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Worst examples in media where characters don't look their age?

DragonSJG

DragonSJG

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Tv tropes calls this artistic age, so this is when characters in media are said to be an age but look much older. What are the worst offenders of this? For me, it's Saint Seiya

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These are supposed to be 13-15 year olds

One is 13 and the other is meant to be 19
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Yu Yu Hakusho, typical 14 year olds

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JoJo, 17 year old students

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Avatar, Zuko's 14 year old little sister

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Hey Arnold, two fifth graders

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Any other examples you can think of?
 
Azuran

Azuran

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There's nothing wrong with Azula. When I was in 8th grade there were plenty of girls in my class that look like they could pass up for adults.
 
GamerJM

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The most recent thing I can think of where this annoyed me was Love Simon. A lot of the dialogue in that movie just sounds like something 20-somethings would say too, not high schoolers!

Ayirek said:
Auron in FFX is supposed to be 35.
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I....can believe this? It doesn't seem outlandish to me. Maybe it's goofy that a 35 year old dresses like that but I mean like, his features look 35ish.
 
Aaronrules380

Aaronrules380

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GamerJM said:
The most recent thing I can think of where this annoyed me was Love Simon. A lot of the dialogue in that movie just sounds like something 20-somethings would say too, not high schoolers!



I....can believe this? It doesn't seem outlandish to me. Maybe it's goofy that a 35 year old dresses like that but I mean like, his features look 35ish.
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He's got more grey hair than most people that age would, but I agree that it's not really that out there
 
Soapbox Killer

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Tom Holland is 23 but playing a High school kid still works.

Remy Hil is 34 years old and it did not work playing a High School kid.
 
Z-Beat

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Alexandria Daddario in Texas Chainsaw 3D

You want to try and guess how old her character is?
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Roughly 39
 
cLOUDo

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Those are not the worst in Saint seiya

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15 years old

And remember xmen dark phoenix?
That is a good example, lol
 
Aaronrules380

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Bishop89 said:
Something something 2000 year old dragon
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Honestly I think this topic is more interesting if we limit it to characters who don't have in universe reasons to not look their age. Hell, I'd even argue that it might make sense to exclude characters who are explicitly meant to look surprisingly old/young for their age even when no magic/scifi shit is involved
 
jmood88

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13 Reasons Why (the first season cause it's the only one I watched). Other than the main guy, every other character looked about 30, despite the fact that they were supposed to be in high school.
 
Aaronrules380

Aaronrules380

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cLOUDo said:
Those are not the worst in Saint seiya

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15 years old

And remember xmen dark phoenix?
That is a good example, lol
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This is one where the only justification I can think of is that the design was made before the concept of how he'd fight Seiya, and then someone probably pointed out that you'd expect Seiya's opponent for obtaining his cloth would be someone around a similar age and not a full grown adult so the creator just said "sure, fuck it, whatever"
 
gforguava

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How old is everyone supposed to be in the post-First Class X-Men films?

McAvoy, Fassbender, and Nicholas Hoult in particular are the characters in 1962 and they are only slightly older in Dark Phoenix's 1992.
 
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