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{{quote|'''Wynne''': Zevran, I am old enough to be your grandmother.
'''Zevran''': You say that like it's a bad thing.
|''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins''}}
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.
In comedy, This character is inevitably set up with a somewhat childish female character who doesn't feed into this taste at all, and is told so. Since a character that
Compare [[Teacher
{{examples
''Please stick to examples where the older character is female. Preference for older men is not this trope.''
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Played with in ''[[Hellsing]]''. While Alucard is a centuries old vampre, he still looks rather young. After returning from a rather extendid leave of absence, Integra is around fifty-something. [[Ship Tease|Alucard apparently still finds her attractive.]] [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|not that anyone can blame him...]]
* Very sweetly subverted in ''[[Kotetsu Jeeg|Kotetsushin Jeeg]]''. Hiroshi Shiba, the original Kotetsu Jeeg, goes missing for decades, and Michi, his combat partner/girlfriend eventually grows old enough to have a granddaughter. When Hiroshi comes back, having never aged at all (on account of him being a cyborg), Michi sadly tells him that she feels ashamed that he has to see her like that. Hiroshi answers that he doesn't care, because [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|he'll always love her just the same. D'AWW!!!]]
* ''[[Rizelmine]]'' manages to diffuse a bit of its bizarrely over-the-top [[Lolicon]] bait [[Genki Girl]] by giving its male main character this trait... which, {{spoiler|due to her being an Android that [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|age-regressed to lolicon bait]] actually gave the main character his fetish when he was younger.}}
* Mizuiro, one of Ichigo's classmates in ''[[Bleach]]'', has a stated preference for older women, which sets up for a moment where Ichigo tells [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Rukia]] to stay away from the boy, much to Mizuiro's confusion.
* ''[[Mahoraba]]'', at least the manga.
* ''[[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 (
* In ''[[Love Hina]]'', one of Keitaro's two childhood friends, Masayuki Haitani, displays an ongoing infatuation with the series's [[Christmas Cake]], Haruka.
* Marie in ''[[
* 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 ''[[
** 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...
* ''[[Please Teacher!]]'' would be an example. However one wouldn't tell Mizuho is actually much older than Kei, since she
** And also, the friend of Kei's who pursued their female classmate
* ''[[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!]]''."
** That pairing is [[Serious Business]]. When one author revealed in his [[Continuation]] [[Fanfic]] that one character (established as Jounouchi's daughter) was the daughter of Jounouchi and ''[[Bratty Half
** Like just about everything else in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', this age difference was brought up and made fun of in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
{{quote|
'''Mai''': I know. Creepy, isn't it?
'''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]].
* Akira Mimasaka from ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]''. Maybe Rui, since his long-time love interest Shizuka is actually older and more mature than he is.
* 14-year-old Yoshimori in ''[[Kekkaishi]]'' has his eyes set on his 16-year-old childhood friend, Tokine. Later in the manga, he saves another girl of similar age from a high fall and she briefly becomes his [[Stalker
** In the anime adaptation Masamori, Yoshimori's older brother, makes the same observation to tease Yoshimori.
** 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.
* Parodied in ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'': {{spoiler|Takashi Kawamura}} is ''mistaken'' for someone who
* In ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'', Shouji Tokairin for {{spoiler|Natsumi. Tokairin is some years younger than Natsumi... which makes ''him'' someone who
* In ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'', people ''think'' Kakouton (Xiahou Dun) is one of them, specially when they meet Hakufu's [[Hot Mom]] Goei (Lady Wu) and she flirts with him. He isn't amused.
* ''[[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 ''[[
* The trope is [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] with Wataru in ''[[
** {{spoiler|Although recently he has his maid Saki in mind.}}
* From ''[[Working
* {{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...}}
* In ''[[Tramps Like Us]]'', 18-year-old [[Keet|Momo]] is pretty open about his crush on his 29-year-old [[Mistress and Servant Boy|benefactor]] [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Sumire]]. {{spoiler|They end up [[Happily Married]] in the epilogue.}}
* ''[[Please Save My Earth]]'' The age differences of the two main leads are obvious. {{spoiler|This is actually understandable considering Rin Kobayashi is reincarnated 9 years later than Alice.}}
* ''[[Unbalance
* Every male in ''[[Freezing]]'' is this. Generally senior females in the school would desire younger males to be their partners.
* Shinpei from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' saw the protagonist with an adult friend of his and started becoming the characters friend in order to meet that women. His love for her went away after he learned she was [[
* From ''[[
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Luffy was 19 when he and Boa Hancock first met, and she was 31. While the "romance" between them is very one-sided (she is ''madly'' in love with him, but he is a [[Chaste Hero]] who doesn't notice her affection), one could certainly call Hancock a cradle-robber in this case.
== [[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."
** All members of Weapon X, mutant or not, have a slow aging factor, and Deadpool is cursed to be unkillable, so he may have grown up in the same era as Bea Arthur. It has also been noted, in the [[Hot Mom]] trope, that Aunt May has been considered incredibly hot by some.
** 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
* The true love and soulmate of Chris Kent is Thara Ak-Var, a childhood friend of [[Supergirl]]. Fortunately, Chris underwent a [[Plot
* By contrast, in [[Love and Capes]], CM Expy Major Might starts a relationship with [[Wonder Woman]] Expy Amazonia; in his [[Super
* 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.
▲== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* [[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
== [[Film]] ==▼
* Dodger for Tangerine in ''[[
▲== Film ==
* 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
▲* Dodger for Tangerine in ''[[The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (Film)|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...]]}}
* The movie ''Cougar Club'' is entirely about this.
* Aram falls for Sandy, 15 years his senior, in ''[[
* ''[[Mystery Men]]'': Dr Heller (Tom Waits) cruises retirement homes "for the ladies".
* Invoked in ''[[Indiana Jones and
{{quote|
"Maybe he like ''older'' women." }}
* ''[[American Pie
== [[Literature]] ==
* Tommy Flood in ''[[
* In ''[[Through the Postern Gate]]'' by Florence Barclay, the lead male is a Cake Eater [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] nicknamed "Boy Blue", who is in love with a 10-years-older [[Hot Librarian]]. In fact, the [[Hot Librarian]] cites the age difference as the reason why they should not date. "When I met you, you were six. I was 16".
* 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]].
== [[Live
* Richard Fish, in ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', actively goes after older women because he has a fetish for the folds under a woman's chin that build up as she gets older. He wound up marrying a woman who was ten years younger than him, but many fans prefer to pretend the last season didn't happen, so...you know the drill.
* 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.
* ''[[Lie to Me (TV series)|Lie to Me]]'': One episode revolves around a widow of a much younger man. After the team loudly derides the age gap, Torres says that she's been in a relationship with an older partner, and it was healthy and fulfilling. {{spoiler|This is an example of
* ''[[Friends]]'' has Phoebe's brother who marries his much older teacher.
* Connor from ''[[
** For that matter, Angel's one true love [[Buffy]] is this in the comics. Buffy, who has been a Slayer for at least ten years, is the [[Les Yay|romantic interest]] of the much younger Satsu. Despite not being gay [[
* The 2010 Christmas Special of ''[[
** 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.)
* Several [[Korean Series]] play this trope up:
** ''[[What's Up Fox?]]'': Nine years separate Byung Hee at 33 from her boyfriend Chul Soo, 24, whom she used to help babysit. He announces he's liked her since practically puberty.
** ''[[
** ''[[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.
* The 8-year-old brother of a patient on one episode of ''[[House
== [[Music]] ==
* Ricardo Arjona's song "Señora de las Cuatro Décadas" (Lady of the Four Decades) is written from the POV of someone who
* In the music video of [[Toby Keith]]'s "You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This (Unless You Mean It Like That)" a eighteen/nineteen yr old boy has a vivid daydream of he and his older female employer falling in love and making love with one another. Unfortunately or fortunately for him, her real personality is vastly different from his fantasy of her, and she seems to barely recognise his existence.
* 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."
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* 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.
{{quote|
''Doesn't mean she's not worth dating. }}
* Hailing from Brazil comes "Panela Velha" ("old pot"), with the immortal chorus "it doesn't matter if she's older! [[
* '39' by [[Tenacious D]] is a [[Surprisingly Gentle Song]], about the appreciation of the mature lady.
{{quote|
''There she is. Not too bad, good enough.
''39 year-old lady; young enough for me.'' }}
== [[Opera]] ==
* Cherubino in ''[[
== [[
* Pepper in ''[[Mamma Mia!]]''. His [[Christmas Cake]] is Tanya.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Kenji, one of your classmates in ''[[
** This is played for tragedy in the female route with his [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] Rio, the females sports team leader who has feelings for him but he's oblivious too in his attraction for older women.
** The female protagonist is the object of a [[Precocious Crush|crush]] from Ken Amada, [[
** 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
** 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
** Not that you would be able to tell any of this by simply looking at the characters. They sound, look and act like a group of fraternity 20-somethings.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
** 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.
** In ''[[
*** 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]].
** Meryl develops a deep attraction to Snake despite him being 14 or 15 years her senior (depending on his birthday he might be 32 instead of 33 as Metal Gear Solid 1 takes place in February) with her only being an 18 year old. Predictably the relationship falters with a combination of Snake's sense of duty and Snake's contempt for Meryl's childish tomboy tendencies.
* Toby in ''[[Catherine]]'' has a crush on Erica, an old friend of the main character, who is 32. However, in the True Lovers ending, he learns that she is {{spoiler|a post-op [[
* An option in ''[[
** Liara, a potential romantic option in ''[[Mass Effect
** Also Miranda Lawson, who is 35.
== [[Visual Novel]] ==
* ''[[Clannad (
* In ''[[Maji
** 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 ''[[
* 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]] ==
* Skwisgaar of ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' has a preference for 60+ year old female partners. And overweight ones too. G-MILFs, in his own words.
** In addition to the MILFs and Soon-to-be-MILFs.
* Tom and Katharine in ''[[
** [[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.
* J'onn J'onzz was {{spoiler|seen with a middle aged woman, disguised as a middle aged man in the finale of ''[[Justice League
* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider
* Spike is this for Rarity in [[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.
* Aang from ''[[
*
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The MILF phenomenon.
* 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.
* Comedian [[Louis
* The then 20-something Harry Hamlin met the then 40-something Ursula Andress on the set of the original ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' and fathered her only son.
* [[Ashton Kutcher]] married [[Demi Moore]].
* Brock Lesnar's wife, Sable, is ten years his senior.
* [[William Shakespeare]] was 18 years old when he married a local woman named Anne, who was 26. For a young man of that era to marry a reasonably older woman was in fact rather unorthodox.
** It helped that she was three months pregnant with
* [[Romance
* [[Hugh Jackman]]'s wife Deborah is 10 years older than him.
* Scottish Actor [[James McAvoy]] married Anne-Marie Duff when he was 27 and she was 36 while working together in the tv drama ''[[Shameless]]''.
* [[Chris Hemsworth]]
* 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.
* Dr. Reza Jarrahy, husband of [[Geena Davis]], 15 years older than him. They have three children...
* The late [[Heath Ledger]] was 18 when he lost his virginity to then 36-year old ''[[
* Naveen Andrews of ''[[
* [[Benjamin Franklin]], who wrote [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103212507/http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/51-fra.html an essay extolling the virtues of older women as mistresses.]
* Sam Kieth, comic book writer and artist and creator of ''[[The Maxx]]'', is about 20 years younger than his wife, whom he first met when he was 15.
* 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.
* [[Kenichi Matsuyama]], best known for playing L in the live action adaptation of ''[[
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