Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Difference between revisions

* 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]]s, and, in current continuity, 13 years on her world are equivalent to 240 on Earth.

* ''[[Metal Gear]]''-[[The Verse|verse]] [[Cloning Blues|clones]] age normally up until the time when senescence<ref>the last cycles of aging</ref> starts to set in, which then hits them like a train. This was used to age the main character, Snake, from a young and handsome hero in his early thirties into an [[Older and Wiser]] [[Cool Old Guy|forty-something]] in the space of only two years in chronology. In ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', despite the fact that he is chronologically in his early forties, he is, by all appearances and genetic testing well into his seventies. Heck, he looks older than some eighty year olds in the game. [[Foreshadowing|Prior to this]], Snake and Raiden had seen how hard the aging hits with Solidus Snake in ''Metal Gear Solid 2''--despite—despite being chronologically younger than Solid Snake, the Patriots had engaged his accelerated aging process early so that he would appear to be middle-aged during the events of the first game and thus {{spoiler|would be able to fit in the role of being the Patriots' puppet President of the United States. As the elections were rigged, the Patriots needed to make their candidate seems as plausible as possible to maintain their charade.}} By the time of the game's events, Solidus's accelerated aging has gone even further and he rather resembles Snake in Metal Gear Solid 4.