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== [[Film]] (Animated) ==
* ''[[Lady and Thethe Tramp]]'' uses a series of dissolves to show Lady growing from a puppy to an adult as she sleeps on the Darlings' bed, both establishing her aging and the Darlings' affection for her (when she first slept there, Mrs. Darling said "Only for tonight"; obviously, they didn't stick to that).
** Disney does this again in ''[[The Lion King]]'', during the Hakuna Matata song and dance number.
*** Which is then parodied in ''The Lion King 1 1/2''. As Timon walks across the log that was in the 'Hakuna Matata' song, he says, "I'm going to get old walking across this thing."
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== [[Film]] (Live Action) ==
* As seen at the start of the first ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movie, the scene cuts from young Elizabeth Swann to her older counterpart, where, suddenly, all her freckles have disappeared.
* This happens with Elrond in the first ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' movie, as he talks to Gandalf about the past. Note that in this case, both Elronds look ''exactly'' the same age, despite several thousand years passing. Elves [[We Are Asas Mayflies|age more slowly than Men]].
* In ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and Thethe Last Crusade]]'', Indy's hat momentarily blocks his face for this cut.
* The ending of ''[[Zardoz]]'' involves an extended Age Cut of Zed (Sean Connery, in his most pantless role), his wife, and child. Of note is that the child is conceived, born, and ages and leaves over the course of this particular Age Cut.
** There's a strangely similar extended cut (including child growing up and leaving) with the Talking Heads' Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz (her RL husband) in the "Road to Nowhere" video.
* The ending of ''[[Kung Fu Hustle]]'' does something similar.
* Played at the ending of the film ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''. The beginning also seems to be one, since we don't know if the old man is Tom Hanks (Miller) or Matt Damon (Ryan). {{spoiler|But it cuts to Miller, and he is Ryan}}.
* ''[[Ghost Rider (Filmfilm)|Ghost Rider]]'' combines a close up on the eyes with digital morphing. The effect is ultimately bizarre: the two actors have different eye colors (ditto ''[[National Treasure (Film)|National Treasure]]''). And the generic-looking actor turning into the much more distinctive-looking Nicolas Cage.
* The zoom on eyes version happened to Rose in ''[[Titanic]]'', when she was being painted.
{{quote| [[Riff Trax (Podcast)|Bill Corbett]]: He drew me for seventy years.}}
** Also happens to the eponymous ship at the beginning of the film.
* ''[[The Departed]]'' does this with Colin Sullivan.
* At the beginning of ''[[Tommy Boy]]'', exhaust billows from the school bus, covering the screen completely. When the smoke clears away, it shows the grown-up Tommy standing there having missed a smoking commuter bus.
* This is done at the beginning of ''[[Casanova (Filmfilm)|Casanova]]'', with a dissolve from the child Giacomo to the adult Casanova, portrayed by Ledger. The little boy actually looks enough like [[Heath Ledger]] to be plausible, which isn't always the case.
* In ''[[Matilda (Filmfilm)|Matilda]]'', this is done with the eponymous character going through two Age Cuts.
* ''[[Almost Famous]]'' showed the 9-year-old protagonist's focus on a spinning record, dissolved to him doodling in class, and pulled back to reveal that he's now 15.
* In the [[Robin Hood]] spinoff ''[[Princess of Thieves]]'', we see Robin Hood's young daughter folding the blanket at the bottom of her bed, then we see the same scene with Kiera Knightley in the place of the young girl.
* ''[[City of God]]'' has a "flashback/cuts to younger self" example, with the camera spinning around Rocket and stopping when he's a child.
* ''[[Eragon (Filmfilm)|Eragon]]'' appears to have this, with the young Saphira flying up behind a cloud and the adult Saphira flying down - but it's inexplicably averted, as the film implies that this massive growth happened in ''real-time'', as the scene continues where it left off and the fast growth is not even [[Hand Wave|handwaved]].
* ''[[Gypsy]]'' has a flickering dissolve during which June, Louise, and the boys are replaced by their older counterparts as they dance.
* ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' began with one of these for its eponymous characters.
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* Every episode of ''[[Cold Case (TV)|Cold Case]]'' shows one or more two-second ''Age Cut''s of each major player in the case, in conjunction with (though not as part of) a ''flashback''.
* Used often in ''[[Lost]]'' flashbacks involving a [[Timeshifted Actor]]. Frequently, these flashbacks will begin the episode, and then cut to the character on the island in the present.
* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in an episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'': J.D. is imagining growing old with his girlfriend, and the shot fades into that of them in heavy old-people makeup. They take off the makeup onscreen a few seconds later, and it turns out they just wanted a picture of what they would look like old.
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother (TV)|How I Met Your Mother]]'' subverts this. The main characters wonder if they're going to be waiting around a courthouse forever; it then fades from a shot of them sitting around to a group of similar-looking old people in the same clothing and positions. The characters walk around the corner a second later and complain that the old people took their seats.
* The ''[[Growing Pains]]'' opening does this, once the show's been around long enough for the cast to have aged significantly between their introduction and that season (some for three or more distinct stages!).
* Happens both in ''[[The Pacific]]'' and ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]'', when the actual veterans memorize their war memories.
 
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Theater]] ==
* The stage version of this is done in the musicals ''Damn Yankees'' and ''Mame'' by having the main character sit down to write at a desk with his back to the audience, and dimming the lights for a few moments so the actors can change places. (In ''Damn Yankees'', Joe ends up ''younger'' due to his [[Deal Withwith the Devil]].)
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Used in an early cinematic in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Force Unleashed]]'', using a closeup on the secret apprentice's eyes.
* Used in ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]'' {{spoiler|on Lucas, at the beginning of [[Time Skip|Chapter 4]]}}.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* This happens to Pebbles in The Flintstone Comedy Hour (later called The Flintstone Comedy Show in syndication) during one of "The Bedrock Rockers'" musical numbers. Specifically, it happens while she's on a swing.
* Lampshaded in a [[Looney Tunes|Daffy Duck]] short.
* In the ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode where Spongebob sells Pretty Patties, [[Daydream Surprise|he apparently falls asleep and dreams one of these]]. He shouts to the world, "I'm ready!", and it cross-fades to a middle-aged Spongebob with a mustache saying "I'm ready!" with a nasally voice, then to an elderly Spongebob who gasps "I'm ready!" as his pineapple house rots away, and finally to a tombstone with the inscription "I'm ready", and an empty patch where his pineapple was.
* The ''[[Futurama]]'' episode Jurassic Bark ends with [[Age Cut|cut after cut]] to follow Fry's dog [[I Will Wait for You|waiting for him to come back]], driving home the [[Downer Ending|rather depressing ending]].
* In the ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'' episode "[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)/Recap/S1 E1 Welcome to Republic City|Welcome to Republic City]]," four-year old Korra, demonstrating her status as a [[Child Prodigy]], affects an intense expression as she [[Playing Withwith Fire|Firebends]] directly into the camera, obscuring the scene with a burst of flame, which seventeen year-old Korra then disperses, wearing a matching expression.
* In the ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' episode "Into the Astral Plane" [[Broken Ace]] and [[The Lancer]] Tygra is bitterly glowering when a closeup on his face begins a [[Flash Back]], fading into a smiling, big-eyed, gawky, [[Adorkable]] adolescent version of himself.
* Happens on ''[[Invader Zim]]'' with older teenaged Dib becoming an adult in Zim's simulation.