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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* Signal in the manga/anime ''[[Twin Signal]]'' has two forms: An adult [[Bishonen]] form, and a childlike [[Super-Deformed]] mode with an insane [[Trademark Favorite Food|love for chocolate.]]
* Miss Hinako in ''[[Ranma
** Happosai's old friend Rakkyosai is cursed to change into a small child after falling into the Spring of Drowned Boy. The thing is, he's exactly the same ([[Miniature Senior Citizens|toddler-like]]) size in both forms, so he has no advantages or disadvantages from one body to the other, but his real body is more... ''wrinkly''. A lot more.
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', Koenma sometimes appears as a toddler and sometimes as a young man.
* Juugo ''([[Naruto]])'' turns into a child when he gives Sasuke some of his flesh to heal him; he turns back into an adult after absorbing one of the samurais.
* In ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'', Ryo-Ohki is a shapeshifter with four forms: a spaceship, a "cabbit" (cat rabbit creature), and child and teenage humanoid forms- the last of which is hard for Ryo-Ohki to control or maintain.
** Also Washuu, who can take any form she pleases, but spends most of her time as a little girl.
* Nel in ''[[Bleach]]'' returns to her adult form by absorbing energy from attacks.
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* The slightly obscure manga(?) ''1520'' has an interesting version of the trope. The two main characters, a 15 year old prince and a maid from opposing kingdoms, eat a magical cake by accident that transforms them into ten year old children. Whenever the maid laughs or the prince sheds a tear, that individual will return to their proper age, at the cost of de-aging the other down to about five.
* In [[Millennium Snow]], Yamimaru (the vampire's bat companion) can take on human form as either a strong young man or an adorable little boy.
* [[Older Than They Look|Asumi Mamiya]] from ''[[Magikano]]'' switches between looking five years old, tops, and the form a buxom young woman by [[Energy Absorption|"borrowing power"]] from [[Lunacy|the moon]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Skaar, one of [[Incredible Hulk|the Hulk's]] sons, can change between a small gray child-like form, and a bigger Hulk-like form.
* Similar to [[I Am Not Shazam|Captain Marvel]], [[The Ultraverse]]'s ''[[Prime]]''. He also had a [[Distaff Counterpart]] called "Elven."
* One of the ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' tie-in comics had The Russian, a [[Differently-Powered Individual|Special]] who posed as an entire [[The Family That Slays Together|crime family]] with his ability to physically age and de-age himself at will.
* ''[[PS238]]'' has {{spoiler|Sarah "Dynamode"}} stuck like this — morning to evening, she’s a brown-haired little girl, evening to morning, she’s an adult woman and redhead. She used to be a free-form shapeshifter, but after running into a telepath cannot control her power anymore.
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Aphrael in ''[[The Elenium]]'' and the ''Tamuli''. Being a [[Physical God|goddess]], she can look however she wants, but generally takes child form because it makes her [[Gods Need Prayer Badly|easier to adore]].
* Foster from Keith Laumer's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110830052542/http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/0743488555/0743488555.htm A Trace of Memory]'' goes from an old man to a youth in the space of an evening... but loses his memory in the process. It turns out this happens to him {{spoiler|indeed, his entire species}} on a regular basis. The plot is motivated by his friend's quest to restore Foster's memory, and [[The Reveal]] has to be seen to be believed: it's one of the cheekiest [[Tomato Surprise|twist endings]] in all of literature - cleverly foreshadowed, but still quite shocking in its chutzpah.
* Hecate from ''[[The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel]]'' goes from being [[The Hecate Sisters|a maiden in the morning, a mother during the day, and a crone by the evening]]. It should be noted that she does not have control over the process, however.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* 21 year old [https://web.archive.org/web/20110426201729/http://wiki.thewotch.com/E_Onymous Evan Onymous] of ''[[The Wotch]]'' can transform into a 4-year old girl called Lily ("Lil E"). (Also a fully-grown female version, Missy ("Miss E").)
* Pandora from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' appears in her child form when she reveals herself to mortals, and assumes her adult form when dealing with her son and during her later appearances in the ephemeral universe parallel to the physical plane of existence called the spiritual plane. These are not her only forms however; as a [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|shapeshifter]] she can appear as anything between [[Super Smoke|a monstrous "cloud"]] and a clone of any other character.
** Mr. Raven can alternate between a sixtyish form and a twentysomething one.
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