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** Keel Lorentz, the head of [[Ancient Conspiracy|SEELE foundation]], is rumored to be an Eternal Jew himself. Though he leaves enough of the [[Hollywood Cyborg|high-tech implants ]]during the Instrumentality.

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': [[Youkai]] have lifespans that are vastly in excess of human lifespans. Even child characters such as [[Kitsune|Shippou]] have been around for decades despite their biological youth. Teen characters such as Sesshoumaru have been around for centuries. Even a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] has an unnaturally long lifespan. The [[Canon]] never gives Inuyasha's age, but a flashback to his mother shows she wore the clothes of a Heian noblewoman, and that era died out 500 years before the story's setting ([[Filler|the anime gives him an age of 200]]). [[Big Bad|Naraku]] [[Half-Human Hybrid|himself]] has been around for decades at least.

** Fai from the same continuity looks to be in his twenties, but isn't. {{spoiler|His real age is never said, but Yuko commented that despite his apparent youth he had already lived several lifespans.}}

* Washuu Ryuugasaki, the school principal in ''[[Cyber Team in Akihabara]]''.

* Klan Klang from ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' is an odd example. In her natural [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|Zentraedi]] state, she looks the right age ([[Boobs of Steel]] aside), but when [[Incredible Shrinking Man|micronized]] to human size she looks like a 10- or 12-year-old because of a genetic defect. This actually inhibits a potential relationship with her crush [[Chivalrous Pervert|Mikael]], who points out that if they got together, [[Lolicon|he'd be arrested]] - which earns him a [[Dope Slap]] from the unhappy Klan.

* Xellos from ''[[Slayers]]'' looks to be somewhere from 16 to 20. He is... if you add about 1000 years to that. {{spoiler|Being a member of the demon race does help though.}}

* Mephisto Pheles of ''[[Blue Exorcist]]'' {{spoiler|is said to have been working with the exorcists for around 200 years at this point. He is probably even older than that.}} He looks more like he's in his thirties - sometimes a little younger or older.

* One chapter of [[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]] shows a [[Flash Forward|brief glimpse fifty years into the future]] in which the former students have noticeably aged (Nami and Mataro are white-haired and wrinkled, Usui is almost completely bald, Kaede is shown in silhouette but has a granddaughter). Then there's {{spoiler|[[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|Kafuka]],}} who hasn't changed. ''At all''.

* ''[[Bag Enders]]'' features the [[The Lord of the Rings|Fellowship of the Ring]] living in early-2000s England. Technically all the characters fall under this heading, being Really Six Thousand Years Old, but the hobbits in particular are constantly mistaken for children. This gives them problems when being carded in pubs, but allows them to get away with childrens' fares on trains and infiltrate the Boy Scouts.

* Chaos from the ''[[Tamers Forever Series]]'' fits the trope

'''Chaos:''' ''Hey!'' }}

* This comes up in ''[[The Man qith No Name (fanfic)|The Man With No Name]]'' when River mentions that [[Doctor Who|the Doctor]] is too old for her. [[Firefly|Mal]], believing himself to be about the same age, feels rather put out by this (funnily enough, [[Nathan Fillion]] and [[David Tennant]] are less than a month apart age-wise. Were the Doctor human and both of them the same age as their actors, Reynolds would be right on the money).

** Legolas is the youngest elf to have a significant role in the books, and one ambiguous remark implies that he's more than 500 years old.

* The villainess in ''Kull The Conquerer'', leading to this exchange:

'''Kull''': She said she was 19! }}

* In the film version of ''[[The Green Mile]]'', {{spoiler|Mr. Jingles the mouse}} is still alive, albeit very elderly, after an unprecedented {{spoiler|sixty years. Mice normally only live for one to three years, making the little guy older than Methuselah when adjusted for species.}}

* Mother Gothel from ''[[Tangled]]'' is stated to be several centuries old.

* The 2000 ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (film)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' film had this little interaction between Snails and Norda, the elf, when Snails is chatting her up:

'''Norda:''' I'm two hundred and thirty-four. }}

* In ''[[The Santa Clause]]'', all the elves are played by children, one of whom informs Scott that she has "pointy shoes that are older than you". Judy, one of the head elves, looks to be about ten years old. When she mentions that it took her 1,200 years to perfect her coco recipe, Scott Calvin/Santa Claus tells her, "You know I must say, you look pretty good for your age," to which she hilariously responds, "Thanks... but I'm seeing someone in wrapping," eliciting a stare, a look of shock and a silently-mouthed "ooookay..." from Scott/Santa.

** At one point Legolas reflects that he has lived longer than the country of Rohan has existed.

** Tom Bombadil and Goldberry are as old as the world itself (at least ol' Tom is) and don't look much older than the elves.

** Fangorn/Treebeard probably is the only creature still living in Middleearth that comes remotely close to the age of Bombadil, as he's referred to as the oldest living being that still walks under the sun.

It walked the forests long ago.'' }}

** And Gollum is over 500, having had his lifespan greatly increased by the One Ring. Of course he doesn't look young, or even his original ''species''. And [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|he went mad]] and [[Gonk|ugly]] from the Ring's powers.

* The Canes, a whole race of werewolves in ''[[Codex Alera]]'' may fit in these trope. They can live up to 1000 years and still have the appearance/strength associated with youth.

* In the ''[[Mortal Instruments]]'' series Magnus Bane is said to look like he stopped aging at age 19, but is thought to be over 300 years old. in the book City Of Glass it is revealed when he is having an argument with Alec Lightwood that he is in fact MUCH older than previously thought.

'''Magnus''': Well, eight hundred. But I don't look it. Anyway, you're missing the point. }}

* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', witches and wizards can live quite a while past their first century: Dumbledore is 116 years old and still [[Badass]] enough to take on [[Big Bad|Lord Voldemort]], and during Harry's fifth-year examinations there's a witch who lived long enough to give ''Dumbledore'' his exams (exact age isn't stated, but she would presumably be about 150).

* Jadzia Dax (and her successor Ezri Dax) on ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' is an interesting case because, due to the symbiotic nature of her species she is both in her late 20s and hundreds of years old.

** Indeed, Sisko's teenage son Jake is quite pleased when urbane Jadzia turns into a ditzy twenty-something.

'''Benjamin Sisko:''' She is also about 300 years too old for you. }}

* Guinan of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' is at least 500 years old. At one point, Data's transported to the 19th century, where he spots Guinan having a conversation with [[Mark Twain]] at a dinner party. He assumes she was somehow sent back in time as well, only to quickly learn that this is actually her 19th century self. In the episode ''Rascals'', set in 2369, she says her father is 700.

** Tolian Soran, a member of the same race as Guinan and infamously the man to kill James T Kirk, was described as being "over 200 years old" by Dr Crusher (although interestingly he looked older than Guinan).

* At the end of the famous episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' "Arena" (the one with the [[People in Rubber Suits|Rubber Suit]] monster Gorn), the Metrons are revealed to be [[Human Aliens]].

'''Metrone:''' I am approximately 1,500 of your Earth years old. }}

** Also in ''Miri''. She's a prepubescent girl, but about 300 years old.

'''Capt. Kirk:''' I never get involved with older women, Yeoman. }}

* An episode of ''The [[Twilight Zone]]'' had a College Professor of about 25, preparing to marry the roughly 18-24 year-old daughter of another professor, set in the then-contemporary world of the early 1960s; what we discover is that {{spoiler|he took a treatment which caused him to stop aging when he was 25, from an alchemist back around the time of Julius Caesar, and has been alive for over a thousand years.}}

* Lorien in ''[[Babylon 5]]'' looks to be an elderly man (okay, okay... an elderly ''alien'' man) in his 60s or 70s, but he was the first being in the galaxy to achieve sentience. Given how old some of the races that look up to him are, he's very, very old indeed.

'''Lorien''': No -- not one of the first ones. I *am* the first one. }}

** Even ordinary humans in ''B5'' may be a mild example of this trope, as the average human lifespan is ~100 years. Presumably the healthier ones would live decades longer than that.

* Corpral Vog from ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' estimates his age at 12 million years with a 1% margin of error. Notably, that rounding error is longer than the history of human civilization even accounting for the series being set a thousand years in [[The Future]].

** Also, this little gem (from a member of the same species):

'''Rod:''' Oh, my people have been down there for ''much'' longer than that. No, I was just talking about ''me'', personally. }}

* The golem girls from ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' don't look like they could be any older that mid-twenties, but they are thousands of years old {{spoiler|even before you factor in the [[Groundhog Day Loop]].}}

* Liz the [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]] from ''[[Blip]]'' is [http://www.blipcomic.com/232/ about 5 centuries old.] She lost count after the first two. It's hinted that Mary is even older.

* In ''[[Wooden Rose]]'', [http://www.woodenrosecomic.com/comic/chapter5/116.html Aidan is five hundred years old].