H-manga with [[Incest Is Relative]]...
** In order of oldest to youngest: {{spoiler|Mina Tamura}}, daughter Sakura, 17. Umeko Tamura (nee Sakagami), daughter Mina, 15;<ref>
* In ''[[Toradora
* Sanae Furukawa of ''[[Clannad (
** Nagisa gave birth to Ushio at age 21. {{spoiler|And then, she fell victim to [[Death
** Seems to be very common in Clannad or just [[Key Visual Arts|Key's]] works in general. Tomoya's mother gave birth to him shortly after marrying her husband. His parents married when his father was still in school.
* In the [[Distant Finale]] of ''[[
** That, and {{spoiler|two of the kids are twin girls no older than three years old. The third child is actually born ''in that same [[Distant Finale]]''.}}
* Hinagiku and Yukiji's {{spoiler|adopted}} mother in ''[[
** Mikoto is stated to have had Wataru when she was young (and there's implication that Nagi's mother also gave birth while she was young) and actually left Wataru in the care of his maid Saki because of it. Mikoto still looks young despite having a 13-year-old son.
* ''[[Rosario
* {{spoiler|Marine Gabrielle de Polignac}} in ''[[
* ''[[
==== [[Film]] ====
* Parodied in ''[[Don't Be a Menace
==== [[Literature]] ====
* Gender inverted in ''[[
* In ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', Juliet's mother says she was already a mother at Juliet's current age (nearly 14) in justification of Juliet's [[Arranged Marriage]] with Paris.
** [[Values Dissonance|Which was normal... back then]], as girls from rich families got married around that age so they'd be able to have healthy kids soon. Poorer women would marry later (around 20 or older), as possible suitors would take far more time to gather enough money for a decently-sized household.
* In the [[Kate Thompson]] book ''Children of the Night'', the teenaged protagonist's mother was only 14 when she had him. He realizes that his father, who he never knew, must have been an adult, as she would have told him if his father was a classmate of hers. This squicks him out, as the idea that an adult could take advantage of a young girl like that is inherently disturbing.
* Gender reversed in ''[[The Shipping News]]'', where the protagonist calculates that his grandfather must have been about 11 when he fathered a child. His aunt's reply is simply: "You don't know Newfoundlanders."
* Several examples in the works of [[
* In [[
* In [[Clan of the Cave Bear]], Ayla is ''eleven'' when she has her son Durc - her sister Uba isn't much off that when she gets pregnant. Justified in-universe in that the Clan have a lifespan of about thirty and go through menopause in their early twenties, and so have children early, and Ayla was held to their standards.
* In ''Ginger Pye'', Jerry and Rachel's mother married their father at the age of seventeen, at a time when such marriages were unusual but not unheard of. Their grandmother is still quite young, and they have a three-year-old uncle, affectionately referred to as "Uncle Benny" by everyone in the neighborhood.
* In the ''[[Books of Swords]]'', it is outright stated that the Silver Queen, Yambu, became pregnant with Ariane while still barely a teenager herself. As such, when Ariane is in her early twenties, Yambu is still only in her mid-thirties or so.
==== [[Live Action TV]] ====
* In the first episode of ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' it is explicitly stated that Lorelei had Rory out of wedlock at age 16. Another episode has Rory's friends commenting on how young she looks before figuring this out.
* In ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'', Gretchen Moll is a grandmother in her thirties, and still a nude cabaret performer. She was impregnated at the age of 13. Michael Pitt, who plays her son, is only [[Dawson Casting|seven years younger than Moll.]]
* ''[[Eastenders]]'': Kat Slater/Moon is discovered to have given birth to Zoe at age 13 after being raped by her uncle.
* "[[Best Player]]" featured the mother of a 16-year-old dating a 30-year-old. No mention of an age difference in the couple was made... so... How old was Chris's mom when she was born?
==== [[Tabletop Games]] ====
* ''[[Bliss Stage]]'', taking place almost a decade [[After the End]] where everyone over 18 falls into an eternal sleep, has ''every'' mother being 17 or below. It's that sort of game.
==== [[Video Games]] ====
* ''[[
==== [[Web Comics]] ====
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Shadowgirls]]'', Charon had Becka at 15, and Chrissy had her daughter Missy at around 17.
==== [[Web Original]] ====
* ''[[Equestria Chronicles]]'' has Kettle Cornflakes, who it is very clearly stated was raped and birthed her daughter at the age of 15. [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* In ''[[Drawn Together]]'', because Toot is such a deplorable and incompetent mother, Toot's adopted Nicaraguan baby [[Squick|gets pregnant herself]].
** Foxxy Love is implied to have something like this trope with her kids.
Line 84 ⟶ 80:
=== Parent remarriage, adoption, or gained custody through other means ===
==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====
* In ''[[
* The title character of ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' officially adopted the then 6-year old Vivio when she was just 19. One [[Doujinshi|fan comic]] had fun with this small age difference by having Nanoha introduce Vivio to her parents with no prior information, causing her father Shiro to have a breakdown when he thought that she got Vivio the usual way at the tender age of 13. See it here (comic is SFW, but ads may not be): [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/133936\] [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/133937\] [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/133938\] [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/133939\]
** Taking this even further, as of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** There's also Fate, who's the official guardian of Caro even though they only have a 9 year difference between them<ref>Technically, Fate's younger than that, since she was a clone created only a few years before the events of the first season.</ref> Erio would also count, but he's officially under the guardianship of the forty-something Lindy since he was rescued back when Fate was still too young to officially be his guardian. Fate goes on to become Vivio's other mother, as well as Lutecia's legal guardian for the time when her mother Megane is still in her coma.
** Averted with Subaru Nakajima who, while likely old enough to become {{spoiler|Tohma's}} guardian in Force, despite being only six years older than he is, asks her father to take him in.
* Eureka (14-16) of ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' has three adopted children, all orphans. {{spoiler|She's the one who orphaned them.}}
** In the epilogue, {{spoiler|all three children are adopted by Renton as well, who is also 16, as Maurice, Maeter, and Linck all are shown to have the last name Thurston. It is also implied that Renton and Eureka are married, at least legally.}}
* At age 15, Fraw Bow from ''[[
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', the Outer Senshi (all 16-17) adopt Hotaru after she has magically regressed to an infant. She then magically re-ages to around 13.
* In ''[[Bunny Drop]]'', 30 year old Dankichi pretty much adopts Rin, his grandpa's 6-year-old daughter (and technically his ''aunt'').
* Yuuri (16), from [[Kyo Kara Maoh!]], adopts the ten year old girl, Greta, who tried to kill him in her first appearance.
* Satoshi, from [[D.N.Angel]], was adopted as a teenager by a man in his twenties.
==== Comic Books ====
* In the ''[[Age of Apocalypse]]'', Rogue married Magneto and thereby became the adoptive mother of the sole survivor of his children, Quicksilver. He is an unspecified number of years older than her. (It could still happen in the main timeline).
==== Fanfiction ====
* There's a ''[[
==== [[Film]] ====
* From ''[[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure]]'':
{{quote|
'''Bill:''' Shut up, Ted.
'''Ted:''' Remember when she was a senior and we were freshmen?
'''Bill:''' Shut up, Ted! }}
** During their report, while chatting with [[Freud Was Right|Sigmund Freud]], Bill claims his only problem is "a minor [[Oedipus Complex|Oedipal complex]]".
** Then in ''Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey'', we find out that she divorced Bill's father... and married ''Ted's''.
* Diane, the mother from ''[[Poltergeist]]'' is far too young to have given birth to the family's teenage daughter Dana. The quandary is explained when a construction-worker quips to Steven that his daughter is as good-looking as her mom, and Steven gruffly replies that Dana's mother is dead: he's a widower, and Diane (mother of Carol Anne) is his second wife.
==== [[Literature]] ====
* Paige of ''[[Women of the Otherworld]]'' adopted Savannah when Paige was 23 and Savannah was 13. Then Paige marries Lucas Cortez, also in his mid-twenties, and Savannah has two parent figures less than a decade older than her.
* Twenty-five-year-old [[Kate Daniels]] becomes the legal guardian of twelve-year-old Julie. At first Kate refers to herself as a substitute mom, then as a crazy aunt, but she always refers to Julie as her kid.
* In the ''[[Flowers in
==== [[Live Action TV]] ====
* Kendall Casablancas of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' has stepsons 7 and 9 years younger than her.
* After serving as {{spoiler|the fake 18th head}} of the Shiba household, ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'''s {{spoiler|Takeru}} is adopted into the family to become the actual {{spoiler|19th head}} in the finale. It's stated that {{spoiler|the 17th head, Kaoru's father, died 17 years before}}, making the new adoptive mother 16-17 years old and ''younger'' than her son {{spoiler|who, from his age in flashbacks, appears to be 6-8 years older than her.}}
Line 127 ⟶ 123:
* In ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'', Maya's father marries a woman who's exactly the same age as Maya. In fact, they used to go to school together.
==== Theater ====
* In ''[[A Little Night Music]]'', Anne is eighteen and her stepson Henrik is nineteen and madly in love with her. {{spoiler|They run away together.}}
==== [[Video Games]] ====
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Princess Maker 2]]'', you can be a very young man when you adopt your daughter (in fact, you can adopt her at 11, and she starts at 10...).
* In ''[[
==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* In ''[[Daria]]'', Brittany
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'' has Hank's stepmother Didi, who was his classmate in kindergarten.
==== Music ====
* This is how Willie Nelson became [[My Own Grampa|his own grandpa]].
=== Children are born, then their age is retconned. ===▼
▲==== Parent and child ages (or looks) are somehow modified ====
▲== Children are born, then their age is retconned. ==
These examples are listed under [[Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome]].
=== [[Time Travel]], Magic, [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] or Immortality are involved ===▼
==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====▼
▲== [[Time Travel]], Magic, [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] or Immortality are involved ==
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' has several of these, perhaps most notably Washu being Ryoko's mother, despite the fact that Washu actually looks younger than Ryoko. In actuality, while Ryoko is merely a child at 7,000 or so, Washu is, depending on who you ask, either 20,000 or ''older than the universe''. She cheats via <s> magical</s> scientific age modification.▼
* ''[[
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
▲* ''[[Tenchi Muyo]]'' has several of these, perhaps most notably Washu being Ryoko's mother, despite the fact that Washu actually looks younger than Ryoko. In actuality, while Ryoko is merely a child at 7,000 or so, Washu is, depending on who you ask, either 20,000 or ''older than the universe''. She cheats via <s> magical</s> scientific age modification.
▲* ''[[Rah Xephon]]'' has {{spoiler|Quon, Ayato's "mom", who has been kept in stasis. Making her the same age as he is, and about alf the age of his twin brother Itsuki (Ayato too was kept in a kind of stasis)}}
* ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' has Hayate and the Wolkenritter, [[Wise Beyond Their Years|Hayate]] acts as a mother figure at age nine, while the Wolkenritter are likely [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|centuries old]]
** Their "official" ages in [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* In ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'', Goku is de-aged to childhood as the result of the Dragonballs, making him approximately the same age as his granddaughter, 10-year-old Pan.
** Even before that, Goku was looking young to be the father of his professor son Gohan but this is because Saiyans remain in their prime longer than humans. Neither Bulma nor Chi Chi are thrilled, and you can guess how the latter reacts to her husband's further de-aging.
*** Also, Goku's age was stilted by about 8 years (which is about the difference between Goku and Vegeta's dates of birth to begin with) due to time spent dead.
* {{spoiler|Moka's mother}} in ''[[Rosario
* Mito from ''[[Space Pirate Mito]]'' looks like she's around 5 or 6 years old, while her son is only about 15 when the series starts. Turns out she's [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really a few thousand year-old]] alien who had a child with a human.
==== [[Comic Books]] ====
* In one ''[[The Sandman
** That's because the Ancient Greeks weren't big on Mendelian genetics. You could be the son of a god and a nymph and still be a mortal man, albeit with a cool pedigree to boast about.
* Cable from ''[[X
** Same goes for X-Man (Alternate Cable. He's made from Scott and Jean's DNA by an [[Evilutionary Biologist]], grown to adulthood, looks 20 while parents are getting toward 30) and Rachel Summers (Scott and Jean's daughter presumably through normal means, returned from a [[Bad Future]] that may or may not still occur.)
* In the ''[[Yoko Tsuno]]'' book ''The Three Suns of Vinea'', Khany is reunited with her mother, who was put in [[Human Popsicle|suspended animation]] at the same age Khany is now. As a result, mother and daughter now have the same biological age, prompting the former to try to make things less awkward by insisting that Khany consider her her sister rather than her mother.
* Adam Destine of ''[[
* From the Hulk comic, the organization known as ''The Pantheon'' is lead by centuries-old, but adolescent looking Agamemnon. His immortality kicked in while young. His many sons, grandsons and grand-grandsons looks older than him.
** However, he usually takes the appearance of a [[Large and In Charge|towering]] old man with a long, white beard when he appears at the Pantheon.
* A popular strip in the British comic ''Bunty'' involved a scientist who invents a miraculous anti-ageing cream that turns her into a 15-year-old, forcing her to go to school with her daughter so the welfare authorities will not ask questions.
==== Film ====
* The 2011 sci-fi thriller ''[[
==== [[Fan
* The ''[[
* Another ''Eva'' fic, ''[[Nobody Dies]]'', has two examples: the Reego and the Keiworu. The Reego are virtual constructs made by Iruel for Rei's [[Lotus Eater Machine]], as theoretical offspring of her and Evangelion Unit 05. Unit 05 "saved" them from deletion when Iruel was defeated and now they exist as AI's in the real world, and consider Rei (who is 16) and Unit 05 (much younger) to be their parents. The Keiworu are AI copies of Kei Ayanami's mind randomized with elements of Kaworu's mind (both of them being 16), and also consider the two to be their parents.
* ''[[The Return (
==== [[Literature]] ====
* In the ''[[
==== [[Live Action TV]] ====
* The main character of ''[[New Amsterdam]]'' is 400 years old but looks 35 (the age at which he became immortal via magical means); he sometimes seeks advice from one of his still-living sons, who is a naturally-aging 65-year-old.
* Takeru Sato, the lead actor of ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'', left the franchise after the TV series; so for future movies and spin-offs, they de-aged Ryotaro into an 11 or 12-year-old boy, making him younger than his grandson Kotaro who is around 18.
Line 196 ⟶ 187:
*** ''Kiva'' also features Wataru and Taiga's mother Maya who, being a Fangire, doesn't age at the same rate as a human and looks around 20 years old; appearing younger than Taiga, who is in his mid-to-late 20s.
* In ''[[Rentaghost]]'', ghosts manifest as they age they were when they died. So Hubert Davenport's mother, who died in her twenties, looks much younger than her son, who died when he was much older (his late fifties or early sixties).
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* [[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]] was somewhere in her 20s/30s when she had her daughter Eve. Shortly after Eve's birth, Xena was frozen in ice for two decades. When she emerges unaged, she and Eve look the same age - and physically, that's almost the case.
* In ''[[Torchwood
* ''[[Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger]]'': Asuka and Mahoro are both around their early 20s, but due to their infant daughter being used as a host for the soul of the [[Big Bad]], she first appears as a child of around seven and then a young woman in her late teens, while her parents remain the same age.
==== [[Theater]] ====
* In the [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] operetta ''Iolanthe'', the hero Strephon is half-fairy. Fairies are unaging and Stephron has a hard time explaining to his beloved that these nubile women he is seen embracing are, in fact, his mother and his aunts, all of whom look younger than him.
{{quote|
But to find a mother younger than her son is very curious }}
==== [[Video Games]] ====
* In ''[[
* From ''[[
* ''[[
==== [[Visual Novel
* {{spoiler|Tsugumi}} in ''[[Ever 17]]'' doesn't look much older than her sixteen-year-old children, {{spoiler|as she stopped aging at seventeen.}} You's mother is a more conventional really-young-looking parent... {{spoiler|because her "daughter" is really a clone of herself that she had made when she was diagnosed with a terminal illness in her teens, ''and'' You'haru stopped aging too, at the age of twenty.}}
==== [[Web Comics]] ====
* You might not suspect it, but ''[[
* In ''[[Sailor Sun]]'', 20 year old Bay Smith alternatively plays mother to two versions of her daughter Brady Honey Smith that were snatched from [[Kid From the Future|alternate futures]]: [http://www.sailorsun.org/browse.php?comicID=482 18 year old Honey] and [http://www.sailorsun.org/browse.php?comicID=512 kindergartner/preschooler Brady.]
* In ''[[
* Nina and Layla's mom in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' does ''not'' look like could have had ''13'' children. Justified in that she's a [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]]. (Vampires can reproduce in this verse the same as humans.)
* In ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', when Roy meets his mother in the afterlife, he doesn't recognize her because she's no older than he is. His father, meanwhile, looks like an old man. Sara explains that his father always was an old man at heart, while she thinks of herself as a young woman still.
==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* In ''[[
==== No actual small age difference between the characters ====▼
== The parent ''looks'' younger, or the child looks older ==▼
▲=== The parent ''looks'' younger, or the child looks older ===
==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====
* Nana Sawada, mother of protagonist Tsunayoshi from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', is in her mid-late thirties but looks barely older than her teenage son.
* {{spoiler|Miyuki Asaka}} of ''[[Game X Rush]]'' falls squarely into this trope; even the mangaka mentions that "I feel like her face and personality are stuck as a little girl forever." Also a borderline Type 1 case since simple math shows she'd have been 18 when she had her son.
* In ''[[Otaku no Musume
* Kusanagi in ''[[The Sky Crawlers]]'' looks about twelve to fifteen, but is {{spoiler|[[Older Than They Look|older]]}} than she looks.
* In ''[[Clannad (
** Despite the show/game being filled with [[Generic Cuteness]], Tomoya specifically states Sanae's youthful appearance is strange and mysterious. This is made extremely apparent when you [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckH-mSrme6k compare her to the midwife who delivered little Ushio]. This midwife was actually a classmate of Sanae's in high school.
** She also fits in the "pregnancy at a young age folder" since its stated that she was pregnant at a young age. Combine it with this folder and it comes as no surprise that she is also a [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|hot grandma]], who perfectly could to be mistaken by the mother of her granddaughter, at least.
* In a similar vein to Sanae, Miyuki Takara's mother Yukari in ''[[
** And if Yukari, then certainly Miki, the mother of Inori, Matsuri, Kagami, and Tsukasa. She's claimed to be 47, and although it was a lie (she thought it was cute and expected), a 47-year-old woman could easily have four college-age daughters... but she still looks like she could be one of the sisters herself.
* ''[[Ah
** Hild is [[Satan|the Queen of Demons]], so she goes under [[Immortality]], for looking like Urd's sister. [[God|Kami-sama]] is [[The Faceless]], so we don't know about him.
* In ''[[Star Driver]]'', up until the reveal, the best evidence against the theory that {{spoiler|Reiji Miyabe/Head}} was Takuto's father was that he didn't look like he was out of highschool himself, much less old enough to father a fifteen-year-old son. Turns out that he ages ''really'' well. Or not at all, apparently.
* In ''[[Medaka Box]]'', Zenkichi's mother even passes as an elementary school student, despite being 42 years old.
* Bulma's mother from ''[[
* Akira's parents in [[Family Complex]] could pass off as 17 despite being around 40 years old.
** [[Lampshaded]] in the [[Princess Princess]] crossover manga when Toru and Yuujiro try to guess who is who in the Sakamoto family. They tend to get it wrong.
* In ''[[Code Breaker]]'', Sakura's mother was mistaken as her elementary school sister.
* A [[Spear Counterpart]] example from ''[[
* ''[[Suite Pretty Cure]]'' has Kanade's mom Misora. When the fans first saw her on the previews for episode 4, they thought she was a candidate for a possible [[Sixth Ranger]].
==== [[Film]] ====
* In Alfred Hitchcock's ''[[North
* In ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' (1962), [[Angela Lansbury]] was only three years older than Laurence Harvey, who played her son.
* [[Angela Lansbury]] was nine years and three months older than [[Elvis Presley]], her son in ''Blue Hawaii''.
* In ''[[Earthquake]]'' (1974), Lorne Greene and Ava
* In ''[[Nowhere Boy]]'' (2009), John's mother Julia looks way to young to be a mom
* In the film version of Harold Robbins’ ''Where Love Has Gone'' (1964), Bette Davis plays Susan Hayward’s mother, despite being barely ten years older.
==== [[Literature]] ====
* In ''[[Sweet Valley High]]'', Jessica and Elizabeth's mother is in her late 30s-early 40s (thanks to frequent [[Retcon]] between different ghost writers, it changes) but it is often stated that she looks like she is in her 20s, and is usually mistaken for the twins' older sister.
* It's been mentioned a few times in ''[[The Hollows]]'' that witches age slowly once they reach adulthood, which presumably leads to a lot of this. Case in point: Rachel's mother is past retirement age for a human, but can pass for Rachel's sister with the right clothes.
* In ''Lucifer's Weekend'' by Warren Murphy (one half of the ''[[The Destroyer]]'' writing team), Louise Gillette is in her mid-to-late thirties. Main character Julian "Digger" Burroughs thinks she looks like she's only twenty-one, commenting that she'll likely get her first wrinkle in "a hundred and fifty years." Her eight-year-old daughter Ardath ''looks'' her age, but is precociously intelligent ... and [[Adorably Precocious Child|adorable]].
==== [[Live Action TV]] ====
* Ann's mother in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''
* [[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin's]] mother Hunith looked normal enough in the first season, when Merlin himself appeared extremely young and was described as a "young boy" in the [[Opening Narration]]. Five years pass in the show's time-line, and when Hunith reappears, looking exactly the same as she did half a decade ago despite her son's sudden growth spurt (and now refered to as "a young man"), she is suddenly this trope.
==== [[Video Games]] ====
* Yuki's mother in ''[[
** Hilariously lampshaded in the ''[[X-Play]]'' review of the game and in ''[[Unskippable]]''.
*** ''...heyyukiyourmomishot...''
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', Big Mama actually looks very well for being almost 80 (and still doing some pretty crazy motorcycle stunts during a highly destructive car chase). Her son {{spoiler|Solid Snake}} also {{spoiler|suffers from severe [[Cloning Blues]] and has rapidly aged in the last years}} to look actually older than her, even though she was over 30 when he was born.
==== [[Web Animation]] ====
* Lampshaded heavily in ''[[Bonus Stage (
==== [[Web Comics]] ====
* In the afterlife of ''[[
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20120209235627/http://sporkman.com/classic/ John S. Troutman's] [http://litbrick.com/ extended] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120920073730/http://delusionarystate.com/ universe], Robyn, the matriarch of the Flint family [http://sporkman.com/classic/2008/09/22/09222008/ is 46 but looks 30] because she discovered the Fountain of Youth when majoring in Historical Archaeology.
==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* In ''[[The Jetsons]]'', Jane is 35 and Judy is 16, but they look more or less the same age.
* In ''[[The Little Mermaid]] 2'', Ariel looks almost identical than in the first film and perfectly could to be mistaken by the older sister of her daughter Melody.
* Crystal Zilla from ''[[My Dad the Rock Star]]'', who looks barely older than her teenager daughter Serenity.
* Queen Glimia from ''[[
* Mrs. Ridgemount from ''[[Stoked]]''. Let's give an example: look at [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110227040557/stoked/images/4/4e/Mrs._Ridgemount_and_Lo.jpg this] picture. One of these women is a ''middle-aged woman'' with ''three'' kids, the other is a girl in her late teens. Guess which is which.
* [[Hospital Hottie|June Darby]] of ''[[
=== Parents that were young but still considered adults when the child was born ===
==== Anime and Manga ====
* In ''[[Prince of Tennis]]'', Taka-san's friend Akutsu Jin from Yamabuki is fourteen, and his mother Yuuki is about 33. She insists on being called 'Yuuki-chan', even by Taka, leading to the other Seigaku regulars believing he has an older girlfriend. When they find out the truth, they freak and remark that she's a 'young mother'...
* At the beginning of ''[[Dragonball Z]],'' which takes place five years following the end of ''Dragon Ball,'' Goku and Chichi are both 23, while Gohan is 4.
* [[All There in the Manual|Japanese source material]] stated that [[Hot Mom|Delia Ketchum]] of ''[[Pokémon (
* Sakura from ''[[Hanamaru Kindergarten]]'' had her daughter Anzu at age 18, so by the time Anzu starts going to the titular school, her mother is still young and pretty. Then again, pretty much every mother in this series [[Hot Mom|is still quite young and beautiful]].
* Likely Maka Albarn's mother in ''[[Soul Eater]]''. Both her parents were students in the same class at Shibusen and it's canon Spirit was 18 when Maka was born. Although details on the woman herself are [[The Ghost|sketchy]], implications about the [[Everyone Went to School Together|staff]] as a whole makes this a possibility.
* In ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'', Omi's admirer Ouka Sakaki is 15. Her [[Hot Mom]] Shizuka is 34. Do the math.
==== [[Video Games]] ====
* ''[[Gears of War]]'' had Dominic's wife, Maria. Not much as youthful, but she got pregnant at the age of 16. She did reach her thrities though.
==== Literature ====
* ''[[Harry Potter (
** The pattern of hasty courtships and marriages was repeated somewhat during the Second Wizarding War, so it's not hard to imagine that there were a few instances of this trope in-universe at that point as well.
=== Faked parentage ===
==== [[Live Action TV]] ====
* In ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', Del wins a family holiday for the Trotters by entering a children's art contest with a picture painted by Rodney when he was 14. In order for them to be eligible to claim the prize, Rodney (who's in his early 20s) has to pose as a 14-year-old boy, with Del (who was 16-17 when Rodney was born) pretending to be his father. Del at least has the sense to claim Cassandra, about the same age as Rodney, as a stepmother.
* Tracy Jordan's adult son on ''30Rock'' is far too old. In an [[Averted Trope|aversion]], Tracy sees through the deception immediately (while his friends assume the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] was actually taken in).
==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* In ''[[
=== Unclear if it is one of the above or a case of [[Writers Cannot Do Math]] ===
==== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ====
* In ''[[
* ''[[
==== [[Live Action TV]] ====
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. John Winchester may be ruggedly handsome with a beard, but this hardly hides the fact that he looks MAYBE ten years Dean's senior.
* In ''[[One Life to Live]]'', Greg is explicitly stated (in courtroom testimony, no less) to have ten years' experience as a fully licensed practicing neurosurgeon, putting him in his early 40s at the youngest. His mother is played by an actress in her late 40s, and to make things interesting he has a 15-year-old sister. All the characters were introduced during 2009 so SORAS isn't involved.
** [[Hand Wave|Did they ever say he wasn't a genius who]] [[Doogie Howser, M.D.|graduated high school at 11, college at 14, and medical school at 18?]] He'd be around 30, then.
** Neurosurgical residencies in the US are 7 years, so he'd be 35 at youngest.
*** No, he'd be 33. Once he graduated medical school at age 26, he'd have seven years of residency, making him 33.
==== Webcomics ====
* ''[[
* The Egbert Family. Nana was born in 1910. John was "born" in 1996. Dad appears to be a regular middle aged man, but if Nana had Dad around age 20 (as was normal for a woman of her time period) Dad would have to be in his sixties when John is "born." If Dad is about, say, 40 when John is 13, Nana would have had to have given birth to him in
=== Clear Cases Of [[Writers Cannot Do Math]] ===
==== [[Comic Books]] ====
* ''[[
=== Combination ===
==== Fanfic ====
* ''[[
** There's also the fact that some of Twilight's blood was used in the ritual to resurrect Nightmare Moon (due to her status as the Element of Magic), possibly making her a [[Truly Single Parent]] or some weird case of [[Has Two Mommies]] with Princess Luna.
* In ''[[
==== Literature ====
* A really bizarre case in ''[[Twilight (
==== [[Western Animation]] ====
* ''[[Star Wars:
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Aging Tropes]]
[[Category:The Parent Trope]]
[[Category:Improbable Appearance Tropes]]
[[Category:
[[Category:
|