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* The Dragaerans in ''[[Dragaera]]'' are considered to be adolescents until they reach about 100.
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* The Vulcans of ''[[Star Trek]]'', being [[Space Elves]], have lifespans that can extend hundreds of years.
* Zhaan in ''[[Farscape]]'' is over 800 cycles old (a cycle being equivalent to one Earth year). Some aliens are over 100 cycles old. The Hynerian emperor spent over 100 cycles in prison.
* In ''[[Kung Fu]]: The Legend Continues'', the Ancient '''may''' be 700 years old, and he certainly looks it.
* In an episode of the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', Adama comments that the average human lifespan is 300 [[Microts|yahrens]], "Cylons notwithstanding".
== [[Mythology]] and [[Religion]] ==
* Methuselah, according to [[The Bible]], lived 969 years. Adam himself died aged 930. In fact, most of antediluvian humanity lived for many centuries, and only after the Flood did the life spans begin rapidly decreasing.
* [[Norse Mythology]] has the Apples of Idunn, golden apples that restore youth to those who eat them. As long as Idunn is free and willing to share her apples, the Aesir and Vanir can remain young (or become young again)... but one of the surviving Eddas tells the story about when Idunn was kidnapped and the gods aged like men.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Warhammer
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** Humans and Turians live to 150 years of age on average, but Salarians [[Inverted|invert]] this trope as they rarely live past 40 years of age.
* There are several races in the [[Warcraft Expanded Universe]] whose lifespans are unknown aside from "''much'' longer than humans." Suffice to say that there are [[Proud Scholar Race|draenei]] still living who still remember getting the hell outta Argus...''twenty-five thousand years ago''.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'':
** As stated above, all elven races. Night Elves gained immortality ten millennia ago, and while they sacrificed their immortality to stop the Burning Legion, they still live ''very'' long.
** Draenei are this too. Some who appear as young adults are survivors of the evacuation from Argus, 25,000 years ago. They may be immortal, or the spaceship they fled Argus in put them in a temporal stasis of some sort.
** Tortellans (turtle-like humanoids introduced in ''Battle for Azeroth'') are another long-lived race. They proudly tell the player, "I have scars older than your language!" and "I have grandchildren older than you!" Oddly, while Tortellan elders are everywhere in the new expansion and children are seen in some places, young adults are nowhere to be seen.
== [[Web Comic|Webcomics]] ==
* Elves in ''[[Ears for Elves]]'' live into their 900s, with adulthood being between 200 and 700 (explained [https://web.archive.org/web/20150121073523/http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/390 here]). They don't act [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|or look]] old when they're officially elders, either.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[Leonard Nimoy|King Kashekhim Nedakh]] of [[Atlantis]] from Disney's ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]'' is actually tens of thousands of years old, but dies somewhere in the year 1914, because that's when his film's events take place.
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Aang and other past Avatars live significantly longer than regular humans. Avatar Kyoshi lived over 200 years. It's rumored to have something to do with their chi.
* In ''[[Gargoyles]]'', the eponymous race lives twice as long as humans and ages at half the rate humans do. Goliath and his clan are a special case, as the centuries they spent as statues was a type of stasis, and they had not aged at all when they recovered.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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