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Age Insecurity

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Age Insecurity	comment	It's commonly accepted that no one wants to get old and that a woman getting old is pretty much the worst thing that can happen. For this reason, a lot of people don't want their age advertised past a certain birthday, and "never ask a lady her age" is a stock etiquette rule. Someone's reasons for lying about their age or keeping it a secret may vary, from being in a business (such as acting) where they risk being put out to pasture if they're seen as too old, to vanity or a delusional wish to cling to a young person's lifestyle, to simply feeling that it's private information. Usually it's The Not Secret, sometimes even an Open Secret, but at any rate, it's bound to become a talking point, and they won't be happy about it. Twenty-nine is often the oldest "young" age someone will admit to, at least for as long as it's remotely plausible. Entering any new decade will be seen as a cause for heightened security. Women who fall under the Old Maid trope are known to be insecure about their age due to societal pressures. This character is likely to be a Birthday Hater, with jokes about them turning X for the Yth year in a row. Compare Older Than They Look, Age-Inappropriate Dress, Absurdly Youthful Mother. First Gray Hair and Ma'am Shock will hit this character hard. The inverse, with a character pretending to be older than they are, usually to get around being underage, can be found at Totally 18.
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Age Insecurity / int_1b79f72e	comment	Manuela's age in Fire Emblem: Three Houses is officially listed as "Secret". Her actual age is 41, deduced by the 56-year-old Hanneman noting that he's only about 15 years her senior, making Manuela the oldest female playable character who is not Really 700 Years Old.
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Age Insecurity / int_1f418bf4	comment	Another male example from the comic adaptation of TaleSpin:
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Age Insecurity / int_2903c34b	comment	In Heart of a Dog, one of Preobrazhensky's patients is a woman involved with a much younger man, and she desperately claims to be younger than she is. At first, when Preobrazhensky asks her about her age, she replies "Well, forty? five", then, at his further prompting, says "Fifty-one". Preobrazhensky's assistant Bormental estimates her real age as probably fifty-four or fifty-five.
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Age Insecurity / int_2dd3e031	comment	Inverted by Miss Treason in Wintersmith, who claims to be a hundred and thirteen, because she thinks a hundred and eleven sounds "adolescent".
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Age Insecurity / int_30876163	comment	Blue Exorcist: Shura Kirigakure introduces herself to the class claiming to be eighteen years old and constantly interrupts Yukio when he tries to tell everyone that she's actually twenty-seven. Played for Laughs at first, but it takes a dark turn when it turns out she's bound to die at the age of thirty due to a demonic pact her ancestress made with a powerful immortal demon.
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Age Insecurity / int_31877011	comment	A rare male example was a running gag in The Dandy; Desperate Dan refused to divulge his age, which lead the editor of the local paper to spend a great deal of effort trying to get hold of it.
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Age Insecurity / int_33fdae4d	comment	Joan on Mad Men seems to have lied about her age, as somebody in the office plays a prank on her by pinning a photocopy of her driver's license on the bulletin board with her date of birth circled.
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Age Insecurity / int_46823c49	comment	Miss Hudson in Moriarty the Patriot insists she's eternally 17—despite clearly being old enough to be a landlady. Sherlock calls her out and says that she's somewhere in her 30s, but she cuts him off before he's able to reveal her entire age.
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Age Insecurity / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In Monstrous Regiment, Sergeant Jackrum is keen to conceal his age, mostly because he's well past retirement age and doesn't want to go. When his retirement papers finally catch up with him, he claims he lied about his age when he first signed up, and is not actually retirement age after all, then signs up again. It's not the first time he's done this, either: Blouse points out that, working backwards from how old he claims to be (forty-seven), the record currently shows he enlisted at the age of five. He eventually tells Polly that at some point he lost track of his real age himself. Inverted by Miss Treason in Wintersmith, who claims to be a hundred and thirteen, because she thinks a hundred and eleven sounds "adolescent".
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Age Insecurity / int_4acbcaf	comment	Auntie Mame: It's a big deal when Auntie Mame begins to "admit" she's forty now and it's time to take on a more mature role, which doesn't happen until her fifties.
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Age Insecurity / int_4b434423	comment	PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield: Opal's gym battle requires challengers to answer a quiz while battling. If they answer correctly, their Pokemon's stats are boosted, but if it's wrong, the boost goes to Opal's team. However, correctly guessing Opal's age as 88 actually gives the boost to her team since she'd had preferred it if you were "a little more sensitive" about her age. Choosing the option that tells her she's 16 in the Dialogue Tree gets her to laugh and give you the boost instead.
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Age Insecurity / int_5075737a	comment	Golden Sun: The Lost Age: Piers is initially assumed to be in his late teens like most of the other heroes. However, when the party visits his homeland Lemuria, it's revealed that Lemurians age very slowly, with many of them having lived for centuries. This prompts Jenna and Sheba to start pestering Piers about his true age, which he refuses to reveal and seems embarrassed about.
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Age Insecurity / int_5082a6a	comment	In the sequel to The Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan and Aramis reconnect. Aramis mentions being thirty-seven and D'Artagnan immediately calls him out: He himself is fourty, and Aramis used to be his senior by three years. Aramis admits to the "maths error" (read: outright lie) but begs D'Artagnan not to tell any of his (Aramis') friends his true age. From what we know of Aramis, the reason probably isn't career-related (he's a priest), but more to do with his vanity and his womanizing.
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Age Insecurity / int_60513527	comment	Evon: All members of the Cabal are listed as being centuries old, except Lanna, the sole female member, who refuses to disclose her age and is infuriated when Evee calls her an "old hag". Ironically she's dating Traveler, the oldest (over 800) member.
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Age Insecurity / int_6505f7f3	comment	Molly of Denali: In "The Funny Face Competition," when asked her age for a caption in Molly's funny face competition book, Merna responds, "None of your business."
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Age Insecurity / int_68c381ea	comment	Mitsudomoe: When a food vendor offers to give food away to the town's children, Miku Sugisaki's middle-aged mother declares that she's 17. When the vendor questions her on it, she emphatically replies that she's 17. This doubles as an Actor Allusion; the character was voiced by Kikuko Inoue, who is legendary in Japanese voice acting for always referring to herself as "17 Years Old + XXXX Days".
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Age Insecurity / int_755fadab	comment	The time traveler Mikuru in the Haruhi Suzumiya series poses as a student at the main characters' high school, but insists that her real age is "classified information"; that said, she says that about any direct questions asked about her or her mission.
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Age Insecurity / int_764e5099	comment	The Jack Benny Program: The 1963 episode "Twilight Zone Sketch" was a The Twilight Zone (1959) spoof in which Jack Benny returns home to find that things are all upside down. Though he runs away, Serling says that he'll return; he was correct in saying he belongs here.
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Age Insecurity / int_7680545c	comment	The Nanny: Fran Fine's not wanting to accept that she's over 29 and refusal to admit her exact age (and attempts to keep it secret) are a running gag. In one episode, when Niles finds out how old Fran's friend Val is and says he can use that to figure out Fran's age, Fran comes up with a couple of methods (first by claiming she skipped a few grades, which Niles doesn't buy, then claiming Val was Held Back in School a few times, which he does find believable) as "proof" that she and Val aren't the same age. In another, even the FBI can't confirm how old she is. In the season 5 finale, she does finally admit it to someone, but in a whisper that the audience can't hear, and only so they'll help her get back home after being stranded on the outskirts of the city on the night before her wedding.
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Age Insecurity / int_769da46e	comment	In Monstrous Regiment, Sergeant Jackrum is keen to conceal his age, mostly because he's well past retirement age and doesn't want to go. When his retirement papers finally catch up with him, he claims he lied about his age when he first signed up, and is not actually retirement age after all, then signs up again. It's not the first time he's done this, either: Blouse points out that, working backwards from how old he claims to be (forty-seven), the record currently shows he enlisted at the age of five. He eventually tells Polly that at some point he lost track of his real age himself.
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Age Insecurity / int_7f225484	comment	In the Elenium trilogy, Sparhawk is continually stymied in any attempt to learn the age of Sephrenia, the instructor of the Pandion Knights in magical studies. He knows that she taught his father and grandfather, and still looks like quite a young woman, but she refuses to give any sort of straight answer; a person's exact age, she explains, can be a deadly tool in the wrong hands. Eventually, the Child-Goddess Aphrael tells him that even she doesn't know the answer for sure, but Sephrenia (who is her high priestess) was the eldest child of the most recent couple to raise Aphrael in a human incarnation - and that was at least several hundred years ago.
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Age Insecurity / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Vulcans, despite having no problem with growing old, consider revealing one's age to be "intimate" and thus only share it with a select few people, such as their lovers.
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Age Insecurity / int_82439e5c	comment	The Office (UK): David Brent is vague about his age. When anyone asks, he says "I'm thirties". In the second series, Trudy quips "Born in the thirties, you mean".
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Age Insecurity / int_8516bd41	comment	Chicago: During "We Both Reached For The Gun" when Billy marionettes Roxy like a puppet at her press conference with the media, one reporter asks Roxy how old she was when she arrived in Chicago. Despite the fact she's supposed to be just puppetting Billy's answers, Roxy not-so-subtly elbows Billy in an unspoken demand of "don't make me look old" — Billy breaks the rhyming structure of the song to have her answer "don't remember", which simultaneously avoids giving a hard answer to the question and also paints her as an innocent Dumb Blonde if she can't even do basic math since she had just stated she had arrived in the city four years prior in 1920.
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Age Insecurity / int_8833918c	comment	In Time: Played with. Characters will describe their age as being "25 for X" years, which is valid considering they stop aging at that point, alleviating many of the undesirable parts of getting older. But the social insecurities haven't exactly gone away, as evidenced by a prostitute who didn't like being called out for "pushing sixty".
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Age Insecurity / int_8920421e	comment	In WarpZone Project: Eve Bones is immortal, but looks the late-twenties-to-early-thirties of the actress playing her. When she chooses the destination of a time travel and takes the cast to the 19th century (that she needs to remember to be able to do so), the protagonist, who doesn't know her that well, wonders about her age. Her only answer is to advise him to not ask a lady her age.
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Age Insecurity / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock: This is a Running Gag with Jenna. At one point, she survives a rapid-fire interrogation from Jack by rattling off what are clearly memorized answers to questions such as what her high school prom theme was. In another episode, Jenna starts trying to pretend she's older than she actually is, because while middle-aged actresses rarely get work, there are great roles for older distinguished actresses like Judi Dench and Helen Mirren. Also, in one episode Liz pretends to be in her twenties to justify a relationship with an allegedly twenty-five-year-old guy who turns out to be only twenty, and she agonizes over the fact that, for her usual feminist reasons, she's always promised herself she would never lie about her age. Kenneth is implied to be immortal and anywhere from a few centuries to a few millennia old. He tends to avoid direct questions about his age, and at one point nervously asks if there will be any new rules for the page program, 'like age limits and age verification'.
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Age Insecurity / int_89d35f0a	comment	Sabagebu!: An Eye Catch in the fifth OVA depicts housewife Kazue Sonokawa and high school teacher Ena Sakura in school uniforms with the text "17 YEARS". This is an Actor Allusion; Kikuko Inoue, who voices Kazue, founded a quasi-cult of voice actresses who always identify themselves as being 17 years old, even though she herself is well beyond that. Yui Horie, who voices Ena, is one of her "disciples."
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Age Insecurity / int_8ab0ec8a	comment	A Streetcar Named Desire: Blanche DuBois, a washed-up Southern Belle, refuses to admit her true age as part of her compulsion to deny anything which disrupts her fantasy of being no less young and desirable than she was years ago. She explains to her Love Interest Mitch that she's actually younger than her little sister Stella and later, on her birthday, claims she stopped counting at twenty-five. Her actual age is never revealed.
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Age Insecurity / int_8d840f59	comment	In Reba, Reba always refuses to reveal her age. When she volunteers herself as the focus for Jake's homework about his favorite family member, she stops herself before telling him her age and says that it's not important to mention that part. She gets defensive when a lawyer asks her about her year of birth.
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Age Insecurity / int_8d87c3e4	comment	In Ziwe, when in character as her diva-esque Rich Bitch host-persona, the eponymous comedienne demonstrates clear insecurity about aging. Any insinuation that she's old, or even her actual age, for that matter, gets under her skin like little else.
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Age Insecurity / int_a183d57f	comment	Implied in a Futurama episode — when the Planet Express spaceship is in danger, Leela says that she doesn't want to die at the age of 25. Bender, however, replies with "Unless we had a time warp, I wouldn't worry about that".
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Age Insecurity / int_a6084750	comment	The Crown (2016) A male version occurs in "Assassins" when Winston Churchill reacts badly to his portrait by Graham Sutherland because it shows him as the old man that he is, not as the dignified statesman he sees himself as. In "Dear Mrs. Kennedy", Queen Elizabeth II notes the signs of encroaching middle-age that make her less secure when dealing with the glamorous First Lady. By the start of Season 3 (when she's recast with an older actress) the Queen is presented with her portrait on the stamps and when her courtiers dance around the subject of how she's not as beautiful as she used to be, the Queen replies that "old bat" is the term they're looking for, and that age is just something they all have to accept.
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Age Insecurity / int_a6543322	comment	A running joke in Touhou Project fanworks (and commenters on fanworks) is to have someone claim Yukari Yakumo's (one of the oldest and most powerful of all Gensokyo's youkai) real age is 17,000 (see Real Life below) and immediately get teleported (or "gapped") to who-knows-where, or otherwise claiming that yes, Yukari is not a day over 17, absolutely.
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Age Insecurity / int_ac31ac98	comment	Scary Gary: When a barista asks Gary for his birthdate to see if he qualifies for a senior coffee, Gary states that he was born August 4th, 1307. When the barista marvels at how old that would make Gary, Gary irately cuts him off, claiming heâ€™s too young for a senior coffee.
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Age Insecurity / int_ad7edd1f	comment	Kaamelott: Merlin doesn't like to go around revealing his age, because it turns out he's Really 700 Years Old (to the point where he stood to receive his age in gold pieces from the queen and still didn't want to).
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Age Insecurity / int_af3c88ad	comment	In the Cormoran Strike Novels Pat Chauncey is 67 years old as of The Running Grave but prefers working to retirement. She lied about her age when applying to the agency, for fear of not being hired because of her age. Littejohn, a new subcontractor at the agency, discovers her real age and tries to use it against her in a clumsy blackmail attempt. It doesn't work as she goes directly to Strike and admits the truth.
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Age Insecurity / int_b2bf50e4	comment	Anthony of Opie & Anthony once stated on his birthday that he is now "forty-flurf" years old.
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Age Insecurity / int_bd310eaa	comment	Parodied in El Goonish Shive where Pandora states that she's been claiming to be 299 years old for a few centuries now. Seeing as Immortals are expected to reset around the time they turn 200, claiming to be 299 doesn't actually hide much.
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Age Insecurity / int_c1bf1af4	comment	Two and a Half Men: Evelyn Harper is in the habit of doing this, even going so far as to try to get her uncooperative grandson Jake to lie about HIS age so she can maintain the charade. She gets very angry when one of Alan's girlfriends tries to throw a surprise party for him because revealing his age would prove her deception. A rare male example is her son Charlie, who will constantly pretend to still be in his early thirties/late twenties. Amusingly this is such second nature to him, Charlie will even try it on Alan.
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Age Insecurity / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor in Doctor Who sometimes lies about their age. In "The Ribos Operation" the Fourth Doctor claims to be 756, which Romana corrects to 759. In "The Day of the Doctor" Eleventh says he's "1200 and something, unless I'm lying. I don't remember if I'm lying about my age, that's how old I am." This has, of course, provided a useful handwave for every time the Doctor claims their age to be a random three or four figure number that doesn't fit anything else.
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Age Insecurity / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_c43df4d8
Age Insecurity / int_ce50887e	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball: Bulma is very insecure about her age, lying about how old she is at her birthday party in Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, as well as making secret wishes to Shenron to make her slightly younger in Dragon Ball Super: Broly.
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Dragon Ball (Manga)	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_ce50887e
Age Insecurity / int_d4efb984	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_d4efb984	comment	Blanche Devereaux of The Golden Girls is so adamant about keeping her sex life alive that she had her age withheld by the governor.
Age Insecurity / int_d4efb984	featureApplicability	1.0
Age Insecurity / int_d4efb984	featureConfidence	1.0
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_d4efb984
Age Insecurity / int_d6e2146d	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_d6e2146d	comment	Asking the age of Adria of Diablo III is one of the few ways to make her lose her cool.
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Diablo III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_d6e2146d
Age Insecurity / int_d908efc	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_d908efc	comment	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: In an early story arc, Tamayo implies that she's been around for over 2 centuries. When Tanjiro asks her age out of shock, Yushiro angrily calls him out on his rudeness.
Age Insecurity / int_d908efc	featureApplicability	1.0
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_d908efc
Age Insecurity / int_da0a70e2	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_da0a70e2	comment	In The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Bracknell describes one of her social acquaintances:
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The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre)	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_da0a70e2
Age Insecurity / int_db404a1a	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_db404a1a	comment	Kengan Ashura: Nogi's (and later Kazuo's) Sexy Secretary Kaede has her age listed as "?", although an offhand remark by Nogi implies that she's Older Than She Looks, and she gets annoyed whenever her age is brought up. By the same token, her older sister Sakura has her age unknown. Shion's profile states that she'll kill anyone who asks her age, although it is eventually revealed to be 35.
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Kengan Ashura (Manga)	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_db404a1a
Age Insecurity / int_e728ae90	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_e728ae90	comment	My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected Shizuka Hiratsuka is a 30-year-old teacher who refuses to admit her age. She gets upset whenever the subject is brought up.
Age Insecurity / int_e728ae90	featureApplicability	1.0
Age Insecurity / int_e728ae90	featureConfidence	1.0
My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_e728ae90
Age Insecurity / int_eb9cafb2	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_eb9cafb2	comment	Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: The text description for future Ramona Flowers lists her age as "Don't ask."
Age Insecurity / int_eb9cafb2	featureApplicability	1.0
Age Insecurity / int_eb9cafb2	featureConfidence	1.0
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_eb9cafb2
Age Insecurity / int_ee6c1abc	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_ee6c1abc	comment	In the Strong Bad Email "Looking Old", Strong Bad insists his age is "a closely guarded secret, protected by a sect of closely guarded monks high atop the Coches Mountains". The whole email is about him trying to pass off as younger.
Age Insecurity / int_ee6c1abc	featureApplicability	1.0
Age Insecurity / int_ee6c1abc	featureConfidence	1.0
Strong Bad Email (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_ee6c1abc
Age Insecurity / int_f2041376	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_f2041376	comment	Charmed (1998): In "Centennial Charmed", Cole rewrites reality to fix his life on his birthday. In the new timeline he's attending a massive party with a cake declaring it his 100th birthday. The decorator comments that he was under the impression that Cole was actually 117 (which he his). After a few seconds of awkward silence the decorator is consumed by flames and killed by The Seer.
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Charmed (1998)	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_f2041376
Age Insecurity / int_f323730f	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_f323730f	comment	At the end of Citizen of the Galaxy, this is a culture shock for Thorby, when his cousin refuses to disclose her age and explains that on Earth it's impolite to ask about a woman's age, unlike the women in the culture where Thorby grew up, who would try to claim to be older than they really were because of the higher status of elders.
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Citizen of the Galaxy	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_f323730f
Age Insecurity / int_f361b493	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_f361b493	comment	I Love Lucy: In one episode, Lucy can't find her birth certificate to get her passport, so she tracks down her childhood babysitter to vouch for her age while getting some forms signed. The other woman's husband happens to be a notary, but as soon as he sees the age Lucy is, he refuses to sign the forms. It then becomes clear the woman has been lying about her age, as according to her husband, she's younger than Lucy and therefore could not have been her babysitter and he cannot sign off on a lie. Lucy is understandably upset when the woman continues to lie about her age.
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I Love Lucy	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_f361b493
Age Insecurity / int_f61ea51b	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_f61ea51b	comment	Interview with the Vampire (2022): Lestat de Lioncourt is vain, so he doesn't like it when others bring up his age. In "...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding", he's offended when Louis de Pointe du Lac points out that he's unable to relate to a teenager's mindset because he's too old (Louis' indirect phrasing while avoiding the dreaded o-word is "Tu as oubliÃ© ta jeunesse!" note the precise translation from French is "You've forgotten your youth!", which is slightly different than the "You've forgotten what it's like to be young!" provided by the on-screen caption). Lestat also does the vampire equivalent of claiming that he's 39 years old when he's actually 40.
Age Insecurity / int_f61ea51b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Interview with the Vampire (2022)	hasFeature	Age Insecurity / int_f61ea51b
Age Insecurity / int_fbc2eab8	type	Age Insecurity
Age Insecurity / int_fbc2eab8	comment	Mandy Seley's weekly webcomic Curtailed has Mandy's Author Avatar be approached in a bar by a decent-looking Funny Animal in the 6 June 2012 strip. The fellow asks her age, to which Mandy coyly responds, "Hm, guess." This ploy backfires hilariously, as the artist states in the commentary that she was 25 at the time.
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Age Insecurity	processingCategory2	Aging Tropes
Age Insecurity	processingCategory2	Character Flaw Index
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Scary Gary (Comic Strip) / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Big Business (1988) / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Chicago / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
In Time / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Incredible But True / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
No Hard Feelings / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Adrian Mole / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Auntie Mame / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Citizen of the Galaxy / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Heart of a Dog / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Strangers on a Train / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
The Elenium / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
The Three Musketeers / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga) / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Kengan Ashura (Manga) / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Mitsudomoe (Manga) / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Sabagebu! (Manga) / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Birds of a Feather / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
I Love Lucy / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Jane the Virgin / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
30 Rock / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
Two and a Half Men / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatre) / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity
The X's / int_d2de1bff	type	Age Insecurity

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