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Once upon a time they were attractive, ''very'' attractive. This will be revealed to the rest of the cast if they ever run into a [[Fountain of Youth]], or via old photographs or perhaps just to us the viewers in a [[Flash Back]].

 

 

Contrast [[She's All Grown Up]], [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]], [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]], and [[I Was Quite a Fashion Victim]].

[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused with]] the ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Pokémon Platinum]]'' character.

 

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* The saddest example is with Bob, from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', who went from [http://images.wikia.com/fairytail/images/6/6e/YoungBob.png this], to... [http://images.wikia.com/fairytail/images/0/04/Bob.jpg this]. The worst part was, he was a [[Bishonen]]. Curse, cruel fate.

** Dr. Tofu's mother as well. In the flashback, she was as cute as other young girls, and perhaps even taller than she appears to be in the anime.

* Genkai from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. Conclusively proven due to her ultimate technique having the side effect of temporarily shifting her back to her younger state.

* Miss Maria Graceburt from ''[[Mai-Otome]]''. And she reverts to that youthful look of hers whenever she activates her Otome powers, much to everyone's shock.

* In ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'', Tokaki and Subaru are an elderly couple that the heroes meet late in the story. They're actually two warriors of Byakko who fought several decades before; when Subaru uses her power to manipulate time, they can revert to their younger forms.

{{quote|'''[[Dirty Old Man|Tokaki]]''': [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Honey! You're so sexy!]]}}

* ''[[Hellsing]]'' - Walter C Dornez, Sir Integra Hellsing's [[Battle Butler|butler]] of: The Dawn's fame was quite the [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|bishie badboy]] back during the Second World War. {{spoiler|He gets his looks youth back after he joins Millennium and becomes a vampire.}}

* ''[[To LOVE-Ru]]'' has Honegawa-sensei getting hit with de-aging alien skunk spray.. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/to_love_ru/v10/c085/13.html This] happens.

** Yellow's uncle's brain breaks when he sees how attractive the old Day Care Lady used to be.

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'': Lord Genome back when he was young. He looks [[media:LordGenomeKid.jpg|identical]] to his [[media:niacuthair.jpg|daughter Nia]] - a far cry from what he looks like [http://www.gurren-lagann.net/chara/images/lordgenome.gif when he's older].

* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' reveals that Shion and Mion's grandmother was rather attractive in one of the anime-only omakes much to Mion's surprise.

* Mosquito from ''[[Soul Eater]]'', around 400 years ago, was actually quite handsome. [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|And taller. And much more sociopathic]].

** Sid tells Liz at one point that he used to be quite handsome (not when he was younger so much as when he was ''alive'' - he is/was likely in his 30s or so). She is unconvinced.

** Dohko was gorgeous when he was younger. [[wikipedia:File:GoldSaint-Douko.jpg|Here's some more proof!]]

* In ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' the elderly {{spoiler|Klaus was apparently a bishonen when he was younger, as shown in a [http://www.mangareader.net/203-51111-4/hayate-the-combat-butler/chapter-270.html photo] in chapter 270.}} Hayate is so stunned that he first attributes it to extreme [[Art Evolution]].

* [[World's Strongest Man|Whitebeard]] in ''[[One Piece]]'' was shown to be quite good looking when he was younger. Of course, he is not so much handsome today as his looks have been replaced by [[Badass Grandpa|pure]] [[One-Man Army|awesomeness.]]

* ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]'' has Kaoruko, as shown via flashbacks in episode 27 and {{spoiler|her becoming Cure Flower once again in episode 44}}.

 

== Comic Books ==

* After three volumes, readers of ''[[Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things]]'' were well used to Great-Uncle Aloysius looking like [http://img682..us/img682/278/54406301.png this]. Then came the short story "Portrait of the Warlock as A Young Man", from Aloysius' days during either the twenties or the forties. ''[http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8176/96198159.png Hot damn.]''

* Emperor Palpatine when he becomes reborn in a younger, fitter clone body in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Dark Empire]]''.

 

== Film ==

** Jennifer in ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back To The Future Part II]]'', as Jennifer and her older self run into each other in 2015.

*** [[Your Mileage May Vary|Depending on how you see it]], Biff was also quite the [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]] in his youth.

* In the fantasy movie ''[[Willow]]'', the sorceress Fin Raziel claimed that she was a young and attractive woman before she was turned into a a ferret by the Witch Bavmorda. The roguish hero Madmartigan therefore really wants to see her true form. Sadly, she had spent a long, long time in animal form, and when changed back to human, she found herself to now be a hag.

* In ''Beerfest'', we discover that Grandma was actually quite attractive when she came over from Germany. A very attractive whore. Erk.

* ''[[The Triplets of Belleville]]'' - The Triplets themselves.

* ''[[My Big Fat Greek Wedding]]'' - Yiayia shows Toula a picture of herself as a beautiful young girl.

 

== Literature ==

** Gytha Ogg (before she was simply "Nanny") as well. She certainly had [[Really Gets Around|an active love life]]...

*** Granny Weatherwax also, although she was "handsome" or "striking" rather than "beautiful". Even in the current stories' time she's not the stereotypical ugly old witch, having good teeth, good posture and an average-size nose (much to her annoyance).

* Amanda Jennings (Mrs. Jennings) in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s short story ''[[Magic, Inc.]]''.

* As stated above, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, in Neil Gaiman's book ''[[Coraline (novel)|Coraline]]'', former music-hall artistes, now elderly and swathed in cardigans.

* [[The Ditz|Mrs Bennet]] in ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' was apparently a beauty in her youth. Unfortunately for Mr Bennet, he married her for shallow reasons as such.

 

* ''[[Married... with Children]]'' - Al Bundy.

* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'':

* In ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1/E18 Basic Genealogy|Basic Genealogy]] Britta unsuccessfully attempts to invoke this to get on Troy's Grandmother good side.

* In an episode of ''[[That's So Raven]]'', Eddie mocks a [[Star Trek]]-esque show, but goes to a convention in hopes of meeting the actress who played the attractive character "Curvatia". Unfortunately, since the show was quite old, the actress is now old and fat. Eddie shrugs this off and asks for her autograph anyway.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]'' - [http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7515/agentgran.png Edna O'Malley], now usually known as "Gran," relays to Juliette the story of how she and Juliette's father met during [[World War Two]]. A young Edie Ernst was a USO performer, later OSS agent, and genuine bundle of hotness. She once reminisced about "that thing I had going with General Patton," causing her daughter to comment, "There's so much about the North Africa campaign I just don't want to know."

* Jeremy in one of the earliest ''[[Zits]]'' strips looked through his mother's old scrapbook ("What in the world is [[A Good Name for a Rock Band|The Strawberry Alarm Clock]]?") and made a shocking discovery: "My mom used to be a '''babe'''!" (She was [[Right Behind Me|just around the corner]] when he told his best friend this.)

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

* Manager [[Paul Bearer]], in the middle of a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvHw026UDKo plot dump] explaining he was carrying on with [[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]] and [[The Undertaker]]'s mother, paused and explained to a totally-unbelieving interviewer that "I didn't look like ''this'', then -- in fact I was actually pretty studly!". Most viewers considered this unlikely. But pictures of [http://www.percypringle.com/Gallery-Pictures/Room-2/pic-017.html Bill Moody as a young man] show it to be true.

* Mae Young, who most wrestling fans know as that revolting horny grandma, was quite the looker when she was young back in the 1950s. She actually modeled her look on the starlets of the time. [http://www.wwe.com/superstars/halloffame/inductees/maeyoung/photos/classicphotos/ Observe]. WWE never used or even mentioned this, despite the fact that it could conceivably have made her older self funny (the idea being that she still acted like her younger sex kitten self, despite being in her eighties).

* [[Mick Foley]], believe it or not. Despite now looking like a scruffy teddy bear who's missing several teeth and one ear, anyone who's seen photos of him in his youth (generally from reading his autobiography) will see that he was a pretty good-looking guy before he started taking chair shots.

* [[Ric Flair]]. Looks like a caffeine-crazed grandpa these days but he was a real looker in his youth.

* Tammy Sytch is a weird example. When she first showed up in the WWF, her looks were ''dazzling''. Then her drug consumption (along with her partner Chris Candido's) spiralled out of control and she started looking very rough. Sometime around 2004, both Candido and Sytch kicked the drugs and she started looking pretty good again. Then Candido died in a fluke surgical mishap and Tammy went to pieces (understandably) and piled on the pounds. Now, having gotten her life straightened out again, she looks good.

* True of a lot of wrestlers. Many of them were quite attractive before getting into the business. Then the years of getting thrown around, endless travel and drug consumption (both medical and recreational) start taking their toll...

** One thing that made it really bad was the act of blading, taking a small piece of sharp metal and making a small cut in the forehead to help sell a match. Eventually, all those little cuts add up and leave a wrestlers forehead looking really rough. [[Ric Flair]] and [[Jerry Lawler|Jerry "The King" Lawler]] are great examples (thankfully it's falling out of favor in recent years).

** That should be added to the Images That Will Ruin Your Childhood below...Jesus the mans 50-ish but he looks almost 10–15 years older.

* [[Shawn Michaels]] and [[Triple H]] have totally averted this trope, with [[Triple H]] getting hotter as the years go on and [[Shawn Michaels]] keeping with his sexy boy gimmick till the very end.

* [[Chyna]] while not that old looks like [http://tribalwrestling.com/wp-content/uploads/chyna-tna-impact-wrestling.png this now] when she used to look [http://my.opera.com/Sreerej/albums/showpic.dml?album=4139892&picture=61915702 like this].

* Inverted with Jillian Hall, who was [http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/pictures/j/jillianhall/01.jpg once this] and is now [http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/pictures/j/jillianhall/27.jpg this].

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Played for drama with Ma-Ha-Suchi in ''[[Exalted]]''. In the First Age, he was known as the "Wolf with the Red Roses", was ''ridiculously'' [[Bishonen]], and had a Motivation of "Bed every Celestial Exalt." And he ''almost'' pulled it off. Then came the Usurpation, and he was forced to flee into [[Reality Is Out to Lunch|the Wyld]]... where he ended up [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock|stuck in the form of a hideous goat-wolf-satyr... thing]]. No ''wonder'' he wants to destroy civilization.

 

== Theatre ==

* Juno's song "I Sleep Easier Now" in the Cole Porter musical ''Out of This World''.

* In Noël Coward's ''Bitter Sweet'', we first meet the elderly Marchioness of Shayne in 1929, then flash back to 1875 when she, as Sarah Millick, eloped to Vienna with her singing teacher, Carl Linden. After an officer who was hitting on her killed Carl in 1880, Sari Linden became world-famous performing the songs he wrote. At last returning to England in 1895, she agreed to marry a Marquess who had been fondly pursuing her across Europe.

 

== Toys ==

{{quote|"My name is Jerbraz, once one of the most handsome and dashing members of my little circle of friends ... that is, back when I could be seen. Now I have to rely on my charm alone to make an impression ... that and this nasty sword that conveniently turned invisible with me. If you see someone's head just suddenly go flying off for no reason, it's not your imagination."}}

 

** Roy Campbell. He looks like a fairly amiable old man in Solid Snake's timeline—but in Naked Snake's timeline he's [http://images.wikia.com/metalgear/images/6/6d/Young_Roy.jpg a ruggedly-gorgeous young man] who isn't at all ashamed to use his sexuality to get what he wants.

** Not to mention [[The Hero|Solid Snake]] himself by the time the fourth game rolls around.

* Gary Golden and Imalia of ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]''. To the point that they're willing to pay generously for any footage of themselves from before their Embrace by the Nosferatu. Also, any other Nosferatu that fall under the heading of "Cleopatras."

* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' - Jolee Bindo, especially when he starts talking about "back when I had hair..."

** Can't forget Kreia from the second game. Though we never see it, even ATTON seems to accept it.

* ''[[Dragon Age|Dragon Age: Origins]]''

** [http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/File:WynneEpilogue.png Wynne], though her former beauty is only hinted at in dialogues.

{{quote|'''Flemeth''': "Yes, men desired Flemeth then, and some even killed for her." }}

*** Of course, [[Dragon Age II]] shows that [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|that's not the only human form she has.]]

* Mother Pearl, [[Cool Old Lady|matriarch]] of the [[Mad Bomber|Boomers]] in [[Fallout: New Vegas]], is a wise old lady who understands the need to break out of their reclusiveness just a little. Once you drag that old B-29 out of Lake Mead, Loyal (the Boomers' master technologist who's just as old as Pearl) demonstrates that he apparently has excellent knowledge the shape of Pearl's former figure by adorning the restored plane with nose art depicting her from way back when.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', Hojo lacks his crooked back, unhealthy pallor, and sunken brow in the flashback where he betrays Prof Gast.

** Though for some reason young Hojo looks exactly the same as old Hojo in [[Dirge of Cerberus]].

:In one (rather strange, even by ''Ace Attorney'' Standards) commissioned side-story involving the ghost of Wendy's Identical Grandmother and said grandmother's lover (very, ''very'' long story) proves that Wendy was right about being attractive.

* ''[[Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!|Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai]]'' has Reiko, the dorm manager and Gakuto's mom, in a flashback.

 

* From ''me The Bandit'' there's Bruno's mother, Eunyce, who - in several flashbacks - is seen in her past identity: Eunyce, Warrior Hottie! Sadly, she still wears her old, [[Stripperific]] costume waaaaay too often.

* ''[[Ménage à 3]]'' - In [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20080812.html this strip], landlady Eulice Deville claims to have been beautiful when young. However, this claim is unconfirmed.

* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', Roy meets his mother in the afterlife. Since in the [[The Verse|Stickverse's]] good-aligned [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven|heaven]] you look like your own idealized version of yourself, she appears as the very attractive nineteen-year-old woman she once was, to Roy's Oedipal chagrin.

{{quote|'''Sara:''' Roy, it's me, your mother!

::Roy's dad shows him a picture of mum in a bikini.

{{quote|'''Eugene:''' And can you blame me? Look at the rack on that girl!

** [http://www.oglaf.com/fountain-of-girl/ Link (NSFW)].

* ''[[How I Killed Your Master]]'' starts off with the apprentice searching for the eponymous evil master's killer, who is the narrator and central hero of the story, who is an old man. Cut later in the story to when he was 10 years old, and then later when he's in his 20s. We also got a look at the Five Dragons when Master Fei unveiled the truth about Wong's father, and apparently Fei had quite a head of hair way back when.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Pictured above: ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Ty Lee sees a picture of two young women and ask who it is. Turns out it's the [[Creepy Twins]] Lo and Li, who then make the same pose as in the picture and almost make Zuko vomit.

** ''Katara herself'' in the [[Sequel Series]] ''[[The Legend of Korra]]''. [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111008045640/avatar/images/7/7a/Katara_smiles_at_coronation.png Here she is at age 14,] and [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120403055746/avatar/images/f/f1/Elderly_Katara.png here she is at 85.]

* ''[[The Emperor's New School|The Emperors New School]]'''s [[Fountain of Youth]] episode reveals this to be true for Yzma. Yes, ''that Yzma'' (She even gets a [[Cut Song|cut]] [[Villain Song]] [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZzGFR0nLyI about it].) Also, Pacha was a lot more athletic looking as a teen than he is now.

* ''[[Animaniacs]]'' Slappy Squirrel was good looking in her younger years. See "Milk - It Does A Body Good" parody, where we see Slappy mature from babyhood to her current state in seconds. For one brief, shining moment, she's a veritable Jessica Rabbit (Jessica Squirrel), but only for the blink of an eye.

* An episode of ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' revealed that the grouchy old waitress used to be a water skiing champion who looked cute in a bikini.

* Jerry's mom in ''[[Totally Spies!]]'', who in her younger days resembled an old-school [[James Bond|Bond]] Girl.

* Both Griffin and Faragonda of ''[[Winx Club]]'' were quite handsome in their youth. Bodywise, they still are.

 

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