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** The 2008 [[Miniseries]] ''GeNext'' does the same real-time gimmick and stars the kids and grandkids of the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]].
* Kitty "Shadowcat" Pryde of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' was introduced during the 80s as a thirteen year old girl. [[Character Development]] saw her grow from an inexperienced kid into a full member of the team, go through numerous names, develop as an electronic whiz, psychically learn a lifetime of ninja skills, become a founding member of the British based superhero team Excalibur, and work as an agent of SHIELD... yet she takes a break from being a superhero to go to college full time. Unless a government agency is allowed to hire minors for dangerous covert ops, Shadowcat seems to have experienced retrograde aging.
** Special mention must go to how her first romantic relationship with team member Colossus was aborted due to the fairly wide gap in their ages. Twenty years of real time later, when Colossus comes [[Back
** New flash on the college thing: "going to college full time" doesn't make you a minor. There are a significant number of people who attend college in their 20s and 30s. A significant and relevant demographic are those who serve a term or two of military service ... and "X-Men to Excalibur to SHIELD" definitely has parallels to more traditional uniformed service.
* Variations of Kitty Pryde's lack of aging can be seen in the entire ''New Mutants'' generation of X-Men introduced in the 80s, who are maybe five years older than characters introduced nearly twenty years later.
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== Film ==
* [[Pierce Brosnan]]'s role as [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] continues from [[Timothy Dalton]] in a post-Cold War world, and yet ''[[
* ''[[Superman Returns]]'' is set "five years" after ''[[Superman II]]'' (1980), but a newspaper dated 2006 appears prominently.
** Especially problematic thanks to the casting of Kate Bosworth who was 23 when the movie was released (22 during filming) and looked at least that young. She must have gotten a really early start at the Planet (and a really early start at some other things, considering the age of her son). Brandon Routh, 26 during filming was a little less noticeable. [[Jimmy Olsen]] looks older than Lois (and in fact Sam Huntington is about a year older than Bosworth), despite being about a decade younger in most continuities.
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* [[Re Boot]] subverts and justifies this. Everyone in Mainframe doesn't age much, but when Enzo becomes a game sprite, he comes back an older, grizzled self, along with his girlfriend, both having started as children. Then when they make it back to Mainframe, Enzo is visibly as old as his sister Dot who had always been much older than him. However, the [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|faster rate of time in the Games]] is supposed to justify this.
** It is worth noting that everyone is a program of some form and, as Enzo and AndrAIa show, age depends upon how much processing power is dedicated to them (games being CPU-intensive).
* [[The Fairly
** He even celebrates ''two'' birthdays over the course of the show, and did celebrate the fact that he'd held onto Cosmo and Wanda for a year in the third season. The Comic Book Time part was confirmed early on, because Timmy traveled back thirty years in two different episodes: to 1970 in the first season, but to 1972 in the third.
** This is given quite a twist in the "Timmy's Secret Wish" special: Timmy once wished that everyone in the world would stop aging (and that Cosmo, the fairy granting the wish, would forget granting it afterwards). It turns out, by the time this is discovered, it's been {{spoiler|[[Wham! Line|50 years]]!}} And apparently nobody in the entire world noticed.
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