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* In ''[[Gunbuster]]'', they make use of a more or less realistic interpretation of time dilation as they get closer to the speed of light. This resulted in one of the characters going from sixteen to mid-40's while the main heroine, Noriko Takaya, aged a mere year or two.
* In ''[[RahXephon]]'', {{spoiler|Haruka and Ayato were the same age in the past; at the time of the series, Ayato is 17 and Haruka is 29 due to time passing differently inside and outside of Tokyo}}
* Hotaru in the final season of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', after suffering a [[Fountain of Youth|plot-relevant age-
** Chibi-Usa also goes through this when Wiseman transforms her into the [[Dark Magical Girl]] villainess Black Lady. She is healed at the end of
* ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' has enough [[Techno Babble]] about sub-lightspeed travel that you never know [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|just how old anybody is]], although they all feel the age that they appear to be. {{spoiler|The ending also ages up the entire Space Squadron save Sara herself.}}
* Also happens to Chris Thorndyke in ''[[Sonic X]]''. Unfortunately when he travels to Sonic's world an inconvenient time warp sticks him back in his twelve year old body. This left the audience dealing with a more mature and useful Chris while keeping his more familiar body, making it easier for animators who had been drawing him as twelve for a couple of years now. There were certainly [[Rescued from the Scrappy Heap|fewer complaints about him afterwards]].
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** When she gets older, she gets the ability to switch to "adult mode" at will.
* {{spoiler|Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck}}, formerly {{spoiler|Nel}}, of ''[[Bleach]]''
** After some rigorous
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has pills that allow one to increase or decrease your age at will. They see quite a lot of use.
** There's also a more subtle version going on in regard to Negi's constant use of various [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]] items; he's aged himself up by at least a year, if not more, in less than six months. It mirrors his [[Wise Beyond Their Years|ever-growing maturity]].
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* Used in [[Douglas Adams]]' novel ''Mostly Harmless''; Trillian's daughter Random goes into an intergalactic daycare as a preteen and comes out past puberty. It turns out the daycare was also temporally displaced, and the time you come back is random.
* This is the main plot of [[William Sleator]]'s ''[[Singularity (novel)|Singularity]]''. One twin locks himself inside a [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]] device, so that he'll be a year older than his twin and thus no longer a twin.
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
* In the last of [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Apprentice Adept]]'' books [[The Scrappy|Wunderkinds]] Flach and Nepe age a decade between chapters. {{spoiler|A good chunk of the cast is hiding out in a hidden underground stronghold, magically gimmicked to speed up time twenty-fold}}.
* In ''The Gap Series'' by [[Stephen R Donaldson]], Davies Hyland is force-grown from a fetus to a 16 year old teen. Of course, he's also implanted with the mind of his 22 year old ''mother''.
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**** And to anyone who says Klingons wouldn't stoop to genetic manipulation to taint their natural form, [[Noodle Incident|remember the smooth forehead incident]]...
**** This also may be a natural factor: Q'onos was probably an extremely harsh world where infant mortality might be extremely high due to natural predators, etc. Klingons living longer and retaining their strength and vigor into old age, thus being fertile for much longer in their lifespan might have been a natural adaptation to keep the species alive. It would also explain their extremely short maturity period.
** Klingons aren't alone in this, by the way. The most extreme example is ''[[Voyager]]''{{'}}s Kes, whose race has a nine-year lifespan. In one alternate future episode, Kes had a daughter with Tom Paris ... and that daughter was old enough to marry Harry Kim within a year or two.
*** ''Deep Space 9'' also has the Jem'Hadar, who age incredibly fast
** Voyager also has Naomi Wildman who is ½ Human - ½ Ktarian. At age 2 chronologically, she looks and acts like an 8-year-old Human. Like Alexander, this is handwaved that she's half an alien.
** Another ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' example: At the start of season two, Troi goes from newly pregnant to having a baby in a few days. The kid then grows from babyhood to about ten years old in a similar space of time, before "dying". {{spoiler|Turns out the "kid" was a benign energy-based alien who wanted to experience corporeal existence, and was grateful for all the affection Troi showed "him".}} This was actually one of the first episodes to [[
* In the final season of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', cast-member Vala gives birth to Adria, who is introduced as a plot point. Adria is an engineered leader of the bad guys who grows to adulthood in just a handful of episodes.
** Adult character Teal'c was also aged to middle age for his species due to [[Time Travel]]. He had to go back in time to prevent the problem they'd spent the last fifty years on, so his change is for keeps, carrying over to ''The Ark of Truth'' and his ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' guest appearance.
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* In ''[[Hex]]'', Malachi does this, going from an infant to a teenager in a year, due to being half-demon.
* Used in ''[[Doctor Who]]''; The newly regenerated Doctor meets the little girl Amelia Pond, who asks to travel in the TARDIS, and the Doctor accepts. Of course, having a little girl around in a show where there's usually at least [[Red Shirt|one death]] every episode would be a bit dark - and besides, a eight-year-old can't do [[Fan Service]]. So having the Doctor accidentally jump 12 years into the future means that we can now have an all-grown-up Amy travel with him.
** ''Doctor Who'' also has the fastest age-up yet seen. {{spoiler|River Song is introduced as an adult (s04e08) three years before she is born (s06e07) and two years before her parents joined the cast.}}
* In ''[[V-2009]]'', Ryan's daughter is aged up from a baby to a 7-year-old because she is used to test the rapid aging treatment that is used for Lisa's replacement.
** The original ''V'' did this with Elizabeth (twice!), supposedly because of her [[Half-Human Hybrid]] status.
* {{spoiler|Liam Kincaid}} from [[Earth: Final Conflict]] grows from a newborn to adulthood during the first part of the first episode of the second season. Explained by his being {{spoiler|one-third}} alien.
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' has an [[Inversion]]: when Zoey Bartlet was introduced in the first season, she was stated to be 19. In season 2 they decided that she was actually 17 so to add drama to the MS storyline.
* The ''[[Space: 1999]]'' episode "Alpha Child" is built around this trope, with the first child born on Moonbase Alpha going from infant to tween to adult in the course of a week. Since the series was episodic in nature, the [[Reset Button]] applies here.
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* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' Molly, Galatea, and Djali are species that age from babyhood to vague teenagerdom in the span of one month.
* Done repeatedly and then reversed in ''[[The Wotch]]'' to Evan/Lily. It's not actually relevant to the plot a lot of the time, but it has been used for a few story lines.
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* One of the many effects of the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] in ''[[Enjuhneer]]'' is that characters stay the same age for an entire year, then suddenly change in a manner comparative to [[Level Up|levelling up]]. This can cause [[Little Bit Beastly|drastic effects]], or can be as simple as suddenly acquiring a pair of [[White Gloves]] with no idea where they came from.
== Web Original ==
* Sarah Swanson of ''[[
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