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{{quote|''"This is just like ''[[The OC]]'', [[Dissimile|except without 25-year-old teenagers and 35-year-old parents.]]"''

|'''Jack''', ''[[Will and Grace]]''}}

* In the 1974 Werner Herzog film ''Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle'' (also known as ''The enigma of Kaspar Hauser''), the lead role of about-16-year-old Kaspar Hauser was played by 41-year-old street musician Bruno S. Herzog has commented that he was chosen for the role because his life had parallels with that of the historical Kaspar Hauser, and also because he gave the impression of being outsider to society at large, one that was a stranger to his own body.

* ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]:'' Moaning Myrtle (a ghost who died in her teens) was played by then-''37-year-old'' [[Shirley Henderson]] in ''Chamber of Secrets'' (her being a ghost, her appearance thusly being quite worked-over already and somewhat obscured by the opticals involved, probably helped hide the fact).

* [[Michael J. Fox]] played the teen-aged Marty McFly of the ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'' films into his late twenties, having done the first film when he was twenty-three. The actors playing Marty's parents and Biff, appearing as teenagers in the 1955 scenes, had similar ages.

* Parodied in ''[[Scary Movie]]''. In a "If this were a movie" conversation, one character says "We'd be played by actors in their late 20s/early 30s". The characters then pause for a moment, letting the phrase sink in.

** ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' has an excuse: the characters were originally intended to be high school seniors, as evidenced by the original plot for the two-part episode 'Doomsday' involving the Rangers going to Senior Prom. When the show became a hit, they needed to keep the characters around, so they refrained from actually giving ages for the Rangers in order to keep the high school setting as long as possible.

*** Though in that case, the trope still would've been played straight as several of the actors were a few years older than a high school senior. The trope would've been averted, though, with Austin St. John, who was 18 at the time.

** Melanie Vallejo, who plays the 17/18-year-old Madison in ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force|Mystic Force]]'', was 27 at the time of filming...

** Played straight and inverted in the case of Olivia Tennet (Dr. K) from ''[[Power Rangers RPM|RPM]]'', in which the 17-year-old actress (when production began) played her character at ages 14 (during a flashback in "Doctor K"), 18, 19 (as of "The Road to Corinth"), and then 20 (as of "If Venjix Won").