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Improbable Age

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Improbable Age	comment	A character whose age seems inappropriate with their occupation or position given the amount of experience they would need, whether or not their age is actually important within the storyline. Tends to lean to the younger side, resulting in the Teen Genius, Kid Hero. Sometimes, a disproportionate amount of the (especially female) cast is inexplicably under thirty. In benign cases, it's because the writers assume the audience better identifies with characters their own age. In some cases, an age that is improbable at first glance may actually be Truth in Television. In ages past, life expectancy was shorter and people needed to be capable at a younger age; in fact, studies seem to indicate that the concept of there being an intermediate but still immature phase between childhood and adulthood is a modern creation. This has produced a very curious effect where the longer humans live, the longer the age gap of competence tends to widen. It also must be noted that many of the examples below occur in violent settings; people growing up in a warlike environment have no choice but to adapt and learn to survive, the faster the better. It's also a common problem in both real and fictional societies with inherited positions of authority, although usually some adult regent would be appointed until the heir comes of age. Although in the past, competence, skills, and abilities were more necessary at a younger age (as opposed to the modern convention of serious training starting only at age 18 or so), this convention is often abused for fields where expertise is implausible without years of formal training at a more mature level — for example, a teen already being an expert in modern disciplines that require formal university education as well as graduate level education. There is only so much a kid could learn from his local library. This is often the result of casting actors in their twenties playing full professors when in reality most people are at least 25 when they first get a PhD. More rarely this trope works at the opposite end of the scale with characters seemingly inexplicably old for their positions, often as a function of being played by a 'name' actor whose recognition or prestige factor outweighs other concerns. This can be especially obvious in fields that require extensive physical fitness; in real life relatively few frontline soldiers or beat cops will be of retirement age. For characters whose age seems inappropriate given their maturity (rather than competence), see Wise Beyond Their Years. If the people running a society are improbably young, see Teenage Wasteland, though if only one is, it's A Child Shall Lead Them. If the character is of an appropriate age but the actor is too young, it's Underage Casting. Can be easily handwaved by making a character Older Than They Look, or even Really 700 Years Old. May lead to Child Soldiers, and is one possible reason why someone can be an Overranked Soldier. Contrast Competence Zone. See also Underage Casting.
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Improbable Age / int_10ddd3d5	comment	The craziest example is Malo from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. He looks no older than two but talks in complete sentences, walks fine on his own, and runs a successful item shop in Kakariko village; official media pins his age between four and eight. Malo also manages to run a successful fundraising project to rebuild the East Bridge of Castle Town, (although he had help from the Goron elders with this one) and run a second fundraiser to buy the snooty overpriced store in Castle Town for only 200 rupees. For reference, the cheapest item there before the buyout is 10,000 rupees.
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Improbable Age / int_11bb70c9	comment	While most of the characters in Mirai SMP fall into "hard to believe they're teenagers", a couple stand out in particular: Joko, despite being 18, is a police officer for the FBI. Sneeg is a professional gambler despite only being 17 years old.
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Improbable Age / int_14796746	comment	Make the Exorcist Fall in Love: At 16 years old, Father is a "Grand Priest" and is thus referred to as "Father" even though the canonical age for priesthood is 25 years old. He's constantly referred to as "Little Father", "Mr. Priest", or "Father-kun" in a cutesy way because of this.
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Improbable Age / int_1682583	comment	Kamille Bidan of Zeta Gundam is even crazier: he designed the eponymous hyper-advanced mobile suit he ends up piloting. It's handwaved that he's been an amateur mobile suit designer for years... but a Gundam?
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Improbable Age / int_16c83de8	comment	Fox McCloud is an ace Airwing pilot despite being only 18 years old in Star Fox 64 (and not sounding or looking anything like his age). Same for his teammates Falco Lombardi and Slippy Toad, who are respectively 19 and 18 years old — although Slippy actually manages to look and sound twelve at most. This was only after the series reboot though; their official age in the first game made more sense (Fox was 25, Falco was 28 and Slippy was 19).
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Improbable Age / int_17024c6d	comment	The Pretender: Jarod was a boy-genius who was kidnapped by an Evil Corporation at age four and exploited for his intelligence for over twenty years. He was designing airplanes, engineering buildings, and helping catch serial killers by about the age of twelve and developed a method for human cloning in his late teens.
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Improbable Age / int_173080c7	comment	In Jewelpet Sunshine, the Jewelpets and their human companions are in Sunshine Academy for their last year of high school. One of the Jewelpets who is a high school student in this academy is Labra, a toddler.
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Improbable Age / int_178c5235	comment	Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale: Recette is maybe 13 years old at oldest and opens up her own item shop. Justified though due to her Disappeared Dad leaving her no real choice and it's implied that Tear does most of the complicated financial and administrative work.
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Improbable Age / int_17d98318	comment	Silver Linings Playbook: Tiffany has already been married for several years and been in and out of the mental hospital. Her book counterpart was in her thirties, and Bradley Cooper (at 37) plays her love interest. She was 21 at the time. The part was originally for Anne Hathaway, who was 28 at the time, making it slightly more believable.
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Improbable Age / int_183290f3	comment	In Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, the last chapter likely ends up with your character being the leader of a faction fighting for control of a country at age 17-18. Now it does make a little more sense in the context of the plot and what has led up to there, but still try imagining such a thing.
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Improbable Age / int_19948e9a	comment	In The Story of Saiunkoku, To Eigetsu not only becomes the youngest person ever to pass the Imperial Examinations and qualify for court office at the age of thirteen, he earns the highest score and is almost immediately appointed co-Governor of an entire province (alongside 17-year-old Kou Shuurei). Similarly, by the time he was taken in by the Kou family at the age of fourteen, Seiran had already spent a year infiltrating and destroying a band of criminal mercenaries.
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Improbable Age / int_1b386512	comment	Ranma Saotome of Ranma Â½ is a world-class martial artist capable of feats impossible for a mere 7th-dan black belt, and he's only 16 at the end of the series. (This is explained by his father Genma's slave-driver-esque training regimen and spending Ranma's early childhood Walking the Earth as part of the regimen.) He STARTED the series at 16 as well, so that was a busy year.
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Improbable Age / int_1b7d1546	comment	In the legendary satirical fanfic A Trekkie's Tale, the heroine Mary Sue is fifteen and a half years old and a Starfleet lieutenant.
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Improbable Age / int_1bf2b0de	comment	Meanwhile, Firo's old friend Luck Gandor was acting as an executive of the Gandor family business at fifteen, if not younger. Luck didn't get the position because he was spectacularly gifted, but because he's the son of a Mafia boss and (along with his two older brothers) inherited the turf when his father died — and he's very aware of it. A good deal of his ruthless Magnificent Bastard persona is a front that he puts up in fear of not being taken seriously in his position (and thus targeted).
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Improbable Age / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Ichigo Kurosaki managed to become one of the strongest shinigami in the series at age 15 (whereas most of the other shinigami have been training for decades, if not centuries). Uryuu Ishida is the same age as Ichigo. At the age of 15, he fought Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi and displayed Quincy skills beyond anything Mayurinote who'd studied a great many master Quincy inside and out, to the point that he thought he knew everything there was to know about them had ever seen, to the extent that he kicked Mayuri's ass upon unleashing his ultimate ability. Although Mayuri lampshaded how improbable it was for a child to possess such high level Quincy ability, Uryuu's father has stated that Uryuu's power is still under-developed and immature; thus the power he used against Mayuri was not the true extent of his abilities. At the age of 17, he's revealed to possess abilities that the 1000-year-old Quincy King — who handily defeated Yamamoto — considers threatening enough to need surveillance. Toshiro Hitsugaya, a Child Prodigy who is the youngest captain in Soul Society history. He's approximately 12-13 in terms of biological age. His youth becomes a major weakness that Aizen can exploit but his talent is so great even a shinigami as experienced as Kyouraku believes Hitsugaya can surpass in him around a hundred years or so. Which is a fairly short amount of time by shinigami standards. Gin Ichimaru went through academy training at a very young age, and it only took him a year to complete a six-year programme. He became third seat almost immediately after graduating by easily killing the current third seat. Ryuuken Ishida is extremely young for his job as the Director of Karakura General Hospital. In a flashback set 20 years before the manga begins (and 5 years before his son is born), he's a high schooler (so under 18). That means he's no older than 40 even after the series' Time Skip. While he's been shown to be so intelligent he can keep up with Urahara, this is still ridiculously young for the level of responsibility involved. Japanese medical education assumes a minimum of 6 years student training, then 2 years of general clinical practice training, followed by 5-6 years of training in a speciality field. If he entered college at 18, he shouldn't have even become a fully qualified surgeon for at least 13 years, let alone become director of a major urban hospital in less than 20. What's more, Uryuu's elementary school flashbacks indicate Ryuuken may have been director for several years now, further straining the limits of probability. Yachiru is a vice-captain who appears to have a biological age of around 7 to 8 years old. She's immensely strong and fast and seems to have no trouble holding the position of second-in-command to the overpowered Captain Zaraki This is a subversion that is revealed only in the final stages of the manga. When Captain Zaraki first uses his sword's first-stage Shikai power in battle, Yachiru mysteriously disappears. Yachiru later returns inside Zaraki's inner world when he's in a fight that requires his second-stage Bankai power, revealing that she is the manifestation of his Bankai sword. The spirits of Shinigami swords usually only manifest in a Shinigami's inner world; it's rare for them to manifest in the physical world but not unheard of. Zaraki had no idea, but his sword spirit had been travelling by his side for decades.
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Improbable Age / int_1f76648	comment	A Certain Magical Index has quite a bit of this, much of which is justified in one way or another. On the science side, every single esper is under the age of twenty. It is strongly implied that the power development program (at least in its most recent, most effective form) is only about a decade old, so it makes perfect sense that there are no adult espers. The fact that most of the non-esper Badass Normals on the science side are also teenagers is less justified, but there also only a handful of them, so it's not something to worry about too much. On the magic side, it appears that the leader of every single magic cabal, cult, and secret organization is a 12-year-old loli, but it's implied that most of them are significantly older, and just using magic to decrease their age. There are ones who are genuinely young, though; Stiyl Magnus is a veteran fire mage at age 14, and Tsuchimikado was Necessarius' feng shui master at the ripe old age of 15. Kanzaki is the magical equivalent of a nuke at age 16, but then she's a Saint, and was born with her power.
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Improbable Age / int_2212773a	comment	Angel: Has an example, though one that people will only notice in a Fridge Logic type of way. The gang rescued Fred from Pylea where she had supposedly been stuck there for five years. She was a pretty girl in her mid-20s. Yet she was also said to be a very accomplished grad student before being sent there. At the age she was sent there, she could've been only a college junior at best.
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Improbable Age / int_22147342	comment	Arrow has Felicity Smoak, who holds a graduate degree in computer sciences and cybersecurity, and was a part-time hacker, at 23 years old. And this is in-universe; her actress, Emily Bett Rickards, was barely 21 when she first appeared in the show.
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Improbable Age / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: Many characters have this problem. Most of the scientists are in their mid-thirties and yet have been at the Jeffersonian for at least four years, have more than two degrees, and a high amount of volunteer work in other countries. One character has several psychology degrees, was a Rhodes Scholar, is an experienced FBI profiler and has time for video games. He's 23. It is a bit unrealistic, even for geniuses. Ironically, Brennan's level of education appears to be a toned down version of what Kathy Reichs had done by that age.
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Improbable Age / int_226f6b3f	comment	Season 3 of Haven introduces Claire Callahan as a psychiatrist. She's fully certified and has been running her own practice for at least a couple years. She is...28. The writers were savvy enough to know a psychiatrist needs an MD, since she reportedly went to UConn for medical school, but they were seemingly unaware that psychiatrists are still doctors and go through residency and fellowships just like any other doctor. Claire should still be in her residency, realistically speaking.
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Improbable Age / int_2275c659	comment	House: The "ducklings". Given that Cameron and Chase are both stated as 26 in Season 1 and Foreman is 30, they're a bunch of medical prodigies alright. Cameron, an immunologist, would have had to graduate high school roughly at age 14. Foreman, the neurologist, could have gotten that far in his career by 30, but he's also shown as being a neurosurgeon meaning he also would have graduated high school early. Chase is the one who stands out the most though, since aside from being a Trauma specialist and having some form of expertise in pediatrics (meaning he would have graduated high school around age 13) he also spent a few years in seminary training, back when he wanted to be a priest. He must have graduated high school around age 10. However, in Season 2, he is aged up to 30. Then add the fact that all three of them have had enough training to not only be capable of performing every medical test known to man, they are also qualified to do them. They must have all graduated high school in the womb. Chase is Australian, and fans have pointed out that he might have been able to get his specific qualifications in a shorter period of time than American doctors, due to the way the Australian medical board is set up. In a late season-five episode Cuddy states that she is thirty-eight, meaning she was head of the hospital at the beginning of the series at thirty-three or so, which seems pretty unlikely.
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Improbable Age / int_2291b210	comment	Joe 90: The whole point of this show. A child secret agent was thought to be less conspicuous than an adult one, and every week his scientist father would add knowledge into his mind that was only accessible when Joe wore the glasses.
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Improbable Age / int_23529ef4	comment	Mike Chilton in Motorcity is 17, yet he's a Badass Driver despite only having been able to drive for a year (unless you assume he drove illegally in the past). Not only that, but he's also a very skilled fighter. As the leader of the Burners, he already has a reputation, yet most who have heard of him rarely comment on his young age. He apparently worked for Kane a year earlier, yet back then he was accomplishing alot, which makes you wonder how old he was when he joined.
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Improbable Age / int_24baa5ad	comment	Doogie Howser, M.D.: The premise revolves around a 16-year-old doctor.
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Improbable Age / int_254ea077	comment	Depending on when a wrestler begins their training — it's quite common for some to start in their teens — they can have held multiple titles by the time they're in their early twenties. Paige for example started training when she was thirteen and won her first title at fifteen. Thus it can become quite jarring for someone of only their mid-twenties being considered a veteran, even if they've been in the business ten years. This ended up backfiring on her — as the injuries sustained from having started training so young led to her having to retire at the age of twenty-five.
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Improbable Age / int_25d97c04	comment	James Bond: The third James Bond, Roger Moore, fell into this trope, especially in the later films. It was somewhat disconcerting seeing him, at age 58 performing an Unnecessary Combat Roll here and there in A View to a Kill, which gave him the label "Geezer Bond" in an Esquire article. The World Is Not Enough has Denise Richards playing Christmas Jones, a nuclear physicist leading a major project — at the ripe old age of 28. Not only is that barely old enough to have finished a PhD to begin with, let alone be made a project lead at a nucear facility, but Richards often looks and sounds even younger than that; in two concurrent films, Wild Things and Drop Dead Gorgeous, she'd convincingly played a teenager. In Casino Royale (2006), Eva Green was 26 when she played Vesper Lynd, a high-ranking British Treasury agent, with her gravestone in No Time to Die revealing that she was born in 1983, meaning that Vesper was 23 years old in Casino Royale.
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Improbable Age / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: "E Pluribus Wiggum" has Ralph Wiggum running for the US presidency even though the minimum age is 35 years and he never went to electoral college. Bart explains that under the Bush administration, the U.S. Constitution has been rendered meaningless. Deconstructed in "Springfield Up", which shows the origin story of Eleanor Abernathy aka the Crazy Cat Lady: at a young age, she aspired to be both a doctor and a lawyer, and by age 24, Eleanor already acquired her degrees and became both. However, by age 32, she was getting burned out from the stress of having both occupations, and we see her getting her first cat. Skipping ahead to age 40, and she's since become the Crazy Cat Lady.
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Improbable Age / int_28a0fe9f	comment	The Saga of Tanya the Evil has the titular character 2nd Lt. Tanya Degurechaff, an extremely powerful Military Mage, ruthless Magnificent Bastard, and all aroundOne Girl Army who volunteered and later graduated from the imperial officer academy and started to make a name for herself as a gifted and fierce soldier at around the age of 10 years old. By the time the series begins, about a year later, Tanya has already earned herself the nickname The Devil of The Rhine, is rapidly moving up the ranks to Lt. Colonel, and is in command of her own personnel elite battalion of mages who's first mission ended with them pretty much defeating an entire country, has severely demoralized another enemy country in their next two missions, and her ideas and philosophies about war are starting to influence the policy of The Empire itself. All at around the age of 10 years old. Though this is somewhat justified, by her being the reincarnation of a Japanese Salaryman who was born with all her prior memories and knowledge intact.
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Improbable Age / int_29d129d0	comment	The Tiamat Sacrament: Az'uar, a baby dragon, is capable of becoming a powerful combatant not long after he hatches. While he does have the advantage of Blood Memory to make himself more skilled and intelligent, he's still somehow able to take down the strongest adult dragons with nothing but a few humans on his side. Xetoa acknowledges that if every dragon had Az'uar's growth rate, they probably would have won the war against Ry'jin. By the Final Boss fight, Az'uar is only a week old.
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Improbable Age / int_2b113e02	comment	The Mummy (1999) has an 'improbably old' version. Capt. Winston Havelock is a retired Ace Pilot from the First World War. However the first film is set in 1926, less than a decade after that war ended and Capt. Winston is visibly over sixty (his actor Bernard Fox was seventy one at time of filming.) Even assuming he joined the Royal Flying Corps at the outbreak of war in 1914 he'd still have been deep into middle age during his combat career.
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Improbable Age / int_2b91d798	comment	True Jackson, VP revolves around a 15-year-old being named the vice president of a major fashion company after the Eccentric Millionaire CEO recognizes her talent in fashion design and hires her on the spot. In the Series Finale she's promoted to CEO after her boss retires, and goes on to only hire minors.
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Improbable Age / int_2ba48a26	comment	Castle: Kate Beckett is established to be 27 or 28 at the start of the series. While it's possible to be commissioned straight to detective on your 21st birthday, Beckett mentioned she went to patrol first which requires 18 months before promotion to the lowest grade of detective. This means she got to leading a mid-town Manhattan precinct homicide squad in 4-5 years. There's simply no feasible career path for that to happen.
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Improbable Age / int_2bc165fe	comment	The World Is Not Enough has Denise Richards playing Christmas Jones, a nuclear physicist leading a major project — at the ripe old age of 28. Not only is that barely old enough to have finished a PhD to begin with, let alone be made a project lead at a nucear facility, but Richards often looks and sounds even younger than that; in two concurrent films, Wild Things and Drop Dead Gorgeous, she'd convincingly played a teenager.
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Improbable Age / int_2c2a56e3	comment	The Phantom Menace: Word of God says Queen Amidala was 14 during the events of the film. In the sequel, she's a Galactic Senator at 24 and seems to pass down the trait to her daughter, who held the same position at 19. According to Darth Plagueis, the reason for her early success was because Palpatine and his master arranged the whole thing as they knew a young teen would be easier to manipulate (which makes her reign even more impressive as Naboo was an elective monarchy). Anakin and Luke would be examples if they they weren't The Chosen One and his son respectively.
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Improbable Age / int_2d2d17de	comment	Tommy Oliver. Between the years of 1997 (when he graduated high school) and 2004, he managed to have a successful career as a professional racecar driver, go through college, get a doctorate in paleontology, become a mad scientist and create several varieties of incredibly advanced cyborg dinosaur thingies, and become a licensed teacher. Makes you feel like you've already wasted your life, doesn't it. We only ever saw Tommy participate in test runs with the race car, so he may never have actually had a pro career. Also, due to a lack of available science teachers some districts will hire based on education and experience without the specific teaching training. It doesn't help the timeline much, however, as he doctorate and mad scientist career still would have taken more than seven years.
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Improbable Age / int_2d644371	comment	Tales Series: Tales of the Abyss plays with this trope. Van Grants looks a lot older than 27, and yet he's The Leader Oracle Knights because he's powerful and charismatic . He got a lot of flak for it when he was first promoted, and so he grew a beard to make people think he was older than he really was. Jade Curtiss was capable of Fonic Artes (i.e. magic) that would take an adult decades to fully master at a young age and was adopted into a military family who noticed his talents, but despite this he's never stepped beyond Colonel (he's 35 at the time of the story). Dis Motivation is implied to have a role in this as he claims 'I have my hands full just being a colonel'. Luke, The Protagonist is 7 years old because he's a clone but looks more like seventeen and a skilled swordsman because he has nothing better to do than practice all day. The head of the most powerful organization (the Order of Lorelei) is 14 years old. And actually two due to being a replica like Luke. His guard is only thirteen as well. And Tear is 16 and yet a somewhat experienced sergeant in the order as well. Improbable Age seems to run rampant in Auldrant. Tales of Xillia does the same thing: the hero, Jude, is a medical student close to graduation...at age fifteen. Milla, an incredibly powerful magic swordsman is only 20. Gaius won a fighting tournament at age twelve and then went on to make a name for himself in a war soon after that and, discounting spoilers, managed to become king at age 22. Elize, who is only twelve, is an incredibly talented and powerful spirit artes user though she has the benefit of Teepo being a booster and thus increasing her output. The sequel continues the trend with Julius being a top agent for Spirius at age 28 and supplementary materials reveals he's been active since he was a preteen. Jude now has a medical degree and is the top researcher for spyrites...one whole year later from the first game.
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Improbable Age / int_2dae76e9	comment	Bungo Stray Dogs gives us Dazai Osamu, a Port Mafia executive and candidate for the next boss in his late teens. Also from the Port Mafia is Q, who became a big enough threat that he had to be sealed away before he was even 10.
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Improbable Age / int_2ef7cb74	comment	The Time-Space Administration Bureau of Lyrical Nanoha doesn't seem to have any minimum age requirement to join its Armed Forces. Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate became Contract Mages at nine. Chrono was already an officer at fourteen (and while the Admiral who's his commanding officer is also his mother, no indication of nepotism is made). No one bats an eyelash at being ordered around by Vita, who despite being several centuries old, has the outward appearance of a 6-year-old child; Hayate notes in the first Sound Stage that she would be in first grade if she were going to school. Despite her apparent age, Vita considers herself an adult, even if she doesn't always act like one. Also notable are the character's appearances after a Time Skip between seasons. Chrono's vaguely-forties mother is the only normal character who doesn't appear older. Yuuno, who's approximately the same age as Nanoha, was the one who originally excavated the Jewel Seeds. Alone. He was also appointed chief librarian of the Infinite Library at age 15. Vivio, while still in third grade, holds the title of librarian at the Infinity Library. Otto lampshades this when Vivio suggests that she should address her as a normal third grader. According to Sound Stage M2, Fate became an Enforcer at age 12 (and she probably would have done so even sooner had it not been for Nanoha's Near-Death Experience). It also appears to be something of a sticking point for non-magical military personal; during a discussion between Hayate and an officer whom she outranks (and is probably in at least her thirties), who is herself aide to her father (a general in his mid fifties), the woman makes a slight snide reference to the idea of magical talent letting one shoot through the ranks. Possibly the most ridiculous example of all is Chrono, who became an Admiral by the age of twenty. Reinforce Zwei held the rank of Sergeant Major at the age of eight, though this can partially be excused by the fact that she was Born as an Adult (relatively speaking). There's actually a moment in StrikerS where Alto and Lucino start squeeing over how cute she is before they find out that she outranks them.
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Improbable Age / int_2f968db7	comment	A Prequel Manga of Sakigake!! Otokojuku shows that Edajima is specially admitted in the Tokyo Imperial University at the age of eleven, and he passed the test in such a short time, complete with saying the test is far too easy. The sequel manga occasionally shows what has become of Otokojuku students some 18 years after their graduation. J is now Chief of Staff of the US Armed Forces, and thus a four-star general, in his early 30s.
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Improbable Age / int_2fee008d	comment	Pretty much everyone who starts out in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is less than 20 years old, with Simon and Yoko being around 14 and Kamina at most being 17. The other members are not much older, except for maybe Leeron. How a 14-year-old kid managed to defeat a millennium-old powerhouse of a man nearing the status of a deity, and then an entire race of beings much stronger than the original opponent seven years later, no one knows. Saving the universe at age 21 shouldn't naturally occur... There's also Yoko's shapely body. It should not be possible to be Ms. Fanservice to such an extent at 14 years of age...
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Improbable Age / int_2feff3ce	comment	Grey's Anatomy: In a rare case of characters being implausibly old for their positions the characters that start as interns in the first episode are nearly all a little on the mature side. A normal intern would be roughly 26 years old but except for Katherine Heigl the other actors were 7-10 years older. Cristina was stated to have had a PhD as well as her MD, so she could have been a bit older but this is mostly a case of the actors playing characters younger than they are. Addison Montgomery, however, is a straighter example. She's a board-certified OB/GYN (which is a four-year residency) subspecializing in maternal-fetal medicine (three year fellowship). Since she attended school with Derek Shepherd and was mentored by Richard Webber, she likely completed a general surgery residency (five years) and at least a two-year pediatrics residency, and fans are still divided on the order in which she did all that. She's also extremely well-regarded in her field, referred to as "The Meryl Streep of Maternal-Fetal Medicine", indicating that she has been practicing for quite some time. She looks pretty damn good for somebody who, under the best circumstances, should be at least early forties.
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Improbable Age / int_2ffcbd43	comment	Fire Emblem has done this very frequently. In the majority of games, there's some level of justification, with older characters boasting higher base levels than younger ones, but pretty much every plot involves a protagonist who can't be old enough to legally drink being handed command of an entire armed force. Sometimes this is even lampshaded. In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, for example, Ike protests that he's too inexperienced to lead a mission. Though he does end up leading the company rather well after his father dies. Then there's the Empress of Begnion who's 10 years old, much to other characters' surprise.
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Improbable Age / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Pretty much everyone in Naruto is a superhuman fighter when they are just out of their teens. Most of the examples mentioned here were a Child Prodigy, but it's also a case of the Shinobi villages utilizing children to fight for them; it's suggested they were just that desperate for more soldiers that even children had to be recruited. Those who were particularly talented were for once at a disadvantage.
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Improbable Age / int_3127e38	comment	The Newsroom: Sloan has a double PhD and several years of post-doctoral work, but she's played by the 30-year-old Olivia Munn. It's also revealed in the backstory that Will became a lawyer at the age of 21.
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Improbable Age / int_31677f1c	comment	He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) featured Teela as the captain of the royal guard at age 16.
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Improbable Age / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: Ed and Al are noted child prodigies and were able to perform human transmutation before they were ten. Ed is thus recruited as a teenager as a State Alchemist, a position that automatically confers the rank of Major in their military as well. Winry became an accomplished automail surgeon in her early teens at the latest. The Amestrian military as a whole has a ton of people who are improbably young. Some of the most blatant are Roy Mustang who is in his late 20s and is a Colonel, Hughes who was the same age was a Lt. Colonel, and Olivia Milla Armstrong who is in her late 30s is a Major General. It's justified by showing that killing a superior officer is a great way to get promoted in the Amestrian government. And as an alchemist, Mustang also started out as a Major, so he could have anywhere between 7-16 years to be promoted two ranks, without breaking canon. It probably helps that Mustang is something of an Ace, too. Plus, Mustang distinguished himself in the Ishbalan Rebellion, and so was likely promoted to Colonel for that. Given that Amestris has been in a constant state of war for over three hundred years, being a high-ranking officer at the age of 20-something is justified even without killing one's commanding officer. Constant war, after all, means a constant need to replace dead superiors, and thus anybody skilled enough to stay alive is likely to be promoted to very high ranks.
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Improbable Age / int_331e008	comment	Admiral Mikey, a character General Knoxx refers to several times in Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, is the admiral of the Crimson Lance 3rd Starborne Brigade. He's also five. Unlike other characters in this list who are usually Wise Beyond Their Years, Mikey is simply a 5-year-old boy appointed to the rank of admiral because of unchecked nepotism. Played for Laughs, like damn near everything else in the game.
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Improbable Age / int_34510e69	comment	Over the course of the self-published German sci-fi adventure novel The Adventures of StefÃ³n Rudel, the Author Avatar Stefan enrolls in the "Mars Centauri", picks up numerous military ranks both on Earth and in space, and falls in love with several girls - all while only six years old.
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Improbable Age / int_34a70b48	comment	Batman Forever: While Dr Chase Meridian's age isn't stated, she looks to be in her twenties (Nicole Kidman was 27 when she made the film). Considering it takes around ten to twelve years to become a clinical psychologist (especially taking into account Chase holds a doctorate), she comes off as implausibly young to have not only qualified as a psychologist but to be so established in her field the Gotham Police Department brought her in as a consultant.note Originally Rene Russo was cast as Chase; Russo was in her late thirties when the film went into production but was replaced due to being considered "too old" to be Val Kilmer's love interest (even though he's only a few years younger and was in his mid-thirties at the time)
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Improbable Age / int_35c6bff9	comment	Legacy of the Dragokin: Lydia is 15 years old and the sole general of the Baalarian army. This does not go unaddressed; she has critics accussing her of nepotism because her grandfather's The Emperor and she does her best to act like an adult so her subordinates will take her seriously.
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Improbable Age / int_36343514	comment	Both subverted in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, where Julius Belmont is over 50 years old and still a force to be reckoned with, and played straight, as he was 19 by the time he killed Dracula. The 19 years old thing is not unusual for the Belmont clan, considering Richter did it, and most Belmonts are only a few years older at most. If anything, Juste was YOUNGER, at 18. Julius is notable for being 50 years old by the time of the Sorrow titles, and yet still being able to kick ludicrious amounts of ass, impressive for a guy who hasn't been working out for three decades. Consider, each generation of the Belmont clan is stronger than the last. Besides Reinhardt Schneider, the last full-blood Belmont was Ritcher, and that was 202 years before Julius went into action in 1999. Think about it.
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Improbable Age / int_38304f2a	comment	Chaz of Phantasy Star IV begins the game a fully-fledged hunter at sixteen and (except for Rika, who is 1 year old, being a genetically engineered Numan) the youngest member to join the party. Gryz is a hardened warrior at eighteen, and Kyra is a mysterious, powerful, and famous Esper at nineteen. Although the game says his age is unknown, for comparison's sake, Rune is twenty-four, though having the memories of the greatest of Espers lodged in his head does make judging his functional age a bit dodgy.
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Improbable Age / int_3d22c14b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam 00 also has a little bit of this in its first season, although it gets justified in-show; protagonist Setsuna F. Seiei begins the show at 16 years old but the very prologue to the show shows us that Soran Ibrahim, who Setsuna really is, was conscripted into a Child mujahideen as early as 10 years old, which is an all too common story in the real world and leaves Soran with very real emotional scars. Allelujah Haptism is similarly 19 but is an artificial supersoldier who escaped from his research laboratory under absolutely tragic circumstances. Soma Peires is in a similar situation to Allelujah. Feldt Grace is a Bridge Bunny at 14, with her justification (mostly only brought up in side material) being that as her deceased parents were part of the previous generation of Gundam Meisters, she has essentially grown up with Celestial Being. This also basically disappears by the season of the show; four years pass, this after the first season takes nearly a year, so by then just about the entire cast is at least in their early to mid 20s, which is still slightly young but not at all unheard of for a real-life combat pilot (with a now-huge majority of the cast being near, at or older than 30 years). The only prominent teens even left on-cast are Feldt (who's now 19) and 14-year-old Mileina Vashti, who's the daughter of the chief engineer of the Cool Ship and has ostensibly been around this stuff all her life and ardently wants to help out as a Bridge Bunny. All the characters had their appearances suitably altered to reflect their aging. Mobile Suit Gundam AGE looks set to continue the trend, with 14-year-old protagonist Flit Asuno having built the Gundam. And then he gets one-upped by Desil Galette, 7-year-old Humongous Mecha Ace Pilot. Helps that he has Psychic Powers, but even so... And the cute captain of the Diva in the third generation, Natora Einus. Kio Asuno of the third generation gets a similar excuse to Usso: he grew up playing Mobile Suit simulators, so at 13 he can pilot the Gundam very well. He also has his grandfather Flit, a highly skilled and experienced pilot, as a co-pilot.
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Improbable Age / int_3d8baf12	comment	RoboCop 2: Cain has a pubescent boy in his gang who is treated as an equal member of the crew. Once Cain is captured, the kid actually seizes control of the gang, becoming the biggest ganglord of the city.
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Improbable Age / int_3df46758	comment	Open Blue: FÃ¼hrer Katrina Seran from v2 to v4 achieved the equivalent rank of Fleet Admiral in the Seranni Navy at the age of 20, and became ruler of her country a month later when her father, the Kaiser, "mysteriously" died. It helps that she's quite the Evil Genius. Another qualifier is Rhianna von Adolph, the equivalent of a Colonel and leader of the special forces division of Seran's intelligence agency at the age of 26. A third is Elysia Schneider from v2, a Vice Admiral at the age of 27. Her Back Story furthermore indicates that she has held this rank for a few years now. Apparently, being one of the FÃ¼hrer's classmates is a surefire way to end up with a lofty position within the Reich.
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Improbable Age / int_3eb3a36f	comment	In Assassination Classroom, the students are surprised to discover that their teacher, Irina JelaviÄ‡, is only twenty, since she's already considered one of the world's best assassins with a specialty in seduction. In this case we actually do address the Fridge Logic of that, revealing the Dark and Troubled Past that led to this.
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Improbable Age / int_3f01b5a4	comment	Then there's Spike in Power Rangers Samurai, whose dad Skull graduated or dropped out at about the same time Tommy did and was shown as single up to 1999, yet he has a 15-year-old son by 2011.
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Improbable Age / int_3f0d1805	comment	Spaced: Daisy's employment agency boss in Series 2 seems about 12 years old. This isn't commented on in-show beyond Daisy's incredulous looks, but fits the ongoing theme that Tim and Daisy are starting to feel a little old as they approach their late twenties.
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Improbable Age / int_3f633fb4	comment	Cracked presents the "5 Shockingly Powerful Kids Who Make You Look Like a Coward." It begins with Johnny and Luther Htoo, twin Child Soldiers who successfully defended their village on their own from an invading army before quickly becoming the leaders of God's Army at the age of nine. It ends with Iqbal Masih, an 11-year-old who escaped slavery and became spokesman for the Bonded Labor Liberation Front (a group dedicated to freeing child slaves), liberating 3,000 children before he was assassinated at the age of thirteen because of his worldwide-renowned fight against child labour. Geez, they make the achievements of several fictional examples look puny in comparison.
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Improbable Age / int_401612e1	comment	Pound Puppies (1980s) has Holly owning a puppy pound despite being about 12. Averted in Season 2 where her aunt Katrina owns the pound.
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Improbable Age / int_40672565	comment	Head of the Class: While all the students in Fillmore High's IHP program are gifted, young Janice is particularly off-the-charts bright. At the beginning of the series, she's in the advanced high school class at the age of ten, and is already being offered admissions and scholarships by various universities — her parents keep Janice enrolled in high school only to help foster her social development. Midway through the series (when the character is about 12) Janice departs, having accepted an offer from Harvard to begin studies as a sophomore. She makes a cameo at the conclusion of the series, having been gone for about a year in-universe (the final two seasons took place over a single nine-month school year). By that point, age about 13, Janice has graduated from Harvard and is lining up a job at IBM.
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Improbable Age / int_40ecca14	comment	Similar to Ginga Nagareboshi Gin's "puppy as pack leader" complex, Balto II: Wolf Quest, the first of the two Balto sequels, took this to the next level. Not only was Aleu leading an entire wolf pack when she was barely more than a year old, she was only a quarter wolf, and the rest was dog. Not to mention it's highly unlikely that some outsider can just show up and suddenly become Alpha (especially as 'Alphas' are just the parents of the pack). But of course the only justification for this is that cartoon animals are typically more civilized and accepting than the real thing.
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Improbable Age / int_4141af74	comment	In Future Diary the two main characters, and their friends, who are all 14 years old, often have to fight for their lives in a survival game in order to become God. Yuno in particular has the highest kill count in the series, and is seen as horrific by most fans, at least on some level. However most of the other characters are adults so this trope is Played With. The really odd one is Reisuke, a 5-year-old boy who is disturbingly well-versed in creative ways of killing people. Yuki is also seen driving a car frighteningly well enough to have a car chase scene after his Sanity Slippage starting point. The minimum age to drive in Japan is 18.
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Improbable Age / int_418bde20	comment	The spin-off PokÃ©mon Conquest actually lampshades this: Mori Motonari mentions the protagonist is much younger than he expected, and starts to wonder whether he's the old guard on his way out. (Judging by his looks, he's in his twenties at the very most).
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Improbable Age / int_43f52aa9	comment	In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, at character creation you have an age slider that can make your character appear as young as your mid to late teens. The slider is purely cosmetic, meaning you can go on to be the simultaneous leader of every guild in Cyrodiil, a member of the Blades, and savior of the world without anyone mentioning that you're practically a child.
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Improbable Age / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: Tommy Oliver. Between the years of 1997 (when he graduated high school) and 2004, he managed to have a successful career as a professional racecar driver, go through college, get a doctorate in paleontology, become a mad scientist and create several varieties of incredibly advanced cyborg dinosaur thingies, and become a licensed teacher. Makes you feel like you've already wasted your life, doesn't it. We only ever saw Tommy participate in test runs with the race car, so he may never have actually had a pro career. Also, due to a lack of available science teachers some districts will hire based on education and experience without the specific teaching training. It doesn't help the timeline much, however, as he doctorate and mad scientist career still would have taken more than seven years. There is a bit of fridge brilliance here though, when you spend 4 years fighting monsters in a robot dino, driving giant cars, and teaming with Teen Genius Billy Cranston; some of that is going to rub off. In Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, Dana is an 18-year-old paramedic. And by the time of her cameo appearance a year later, a licensed doctor. Power Rangers Operation Overdrive has Rose, a Teen Genius who is already a college professor. With Power Rangers RPM, we have Dr K who is that season's mentor, is no older than 19 and has been doing complex mathematical equations since she was 5. Then there's Spike in Power Rangers Samurai, whose dad Skull graduated or dropped out at about the same time Tommy did and was shown as single up to 1999, yet he has a 15-year-old son by 2011.
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Improbable Age / int_4499d6a0	comment	Grandia: The protagonist Justin is 14, his best friend Sue is 8, and the experienced adventurer Feena is 16. Despite their age, they can pretty much defeat anything opposing with no sweat. There's also the Garlyle Forces, which has many officer positions held by 16-year-old girls. The antagonist Colonel Mullen is, well, a colonel and is second in command of the Garlyle military at only 23 years old. It's justified in this case, though, since Mullen's father, General Baal (who averts this trope by being a general at 48), is the army's founder and supreme commander, so you can expect Mullen to enjoy the privilege of nepotism.
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Improbable Age / int_44e08ee8	comment	Homicide: Life on the Street: Colonel Barnfather is Captain and then Colonel of the Homicide unit despite being around the same age as the Homicide Detectives, and much younger than Giardello, the shift Lieutenant. This is somewhat mitigated in-universe when it's shown in multiple episodes that the Baltimore Police Department frequently promotes personnel for political reasons.
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Improbable Age / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: Neon Genesis Evangelion features the typical teenager mecha pilots, though the organizations combating the Angels are working on other plans that do not depend on child pilots, who they don't take very seriously and have serious doubts about, for good reason. Played straight with Ritsuko Akagi and Misato Katsuragi: respectively the Evangelion program's head of all things sciency and its field commander, despite both being in their twenties. Gendo may also apply, as he's only 48 despite being the head of the most powerful military organization on Earth. He must have carried out quite a scheme for that. In Rebuild, Asuka's a captain. This is plausible with the practice of making civilians officers when they have rare and important skills such as piloting Humongous Mecha.
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Improbable Age / int_4525bd4c	comment	In Relic Hunter, Sydney Fox seems rather young for a full professor with her own secretary (Tia Carrere was 32 years old in the first season).
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Improbable Age / int_455e3038	comment	Cotton Hill from King of the Hill he was 14 when he joined the army having lied to the recruiters telling them he was 18, and his many badass feats during World War II up to when his shins were blown off were accomplished when he was around 15 or 16.
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Improbable Age / int_45dbe39b	comment	Randy Orton became the youngest person in history to be World Heavyweight Champion at the age of twenty four, and only two years on the main roster.
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Improbable Age / int_46076f2a	comment	This also applies to Space Runaway Ideon to an even greater degree!
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Improbable Age / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Tiffany Aching, who defeats the Queen of The Fair Folk and stares down Granny Weatherwax, at the age of nine.
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Improbable Age / int_474c18c1	comment	BioShock Infinite has main villain Zachary Comstock, who is Younger Than They Look, as extensive exposure to radiation made him look like Santa Claus. He is an Alternate Self of protagonist Booker DeWitt]. Booker's contract explicitly makes him born in 1874, which means at just 16 he was a part of the cavalry regiment who massacred natives at Wounded Knee. And worse, that in just three years, Comstock would get the support of the United States government to build the floating city of Columbia — thanks to being widely influential preacher and help ofthe scientists whose experiments led to his Rapid Aging — while being barely old enough to vote.
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Improbable Age / int_47ef1aa1	comment	Not quite so unbelievable in The Daughter of Twenty Faces as main character Chiko's physical accomplishments tend to be gymnastic, and tween-to-early-teen girls are noted for their flexibility and are a staple of the Olympics, and her powers of insight are not out of place for a smart, curious girl; that said, she still seems a little young to be dodging armed men, bluffing her way out of incredible danger and making off with artifacts of incalculable value. Much of the rest of the cast does comment on this, however, and part of her training is proving that she can be of value.
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Improbable Age / int_49a84be6	comment	In Final Fantasy III, every hero is a Kid Hero. The Updated Re-release turns the blank characters into 15-year-olds. Young-looking 15-year-olds.
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Improbable Age / int_49a87cb3	comment	In Final Fantasy VII, Cloud is the oldest FF protagonist so far (which Dissidia Final Fantasy makes some mileage out of, treating him as the mature and experienced one of the group). Other characters react to him as an experienced elite veteran. He's 21. He joined the military at 14 years old, which appears to be accepted as normal. In Crisis Core, Zack becomes a hotshot SOLDIER First Class at age 17, while veteran uber-SOLDIERs Sephiroth, Angeal, and Genesis are all only in their early twenties during the majority of the events. The latter three are all genetically-modified super-soldiers, at least.
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Improbable Age / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII has Vaan and Penelo (both 17) and Larsa, age 12. On the other hand, Basch is 36 and Fran is at least 50. Balthier, despite his initial impressions, is only 22. This is somehow old enough for him to have become a Judge, ran away from being a Judge, and then become one of the most notorious sky pirates in the game world. Although his father made him a Judge and is implied to have pulled a lot of strings and bent some rules to do it, which makes things a bit more palatable. Ashe meanwhile is fighting for control of her kingdom at the age of 19 — though in this case her youth is acknowledged and she does struggle with the pressures that she faces even leading the resistance.
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Improbable Age / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV: Alphinaud and Alisaie Leveilleur are 16 and are famous around Sharlayan, their home country, for having enrolled in university around the age of 11, and graduated a short time after. Though in their case it helps that their grandfather Louisoix was a well-respected scholar and their father Forchenault is a government official. Their egos from being prodigies color their actions throughout A Realm Reborn, and Alphinaud's in particular is a driving factor for the events that lead up to Heavensward.
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Improbable Age / int_49ad83ee	comment	Done in World of Warcraft depending on the player's race. While some are adults (and in the case of Draenei, likely thousands of years old), Tauren, Orcs, and Trolls player-characters are all explicitly stated as starting their adventures as soon as they come of age (which seems to be mid-teens). So, come Mists of Pandaria, Lorewalker Cho is right when he identifies the player as an old veteran in a young warrior's body. Your character is canonically in their early 20s at best but has already slain enough Eldritch Abominations that it's routine.
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Improbable Age / int_4be1bdd0	comment	In Golden Sun, most of the sanctums that raise KO'd characters and heal poisons or curses are operated by elderly bearded religious leaders, or by middle-aged acolytes. In Imil, it's apparently run by 16-year-old Mia, and when she joins your quest to save the world, her preteen students take over the sanctum and do just fine.
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Improbable Age / int_4c095a1f	comment	Marissa Faireborn in The Transformers, commander of Earth Defence Command. While her age is never explicitly stated, certain details mean she cannot be older than 20 (though the Japanese continuity allows her to be as old as 25, and possibly a former Idol Singer). In Transformers: Animated one of the minor human villains is Professor Penny Princess, who rides a flying mechanical pony and uses girly-style high-tech weapons, yet doesn't seem to be any more then 8 to 10 years old.
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Improbable Age / int_4da4f10d	comment	Work It Out Wombats!: In "Cafe Chaos," Duffy sprains her ankle and has to stay home from cooking at the Eat 'N Greet, leaving Kaya to try to cook and wait tables at the same time. Kaya hires Zeke and Louisa to wait tables, even though the both of them are only four years old. Justified, because there was no one else to do the job.
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Improbable Age / int_4dd54482	comment	Lampshaded by a comic strip for Ben 10: Alien Force, which opens with Ben and friends taking down a supervillain who turns out to be a seven year-old girl (with all the [[Kiddie Kid emotional maturity) that entails, causing Gwen to remark â€œSocietyâ€™s turning out the supervillains younger and youngerâ€�.
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Improbable Age / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: Teen Genius Sheldon started college at the age of eleven and received a Ph.D within five years. He also became a researcher at Caltech before he was 25.
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Improbable Age / int_4e9f355	comment	In Crisis Core, Zack becomes a hotshot SOLDIER First Class at age 17, while veteran uber-SOLDIERs Sephiroth, Angeal, and Genesis are all only in their early twenties during the majority of the events. The latter three are all genetically-modified super-soldiers, at least.
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Improbable Age / int_4f410616	comment	At the end of The Mysterious Benedict Society, The Reveal takes place that Constance is 3 years old, or rather, that she is becoming it at the end of the book. To be fair, she is much weaker than any of the other characters, but still.
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Improbable Age / int_4f9e7022	comment	The loose adaptation of the anime The Electric Tale of Pikachu mentions in the second chapter that Ash only has a short leave of absence from school while he goes on his journey as he laments how unproductive the first hours of his quest have been.
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Improbable Age / int_507dfb6a	comment	In EarthBound (1994), the younger sister of Ness (13) has a job. Part-time, but still.
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Improbable Age / int_50e2e357	comment	Star Trek: Pavel Chekov, the chief navigator aboard the Federation's flagship is seventeen (his actor was 18). He's also apparently an expert in advanced theoretical physics. By the end of the film, Kirk is made Captain at twenty-five (his actor was 27). In comparison, his counterpart was the youngest captain in Starfleet at thirty-one. Quickly deconstructed in Star Trek Into Darkness: Kirk's arrogance and inexperience led to him making a series of bad calls, culminating in a serious Prime Directive violation for which Starfleet relieves him of command.
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Improbable Age / int_526d4c5c	comment	Knights of the Old Republic. In the second game, 23-year-old Mira chides the male Exile for hitting on her and being too old. Bastila's Battle Meditation is the central power responsible for the Republic's ability to battle the Sith, but the most liberal estimates of her age place her in her early twenties. She is, however, the only Jedi alive with her ability. The game acknowledges her age in several ways: she's still a padawan and there are repeated comments to the effect that in peacetime they wouldn't let her outside the enclave without a Master to watch her back. Plus her other abilities kinda suck becuase her training emphasised her unique abilities ahead of combat skills. Averted in the second game in the series: Mira, the youngest member of the party, is commonly estimated to be around twenty. The Exile (the player) is a war hero[ine], and is generally agreed to be in his/her late thirties or early forties. Chris Avellone puts the ages of Visas, the Disciple and the Handmaiden at 25, and Mira at 23. Considering all the highly accomplished young people out there, the Star Wars universe must have a brutal learning curve.
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Improbable Age / int_530296a4	comment	The Scootertrix the Abridged versions of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, are generals in the Equestrian military, despite still being in elementary school.
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Improbable Age / int_53fdef82	comment	Ryuu from Snow White with the Red Hair is a fully accredited pharmacist at the age of twelve. He's noted to be a Child Prodigy and to be fully capable at his job but he has a lot of trouble dealing with patients even when they don't question or mistrust him and has trouble connecting with people even outside of his work in addition to not having had many of the usual child experiences due to his studies. When he's thirteen he decides he needs to work on these shortcomings after Kirito forces Ryuu to befriend him and a patient tells him he is surprised Ryuu's actually a pharmacist since he always lets others talk to patients for him if he can avoid it himself.
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Improbable Age / int_5489f51f	comment	Oracle Overlord Pram from Makai Kingdom usurped her father's Netherworld when she was 2 years old.
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Improbable Age / int_55157132	comment	Maya from Occult Academy takes over as principal at her fathers school after his death despite being a 17-year-old high schooler herself.
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Improbable Age / int_551d6610	comment	No Country for Old Men: Discussed by Sheriff Bell, who recalls how he campaigned for and won the office of sheriff of a county as big as Delaware at the age of 25. He notes similar stories, such as an 18-year-old deputy and a 21-year-old pastor who was a pillar of his community.
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Improbable Age / int_569093cc	comment	Inversion in DuckTales (2017): Scrooge is explicitly more than a century old, but remarkably active for someone that age, and his immediate relatives are far younger than makes sense for this to be true.note It's not the writers' fault; they wanted to keep Scrooge's backstory from the comics, which was perfectly plotted to have him live through numerous historical events and be merely very old, but which was written twenty years before the show. His life is explicitly artificially extended by supernatural means.
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Improbable Age / int_5761fae8	comment	The main protagonist of Teenage Mercenary, Ijin Yu, was found after a plane crash at 8 years old and turned into one of the world's best special forces operators. By the time he is returned to his family in South Korea at age 18, he is effectively as skilled and experienced as members of actual military special forces throughout the world and routinely beats adults much older than he is who usually underestimate his combat skills due to his age.
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Improbable Age / int_57ad0c07	comment	Many have commented that every main character in the original Resident Evil title is about ten years too young for the palette of skills at their disposal. Chris Redfield is an ex-Air Force fighter pilot and member of a crack police unit at 25. Jill Valentine is ex-Delta Force (a unit which does not admit women) at 23. Rebecca Chambers graduated from college, having specialized in pharmacy, which is a graduate-level program, at 18. By the second game, the main characters' backstories seemed to mesh a little bit better with their given ages; Claire is a 19-year-old college student and Leon a 21-year-old rookie cop. The Umbrella Corporation also tended to hire people at ridiculously young ages to work on their super-secret bioweapons program: Wesker was seventeen, Birkin was fifteen, and Alexia Ashford was ten. They had all, apparently, graduated from college with advanced degrees by this time (at least Wesker gets a built-in Hand Wave, being engineered from birth to have capabilities far above those of a normal human).
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Improbable Age / int_5921531b	comment	Nanako from Persona 4 is 6 years old, and she's already doing all the cooking and laundry and grocery shopping by herself. She's forced to do it because her mother's dead and her father is always working late, and the game makes it clear her knowing all this stuff at such an age is rather strange.
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Improbable Age / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas has a purely cosmetic age slider that can make your character look between 20-ish and middle aged. This means that it's possible for the Courier to go from being a package courier to supreme ruler of the Mojave Wasteland in their mid 20s. And that's not counting the things you do in the four add-ons.
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Improbable Age / int_59ef2cea	comment	Yellowstone: Monica is a 26-year-old grade school teacher who gets courted by a local university to be a history professor. It's implied that her father-in-law pulled strings at the university to create a course specifically for her to teach. However, the dean seems to honestly believe that she's qualified to teach the course once it's created. Her improbable age is acknowledged a few times afterwards: one of her students mistakes her for a teacher's aide on the first day of class, and several police officers assume that she's a student rather than a teacher.
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Improbable Age / int_5a1506e6	comment	In Eternal Sonata, one of the regular party members is Beat, a street kid who is... wait for it... only 8 years old. He seems to have little problem shooting and mercilessly beating enemies, but once expressed worry that he would wet his pants in fear while crossing a high bridge.
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Improbable Age / int_5ada53ed	comment	The third James Bond, Roger Moore, fell into this trope, especially in the later films. It was somewhat disconcerting seeing him, at age 58 performing an Unnecessary Combat Roll here and there in A View to a Kill, which gave him the label "Geezer Bond" in an Esquire article.
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Improbable Age / int_5cdddc09	comment	In Duumvirate, genetically engineered Northberg children become Illuminati at eight. Taking advantage of their inexperience is generally a bad idea.
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Improbable Age / int_5ce2f08b	comment	In Black Butler, Ciel is the head of the Phantomhive noble family and Funtom company. It does help that his parents were killed, but he is pretty intelligent for someone who is only 12 years old. Though considering how fast he was forced to grow up and the literal Training from Hell he was forced into to gain those abilities, combined with the fact children were allowed to get away with more in the time period its set in, the things he can do are more justified.
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Improbable Age / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Most of the main cast in Soul Eater are 13 to 16 years old. It's pretty impressive for 13-year-old Maka to be so good at slicing through pre-Kishins that she nearly turned her partner into a Death Scythe at the start of the series, the strongest position a weapon can get to (And later on, she really does manage this.) and later (in the anime at least) takes out the world's most powerfully evil being, the Kishin, with a single punch to the face. With Spartoi demonstrating just how 'elite' these teenagers are, Kid's the only questionable example, in that he is not human and a 'fragment' of Lord Death. Shoutout to Justin Law, who did become a Death Scythe at age 13, the youngest in history. And he did it alone, without a partner. By the time we see him he's 17 and the coordinator of Western Europe.
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Improbable Age / int_5f46db0f	comment	Saki Amano in Kanamemo is the chief of a local newspaper office and commands absolute authority (to some extent) over the entire cast. She's in elementary school.
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Improbable Age / int_5f71a70b	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles: Xenoblade Chronicles X: The "top, all-around fix-it gal for BLADE" is a 13-year-old girl. It quickly becomes clear that she's more than competent enough for her job, and given the situation New LA is in, they can't afford to not take advantage of every able engineer they can get. Played a little more realistically in that Lin is noted in-universe to be an exceptional genius (she is the only under-18 character in the entire city), and she's far from perfect, making a number of big mistakes in her primary project that almost cause the whole thing to get scrapped. Her emotional maturity is also rather lacking: she's the first to make impulsive, irrational decisions, and she doesn't keep a lid on her negative emotions and stress as well as most of the adult characters do. Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Alexandria is the commander of Colony Iota at age 15, which even in this insane world is shockingly young. She wears makeup to look older because she's worried people won't respect her otherwise. This contrasts with Valdi, commander of her rival Colony 30, who is the same age as her but looks even younger. Of course, Colony 30 isn't really interested in combat; Valdi got his job due to his engineering skills, and has largely left all administrative duties to his Number Two. Due to the fact that everyone is born at ten years old and dies ten years later, some of the character timelines end up looking a little improbable. Teach's tragic backstory sounds more like something you would expect from a forty year-old veteran, not a nineteen year-old man, even if he has been serving in active duty for ten years. Segiri is even worse, as she is physically twelve (and has only been alive for three years this incarnation), but talks about how she's been part of the Secret Police and her sister disappeared a long time ago. Colony 0's timeline is so confusing that one common theory is that they are aware of the cycle of reincarnation, so they know they've been doing their jobs for centuries.
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Improbable Age / int_60111a38	comment	Jeremiah Arkham in The Joker Blogs looks too young to have even finished medical school, let alone be married and running his family's asylum.
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Improbable Age / int_610a694a	comment	PokÃ©mon Adventures: White owns her own company despite probably only being around 14. In an earlier volume, Falkner is portrayed as a policeman despite most likely being under 18. The most egregious example is Blake (who is based on Nate), who is only 12 years old but is a high-ranking and extremely competent Interpol Special Agent.
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Improbable Age / int_6209d3ce	comment	Most of the plot-important doctors in Trauma Center are considered the best surgeons in their fields and are anywhere from in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties.
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Improbable Age / int_6234eae7	comment	Usso Ewin of Victory Gundam was an expert mecha pilot at the age of 13. Handwaved by the fact that he grew up playing Mobile Suit simulators for an arcade. It's also Lampshaded repeatedly by almost everyone he meets: both his allies and enemies simply cannot believe the pilot of the Victory is a kid.
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Improbable Age / int_62a7de21	comment	Azumanga Daioh: Chiyo Mihama is a Child Prodigy who's smart enough to start her first year of high school at age ten, and graduates when she's 13 at the end of the series.
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Improbable Age / int_62f94c6	comment	The Dark Knight Trilogy 28-year-old Cillian Murphy plays Jonathan Crane, who holds a doctorate in psychopharmacology and is the chief administrator of Arkham Asylum.
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Improbable Age / int_631805af	comment	The little girl Sunny trumps all of them. Introduced in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots the daughter of Olga is a genius level intellect capable of tinkering with advanced computer technology and robotics on par with the level of Otacon, Snake's resident technology expert, at 7 years old. Things are hardly much better in Metal Gear Rising, where at age 11 she is the employee manager of a space exploration corporation that designs highly advanced aircraft technology, and in addition she has made several aircraft designs of her own while working for the company. Raiden even gets to ride around in an experimental aircraft that she personally designed and helped build that can fly at Mach 30.
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Improbable Age / int_6365ff3a	comment	Dragon Quest V starts off the protagonist as 6 years old. He gets treated as such, and it shows in other things such as being unable to read signs, but this obviously does not stop him from donning Plate Armor and wielding a Broadsword to considerable effect. His children, on the other hand, wait until the ripe old age of eight.
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Improbable Age / int_638624c8	comment	Slayers has the four main protagonists. Lina in particular is possibly the only sorceress in the world able to manifest the power of the world's Guardian of the Multiverse, the one being above God and Satanic figures Ciefeed and Shabranigdo respectively, the Lord of Nightmares, and utilize it effectively. Her magical level is also noted to be much higher than average. At the start of the series, she's a tender fifteen. Zelgadis the chimera sticks out even more, depending on the adaptation. He's a hyper-intelligent chimera, able to strategize like a general, utilize effective swordplay and magic, and use a nautical sextant with ease. Throw in the ability to play the guitar in the anime, and you have an ace of a sorcerer at nineteen (or sixteen, in the anime). Princess Amelia is a well-rounded priestess and an effective healer, not as powerful as Lina, but being a 14- (anime)/15-(novels)-year-old diplomat is nothing to sneeze at. Gourry is a phenomenal swordsman, but is twenty-two at the start of the series, and Word of God stated that he was a mercenary/soldier since seventeen. Depending on where you live, that's actually not uncommon in Real Life, so he averts this trope to a degree.
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Improbable Age / int_639e0f76	comment	Ghost Hunt: John is an ordained Catholic priest at the age of 19. Naru, who is head of a successful paranormal investigation company at the age of 17, comments on the improbability. However, in Naru's case, this was subverted, as it was revealed that Shibuya Psychic Research is only a code name for the Society for Psychical Research, and that his adopted father Martin Davis is the real head.
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Improbable Age / int_65f49106	comment	Sienna in Phantom Brave was fighting Sulphur 30 years ago. She doesn't look a day over 27. Marona does it at age 13, so...
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Improbable Age / int_6735aaf4	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam AGE looks set to continue the trend, with 14-year-old protagonist Flit Asuno having built the Gundam.
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Improbable Age / int_68a5b119	comment	Cal Leandros: Niko Leandros may be Wise Beyond His Years, he may have raised himself to take many levels in badass, with little or no help/schooling whatsoever in his childhood, but it's incredibly implausible to believe that as a 4-year-old, he was capable of taking care of a newborn baby.
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Improbable Age / int_691be369	comment	Dana Scully of The X-Files is a mild case, but noticeable due to a combination of this and Underage Casting. Dana Scully is 28 in the pilot, played by 24-year-old Gillian Anderson (who looks really young here). She is a forensic pathologist, teaches at the Academy, and has been with the FBI for two years. The education required to become a forensic pathologist in the US is roughly 13-15 years, including obtaining a Bachelor's and completing medical school. On top of the two years she has already been with the Bureau, Scully should be in her mid-30s, not her late 20s.
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Improbable Age / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: In the backstory, Kaladin was the youngest squadleader in Amaram's army at 20 years old. In the second book, he becomes the first darkeyed captain ever at just twenty-one. Also in Words of Radiance, it is revealed that Shallan became a full-fledged Knight Radiant when she was eleven, to the point that she was able to summon her Shardblade when her mother tried to kill her.
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Improbable Age / int_6b880321	comment	Defied to some extent by WWE. Their policy says that no wrestler under twenty one may be called up to the main roster. They have signed people under that age before but they remain in developmental until they come of age. They since amended that to not even signing people under twenty-one (Aliyah was the youngest person on the roster at the time, having been signed at only nineteen).
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Improbable Age / int_6bbde1c8	comment	Overwatch: Mercy is 37 at the time the game takes place, which would put her at about 32 when Overwatch was originally disbanded. By that age, she'd completed multiple doctorates, rose to prominence working at a Swiss hospital, been recruited by Overwatch, rose to the top of their medical division, and pioneered revolutionary healing technology with her Valkyrie suit and staff. The timeline of Mercy's past is a bit of a Continuity Snarl, as Mercy was originally conceived as being part of the same generation as Soldier 76 and Reaper (which would have put her around 60) but appearing eternally young as a side-effect of her healing tech. This ended up being scrapped, and the developers decided to just make her the age she appeared, but they didn't update her history accordingly. As a result, Mercy apparently blitzed through her pre-Overwatch career in record time.
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Improbable Age / int_6c1d09b1	comment	In Fallout and Fallout 2, it's possible for your character to start out at as young as 16 (you can select your age to start; it affects pretty much nothing). Considering all the screwing, murdering, and driving the character can do, they probably figured sixteen was the absolute youngest they could go. Considering it's a post-apocalyptic setting where no one would probably care about things like mandatory education, minimal age for drinking, driving, weapon-handling, etc. because you need to learn how to survive, it's kind of justified. In Fallout 3, your character is 19 years old but your initial skills are explained by things like your father giving you a BB gun when you're 10, having to deal with a gang of bullies, your father teaching you medical skills, etc. Also, like above you're in a lawless wasteland, so the drugs and such make sense. Fallout: New Vegas has a purely cosmetic age slider that can make your character look between 20-ish and middle aged. This means that it's possible for the Courier to go from being a package courier to supreme ruler of the Mojave Wasteland in their mid 20s. And that's not counting the things you do in the four add-ons.
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Improbable Age / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3, your character is 19 years old but your initial skills are explained by things like your father giving you a BB gun when you're 10, having to deal with a gang of bullies, your father teaching you medical skills, etc. Also, like above you're in a lawless wasteland, so the drugs and such make sense.
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Improbable Age / int_6c47db4e	comment	The Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors games take this to a new level. Both games would feature one or two Loli characters, with Improbable Weapons to boot, and still have them go into battle fought by men in their thirties (The Two Qiaos, Oichi in Samurai Warriors 1 and Gracia, I'm looking at you all.) Especially blatant in the case of the Qiaos, who, historically, were older than Sun Shang Xiang.
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Improbable Age / int_6cb2d709	comment	This is the premise of Harry Potter; he's famous because he survived the killing curse, which is supposed to be impossible, when he was a baby, in the process defeating Voldemort. The only other person to stand up to Voldemort so successfully is the very old Albus Dumbledore who is regarded as the greatest wizard living.
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Improbable Age / int_6cd3b44f	comment	Black Lagoon: Deconstructed where 17-year-old Yakuza Princess Yukio Washimine becomes a mafia boss because the yakuza council will only recognize a blood relative as head of the clan. The first obstacle once she obtains the title? A war with war veteran Balalaika and her ex-special forces henchmen. The show goes into detail of showing just how strained both the newly minted boss and the mafiosi are about the whole arrangement, and the stress of having to take on all the responsibility. In the end, her clan disbanded and her second-in-command and only confidant killed by the war, Yukio commits suicide. The show also has extremely implausibly young professional assassins Hansel and Gretel. Even given the incredible amounts of Rule of Cool the two operate under (in order to ensure they're not killed two seconds after they're introduced), the show goes into detail showing just how incredibly messed up someone would have to be to have a career like that at that age.
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Improbable Age / int_6e627c5c	comment	Olympia Vale is an expert linguist/diplomat/xenoanthropologist and an elite Spartan-IV operative. In Halo 5: Guardians, she's only 22 years old. This is taken even further during her original pre-Spartan appearance in Halo: Hunters in the Dark, where at age 19 she's already a professional diplomat who gets to be part of an elite task force sent to the Ark.
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Improbable Age / int_6f6c1eb7	comment	The main characters of Digimon Data Squad are all stated to be between 15-18, and are all the SOLE FIELD OFFICERS (at least onscreen) in a "The Men in Black" style operation to prevent Digimon-related disasters in the real world. This would fall neatly into Competence Zone, until you start hearing more about the exploits of Touma/Thomas — at age fifteen, he's already graduated from university and is a fully trained doctor.
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Improbable Age / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk takes place in a harsh medieval-esque world where one needs to be pretty sharp from an early age to survive until adulthood, but even considering that there are many youths who reach improbable positions. The Protagonist, Guts, is probably the most Egregious example because of how early he started as a mercenary. His adoptive father Gambino made him a Child Soldier by forcing him to accompany him into battle as his page and practice fencing with live blades at age six. Guts's first battle as a combatant was at age nine, in which he killed his first man, more by luck than anything else. By age eleven, however, he was a bona fide warrior, even managing to single-handedly kill a noble enemy commander, and since he was driven out of his former mercenary camp this was also the age when he effectively became responsible for himself. At 15 years old, he was showing signs of Charles Atlas Superpower, being far stronger and faster than any grown mercenary and managing to defeat the dreaded knight Bazuso, thereby catching the attention of the equally prodigious young mercenary captain Griffith. At the age of eighteen, just three years after Griffith roped him into the Band of the Hawk, he had attained the rank of Captain of the Hawk's Raiders division, effectively answering only to Griffith and having authority over at least a couple hundred men. He made his name as a One-Man Army in the Hundred Year War by single-handedly defeating a force of no fewer than one hundred Tudor mercenaries, and became a hero of the war by slaying the undefeated General Boscogn in the Battle of Doldrey. And those are just the things he did before he got branded as a demon sacrifice, and had to spend practically every minute of his life fighting against hungry spirits and gargantuan monsters. At the start of the Fantasia Arc, by which time he has fought enough battles to last a lifetime, he is still only 24 years old according to the official guide book. Eventually Guts' status as a warrior prodigy is Deconstructed with clear symptoms of Dented Iron from having gone through so much physical and mental torture by his early twenties, to the point where his entire body is Covered with Scars and burns and he looks a good ten to twenty years older than he actually is, especially since putting on the cursed Berserker Armor for the first time caused a patch of his hair to turn white. We don't learn as much of the early backstory and circumstances of the (eventual) antagonist, Griffith — but according to official sources he's the same age as Guts is, and around the time Guts was kicked out of his first mercenary group, Griffith was already a leader of the bandit gang that would grow to be the Band of the Hawk. Guts lampshades this when he first meets the band, noting that everyone there seems exceptionally young.
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Improbable Age / int_707fbedb	comment	Space Voyages: The basic premise of the series is that three Teen Geniuses are sent on a space mission by themselves. Needless to say things don't quite go according to plan.
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Improbable Age / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell's in-show age (younger than the actor's real age) is so low that in order to be a lieutenant colonel he would have to have received almost all of his ranks shortly after the legal mandated minimum time between ranks. Downplayed as it is implied he was promoted to Lt. Col. because of his action in Antarctica, and the SGC actively seeks out the best and brightest, especially if they're prodigies, so if there really was someone so good as to get all his promotions all the way up to Lt. Colonel in the legal minimum time, it is likely he'd end up working at the SGC.
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Improbable Age / int_72146c5e	comment	In Fiona Patton's Tales of the Branion Realm medieval fantasy series, the oldest protagonist out of four books is twenty-four. Children commonly go to war, and in one book two boys, ages eleven and twelve, end a siege by poisoning the defenders. Another is leading sieges at sixteen (justified by his being Crown Prince and over the age of majority in this universe).
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Improbable Age / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Benders such as Zuko, Toph, Azula, and Katara, as well as Badass Normals such as Sokka, the Kyoshi Warriors, the rest of Ozai's angels, Jet and his freedom fighters are all incredibly powerful and trained, but are still teenagers somehow capable of fighting on equal terms against adults who have years, if not decades, of experience over them. Most Avatars before Aang came along were informed of their status at 16 and spend the better part of a decade mastering their various abilities afterward. Aang was told he was the Avatar at twelve, put himself in deep freeze a few months later at most, then spent the next year after thawing out seeking instruction in bending, making up the rest as he went along. Sequel series The Legend of Korra has the main cast start out as slightly older, and Korra at least has had her life dedicated to training as the Avatar since she was 4. However, the Fire Ferrets Pro-Bending team become champions with a team of people who are 16, 17 and 18, and Mako (the 18-year-old) joins the police force during the six months between Seasons 1 and 2. Asami is also 18, is an expert driver that can outperform anyone (granted, automobiles are only about as old as SHE is) and goes from spoiled kid to savvy leader of her father's company, struggling to make up for the reputation his siding with the Equalists saddled them with. Season 4 averts this trope, as the three year time skip put the characters into their early 20s.
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Improbable Age / int_7244e221	comment	In The Traitor Son Cycle, the Red Knight is 20 years old and has been leading his mercenary company for the last four years. While this is a world where 13-year-old kids fight, it's still a pretty early start, considering that at the age of sixteen, Michael is still Red Knight's squire.
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Improbable Age / int_726a814f	comment	Poul Anderson's A Midsummer Tempest uses it in universe: Prince Rupert's extreme youth for his military accomplishments is commented on by his captor.
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Improbable Age / int_7385bc4d	comment	Doraemon: Many times in the franchise, Nobita and his friends meet children around their age who hold high ranking jobs such as law enforcements, national football players and even king or president.
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Improbable Age / int_747d9a6f	comment	[PROTOTYPE]'s Director McMullen had his doctorate in genetics at age 20, and founded Gentek the following year. However, while he could have been a prodigy, his age is only mentioned once in the Jigsaw Puzzle Plot, so it's entirely possible that the writers simply screwed up the math on his birth date, and the editors neglected to call them on it.
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Improbable Age / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Link is already a master of multiple weapons, including bows, bombs, boomerangs, and swordplay, as well as a few magic spells in some games, but then you take into account that in many games he's no older than 12 years old. Justified. Everything except the bow and sword are completely new or exceedingly rare weapons, so no one is a master, making Link's (limited) ability the best there is with none able to counter. His sword is explicitly stated to be magical (and sentient), and his frequent left-handedness likely gives him a considerable learning-curve advantage. His bow also fires magical arrows. There's also Tetra from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, who is the captain of a pirate ship despite being a preteen girl. This is lampshaded by one of her crew members, who jokes that she's actually 35. Some parts of the game suggest that the captaincy of her ship is hereditary, and she succeeded her mother after the latter's death. Link's skill is also justified in another way. In each game he is the latest reincarnation of the original hero, and with each generation he retains the skills of the former generations. Add that to how in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Link was a trainee in a knight academy (albeit one with no enemy nations or intense monster threats until the start of the game) it makes sense Link would be at least good enough in most weapons to do what he does in game. Tetra is also justified in the same way, being the latest Zelda, and so a natural leader The craziest example is Malo from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. He looks no older than two but talks in complete sentences, walks fine on his own, and runs a successful item shop in Kakariko village; official media pins his age between four and eight. Malo also manages to run a successful fundraising project to rebuild the East Bridge of Castle Town, (although he had help from the Goron elders with this one) and run a second fundraiser to buy the snooty overpriced store in Castle Town for only 200 rupees. For reference, the cheapest item there before the buyout is 10,000 rupees.
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Improbable Age / int_750016d6	comment	Nathaniel from Mindblind graduated high school at eleven and college at fourteen.
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Improbable Age / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: Miranda Keyes, who's a commander at age 27, although this is handwaved with the explanation that many high-ranked military people have been killed during the Human-Covenant War and had to be replaced. Even then, in Halo 2, she's only commanding a troop-carrying corvette or frigate (just look at its positively miniscule size compared to Covenant ships of the line), the equivalent of a modern-day Marine amphibious helicopter carrier. Which would be a reasonable position for a person of her rank and age. In Halo 3, she's one of the most senior officers in the UNSC navy by virtue of being one of the only surviving officers in the UNSC navy, the Covenant having almost entirely destroyed Earth and its defending fleet. The Spartan-IIs and IIIs are also like this. Master Chief and his fellow IIs were fourteen when they fought their first real battle, while the IIIs were mostly around ten to twelve when they were sent on suicide missions. The IIs in particular are explicitly stated to be recruited for physical and intellectual exceptionalism from a very young age before receiving their chemical, genetic, and bionic augmentations. Some selection also goes on with the IIIs, though not nearly to the same extent. While it's certainly not unbelievable that Master Chief has the rank he does at the time of the games, prequel books reveal that he attained said rank when he was only 15. The youngest Master Chief Petty Officer in real life was 44 when he was promoted. Of course, the same book also shows that Master Chief received it through a field promotion (from Petty Officer 1st Class) due to extreme circumstancesnote He was being placed in command of a squad of ODST's, all much older and more experienced than he was at the time, and the Commander of the operation wanted to make it extremely clear that John-117 was in charge. Olympia Vale is an expert linguist/diplomat/xenoanthropologist and an elite Spartan-IV operative. In Halo 5: Guardians, she's only 22 years old. This is taken even further during her original pre-Spartan appearance in Halo: Hunters in the Dark, where at age 19 she's already a professional diplomat who gets to be part of an elite task force sent to the Ark.
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Improbable Age / int_761813a6	comment	Band of Brothers: The series subtly tweaks this, presumably to avoid Reality Is Unrealistic. Many of the early-twenties soldiers who became officers were played by actors in their thirties. Men that young did actually rise through the ranks. Lampshaded with Lt Jones — an incredibly young graduate who goes straight from West Point to war-torn Germany. He's in command of men who are visibly older than him (and annoyed at taking orders from someone so young).
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Improbable Age / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: Tali is 22 in the first game, but this is justified as her being a technological savant amongst a race of technological savants, as well as her father being a member of the Admiralty Board, a group of five people that guides their entire civilisation. It does get out of hand in the third game when she's made a member of the Admiralty Board, though. On the other hand, she's 26 or so by the time she's promoted to admiral, and she doesn't think she's really qualified. She never actually commands ships in battle, either; it's more of a political appointment and it's explicitly stated that she only got it because she was both the daughter of the previous admiral and had the most experience fighting geth (thanks to teaming up with Shepard in the previous two games) of any quarian in the fleet. Also Mordin Solus's nephew, who is a tenured professor at the age of 16. This is justified as his species has an average lifespan of about 40, making him the equivalent of a human in their mid-30s.
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Improbable Age / int_79ae7521	comment	The title character in The Librarian movies managed to earn 22 academic degrees (including 4 Ph.D.'s) by the age of 31. In the second film, he meets a female archaeologist about his age who holds 27 degrees.
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Improbable Age / int_7ac43256	comment	Super Robot Wars: Original Generation: the only underage regular pilots in the EFA are those children, all other pilots are at least 18.There are some other underage pilot. The platoon leaders get they positions after superior officers defect or refuse the command responsibility. With the ship captains, Lefina received Hiryu Kai on "training basis" with Sean as an XO who has experience and authority to take command when he see fit. Tetsuya is the only person who has enough experience to command a Space Noah after the defection of Lee and Daitetsu's death. He even proved himself when temporarily take command Kurogane.
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Improbable Age / int_7b0ba742	comment	The Radio Rock DJs in The Boat That Rocked are on average rather older than most of their real-life Sixties counterparts. Bob in particular is pushing it, but even The Count and Gavin are at least ten years older than they should be.
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Improbable Age / int_7bc8669c	comment	Messenger: Akiara is a 17-year-old warrior. Justified given the Post-Apocalyptic setting.
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Improbable Age / int_7bfecbd3	comment	A criticism of A Bridge Too Far was that Ryan O'Neal, at thirty-five, was too young to be believable as an Army General. It's actually a case of Reality Is Unrealistic because his real-life counterpart, James Gavin, was the same age and was the youngest general commanding a division during World War II.
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Improbable Age / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb invokes this trope in the name of comedy. Whenever someone asks the two titular characters Once an Episode whether they're too young to be doing whatever absurdly ambitious project they have planned this time, Phineas responds with a deadpan "Yes. Yes we are." Hey, Refuge in Audacity works. Lampshaded in one episode, where one of the delivery guys apologizes for the other delivery guy asking the question and states that the guy who asked is new to the job. Also used on the other end of the spectrum when a character is doing something they should have outgrown.
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Improbable Age / int_7cf1b706	comment	Lampshaded in Escape from Monkey Island:
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Improbable Age / int_7dcdbde1	comment	In The Great Ace Attorney prequel spin-off duology, we have our most ridiculous example yet in Iris Wilson,note Iris Watson in the original Japanese version a famed and prolific novelist and certified medical doctor... at the age of ten. In the Victorian Era. On the other hand, the lawyers themselves finally take a step towards avoiding the trope: while they're still in their early twenties, Ryunosuke and Kazuma are explicitly still university students getting on-field experience rather than fully-fledged professionals. They're still fairly improbable, Ryunosuke being an English major who got the job after mere weeks of studying law after Kazuma, the actual law student, is left for dead due to an unfortunate accident but that doesn't have anything to do with his age anymore.
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Improbable Age / int_7f70202	comment	Oni Ga Shiku Series: Izuku starts acting as a vigilante at age eight to keep up with his training when his uncle is not around (and because he enjoys it). One of the people he rescues is gobsmacked to hear how old he is. He kicks the crap out of the entire Yamikumo-gumi when he is only ten years old. That said, the entire sequence of events that lead to that (and the event itself) leave him with serious mental trauma. He starts working as a part-time employee at Sky Financec immediately afterwards, even though in the real world that's illegal. Eventually, Akiyama puts a stop to all that because he wants Izuku's high-school uears to be as normal as possible so he can enjoy them before he inevitably throws himself in the grinder again.
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Improbable Age / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam Wing's OAV Endless Waltz is especially inexplicable, with Mariemaia Khushrenada leading a rebellion despite being 7 years old. (Granted, she was a figurehead for the most part, chosen entirely for her parentage, but the Man Behind the Man was seeing that she got some in-field experience, too. The age of her father Treize would seem to imply he became a father at 17.)
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Improbable Age / int_8010912f	comment	In Unstable Equilibrium, Asami took over her deceased father's business at any only fifteen.
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Improbable Age / int_8124a34e	comment	Barbie: Barbie doesn't look like she's even thirty but has done things like become president of the United States. Multiple times. This aspect of her character gets poked fun at in Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse.
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Improbable Age / int_819853fe	comment	Final Fantasy XIII-2: Hope is now the Director of the Academy and basically leader of the world at the young age of 24. The Fragments Before novel goes further and clarifies he took the position at the age of 19.
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Improbable Age / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Not only are the Mario bros much younger than their moustaches let on, but they've also have had many accomplishments and a life full of careers than someone of their age ranges typically should. Not only is Mario a plumber, but he's also has been an accomplished carpenter, construction worker, referee, go-kart racer, tennis player, fighter, physician, pilot, painter, Olympian, and certified MD all at the age of 26 (or in some cases, manages to be a Jackof All Trades at 24)! The same can be said for Luigi who has also done just as much, if not all the things on the aforementioned list. That said, in our universe it takes about two-five years for plumbing apprenticeship training; as for being a certified doctor, it takes up to four years to earn a medical degree. In the Mushroom Kingdom universe, the vast majority of "medical practice" that Mario does is throw pills at viruses via Tetris style and make sure the colors match up. By those standards you could probably get a degree in that in less than four years! There hasn't been any specific source on just how old Princess Peach may be, but from her appearance she seems to be in her early-mid 20s. And yet she's running an entire kingdom (or supposingly, anyways).
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Improbable Age / int_8357c0bd	comment	Flashdance: Many reviewers found it highly implausible that an 18-year-old girl would be allowed to work full-time as a welder. This was another thing pointed out by MAD!
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Improbable Age / int_852e963a	comment	In Sonic and Donna, Donna works at a waitress at thirteen.
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Improbable Age / int_857e66b5	comment	Not only is Mario a plumber, but he's also has been an accomplished carpenter, construction worker, referee, go-kart racer, tennis player, fighter, physician, pilot, painter, Olympian, and certified MD all at the age of 26 (or in some cases, manages to be a Jackof All Trades at 24)! The same can be said for Luigi who has also done just as much, if not all the things on the aforementioned list. That said, in our universe it takes about two-five years for plumbing apprenticeship training; as for being a certified doctor, it takes up to four years to earn a medical degree. In the Mushroom Kingdom universe, the vast majority of "medical practice" that Mario does is throw pills at viruses via Tetris style and make sure the colors match up. By those standards you could probably get a degree in that in less than four years!
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Improbable Age / int_85a246b3	comment	Titans (2018). Barbara Gordon is Gotham's police commissioner despite being in her mid-30's, which is handwaved by the suggestion that no-one else wants the job.
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Improbable Age / int_864e1bab	comment	Darling Lili has a similar example. Bill Larrabee is an Ace Pilot in his prime, played by the mid-40s Rock Hudson.
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Improbable Age / int_86814cc3	comment	In Final Fantasy II the most valuable soldiers of the rebel force fighting to stop the Evil Empire...are teenagers. Justified in that when the game started they were nobody refugees who had to fight even to enlist. There's also, though, the matter of Minwu. He's a courtly wizard. Look at his character art: there's no way he's over 35.
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Improbable Age / int_86814cd0	comment	In Final Fantasy IV, Cecil and Kain lead the dark knights and the dragoons, respectively, at the ages of twenty and twenty-one, respectively. Even taking into account the fact that both of them were likely trained from early childhood (and in Cecil's case, was effectively the adopted son of the king of Baron), that's still very, very young for their positions. One wonders what the older soldiers think... Rydia starts the game at age seven (though she gets aged up offscreen). Palom and Porom are master mages, capable spies, possess enough resolve to turn themselves to stone to save the world...and they're all of five. In-universe, they're explicitly acknowledged as child prodigies and are meant to seem unusual. Final Fantasy IV: The After Years also reveals that this took something of a toll, with Palom expressing fears that he peaked early in life.
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Improbable Age / int_86814cd2	comment	Top of the list has to be Eiko from Final Fantasy IX — she's only 6 years old and knows how to cook and take care of herself. Zidane and Garnet are both 16 and Freya is 21. If you weren't told this, you would never know it. They act much older, and have histories and experiences that imply they can't be that young, for example Freya being a member of the Dragon Knights several years ago and Zidane having years of experience as a thief. May be justified in that both Freya and Zidane aren't human and hence may age and reach maturity differently. Vivi looks to be about 9, but the official ultimania guidebook confirms that he was activated SIX MONTHS before the start of the game! The age of 9 is likely a guess by his adoptive grandfather. Kuja is only slightly better in this regard, being a famed "weapons dealer", rich Treno personality, proprietor of a massive desert palace, and doing all his villain accomplishments at the tender age of 24. Beatrix thankfully is a little more plausible; she's captain of Alexandria's Amazon Brigade and a feared and respected soldier, aged about 27.
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Improbable Age / int_86814e56	comment	Celes from Final Fantasy VI is an 18-year-old army general working for The Empire who burned down a resisting village shortly before the events of the game. The explanation given is that she's a genetically-engineered Super-Soldier. And apparently she's taken time off from soldier training to learn how to sing in an opera. Terra is the same age, and is also a frighteningly competent (if brainwashed) soldier-slash-biological-weapon. Although, she isn't human...
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Improbable Age / int_86814e7d	comment	Final Fantasy X-2 has the factions of Spira led by men in their mid-twenties at the oldest. Gippal in fact is the leader of the Machine Faction at only 18. All three of them are war veterans, having been part of the Crimson Squad, so at least they have some form of experience. This is however averted with Isaaru and Tromell, who assume leadership of Bevelle and Guadosalam respectively. Isaaru is 30, and Tromell 56.
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Improbable Age / int_86c4c725	comment	In Villainess Level 99, reaching level 99 in this RPG Mechanics 'Verse is an accomplishment that no one expected to be possible within a lifetime, therefore people are skeptical when they learn Yumiella is already level 99 at merely 15 years old.
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Improbable Age / int_86caec9f	comment	Indeed, barring Eggman (an old man) and Shadow (who as mentioned above was in stasis for a few decades), most of the characters in the games are almost all in their mid-to-late teens, and a few are even younger. In fact, assume they're around 15 if you don't see them here: Charmy and Cream (6), Marine (7), Tails (8), Amy (12), Sonic (15), Knuckles (16), Rouge and Big (18), Vector (20), and Vanilla (unknown, mother of Cream). And almost every last one of these guys has contributed to saving the world at least twice, with the exception of Marine, who only showed up in Sonic Rush Adventure, and Vanilla, who doesn't really do much. Especially Tails, who has been absent from a grand total of two games since his first appearance. Most of these ages at least make some sense in the context of their first appearances, but the idea that they haven't aged at all over the course of the series is, er... questionable.
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Improbable Age / int_8ac4e993	comment	There is, in the Universal Century timeline, exactly one Gundam protagonist over the age of twenty. Shiro Amada (24).
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Improbable Age / int_8b2d4580	comment	Every single player in The Prince of Tennis. They're supposedly in junior high (7th, 8th, 9th grade), although none of ninth graders look that way; one is often mistaken for a teacher. Not to mention how the 12-year-old main character can cream professional adult players without even breaking a sweat. But he can't beat his father, though.
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Improbable Age / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note: Light Yagami starts the series at 17, yet he manages to take on the best detective in the world (who himself is only 24), and even out-gambit him. This example is particularly striking because both characters can predict human behaviour near-perfectly — which takes experience that they're just not old enough to have yet. Later on, Mello and Near take on the investigation and also both out-gambit Light, who are both even younger than Light.
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Improbable Age / int_8bd02a57	comment	While her official age is never given, Lynne was a young girl ten years before the events of Ghost Trick and now she's a full-fledged detective. The only real explanation we get is that Cabanela took her under his wing (and fudged her exam scores), so he might have made the department take in a younger detective than usual. However, in the final timeline, she doesn't get her exam results fudged this time, and she still passes it, which makes it all even more unbelievable.
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Improbable Age / int_8c87469c	comment	Link's skill is also justified in another way. In each game he is the latest reincarnation of the original hero, and with each generation he retains the skills of the former generations. Add that to how in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Link was a trainee in a knight academy (albeit one with no enemy nations or intense monster threats until the start of the game) it makes sense Link would be at least good enough in most weapons to do what he does in game. Tetra is also justified in the same way, being the latest Zelda, and so a natural leader
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Improbable Age / int_8d7fb002	comment	In Jason Bourne, unless Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander) is older than she is, the audience is being forced to believe that a 27-year-old could have a high-ranking position in the CIA. Her demands at the end of the film to be put in an even higher ranked position highlight this.
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Improbable Age / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost: Ethan Rom, the only surgeon the Others had and apparently a very good one, was 27 when he died. Daniel Faraday is a tenured professor at Oxford when at the earliest he had to be born in 1977 and was probably born in 1978, but it is justified by him being explicitly said to be the youngest graduate in Oxford's history (meaning he graduated when he was 13 or less) and he screws up rather badly when he's a professor, putting his girlfriend in a permanent coma and gradually getting severe memory problems. Boone is mentioned as running a part of a large business despite being only twenty-two or so (Ian Somerhalder was twenty-five when the show started). However, he explicitly states that his mother is head of the company and it is quite obvious that he did not earn it through experience.
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Improbable Age / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS: Ziva David is less Improbable Age and more Impossible Age. She joins the show in her early twenties, supposedly after she's graduated high school, served her two years in the IDF, attended college, applied for Mossad, become immediately tapped for inclusion into an elite and highly competitive special operations unit with a training period of several years, and still have enough time to become "an experienced agent" with multiple missions under her belt. And this is at an age the youngest CIA intelligence officers would be beginning training. In a less obvious and less egregious case: If you pay attention to the various backstory tidbits dropped for Tony along with his stated age (a little younger than his actor), it works out that he made detective at around age twenty-eight and this is after he most likely got a Masters. In context he must be a law-enforcement prodigy — though that does fit in with his characterisation some of the time.
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Improbable Age / int_8dfbdff2	comment	Lampshaded in Law & Order when Milena Govich joined the cast. Cassaday's youth and looks made it difficult for her to get taken seriously by anyone and caused people to suspect she only made detective as a PR stunt by the department.
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Improbable Age / int_8e595444	comment	Rebecca Miyamoto of Pani Poni Dash!, who graduated from MIT at 11 and is now a high school teacher. She's like an exaggerated Distaff Counterpart of Negi without his magical abilities. Oh, and for some reasons, a group of eccentric aliens have taken to monitoring her, because the world kind of sort of depends on her for unstated reasons. The show's weird like that.
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Improbable Age / int_8ec33a88	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Alexandria is the commander of Colony Iota at age 15, which even in this insane world is shockingly young. She wears makeup to look older because she's worried people won't respect her otherwise. This contrasts with Valdi, commander of her rival Colony 30, who is the same age as her but looks even younger. Of course, Colony 30 isn't really interested in combat; Valdi got his job due to his engineering skills, and has largely left all administrative duties to his Number Two. Due to the fact that everyone is born at ten years old and dies ten years later, some of the character timelines end up looking a little improbable. Teach's tragic backstory sounds more like something you would expect from a forty year-old veteran, not a nineteen year-old man, even if he has been serving in active duty for ten years. Segiri is even worse, as she is physically twelve (and has only been alive for three years this incarnation), but talks about how she's been part of the Secret Police and her sister disappeared a long time ago. Colony 0's timeline is so confusing that one common theory is that they are aware of the cycle of reincarnation, so they know they've been doing their jobs for centuries.
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Improbable Age / int_8ec33aad	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles X: The "top, all-around fix-it gal for BLADE" is a 13-year-old girl. It quickly becomes clear that she's more than competent enough for her job, and given the situation New LA is in, they can't afford to not take advantage of every able engineer they can get. Played a little more realistically in that Lin is noted in-universe to be an exceptional genius (she is the only under-18 character in the entire city), and she's far from perfect, making a number of big mistakes in her primary project that almost cause the whole thing to get scrapped. Her emotional maturity is also rather lacking: she's the first to make impulsive, irrational decisions, and she doesn't keep a lid on her negative emotions and stress as well as most of the adult characters do.
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Improbable Age / int_8f25225c	comment	Danganronpa: This trope is pretty much central to the setting, as Hope's Peak Academy looks for students who are high-school aged and match or exceed adults in their area of expertise, with some talents being more ridiculous than others. In the first game: Byakuya Togami has made billions in day trading, just for side money. He implies that his family is so powerful that just being a Togami is enough to participate in the stock market as a teen. Chihiro Fujisaki is a programmer good enough to create a functional AI on an old laptop in a few days' time. Toko Fukawa is a bestselling romance author. Celestia Ludenberg makes most of her gambling money in underworld tournaments because she's too young to do it legally. And Sakura Oogami may look like she's in her thirties, but she is in fact a teenager who can defeat adult martial arts masters. In the second game, Teruteru is a chef with 3 Michelin stars (the youngest chef to earn his 3 stars in reality was Marco White at 33), and Peko Pekoyama acts as a bodyguard and hitman. The third game: Kaito Momota is a trainee astronaut, and had to fake a college degree to get into the space program. Ryoma Hoshi went on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the mafia with his tennis skills. Korekiyo Shinguji has traveled the world as an anthropologist. Tsumugi Shirogane already enjoys corporate sponserships for her cosplay work. Kirumi Tojo is a hypercompetent maid and Team Mom, not to mention de facto Prime Minister of Japan. Maki Harukawa is an assassin. Miu Iruma is a reknowned inventor, and if Kokichi Oma is to be believed (and he probably shouldn't be), he's the leader of a Nebulous Evil Organization with world-spanning influence. The crowning examples of this trope would have to be the Ultimate Despair Sisters. Mukuro Ikusaba was a member of an elite Private Military Contractor group as a young teen, and was such a good fighter that she was never hurt in combat. Junko Enoshima ended up causing an Apocalypse How while still in her teens.
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Improbable Age / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House: The lead character's second youngest sister, Lisa, is only four and is said to have finished school up through getting a PhD. Downplayed in later seasons, where she's retconned into attending kindergarten at the same school Lincoln attends as a 5th-grader, albeit still with a genius level IQ. Perhaps one of the more mundane examples on the list, due to it being a lifestyle instead of anything outright career related, but Lincoln and Lisa's sister, Lucy, is an 8-year-old Goth. Whereas how in Real Life, most people who are into the scene don't really get into the style until they enter adolescence and start actively trying to form an identity.
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Improbable Age / int_90a3a7f4	comment	At the age of 14, Kim Possible is already established as an international crimefighter. Her Mission Control Wade is 10 and a college graduate, and later, Ron's adopted sister can smack down ninjas at the age of 1 (though she's a Chosen One).
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Improbable Age / int_90ab7fe1	comment	Parodied in Recess where Jared is a literal Mr Perfect and better than everyone else at anything. The end reveals that he needs to help the president again and pilots his own jet to get there. He's 9 years old.
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Improbable Age / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time, several major characters rise to incredible heights by their early 20s: The protagonist Rand al'Thor becomes the leader of several countries, a Master Swordsman, and The Archmage, though he's implicitly helped along by being The Chosen One and having subconscious expertise from his past life. Mat Cauthon is hailed as one of the greatest military leaders of all time, thanks in part to receiving the memories and expertise of innumerable historical leaders. The Blacksmith Perrin Aybara leads his people in ridding his town of Trollocs and Whitecloaks and also becomes a great military leader. As a ta'veren, destiny has an important role for him, but he has no other special advantages like Rand and Mat. Egwene is elected leader of one faction of the Aes Sedai Magical Society at 20 and leads it to victory against the other faction, a feat not even the legendary general Artur Hawkwing accomplished. Though she was elected with the intention to use her as a Puppet King, her achievements are due to her personal skill, honed by several top-tier mentors. Nynaeve became village Wisdom (a healer, prognosticator, and head of the Women's Circle) at the unprecedented age of 24 due to her mentor's untimely death. Deconstructed — though she's incredibly talented and was a very successful Wisdom, her position isolates her from her peers and her youth forced her to work much harder to be taken seriously.
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Improbable Age / int_9124e931	comment	Fighters in Arcana Heart range in age from 5 to 16 (ignoring the robot), with most girls being around age 14. Two characters deserve special mention: Catherine Kyoubashi and Kira Daidouji are both on the younger side (12 and 11, respectively), and each holds a doctorate from a prestigious university. Kira, in particular, is considered a pioneer in her field; the fact that she's not exempt from mandatory elementary school in Japan after earning a doctorate in America is what pushes her toward world domination. Dorothy Albright is a somewhat less improbable version, having "merely" gained fame as a Las Vegas stage magician and an arrest warrant for being a masked Gentlewoman Thief by age 9.
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Improbable Age / int_9146370	comment	Derek Dynamo from Super Dinosaur fits this to a 'T'. No more than 13 yet he does battle with powerful Dino Men.
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Improbable Age / int_924bb56e	comment	Dollhouse: The Dollhouse is filled with people who are far too young to actually be masters of the jobs they are sent on. Strangely, no one ever calls them out on this. Well, except in the very first episode, where everyone comments on the fact that Echo is far too young and pretty to be a competent hostage negotiator. Eventually contributing to her partial breakdown. Not to mention Topher, who supposedly is one of the world's best experts on neurotechnology when visibly he is at most in his late 20s. This put him actually as too young to be even a normal neurosurgeon, which requires four years of college, four years of med school and seven years of residency to achieve. Yet somehow Topher manages this super-secret and revolutionary technology despite being a guy who could only be a few years out of grad school at best. Although given what the Dollhouse does there might be an explanation.
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Improbable Age / int_946bb4ce	comment	Marissa Picard: The title character was captain at age 9.
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Improbable Age / int_94a2558f	comment	Spy Kids: Carla Gugino looks old enough to be the parent of two pre-teen children, but not old enough to have spent several years as one of the world's top spies before retiring to have them.
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Improbable Age / int_957a7896	comment	Harry (and by extension, the rest of the student characters) in A Very Potter Musical claims to be "just a 12-year-old kid," despite the rather mature romantic subplots and advanced spellwork present in the musical. This is played for humor.
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Improbable Age / int_96631e0a	comment	In Princess Maker 2, when statting your own viewpoint character, you can set his age as low as eleven, just one year older than his adoptive daughter at the start of the game. He's a hero who defeated Lucifer and his horde and saved the kingdom all by himself, potentially before hitting puberty. (This also makes the option to marry your own adoptive daughter much less questionable.) And then there's also the things your daughter can accomplish before hitting eighteen, and the various endings (court mage, queen, queen of Hell)...
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Improbable Age / int_967347ea	comment	Revolutionary Girl Utena tends to be a bit of a shock when we hear Utena is only about 13 or 14 years old, with some other characters not much older, considering what they get up to...
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Improbable Age / int_9688ee61	comment	Kyoya Ootori of Ouran High School Host Club buying out his father's company despite not even being out of high school.
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Improbable Age / int_99ca8dc9	comment	Muhyo of Muhyo and Roji, officially the youngest executor ever in the MLS, doesn't look older than 10. Biko who's a skilled artificer, looks around the same age.
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Improbable Age / int_9a05b8ab	comment	In The Ghost Writer, 56-year-old Pierce Brosnan plays a former prime minister. 41-year-old Olivia Williams, looking younger than that, plays his wife. We could assume that the character married a significantly younger woman, if it weren't specifically stated in the story that they went to college together. Neither is exactly an improbable age for the role, but they're definitely not believable as contemporaries. Tilda Swinton, seven years younger than Brosnan, was originally cast and would have been more believable as being within a few years of his age.
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Improbable Age / int_9a67b688	comment	Case Closed: In the Non-Serial Movie Detective Conan Film 06: The Phantom of Baker Street Hiroki Sawada is already a grad student at MIT at the age of... ten, written a commercial genomic genealogy tracker and then an AI system (to which he practically coded himself in). This is not to say, if the Backstory is read correctly, he finished what others would take 15-16 years of schooling in 2 years. Well, the side effect: not only he couldn't play with the other kids, he has to choose not being recognized at all or being kept in work all day... One won't be surprised about what's going on with that. The case of the major character Ai Haibara was a deconstruction... and then reconstructed. Her parent worked for the Black Organization and after their accidental death, she was also separated with her sister Akemi as the Organization sent him abroad for education more fit for a Child Prodigy, ending up heading her parent's lab at age of 18 at the latest which deprived her childhood, as she said, not to say that her position and her closeness to Akemi, who became a Red Shirt, provoked a series of events that ended up with her taking the poison she developed — and shrunk into a 6-year-old.. This is why she wasn't interested in taking the Antidote herself; she liked her life (i.e. re-enacting a normal childhood) as it is now.
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Improbable Age / int_9cc9639	comment	Laharl, the ruler of the netherworld from Disgaea may be Really 700 Years Old, but he is mentally and physically around 13. Likewise, Jennifer built Thursday at the age of 10, and Fuka from the fourth game wanted to Take Over the World (Of course!) at the age of five! This is probably meant to be a parody of the concept, just like everything else. Flonne is over 1500, but physically and mentally about 15 (and seems significantly younger due to being a flat chested and The Ditz). She is appropriately a mere angel trainee at the start of the first game. However by the third game, which seems to take place no more than a few years later (human characters like Gordon and Jennifer look no older), she is the Archangel, second in command to the Seraph. Seems like absurdly quick career advancement by our standards, for creatures who are Really 700 Years Old it must feel like it happened overnight.
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Improbable Age / int_9e1e1974	comment	In morphE, the 19-year-old Amical is a Master-level mage and a high-ranking member of Magical Society with a huge manor house, lots of wealth, and some extremely valuable magical assets. Word of God reveals that it's a subversion: he's actually over 100 years old, thanks to a Deal with the Devil preserving his youth.
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Improbable Age / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Monkey D. Luffy and Roronoa Zoro are in an exclusive group of pirates (eleven members total) with bounties over 100,000,000. At the ages of seventeen and nineteen, respectively. As of the end of the Dressrosa arc, Luffy (19) and Zoro (21) have bounties of 500,000,000 and 320,000,000. Luffy completely blows everyone out of the water after the Whole Cake Island arc, which sees his bounty increase to 1,500,000,000, making it the fifth-highest active bounty in the world and high enough for the public to declare him "The Fifth Emperor", equal to the established Four Emperors, the four most powerful pirates of all the seas. All while at the tender age of nineteen. Note that Luffy's older brother Ace has a bounty of 550,000,000 at the age of twenty and is a division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, which is impressive in its own right, but now only serves to highlight and enhance Luffy's own feats as a pirate. Nico Robin was forced to become a fugitive at the age of eight, and managed to survive multiple betrayals by the adults who took her in and successfully escaping the marines for twenty years. She is said to have destroyed six Marine battleships, but this is actually a lie. It was actually her friend Jaguar D. Saul who destroyed the ships, but blaming Robin gave the World Government a convenient excuse for her large bounty while concealing their much darker reasons from the public and sparing them the embarrassment of admitting that Vice Admiral Saul had turned traitor (since he was seemingly killed and went into hiding shortly after sinking those Marine ships, they could just pretend he never existed). Tony Tony Chopper is a fairly skilled doctor at the age of fifteen. The Straw Hat crew as a whole qualifies, given how renowned and powerful has come to be, with most of the members being teenagers or young adults, and the oldest members still being fairly young: Robin is 28/30, Franky is 34/36, and Brook died at age 38, which isn't terribly old. Rob Lucci single-handedly killed 500 soldiers who had been taken hostage and took the head of a pirate captain at the age of thirteen, becoming the youngest member of the elite assassin group CP9 in the process. The twenty-three-year-old Kaku has been in CP9 for at least five years, making him eighteen or younger at the time of his joining. Trafalgar Law joined the Donquixote pirates at the age of ten. Other recruits Baby 5 and Buffalo seemed to be even younger than him, and Dellinger was already in the crew as a toddler. Deconstructed, as it's revealed Doflamingo liked recruiting messed-up kids as it was easy to mold them and control them, and the Marines even decided that a major objective of a covert agent in the crew should be to try and get as many kids to not join as possible, but Law was the only success on that front. In addition, Law was in the same exclusive group of eleven as Zoro and Luffy at age twenty-four, and a Warlord of the Sea by twenty-six. The Zou arc implied he started his own crew when he was just sixteen. Koby went from a timid cabin boy on Alvida's ship, to a badass and renowned young Marine captain, despite only being 18 post-timeskip. It's lampshaded by Kyros when they meet, as he's surprised Koby is a young man instead of the older, seasoned veteran he was expecting.
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Improbable Age / int_9f85d26	comment	The crew of Galactiquest's Celestion-5 are making the first trip to Neptune despite at least half of the crew being under 20. Their eighth member takes this further, being 15 years old when he first joins.
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Improbable Age / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Certainly PokÃ©mon is famous for this, given that you generally take down a criminal syndicate as an 11-year-old, but they continue it in Gen. IV with Cyrus. He's the Big Bad of the Sinnoh region, has a legion of minions, uncovered legends and science that show how to ascend to godhood, solves one of the biggest questions the fanbase had (see his report about PokÃ© Balls hampering power), has made more money than he knows what to do with, and did I mention he's stated directly to be 27 years old? And it gets better — an agent comments that they haven't gotten a promotion in five years. Barring an unspoken previous leader, Cyrus had the team up and running by the time he was TWENTY-TWO. Although there's an in-game reason given for this: he was pressured from a young age to be perfect, and it's said to have caused his mental breakdown. Think about that next time you battle 14-year-old Red, who's already become a hermit. The spin-off PokÃ©mon Conquest actually lampshades this: Mori Motonari mentions the protagonist is much younger than he expected, and starts to wonder whether he's the old guard on his way out. (Judging by his looks, he's in his twenties at the very most). As mentioned, the protagonist is this. Trainers spend decades becoming powerful trainers yet the protagonist, who is eleven at youngest and never over eighteen, defeats criminal organizations and becomes champion despite just receiving their PokÃ©mon. A few other powerful trainers are similarly young, like Iris or your rivals. A particularly extreme example is Poppy in PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet, who's a member of the Elite Four despite the fact that she's nine years old (while looking and acting half that).
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Improbable Age / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin can fly planes, drive tanks, operate weaponry, navigate harsh terrain, carve a working trumpet out of a tree branch with a pen-knife, build cars out of discarded spare parts, learn elephant language in a matter of weeks, etc.
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Improbable Age / int_a058fdcf	comment	Power Rangers Operation Overdrive has Rose, a Teen Genius who is already a college professor.
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Improbable Age / int_a1f6fc6b	comment	Cagney & Lacey: Sidney Clute, who played the supporting role of Detective La Guardia, was 66 (and looked it) when C&L began. He played the role for three years, until his death at age 69. At the time the show was filmed, NYC police personnel qualified for a very generous full pension and health insurance benefits after 20 years of service — meaning most NYC cops retired before they turned 50 (and a third of them retired before they were 45.) In real life, active NYC police detectives in their late 60s simply did not exist.
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Improbable Age / int_a2dee471	comment	There's also Tetra from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, who is the captain of a pirate ship despite being a preteen girl. This is lampshaded by one of her crew members, who jokes that she's actually 35. Some parts of the game suggest that the captaincy of her ship is hereditary, and she succeeded her mother after the latter's death.
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Improbable Age / int_a3413052	comment	The Wood Brothers became tag team champions for the first time when they were still in school! Lewis was eighteen and Lorcan was sixteen.
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Improbable Age / int_a34863aa	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Though it can justified that as Uplifted Animals (the mutation made them antropomorphic) they're not exactly human.
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Improbable Age / int_a413863f	comment	Tintin in The Adventures of Tintin (1991) but maybe he's an incredibly well preserved runt ... In the non-canonical novel, he has a genetic condition that keeps him as an early teen. When he considers the complexities of adult life, he considers this a blessing.
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Improbable Age / int_a4516d25	comment	In the SSX games, many of the competitors are just teenagers, with Kaori Nishidake at only 17 in SSX 3... but Griff Simmons takes the cake by only being 11 years old. To be fair, this seems slightly less unlikely when you realize he was based on Ryan Sheckler, who won gold at the X-Games in real life when he was only 14.
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Improbable Age / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass loves this trope. The main protagonist, Lelouch Lamperouge/Lelouch vi Britannia poses as the mysterious Zero, head of The Black Knights, a rebellion that grows to become one of the most powerful factions in the world... at 17 (18 after the Time Skip). Later, he becomes the ruler of Britannia at that same age!. His opposite, Suzaku Kururugi, is the best pilot in the Britannian Empire. Also age 17/18. Compare this to other characters, who have to train for decades to become that good. Zero's right-hand and The Rival, Kallen Kozuki becomes possibly the best Knightmare pilot in the world. Also in her late teens. Beginning to notice a pattern here? Overall, The Black Knights' top brass is much younger than other real world military would be. The age ranges from their teens to their early thirties. Compare this in real life, where leaders are typically much older. Of course, this can be justified. After all, they're a rebellion faction formed by younger people and they can't afford to be picky about their members. In the end, the world of Code Geass becomes run by three teenage girls. Nunnally vi Britannia as the head of The Britannian Empire, Kaguya Sumeragi as the leader of Japan, and Empress Tianzi as the ruler of China. None of them are older than 15.
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Improbable Age / int_a599305d	comment	Ciel from Mega Man Zero is a human who is leading the Reploid La RÃ©sistance at the age of 14, after she built Copy X, a near perfect replica of one of the (if not the) most powerful and advanced AIs in the world, at the age of 6. She may be a gene-boosted human, but that's still impressive.
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Improbable Age / int_a61ca024	comment	In Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, Dana is an 18-year-old paramedic. And by the time of her cameo appearance a year later, a licensed doctor.
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Improbable Age / int_a796bde8	comment	While we're on the subject of Metal Gear Solid, Solid Snake was mentioned to have been attached to the Green Berets during the Gulf War. As Snake was born in 1972 he would have at most been 19 years old during the war; the age requirement for even being eligible to join the US Special Forces is 20 years old, meaning that Snake would neither be a full member of the Green Berets nor would he even be past basic training. This isn't even getting into the fact that Snake later goes on to join FOXHOUND, which is an analogue for the Delta Force, and is noted to be the most advanced Special Forces Unit America has to offer, at age 23. Snake even defeats Big Boss, the most legendary soldier in the world at 23, and proceeds to defeat Big Boss again at 27. By the time of Shadow Moses Snake is a legendary special ops soldier who has gone on countless missions of extreme national security importance — by the time he was 33, and in fact by that point he had been in retirement for a few years. It says something very poignant and tragic about Snake's life that during a time in his life were most other people are going to college, getting married, or finding stable jobs, he was out saving the world in top secret black ops.
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Improbable Age / int_a81325d3	comment	The Final Fantasy series in general, as a whole. It should be noted that the emotional problems the characters face do seem tied to their actual ages in Final Fantasy, even if their accomplishments aren't. The moody, uncommunicative, trying-too-hard-to-be-a-grown-up Squall of VIII could be no other creature than a 17-year-old from an elite school; the 18-year-old Terra is an adult but still very confused about her identity; the twentysomethings Cloud and Bartz both need to be old enough that their childhood is a distant memory but not old enough to have got over it yet. The glaring exception is Cecil, who reads as way older than 20. Some examples include: The Light Warriors from Final Fantasy may get this, Depending on the Artist they range from "at least definitely adults" to "ambiguous chibis." The Warrior of Light in Dissidia Final Fantasy at least has the dignity of being one of the older-looking heroes, despite his lack of official age... In Final Fantasy II the most valuable soldiers of the rebel force fighting to stop the Evil Empire...are teenagers. Justified in that when the game started they were nobody refugees who had to fight even to enlist. There's also, though, the matter of Minwu. He's a courtly wizard. Look at his character art: there's no way he's over 35. In Final Fantasy III, every hero is a Kid Hero. The Updated Re-release turns the blank characters into 15-year-olds. Young-looking 15-year-olds. In Final Fantasy IV, Cecil and Kain lead the dark knights and the dragoons, respectively, at the ages of twenty and twenty-one, respectively. Even taking into account the fact that both of them were likely trained from early childhood (and in Cecil's case, was effectively the adopted son of the king of Baron), that's still very, very young for their positions. One wonders what the older soldiers think... Rydia starts the game at age seven (though she gets aged up offscreen). Palom and Porom are master mages, capable spies, possess enough resolve to turn themselves to stone to save the world...and they're all of five. In-universe, they're explicitly acknowledged as child prodigies and are meant to seem unusual. Final Fantasy IV: The After Years also reveals that this took something of a toll, with Palom expressing fears that he peaked early in life. In Final Fantasy V, main character Bartz is all of twenty, though at least he's nothing more than a vagabond. Faris, however, is the same age and master of a pirate ship (though it's implied that the pirates, who essentially raised her, are basically humoring her). Celes from Final Fantasy VI is an 18-year-old army general working for The Empire who burned down a resisting village shortly before the events of the game. The explanation given is that she's a genetically-engineered Super-Soldier. And apparently she's taken time off from soldier training to learn how to sing in an opera. Terra is the same age, and is also a frighteningly competent (if brainwashed) soldier-slash-biological-weapon. Although, she isn't human... In Final Fantasy VII, Cloud is the oldest FF protagonist so far (which Dissidia Final Fantasy makes some mileage out of, treating him as the mature and experienced one of the group). Other characters react to him as an experienced elite veteran. He's 21. He joined the military at 14 years old, which appears to be accepted as normal. In Crisis Core, Zack becomes a hotshot SOLDIER First Class at age 17, while veteran uber-SOLDIERs Sephiroth, Angeal, and Genesis are all only in their early twenties during the majority of the events. The latter three are all genetically-modified super-soldiers, at least. SeeD from Final Fantasy VIII serves to deconstruct this somewhat, as most of the prominent positions are held by teenagers. There are many points in the game that stress how these characters are too young for their posts; Quistis is an instructor at age 18 and gets dismissed for lacking leadership qualities, Seifer is also 18 and put in charge of a combat mission where he ignores orders and goes vigilante, Irvine is the same age and set to assassinate a government official — and ends up cracking under the pressure. As the Gardens that trained these soldiers began as orphanages, most have been there since childhood (Quistis mentions training at age 12). There is also the refreshing aversion of Laguna — a soldier out on tour at the age of 27. Top of the list has to be Eiko from Final Fantasy IX — she's only 6 years old and knows how to cook and take care of herself. Zidane and Garnet are both 16 and Freya is 21. If you weren't told this, you would never know it. They act much older, and have histories and experiences that imply they can't be that young, for example Freya being a member of the Dragon Knights several years ago and Zidane having years of experience as a thief. May be justified in that both Freya and Zidane aren't human and hence may age and reach maturity differently. Vivi looks to be about 9, but the official ultimania guidebook confirms that he was activated SIX MONTHS before the start of the game! The age of 9 is likely a guess by his adoptive grandfather. Kuja is only slightly better in this regard, being a famed "weapons dealer", rich Treno personality, proprietor of a massive desert palace, and doing all his villain accomplishments at the tender age of 24. Beatrix thankfully is a little more plausible; she's captain of Alexandria's Amazon Brigade and a feared and respected soldier, aged about 27. In Final Fantasy X, the prospective High Summoner and saviour of the world is probably about 17 or 18. Her guardians aren't much older, and apparently one gets to be a Legendary Guardian by surviving one pilgrimage and reaching the ripe old age of 35. Lulu and Wakka have also been guardians before and they're only 23 and 24 respectively — Lulu has been a guardian twice. However there is a slight buzz about Seymour becoming the youngest Maester — at the rather more reasonable age of 28. Due to the Eldritch Abomination that's frequently popping up to destroy parts of the world at random, it's entirely possibly people are lucky to make it to their thirties. Final Fantasy X-2 has the factions of Spira led by men in their mid-twenties at the oldest. Gippal in fact is the leader of the Machine Faction at only 18. All three of them are war veterans, having been part of the Crimson Squad, so at least they have some form of experience. This is however averted with Isaaru and Tromell, who assume leadership of Bevelle and Guadosalam respectively. Isaaru is 30, and Tromell 56. Final Fantasy XII has Vaan and Penelo (both 17) and Larsa, age 12. On the other hand, Basch is 36 and Fran is at least 50. Balthier, despite his initial impressions, is only 22. This is somehow old enough for him to have become a Judge, ran away from being a Judge, and then become one of the most notorious sky pirates in the game world. Although his father made him a Judge and is implied to have pulled a lot of strings and bent some rules to do it, which makes things a bit more palatable. Ashe meanwhile is fighting for control of her kingdom at the age of 19 — though in this case her youth is acknowledged and she does struggle with the pressures that she faces even leading the resistance. Final Fantasy XIII-2: Hope is now the Director of the Academy and basically leader of the world at the young age of 24. The Fragments Before novel goes further and clarifies he took the position at the age of 19. Final Fantasy XIV: Alphinaud and Alisaie Leveilleur are 16 and are famous around Sharlayan, their home country, for having enrolled in university around the age of 11, and graduated a short time after. Though in their case it helps that their grandfather Louisoix was a well-respected scholar and their father Forchenault is a government official. Their egos from being prodigies color their actions throughout A Realm Reborn, and Alphinaud's in particular is a driving factor for the events that lead up to Heavensward. Dissidia Final Fantasy, where they put all the heroes from the first ten games together and the oldest character ends up being 21! Which makes it particularly odd to see 17-year-old Squall acting as Team Mom to Bartz and Zidane, when Bartz is older than Squall and Zidane is only a year or two behind him at most. The youngest of them all is cute little Onion Knight, he doesn't have a stated age, but the general consensus is the ripe old age of 12. In Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Final Fantasy Tactics A2, the protagonist are school kids, while the people who's in combat in Ivalice are older than them. Somewhat justified in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance — by reading the magic book, the kids, especially Mewt all played a part in creating the world of Ivalice by making it like a Final Fantasy game they all played, so it wouldn't be surprising that they are all able to participate in the game/world at their current ages, since they would be the protagonists. And Mewt has Reality Warper powers, so he would probably be a borderline Physical God in Ivalice. Besides, everyone aside from Cid and Remedi has a Vague Age anyway.
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Improbable Age / int_aa61c299	comment	In Everlasting Summer, the majority of the romanceable characters look, act, and are treated as if they are in their late teens. A disclaimer at the start of the game even claims that none of the heroines in the game are over the age of 18. Yet they are all members of a youth group called the Young Pioneers, note a Soviet youth group similar to Scouting a group which has a membership age range from 10 — 15.
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Improbable Age / int_aaa65d7e	comment	In Rebuild, Asuka's a captain. This is plausible with the practice of making civilians officers when they have rare and important skills such as piloting Humongous Mecha.
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Improbable Age / int_ab2077e2	comment	Liao Tian-ding, the titular character from The Legend of Tian-ding, is a Gentleman Thief and a Just Like Robin Hood mythical figure who leads the resistance, fights against tyranny of the Japanese, and is revealed to be only 26 in a cutscene. He's based on a real-life historical figure who's indeed that age.
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Improbable Age / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Questionable Content: By age 19, Liz has been working at a prestigious research institute for two years, and had two doctorates when she started. Lampshaded and handwaved as "it shouldn't even be possible but she did it anyway". However, even Child Prodigies aren't immune to burnout, and she's spent those two years hiding in her office.
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Improbable Age / int_ad622d64	comment	The Seguleh named Senu from the Malazan Book of the Fallen is all of 14 years old and an Eleventh Level Initiate in the Seguleh hierarchy, which is based on fighting prowess and where the first one thousand or so ranks can only be taken up by one person each. Not too young to join of a punitive army against a cannibalistic empire, apparently.
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Improbable Age / int_ae925a1e	comment	The titular Marine Boy seems to be a full agent for the Ocean Patrol even if he's barely pubescent.
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Improbable Age / int_afeeacf6	comment	In The Force Awakens, General Hux is in his early 30s, but is among the most prominent leaders in The First Order. This is justified by the First Order being a military dictatorship where his father was a high-ranking Imperial officer, and it's strongly implied that he climbed to the top rather ruthlessly. Unlike many examples of it, General Hux does try to live up to the responsibility of the station. Plus the First Order needed lots of new blood after the Empire collapsed, as shown with Kylo Ren, who's around the same age as him.
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Improbable Age / int_b0b5e8ae	comment	Actors' Life Podcast: Discussed when Bobby was shocked to learn that Adam Kearney was only nineteen. He had set up AK Productions before he was even out of school, and had been working actively in the industry for nearly two years. Greg Young had also been acting for three years, produced several shorts and music videos, had extensive experience working on set and was already planning his debut feature — aged only nineteen! Rebecca Christina Flynn began acting from as early as four, and was already an experienced drama teacher when she turned twenty.
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Improbable Age / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live: Drew Barrymore was 7 years old when she hosted the show on November 20, 1982. She is, to date, the youngest person to host SNL.
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Improbable Age / int_b1058237	comment	Temeraire: Hammond becomes Britain's chief ambassador to China in his 20s through a combination of self-avowed Insufferable Genius, single-minded dedication to his work, and the good luck of getting caught up in the protagonist's wake during a major diplomatic crisis.
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Improbable Age / int_b2431955	comment	Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: Deconstructed. Just because an ordinary 10-year-old girl is chosen by a clingy Transformation Trinket to be Magical Girl Warrior does not mean she'll have the emotional strength and maturity to risk her life fighting corrupted copies of Heroic Spirits. On the other end of the spectrum, when there's a different 10-year-old girl thrust into the same situation who instead does her job with brutal efficiency, it's a sign that there's off about that child. The fact that children are being used does not go ignored in-story. As an added note, the strength of a Magical Girl is drawn from their potential as a Magus. This is a setting where being an untrained Magus can be very dangerous, both for the individual and for those around them. Illya has the genetic predisposition to be a talented Magus in addition to her sealed power as a lesser Grail, but lacks the training to control either. As a result, when the latter is awakened, she loses control and ends up nearly harming or possibly killing her allies.
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Improbable Age / int_b260df6	comment	Haganai has Maria and Kate, who are both teachers and nuns at the age of 10 and 15 respectively. Maria not officially, though she's capable of the teacher part — but the characters have been expected to buy her in both roles for seven books before they find this out.
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Improbable Age / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Arya becomes a master assassin, capable of matching anyone in a duel and shape-shifting — even killing the Night King thanks to her stealth at a vaguely teen age. Her actress Maisie Williams was twenty when the last season was filmed, but the character is possibly a bit younger. She completes her Faceless Man training in what can only be a year at most.
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Improbable Age / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: Charmy and Espio are a 6-year-old and a 16-year-old who work as detectives together. Shadow is physically and mentally in his teens (he was born a little over 50 years ago, but spent most of his life cryogenically frozen) while his partner Rouge is eighteen. The two are part-time GUN agents who work for the government (and Rouge is a seasoned jewel thief as well). 8-year-old Tails is a Child Prodigy scientist and inventor. He has no know parents, lives alone, and has been living alone prior to meeting Sonic. Indeed, barring Eggman (an old man) and Shadow (who as mentioned above was in stasis for a few decades), most of the characters in the games are almost all in their mid-to-late teens, and a few are even younger. In fact, assume they're around 15 if you don't see them here: Charmy and Cream (6), Marine (7), Tails (8), Amy (12), Sonic (15), Knuckles (16), Rouge and Big (18), Vector (20), and Vanilla (unknown, mother of Cream). And almost every last one of these guys has contributed to saving the world at least twice, with the exception of Marine, who only showed up in Sonic Rush Adventure, and Vanilla, who doesn't really do much. Especially Tails, who has been absent from a grand total of two games since his first appearance. Most of these ages at least make some sense in the context of their first appearances, but the idea that they haven't aged at all over the course of the series is, er... questionable.
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Improbable Age / int_b6c92dfc	comment	Joy (2015) is loosely based on the life of Joy Mangano who didn't start inventing until she was 30 and spent about four years getting her designs sold. This time Jennifer was 25, making it rather surprising to see her as a divorcee with two children.
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Improbable Age / int_b6d11153	comment	2nd Lt. Alice L. Malvin from Pumpkin Scissors. Justified as she's a noble out of officer school (in the prologue). She's still in her teens in the series proper, but younger people have fought in World War I, which the series is a blatant fantasy analogue of.
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Improbable Age / int_b704a08a	comment	Reborn! (2004): Tsuna, the main character, and several of his classmates and friends are recruited into The Mafia while they are still in middle school. Not to mention, Tsuna is expected become the Tenth boss... Add the Arcobaleno, seven (eight if you count Lal Mirch) infants who are considered to be the strongest fighters in the mafia world. Of course, you find out that they are in fact, Older Than They Look later on, but it's still amazing what they are capable of doing with their incredibly small physical bodies. There's also Squalo, who, after defeating the Sword Emperor Tyr, was supposed to take over the Varia, the most feared assassination squad in the Mafia at age 14. The Varia went to Xanxus who was only 2 years older.
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Improbable Age / int_b7296d31	comment	In My-HiME, nobody except Mai finds it odd that Mashiro, the Fuka Academy director, is only 11 years old. Well, officially. Actually more than 300. And the avatar body is probably even older, if Childs indeed pass from carnival to carnival as implied. In the manga, she really is as young as she looks.
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Improbable Age / int_b7c3d6c5	comment	Prince Caspian's titular prince also ascends the throne at an extremely young age. He's just said to be the same age as Peter, who is still a teenager at this point. The BBC adaptation made him even younger (the actor, Jean Marc Perret, was 14), but the film version aged him up to be vaguely late teens or twenty-something (Ben Barnes was 26).
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Improbable Age / int_b7f9bee2	comment	Qing Jao in Xenocide, who is the sole person to discover Jane's existence, and she's only around 18 or so, with Wang Mu, her even younger assistant, who's just as brilliant, if not more so (those two are justified in that they're genetically modified to be super intelligent, though).
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Improbable Age / int_b8c3cc30	comment	The Team in Young Justice (2010) goes on covert missions involving delicate international politics and possible death, displaying expert skill at various martial arts and sciences, and that's when they're not fighting alongside superheroes on the side. Not a one was more than 16 when they joined,note Ignoring the ones who age differently than baseline humans and most began their careers even before that — Robin started at NINE.
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Improbable Age / int_b8e7bb8	comment	Super Sentai: Among the support crew for Battle Fever J is Yoko, a female army private raising her younger brother, who was played by the then-16 year-old Noriko Hidaka. Thereâ€™s no indication in series that sheâ€™s any kind of prodigy who would hold a military rank, and the Rangers treat her like an actual adult (which, given sheâ€™s of marriageable age by Japanese standards, she technically is), so some Underage Casting is likely in effect. Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Sayo is introduced as a widely acclaimed and respected doctor with a black belt, despite only being 23, meaning she likely wouldnâ€™t have even started a doctorate yet. Kaitoâ€™s father and grandmother in Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger were both parents at 20 years old. The latter appears in flashbacks to 10 years ago with no attempt made to age her down. Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger has Hymeno and Rita inheriting their respective thrones at the age of roughly 10. Justified, as monarchies tend to have a newbie ruler take over after the incumbent dies, regardless of age.
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Improbable Age / int_b91ee0fe	comment	Black Narcissus deconstructs this. Sister Clodagh is put in charge of the new convent. If she's the same age as her actress Deborah Kerr — she's twenty-five. Numerous other characters react with surprise that such a young nun is the Sister Superior, and Clodagh soon loses control of everything. Although it's more to do with the environment than her age, it's likely that an older and more responsible nun would have been able to keep things running.
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Improbable Age / int_ba666650	comment	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater deliberately goes the opposite direction with 100+-year-old sniper "The End." In one of the series famous No Fourth Wall tricks, you can cause him to die of old age by adjusting your system clock. All of the Cobras are an inversion, if they were in their twenties and thirties during World War II, then they would have to be in their forties and fifties during the events of game. Of course, The Boss is a straight example as she was born in 1922. The Cobra Unit was formed in 1941, with her serving as its commander from its formation until the end of the war, meaning she started the war as a special ops commander at 19 and ended the war at 23. This of course has creepy connotations when you consider her relationship with The Sorrow... Ocelot, who was a GRU major at 20. (Not entirely implausible... if there was a war going on.) He was raised as a spy by the Philosophers, which makes it a bit more believable. And either way, this seems perfectly normal compared to most of the other examples on this page. Further justified by how he's the son of the Boss and the Sorrow, meaning he has an extremely strong legacy behind him pushing him further than he would get himself. While we're on the subject of Metal Gear Solid, Solid Snake was mentioned to have been attached to the Green Berets during the Gulf War. As Snake was born in 1972 he would have at most been 19 years old during the war; the age requirement for even being eligible to join the US Special Forces is 20 years old, meaning that Snake would neither be a full member of the Green Berets nor would he even be past basic training. This isn't even getting into the fact that Snake later goes on to join FOXHOUND, which is an analogue for the Delta Force, and is noted to be the most advanced Special Forces Unit America has to offer, at age 23. Snake even defeats Big Boss, the most legendary soldier in the world at 23, and proceeds to defeat Big Boss again at 27. By the time of Shadow Moses Snake is a legendary special ops soldier who has gone on countless missions of extreme national security importance — by the time he was 33, and in fact by that point he had been in retirement for a few years. It says something very poignant and tragic about Snake's life that during a time in his life were most other people are going to college, getting married, or finding stable jobs, he was out saving the world in top secret black ops. Big Boss himself is a case of this. Though it should be noted that Big Boss's age has been retconned twice, so while his earlier backstories were not a case of this his current one is. Going by the current canon backstory set by Peace Walker Big Boss was born in 1935, making a great deal of his career improbable and close to outright impossible. He met The Boss (the aforementioned legendary World War II hero) at age 14 and was her apprentice for the next 10 years of his life (1949-1959). Joined the Army at 15 in order to fight in the Korean War, and joined the Green Berets during their formation as a unit in 1952 at 17. In 1964 Big Boss joins the highly elite and top secret unit known as FOX (the precursor to the FOXHOUND unit Solid Snake was a part of) as its original ace operative, at age 29. In the same year, Snake infiltrates Soviet territory to hunt down rogue Russian operatives to prevent a nuclear war, and in the aftermath of the mission's success is awarded the title of Big Boss in order to mark him as The Boss's successor. Additionally Big Boss is given command of the FOX Unit, which he would have to be a ranking officer akin to a Colonel or a General to even be able to touch the authority reigns of such an important unit. Founds the successor organization to FOX, known as FOXHOUND, and becomes its commanding officer at age 36, and please note that one would have to be extremely lucky to be at the appropriate military rank to lead such a unit at that age. Later on during the 80s, when Big Boss resumes his role as commander of FOXHOUND, when at this point Big Boss is in his 50s, his command role in relation to his age begins to become more plausible. The little girl Sunny trumps all of them. Introduced in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots the daughter of Olga is a genius level intellect capable of tinkering with advanced computer technology and robotics on par with the level of Otacon, Snake's resident technology expert, at 7 years old. Things are hardly much better in Metal Gear Rising, where at age 11 she is the employee manager of a space exploration corporation that designs highly advanced aircraft technology, and in addition she has made several aircraft designs of her own while working for the company. Raiden even gets to ride around in an experimental aircraft that she personally designed and helped build that can fly at Mach 30.
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Improbable Age / int_baeea256	comment	Kaitoâ€™s father and grandmother in Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger were both parents at 20 years old. The latter appears in flashbacks to 10 years ago with no attempt made to age her down.
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Improbable Age / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom where 14-year-old Tucker becomes mayor of Amity Park in the Grand Finale. Plenty of "Whaaaa—?!" reactions were commonplace among the fandom, mostly due to the character never once stating any desire for any position remotely similar to that. Less Whaaaa—? inducing after the fifteen year old Mayor in the Middle East started making headlines.
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Improbable Age / int_bbcd4e9b	comment	The only two named doctors working on the project experimenting on God using Sera, Heat O'Brien and Serph Sheffield, in Digital Devil Saga were around 24 and 22. The 7-year-old Sera is a Badass Adorable warrior.
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Improbable Age / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Downplayed. Every Space Marine was recruited due to being an exceptional warrior, but the genetic engineering process only works with prepubescent males, so every Space Marine was once a Child Soldier with a particular emphasis on the soldier part. Planets wherein Everything Is Trying to Kill You are naturally a popular place to find these boys who Had to Be Sharp. That being said, their training (much of it actually taking place in battle) will take decades longer before they are being officially inducted as a full-fledged Space Marine, so even the most precocious recruit will still take a long time more to be truly seen as an Angel of Death.
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Improbable Age / int_bcdcf629	comment	In Transformers: Animated one of the minor human villains is Professor Penny Princess, who rides a flying mechanical pony and uses girly-style high-tech weapons, yet doesn't seem to be any more then 8 to 10 years old.
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Improbable Age / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: Tedd, a high school student, is being given a government funded lab to study the recent changes to magic. This is, understandably, a shock to Tedd himself and his friends when they find out but, as is explained, Tedd actually is the most qualified person available due to being a budding scientist who is also a seer (an extremely rare person who can literally see how magic works) and already having demonstrated an aptitude to study the relevant things.
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Improbable Age / int_bdb0a080	comment	Last Action Hero, where most of the action occurs inside a fictional action-adventure movie, naturally lampshades this when Danny Madigan, a young boy who gets partnered with mature police officer Jack Slater, uses the fact that he is too young for this post to try persuading Slater that they are inside a movie.
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Improbable Age / int_bdbcdadf	comment	In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Alexis Lois "Lexi" Luthor graduated from Metropolis University at the age of five and earned a doctorate in nanoengineering at seven. She's surprised at how easy it was for her to get into U.A.'s Support course and declares that she could have easily finished it when she was three.
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Improbable Age / int_bdf7310a	comment	Teliha from Phaeton is not just an expert on the field of monsters, she is powerful enough to bind souls to machines, break the bonds of mind and body, and bound countless enigmoids to her will before she's even appeared, and when she did, she was 12. Justified since she's been fighting in such a world since three months of age.
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Improbable Age / int_be19e7a4	comment	In Strong Female Protagonist, Paladin — a.k.a. Professor Lisa Bradley — is 21. But since she's been designing cutting-edge technology since she was 15, the heads of the New School overlooked her lack of a doctorate in making her head of the new Robotics Department.
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Improbable Age / int_bf0f252d	comment	And then we have Spriggan, where Yu Ominae appears to be starting high school: he's not only an elite super soldier, he's a hardened, proven veteran who's seen so much action thanks to being abducted by the US military and trained as a super soldier assassin. Tea Flatte is one too, due to her being immortal thanks to Merlin's magic.
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Improbable Age / int_bf4abb02	comment	This trope appears when DC writers change Harley Quinn from her original occupation as a psychologist and make her a psychiatrist. The latter job requires years of medical school. Despite this, Harley doesn't seem much older than her mid-20s. While it is possible to graduate by that age, it's difficult and that doesn't match Harley's character. Other writers have tried to explain this away by having her seduce her professors for good grades, but again that doesn't fly since a career in psychiatry requires rigorous demonstrations of mental and emotional maturity as well as raw intelligence.
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Improbable Age / int_bfed0407	comment	Jane and the Dragon. The castle gardener, Rake, is 13. The cook, Pepper, is 12. The jester, Jester, and the blacksmith, Smithy, are 14. There's no suggestion they're apprentices or assistants (unlike Jane herself, who is a knight-in-training under an adult mentor); they're the entire castle staff.
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Improbable Age / int_c1d0f909	comment	Realistically, Rick Flag would have to be in his 40s to be a Colonel, and given Harley Quinn was a psychiatrist and the Enchantress's host, June Moone, has a PhD, both would be in their 30s. In Suicide Squad (2016), Flag, Harley, and Moone are respectively played by (at the time of filming) 36-year-old Joel Kinnaman, 25-year-old Margot Robbie, and 23-year-old Cara Delevingne. Documents in the film show that Harley was born in 1990 and working with the Joker in 2009, meaning she was an active psychiatrist at only 18.
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Improbable Age / int_c1dd4c20	comment	Strike Back: Colonel Alexander Coltrane's Tragic Backstory includes an especially traumatic mission as a lieutenant in the Balkans in 1992. At that time, his portrayer (Jamie Bamber) would only have been 19 and would be very unlikely to have been ranked that highnote The minimum age of entry for British Army officer training is 17 years and 9 months; add 44 weeks at Sandhurst and a year as a second lieutenant, and it's theoretically possible to make lieutenant at 19 years and 7 months — however, a teenager with no higher education is unlikely to be recruited into intelligence..
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Improbable Age / int_c2463c46	comment	The Light Warriors from Final Fantasy may get this, Depending on the Artist they range from "at least definitely adults" to "ambiguous chibis." The Warrior of Light in Dissidia Final Fantasy at least has the dignity of being one of the older-looking heroes, despite his lack of official age...
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Improbable Age / int_c2463c53	comment	In Final Fantasy V, main character Bartz is all of twenty, though at least he's nothing more than a vagabond. Faris, however, is the same age and master of a pirate ship (though it's implied that the pirates, who essentially raised her, are basically humoring her).
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Improbable Age / int_c2463c55	comment	In Final Fantasy X, the prospective High Summoner and saviour of the world is probably about 17 or 18. Her guardians aren't much older, and apparently one gets to be a Legendary Guardian by surviving one pilgrimage and reaching the ripe old age of 35. Lulu and Wakka have also been guardians before and they're only 23 and 24 respectively — Lulu has been a guardian twice. However there is a slight buzz about Seymour becoming the youngest Maester — at the rather more reasonable age of 28. Due to the Eldritch Abomination that's frequently popping up to destroy parts of the world at random, it's entirely possibly people are lucky to make it to their thirties.
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Improbable Age / int_c29fec97	comment	In Renowned Explorers, two of the daring, globe-trotting adventurers are Hildegard, a 14-year-old magician who acts it, and Min-Jeong, a 12-year-old bureaucrat's daughter who is as serious as any adult. They still get into the same dangerous scrapes and adventures as the adult crew members, and nobody holds back against them. They can even be made expedition captain, though more serious characters will take a debuff due to the sheer absurdity of it all. (One such serious character is Min-Jeong herself; while she's perfectly content to be captain, she complains about having to "babysit" Hildegard, a girl two years her senior, if Hildegard is captain.)
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Improbable Age / int_c3b1fe07	comment	Lost Girl has Dr. Lauren Lewis. She speaks at least 4 languages, has a medical degree, has served as a field medic in Afghanistan, researched diseases in the Congo for at least several months, has experience working in a lab, and has spent five years as a literal slave to super-human creatures called the fae. All before the pilot. Oh yeah, and she's 29 or 30 at the oldest. It's not so much impracticable as impossible, though the writers probably kept adding to her backstory as they needed things explained, leading to a resume that's downright heroic.
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Improbable Age / int_c41214bf	comment	Hit-Girl from Kick-Ass is an 11-year-old badass with Charles Atlas Superpowers? If it wasn't so awesome it would have really stretched the Willing Suspension of Disbelief.
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Improbable Age / int_c7912cea	comment	Jimmy Two-Shoes has 14-year-old Heloise working for Lucius Heinous VII at Misery Inc. as the company's leading product designer and developer. She's actually very good at it, since she is a Teen Genius Mad Scientist even more evil than her boss will ever be.
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Improbable Age / int_c9633211	comment	In No More Heroes, Henry and Sylvia were married and in college 10 years prior. Since Henry is Travis's twin brother, that would mean that Henry and Sylvia were attending college and got married at around 17.
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Improbable Age / int_c9a6eaf3	comment	Saved by the Bell: The College Years straddles the line with Jeremiah Lasky. He's only 32 but is a qualified professor, has published two books and had time to be married and divorced with a child. The actor playing him was in his late 20s at the time, so the age appears to have been increased to make this slightly more plausible.
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Improbable Age / int_ca720a6e	comment	Cory in the House: The episode "Get Smarter" had Newt fall in love with a new student, dubbed "Little Genius Jessica" by his teacher, who was a concert pianist at two and graduated college at nine. Partially subverted in that she legally can't perform brain surgery until she's 18.
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Improbable Age / int_cb2c3df6	comment	The point of the Oreimo fanfic My Life Can't Lose Its Normality is to make the main character of the series, Kousaka Kyousuke, cooler than he is in canon. It goes about this by having him and several other characters be part of a team of vigilantes who are just as badass as most special operatives, if not more. They're in high school.
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Improbable Age / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: Seto Kaiba is a 16-year-old inventor, pilot, and sole owner of a successful billion-dollar gaming empire (still a stretch even at his dub-raised age of 18); however, how he managed to attain this was a major plot point of the 'Virtual World' arc. Much like Ranma, the hellish schooling forced on him by his adoptive father may have something to do with it. Duke Devlin is also a 16-year-old inventor and the owner of a huge gaming store. Not quite on Kaiba's level, but still. Downplayed a fair bit in the manga, where the store is owned by his dad and the game he created is a fair bit lower-tech, but even then, he still seems to have mostly designed and created it by himself. Ishizu Ishtar is the Egyptian Minister of Archaeology (not that it's mentioned often). She's also 20 years old. Pegasus's motivation is that when his lover died of illness, he spent years traveling the world and looking for a purpose, when he made his way to Egypt and obtained the Millennium Eye and the secrets of the old Egyptian Shadow Games, from which he used to build a massive gaming corporation. He's clearly older than the other protagonists... and not by a whole lot. In the manga, it's said that his Lost Lenore died at age seventeen, and they were the same age, and that happened seven years ago — meaning Pegasus at the time of Duelist Kingdom is around 24. This also applies to Duel Monsters itself, the game Pegasus invented, since this timeline means it can't be more than 7 years old, either (and by all likelihood, it's probably a few years younger).
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Improbable Age / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds: Dr. Spencer Reid: Three PhDs, FBI profiler, turns 24 in the show's first season. Needless to say, he has a hard time getting taken seriously by people who don't know him very well (which fact he has been known to turn to his own advantage). It's made clear that he's been brilliant his whole life, which can shave decades off schooling. He did graduate high school at age 12. He even mentions that when he was in college, he wasn't even old enough to drive. The writers of the show think "Ph.D" and "doctorate" are interchangeable terms, though, as Reid is said to have earned several "Ph.Ds" before the first season, which is to say, by the time he was 23, at the oldest. Unless his years have more days than other people's, it isn't possible, because Ph.Ds require original research projects, and written dissertations, which must be defended before committees, and each one requires coursework, which no university is going to schedule just for one student's convenience, and which must be done before the research project is begun. I don't care how brilliant someone is, you can't make plants grow faster, or rats learn the mazes faster, and there is a physical limit to how long it takes someone to type 300 pages, not to mention a committee of several people each to read those pages. Maybe he has more than one doctorate, an advanced degree that does not require a dissertation, but he does not have multiple Ph.Ds.
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Improbable Age / int_cd7314db	comment	Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love has Cheiron/Sagitta, who is a 21-year-old lawyer. (She's also black in the year 1928. And somehow also has time to be a famous actress, the leader of a biker gang and a soldier in an elite military unit. One wonders how she manages to fit sleeping into that schedule.) Rosita is an actor and bounty hunter at age 11.
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Improbable Age / int_cd8905f6	comment	Baccano!: Firo Prochainezo becomes an executive member of a Camorra organization at the age of eighteen. While this may not be as impressive as some of the examples above, it's enough for another character to immediately disbelieve it and then subsequently accuse him of sleeping his way up the ranks. Meanwhile, Firo's old friend Luck Gandor was acting as an executive of the Gandor family business at fifteen, if not younger. Luck didn't get the position because he was spectacularly gifted, but because he's the son of a Mafia boss and (along with his two older brothers) inherited the turf when his father died — and he's very aware of it. A good deal of his ruthless Magnificent Bastard persona is a front that he puts up in fear of not being taken seriously in his position (and thus targeted).
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Improbable Age / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball: Son Goku. Master martial artist, breaking rocks in one punch that are about the size of his head by his mid-late teens. Goes off on a wild adventure with the 16-year-old Bulma at the age of 12. And less than a year later, he took on and completely destroyed an entire terrorist organization that was feared world-wide! Then three years later he effectively destroys a Demon King that threatened to cause The End Of The World Aswe Know It, and then defeated his even more powerful son three years later! Somewhat justified in that he's a member of a Proud Warrior Race. Gohan, Goku's oldest son, reaches and surpasses his father's power level at no less than age five. And at age ten, he had effectively destroyed a being capable of destroying entire Solar Systems!
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Improbable Age / int_ce67d43a	comment	Tales of Xillia does the same thing: the hero, Jude, is a medical student close to graduation...at age fifteen. Milla, an incredibly powerful magic swordsman is only 20. Gaius won a fighting tournament at age twelve and then went on to make a name for himself in a war soon after that and, discounting spoilers, managed to become king at age 22. Elize, who is only twelve, is an incredibly talented and powerful spirit artes user though she has the benefit of Teepo being a booster and thus increasing her output. The sequel continues the trend with Julius being a top agent for Spirius at age 28 and supplementary materials reveals he's been active since he was a preteen. Jude now has a medical degree and is the top researcher for spyrites...one whole year later from the first game.
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Improbable Age / int_cee5dc9d	comment	The Shahnameh uses this as a plot point in one of the most tragic stories: The Hero, Worlds Greatest Warrior Rostam has an affair with princess Tahmine, whose town is behind enemy lines. They say goodbye, he gives her a unique jewel as a parting gift and asks her to give it to their child, if they have happened to have conceived one and he leaves and never tells anyone about what went down. Meanwhile, she gives birth to a boy who seems to have inherited his father's Super-Strength. After only a month, the baby looks a year old. Sohrab eventually grows up, and despite being a true Mama's Boy he becomes obsessed with his father's legendary reputation. Thinking that his father would make a great ruler, he decides to invade Iran, overthrow the Shah Kaykavus and install his father on the throne, and then double back north and dispose of the barbarian warlord Afrasiab once and for all. Afrasiab, Manipulative Bastard as he is, believes that this suspiciously powerful random 10 year old bastard boy is probably the only person who could have a shot at actually killing Rostam in combat, so he forms an alliance with Sohrab and gives him control of the Turanian army so he can invade Iran, where he faces off with Rostam. Due to them being evenly matched, they end up fighting each other repeatedly, and neither of them realises who they're fighting because A) Rostam is Withholding Their Name and B) While it does occur to Rostam that his possible son or daughter with Tahmine could potentially have this much strength and talent, he dismisses the idea because even if they did get pregnant, that child would be waaay too young, right? Anyway, after a lot of cheating, Rostam eventually lands a fatal stab wound, and as Sohrab is laying down dying he finally reveals himself as "the son of Rostam". Rostam rips off the boy's armor and sees the jewel on his armband, and his Oh, Crap! reaction turns into a complete and total Heroic BSoD, while the narration goes all What the Hell, Hero?
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Improbable Age / int_d3bc03fe	comment	One Tree Hill: Brooke went from relatively unremarkable teenager who had just graduated high school with a starting fashion line to an internationally famous multi-millionairess owner of a fashion company, magazine and television channel in under four years thanks to a Time Skip between Seasons 4 and 5. True it is later revealed that Brooke's mother is the business brains behind the empire, but the fact that Brooke personally became so famous and that her designs were so successful so quickly stretches credibility beyond breaking point.
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Improbable Age / int_d438c979	comment	In the Irish epic The Cattle Raid of Cooley, CÃº Chulainn is a magnificent warrior trained in superhuman feats and able to overcome each and every one of Connaught's champion warriors, at about 16-17 years. One opponent calls him out on it, refusing to fight a beardless child. Cu Chulainn runs off to find a goat, trim some of its hair, and make a fake beard for himself to challenge the warrior again.
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Improbable Age / int_d46ea355	comment	This seems to be a standard in Mothy's Evillious Chronicles: Banica Conchita, by the age of 20, was already renown for saving her country from a famine by introducing new foods and recipes. By the age of 6, Mariam Phutapie was already a professional assassin and was able to join the army. By nine, she was already a well-known general and by the age of 20, she was considered one of the Three Heroes of Lucifenia and known throughout Evillious. Justified a bit in her case, since she was trained as an assassin from birth, therefore having the skills she needed for her careers. Her adoptive mother being a high-ranking minister might have also helped. Before the age of 12, Leonhart Avadonia was already a skilled, well-known swordsman and a soldier in the army. By the age of 20, he was already well-known in Beelenzia for his militaristic campaigns and was known throughout Evillious as one of the Three Heroes of Lucifenia by his mid-20s. Leonhart's daughter, Germaine, became the leader of the Lucifenian Revolution at the age of 20. Irina was elected to the throne of the Magic Kingdom Leviantha at age 17. Subverted a bit, since she had to kill three other candidates to get there, but even becoming a candidate was no small feat, apparently.
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Improbable Age / int_d4ef40fe	comment	Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Sayo is introduced as a widely acclaimed and respected doctor with a black belt, despite only being 23, meaning she likely wouldnâ€™t have even started a doctorate yet.
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Improbable Age / int_d5036cfe	comment	Fuser has Bignums, a famous and talented hip-hop producer who runs the second stage of the game, despite being a 10-year-old boy who still has to listen to his mom.
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Improbable Age / int_d5166b43	comment	Miranda Keyes, who's a commander at age 27, although this is handwaved with the explanation that many high-ranked military people have been killed during the Human-Covenant War and had to be replaced. Even then, in Halo 2, she's only commanding a troop-carrying corvette or frigate (just look at its positively miniscule size compared to Covenant ships of the line), the equivalent of a modern-day Marine amphibious helicopter carrier. Which would be a reasonable position for a person of her rank and age. In Halo 3, she's one of the most senior officers in the UNSC navy by virtue of being one of the only surviving officers in the UNSC navy, the Covenant having almost entirely destroyed Earth and its defending fleet.
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Improbable Age / int_d557e6c3	comment	The entire primary casts of the first and second Lunar games (Lucia excepted) are in their teens. In Silver Star, Alex and Luna are 15, Mia and Nash are 16, Jessica is 17, and Kyle is 18; in Eternal Blue, Hiro and Lemina (and NPC Mauri) are 16, Jean is 18, and Leo and Ronfar are 19. Their ages have not stopped Kyle from becoming leader of a group of thieves, Mia carrying rather a lot of responsibility for ensuring the smooth running of the Vane academy, and Leo and Mauri bearing the titles of White Dragon Knight and Red Dragon Priestess respectively. Ronfar deserves special mention for being a hard-drinking, gambling, washed-up former priest at the ripe young age of 19.
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Improbable Age / int_d56cafaf	comment	With Power Rangers RPM, we have Dr K who is that season's mentor, is no older than 19 and has been doing complex mathematical equations since she was 5.
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Improbable Age / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: Ash or possibly any other Trainer who starts his/her quest at age 10. This involves leaving their parents and families to travel across the world on foot, facing off against as-yet-untamed monsters with potentially deadly Elemental Powers, and camping without a tent in the woods like old pros. And Ash's mother sends him off cheerfully with nothing but a backpack full of gear and a reminder to keep his underwear washed. However, PokÃ©mon Centers tend to be excellently run rest stops with practically all the comforts of a hotel, and free care for your PokÃ©mon. The Darker and Edgier Light Novel Pocket Monsters: The Animation expands on this, explaining that A) 10 years old is considered the age of adulthood in the PokÃ©mon world — with all of the legal implications that entails — and B) Ash's mom was a young mother who wanted her son out of her life as soon as possible so she could re-capture her youth. However, this isn't canon to the anime. The loose adaptation of the anime The Electric Tale of Pikachu mentions in the second chapter that Ash only has a short leave of absence from school while he goes on his journey as he laments how unproductive the first hours of his quest have been.
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Improbable Age / int_d66ef045	comment	Atlantis: The Lost Empire has the teenage Audrey as the ship's engineer. Milo even lampshades how someone of her age ended up on their expedition. Turns out she was that much of a Child Prodigy. Given that Rourke was recruiting people who would be expected to steal the Heart of Atlantis, it's likely he wanted someone young and easier to manipulate.
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Improbable Age / int_d78e771e	comment	Used in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell's The Mote in God's Eye. The way FTL jumps work affects the nerves of the crew, with older crew taking much longer to recover. So the military is organized such that most ship commanders tend to be mid to late twenties to trade off the youthful ability to function versus the experience issues.
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Improbable Age / int_d908efc	comment	In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, to show how much of a singular prodigy Muichiro is, the setting made sure to state he breezed through all ranks in the Demon Slayer Corps in just a few months after he enrolled, becoming a Hashira by the ripe age of 12 years old; none of Muichiroâ€™s colleagues became a Hashira that young.
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Improbable Age / int_d9be958a	comment	In Superman Returns, 23-year-old Kate Bosworth plays Lois Lane, who already has a Pulitzer and over five years of tenure at the Daily Planet (Superman/Clark was away from Earth for five years, and when he first started working there, Lois was a veteran, so the number is certainly closer to ten years), in addition to a kid. In contrast, Margot Kidder was 30 when she first played Lois Lane.
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Improbable Age / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park thrives on this trope, especially in the later seasons.
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Improbable Age / int_da275e44	comment	The 4400: In "The Wrath of Graham", the 30-year-old Meghan Doyle is placed in command of the Seattle branch of NTAC.
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Improbable Age / int_db6a22a6	comment	By the end of the First World War, the title character of the Biggles stories is 19 years old, and a Major in the Royal Flying Corps. This is because he A) lied about his age to join up at age 16, B) was promoted from Second Lieutenant to Acting Captain mostly on the basis of having survived two and a half years of constant combat, and thereby become the kind of veteran you needed commanding the newbie pilots and C) was finally promoted into a training post (one day before the end of the war) because PTSD had left him alcoholic and possibly suicidal, and his commanding officer needed an excuse to send him back to Britain.
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Improbable Age / int_db96ded4	comment	Sequel series The Legend of Korra has the main cast start out as slightly older, and Korra at least has had her life dedicated to training as the Avatar since she was 4. However, the Fire Ferrets Pro-Bending team become champions with a team of people who are 16, 17 and 18, and Mako (the 18-year-old) joins the police force during the six months between Seasons 1 and 2. Asami is also 18, is an expert driver that can outperform anyone (granted, automobiles are only about as old as SHE is) and goes from spoiled kid to savvy leader of her father's company, struggling to make up for the reputation his siding with the Equalists saddled them with. Season 4 averts this trope, as the three year time skip put the characters into their early 20s.
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Improbable Age / int_dbb68ab6	comment	The Chronicles of Narnia: At the end of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the four Pevensies become kings and queens of Narnia. Peter is the High King as the oldest, but he's still just a teenager. And they're preferable to the evil 100-year-old sorceress who ruled Narnia before them. Lucy likewise is Wise Beyond Her Years and she's only eight. Aslan seems determined to call quite young children for missions that will save Narnia, although he does at least ensure that older and wiser characters like Trumpkin, Puddleglum, King Tirian and the Dawn Treader crew help them. He appears to summon them so they can learn lessons in Narnia they'll need in adulthood later in life. Prince Caspian's titular prince also ascends the throne at an extremely young age. He's just said to be the same age as Peter, who is still a teenager at this point. The BBC adaptation made him even younger (the actor, Jean Marc Perret, was 14), but the film version aged him up to be vaguely late teens or twenty-something (Ben Barnes was 26).
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Improbable Age / int_dc81bc62	comment	Before Watchmen also applies this to Ozymandias, who was apparently already a successful businessman with his own corporate building before he hit 20. Since this one wasn't written by Moore, however, its canonicity is debatable; Watchmen proper only indicates that he was active as a superhero by 19, which is more plausible.
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Improbable Age / int_dd5c5eed	comment	The Rockford Files: Dr. Megan Daugherty (played by 28-year-old Kathryn Harrold) was introduced in a 1978 episode as a psychiatrist with a well-established, thriving practice. Normally, a psychiatrist would require about 12 years of post-secondary education, meaning they would graduate around the age of 29 before even being able to start their practice. Then, in the reunion movies, it was repeatedly mentioned (and shown in flashback) that Megan was 15 during the Easter weekend of 1971, at which point she was a high school student who had not yet lost her sight. This would have made her 22 in 1978 — and meant that between '71 and '78 she managed to finish at least two years of high school, then somehow cram 12 years of university into about four, and then establish a busy practice, all while making the adjustment to having unexpectedly gone blind. This utterly ludicrous timeline isn't even a case of multiple writers muddying up continuity; all of Megan's appearances were written by David Chase. Megan makes Rockford's lawyer Beth Davenport look like a comparative slacker, although Beth is still somewhat improbably young for her position. Though Beth's age wasn't explicitly stated, when she first appeared, Beth's portrayer Gretchen Corbett was a youthful-looking 27 years old. 27 is the average age of a freshly-minted law school graduate — but Beth was already a firmly established lawyer with a fancy office at a big, well-respected firm (though not a full partner). In the season four episode "Forced Retirement", Beth said she had been with the firm for SIX years.
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Improbable Age / int_ddf8bc61	comment	American Hustle has Jennifer Lawrence as a depressed housewife with an 8-year-old son. Rosalyn's real life counterpart was in her 40s when the ABSCAM took place, while Jennifer was 23. She's implied to have been something of a trophy wife but it still raises eyebrows.
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Improbable Age / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time has some justified examples. Regina is the mayor of Storybrooke, played by Lana Parrilla at the age of 33. The Mother Superior is played by the late 30s Keegan Connor Tracy — when in most traditions a Mother Superior has to be at least forty. Dr Whale is the only physician in the town — played by late 20s David Anders. But they're all a result of the Dark Curse putting everyone in the respective positions. On top of that, the curse also has them frozen in time up until the protagonist arrives, so they also donâ€™t age for 28 years. The second one in particular could also be justified by Blue (Mother Superior's Enchanted Forest counterpart) being Really 700 Years Old.
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Improbable Age / int_df290812	comment	Gossip Girl: Fashion-related example: Jenny Humphrey. Somehow, some way, at age fifteen, she's a mini-couturier, able to rival nearly all of New York Fashion Week's regular fixtures. As of mid-Season 2, Chuck Bass fits this trope. The guy took over his father's company at age seventeen, albeit briefly. As of Season 3 he runs his own hotel, hosts political election parties and has a grand opening of his new club... and the guy has only just turned eighteen. The club opening episode revolved a lot around acquiring a liquor license, yet the fact that the club owner was not legally allowed to purchase alcohol was never brought up.
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Improbable Age / int_df424ee8	comment	Umetaro Nozaki of Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun became a published mangaka at 16, which enabled him to pay for his own apartment.
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Improbable Age / int_df7fa951	comment	In Casino Royale (2006), Eva Green was 26 when she played Vesper Lynd, a high-ranking British Treasury agent, with her gravestone in No Time to Die revealing that she was born in 1983, meaning that Vesper was 23 years old in Casino Royale.
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Improbable Age / int_e1a2f696	comment	In Valvrave the Liberator, for Valvrave pilots, there is an Ordinary High-School Student, a former Idol Singer, a Casnova friend who lost the girl he truly loved, a Japanese Delinquent, and a Hikikomori. When New JIOR declares its independence, their government ramps it up as there are only two adult members and the rest are all high school students. Prime Minister? The daughter of the surrendered JIOR nation. Minister of Cultures and Sciences? An Otaku. Minister of Internal Affairs? A young, black-haired Anya Expy. Cheif Cabinet Secretary? The Student Council President. Minister of Foreign Affairs? A Lovable Alpha Bitch. Minister of Health and Welfare? One of the only two adults on the Module. Defense Minister? The same Ordinary Highschool Student. And it was formed partly thanks to a Child Soldier who recently defected with plans to overthrow the Dorssian regime.
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Improbable Age / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: All potential slayers are between the ages of about 15 and 18 when, or if, they are activated. A line from Kennedy says something to the extent of "the younger, the better". Willow becomes the most powerful witch in the Western hemisphere at the age of 21 (after learning magic was real at 16), and in the Season 8 comics Buffy is one of the leaders of the Slayer Organization at 23, Xander, who is mission control is also 23, and Dawn (who's now in a relationship with him) is 18. These people could take over the world if they wanted to.
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Improbable Age / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis: Called out with Doctor Keller, especially in the Episode Vegas where she replaced a coroner and there's no way she should be old enough. She does sometimes discuss the toll it took on her to become so successful at a young age.
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Improbable Age / int_e562c200	comment	In the anime version of Megaman NT Warrior, Preteen Genius Enzan Ijuuin (Chaud, stateside) is the vice president of IPC, a major computer hardware company. He's also about 12 years old.
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Improbable Age / int_e566c7bc	comment	A particularly extreme example is Poppy in PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet, who's a member of the Elite Four despite the fact that she's nine years old (while looking and acting half that).
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Improbable Age / int_e5fd2cef	comment	In Galactic Patrol, Kinnison is given command of the superbattleship Britannia as his first assignment out of the academy. Kinnison notes that it normally takes ten years of proven accomplishment to rate command of a first-class vessel, and that he is only getting this command because Britannia is a new and dangerously experimental design.
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Improbable Age / int_e5feb1e	comment	In real life, one can reasonably expect to start a career in law in their late twenties. In Ace Attorney, on the other hand? Only four of the attorneys in the original trilogy appear to be out of their twenties: Winston Payne, Marvin Grossberg, Godot, and Manfred von Karma.note While Von Karma is much older than any other prosecutor in the series, it should be noted that he went undefeated for 40 years, meaning he started his successful career at the age of 25. Of course, considering all the other idiosyncrasies of the justice system as presented in the games, ridiculously young attorneys are pretty much par for the course. In some places it's possible to be a lawyer without going through grad school, but really, it's all just handwaved. In some characters' cases this is Hand Waved by saying they went were born/raised/went to school in Germany, that land of remarkably progressive laws and very easy bar exams. Miles Edgeworth debuted at 20, Franziska von Karma debuted at 13, and Klavier Gavin was a lawyer and a rockstar at age 17. Lana Skye was 29 and Chief Prosecutor. Two years before that, she was a highly ranked and very well respected detective who was only getting ready to become a prosecutor in the first place. Also, she is shown wearing 3 Prosecutor of the Year awards, despite being a prosecutor for only 2 years. Simon Blackquill had to have started prosecuting some time before he was twenty-one, when he was arrested, and since his courtroom tactics are so well-known even after seven years in prison, it's likely he started sooner rather than later. The defense attorneys get hit with this trope too. Mia Fey passed her bar exam by the time she was 23, and had her own law office by the time she was 27. Her protÃ©gÃ© Phoenix joins her at 24. Apollo Justice himself is even younger than Phoenix when he becomes a lawyer (22), but Athena Cykes beats all of them by joining the Wright Anything Agency at 18. (Also Hand Waved by her studying in Europe.) Kristoph Gavin was also famous and well-established by 25. Calisto Yew was 22 when Edgeworth met her, and she'd been practicing law for at least a couple of years. Not that she was actually a lawyer, but nobody seemed to doubt she was one due to age or incompetence. This doesn't just apply to those with careers in law. Adrian Andrews is a 23-year-old manager, Ron DeLite, a 22-year-old Chief of Security, Valerie Hawthorne was a policeman at 18... Dual Destinies also reveals that there's a law school known as the Themis Legal Academy that teaches students to be attorneys, prosecutors, and judges at high-school ages. One of the students at Themis is actually 25, having been held back repeatedly for seven years. In our world, 25 would still be fairly young for a senior law student, but everyone in-universe is shocked by how old he is. Considering that Klavier and Sebastian Debeste from Investigations 2 are both confirmed alumni of Themis and both began prosecuting at age seventeen, lawyers and judges in their late teens may actually be the norm in the Ace Attorney universe. All of this is parodied in an Awkward Zombie strip. In The Great Ace Attorney prequel spin-off duology, we have our most ridiculous example yet in Iris Wilson,note Iris Watson in the original Japanese version a famed and prolific novelist and certified medical doctor... at the age of ten. In the Victorian Era. On the other hand, the lawyers themselves finally take a step towards avoiding the trope: while they're still in their early twenties, Ryunosuke and Kazuma are explicitly still university students getting on-field experience rather than fully-fledged professionals. They're still fairly improbable, Ryunosuke being an English major who got the job after mere weeks of studying law after Kazuma, the actual law student, is left for dead due to an unfortunate accident but that doesn't have anything to do with his age anymore. The trope is occasionally deconstructed; Athena is skilled legally but her lack of emotional maturity means it's fairly easy to bully her into a breakdown in court, and Sebastian Debeste is something of a doofus who's in way over his head. And the only reason Sebastian passed his classes and the bar so young is because his father bribed his teachers to give him good grades.
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Improbable Age / int_e66eb3c5	comment	Among the support crew for Battle Fever J is Yoko, a female army private raising her younger brother, who was played by the then-16 year-old Noriko Hidaka. Thereâ€™s no indication in series that sheâ€™s any kind of prodigy who would hold a military rank, and the Rangers treat her like an actual adult (which, given sheâ€™s of marriageable age by Japanese standards, she technically is), so some Underage Casting is likely in effect.
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Improbable Age / int_e67a7d6c	comment	In addition to being a fully-trained mage (stronger than professionals in their 40s), Negi Springfield of Negima! Magister Negi Magi has been assigned to be the English teacher of a diverse group of 31 teenage girls. He was not quite ten when he was assigned to the latter post, but that's okay since he somehow also managed to master Japanese. In his class are martial arts masters, genius inventors, retired mercenaries and entrepreneurs, so perhaps it's to be expected that they'd get such an odd teacher. His father was also a celebrated war hero and considered the strongest man in the world by the age of fifteen.
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Improbable Age / int_e69b860	comment	Chronopia: Rodili Lysander ascended to the title of Lord in his sixties. This is impressive considering that city elves are usually not considered adults until the age of 200, and a 60-year-old is barely potty-trained by elven standards.
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Improbable Age / int_e6e72f96	comment	Lampshaded in In the Loop. The British bureaucrats comment that American White House staffers all look way too young for their level of authority. One Brit comments, "It's like Bugsy Malone but with real guns." In another scene, Malcolm Tucker is horrified to realize that the government agent he'd been scheduled to meet barely looks out of his teens. He storms out, saying, "No offense, son, but you look like you should still be at school with your head down a fucking toilet."
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Improbable Age / int_e7a55d4d	comment	Kindling Ashes: Giselle is a teenager and yet she is the leader of the Firesouls because she is host to the Alpha Dragon. He's the one they're truly following with Giselle as his interperter of sorts. For the same reason, she becomes the Alpha Flier.
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Improbable Age / int_e85e05b5	comment	Divergent has Four and Eric in prominent positions within Dauntless at the age of eighteen. Four is said to be something of a Child Prodigy but was in fact offered an even bigger position and turned it down. His prequel POV novella shows that Eric got his position in exchange for being a spy for Jeanine. By Allegiant, some characters expect Tris to assume control of Dauntless when she's only sixteen. The film adaptations seem to combat this by having Four and Eric played by actors in their mid-twenties, making it a little more plausible.
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Improbable Age / int_e863cc41	comment	In the Mega Man Battle Network games, Enzan/Chaud may not be quite as accomplished as his anime counterpart, but he's still a high-ranking Official NetBattler who gets a lot of important missions... only to be shown up by the equally young Player Character Lan, of course. He also skips a lot of grades, to the point where he's starting college when Lan's in sixth grade.
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Improbable Age / int_e89f120b	comment	Amuro Ray from Mobile Suit Gundam was an ace mecha pilot at the age of 16. This was a hold over from Super Robot series where the pilots of Humongous Mecha were sometimes teenagers. Somewhat justified in that, despite his age, he has as much time in the cockpit as anyone on his side, since he's literally the only one who ever took the original prototype of the weapon into combat.
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Improbable Age / int_e932f40d	comment	Shinobigami: Otogi Private Academy lists "Primary School" as a possible cover for your badass Ninja PC.
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Improbable Age / int_e9c7b01b	comment	Dissidia Final Fantasy, where they put all the heroes from the first ten games together and the oldest character ends up being 21! Which makes it particularly odd to see 17-year-old Squall acting as Team Mom to Bartz and Zidane, when Bartz is older than Squall and Zidane is only a year or two behind him at most. The youngest of them all is cute little Onion Knight, he doesn't have a stated age, but the general consensus is the ripe old age of 12.
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Improbable Age / int_e9d7acf9	comment	In one of the Lone Wolf Newsletters, Joe Dever provided a list of Kai and Magnakai ranks and the average ages the Kai Lords reached them. A raw recruit entered at the age of 7, made Initiate (the rank Lone Wolf has at the beginning of his first adventure) at 16, and completed his training and became a Master at 28. The Grand Master, at the time the highest rank, was anywhere from 56 to 60. Of course, that was the old Order; Lone Wolf would radically shake things up, becoming an Initiate at 15, making Master before 18, and reaching Grand Master at the shockingly young age of 35 (even more shocking when you consider that due to his time in the Daziarn, physically he was just a lick over 23). And even that pales in comparison to his successor in the New Grand Master books, who reached the rank of Grand Master at 14. Although to be totally fair, those previous Grand Masters rose through the ranks by training under other Kai; Lone Wolf did it by finding magic gems invested with the lore of the higher Kai teachings shaped by the hand of Crystal Dragon Jesus.
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Improbable Age / int_ea505892	comment	Border agents in World Trigger are almost entirely in their teens and early twenties regardless of rank. They are a military force, but as one centered on defense and diplomacy, Border is a comparatively safe one with few deaths, so it's a mystery where all these agents go once they hit their mid-twenties. It is suggested, though never explicitly mentioned, that Trion, the source of power for Border agents, no longer function after a certain age, meaning the handful of older adults handle administrative jobs, though it doesn't explain how so many of these agents have maturity and strategic intellect far beyond what's expected of their age.
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Improbable Age / int_eb6719f6	comment	SeeD from Final Fantasy VIII serves to deconstruct this somewhat, as most of the prominent positions are held by teenagers. There are many points in the game that stress how these characters are too young for their posts; Quistis is an instructor at age 18 and gets dismissed for lacking leadership qualities, Seifer is also 18 and put in charge of a combat mission where he ignores orders and goes vigilante, Irvine is the same age and set to assassinate a government official — and ends up cracking under the pressure. As the Gardens that trained these soldiers began as orphanages, most have been there since childhood (Quistis mentions training at age 12). There is also the refreshing aversion of Laguna — a soldier out on tour at the age of 27.
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Improbable Age / int_edaffe15	comment	The Bartimaeus Trilogy: Nathaniel is barely 14 when he is put in charge of the Internal Affairs division of the British government, and is held single-handedly responsible for matters of national security. He also buys himself a luxurious townhouse at the same age, and lives on his own. In the same series, Kitty is a part of the resistance against the magical government from the age of 13 onwards. At the same age, she appears as the plaintiff in a court case by herself, with her parents explicitly refusing to have anything to do with the case. By the age of 16, she's living on her own. The last one is justified in that commoners like her are encouraged to finish their (limited) schooling and join the workforce as soon as possible.
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Improbable Age / int_edcc9cce	comment	Austin & Ally: Ally, whose dad runs a music store, is president of the mall merchants' association at age 15/16. Granted, this essentially means she acts as moderator at their meetings, could happen if nobody else wanted the job, and involves no pay but would look great on a college application.
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Improbable Age / int_ee985816	comment	Mahoromatic pulls a similar thing, where Suguru's teacher, a comedically-perverted teacher nearing Old Maid status, appears in a Distant Finale yet looks exactly the same.
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Improbable Age / int_eeaaec28	comment	Played with in Martian Successor Nadesico when the 12-year-old science officer explains the "recent trend" in "young, attractive captains" to the 20-year-old Genius Ditz heroine using obvious expies of Anime spaceship captains.
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Improbable Age / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	Mega Man: Ciel from Mega Man Zero is a human who is leading the Reploid La RÃ©sistance at the age of 14, after she built Copy X, a near perfect replica of one of the (if not the) most powerful and advanced AIs in the world, at the age of 6. She may be a gene-boosted human, but that's still impressive. In the Mega Man Battle Network games, Enzan/Chaud may not be quite as accomplished as his anime counterpart, but he's still a high-ranking Official NetBattler who gets a lot of important missions... only to be shown up by the equally young Player Character Lan, of course. He also skips a lot of grades, to the point where he's starting college when Lan's in sixth grade.
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Improbable Age / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	In Revenge of the Sith, when Anakin is mad about the Council refusing to promote him to the rank of Master, Obi-Wan points out that he's still by far the youngest Jedi to ever be on the Jedi Council in any way but this does little to assuage his Inferiority Superiority Complex.
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Improbable Age / int_f037be0c	comment	At the end of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the four Pevensies become kings and queens of Narnia. Peter is the High King as the oldest, but he's still just a teenager. And they're preferable to the evil 100-year-old sorceress who ruled Narnia before them. Lucy likewise is Wise Beyond Her Years and she's only eight.
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Improbable Age / int_f04b4111	comment	The Metroid series has never specified how old Samus Aran is, but considering that looks like she's in her early 20s, it's a little dubious that she's ex-military and currently the most successful bounty hunter in the galaxy, even taking her superhuman abilities into account. The concept art gallery for Other M gives an age range of 15-17 for her military service.
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Improbable Age / int_f0841a69	comment	Primeval Season 4 introduces Jess, who is already in a prominent position with the ARC — and savvy on all their intricate computer systems. Her actress Ruth Kearney was just nineteen at the time — so Jess has to be early twenties at most. Fanon claims she must be Lester's niece and that he must have pulled some strings to get her hired.
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Improbable Age / int_f10619d8	comment	Tales of the Abyss plays with this trope. Van Grants looks a lot older than 27, and yet he's The Leader Oracle Knights because he's powerful and charismatic . He got a lot of flak for it when he was first promoted, and so he grew a beard to make people think he was older than he really was. Jade Curtiss was capable of Fonic Artes (i.e. magic) that would take an adult decades to fully master at a young age and was adopted into a military family who noticed his talents, but despite this he's never stepped beyond Colonel (he's 35 at the time of the story). Dis Motivation is implied to have a role in this as he claims 'I have my hands full just being a colonel'. Luke, The Protagonist is 7 years old because he's a clone but looks more like seventeen and a skilled swordsman because he has nothing better to do than practice all day. The head of the most powerful organization (the Order of Lorelei) is 14 years old. And actually two due to being a replica like Luke. His guard is only thirteen as well. And Tear is 16 and yet a somewhat experienced sergeant in the order as well. Improbable Age seems to run rampant in Auldrant.
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Improbable Age / int_f2041376	comment	Charmed: Prue is only mid-twenties in the first season and has already been a successful museum curator and prominent auctioneer. The second one is a little more feasible since the two people who hired her were demons that wanted to kill her — and after they've been dealt with, she's in constant clashes with senior people in the auction house. After leaving that job, she becomes a photographer instead, which she already has experience with (having done it in high school) and does so as a freelancer. Piper straddles the line. In the pilot episode she gets a job at a nice restaurant only a few months after leaving her job as a bank teller. She also quickly becomes a successful nightclub owner before she's even in her thirties — and with the first place she buys too. There is a slight justification with the restaurant job — where the chef who hires her in the first episode abruptly leaves, and she's forced to try and take over his position. Phoebe is something of a slacker in her early life and there are mentions of her studying psychology in college in the first three seasons. She gets a job as an advice columnist purely on a fluke in Season 4 and quickly becomes a local celebrity within a year (helped slightly by having a romance with the paper's new owner). Paige by contrast is a subversion. She's only just out of college and working as an intern social worker (with mentions that she's still paying off student loans). She's promoted to social worker but has to quickly leave the job because she can't handle it. Billie is only twenty (if we take a line where Piper says she's not old enough to drink) and yet has already learned she's a witch, mastered her powers and discovered a hi-tech scrying system with a computer. It's lampshaded when Piper wonders if Billie got help from demons. But she didn't, so the trope still fits. It turns out she's the sisters' greatest enemy, but she didn't know this. This is lampshaded in the Season 1 finale when Piper meets an old classmate, who is the segment producer of a highly rated cooking show and has a wealthy fiancee.
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Improbable Age / int_f3272b1b	comment	In Boys do Tankary?, in the flashbacks, characters who are even younger than the teenage protagonists of Girls und Panzer are shown crewing and commanding tanks, this time in actual war, rather than tankery matches. In particular, Vincent joins the army at the age of six, and he and Gage become leaders of their own platoons at the age of seven. Disturbingly enough, the horrific implications of this are never explicitly commented on. In a less extreme example, Iris, "the Captain" is only eighteen.
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Improbable Age / int_f343e79	comment	Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman: Dr. Roxanne "Rocky" Ballantine is this. According to the stats on the Batcomputer, she is 20 years old during the events of the film. She has a doctorate at an age where most people are only halfway towards getting their four-year degrees (for the record, most people don't get their doctorates until their mid-to-late twenties at the absolute youngest). The best explanation is that she was some kind of Child Prodigy who started college early, though it could also be an animation/translation error, since Kathy Duquesne's surname is misspelled on the same screen.
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Improbable Age / int_f4313238	comment	Bean is also a genius and in Ender's Shadow is revealed to be a facilitator of many of the events in the previous books.
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Improbable Age / int_f5641b57	comment	The Astronauts in Rocket Girls are justified as having been chosen because they are 16-year-old girls and much lighter than adults. Girls have already done most of their growing by age sixteen. You'd be much better off finding adult women with small bones.
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Improbable Age / int_f6a54e75	comment	In Kingdom Hearts, the characters start at 14 or 15, but look even younger. They save worlds. Plural.
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Improbable Age / int_f6c05e8e	comment	A minor one on Friends: Ross, aged 27 in the first season, already has a doctorate in paleontology and has been working at a museum for an unspecified period of time. It's unlikely he'd have finished his doctorate that quickly.
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Improbable Age / int_f7c1b2d3	comment	Buster Merryfield only began acting when he reached retirement age, and went on to become a main character in Only Fools and Horses.
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Improbable Age / int_f81ef90f	comment	The Bourne Series: Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) is one of Jason Bourne's field handlers on an extremely sensitive mission and apparently has beyond Top Secret clearance given what she is involved in (monitoring all of the Treadstone field agents). In other words, significantly more dangerous to the Agency than Bourne is if she screws up, or if something was missed in her vetting and she is less than 100% loyal. When The Bourne Identity was filmed, Julia Stiles was a very young looking twenty-one. There's an attempted Hand Wave in The Bourne Supremacy when Nicky explains her cover was an exchange student studying in Paris. In Jason Bourne, unless Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander) is older than she is, the audience is being forced to believe that a 27-year-old could have a high-ranking position in the CIA. Her demands at the end of the film to be put in an even higher ranked position highlight this.
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Improbable Age / int_f9ab713d	comment	Parodied in the first episode of Osomatsu-san. In an attempt to reinvent the series for modern audiences, the Matsuno brothers reimagine themselves as Bishōnen School Idols. Choromatsu is a Teen Genius who is already a professor at Harvard despite being a high school student. He also wears glasses.
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Improbable Age / int_faf84cd	comment	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: Gary has been a vampire for approximately forty years. For most vampires, this is about the time when their seniors believe that they are mature enough to start acting independently and can be trusted to not screw up if their hands aren't held. Gary told that to go hang and became the leader of the Nosferatu in Los Angeles, and one of the major power-players in the city, instead. LaCroix is also young for a Camarilla prince (one hundred eighty is no spring chicken, but not an Elder by any standard of the millennia-old Camarilla), especially given the size and potential power of his domain. In his case, it's possibly justified by the implication that he's been Kicked Upstairs and Reassigned to Antarctica by being given a "princedom" with no actual power or influence attached. To a certain degree the PC (though that's likely for the sake of creating satisfying RPG progression). They're Embraced right at the beginning of the game, and even by the end, a few months at most have come to pass. That's practically a newborn by vampiric standards, yet they have potentially mastered Disciplines that would usually take decades to master, and can earn the genuine respect of many of their elders. To boot, they can land themselves a cushy position as Sheriff (basically second-in-command to the Prince) for Strauss, should they side with him. Likewise, they can earn second-in-command to Nines (or at the very least, gaining some sort of figurehead status or Barony) within the LA Anarchs, should they side with them.
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Improbable Age / int_fcf34eec	comment	Full Metal Panic!: Sousuke Sagara is 16 at the beginning of the series, but he's already a fearsomely skilled sergeant in a paramilitary organization, although this is explained by a history as a Child Soldier in Afghanistan; its also a way to logically hang around the schoolgirl-aged Chidori. The series milks a lot of both comedy and drama from the fact that Sousuke has no skills whatsoever beyond what is necessary to survive in a warzone, and is completely out of his depth in any non-combat situation. The series also pulls no punches in showing exactly what kind of childhood makes someone a fully trained bodyguard and mech pilot at age 16. His commander, Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa, is about the same age and has her position almost solely by virtue of the bizarre racial memory gift possessed by those called The Whispered, which meant that she designed the submarine. Sousuke's colleague Kurz Weber also qualifies, though not to quite the same extreme as Sousuke and Tessa; he's only nineteen at the start of the series and the Light Novels eventually reveal that he began training as a sniper at the age of about fifteen.
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Improbable Age / int_fd281c4b	comment	Star Trek: Armada: Sela, who is in her 20s, is made admiral in spite of her failures in the TV series.
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Improbable Age / int_fd289bb0	comment	Revolution: In the episode "The Stand", Danny Matheson uses a rocket launcher to blow a helicopter to oblivion. This is made more remarkable by the fact that he is only 18 or 19 years old, and has never had occasion to use a weapon like that in his life.
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Improbable Age / int_fe92b338	comment	The sequel continues the trend with Julius being a top agent for Spirius at age 28 and supplementary materials reveals he's been active since he was a preteen. Jude now has a medical degree and is the top researcher for spyrites...one whole year later from the first game.
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Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Big Blue / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Cupcake & Dino: General Services / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Jane and the Dragon / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Legend of the Dragon / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Martin Morning / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Monster Buster Club / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Mr. Peabody & Sherman / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Sally Bollywood / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Son of Batman / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Team Umizoomi / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
The Legend of the Titanic / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Work It Out Wombats! / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Beth Phoenix (Wrestling) / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
British Strong Style (Wrestling) / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Future GPX Cyber Formula / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Irresponsible Captain Tylor / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Starshine Pretty Cure (Fanfic) / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Transformers Alter Verse / Fan Fic / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Remnants / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Pound Puppies (1980s) / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age

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