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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''[[Our Vampires Are Different|Evangeline]]:''' Why don't you like me?
'''Evangeline:''' What?? [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|I'm over a hundred years old, you know]]!
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There are [[Moe]] characters whose youth and innocence attract a fanbase of sexual lust [[Misaimed Fandom|in spite of an author's intentions]] and then there's these characters who are meant to appeal to [[Lolicon]] tastes.
Girls (and occasionally boys) who ascribe to this trope are invariably [[Older Than They Look]] adults, or supernatural beings that are [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]. The narrative takes great pains to remind the audience that they are adults, thereby (poorly) attempting to justify the [[Fan Service|sexualization]] of their [[Squick|apparent innocence and youth]] because they are ''technically'' adults, and therefore that (supposedly) alleviates the reader of possible guilt. It can also reduce the disgust of those that aren't into kids, and thus drive fewer people away.
It's not just the guilt or disgust of the
Finally, this trope is also more often than not [[Not Growing Up Sucks|played for ''drama'' as well]]; the stigma of being a "forbidden object of lust" trapped in a "child's" body when one is an adult with sexual desires is a veritable ''goldmine'' of [[Angst]] driven drama and plot.
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* 900-year-old ChibiUsa<ref>She's insistent that she's 90'''2''' years old, as of the manga story that was used as the basis for the ''Sailor Moon S'' movie.</ref> of the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' manga is technically an example, but she's a lot more childlike a lot more often than she is mature and adult. However, Naoko does sometimes write her as acting more adult/mature than Usagi, so it varies. Not that being more mature than [[Idiot Hero|
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* 900-year-old ChibiUsa of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' is technically an example, but she's a lot more childlike a lot more often than she is mature and adult. However, Naoko does sometimes write her as acting more adult/mature than Usagi, so it varies. Not that being more mature than [[Idiot Hero|Usa]][[Dumb Is Good|gi]] takes very much; there are probably several ''genuine'' ten-year-olds who do it on a daily basis.
* By far the most extreme example of this trope is Al Azif, the lead heroine of ''[[Demonbane]]''. Despite taking the appearance of a young girl, Al Azif is in fact the avatar of the Necronomicon (yes, ''[[Cthulhu Mythos|that]]'' Necronomicon); she's stated to be several thousand years old, but given the history of the Necronomicon, may actually be many times that age.
* Evangeline A.K. McDowell of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is a '''500+''' year old vampire with the body of a 10 year old girl, dressing in [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] style. But boy is she
** There's also the magic age changing pills, which change the pubescent (though still young) students into younger girls (or vice versa, for Negi and Kotarou).
** Inverted by the third princess of the Hellas Empire. She's 30, but Hellans live longer than humans, so claims to be closer to 10 so Rakan will spoil her. Backfires on her when Rakan says little kids aren't allowed to drink alcohol and orders fruit juice for her.
* Mina Tepes of ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]'' has the appearance of a nine year old child. Although her age hasn't been confirmed neither in manga, nor in anime, she seems to continually beat the watcher around the head that she's much older. How much -- [[Epileptic Trees|is a viewer's guess]].
** The manga eventually shows that it's not her true form but a pretense she uses to avoid arranged marriage.
*
** Constantly lampshaded throughout the anime. Notable examples include: Asking her friends to pretend they're her sisters so she can get the children's discount, not having grown an inch (up or [[A-Cup Angst|out]]) on [[Measuring Day]], and wearing a [[School Swimsuit]] that was apparently issued
* Hagumi Hanamoto from ''[[Honey and Clover]]''.
* Fuko Ibuki from ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' {{spoiler|after being awaken from the coma. She has a childish mind, understandably}}.
* In ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'', Holo's human form is explicitly described in every adaptation as that of a ''fifteen'' year old girl, in spite of being over four-centuries old and implied to be more experienced in "that" aspect of life than Lawrence (who has actually embezzled his mentor's treasury as a boy to visit houses of ill-repute). Though bear in mind the "legal age" does not quite exist in Medieval Times yet, so Holo's frankness with her sexuality is not so much [[squick]]y as it is unusually "improper" for a young lady of her era and in-universe [[Values Dissonance]] due to lacking human social mores.
* Centuries
* Mimi of ''[[Mnemosyne]]'' looks like a child but is really [[Older Than They Look|much older]] {{spoiler|thanks to her immortality.}}
* In a similar vein, Minnie May Hopkins of ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'', who took anti-aging drugs so that the man she loved would recognize her the next time he saw her.
* Morino Ichigo of ''[[
* An in-universe example of ''[[
* Konjiki No Yami (aka Golden Darkness) of ''[[To
* The [[Yaoi]] manga ''[[Okane ga Nai]]'' barely avoids being
* Shizuku the Mizuchi of ''[[Omamori Himari]]''. Her exact age isn't specified, but she is at least 100 years old and looks about ten, gets just as many [[NSFW]] [[Fan Service]] shots as the more mature-looking girls, and has spent most of the series blatantly and obviously trying to get the teenage male lead into bed.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' has Vita, a [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|Ridiculously
* ''[[Black Jack]]'' has [[Ship Tease|hints]] of
* In-universe example in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' with Honey, who looks about 6 and actually is the eldest of the Club, at about 18.
* ''[[Detective Conan]]'' gives us Haibara Ai, the biochemist who {{spoiler|is responsible for creating the drug that turned Shinichi into Conan}}, and is a victim of the exact same poison. Her real age, as {{spoiler|Miyano Shiho/Sherry}}, is approximately 18, but due to the effects of APTX-4869, she appears to be no older than eight.
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** There's also {{spoiler|Florette "Fiore" Harvenheit}}, who appears to be fifteen, but when you do the math she's actually about twenty-five. {{spoiler|This is because Florette was killed at the age of fifteen, and Fiore is a "doll" made out of an artificial soul and [[Squick|Florette's reanimated body]]}}.
* Ageha in ''[[Toshiue no Hito]]'' is mistaken for jailbait, but she is {{spoiler|an 26 year old widow who just has an underdeveloped body.}}
* [[Deliberately Cute Child|Amber]] of ''[[Darker than Black]]'' qualifies. Though she's likely at least in her twenties or early thirties, her [[Power At a Price|
* Washu-chan from ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]''.
* Kuonji Miyu from ''[[They Are My Noble Masters]]'' looks like a very young girl, despite being in her early twenties.
* Mimina from ''[[Ladies versus Butlers!]]'' is 19 but looks 8. The main character Akiharu even comments on this, mistaking her for another student's younger sister, accidentally molesting her, then getting accused of being a lolicon.
* ''[[Futari Ecchi]]'' plays with this. A neighbor of the protagonist couple looks really young for her age. Every single panel that features her nude and/or having sex with husband features a little note mentioning her actual age.
* Nagato Yuki from ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' is an interesting straight trope/inversion/aversion ... thing. We see her on the day she's created looking like a 15 year old girl. Kyon meets her [[Younger Than They Look|when she's 3 years old]] but then after the time loop of "Endless Eight"
* This is zigzagged to hell and back in ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]''. [[Tyke Bomb|Cosette]] is, throughout the series, depicted as a normal nine
* At the end of the ''[[Ghost in
* ''[[Blood Alone]]'': The implied future for female lead Misaki, played for gentle angst. A young girl who has been turned into an unaging vampire, she has a crush on her 20-something protector but knows it will never go anywhere because she'll never become an adult woman.
* [[Adorkable]] supporting character and occassional [[Friendly Enemy]] to the main cast, [https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Mimi_Atachi#cite_note-ep7-2 Mimi Atachi] from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS]]''. She's 37 years old, and even has a 10-year-old son, but looks barely older than 12 herself.
== Comic Books ==
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* S'aru from ''[[Red Hood and the Outlaws]]'' looks like a preteen and lounges around half-naked, but he's really over 400 years old.
▲== Fan Fic ==
* An unintentional version has been known to cause problems in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' fanfic with fans who've only seen the movies and aren't aware that the nonhuman races age slower than humans in bookverse. Hobbits come of age at thirty-three, so a sixteen-year-old hobbit is roughly the equivalent of a ten-year-old human, and elves aren't counted as adults until they're fifty.
** Affected them in the movie universe, too. Apart from the hobbits' ages getting shuffled, Orlando Bloom's Legolas went from "these trees make me feel young again, as I have not since I traveled with you children" (he's between 500 and 3000 years old), to getting a pat on the arm and a "let it go, lad" from Gimli, who's only 139.
* ''[[The Not So Short Second Life of Bree Tanner]]'' offer the gem of a double subversion, Bree and Alec are both ''biologically'' teenager (15 and 14 respectively) when they are turned, but Alec is around 350 years old.
== Film ==
* In ''[[Let the Right One In]]'' [[Our Vampires Are Different|Eli]] has been twelve...for a long time.
* Played with in ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)|The Santa Clause]]'', when Scott meets an elf who looks ten, but is several hundred years old. He innocently remarks about her looks and ''she'' is the one who takes it the other way:
{{quote|'''Scott Calvin:''' You know, you look pretty good for your age.
'''Judy:''' Thanks, but I'm seeing someone in wrapping. }}
== Literature ==
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* Claudia in [[Anne Rice]]'s ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'' was turned when she was five (eleven in the movie). Due to the limitations of undead physiology, however, sex is entirely subtextual.
* Xulai in Sheri S. Tepper's ''[[The Waters Rising]]'' looks "about seven or eight" when the hero first meets her which disturbs him because he finds himself inappropriately attracted to her. Imagine his relief when her body changes to match her true age of twenty.
* In [[Ian McDonald]]'s ''Cyberabad Days'' a number of rich Indian families have their offspring genetically engineered in the womb both for superior intelligence and long life. This, however, comes at the price of aging literally half as fast, This results in [[Arranged Marriage|marriages]] between people who are
* Sylvia Martius in ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'' is really at least a century old. But she thinks like a 12-year-old and gets treated like one by everyone around her. In 60 years' time, she's managed to mature enough to be treated like a 17-year-old.
** Stella-Marie is an inversion: She was mechanized as a child, and put in a teen robot body. She still thinks like a 7-year-old; and only the most die-hard [[Robosexual]] would even consider her.
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* In ''[[Replay]]'', during one of their [[Groundhog Day Loop]]s, Jeff is 18 and Pamela is 14.
* An episode of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' had a 17
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* An episode of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' had a 17 year old dating an older man despite her having the body of a 10 year old. Notable in that the main source of her angst was the fact that her father treated her like she was one.
** She had [[wikipedia:Turner's syndrome|Turner's syndrome]], and was attempting to make the most of what little fertility she had (by seeking artificial insemination and the like). Although she was a senior in high school, she looked much younger as a result of her genetic abnormality, and [[All of the Other Reindeer|her classmates always teased her because of it.]]
* ''[[Star Trek]]''
** An inversion in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'': Kes is a young adult and looks like one. Her race lives for only 9 years and thus physically and mentally matures at an appropriately accelerated pace. At the start of the series, Kes is ''<s>two</s> one'' (her second birthday is in the season 1 finale). This doesn't stop humanlike-aging Neelix (and, in an alternate timeline, Tom Paris) from doing the deed with her.
** Another ''[[Star Trek]]'' inversion
*** Miles did at least figure out that he can still comfort Keiko and that they would figure out the rest later. Thankfully it wasn't necessary.
** Yet another is the [[Star Trek: The Original Series|TOS]] episode ''"Miri"'', where a [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|long
* Juliet in ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' passed as a high school student, including dating one, despite being a vampire 2,193 years old.
* The producers of ''[[Dateline (TV series)|To Catch a Predator]]'' made increasing use during its run of 18-year-old actors to pose as underage children to meet the alleged predators when they show up at the decoy house for sex. They fooled virtually everyone.
** One question this raises is why the alleged predators are in trouble at all, if in reality they're visiting an 18-year-old, and besides all of their previous interactions had been with adults posing as underage children. The reason is that they solicited someone whom they understood to be underage for sex, which is sufficient for legal purposes.
* ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'' had an episode featuring a 40-year-old vampire who looked about sixteen. (The actor was twenty.) His adoptive vampire parents threw a big party for him, where he was encouraged to drain a willing victim and then have sex with his adoptive mother. Even he was squicked by the whole thing.
* One episode of ''[[She Spies]]'' had Cassie, Shane and DD investigating a charity run by two brothers whose poster child was a disabled little girl called Amy; it was a con racket which the "girl" - actually [[Older Than They Look|an adult woman whose aging system was slowed down due to illness]] - was the ringleader of.
== Video Games ==
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* [[Boys Love]] game ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]'' takes place in a high school with teenaged love interests... save for Professor Umino who is a teacher in his 20's but looks to be about twelve.
* The ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' series has Luna, one of the possible bachelorettes. Her exact age is unspecified, though she is old enough to get married. She's also a short girl with [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] clothes and [[Girlish Pigtails]].
** In the next game her height is gone, she's even taller
** Katie also looks, and [[Adult Child|acts]], young but insists that she's an adult; she's a bachelorette also.
* ''[[Absolute Obedience]]'' features two characters as "targets" that appear to be very young teenagers, but are officially 18 and 19.
* ''[[Wild
* Remilia and Flandre Scarlet of the ''[[Touhou]]'' games both count, as they're 500 and 495 year old vampires, respectively, but have the bodies of ten year old girls. At least Remilia ''can'' act mature when she wants to. Flandre, on the other hand, amps up the [[Squick]] by having the mind of a child due to centuries of isolation. ''Touhou'' contains plenty of these characters, who range in age from Cirno, at least sixty years old, to Suwako, at least ''two thousand'' years old.
* ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', the ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' "sequel," features Shelke. She's nineteen, but physically stopped aging, leaving her in the body of a nine-year-old but with a very mature behavior.
* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]: [[Strange Journey]]'', Crewman [[Chivalrous Pervert|Anthony]] ''tries'' to invoke this trope to justify his attraction towards centuries-old female demons who happen to look like beautiful young women. It backfires horribly when the latest object of his affections, the demon [http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Moh_Shuvuu Moh Shuvuu], not only has the body of a little girl but also the ''personality'' of one, and she's more than understandably [[squick]]ed. As is the player character.
* In the ''[[Blade Runner]]'' game, one of the endings features your character running off into the sunset with a suspected replicant that looks like a 14 year old girl. About [[Randomly Generated Levels|75% of the time]] it turns out she's [[Squick|actually human]], but when she's a replicant her real age (like all replicants) is under 4. As an android, [[Crapsack World|her age is probably not considered an issue.]]
* [[Our Vampires Are Different|Rachel]] [[Dracula|Alucard]] of ''[[
* [[Bratty Half-Pint|Angelia]] [[Light Is Not Good|Avalon]] from ''[[Arcana Heart]]'' willingly froze her age when she was 10 years old.
* The fifth ''[[Elder Scrolls]]'' game, ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Skyrim]]'', has Babette, who looks like she's about ten, and is a member of the Dark Brotherhood. She's actually a several centuries old vampire. When you first enter the Sanctuary, she is telling the others about her latest mark, with the implication being that she seduced a pedophile.
* [[Ditzy Genius| Purah]] from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild]]'' is over 120 years old (older than [[Cool Old Lady| her sister Impa]], who is visibly elderly), but a botched experiment has made her physically a child.
** In the sequel, she has managed to perfect the process, and [[She's All Grown Up]], and [[Breakout Character|fans have certainly noticed.]]
* Fans of the [[Dating Sim]] game ''[[HuniePop]]'' have actually debated whether sleeping with Momo is breaking some sort of statutory rape law. Momo claims to be an actual cat who turned out a [[Cat Girl]], and is one year old. [[Word of God]] states that this is a cat's equivalent of 18, meaning she would be considered legal age. however, "cat to human conversion years" is not always agreed on, and it could mean anything from 15 to 24, depending on who is talking. Of course, even ''in game'' there is also some controversy over [[What Measure Is A Non Human| whether or not it's bestiality]]; seriously, players ''actually debate this''.
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', halflings and gnomes. Female adults of these races often look like children, [[Rule 34|does anything more need to be said?]]
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* Chibi-Sue in ''[[
* Would [[Rule 34]] fanart of [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Meloetta_(Pok%C3%A9mon) Meloetta] (an [[Olympus Mons]]) be child porn? [https://www.deviantart.com/rilexlenov/art/Lewd-Idol-740989508 One trainer] (an [[Author Avatar]]) is able to ask Meloetta how old it is, and it replies, "Older than humanity." The artist shrugs and says, "Works for me." (Be warned, the link is SFW, but much of the artist's other work is not.)
== Web Original ==
* A few have popped up in ''[[The Gungan Council]]'', but Toph Graystone is notable for using ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Toph]]'' as an avatar despite being ''18''.
* The [[Cute Monster Girl]] in ''[[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]]'' enjoy eternal youth, with some stop aging in child-like state, and most have a lifespan far longer than that of a human. So while some monsters look like children, there's a good chance they're [[Older Than They Look]] and [[Really 700 Years Old]]. The Sabbath cult also has spells that can reverse aging. Downplayed in universe, since marriage to monsters is illegal in anti-monster kingdoms, so it doesn't really matter if they're legal or not age-wise, since Monster's aren't, period.
== Western Animation ==
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* Strawberry Sweetcake from ''[[Drawn Together]]'' is a [[Dead Baby Comedy|very deliberate]] implementation of this trope. Too bad she's {{spoiler|[[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]}}.
{{quote|"I'm 18, silly, I only ''look'' eight!''}}
* The Warner siblings in ''[[Animaniacs]]'' are [[Older Than They Look]]. They appear to be between the ages of six and twelve, but are at least sixty. Dot is rather sexualized in the series. Outside of the series this is a common joke when characters count their age from the moment of creation rather than their character
* In the "Live Filming" of an episode of ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'', 15 year old Roberta states in a drunken rant she is actually 25.
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