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'''Nagi:''' [[Failure Is the Only Option|Well, then it's because you're an old hag]].|''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''}}
There are [[Moe]] characters whose youth and innocence attract a fanbase of sexual lust [[Misaimed Fandom|in spite of an author's intentions]] and then there's these characters who are meant to appeal to [[Lolicon]] tastes.
Girls (and occasionally boys) who ascribe to this trope are invariably [[Older Than They Look]] adults, or supernatural beings that are [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]. The narrative takes great pains to remind the audience that they are adults, thereby (poorly) attempting to justify the [[Fan Service|sexualization]] of their [[Squick|apparent innocence and youth]] because they are ''technically'' adults, and therefore that (supposedly) alleviates the reader of possible guilt.
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** Inverted by the third princess of the Hellas Empire. She's 30, but Hellans live longer than humans, so claims to be closer to 10 so Rakan will spoil her. Backfires on her when Rakan says little kids aren't allowed to drink alcohol and orders fruit juice for her.
* Mina Tepes of ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]'' has the appearance of a nine year old child. Although her age hasn't been confirmed neither in manga, nor in anime, she seems to continually beat the watcher around the head that she's much older. How much -- [[Epileptic Trees|is a viewer's guess]].
** The manga eventually shows that it's not her true form but a pretense she uses to avoid arranged marriage.
* Uber-[[Otaku]] Girl [[Lucky Star|Izumi Konata,]] 18 years old but appearing HALF that age.
** Constantly lampshaded throughout the anime. Notable examples include: Asking her friends to pretend they're her sisters so she can get the children's discount, not having grown an inch on [[Measuring Day]], and wearing a [[School Swimsuit]] that was apparently issued in elementary school ''to her''.
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* Chrono from ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' is a demon that appears to be about twelve years old in his [[Sleep Mode Size|sealed form]], but his true form appears to be in his early twenties and he's [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|really at least half a century old, possibly about 85 in the manga]]. This is [[Lampshaded]] in the manga by Satella, who "[[Shotacon|likes younger boys]]" and is happy to be able to flirt with him guilt-free.
** There's also {{spoiler|Florette "Fiore" Harvenheit}}, who appears to be fifteen, but when you do the math she's actually about twenty-five. {{spoiler|This is because Florette was killed at the age of fifteen, and Fiore is a "doll" made out of an artificial soul and [[Squick|Florette's reanimated body]]}}.
* Ageha in ''[[Toshiue no Hito]]'' is mistaken for jailbait, but she is {{spoiler|an 26 year old widow who just has an underdeveloped body.}}
* [[Deliberately Cute Child|Amber]] of ''[[Darker Than Black]]'' qualifies. Though she's likely at least in her twenties or early thirties, her [[Power At a Price|renumeration]] for using her time-manipulation power is [[Merlin Sickness|aging backwards]], so during the main course of the first season, she looks like a fifteen-year-old.
* Washu from ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]''. Prefers taking the body of a twelve year old, but is really 20,000 years old... and has the sex drive to match.
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== Comic Books ==
* Captain Boomerang Jr. once declared his love for [[Supergirl]], but while she is chronologically an adult, she's ''biologically'' sixteen. They were together for a while though.
* In ''[[Green Lantern]]'', in the late 80s and early 90s, Hal Jordan was romantically involved with Arisia, who (when introduced) appeared to be and was described as 13 (Earth) years old. (26 of her planet's years.) He steadfastly discouraged her crush on him until she subconsciously used her ring to physically age herself up to adulthood over the course of a few weeks. He then justified getting involved with her because the ring had also given her ''mental'' maturity. Much later it was retconned that "due to the elongated orbit around its two suns, thirteen years on Graxos IV were like two-hundred and forty on Earth." This nominally decreased the creepiness (or perhaps ''reverses'' it, making ''Hal'' the jailbait), though it contradicts the original comics.
* S'aru from ''[[Red Hood and the Outlaws]]'' looks like a preteen and lounges around half-naked, but he's really over 400 years old.
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== Live Action TV ==
* An episode of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' had a 17 year old dating an older man despite her having the body of a 10 year old. Notable in that the main source of her angst was the fact that her father treated her like she was one.
** She had [[wikipedia:
* ''[[Star Trek]]''
** An inversion in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'': Kes is a young adult and looks like one. Her race lives for only 9 years and thus physically and mentally matures at an appropriately accelerated pace. At the start of the series, Kes is ''<s>two</s> one'' (her second birthday is in the season 1 finale). This doesn't stop humanlike-aging Neelix (and, in an alternate timeline, Tom Paris) from doing the deed with her.
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** [[Love Freak|Flonne]], who could almost pass as a late-blooming 15 year old, is 1509.
** Laharl, who's "only" 1,313. And combines it with [[Walking Shirtless Scene]].
** [[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice|Raspberyl]] does double duty by being [[Older Than She Looks]] even by the 1=100 years demon standard conversion.
* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', we have {{spoiler|Presea Combatir}}. Thanks to some [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that went bad and froze her aging, she's physically twelve years old, but chronologically ''28''. To put this in perspective, this means she is the ''second-oldest'' usual member of the party; beating out even the resident [[Casanova]]. Played for drama once the spell is broken, and she realizes that she's been stuck in time for ''half her life''.
* From the [[Nasuverse]], there's ''[[Tsukihime]]'s'' Len, who is an unspecified number of centuries old and looks about ten in her human form. She's also a [[Horny Devils|Succubus]] who is very intimate with teenage Shiki Tohno.
** Nasu's works also feature a less extreme example in Ilya from ''[[Fate/stay night]]''. She also looks roughly ten to twelve years old, but is actually in her early twenties. She isn't one of the main character's potential love interests, but that's because her planned route was scrapped in preference for expanding the Heaven's Feel route.
* [[Boys Love]] game ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]'' takes place in a high school with teenaged love interests... save for Professor Umino who is a teacher in his 20's but looks to be about twelve.
* The ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' series has Luna, one of the possible bachelorettes. Her exact age is unspecified, though she is old enough to get married. She's also a short girl with [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] clothes and [[Girlish Pigtails]].
** In the next game her height is gone, she's even taller then her sister. Lumina also counts in ''Special Edition''. She uses the same model as her fourteen year old design from ''A Wonderful Life'' and its [[Distaff Counterpart]], despite being sixteen (eighteen in the west). She ages quickly though; she changes to her older design in the next chapter.
** Katie also looks, and [[Adult Child|acts]], young but insists that she's an adult; she's a bachelorette also.
* ''[[Absolute Obedience]]'' features two characters as "targets" that appear to be very young teenagers, but are officially 18 and 19.
* ''[[Wild Arms 3]]'' features {{spoiler|Beatrice, the true villain of the game that is revealed very late in.}} She appears to be a young girl, maybe 12 or 10 or even younger, {{spoiler|but is actually an ancient Dream Demon who has been masterminding the entire games plot for years.}}
* Remilia and Flandre Scarlet of the ''[[Touhou]]'' games both count, as they're 500 and 495 year old vampires, respectively, but have the bodies of ten year old girls. At least Remilia ''can'' act mature when she wants to. Flandre, on the other hand, amps up the [[Squick]] by having the mind of a child due to centuries of isolation. ''Touhou'' contains plenty of these characters, who range in age from Cirno, at least sixty years old, to Suwako, at least ''two thousand'' years old.
* ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', the ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' "sequel," features Shelke. She's nineteen, but physically stopped aging, leaving her in the body of a nine-year-old but with a very mature behavior.
* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]: [[Strange Journey]]'', Crewman [[Chivalrous Pervert|Anthony]] ''tries'' to invoke this trope to justify his attraction towards centuries-old female demons who happen to look like beautiful young women. It backfires horribly when the latest object of his affections, the demon [http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Moh_Shuvuu Moh Shuvuu], not only has the body of a little girl but also the ''personality'' of one, and she's more than understandably [[Squick|squicked]]. As is the player character.
* In the ''[[Blade Runner]]'' game, one of the endings features your character running off into the sunset with a suspected replicant that looks like a 14 year old girl. About [[Randomly Generated Levels|75% of the time]] it turns out she's [[Squick|actually human]], but when she's a replicant her real age (like all replicants) is under 4. As an android, [[Crapsack World|her age is probably not considered an issue.]]
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* Strawberry Sweetcake from ''[[Drawn Together]]'' is a [[Dead Baby Comedy|very deliberate]] implementation of this trope. Too bad she's {{spoiler|[[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]}}.
{{quote|"I'm 18, silly, I only ''look'' eight!''}}
* The Warner siblings in ''[[Animaniacs]]'' are [[Older Than They Look]]. They appear to be between the ages of six and twelve, but are at least sixty. Dot is rather sexualized in the series. Outside of the series this is a common joke when characters count their age from the moment of creation rather than their character designs -- many child characters have outlived multiple generations of fans by this reckoning.
* In the "Live Filming" of an episode of ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'', 15 year old Roberta states in a drunken rant she is actually 25.
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