Older Than They Look: Difference between revisions

** Even newborn babies are Older Than They Look: for a mother who's had prolong treatment, pregnancy lasts eleven and a half months.

** The trope also occurs in Weber's ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'', as a combination of biological enhancement, suspended animation, and (among the bad guys) outright [[Body Surf|body surfing]].

* In Garth Nix's ''[[Old Kingdom|Lirael]]'', the 19-year old title character senses her travelling companion Nick (her nephew Sam's best friend), developing a romantic interest in her, so tells him she's thirty-five with a marvelous skin-care regimen. Her [[Non-Human Sidekick]], the Disreputable Dog, backs her up because [[It Amused Me|she thinks it's hilarious]].

* In the latest novel in the ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' series, ''Cain's Last Stand'', Cain is a nearly 100-year old retiree who appears to be in his early fifties or so thanks to [[Applied Phlebotinum|regular juvenat treatments.]] Characters who have been receiving the treatments longer can cross into [[Really 700 Years Old]], such as Alizabeth Bequin in the Eisenhorn series, who's 170 or so but doesn't look any older than her 20s.

** Geralt's friend, chronicler and drinking buddy Dandelion has been described as being forty, sounding like he's thirty, looking like he's twenty and acting like he's ten.

** [[The Obi-Wan|Vesemir]], Geralt's mentor and the oldest witcher alive, may be pushing ''800'' but is still a match for Geralt physically.

 

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