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* Tiala inherits the Red Stone on her sixteenth birthday in ''[[Dragon Quest: Legend of the Hero Abel]]''. She is kidnapped for it the same day.

* ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'': Kurusugawa Himeko and Himemiya Chikane gain their powers as the priestesses of the sun and moon on their 16th birthday, the same day that [[Orochi|Yamato no Orochi]] first manifests and begins its attempt to destroy the world.

* ''[[Gankutsuou]]'': Albert loses a dear friend on his 16th birthday. {{spoiler|Franz is killed by the Count in a duel, which would have originally been Albert's fate had Franz not intervened.}}

* In ''[[Black Bird]]'', Misao becomes a "bride of prophecy" on her 16th birthday.

 

* In the DCU, [[The Chessmaster|Batman]] [[I Did What I Had to Do|ruthlessly]] manipulated [[Sidekick|Tim Drake]], the current Robin, into believing [[He Who Fights Monsters|the fall of one of their friends]] would result in a [[Bad Future]] ten years down the line, effectively alienating Tim from everyone else.

 

 

* The [[Slasher Flick]] ''Sweet Sixteen''.

* In ''[[My Soul to Take]]'', the Riverton Ripper returns from the grave on the collective sixteenth birthday of the seven teenagers born on the day he died.

 

* In the ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' series, there is a prophecy known to apply to whichever child of the three major gods next reaches their sixteenth birthday. {{spoiler|This leads to several fake-outs regarding who the child is. At first Percy, as the son of Poseidon, is the only candidate, until Thalia, a daughter of Zeus who had been turned into a tree, is re-transformed. However, the day before Thalia's birthday, she joins the Hunt of Artemis, meaning that she [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|will never age]] and thus will not turn sixteen.}} After, {{spoiler|the prophecy is more-or-less a race to see if the Titans can kill Percy and sway the ''other'' other candidate, Nico di Angelo, son of Hades, to their side, or if they can cross their fingers and hope he screws up - badly - at decision-time.}} In the end, however, {{spoiler|while Percy makes the decision, it boils down to deciding whether or not to give someone a knife, and his sixteenth birthday ends up only as a time marker. The one who takes the "dangerous" part of the prophecy ends up being someone entirely different}}.

* ''[[Deltora Quest]]'' (and it's anime adaptation) has Lief beginning his quest to find the seven gems to free Deltora on his sixteenth birthday.

* Every one of the main characters in the ''Mindwarp'' series are explicitly stated to have manifested powers on their 16th birthday. Including silver blood. Which, if they had been born with, would have been rather hard not to be aware of.

* ''[[Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms]]'': A force known as "The Tradition" attempts to make people play out their lives as if they were stories, and one of the big turning points of The Tradition's power is one's sixteenth birthday. As a Princess in one of the books reflects, if you're plain, everyone will forget your birthday and you will be miserable; if you are beautiful everyone you meet will celebrate with you. How the birthday goes can determine your life's path.

* [[Susan Cooper]]'s ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'' series. A variation occurs in book 2 ''The Dark is Rising'', when Will Stanton gains his powers as an Old One (and faces supernatural foes) around the time of his 11th birthday.

* In Scott Westerfeld's ''Uglies'' series, people get the pretty operation at 16 (though it is mentioned to the later in some cities). Of course {{spoiler|the operation gives you brain lesions that leave you bubbleheaded}}. It is also mentioned by Tally that it was said "they could make the operation work on 15-years-old now, waiting until sixteen was just a tradition".

* In the book ''XVI'' by Julia Kerr, sixteen is when girls get their 'XVI' tattoo and can legally have sex. Of course, that's not necessarily a good thing...

 

* Evie Garland of ''[[Out of This World]]'' finds out on her sixteenth birthday that she's half alien on her father's side and possesses the ability to freeze time.

* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' is first able to use her witch powers on her sixteenth birthday. Before that, she wouldn't be even allowed to ''know'' about them.

* In ''[[Reaper]]'', the 21st birthday is the dangerous one. The sixteenth never comes into play.

* In ''[[Young Dracula]]'', a vampire gains their full powers at age sixteen. Powers start semi-developing before that point, but on a vampire's sixteenth birthday they are locked in a room with the family's blood mirror and merge with a demonized reflection of themselves in said mirror, after which they are meant to lose all traces of humanity and become evil.

 

* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', the day of the school trip (when the abductions took place) is that of Jacob Starr's sixteenth birthday.

 

* In ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', a Summoner's sixteenth birthday makes them into an easy power source for the forces of evil.

* ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army]]'' features a major character, Kaya Daidouji. Kaya is the daughter of the very wealthy Daidouji family, and despite her upbringing she is very kind towards her friends and servants. But, apparently when the girls of the family turn sixteen, a demon possesses them until they die. This troubles Kaya and so she contacts Raidou and his boss, Narumi, to help her. She quickly de-evolves into [[Damsel in Distress]] when some weird army guards in red kidnap her, thus setting Raidou on his quest.

* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', Colette [[Chosen One|receives the Oracle]] sending her on her Journey of Regeneration on her sixteenth birthday. {{spoiler|The Journey is supposed to end in her sacrificing herself for the sake of the world.}}

* In the ninth and tenth ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' games, the [[Half-Human Hybrid|branded]] can safely hide among the Beorc until their aging process slows down at the age of sixteen.

* ''[[Mass Effect]]'': If you choose the "Colonial" background for your character, he/she is sixteen years old when his/her colony is attacked by slavers and his/her parents killed.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', November is sixteen when she sets out on her quest.

 

* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', the Avatar is located at a young age and usually informed when they're sixteen. However, Aang was informed when he was twelve because the Fire Nation was coming close to an attack. Zuko is sixteen when he finally finds the Avatar, after years of search.

** We do get to see Aang's predecessor Roku play it straight during a flashback in the first series.

* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': Raven has a dangerous unnamed birthday when she was destined to become Trigon's portal to Earth. In fact [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|the comics]] had ''entire groups of Titans'' gaining powers/powerups at sixteen.

 

* A fair number of U.S. youths take their 16th birthday to get their driver's license, so they can go out driving with their friends, no adults. Some states have seen a lot of push recently to limit privileges before 18, though.

** At least some states require you to have had a learners permit for a year or so before taking the test, unless you're 18, though, alleviating some of the issue.

 

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[[Category:Birthday Tropes]]

[[Category:Magical Girl Tropes]]