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** There's also the magic age changing pills, which change the pubescent (though still young) students into younger girls (or vice versa, for Negi and Kotarou).
** 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 manga eventually shows that it's not her true form but a pretense she uses to avoid arranged marriage.
* Uber-[[Otaku]] Girl [[Lucky Star
** 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''.
* Hagumi Hanamoto from ''[[Honey and Clover]]''.
* Fuko Ibuki from ''[[
* In ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'', Holo's human form is explicitly described in every adaptation as that of a ''fifteen'' year old girl, in spite of being over four-centuries old and implied to be more experienced in "that" aspect of life than Lawrence (who has actually embezzled his mentor's treasury as a boy to visit houses of ill-repute). Though bear in mind the "legal age" does not quite exist in Medieval Times yet, so Holo's frankness with her sexuality is not so much [[Squick|squicky]] as it is unusually "improper" for a young lady of her era and in-universe [[Values Dissonance]] due to lacking human social mores.
* Centuries old tree Goddess Nagi of ''[[Kannagi]]'' appears as a perky, flat-chested 15 year old schoolgirl.
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* Morino Ichigo of ''[[Onegai Teacher]]'' and ''[[Onegai Twins]]'', frozen in a 15 year old body after being in a coma for six long years years, (which acted more like [[Suspended Animation]]) and is hence 21 years old.
* An in-universe example of ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'': while the audience is never meant to find Komoe-sensei sexy, she is lusted by several members of the detention-class she holds. Though the fact that her apartment is ''littered'' with beer cans and cigarette is evidence to her adulthood, she is still a warm, innocent and romantic child at her kind heart.
* Konjiki No Yami (aka Golden Darkness) of ''[[
* The [[Yaoi]] manga ''[[Okane ga Nai]]'' barely avoids being labeled [[Shotacon]] by clearly stating that the child-like [[Uke|Ayase]] is nineteen years old. He still looks and behaves like a twelve-year-old.
* Shizuku the Mizuchi of ''[[Omamori Himari]]''. Her exact age isn't specified, but she is at least 100 years old and looks about ten, gets just as many NSFW [[Fan Service]] shots as the more mature-looking girls, and has spent most of the series blatantly and obviously trying to get the teenage male lead into bed.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' has Vita, a [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|Ridiculously Human Program]] who has the body of an eight-year old despite being a few centuries old. Her appearance is a bit of a sore spot for her and she gets annoyed whenever someone refers to her as a kid. This isn't helped at all by the fact that her "sisters", who are roughly the same age, both have permanent large-breasted 20-something bodies. There's also the combat [[Cyborg]] Cinque, who happens to be one of the oldest members of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Numbers]] despite having the body of a child.
* ''[[
* In-universe example in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' with Honey, who looks about 6 and actually is the eldest of the Club, at about 18.
* ''[[Detective Conan]]'' gives us Haibara Ai, the biochemist who {{spoiler|is responsible for creating the drug that turned Shinichi into Conan}}, and is a victim of the exact same poison. Her real age, as {{spoiler|Miyano Shiho/Sherry}}, is approximately 18, but due to the effects of APTX-4869, she appears to be no older than eight.
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* 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.
* Kuonji Miyu from ''[[They Are My Noble Masters]]'' looks like a very young girl, despite being in her early twenties.
* Mimina from ''[[Ladies
* ''[[Futari Ecchi]]'' plays with this. A neighbor of the protagonist couple looks really young for her age. Every single panel that features her nude and/or having sex with husband features a little note mentioning her actual age.
* Nagato Yuki from ''[[
* This is zigzagged to hell and back in ''[[Excel Saga (
* At the end of the ''[[Ghost in The Shell (
* ''[[
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* 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
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* An unintentional version has been known to cause problems in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' fanfic with fans who've only seen the movies and aren't aware that the nonhuman races age slower than humans in bookverse. Hobbits come of age at thirty-three, so a sixteen-year-old hobbit is roughly the equivalent of a ten-year-old human, and elves aren't counted as adults until they're fifty.
** Affected them in the movie universe, too. Apart from the hobbits' ages getting shuffled, Orlando Bloom's Legolas went from "these trees make me feel young again, as I have not since I traveled with you children" (he's between 500 and 3000 years old), to getting a pat on the arm and a "let it go, lad" from Gimli, who's only 139.
* ''[[
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== Literature ==
* An often overlooked effect of prolong in ''[[
** It's considerably worse than three-to-one; as you get older, aging (and development) slows down, so at thirty you look about fifteen. The limit is not known, as no third-gen prolong receivers have yet noticeably aged beyond their twenties.
*** Allison Harrington (who just broke her second hundred) looks, from the descriptions, about thirty. Honor, who's also third-gen and 62, is barely in the twenties by the look alone.
** And then there are the (very few) ill-fated fourth-generation prolong receivers, who just don't mature. At all, apparently. This unfortunate consequence has caused Beowulf to tighten up their rules again.
** Ragnhild Pavletic (who appears in ''Shadow of Saganami'') is a third-generation Prolong recipient, who also was cursed with a slow maturation rate and small stature, making her look like she was eleven or twelve. A certain level of frustration was hinted at this in the book, especially considering one of her fellow middies was a former pleasure slave, bio-engineered to be a sex toy.
* Claudia in [[Anne Rice]]'s ''[[Interview
* Xulai in Sheri S. Tepper's ''[[The Waters Rising]]'' looks "about seven or eight" when the hero first meets her which disturbs him because he finds himself inappropriately attracted to her. Imagine his relief when her body changes to match her true age of twenty.
* In [[Ian McDonald]]'s ''Cyberabad Days'' a number of rich Indian families have their offspring genetically engineered in the womb both for superior intelligence and long life. This however comes at the price of aging literally half as fast, This results in [[Arranged Marriage|marriages]] between people who are chronilogically in their late teens or twenties but have yet to reach puberty physically. Or worse between one spouse (usually the wife) that is normal and a husband that is physically nine or ten.
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* In Charles Stross' ''[[Eschaton]]'' series there is a subculture of people who have themselves altered via nanotech surgery to look prepubescent. They have a symbiotic relationship with [[Ephebophile|another subculture]].
* In-universe example in [[Wheel of Time]]: the grandfatherly general Gareth Bryne is romantically involved with (and later proposes to) Suian Sanche, who is chronologically around the same age but due to a magical mishap appears young enough to be his granddaughter. A few characters mention how odd their pairing seems in passing, but nobody seems to have too big a problem with it. Possibly [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that magic-using women (and presumably men, not that that many survive long enough for it to be an issue) in that setting age more slowly; presumably they must be used to being seen with apparently much older men.
* In ''[[
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** She had [[wikipedia:Turnerchr(27)s syndrome|Turner's syndrome]], and was attempting to make the most of what little fertility she had (by seeking artificial insemination and the like). Although she was a senior in high school, she looked much younger as a result of her genetic abnormality, and [[All of the Other Reindeer|her classmates always teased her because of it.]]
* ''[[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.
** Another ''[[Star Trek]]'' inversion. In one episode of ''[[Star Trek:
*** Miles did at least figure out that he can still comfort Keiko and that they would figure out the rest later. Thankfully it wasn't necessary.
** Yet another is the [[Star Trek:
* Juliet in ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' passed as a high school student, including dating one, despite being a vampire 2,193 years old.
* The producers of ''[[Dateline (TV series)|To Catch a Predator]]'' made increasing use during its run of 18-year-old actors to pose as underage children to meet the alleged predators when they show up at the decoy house for sex. They fooled virtually everyone.
** One question this raises is why the alleged predators are in trouble at all, if in reality they're visiting an 18-year-old, and besides all of their previous interactions had been with adults posing as underage children. The reason is that they solicited someone whom they understood to be underage for sex, which is sufficient for legal purposes.
* ''[[
* One episode of ''[[She Spies]]'' had Cassie, Shane and DD investigating a charity run by two brothers whose poster child was a disabled little girl called Amy; it was a con racket which the "girl" - actually [[Older Than They Look|an adult woman whose aging system was slowed down due to illness]] - was the ringleader of. {{spoiler|Amy's disability, on the other hand, was for real. Too bad DD didn't find out until ''after'' she dragged Amy from her wheelchair and shoved her onto the ground...}}
== Video Games ==
* The ''[[
** Etna is a [[Stripperiffic]] young girl who appears and acts 14 or so but is 1470.
** [[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 ''[[
* 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
* [[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]].
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** 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.
* ''[[
* 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.
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* 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.]]
* [[Our Vampires Are Different|Rachel]] [[Dracula|Alucard]] of [[Blaz Blue]] fame [[Really 700 Years Old|is thousands of years old]].
* [[Bratty Half-Pint|Angelia]] [[Light Is Not Good|Avalon]] from [[
* The fifth [[Elder Scrolls]] game, Skyrim, has Babette, who looks like she's about ten, and is a member of the Dark Brotherhood. She's actually a several centuries old vampire. When you first enter the Sanctuary, she is telling the others about her latest mark, with the implication being that she seduced a pedophile.
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== Western Animation ==
* [[Tear Jerker|Played for tragedy]] in the "Baby Doll" Arc of ''[[Batman:
** And one-upped by her next (and last) appearance in "Love Is a Croc", where she's absolutely lovey-dovey (and has [[Squick|resumed her child-like "Baby Doll" persona]]) with Killer Croc, having developed an unhealthy fixation with him after hearing him talk about how hard his life was as a result of being different. Killer Croc has no interest in her, but she's a good enough crime-partner to put up with her quirks, for a while anyhow. When she secretly follows him and overhears his plans on abandoning her soon, [[Woman Scorned|she snaps and makes it clear which of them is more dangerous]].
* Strawberry Sweetcake from ''[[Drawn Together]]'' is a [[Dead Baby Comedy|very deliberate]] implementation of this trope. Too bad she's {{spoiler|[[A Nazi
{{quote| "I'm 18, silly, I only ''look'' eight!''}}
* The Warner siblings in ''[[
* 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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