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* The protagonist of ''[[Accel World]]'' is 13 years old but looks at least 2 years older.
* Kyouichi from the first chapter of ''Himitsu Kichi'' [http://mangafox.me/manga/himitsu_kichi/v01/c001/10.html looks like a 20 year old] when he's no older than 10 or 11.
* Jewelry Bonnie in ''[[One Piece]]''. While only ten years old when she first debuted, her Devil Fruit power lets her manipulate a person's age, including her own, and usually chooses to appear as a young woman. Post time skip, she is about twelve. In hindsight, this explains a lot about her, as she has always seemed selfish and immature (such as how she tends to eat greedily with no regard for table manners), acting more like an atypical [[Pirate Girl]] than most female characters, though also clearly [[Wise Beyond Her Years]].
== Comic Books ==
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* ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'''s incarnation of [[Date Masamune]] looks like he's well into his twenties...when he's actually 19. To a lesser extent Sanada Yukimura as well, who is only 17, but looks older in most of his ''Basara'' incarnations.
* ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'''s Jak, from [[Jak II Renegade|the second game]] on. According to his bio on the official ''Jak X'' site, the [[Jak 3|18-year-old]] "is a seasoned hero, with etched lines on his face that show the many challenges he's overcome, and the many adventures he's had to endure."
* Kaine of ''[[
* [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] looks around 40 years old, but the ages of other characters would put his age closer to 20.
* Kreia from ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II'' looks to be in her 70s. However, according to her creator, [[Chris Avellone]], she's only around 50. The reason for her older appearance is likely due to her heavy use of Dark Side powers since the Mandalorian Wars.
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* In general, children who go into puberty at an early age can look older than they are, especially if those signs of puberty are visible, such as height and voice deepening (in both genders), muscle development (in male-bodied children) and breast growth (in female-bodied children).
* Hard living in general can make you look older. Homeless people often look middle-aged in their late twenties, due to poor health practices and chronic stress. Back when it was common practice for women to have 10 or more kids while living on a fairly poor diet, they aged pretty fast too. And people who do very hard labour that's risky to your health, such as coal mining, often end up Younger Than They Look as well.
* Anyone born with [[wikipedia:Progeria|progeria]], a disease that causes rapid aging; sadly, sufferers never become As Old As They Look, rarely living past their teens. The disease was the basis for ''Jack'', as seen above.
** Also [[wikipedia:Werner syndrome|Werner Syndrome]].
* Some drugs in [[Real Life]] can do this, too. Heroin addicts in their early
** True for most drugs. Substance abuse is notorious for rapidly accelerating the accumulation of cellular damage and decay we normally identify as "aging".
* This is generally true for most people in extremely stressful jobs. Most American Presidents seem to age around a decade for each term. Just look at pictures of [[George W. Bush]] before and after his term. Hell, look at pictures of [[Barack Obama]] before his term and during his term.
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* Hollywood lore has it that three-time Oscar winner Walter Brennan's career took off after he lost his teeth in a fight and found that without them he could play old men.
* Florence Thompson, the woman in this [[wikipedia:File:Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg|famous photograph]] by Dorothea Lange was '''thirty-two''' when it was taken. It showed the devastating effects of [[The Great Depression]] more than words possibly could.
* [[wikipedia:File:Sharbat Gula.jpg|The famous picture of the Afghan girl]] from ''National Geographic'' has many people wondering if she's really a "girl". She was ''12 years old'' when the picture was taken, but because of the stress of being a refugee, she
** And when the photographer (Steve McCurry) met her again, [http://artisticthings.com/the-afghan-girls-escalation-say-hello-to-sharbat/ this] is how she looked at 35 years of age.
* In 1970, the much-older-looking [[wikipedia:Mary Ann Vecchio|Mary Ann Vecchio]] was, in fact, a 14-year-old runaway. Jon Filo's photograph of her crying over Jeffry Miller, who'd been killed in the Kent State shootings, won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1971.
* [[David Gregory]] of [[MSNBC]]
* Nobody could tell how old Michael Jackson was in his later years, mainly because he [https://web.archive.org/web/20120317210716/http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2008/10/23-End/michael-jackson-neverland.jpg barely looked human.] When he was young, however (Thriller and before), he looked a bit old for his age, particularly when he was a kid, looking to be around 11 or 12 when he was just 8 or 9.
** Oh, and [http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1561/31776140.jpg look at this photo.]{{dead link}} Take a good look at it. He was ''not yet twenty.''
* Michael Gross (Steven Keaton from ''[[Family Ties]]'') shares the same birthdate with Meredith Baxter (Elyse), but while Baxter looked her age when she was cast for the series, Gross looked about 5–10 years older largely thanks to his thinning, prematurely gray hair.
* At the age of 15, Traci Lords claimed to be 20, used a fake ID, and started appearing in porn magazines and films. Authorities only caught on three years later.
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* Metal singer Ivan Moody, vocalist for Five Finger Death Punch. Take a good long look at [http://www.blogcdn.com/www.noisecreep.com/media/2011/03/fivefingerdeathpunch.jpg this photo.] [http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/708397/708397,1299273106,18/stock-photo-colorado-springs-co-september-vocalist-ivan-moody-of-the-heavy-metal-band-five-finger-72455557.jpg And this one.] He's only 31. He looks at least 15 years older than that. This is especially strange because he was 27 when his band's first album released, and looked that age.
* Ritchie Valens practically ''defines'' this trope. He died when he was just 17 years old. [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/images/2009/01/27/ritchie_valens_color_crop.jpg Seriously, look at this dude.] Who the fuck looks like that at ''17''?!! Twice that age, ''maybe''.
* [[R. Lee Ermey]] looked to be a mid-50s gunnery sergeant in ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]''. He was only 42 when the film was shot. His look
** Ditto for [[Tommy Lee Jones]]; he falls squarely into the trope due to his signature craggy facial skin which appears to make him look older than he is. To put this in perspective, the ages of the four leads in ''[[Space Cowboys]]'': [[Clint Eastwood]] (70 during the film's shooting), James Garner (72), Donald Sutherland (65), and Tommy Lee Jones (54). Jones is
* [[John Carpenter]] was only 51 [[wikipedia:File:JohnCarpenter01.jpg|when this picture was taken]]. He looks some 20 years older than that.
* Sir [[Patrick Stewart]] started going bald when he was nineteen and was Younger Than He Looked for much of his life.<ref>He was forty-six when he started filming ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'': Jean-Luc Picard was 59.</ref> Nowadays he's [[Older Than He Looks]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCl3f-F4uNY&feature=player_embedded Zara]{{dead link}} is a 13 year old girl from England, yet she looks she's pushing 60. That's because she has a rare condition know as [http://www.manbir-online.com/diseases/lipodys-conge.htm Congenital Generalized Lipodistrophy], which causes the supporting fatty tissue under the skin to crumble while the skin continues to grow, making her appear older.
* Ryan Clark, the lead singer for the heavy metal band [[Demon Hunter]]. The music video for his band's 'Infected' was shot in 2002, when he was just 23. But due to the large beard he had and his lack of hair (not to mention he's a little fat), he looked to be around 10 years older or so. He's now at the age of 32 and looks that age, though.
* Whitman Mayo was only 40 when he portrayed Grady Wilson on ''[[Sanford and Son]]''.
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* [http://mg.co.za/article/2011-06-06-die-antwoord-collaborator-leon-botha-dies-age-26/ Leon Botha], who had the aforementioned genetic disease [http://en.wikipedia.org/progeria Progeria]{{Dead link}}, lived to be 26, but looked like he was over 100 years old. Sadly, he was the oldest person on record to have had the disease.
* Some of the people on ''[[Intervention]]'' who are hard into drugs may be in their early 20s, but look like they're an average 30 something.
* Stephanie Cole has specialized in playing women much older than she is. She was the elderly Mrs. Featherstone in ''[[Open All Hours]]'' in her 40s, and the retiree Diana Trent from ''[[Waiting for God]]'' when she was in her 50s (opposite Graham Crowden, who was born 20 years earlier).
* [[John Thaw]] would have been between 33 and 37 when he played [http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=17011 Jack Regan] in ''[[The Sweeney]]'', but looks well into his forties- partly reinforced by the way he acts as well. Thaw himself apparently said "I was born looking 50".
* On a lighter note, [[Saoirse Ronan]]
* Dioxin poisoning causes serious acne problems, which causes rapid aging. Victor Yushchenko, then in his late 40s, underwent this during a bitter campaign for presidency of the Ukraine, as seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20070407022414/http://blog.kievukraine.info/uploaded_images/2968-714119.jpg here]
* [[Seth Rogen]] especially in his earlier films looked like he could easily be in his mid thirties.
** In ''[[Superbad]]'', He looked like he was well into his
** It's also worth mentioning that Rogen is pretty well aware of his "old" looks. He occasionally jokes about it in interviews.
* While we're at it, [[Bill Hader]] in some of his films (namely ''Superbad'' and ''Forgetting Sarah Marshall'') looks considerably older than he really is.
* Ditto to [[Jason Segel]]. Awww, hell. Pretty much all of Apatow's "stock actors" (with the possible exception of [[Jonah Hill]]) look older than they really are.
** This is especially odd to see in ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' which famously averted
* When jazz saxophonist [[Charlie Parker]] died at age 34 due to heavy substance abuse, the coroner mistakenly estimated his age at between 50–60 years old.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111210080120/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/GeoreOrwell.jpg This photo] of [[George Orwell]] had been taken when he was 30 years old. He could have been anywhere from 45 to 60 by looks only. [http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_01/georgeorwellDM0309_468x353.jpg 7 years later] he still looked like a grandpa. [http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/2/24/1298551370244/George-Orwell-1945-007.jpg 12 years later] and suffering from tuberculosis, he was still unchanged, so it could not be blamed on poor living conditions only.
* [[John Lennon]] looked around his age right before his death, but the beard he had in his mid-to-late 20's made him look at least 10 years older.
* Frank Oz, famous for voicing Yoda from [[Star Wars]], Grover from ''[[Sesame Street]]'', and Miss Piggy from ''[[The Muppets]]'' among others, is
* Many of the WWE wrestlers. For example, [[Wade Barrett]] is only 31. He looks more like he's in his early-40's.
** [[Stephanie McMahon]], after her voice went through a radical change in 2002-2003 (most likely due to all the screaming she was doing before then), definitely ''sounded'' much older than she really was.
* The late George Michael seemed to have aged rapidly
* [[Top Gear|Jeremy Clarkson]] has consistently looked at least ten years older than his real age for some time now. It's a little hard to believe he's only nine years older than Richard Hammond.
* The late [[Robin Williams]]
** Williams was into drugs and heavy drinking during his early career, which could have contributed to this.
* [[Max Von Sydow]] has looked about 75 since the day he was born. When he did ''[[The Exorcist]]'', he was 44, looked absolutely ancient.
* Ernie Pyle, American journalist and World War II soldier was 44 when he died. When he died he looked like he was in his 60s or 70s.
*
* Austin St. John (a.k.a. [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|The Red Ranger]]) was only 18 years old when he first started playing Jason Lee Scott. He looked more like he was about 20-22. It didn't help that his character was supposed to be 15. He sometimes looked age appropriate, but his build made him seem older.
* [[Adele]]
* Dutch footballer Arjen Robben [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Arjen_Robben_travel.jpg looks far older in this photo] than his actual age of 28 (he's {{age|1984|1|23}} now). He looks like he's about 35 in that photo, while most other photos from the same era make him look about 40.
* Wilford Brimley (the "diabeetus" guy), for years, was a shining example of this trope. To wit: He was only 50 years old when he was cast in ''[[Cocoon]]'', but was able to portray a convincing elderly man with just his hair whitened. And [http://waltons.steve-p.org/pix/54B_00253100.jpg this] is how he looked when he was in ''[[The Waltons]]''. He was in his early 40s at the time.
* It's amazing how many people are shocked to discover that swimsuit model Kate Upton [http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/02/the-25-hottest-women-under-21#1
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