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* Deliberately invoked by the witches in ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'' when the witches realize their Hero is only 3 years old. Instead of waiting for him to grow older, they {{spoiler|move the entire kingdom of Lancre 15 years into the future}}
* In the novel ''[[The Amorous Umbrella]]'' (sequeal to ''[[The Incredible Umbrella]]''), Our Hero ends up in a universe based in 1950's soap opera tropes, where he is trapped for several years. Being a dimensional outsider, he ''notices'' the SORAS cases, but nobody else does, even when it's pointed out to them. It worries him that a stepson he acquired, now an infant, will be an adult in five or six years and may - in an ''[[Oedipus Rex]]''-inspired plotline common with 1950's soap operas - attempt to kill him.
* In Robert Heinlein's ''
* In the ''[[Adrian Mole]]'' series, Glenn is born in 1990, but is already twelve years old in 1997 (when Adrian discovers he is Glenn's father) and then becomes a soldier in 2002 at age seventeen.
* In ''[[Rome]]'', the teenage Octavius goes off to war for a year or two and returns as a man, played by a new, older actor. Several characters note how different he looks, with one blaming military rations. The physical change coincides with a change in Octavius' character from the clever child Octavius to the [[Magnificent Bastard]] Caesar Agustus.
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