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* 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.

* Madoka Mano, Yohko's grandmother and mentor in ''[[Devil Hunter Yohko]]'', when she's de-aged at one point. She also has a habit of [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|not wearing a top]] ([[Please Put Some Clothes On|to Yohko's dismay]]), which is a bit par for the course for that show...

* ''[[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.}}

* On ''227'' Pearl is the old lady who always sits at her window talking to her neighbors sitting on the stoop. One episode flashes back to the forties when she was young and hot.

* In the BBC series ''[[I, Claudius]]'', we see [[Evil Matriarch|Augustus's wife Livia]] as a middle-aged woman, then an elderly widow, then an unbelievably old crone. But as she comments to Claudius late in life, she was quite the looker in her youth:

'''Livia:''' There was one other. [[wikipedia:Cleopatra VII|But she was in Egypt]]. And besides, she didn't last as long as I have. }}

* ''[[Charmed]]'' - The Charmed Ones had an enemy of the week who was an evil wizard. He modeled his handsome golem after himself as a young man.

* In ''[[The Thorn Birds]]'' elderly Mary Carson, in love with young priest, Ralph de Bricassart who rejects her. She bemoans that inside her old body she's still young. Mary is played by [[Barbara Stanwyck]]. If Ralph knew what [http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/photos/07-06-07/Stanwyck.jpg she used to look like] he'd pray to God that the outside matched the in!

* In a guest appearance on [[Law and Order SVU|Law and Order: SVU]], [[Carol Burnett]] played an aged actress and dancer. When Benson arrives at her home {{spoiler|on the night she murders her husband}}, she is nostalgically watching her old films.

* 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.

* Dr. Daly, the aging vicar in [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''The Sorcerer''. In fact, not only does he sing a melancholy song about how stunningly attractive he was as a young curate, he still makes one young female character go weak at the knees.

* Ruth, in ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'', might fall into this category...

'''Ruth:''' Oh, no! Years and years ago... }}

* Belle, the sleeping car, from ''[[Starlight Express]]''. As she states in her song:

The Orient Express." }}

* In ''[[On the Town]]'', Madame Dilly cautions Ivy: "Sex and art don't mix. If they did, I'd have gone right to the top."

== Toys ==

* A non age-related example in ''[[Bionicle]]''. combines this with [[Badass Boast]]:

 

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

** Flemeth wasn't always a withered old crone. She used to look like Morrigan. {{spoiler|And plans on [[Grand Theft Me|doing so again]].}}

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

* Platinum the Trinity from [[Blaz Blue]] is a fun inversion of this. Trinity, one of the Six Heroes, went from [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110104081209/blazblue/images/0/0a/TrinityReal.jpg drop dead gorgeous (with an awesome bust to boot)] to a [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100704200536/blazblue/images/b/bb/PlatCSArt.png loli with a magical girl motif and two other souls floating around in her body.] There's been no explanation as to how this happened.

* ''[[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.

'''Roy:''' Uh, sorry, no. My mother has a grey bun hairdo and osteoporosis, not pigtails and a rack. }}

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

'''Roy:''' Gah! Never show me mom like that again! }}

* Subverted in the seriously NSFW comic ''[[Oglaf]]'', when Ponce De Leon thought he found the fountain of youth after his old assistant became young and beautiful. But then she explains that she wasn't that beautiful when she ''was'' young. Too late; he then discovers he found the [[Gender Bender|Fountain of Girl]].