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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}}
* 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 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 ''''Time Enough for Love'''', when Lazarus Long saves Dora from her parents' burning house, she seems to age several years over at most a few weeks. When her father tosses her out the window and Lazarus catches her, she seems to be a toddler (he identifies her at first sight as a "baby"). On the ride into town, she talks well enough to be three years old or so. When he takes her to visit her parents' grave not long afterward, she acts kindergarten age at least. Of course, Heinlein's later fiction has a sentimental preoccupation with what he calls "baby girls," by which he can mean any human female who hasn't reached puberty, so maybe he wasn't sure himself how old Dora was when Lazarus adopted her.
* In Robert Heinlein's ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'', when Lazarus Long saves Dora from her parents' burning house, she seems to age several years over at most a few weeks. When her father tosses her out the window and Lazarus catches her, she seems to be a toddler (he identifies her at first sight as a "baby"). On the ride into town, she talks well enough to be three years old or so. When he takes her to visit her parents' grave not long afterward, she acts kindergarten age at least. Of course, Heinlein's later fiction has a sentimental preoccupation with what he calls "baby girls," by which he can mean any human female who hasn't reached puberty, so maybe he wasn't sure himself how old Dora was when Lazarus adopted her.
* 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 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.
* 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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