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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu|Haré+Guu]]'', Hale is 10 while his mother Weda is 24. {{spoiler|It's the reason she lives in the jungle: Her city family kicked her out.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Atsuko Urameshi from ''[[
* Banji's mother in [[Go Nagai]]'s ''[[Delinquent in Drag]]'' (''Oira Sukeban'') gave birth to Banji in her early teens, explicitly stated in dialogue.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Devil Hunter Yohko]]'', Yohko's mother Sayoko was 15 when Yohko was born. It was [[Good Bad Girl|Sayoko's youthful indiscretion]] that [[Virgin Power|prevented her from becoming a devil hunter]], so Yohko must take her grandmother's place.
* ''Boys Empire'' has this with almost everyone eventually, but it is H-manga with [[Incest Is Relative]]...
** In order of oldest to youngest: {{spoiler|Mina Tamura}}, daughter Sakura, 17. Umeko Tamura (nee Sakagami), daughter Mina, 15<ref> and the father was 10</ref>; son Makoto, 20. Hitomi Mizumura, son {{spoiler|Makoto}}, ''12''.
* In ''[[Toradora
* Sanae Furukawa of ''[[
** Nagisa gave birth to Ushio at age 21. {{spoiler|And then, she fell victim to [[Death
** Seems to be very common in Clannad or just [[Key Visual Arts|Key's]] works in general. Tomoya's mother gave birth to him shortly after marrying her husband. His parents married when his father was still in school.
* In the [[Distant Finale]] of ''[[
** That, and {{spoiler|two of the kids are twin girls no older than three years old. The third child is actually born ''in that same [[Distant Finale]]''.}}
* Hinagiku and Yukiji's {{spoiler|adopted}} mother in ''[[
** Mikoto is stated to have had Wataru when she was young (and there's implication that Nagi's mother also gave birth while she was young) and actually left Wataru in the care of his maid Saki because of it. Mikoto still looks young despite having a 13-year-old son.
* ''[[Rosario to Vampire]]'' gives us [[Horny Devil|Kurumu's]] mother Ageha and [[An Ice Person|Mizore's]] mother Tsurara, both of whom appear to be in their early thirties; the anime reveals them to have been classmates. Justified in Tsurara's case, since Yuki-Onna go sterile at a very young age, and as a succubus, Ageha probably didn't want to take things slowly either.
* {{spoiler|Marine Gabrielle de Polignac}} in ''[[
* ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[Don't Be a Menace
== [[Literature]] ==
* Gender inverted in ''[[
* In ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', Juliet's mother says she was already a mother at Juliet's current age (nearly 14) in justification of Juliet's [[Arranged Marriage]] with Paris.
** [[Values Dissonance|Which was normal... back then]], as girls from rich families got married around that age so they'd be able to have healthy kids soon. Poorer women would marry later (around 20 or older), as possible suitors would take far more time to gather enough money for a decently-sized household.
* In the [[Kate Thompson]] book ''Children of the Night'', the teenaged protagonist's mother was only 14 when she had him. He realizes that his father, who he never knew, must have been an adult, as she would have told him if his father was a classmate of hers. This squicks him out, as the idea that an adult could take advantage of a young girl like that is inherently disturbing.
* Gender reversed in ''[[The Shipping News]]'', where the protagonist calculates that his grandfather must have been about 11 when he fathered a child. His aunt's reply is simply: "You don't know Newfoundlanders."
* Several examples in the works of [[
* In [[
* In [[Clan of the Cave Bear]], Ayla is ''eleven'' when she has her son Durc - her sister Uba isn't much off that when she gets pregnant. Justified in-universe in that the Clan have a lifespan of about thirty and go through menopause in their early twenties, and so have children early, and Ayla was held to their standards.
* In ''Ginger Pye'', Jerry and Rachel's mother married their father at the age of seventeen, at a time when such marriages were unusual but not unheard of. Their grandmother is still quite young, and they have a three-year-old uncle, affectionately referred to as "Uncle Benny" by everyone in the neighborhood.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Shadowgirls]]'', Charon had Becka at 15, and Chrissy had her daughter Missy at around 17.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Equestria Chronicles]] has Kettle Cornflakes, who it is very clearly stated was raped and birthed her daughter at the age of 15. [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[
* The title character of ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' officially adopted the then 6-year old Vivio when she was just 19. One [[Doujinshi|fan comic]] had fun with this small age difference by having Nanoha introduce Vivio to her parents with no prior information, causing her father Shiro to have a breakdown when he thought that she got Vivio the usual way at the tender age of 13. See it here (comic is SFW, but ads may not be): [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/133936\] [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/133937\] [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/133938\] [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/133939\]
** Taking this even further, as of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** There's also Fate, who's the official guardian of Caro even though they only have a 9 year difference between them<ref>Technically, Fate's younger than that, since she was a clone created only a few years before the events of the first season.</ref> Erio would also count, but he's officially under the guardianship of the forty-something Lindy since he was rescued back when Fate was still too young to officially be his guardian. Fate goes on to become Vivio's other mother, as well as Lutecia's legal guardian for the time when her mother Megane is still in her coma.
** Averted with Subaru Nakajima who, while likely old enough to become {{spoiler|Tohma's}} guardian in Force, despite being only six years older than he is, asks her father to take him in.
* Eureka (14-16) of ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' has three adopted children, all orphans. {{spoiler|She's the one who orphaned them.}}
** In the epilogue, {{spoiler|all three children are adopted by Renton as well, who is also 16, as Maurice, Maeter, and Linck all are shown to have the last name Thurston. It is also implied that Renton and Eureka are married, at least legally.}}
* At age 15, Fraw Bow from ''[[
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', the Outer Senshi (all 16-17) adopt Hotaru after she has magically regressed to an infant. She then magically re-ages to around 13.
* In ''[[Bunny Drop]]'', 30 year old Dankichi pretty much adopts Rin, his grandpa's 6-year-old daughter (and technically his ''aunt'').
* Yuuri (16), from [[Kyo Kara Maoh!]], adopts the ten year old girl, Greta, who tried to kill him in her first appearance.
* Satoshi, from [[D.N.Angel]], was adopted as a teenager by a man in his twenties.
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== Fanfiction ==
* There's a ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
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* Paige of ''[[Women of the Otherworld]]'' adopted Savannah when Paige was 23 and Savannah was 13. Then Paige marries Lucas Cortez, also in his mid-twenties, and Savannah has two parent figures less than a decade older than her.
* Twenty-five-year-old [[Kate Daniels]] becomes the legal guardian of twelve-year-old Julie. At first Kate refers to herself as a substitute mom, then as a crazy aunt, but she always refers to Julie as her kid.
* In the ''[[Flowers in
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Princess Maker 2]]'', you can be a very young man when you adopt your daughter (in fact, you can adopt her at 11, and she starts at 10...).
* In ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' has several of these, perhaps most notably Washu being Ryoko's mother, despite the fact that Washu actually looks younger than Ryoko. In actuality, while Ryoko is merely a child at 7,000 or so, Washu is, depending on who you ask, either 20,000 or ''older than the universe''. She cheats via <s> magical</s> scientific age modification.
* ''[[
* ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' has Hayate and the Wolkenritter, [[Wise Beyond Their Years|Hayate]] acts as a mother figure at age nine, while the Wolkenritter are likely [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|centuries old]]
** Their "official" ages in [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* In ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'', Goku is de-aged to childhood as the result of the Dragonballs, making him approximately the same age as his granddaughter, 10-year-old Pan.
** Even before that, Goku was looking young to be the father of his professor son Gohan but this is because Saiyans remain in their prime longer than humans. Neither Bulma nor Chi Chi are thrilled, and you can guess how the latter reacts to her husband's further de-aging.
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* In one ''[[The Sandman (Comic Book)|Sandman]]'' volume it's remarked that Orpheus' mother doesn't seem old enough to be his mother. This is understandable, since she is Calliope, [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|an immortal muse from Greek myth]]. Less understandable is that despite being the child of [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Dream of the Endless]] and Calliope, Orpheus seems to be aging normally for a human...
** That's because the Ancient Greeks weren't big on Mendelian genetics. You could be the son of a god and a nymph and still be a mortal man, albeit with a cool pedigree to boast about.
* Cable from ''[[X
** Same goes for X-Man (Alternate Cable. He's made from Scott and Jean's DNA by an [[Evilutionary Biologist]], grown to adulthood, looks 20 while parents are getting toward 30) and Rachel Summers (Scott and Jean's daughter presumably through normal means, returned from a [[Bad Future]] that may or may not still occur.)
* In the ''[[Yoko Tsuno]]'' book ''The Three Suns of Vinea'', Khany is reunited with her mother, who was put in [[Human Popsicle|suspended animation]] at the same age Khany is now. As a result, mother and daughter now have the same biological age, prompting the former to try to make things less awkward by insisting that Khany consider her her sister rather than her mother.
* Adam Destine of ''[[
* From the Hulk comic, the organization known as ''The Pantheon'' is lead by centuries-old, but adolescent looking Agamemnon. His immortality kicked in while young. His many sons, grandsons and grand-grandsons looks older than him.
** However, he usually takes the appearance of a [[Large and In Charge|towering]] old man with a long, white beard when he appears at the Pantheon.
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== Film ==
* The 2011 sci-fi thriller ''[[
== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* The ''[[
* Another ''Eva'' fic, ''[[Nobody Dies]]'', has two examples: the Reego and the Keiworu. The Reego are virtual constructs made by Iruel for Rei's [[Lotus Eater Machine]], as theoretical offspring of her and Evangelion Unit 05. Unit 05 "saved" them from deletion when Iruel was defeated and now they exist as AI's in the real world, and consider Rei (who is 16) and Unit 05 (much younger) to be their parents. The Keiworu are AI copies of Kei Ayanami's mind randomized with elements of Kaworu's mind (both of them being 16), and also consider the two to be their parents.
* ''[[The Return (
== [[Literature]] ==
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*** ''Kiva'' also features Wataru and Taiga's mother Maya who, being a Fangire, doesn't age at the same rate as a human and looks around 20 years old; appearing younger than Taiga, who is in his mid-to-late 20s.
* In ''[[Rentaghost]]'', ghosts manifest as they age they were when they died. So Hubert Davenport's mother, who died in her twenties, looks much younger than her son, who died when he was much older (his late fifties or early sixties).
* In ''[[
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' takes this to insane levels, where, due to a mixture of time travel, [[The Nth Doctor|Regeneration]] and slower aging, {{spoiler|Melody Pond}} is physically in her 40s for much of the series (though chronologically at least a decade older by her {{spoiler|River Song}} incarnation]]), while her parents are physically in their 20s (though mentally, her father is technically {{spoiler|almost 2000}}).
* [[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]] was somewhere in her 20s/30s when she had her daughter Eve. Shortly after Eve's birth, Xena was frozen in ice for two decades. When she emerges unaged, she and Eve look the same age - and physically, that's almost the case.
* In ''[[Torchwood
* ''[[Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger]]'': Asuka and Mahoro are both around their early 20s, but due to their infant daughter being used as a host for the soul of the [[Big Bad]], she first appears as a child of around seven and then a young woman in her late teens, while her parents remain the same age.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[
* From ''[[
* ''[[
== [[Visual Novel|Visual Novels]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* You might not suspect it, but ''[[
* In ''[[Sailor Sun]]'', 20 year old Bay Smith alternatively plays mother to two versions of her daughter Brady Honey Smith that were snatched from [[Kid From the Future|alternate futures]]: [http://www.sailorsun.org/browse.php?comicID=482 18 year old Honey] and [http://www.sailorsun.org/browse.php?comicID=512 kindergartner/preschooler Brady.]
* In ''[[
* Nina and Layla's mom in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' does ''not'' look like could have had ''13'' children. Justified in that she's a [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]]. (Vampires can reproduce in this verse the same as humans.)
* In ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', when Roy meets his mother in the afterlife, he doesn't recognize her because she's no older than he is. His father, meanwhile, looks like an old man. Sara explains that his father always was an old man at heart, while she thinks of herself as a young woman still.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[
==== No actual small age difference between the characters ====
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* In ''[[Otaku no Musume San]]'', Taeko and her mother are respectively [[Younger Than They Look|Younger]] and [[Older Than They Look]]. Taeko is occasionally assumed to be the mother although she's still in high school.
* Kusanagi in ''[[The Sky Crawlers]]'' looks about twelve to fifteen, but is {{spoiler|[[Older Than They Look|older]]}} than she looks.
* In ''[[
** Despite the show/game being filled with [[Generic Cuteness]], Tomoya specifically states Sanae's youthful appearance is strange and mysterious. This is made extremely apparent when you [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckH-mSrme6k compare her to the midwife who delivered little Ushio]. This midwife was actually a classmate of Sanae's in high school.
** She also fits in the "pregnancy at a young age folder" since its stated that she was pregnant at a young age. Combine it with this folder and it comes as no surprise that she is also a [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|hot grandma]], who perfectly could to be mistaken by the mother of her granddaughter, at least.
* In a similar vein to Sanae, Miyuki Takara's mother Yukari in ''[[
** And if Yukari, then certainly Miki, the mother of Inori, Matsuri, Kagami, and Tsukasa. She's claimed to be 47, and although it was a lie (she thought it was cute and expected), a 47-year-old woman could easily have four college-age daughters... but she still looks like she could be one of the sisters herself.
* ''[[Ah!
** Hild is [[Satan|the Queen of Demons]], so she goes under [[Immortality]], for looking like Urd's sister. [[God|Kami-sama]] is [[The Faceless]], so we don't know about him.
* In ''[[Star Driver]]'', up until the reveal, the best evidence against the theory that {{spoiler|Reiji Miyabe/Head}} was Takuto's father was that he didn't look like he was out of highschool himself, much less old enough to father a fifteen-year-old son. Turns out that he ages ''really'' well. Or not at all, apparently.
* In ''[[Medaka Box]]'', Zenkichi's mother even passes as an elementary school student, despite being 42 years old.
* Bulma's mother from ''[[
* Akira's parents in [[Family Complex]] could pass off as 17 despite being around 40 years old.
** [[Lampshaded]] in the [[Princess Princess]] crossover manga when Toru and Yuujiro try to guess who is who in the Sakamoto family. They tend to get it wrong.
* In ''[[Code Breaker]]'', Sakura's mother was mistaken as her elementary school sister.
* A [[Spear Counterpart]] example from ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure
* ''[[Suite Pretty Cure]]'' has Kanade's mom Misora. When the fans first saw her on the previews for episode 4, they thought she was a candidate for a possible [[Sixth Ranger]].
== [[Film]] ==
* In Alfred Hitchcock's ''[[North
* In ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]'' (1962), [[Angela Lansbury]] was only three years older than Laurence Harvey, who played her son.
* [[Angela Lansbury]] was nine years and three months older than [[Elvis Presley]], her son in ''Blue Hawaii''.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Ann's mother in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''-- Michael can't believe that Ann's mom is so hot, and covers it by claiming he can believe she's so young. Maeby asks if [[Playing Gertrude|she looks old enough to play Topher Grace's mom]].
* [[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin's]] mother Hunith looked normal enough in the first season, when Merlin himself appeared extremely young and was described as a "young boy" in the [[Opening Narration]]. Five years pass in the show's time-line, and when Hunith reappears, looking exactly the same as she did half a decade ago despite her son's sudden growth spurt (and now refered to as "a young man"), she is suddenly this trope.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Yuki's mother in ''[[
** Hilariously lampshaded in the ''[[X-Play]]'' review of the game and in ''[[Unskippable]]''.
*** ''...heyyukiyourmomishot...''
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]]'', Big Mama actually looks very well for being almost 80 (and still doing some pretty crazy motorcycle stunts during a highly destructive car chase). Her son {{spoiler|Solid Snake}} also {{spoiler|suffers from severe [[Cloning Blues]] and has rapidly aged in the last years}} to look actually older than her, even though she was over 30 when he was born.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* Lampshaded heavily in ''[[Bonus Stage (
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In the afterlife of ''[[
* In [http://sporkman.com/classic/ John S. Troutman's] [http://litbrick.com/ extended] [http://delusionarystate.com/ universe], Robyn, the matriarch of the Flint family [http://sporkman.com/classic/2008/09/22/09222008/ is 46 but looks 30] because she discovered the Fountain of Youth when majoring in Historical Archaeology.
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* In ''[[The Little Mermaid]] 2'', Ariel looks almost identical than in the first film and perfectly could to be mistaken by the older sister of her daughter Melody.
* Crystal Zilla from ''[[My Dad the Rock Star]]'', who looks barely older than her teenager daughter Serenity.
* Queen Glimia from ''[[
* Mrs. Ridgemount from ''[[Stoked]]''. Let's give an example: look at [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110227040557/stoked/images/4/4e/Mrs._Ridgemount_and_Lo.jpg this] picture. One of these women is a ''middle-aged woman'' with ''three'' kids, the other is a girl in her late teens. Guess which is which.
* [[Hospital Hottie|June Darby]] of ''[[
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* In ''[[Prince of Tennis]]'', Taka-san's friend Akutsu Jin from Yamabuki is fourteen, and his mother Yuuki is about 33. She insists on being called 'Yuuki-chan', even by Taka, leading to the other Seigaku regulars believing he has an older girlfriend. When they find out the truth, they freak and remark that she's a 'young mother'...
* At the beginning of ''[[Dragonball Z]],'' which takes place five years following the end of ''Dragon Ball,'' Goku and Chichi are both 23, while Gohan is 4.
* [[All There in the Manual|Japanese source material]] stated that [[Hot Mom|Delia Ketchum]] of ''[[Pokémon (
* Sakura from ''[[Hanamaru Kindergarten]]'' had her daughter Anzu at age 18, so by the time Anzu starts going to the titular school, her mother is still young and pretty. Then again, pretty much every mother in this series [[Hot Mom|is still quite young and beautiful]].
* Likely Maka Albarn's mother in ''[[Soul Eater]]''. Both her parents were students in the same class at Shibusen and it's canon Spirit was 18 when Maka was born. Although details on the woman herself are [[The Ghost|sketchy]], implications about the [[Everyone Went to School Together|staff]] as a whole makes this a possibility.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Harry Potter (
** The pattern of hasty courtships and marriages was repeated somewhat during the Second Wizarding War, so it's not hard to imagine that there were a few instances of this trope in-universe at that point as well.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[
* ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. John Winchester may be ruggedly handsome with a beard, but this hardly hides the fact that he looks MAYBE ten years Dean's senior.
* In ''[[One Life to Live]]'', Greg is explicitly stated (in courtroom testimony, no less) to have ten years' experience as a fully licensed practicing neurosurgeon, putting him in his early 40s at the youngest. His mother is played by an actress in her late 40s, and to make things interesting he has a 15-year-old sister. All the characters were introduced during 2009 so SORAS isn't involved.
** [[Hand Wave|Did they ever say he wasn't a genius who]] [[Doogie Howser, M.D.|graduated high school at 11, college at 14, and medical school at 18?]] He'd be around 30, then.
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== Webcomics ==
* [[
* The Egbert Family. Nana was born in 1910. John was "born" in 1996. Dad appears to be a regular middle aged man, but if Nana had Dad around age 20 (as was normal for a woman of her time period) Dad would have to be in his sixties when John is "born." If Dad is about, say, 40 when John is 13, Nana would have had to have given birth to him in HER fifties-sixties. It's unclear how old Dad is SUPPOSED to be, but so far it doesn't seem to add up when considering Nana's and John's ages.
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== Fanfic ==
* ''[[
** There's also the fact that some of Twilight's blood was used in the ritual to resurrect Nightmare Moon (due to her status as the Element of Magic), possibly making her a [[Truly Single Parent]] or some weird case of [[Has Two Mommies]] with Princess Luna.
* In ''[[
== Literature ==
* A really bizarre case in ''[[Twilight (
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Star Wars:
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