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A character who proudly and often loudly proclaims their preference for an older ''female'' romantic partner. The woman may not be a real [[Christmas Cake]], but she's obviously older. The exact reasons can be anything from liking a more intellectual woman to simply [[Buxom Is Better|wanting someone with a bigger cup size]]. This preference is most obvious in [[Shonen]] and [[Seinen]], which otherwise tend to concentrate on women of a younger age bracket.

 

 

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''Please stick to examples where the older character is female. Preference for older men is not this trope.''

* ''[[The Electric Tale of Pikachu]]'' has [[The Hero|Ash]] in the manga in love with [[The Rival|Gary's]] older sister, [[Cool Big Sis|Daisy]]. In the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' animé, [[Chivalrous Pervert|Brock]] pretty much defines this trope, as he instantly falls in love with the Character of the Day girls, but only if they're either around his age or older, particularly [[Hot Scientist|Professor Ivy]], and any and [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals|all]] [[Hospital Hottie|Nurse Joys]] and [[Fair Cop|Officer Jennys]].

* In ''[[Love Hina]]'', one of Keitaro's two childhood friends, Masayuki Haitani, displays an ongoing infatuation with the series's [[Christmas Cake]], Haruka.

* Played with in ''[[Star Driver]]''. In it, we have Tsubasa, who is the only guy in all of Southern Cross High that isn't attracted to Hina, the supposed "new girl", because he has a crush on Okomoto-sensei, the school nurse... who happens to {{spoiler|be the true identity of Hina and a notorious lover of [[Bishounen]].}}

* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', Negi might fit into this, as all the girls he could potentially have a romantic interest in are older than he is, usually by a margin of four or five years. His father, Nagi also appears to be a bit younger than {{spoiler|Negi's mother Arika.}} Her age hasn't been confirmed, but she sure looks older than he is, and her only known relative {{spoiler|(Asuna) is definitely [[Older Than They Look]] (Chapter 284 reveals she is at least a hundred years old).}}

** When asked if the reason he drew cute teen female characters all the time was because he was attracted to them, series creator [[Ken Akamatsu]] stated that his preference is actually older women. He's just really ''good'' at drawing cute young girls...

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'': Jounouchi and Mai, who is 8 years his senior, are widely regarded as "the only popular heterosexual couple in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''."

** Like just about everything else in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', this age difference was brought up and made fun of in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series]]''.

'''Joey''': (aside to the audience) Actually, this is the closest thing this show has to a normal relationship. }}

* Hawk's Eye of ''[[Sailor Moon|Sailor Moon's]]'' Amazon Trio, who specifically targets older beautiful women. One of them is Ikuko Tsukino, Usagi's [[Hot Mom]].

** Not to mention that he also likes cake, leading to the inevitable puns.

** Yoshimori is a cake-baking, cake-loving, cake eater. Cake is his LIFE.

* ''[[Zettai Karen Children]]'''s Kaoru Akashi, not even out of elementary school, is already very open about her love of older women, which spills over into her having some [[Lovable Sex Maniac]] tendencies.

* Parodied in ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', when a guy asks another whom he likes better, Yukari or Nyamo. This guy, seeing Yukari around and overhearing, answers "Yukari, of course", and the other replies "You have a warped taste in women", and gets promptly whacked by Yukari.

* The trope is [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] with Wataru in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]''. It seems older girls (although the gap between him and Sakuya or Aika is pretty small, they're still older) are more actively interested in him, while his moments of interest in any of them don't happen as frequently.

* {{spoiler|Garcia Lovelace}} from ''[[Black Lagoon]]''. And the guy is bold enough to pull a surprise kiss [http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo91/StayuplateInsomiac/Black%20Lagoon/1256542123920.jpg on the target of his feelings], {{spoiler|his [[Mama Bear]], Roberta}}.

* {{spoiler|The main character, Akira Inugami}} in ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'' for his [[Hot Teacher]].

* In ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'', [[Determinator|Nagisa]] is one year younger than Hanon (who was in love with her music teacher, before he went away in the second season). Even though Hanon yells 'I only like older men!' to try to prevent Nagisa from flirting with her, he ignores it and flirts with her anyway. {{spoiler|She gives up later and date him at the end of the story...}}

* Every male in ''[[Freezing]]'' is this. Generally senior females in the school would desire younger males to be their partners.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* [[Deadpool]] openly lusts after Bea Arthur. In one issue he lusts after Spider-Man's Aunt May, sighing how she's "so like my Bea."

** When Deadpool actually died, he got together with [[Grim Reaper|Death]] herself. Her on-and-off boyfriend Thanos angrily brought him back to life and [[Cursed with Awesome|made him immortal]] to separate them.

* The true love and soulmate of Chris Kent is Thara Ak-Var, a childhood friend of [[Supergirl]]. Fortunately, Chris underwent a [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]] from a little boy to a [[Bishonen]] [[Chick Magnet]] of similar age to her.

* Subverted in [[Captain Atom]] with Sally Starshine. She certainly looks much older than Cameron Scott, but since he jumped eighteen years into the future, they are actually contemporaries, which is one of the reasons he is drawn to her. Also, it should perhaps be noted that Cameron started dating his first wife, Angela, when he was a junior in high school and she was a senior.

 

* [[Fobbies Are Borange|Jeff "I am so ready to eat your cake" Andonuts]] is this in every sense of the word. Possibly [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshade Hung]] due to the first person he falls for being named the Magic Cake Lady.

* [[Naruto|Uzumaki Naruto]] is often depicted as a cake eater in fanfiction. [[Genki Girl|Anko]], [[Cool Big Sis|Ayame]], [[Dark Action Girl|Konan]], [[Sexy Mentor|Kurenai]], [[Sexy Secretary|Shizune]], [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|Tsunade]], [[Dissonant Serenity|Mei]], [[Parental Incest|Kushina]], [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Koyuki]], [[Hot Mom|Tsunami]], etc. Seems he's intent on eating the entire bakery, doesn't it?

 

* Dodger for Tangerine in ''[[The Garbage Pail Kids Movie]]''. Until {{spoiler|Juice sends the eponymous kids to the State Home for the Ugly.}}

* The title character from ''[[Kirikou and The Sorceress]]''. It's a childrens' movie and he's just a baby, but he does ask the title [[Hot Witch|Sorceress]] in marriage {{spoiler|when she pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]]. She doesn't accept, of course, but [[Overnight Age-Up|then...]]}}

* ''[[Mystery Men]]'': Dr Heller (Tom Waits) cruises retirement homes "for the ladies".

* Invoked in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'', when Kate Capshaw thinks the Maharaja of Pancot Palace has been showering her with gifts, and then:

"Maybe he like ''older'' women." }}

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Tommy Flood in ''[[Bloodsucking Fiends]]'' (19 years old), as demonstrated by the fact that he's willing to immediately shack up with a woman seven years his senior.

* Zar-bettu-Zekigal, from [[Mary Gentle]]'s ''Rats and Gargoyles'', explicitly prefers older women (shortly after she's first introduced, she starts rhapsodizing over her fortyish landlady Evelian's laugh lines). When she later becomes infatuated with the Hyena (who's only got about ten years on Zari), it mystifies her that she's crushing on someone so young.

* Stephen Colly in [[I Capture the Castle]] ends up having sex with Leda Fox-Cotton. Movie-wise, all they do is show her playing with his hair late at night, but [[Shipping Goggles|you know what's happened]].

 

* Noah "Puck" Puckerman from ''[[Glee]]'' states this as the sole reason for joining Acafellas and performing at the PTA meeting.

* ''[[Boston Legal]]'', 40-ish Alan Shore competing with Denny for the 60-ish Shirley Schmidt. ([[Zmelik|Neither wins.]])

* Carter on ''[[ER]]'' wasn't really one, but was accused of it after dating a couple of older women.

* ''[[Friends]]'' has Phoebe's brother who marries his much older teacher.

* Connor from ''[[Angel]]''. Apparently, his profound love of [[Christmas Cake]] is so deeply a part of who he is, changing his memories and personality doesn't make it go away.

* The 2010 Christmas Special of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' does it both ways. In the same relation. Abigail Pettigrew (age unknown, but adult, probably in her 20's) is held in stasis by (initially) Kazran Sardick's father, as collateral for a loan. While Kazran is a young boy, The Doctor briefly releases her. By the time Abigail is put back in stasis, Kazran promises they'll be back every Christmas Eve. They do so, and while Kazran is still younger than Abigail, they 're mutually attracted to each other. Until one Christmas Eve, Kazran learns Abigail has only one day left to live, and he decides to not release her on following Christmas Eves. Eventually, Kazran becomes an old (and grumpy) man. And on a Christmas day, Abigail is the only person who can save the day. Old enough to now be her grandfather, Kazran releases Abigail. Of course, they still love each other.

** While the Doctor himself doesn't count, being over 900 years old, they do seem to like using this dynamic ever since they hired the twenty-something [[Matt Smith]]. Almost every quasi-flirty relationship has been with a character whose actress is at least a little older than him. There was Liz X (both she and her actress were 40,) River Song (whose actress is in her late 40s,) and Idris (who was played by an actress in her early 30s, but was dressed in a Victorian getup that made her look a little older.)

** ''[[Flower Boy Ramyun Shop]]'': Chi Soo's a senior in high school; Eun Bi's a 25 year old student teacher.

** ''[[Oh My Lady]]'': The young [[K Pop]] [[Idol Singer]] falls for the over-30 divorced mom.

* Hanto in [[Engine Sentai Go-onger]], whose crushes have included Kegareshia (played by a then 27-year-old actress) and Miki from ''[[Juken Sentai Gekiranger]]'' (in her 40s and married with a daughter.) He is 16.

 

== [[Music]] ==

* Emmanuel's song "Bella Señora" (Beautiful Lady) is a subtler example, as the lyrics don't openly state that the man is one of these but has some verses about the "lady"'s skin not being "porcelain-like" like in the past.

* [[Elton John]]'s "Teacher I Need You."

* The [[Barenaked Ladies]] song "Maybe Katie" is about how the singer doesn't care about the fact that his girlfriend is older than he is.

* “Summer: The First Time” by Bobby Goldsboro.

* '39' by [[Tenacious D]] is a [[Surprisingly Gentle Song]], about the appreciation of the mature lady.

 

== [[Opera]] ==

* Cherubino in ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'', though more because of his [[Anything That Moves]] philosophy than anything else.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Kenji, one of your classmates in ''[[Persona 3]]'', loudly proclaims his love for one of the teachers in Gekkoukan High School, and devises a [[Zany Scheme]] to get her to fall in love with him.

** The male protagonist can also pursue a relationship with an older woman he meets over an online game. {{spoiler|She turns out to be his homeroom teacher at the end of the game.}}

* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'', there is evidence that Lloyd has become one of these, if Colette is not chosen.

** Also adding at one point in the game, Lloyd admitted that he is more fond of older woman {{spoiler|referencing the time when he actually proposed to Paul's mother Lilia.}}

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has [[Stalker with a Crush|Amy Rose]] who's 12, in love with [[The Hero|Sonic the Hedgehog]] who's 15. To a degree, [[The Rival|Knuckles the Echidna]] who's 16 has [[Word of God|in canon]] been shown to have a soft spot for [[Ms. Fanservice|Rouge the Bat]] who's 18. There's also [[The Big Guy|Vector the Crocodile]], who's 20 and has a crush on [[Hot Mom|Vanilla the Rabbit]] who's at least several years, if not a decade his senior.

* In ''[[Dragon Age]]'', Zevran seems to like hitting on ''[[Cool Old Lady|Wynne]]'' even more than hitting on the PC as ''every'' conversation he has with her involves either sex, her breasts, or both. He might just be messing with her, but knowing [[Anything That Moves|Zevran]], he probably wouldn't object if Wynne responded positively to his advances.

* In ''[[Fire Emblem]]'', there are a few example.

** In ''[[Fire Emblem Elibe]]'', Roy, has 6 possible wives: one is Cecilia, a visibly older woman who was Roy's teacher in combat and tactics.

*** Every one of Deu's potential wives is several years older than him except for Sylvia (she's said to be 14 in the games and 16 in the Oosawa manga) or Lachesis (said to be 16 in the mangas).

* Otacon in the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' series, [[Deconstruction|played for drama]].

* An option in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' to play Shepard as one, featuring Samara as the cake, who is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|several hundred years old]] as opposed to Shepard, who, as of ''Mass Effect 2'', is either 29 or 31 (depending on whether you count the two years (s)he was dead)...although (s)he gets turned down because Samara is [[Married to the Job|married to her job]].

** Also Miranda Lawson, who is 35.

 

== [[Visual Novel]] ==

** In addition he gets about 5 more potential older partners in the expanded sequel ''Majikoi S''. 2 of the 5 were more or less extras though.

* In ''[[Jewel Knights Crusaders]]'' your hero is currently in high school and there are 2 candidates that fulfill this trope. One is a hot nurse who is also currently attending college, another is a childhood friend who the hero frequently call Onee-san.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** [[Macbeth]] on a technicality, when he falls in love with Dominique Destine who is really Demona in her daytime human appearance. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].

* ''[[Generator Rex]]'' has [[The Hero|Rex]] who has a crush on [[Hot Scientist|Dr. Holiday]], who is at least a decade older than him.

* Spike is this for Rarity in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship is Magic]].

** Admittedly, this example is somewhat muddied in that Spike, despite being a baby dragon, is actually not much younger than the adult main cast and is really only considered such due to dragon's centuries long lifespan. He does consistently behave less mature than the rest of the cast, though.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Azrael of [[Gaijin Smash]] has confessed to being one of these on a few occasions.

* [[Aaron Johnson]] and [[Sam Taylor Wood]] take this [[Up to Eleven]] , at this time of editing they're 20 and 43 respectively, and have a child together to boot.

* [[Ashton Kutcher]] married [[Demi Moore]].

* Brock Lesnar's wife, Sable, is ten years his senior.

* [[Hugh Jackman]]'s wife Deborah is 10 years older than him.

* Ralph Fiennes, born in 1962, left Alex Kingston, born in 1963, for Francesca Annis, born in 1945. [[Dune|Bene Gesserit]] witchcraft !

* Justin Timberlake is about 8 years younger than his ex Cameron Diaz.

* Nick Cannon married [[Mariah Carey]], who is 10 years his senior.

* The late [[Heath Ledger]] was 18 when he lost his virginity to then 36-year old ''[[Roar]]'' co-star [[Elizabeth Pena]], and later had relationships with [[Heather Graham]], who was 9 years older than him, and [[Naomi Watts]], who was 11 years older.

* Naveen Andrews of ''[[Lost]]''. He caused a minor scandal at the age of sixteen when he [[Teacher-Student Romance|fell in love with and moved in with his math(s) teacher]]; they later had a son. He next had a long-term relationship with Barbara Hershey, 21 years his senior.

* Tony Parker, a french professional basketball player, also ex-husband to Eva Longoria of the famed tv show ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' to which he is her junior by 7 years.

 

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