Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Difference between revisions

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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 offscreen training in the dangai, where time passes exorbitantly fast, {{spoiler|Ichigo}} returns looking [[She's All Grown Up|all grown up.]]

* ''[[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]].

* Instead of 8 year old [[Katekyo Hitman Reborn|Futa]] also being involved in the Future Arc, his 18 year old self stays to be a competent supporting cast. Doesn't happen with Lambo and I-pin, though.

* In ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', Piccolo grows from a small child to an adult in a span of three years, probably because it would be a little strange for Goku to fight a little kid who wants to take over the world.

** This is made even more obvious by the fact that Goku himself [[Not Allowed to Grow Up|doesn't age]] at all until a [[Time Skip]] that is setting up [[Dragonball Z|the next series]].

* Kon from ''[[Amatsuki]]'' spends two years in the virtual world before his classmate Toki arrives there, allowing him to grow into a [[Big Brother Mentor]] figure for the latter.

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** From X-Factor: {{spoiler|Layla Miller}}'s ''barelylegalification'' has her going to the future and coming back.

** For a while even [[Fantastic Four|Reed and Sue Richards']] son Franklin fell victim to this trope, being kidnapped into the future and coming back as the teenage ''Psi-Lord''. Silly, yes, but it did give young Franklin's tremendous mental powers a break from [[Deus Ex Machina]] and/or [[Puberty Superpower]] duty - his older self was in control of them. It was, of course, later reversed.

** [[Captain America]]'s [[Arch Enemy]] the [[Red Skull]] used his [[Deus Ex Machina]] to age his daughter [[Daddy's Little Villain]] Sin from a 13 year old [[Creepy Child]] [[Enfant Terrible]] into a 23 year old [[Axe Crazy]] [[Dark Action Girl]] that makes her father look sane by comparison.

** [[Captain America (comics)]]'s [[Arch Enemy]] the [[Red Skull]] used his [[Deus Ex Machina]] to age his daughter [[Daddy's Little Villain]] Sin from a 13 year old [[Creepy Child]] [[Enfant Terrible]] into a 23 year old [[Axe Crazy]] [[Dark Action Girl]] that makes her father look sane by comparison.

** [[Incredible Hulk|The Hulk's]] sons Skaar and Hiro-Kala are physically young teens, but chronologically only a couple of years old, partly thanks to their mother being one of the alien Shadow People, who have an accelerated maturation rate. Skaar actually has a "puny" (human) form that is at least still a child.

*** When you consider Skaar's the first Hulk "person" to grow up from birth on-screen, his growth, muscle tone and mental development rate may be the norm. To give reference, in Son of Hulk #1 even as a newborn Skaar appeared to be nearly as large as one of Miek and the Brood's offspring and stronger than them.

* Alexander Luthor, Jr. in ''[[Crisis Crossover|Crisis on Infinite Earths]]''.

* Right before the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Adventure]]'' arc of the [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Archie comics]], Amy Rose does this to herself with a wish to justify her joining the party; otherwise, the rest of the gang would've forbidden her from joining for being too young, and the whole game tie-in thing would fall apart.

** Apparently the same thing happened to her [[Evil Twin|negative-dimension counterpart]], [[Yandere|Rosy Rascal]], although her reasons for wanting to be older [[Love Makes You Evil|weren't quite so noble.]] [[Love Makes You Crazy|It had the side effect of breaking her brain]], turning her into a [[Ax Crazy|dangerous psychopath.]] And you thought ''Amy'' [[Clingy Jealous Girl|was possessive...]]

** Apparently the same thing happened to her [[Evil Twin|negative-dimension counterpart]], [[Yandere (disambiguation)|Rosy Rascal]], although her reasons for wanting to be older [[Love Makes You Evil|weren't quite so noble.]] [[Love Makes You Crazy|It had the side effect of breaking her brain]], turning her into a [[Ax Crazy|dangerous psychopath.]] And you thought ''Amy'' [[Clingy Jealous Girl|was possessive...]]

* Arisia from ''[[Green Lantern]]'' physically ages herself from about 13 Earth years to at least 18 Earth years so she can pursue a crush on Hal Jordan. Later, to make Hal Jordan not look like a skeeve, this was subject to several [[Retcon|Retcons]], and, in current continuity, 13 years on her world are equivalent to 240 on Earth.

* Jenny Quantum of ''[[The Authority]]'' does this to herself. After meeting the incarnations of centuries past and becoming aware of the current problem, Jenny uses her quantum powers to go from six years old to high school age.

* [[Infinite Crisis]] did this to Bart Allen/Kid Flash via spending four years in an alternate dimension accessed via the Speed Force, thus turning him into someone old enough to be the new Flash (after spending a while, [[Refusal of the Call|Refusing The Call]]) while Wally and his family were on another planet. He was then the new Flash for a while {{spoiler|until Inertia, his [[Evil Twin]], got the [[Rogues Gallery]] together and killed him, perhaps [[Executive Meddling|to make room for Wally's return]].}}

** Interestingly, the reason Wally was off on the other world was to deal with his speed-powered twin kids who were receiving the same treatment- they're chronologically less than two but look eight or so, {{spoiler|and nobody knows if their aging has truly evened out or if it's temporary: any given morning Wally and Linda could wake up to find them teenagers or senior citizens or dead,}} so they're being rushed into the [[Legacy Character|Family Business]].

* ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'' has Brianna, an accidental [[Cloning Blues|composite clone]] of Brittany and Gina. She was born fully grown, with both sets of memories, and had to establish an identity for herself. It was eventually established that some of her more childish personality traits owe to the fact that her ''soul'' is still her real, chronological age, and never got to experience a real childhood. Her {{spoiler|sadly deceased}} granny was the only person insightful enough to treat her with the level of affection she would give a little girl.

* While the [[Phantom Zone]] normally suspends aging, [[Superman]]'s son Chris emerges from its imprisonment as a teenager.

* [[The Mighty Thor]] inverted this, giving Loki a Plot Relevant Age ''Down'' where he was reincarnated as his child self after dying. It avoided being [[Narm]] or too heavy-handed when an echo of the older Loki revealed his reasons for having it happen. Preteen Loki has been hugely popular, making it work very well.

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** Eragon blessed a baby who grows to about four years old in her next appearance. It turns out he actually cursed her, forcing her to eat huge amounts of food, making her mature mentally and physically at a rate far faster than normal. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].

* In ''[[Warlock (film)|Warlock]]'' the titular [[Evil Sorcerer]] cursed the heroine to age by 20 years ''each day'' just [[For the Evulz]]. However, she managed to reverse the spell and restore her youth.

* In ''[[The Return of Hanuman]]'', Hanuman reincarnated as Maruti rapidly ages into an elementary school student in three months in order to quickly help an elementary school boy from being bullied.

* In ''[[Excalibur]]'', Morgana ages her son Mordred from a child to a young adult in order to face Arthur in combat.

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== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Angel]]''

** In season 3 when Angel's son was born, kidnapped, sucked into another dimension where time moves faster, he comes back as a 16 year old.

** Also used when Buffy apparently kills Angel, but actually sends him to a hell dimension at the end of season 2. When he returns months later in Season 3, he is actually several centuries older. Of course, being an immortal vampire, he looks exactly the same. His mind, [[Insane Equals Violent|on the other hand]]...

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* ''[[Ultraman]]'' Mebius takes place 20 years "real time" after the last monster attacked and brings back everyone except Taro's actor.

* 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.