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The Jailbait Wait

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The Jailbait Wait	comment	An older character holds back from romantically/sexually pursuing someone younger until the latter reaches a specific age at which point they're considered an adult. 18 is the most common in American media, but it can be older or younger depending on the jurisdiction and time period. The reason could be based on local laws, or because the elder of the two wants to stick to a personal moral code. Because even if the legal age of consent is lower than the age of adulthood, it is such a moral gray area that most people in this position prefer to wait until their crush is 100% considered an adult before pursuing them, to eliminate any possible ethical concerns. The delay is solely and explicitly because of the age of the younger character. Because of the association between marriage and sex, choosing not to attempt marriage until the chosen age also qualifies as an example. See Jailbait Taboo for discussions of the taboo surrounding an older character dating a character below a certain age. This page mentions Hollywood Provincialism five thousand times, because most things filmed in Hollywood rely on California's age of consent, 18. In other states, let alone other countries, the age of consent can be a year or two younger, or even much younger. It should also be emphasized that lower ages of consent were created primarily to avoid hassling teenagers for being in relationships with other teenagers, not adults. Examples often overlap with Age-Gap Romance (two characters in different stages of life, such as adolescence and adulthood), Old Man Marrying a Child (marriage between an elderly man and a very young girl) and Wife Husbandry (an older character is a guardian or parental figure who explicitly grooms the younger character for a later romantic relationship). Contrast Ephebophile (someone who doesn't necessarily wait for legal age) and Precocious Crush (a younger character is sexually/romantically attracted to an older character — usually a one-sided attraction). May relate to Bittersweet 17. noreallife
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The Jailbait Wait / int_135f97c9	comment	In Emma, Mr. Knightley confesses that he's been in love with Emma since she was thirteen (at which time he was in his mid-twenties). Given that young women could marry as young as fifteen in Regency times, it's more of a surprise that he actually waited until she was twenty-one to act on his feelings.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_192c0bd6	comment	In The Dreamer, Alan waits for Bea to be of proper age before he can court her.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_1a21786a	comment	Played with in Advice and Trust. Asuka and Shinji were already having sex beforehand, but Misato made them wait until Asuka's fifteenth birthday after she found out about their Secret Relationship (since making them wait until they were 18 when they were already being forced to serve as Child Soldiers wouldn't exactly be fair).
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The Jailbait Wait / int_1cc03d26	comment	Justified in the Morganville Vampires series. Shane insists on waiting the few months until Claire is legal, but they're no more than a year apart.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_21b21f35	comment	BoJack Horseman: In the episode "Escape from L.A.", BoJack is hit on by Charlotte's daughter Penny, who tells hm that having intercourse wouldn't be bad because 17 is the age-of-consent in New Mexico. BoJack at first doesn't go along with it due to moral reasons, but his emotional instability after being rejected by Charlotte makes him reconsider. Charlotte stops him just in time.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_2275c659	comment	House: In an episode, a 17-year-old is smitten with House and gives him a calendar counting down the days 'til she's 18. In another episode House snarks that no one can touch a supermodel patient for three years because she's 15. Both being examples of the aforementioned Hollywood Provincialism since the age of consent in New Jersey is 16.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_22a69b0b	comment	MADtv had some fun with this trope: One sketch parodied an Olsen Twins movie featured their male costars counting down until the twins' birthday, taking numbers to determine the order they'd take their turn "befriending" them. "I'm Not A Child," parody of "Not a Girl (Not Yet a Woman)" by Britney Spears, went all out with the fact that Britney is now an adult that viewers can fantasize about without shame.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_23185c00	comment	Explicitly stated in the episode of Taken when Dr Chet Wakeman and Mary Crawford do it the day she turned 18.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_25f6f1a0	comment	In Umineko: When They Cry, Battler several times makes passes at Maria and promises to make good on them when she's old enough. How serious he was is a subject to debate, but Maria gladly and without hesitation takes his offers as sincere.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_26744f7f	comment	The title and chorus of "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" by Neil Diamond seem to indicate this but the verses don't mention it.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_289bf65	comment	Played with in Zombieland Saga: Revenge. Saki confesses her crush on radio host White Ryu, who gently turns her down but tells her to come back once she has grown into a young woman. The twist is that Saki is secretly a zombie, who died as a teenager but is actually closer to forty. Being a zombie, she will remain physically a teenager forever, a fact that briefly drives her to despair.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_2ba48a26	comment	In one episode of Castle, the eponymous character makes the paper as one of New York's most eligible bachelors. Not only does basically every woman they meet in the episode feel the need to comment on it, but his teenage daughter comes home with several requests. After she mentions one elderly teacher- "Too old?"- she mentions that one of her classmates is also interested, and she'll be eighteen in a few months. Castle isn't interested though.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_2cef2efc	comment	Comin' Round the Mountain: Played for laughs with the "You're 40, She's 10" routine, featured in this movie when Al asks Wilbert how long he has to wait for Matt to be his age before marrying:
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The Jailbait Wait / int_2e621178	comment	In The Good Wife, Alicia's 15-year-old daughter is found to be on a list of hottest politician's daughters. Said list notes Illinois has an age of consent of only 17 and suggest people start their countdown clocks.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_2f1032e5	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, McGillis Fareed is betrothed to his friend's nine-year-old sister. While she definitely seems excited about this, to his credit McGillis doesn't seem very pervy about this, basically acting polite and stoic as usual.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_31508337	comment	The marriage between 50-year-old Steven Steel and 14-year-old Lucy Pendleton in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run is treated as Squick by most characters, until it's revealed that Steven only married her that early to save her from being sold into prostitution, and they're just friends.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_318b09a0	comment	Played with in The Inheritance Cycle with a Mayflyâ€“December Romance. The human teenager Eragon crushes on the hundred-year-old elf Arya, and she eventually says she'll consider it in a decade or two, since even if he'll live as long as her as a Dragon Rider, he's still not old enough right now.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_32318e9a	comment	In Roseanne, when Becky marries Mark, Dan is furious and thinks about calling the cops and getting the marriage annulled because Becky was only 17 and Mark was over 18, but Roseanne talks him out of it because she'll just run off and do it again in a few months when she turns 18. The age of consent in Illinois is 17.note However, because Mark was an adult, she would have had to get her parents' permission, an oversight by the writers.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_32625652	comment	Dance in the Vampire Bund: We see a variant with the Royal Three. It is not that Dukes Ivanovic, Li, and Rozenmann are waiting for Mina to become legal (she is at least 80 years past that point) so much as for her to become pubescent. A straight example is used later on between Mina and Akira during the former's Lotus-Eater Machine-induced no-supernatural-creatures dream sequence in volume six.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_33a61b13	comment	In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colonel Aureliano Buendia falls in love with Remedios Moscote when she's only about nine or so, but waits to marry her on her father's prompting until she reaches puberty— when, in fact, she's still only about fourteen....
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The Jailbait Wait / int_33acebd8	comment	Referenced in Jam Kuradoberi's win quote against Bridget in Guilty Gear XX: Upon finding out that Bridget's a guy, she suggests that he come see her again in five years. This gag gets a Call-Back in the above's Spiritual Successor, Blazblue, where Kagura Mutsuki tells Platinum the same thing after defeating her.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_34cb583d	comment	Inverted in Barbie in the Pink Shoes. When Kristyn reveals that she is 17, the response is "well, better late than never."
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The Jailbait Wait / int_35c6bff9	comment	Legacy of the Dragokin: Lydia tells Benji to wait until he's eighteen to start a relationship with her because he's ten and she's much older than that. Sex is not mentioned or even alluded to, making this a G-rated Puppy Love example.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_3651bc0c	comment	In The Princess and the Frog: Played for Laughs and most likely not seriously. For context, Charlotte is obsessed with marrying a prince, but just gave up the chance with one her own age.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_36857000	comment	Discussed in Hard Candy, where 32-year-old Jeff hits on allegedly 14-year-old Hayley.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_394c9c8e	comment	In The Wolfhound: Little Doe gets a Precocious Crush and essentially engages herself with the titular hero in the very first book when she's 12, and Wolfhound is 23. Through the course of the series, Wolfhound considers himself duly engaged and having also taken a shine to the girl, patiently waits for the circumstances to let them be together. Little Doe on her part has to hold against the pressure of her domineering mother to marry into their neighbor clan, until she runs away with her male friend in a similar predicament and his girlfriend. It's implied that Wolfhound and Little Doe finally get together after the last book when they are 19 and 30, respectively. On the other hand, Tilorn and Niilith marry basically right away, when Tilorn is in his thirties and Niilith is 15.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_3af6f979	comment	In A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Ben and Francie meet when he is eighteen and she is fifteen. By the end of the book she is almost seventeen.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_3d0e59ba	comment	MotÃ¶rhead's "Jailbait". Although by the end the narrator seems to think it's worth the risk... A concert promoter once asked Lemmy if he'd sign an autograph for his daughter. Lemmy asked how old the daughter was. Promoter said "three." Lemmy wrote:
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The Jailbait Wait / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed as a last resort in the Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures episode "Cyberswitch". When Jeremiah Surd's plan to kill Dr. Quest by swapping bodies with Race Bannon gets foiled, he settles for hijacking the teen-aged Jonny's body instead, with the assurance that his lover and accomplice Julia would be willing to wait for him to age up. Mercifully, Jonny defeats Surd in Questworld, rendering that plan pointless.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_3e6269af	comment	Real Genius:
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The Jailbait Wait / int_3e9e3f22	comment	Played for drama in Broadchurch. One of the characters had previously been arrested for underage sex with one of his students, aged 15 years and 11 months. (They would later marry.) He laments that if they'd just waited four weeks everything would have been fine.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files has Molly Carpenter invoke this on herself in her POV short story, Bombshells - she was Dresden's apprentice and had a whacking great crush on him from childhood. He took her on at 17 and dealt with her promptly coming onto him strong by dumping a pitcher of ice water on her head and gently informing her that that wasn't happening. Ever. While aware that she was very attractive, he was disgusted by the very idea - he's known her since she was little kid, and as Molly observes, her father is a) his best friend, b) the uncle he never had. He thought it was over and done with and remained oblivious while she decided to wait. By the time she's in her mid-twenties and he's in his late thirties, and she's no longer really his apprentice, he tacitly concedes that it's not impossible, eventually - though he's in love with someone else and she becomes the Winter Lady shortly after, meaning she Can't Have Sex, Ever without crippling the other participant.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_4416f956	comment	Treading Ground makes it explicit. In fact, it supplies the image for this trope. It also deconstructs the trope. Nate later discovers that the legal age of consent in South Carolina (where the story is taking place) would have made Rose at the age of consent from the moment he met her. Much later, they discuss the effects of being raised by popular media, complete with a name drop for SoCalization, then-trope-name for Hollywood Provincialism.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children had a meta-example with Kelly. Since Christina Applegate was a minor in the show's first three seasons, the live studio audience kept their wolf whistles to a minimum, and her taste in clothing was relatively modest despite screaming "trashy 80's girl." But once Applegate turned 18, the show blatantly made Kelly into Ms. Fanservice and the audience responded in kind.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_46474074	comment	Wonder Girl (Infinite Frontier): Played for Horror as this is a particularly horrifying example. It's revealed that Eros knew Yara ever since she was a child because he was the one who murdered her mother and led the siege that slaughtered her tribe. All so that he could have her all to himself as the perfect wife once Yara was finally of age.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_4ab17360	comment	Inuyasha has several examples. Inverted with Ayame, who is the jailbait who received a Childhood Marriage Promise from Kouga, but she waits until She's All Grown Up to seek him out and take him up on the offer. There's also a bunch of girls Miroku asks out, including one who was 11 years old who he promised to meet again when she was older. Interestingly, after 4 years they meet again and she tries to take him up on the offer noting how she's become much more mature in the time. Miroku is notably shocked (he had forgotten) while Kagome mentally notes how awesome girls in this time period are.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_4bb90246	comment	Zig-zagged in Sengoku Rance. Rance is very specifically not a pedophile, so he decides he'll wait for Kouhime to grow up before making a move, quote: "Hm, I think I should give her 5 years. [looks at her again] Eh, make that 3 years I guess." As they grow into a more brother/sister dynamic, it just becomes a joke between Rance and Nobunga, Kouhime's brother: Rance implies he's waiting for Kou to grow up, Nobunga cheerfully says he won't allow it, and Kou is confused. One of the first things that clues Rance into the fact that Nobunga is possessed is he jokes that he's going to take Kou's virginity... and Nobunga is suddenly fine with it.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_4dd3bd93	comment	Played with in Waiting..., which has nothing to do with this trope otherwise. Ryan Reynolds' character has a thing for underage girls and spends most of the movie flirting hard with the seventeen-year-old hostess of the restaurant. In the end, as part of general Character Development for all the cast, Reynolds' character insists on waiting until the hostess' eighteenth birthday for them to do the deed.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_50bcf7a6	comment	An (exaggerated) older-female younger-male example occurs in Homestuck, in which Vriska's ancestor Marquise Spinneret Mindfang has used a magic cue ball in order to see that the person who will kill her, The Summoner, will also be her lover. Due to the way trolls work, at the point she learns this, he hasn't even been born yet.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_50e2e357	comment	Common trope in Star Trek (2009) fanfiction regarding Pavel Chekov. Who is, as he loves to remind us, only seventeen. Which actually means that he's completely legal at home in Russia, where the age of consent is 16.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_51c94bd1	comment	Used sinisterly in Yuureitou. Marube makes it clear he is waiting for his eighteen-year-old daughter to turn twenty so he can rape her.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_5562da6a	comment	On 3rd Rock from the Sun, Dick mentioned that a French film released years ago was finally coming out in the U.S. because "they had to wait until the actress was of legal age."note Note that in Real Life, the only thing that would actually matter is the actress' age at the time of filming.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_585e3746	comment	Big ended with this possibility being mentioned, as Tom Hanks' character was returning back to his 13-year-old body, thus ending his romance with Elizabeth Perkins.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_58808436	comment	In Higurashi: When They Cry, Dr. Irie says he's waiting for the 9-13 year old Satoko to become older. How serious he was when he said he wanted to marry her is a matter of debate, though the series implies he really only sees her as a daughter figure.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_58feb3ca	comment	In Maoyu, Demon King knew about Yuusha since the day he was born. She loved him since that day and waited until he grew up to ask him to be hers.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_5921531a	comment	In Persona 3 Portable, Ken Amada asks the Female Protagonist to do this when he realizes that he can't be her ideal man while he's still a child. However, in the original Japanese version, he still gets the "You spent a long time" phrase when maxing out the social link. The English version edits it slightly in order avoid controversy. Note that this is a Mature-rated game already.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5: If you successfully romance Kawakami, then at the end of the game, before you leave town, she tells you to return after graduation so they can rekindle the relationship without any problems. As with Ken Amada above, that doesn't prevent her (or any of the other romanceable women) from "spending a long time" with you.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_5a967b0	comment	Junsui Adolescence is about a Teacher/Student Romance involving a School Nurse and a high school girl. It's clear at the end Matsumoto wants to have sex with Nanao but she decides to wait longer.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_5af707ee	comment	In the Home Movies: Episode "School Nurse," Nurse Kirkman, having been soured by an earlier date with Coach McGuirk, tells Jason (who has made clear his Precocious Crush on her) that she would like to be his girlfriend, but not until he turns 30. Jason realizes that she'll be in her 60s by that time, and he quickly loses interest. In the episode "Class Trip," 38-year old McGuirk states that "it would be wrong" to get involved with a coworker, specifically, his ditzy young supervisor at the coffee shop.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_5ba6595e	comment	In an episode of Reno 911!!, the deputies appeared in a commercial for a pocket guide to the various U.S. states' legal age of consent.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_5c66fff9	comment	Neverwinter Nights 2 features a druid stalker who seems to have been watching the player since he was a child. Potential differing races and aging rates combined with different interpretations of some vague dialogue could make this much less creepy by way of putting a teenage elf to work keeping an eye on another teenage elf, who she develops a crush on; the timeline in Neverwinter Nights 2 and the age of puberty of elves in Forgotten Realms can be inconsistent.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_5ee2a942	comment	In the Black Jewels series, Daemon and Jaenelle meet when he's 1,700 and she's 12. However, circumstances keep them apart until she's 25 and he's ... still a hell of a lot older.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_5f21740b	comment	In My Love Story!!, Suna's older sister Ai was silently attempting this with his best friend Takeo. She's three years older than the two of them and was hoping Takeo would still be single by the time he started college. She's completely dismayed when she finds out that someone actually beat her to the punch, but relents once she realizes that Takeo and Yamato are completely smitten with each other.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_61d3b6b8	type	The Jailbait Wait
The Jailbait Wait / int_61d3b6b8	comment	This is alluded to with one couple that appears in Fly Me to the Moon. The main couple, actually. They agree to get married when he is sixteen but then she disappears until his eighteenth birthday. It's explained that that's when they can get legally married, but considering The Reveal that she's over a hundred there may have been a second reason...
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The Jailbait Wait / int_64ff8c3	comment	CinemaSins: The first few Harry Potter movies got a sin for "Hermione isn't old enough to be hot yet." One of the later ones got "Hermione has to be old enough to be hot now. Right?"
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The Jailbait Wait / int_696b75c2	type	The Jailbait Wait
The Jailbait Wait / int_696b75c2	comment	Subverted in A Brother's Price. Jerin fears he will be married off to the not particularly attractive Brindle sisters (his people practice polygyny), and tries to comfort himself with the thought that at least the younger ones are not of age, so it will be years before he has to service all thirty of them.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_6c39a620	comment	Ascendance of a Bookworm: To get proper treatment for her Devouring, seven-year-old Freida has agreed to become The Mistress to a nobleman. The nobleman however isn't expecting her to move into his estate until she has her adulthood ceremony at age fifteen, which the age at which people are allowed to get married in the setting. One of the characters is sixteen and in love with a woman a few years younger than him, so he's waiting for her to reach marriage age when introduced. In the capital city, all marriages are celebrated during a single yearly festival in the summer. There are also four seasonal coming of age ceremonies in which all children born during that season fifteen years ago legally become adults. The seasonal coming of age for people born in the summer comes after the festival with the marriage ceremony, which can be frustrating if at least the youngest half of a couple is born in the summer.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_6cb2d709	comment	Appears in modified form in the Harry Potter fanfic Backward With Purpose, an AU in which Harry, Ron, and Ginny travel back in time to prevent the gruesome deaths of their friends and family. Only their minds travel back in time so that they wake up as 11-year-olds with adult minds. Harry and Ginny are married and the fact that they have the minds of sexually-active married adults but the bodies of prepubescent children is a source of great tension (and is a recurring issue throughout the story).
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The Jailbait Wait / int_6f76d71a	comment	The Sims: The Sims 2 has a sort-of version of this. Teen sims can have romantic relationships with other Teen sims (although they cannot WooHoo), but cannot have romantic relationships with Young Adult, Adult or Elder sims. When one of the Teen sims Grows Up, the game will automatically turn their relationship into a platonic one. If you want them to stay together, you have to wait until the other Teen sim Grows Up and then rekindle their romance from scratch. This gets annoying since sims only age if you play them, so if you want a teen romance to keep going, you have to juggle the families to keep both sims at relatively the same age, or else one will outage the other. This is even worse if your sim romanced an NPC teen, since NPCs never age, and so the relationship is doomed. Until The Sims 2 University came out, that is... The "Send Sims to College" option can be used to instantly age up any Teen NPC in a town to a Young Adult and turn them into a playable character in the process. An even later expansion (Free Time) adds a prompt whenever a playable sim ages up that enables up to three sims in their age range to age up as well. This can even be used to age Townies and other NPCs your sims have relationships with, fixing the problem with romancing NPC teens. In The Sims 3, the same rules apply regarding the interactions between Teens and Young Adults. Interestingly, there seem to be more than just a few mods that actually make it possible for adults to flirt with teens.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_72262aee	comment	This is a point in the Avatar: The Last Airbender fic People In The Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear. Zuko hurriedly mentions that he'll be sixteen in two months (sixteen being the age of legal majority in the Fire Nation), and the result is both funny and sad.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_7460586f	comment	In the season two premiere of Archer, the title character meets a very flirtatious rich girl who turns out to only be 15. Archer, in a rare show of sexual scruples, refuses to sleep with anyone underage, despite the age of consent in her country being 14 but tells her to look him up when she's legal. Even more surprising when he susses out that she's an Unexpected Virgin who's just trying to get noticed.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_78956c00	comment	In My Wife is a High School Girl, High-schooler Asami marries her physics teacher Kyosuke, but Asami's father forces them to sign a contract that forbids them from having sex until Asami graduates high school or else the marriage is null-and-void. Incidentally, most of the Unresolved Sexual Tension that results is on Asami's side.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_792239e5	comment	In Tales of Symphonia, Handsome Lech Zelos is caught being nice to a little girl, and claims that it's 'so she'll remember him fondly in fifteen years or so'. This is probably part of his Obfuscating Stupidity persona, though.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: The slumlord Sebia is stated to have been keeping Sheryl as his favorite while he waited for her charms to grow with age before making her his mistress. Akira kills Sebia in self-defense before that could happen, but Sheryl's close ties to Sebia result in nobody being willing to associate with her in case it'd make them a target of Akira's revenge, causing Sheryl to turn to Akira himself for safety.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_7c6649d2	comment	In The Host (2008) Jared refused to sleep with Melanie until she turned eighteen. Wanderer took note of this, and lied about her age so that Ian wouldn't have the same scruple.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_7ed8cbe2	comment	In the To Ride Pegasus series by Anne McCaffrey, Sasha (who is in his thirties) is patiently waiting for Tirla (who is approximately 12) to grow up. It's definitely mutual. They marry on her sixteenth birthday (the minimum legal age to do so in their society), and it's implied that it was Tirla who was pushing to get married so quickly.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_7f640c58	comment	The Sims 2 has a sort-of version of this. Teen sims can have romantic relationships with other Teen sims (although they cannot WooHoo), but cannot have romantic relationships with Young Adult, Adult or Elder sims. When one of the Teen sims Grows Up, the game will automatically turn their relationship into a platonic one. If you want them to stay together, you have to wait until the other Teen sim Grows Up and then rekindle their romance from scratch. This gets annoying since sims only age if you play them, so if you want a teen romance to keep going, you have to juggle the families to keep both sims at relatively the same age, or else one will outage the other. This is even worse if your sim romanced an NPC teen, since NPCs never age, and so the relationship is doomed.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_7f640c59	comment	In The Sims 3, the same rules apply regarding the interactions between Teens and Young Adults. Interestingly, there seem to be more than just a few mods that actually make it possible for adults to flirt with teens.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_7f6eb95d	comment	Not mentioned in Romeo and Juliet but still present. Juliet is betrothed to marry Paris at the age of thirteen. While young marriages like this were common in those days, they would have to wait a few years before the marriage would be consummated (if only for the sake of preserving Juliet's chances of producing heirs; when Paris says "younger than she are happy mothers made", Juliet's father replies "and too soon marred"). Doubly so, since Paris is implied to be several years older than her. But of course, she does it with Romeo - who is closer to her age.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_8075edc8	comment	Happens in an episode of Brickleberry when Woody meets an extremely attractive 17-year old during a summer camp that the park is hosting, leading to him desperately trying to avoid sleeping with her until her 18th birthday a few days later. After she turns legal and they have sex, it's implied that the girl is actually Woody's daughter by one of his old girlfriends, which neither of them knew, leading to a horrified Woody screaming in rage at his dick.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_81202666	comment	In Chainsaw Man, Ethical Slut Himeno ends up doing this for both Denji and Aki, coming onto them but pulling back after finding out they're minors. In Denji's case she gets herself drunk enough to stop caring and basically kidnaps him, but he doesn't go through with it because of his feelings for Makima.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_84823809	comment	Kaeloo: In Episode 191, Stumpy, a ten-year-old, is magically turned into an adult and realizes that he will have to wait several more years until his girlfriend becomes old enough for their relationship to be legal again.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_85a3d596	comment	This seems to be the case in The Sandlot, as the narrator (Older Scott Smalls) states that his friend Squints eventually married Wendy Peffercorn, the teenage lifeguard.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_86814e56	comment	In the English-language translation of Final Fantasy VI, the precocious young Relm briefly flirts with Edgar, who seems visibly disturbed... until he tells her to come see him in a couple of years. This is a change from the original Japanese version, in which upon learning that she's only ten, he comments that he needs to get a hold of himself or it's going to be a crime.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_86950a2f	comment	Sensei wa Koi o Oshierarenai is about a Student/Teacher Romance between Japanese Literature teacher Rinko Yoshitaka and her 17 year old student Ryo Arase. While they have agreed to start dating as of the start of the series, Rinko is determined not to kiss or have sex until he turns 20.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_88b348e8	comment	Lord Archive subverts the Cardcaptor Sakura trope with mentions in his fic Be Careful What You Wish For. with the third-grader aged up considerably, but not enough. She even mentions they have been trying to get pregnant, even though she's only thirteen.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_893bb4c1	comment	Million Yen Women has Shin forced to live with five women he doesn't know. One of the titular women is actually a seventeen-year-old high-schooler. She's the one to make a move on him, but instead of asking him if he's interested in immediate sex, she asks him if he'll be interested if she gets in the mood after turning eighteen. Ironically, the legal age of consent in Japan as stated in the country's criminal code is thirteen, the eighteen years figure featuring only in a Children Welfare Act, which is a sort of bylaw. This creates a large legal grey area, where the sex with the 13-to-18 minors is not a crime but only a misdemeanor, not to mention the enforcement being quite spotty.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_8ba4613a	comment	In the Death Note AU Change of Circumstances Light assumes that this would be his present from L on his 18th birthday. L was clueless. Hilarity Ensues.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_8caa06fa	comment	In Sabrina Online, during her Flash Forward dream sequence, Sabrina sees Tabitha drooling over Timothy. At that point in the story, Tabitha is around 20, while Tim is 16. Tabitha says she's more than willing to wait for him to be legal.note The age of consent in Ohio, where the comic is set, is indeed 16. But she'd still have to deal with his parents, Amy and Thomas.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_8d84a932	comment	Soap: Billy has an affair with his teacher, but they wait until his 18th birthday before she gives him her "present." She also quit her job so they could be together without any ethical problems.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_8e7e0721	comment	"House of Fun" by Madness is a comedy number about a boy trying to buy condoms on his sixteenth birthday (the age of consent in the UK), although it doesn't state whether he has someone specific who's been waiting, or if he's just hopeful.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_8ec954bf	comment	In Great Greed, the King offers you the hand of any of his daughters in marriage. Should you choose Princess Cup Cake, who is only eleven, he says you'll have to wait until she's of age before you can marry her.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_93683e89	comment	Done rather adorably in a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch where a suspicious policeman knocks on the window of a parked car and ask how old the occupants are. The boy in the front seat says he's seventeen. The cop asks if the girl knitting in the back is sixteen, and he checks his watch and says, "Not yet... in about ten minutes."note Harsher in Hindsight, as Chris Langham, who played the policeman in this sketch, was later busted for being in possesion of under-age pornography.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_95bd5a8e	comment	Alluded to with Corvo and Jessamine in Dishonored. Jessamine selected Corvo as her bodyguard when they were twelve and nineteen, respectively. They became lovers once Jessamine turned eighteen. The trope is somewhat subverted in that Jessamine, as Empress, had all of the power in the relationship despite the age difference.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia: Played for Laughs when pro heroine Pixiebob "calls dibs" on Midoriya, Bakugo, Iida, and Todoroki "in three years". Upon meeting her for the first time, Mineta claims that he looks forward to meeting Eri in 10 years, (even though he would be 25-26 while Eri would be 16 at that point).
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The Jailbait Wait / int_98fb7440	comment	In Beautiful Girls, Marty tells Willie to wait 5 years until she's 18. He turns her down but very sweetly...
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The Jailbait Wait / int_99a4e164	comment	Played with in Stoker. Charlie is rather obsessed with his niece India, but as he points out to her mother, she's already eighteen by the time they meet. Turns out, he's been infatuated with her for years, but he deliberately waited until she was already technically of age by the time they meet. This is mostly due to this trope, but also possibly to avoid the Westermarck Effect.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_9a14c430	comment	Happens twice in His and Her Circumstances. The first is comparatively normal, between Maho and Takashi. But the second, between Asaba and his "soul mate" Sakura, is extremely Squicky due to the fact he's been one of her father figures since birth. Made hilarious since he wants to back out because her confession creeped him out and is convincing himself he loves her like a "Father". Unfortunately for him, she's having none of that.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_9ab32c13	comment	In Pony POV Series, it is briefly mentioned at times that Princess Luna is waiting for Pipsqueak to grow up so she can make him her consort.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_9b530c26	comment	An issue of Archie Comics takes place a couple of centuries in the future, and Archie helps Betty babysit her young cousin. Among the cool devices they have in the future is a mirror that can show what you'd look like at any age. The cousin uses it to show what she will look like when she is sixteen, and Archie quips that he might just put himself into cryo-freeze to wait until then.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: A vast majority of marriages among the nobility assume an age of consent of sixteen, give or take, with early twenties being looked on as Old Maid in the making and hitting puberty being a good baseline in a pinch. Queen Margaery Tyrell (16) is waiting for the day she can bed her husband, King Tommen Baratheon (8). Played with in that she's much more interested in the political aspects than any sort of sexual desire. In the meantime, she's getting him wrapped around her little finger. This one was arranged, with Margaery's hand being the price for the Tyrells' continued support of the throne. The rule regarding marriages in this setting is that they can be set aside so long as they haven't been consummated. So it's the Tyrells who are eagerly counting down the years for the Rose's flower to be plucked, as that would cement Margaery's queenship when Tommen comes of age, while Tommen's mother Cersei is so paranoid about the expanding Tyrell power in the royal court that she spends much of the fourth book searching for and manufacturing evidence of Margaery's infidelity so as to dissolve the marriage. As far as the two lovebirds themselves are concerned, they seem to get along well, with Tommen looking up to Margaery like a Cool Big Sis. Much angst goes into Sansa Stark having her period at age twelve, as that means she can be wedded and bedded by King Joffrey. One off-screen Arranged Marriage involves a teenage Lannister cousin (The son of Tywin's brother) taking control of a minor house by marrying its sole surviving heiress, who happens to be an infant. When he goes missing and is presumed dead, there's a bit of Gallows Humor about how the little lady is the first bride in the Seven Kingdoms to be wed and widowed before she'd been weaned.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Subverted in the case of Vander Decken IX and Princess Shirahoshi in One Piece. The Stalker with a Crush first noticed Shirahoshi when she was six years old, but Decken had no interest in marrying a six-year-old. One of his crew suggested that if he got a certain magical artifact held by the royal family, he could magically age Shirahoshi to his preferred age and it would be a better, if weird, sort of sped-up of Wife Husbandry. note It isn't specified if the magic gadget speeds up mental aging well. Interestingly, he doesn't want to marry her for love, but because Shirahoshi has the power to control Sea Kings (basically sea monsters like giant sharks). Though he does go through the Jail Bait Wait simply because she's kept away from him for all that time.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_9eddb2fb	comment	In Incorruptible, Max Damage breaks off his relationship with his sidekick Jailbait (who picked her codename entirely on purpose) after his Heelâ€“Face Turn, citing this reason.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_a1f4d0da	comment	Mentioned, if not seen directly, in the first The Fast and the Furious movie. When Mia is telling Brian about the ins and outs of the relationships among her friends and family, she summarizes her brother and his girlfriend's relationship thusly:
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The Jailbait Wait / int_a39dcffa	comment	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (when she appears at the Yule Ball):
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The Jailbait Wait / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order: After a series of failed arranged marriages between the Violet Family and Goldie Family, the two patriarchs decide to arrange a marriage between their youngest children, Cain Violet and Laurie Goldie. Cain is at high school age, whereas Laurie is still a young child, although Cain's mental age is very close to Laurie's age. Since the most important part for the two families' alliance is the engagement itself, not the marriage, the marriage won't happen until Laurie has come of age and they can reconsider the engagement when that time comes. We later learn that Cain has pretended to be mentally handicapped and is fully aware of what's happening around him. After witnessing his mother's suicide and learning about the story behind it, he decides to go through the engagement to change both families for the better.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_a56c4b90	comment	Curse of Strahd: Something Strahd has to do a lot; the titular vampire has spent centuries chasing the various reincarnations of his beloved Tatiana, after the original committed suicide to escape him. The curse in question is that he always fails, with every reincarnation dying before he can successfully "woo" her, and forcing him to try again in a generation or so. In the event that he finds her latest life when she's still a child, however, he won't act beyond keeping a close eye on her.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_a7eedc	comment	The Ancient Magus' Bride: Chise is fifteen at the start of the story while Elias is hundreds of years old or more. However, while Chise is technically his betrothed, Elias does not appear to engage in sexual activity with her.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_ac1c4b02	comment	In Strange Days, one of the ways in which A/B/O society is weird is that children (even potential future children) can be betrothed. Nothing physical happens, but everyone involved understands what's going to happen in the future.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_ac1f3601	comment	In FAKE, Carol promises to go on a date with Dee in five years (when she turns 18). However, she later cancels because she's going out with Bikky. (The whole thing was a joke meant to tease Bikky in the first place since Dee only has eyes for Ryo.)
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The Jailbait Wait / int_ac2026ad	comment	A declared example from Gals! are Yamato Kotobuki and Miyu Yamazaki: they have been together since Miyu was 14, but, with Yamato already being a cop at the time, they decided to wait until marriage, and are still of this opinion when they get officially engaged (Miyu is 16, by then). The manga ends with Yamato's family springing a surprise marriage on them.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_ac31ac98	comment	Scary Gary: Inverted. When Leopold tells Beatrice that he will not date her or anything because she is a child, her takeaway is that she just needs to wait a few years and then she can marry him.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_ac4b6a62	comment	In Questionable Content, Steve was dating Ellen and got freaked out when he heard she was underaged; he's 24 and had assumed the age gap was a lot smaller (she entered college a year early). When she turned legal age (the following Tuesday), they locked themselves in their bedroom for a day.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_ac7fd385	comment	Played with in Hatoful Boyfriend. Yuuya points out that birds can reach sexual maturity in a year, implying that age-of-consent is a non-issue for them. This makes the human protagonist the only underaged member of the cast, despite Ryouta's route saying that she's chronologically far older than most of her love interests. Long story short, Kazuaki's route ends with him promising to wait until the heroine is older.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_ac94b9f0	comment	Meg's Boyfriend: While Meg and Zack start dating when she's 17 and he's 20, they at first promise not to have sex until she's 18 (Though read below at the Family Guy section for inconsistencies with the real-life Rhode Island's age of consent). Subverted Meg decides that she wants to have sex anyway.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_ad03630e	comment	The film Blank Check has a bit at the end where the thirteen-year-old protagonist asks the woman he has been pursuing for the film when he might see her again. She says to give her a call in ten years (though he argues her down to six). Then she kisses him (as in, an actual kiss on the lips).
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The Jailbait Wait / int_ae050a9f	comment	Played with a bit in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. A young (10-12ish) Link meets the Gerudo leader, Nubile Savage Nabooru. She enlists his help, promising a reward. Once Link (around the age of 19) saves Nabooru and she becomes a sage, she says "It's a shame. If I had known you'd become such a handsome man...I would have kept my promise!"
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The Jailbait Wait / int_b0fc9724	comment	The Olsen Twins referenced this trope in their Saturday Night Live appearance the week before their actual 18th birthday.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_b25cecc	comment	In The Great Alicorn Hunt, Luna has sworn off sex after reaching the tragic end of a Mayflyâ€“December Romance until she can find a partner with a comparable life span. That was fifteen centuries ago, and she's getting desperate. When she learns that there's a new alicorn prince, she's eager to meet him - and upon doing so, learns that he's only fifteen. Then Mach demonstrates his skill at off-the-hoof romantic poetry, causing Luna to demand that he not speak to her again for six years (after being reminded that the age of consent in Phillydelphia is only eighteen, she decides to make it three).
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The Jailbait Wait / int_b2bf50e4	comment	Opie & Anthony also kept track of the Olsen twins' countdown to adulthood, albeit not daily. The twins turned 18 in-between radio gigs (fired from WNEW, and waiting to work for XM Satellite Radio). When the show finally returned, they were asked about the Olsen twins. The pair revealed that they lost interest in the twins the day they turned 18.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_b37254e7	comment	In Womb, the protagonist's boyfriend is killed in a car accident. She then gives birth to his clone. It starts out creepy and then gets even creepier when the child reaches adulthood and Mom is jealous of his girlfriend.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_b373a206	comment	In DC Comics, an alien Green Lantern named Arisia had a crush on human Green Lantern Hal Jordan. He could not reciprocate because she was only 13 years old. When her feelings for him caused her ring to age her body into adulthood, though, Hal was okay with it. Then about a decade later it was retconned into being okay when it was revealed that 13 years on Arisia's home planet was over 200 Earth years. She still acted like a kid, though and the writers never specify whether Arisia was 'old enough' by her home planet's standards. He does, however, get called on it almost immediately by basically the entire Green Lantern corps.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_b40eb913	comment	After Infinite Crisis, teenage Supergirl started a short-lived flirtatious relationship with twenty-something Anti-Villain Captain Boomerang, with no invocation in sight. Then suddenly enforced with a vengeance when, after a Journey to the Center of the Mind storyline had kept her away for a few months, Boomer, Beast Boy and every other Y-chromosome who so much as glanced at her suddenly went out of their way to confirm that they had no intention of acting upon their attraction to this stunningly hot super-babe. Must have been a few letters. That or her cousin let everyone know she was off limits, and nobody argues with the Man Of Steel.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_b5021b19	comment	In Drowning Mona, Jeff Dearly is a little too friendly with the daughter one of his and Bobby (Casey Affleck) Calzone's clients (they're landscapers). This leads to the following exchange between Bobby and Jeff:
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The Jailbait Wait / int_b5a087d7	comment	Robot Chicken: Had men counting down until the Olsen Twins were of age, then referred to the fact that the girls would never do those guys anyway. Another episode did this with Britney Spears in a parody of Citizen Kane.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_b69cc838	comment	"Wildflower" by Cee Lo Green seems to be about this:
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The Jailbait Wait / int_b7b5e290	comment	In Katherine Kurtz's In The King's Service, we learn that Jessamy MacAthan was made to marry her husband at age 11. Sief MacAthan thought waiting to consummate the marriage until Jessamy turned 12 was generous, but Queen Dulchesse pulled rank and made him wait till Jessamy turned 14.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_b99df4d7	comment	Occurs in Loveless. College-age Soubi engages in an (as of yet) unconsummated relationship with twelve-year-old Ritsuka. Dialogue suggests that Soubi intends to wait until Ritsuka is of age. Still kinda Squicky, since that doesn't stop Soubi being extremely physically affectionate with the kid. There's also a degree of Fridge Brilliance as to why Soubi's decided to wait (besides the obvious): His teacher Ritsu did not wait the wait, and the resulting sexual abuse left Soubi a very disturbed adult, so Soubi doesn't want to inflict that on Ritsuka, who already has enough problems.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_b9cf766a	comment	In Impractical Jokers, as Murr's punishment, he plays a sculptor showcasing an exhibit titled "Me, Myself, and I". The first sculpture is a countdown clock that says "Time Until Legal". This is done in front of an audience and Murr gets shot with dirty looks all around.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_bc18062d	comment	This was a long-running plot in the Emily books by Lucy Maud Montgomery (of Anne of Green Gables fame). In the first book, Emily of New Moon, Emily Starr first meets Dean Priest, a distant relative who went to school with her father, when he is 36 and she 12. On that first meeting, he explicitly tells her, "I think I'll wait for you," though Emily doesn't understand what he means. In the second book, Emily Climbs, in which Emily is an adolescent, a local man tells Emily that Dean is "just biding his time till ye get old enough for coorting," an idea Emily finds ridiculous with someone old enough to be her father. In the final book, Emily's Quest, they are engaged when Emily is about 20 or so, though she breaks it up when she realizes her feelings for her childhood friend Teddy.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_bc8b07	comment	Epic Rap Battles of History invokes this during The Incredible Hulk's rap battle against Caitlyn Jenner:
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The Jailbait Wait / int_c4076b9e	comment	In the Gunslinger Girl fic "Crossing the Bridge" by Danjo3, the SWA has been shut down and some of the cyborg girls have been adopted by their handlers. This is supposed to happen with Jose and Henrietta, but they keep finding excuses to delay the adoption for years until she turns seventeen and they hook up as girlfriend/boyfriend, with both parties swearing that nothing sexual happened before then. As Henrietta was eleven when the SWA shut down, the idea of this trope being in play severely creeps out Triela.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_c5e69cfa	comment	Subverted in Lolita, when Humbert plans to impregnate his already underage Lo so that once she gets too old for him, there'll be another one on the way.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_c6cb12e3	comment	One episode of Off Centre revolves around the main cast talking about how they lost their virginity, while Euan is waiting for his latest conquest to turn 18.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_c879d790	comment	In the Camp Camp episode "Into Town", after Max and Nikki get kicked out of a strip club (they thought it was a bakery, long story), the bouncer tells Nikki to "come back when [she's] 18."
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The Jailbait Wait / int_c954afc9	comment	In The Circumstances Leading to Waltraute's Marriage, the Valkyrie Waltraute and the human Jack Elvan are married when he completes her Engagement Challenge. As Jack is a little boy who doesn't even know about sex, Waltraute tells the others she will wait until he comes of age to consummate their marriage. Freyja snarks that such a wait is boring.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_cae652c	comment	Sort of alluded to in Hunter Ã— Hunter, where Hisoka's impatient waiting for Gon and Killua is made out to be a parallel to a hebephile waiting for his target to become legal. His wording of how he can't wait to "pluck the fruit that hasn't ripened yet" doesn't help his case. At first, he was very definitely just looking for good fights and they had potential, but after Greed Island where he unabashedly got a (speech-bubble-covered) erection after they found him bathing and ogled their butts, he's apparently equal-op. Especially remarkable in that Gon was probably aware of this (and Killua definitely was) when Gon produced a plan to win at extreme dodgeball that involved Killua being driven face-first into Hisoka's crotch. (By Gon and a super-sonic dodgeball, so mostly it's just a matter of owch, but still.) Hisoka cackled about it.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_cb7da2dd	comment	In The House in Fata Morgana, the twenty-one-year-old Jacopo falls in love with Morgana (who is a full decade younger than him), and resolves to wait until she's sixteen to confess his feelings. Word of God states that he's attracted to her soul and would have fallen for her whatever her age, form or gender. It's implied that this will repeat in their third life; this time she's already sixteen when they meet, but times have changed since their first life together in The Middle Ages, and the modern incarnation of Jacopo is just as disgusted with his own feelings for a minor.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_cec99ed9	comment	In Safehold an Arranged Marriage between Cayleb's brother Zhan and Nahrmahn's daughter Mahrya is part of the treaty where Emerald joins the Empire of Charis. However, because Zhan is still a child, the actual wedding is put off until he comes of age.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_cf2d20a8	comment	Humorously addressed in the Johnny Bravo episode "Johnny Bravo Meets Farrah Fawcett", where Johnny is bugged by Little Suzy begging that he come to her birthday party and he tries to get her off his back by telling her not to call him again until 15 years later when she is a co-ed.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_cf6f9a97	comment	City Hunter: Inverted: Ryo doesn't have the patience for it (he admitted it the one time he tried to raise a girl to fall in love with him), but there are a few little girls waiting for their eighteenth birthday before trying and jumping him... Subverted by Umibozu: upon learning of Miki, Ryo accused him of both this and Wife Husbandry, but he didn't do it. At least not on purpose.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_d1fbfbbc	comment	The Twilight Saga: The teenage wolves who imprint on a 2-year-old and a newborn. But Renesmee (said newborn) will be physically 18 in 7 years, so Jacob doesn't have as big of a problem.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_d31cdea	comment	In The Hunger Games, it turns out President Snow and the participating Capitol citizens do have certain standards (at least publicly) concerning the Victor prostitution ring, so after Finnick won at 14, "they couldn't really touch him for the first year or two. But ever since he turned sixteen..."
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The Jailbait Wait / int_d5df3db5	comment	In Lyrica, Du Mu falls in love with a girl who looks like Shiue and immediately proposes to her. When her mother objects that she's too young to be married, Du Mu promises to come back and propose to her again after 10 years. He fails to return to the girl after 10 years, and her mother marries her off to someone else.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_db30cf92	comment	In Warrior Cats, there's nothing in the Warrior Code that prevents apprentice/warrior (apprentices usually being 6-12 months old, roughly the equivalent of 11-18) romances, but it's looked down upon nevertheless. In Spottedleaf's Heart, Thistleclaw asks the apprentice-aged Spottedpaw to be his mate. She declines because of her age. Thistleclaw says that he'll wait until she's a full-grown warrior if he has to.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_dbda34c7	comment	Twenty-year-old Amira of the historical manga A Bride's Story is very fond of her husband, the twelve-year-old Karluk. While they share hugs and sleep in the same bed and generally spend quality time together, she's clearly anxious for him to grow quite a bit older before they move on to certain marital duties.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_e05681a1	comment	In Kick-Ass, Todd, Dave's lanky friend, instantly falls for Hit-Girl after seeing her slaughter several gangsters, much to Marty's disgust.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_e381e71f	comment	In the original Digimon Tamers series, there is Ship Tease between Ruki and Ryo who are both 10 and 14 respectively, although, in the Dub, Ruki is 13. In Digimon Re: Tamers within the Citadel of the Heart continuity, there's still an age difference with Ruki at 17 and Ryo at 19, and Ryo is given very strict guidelines by Ruki that Ryo is to not touch her or look at her in a sexual manner until she turns 18 in a few months. It's downplayed a little bit as Ruki allows Ryo some breathing room as to make sure she's not too strict with the guidelines; if she engages Ryo in a simple kiss, Ryo is allowed to kiss her back, but only if Ruki initiates the kiss first. When talking with Jeri about it during lunch, Ruki does admit she's perhaps being a little too harsh on Ryo and does sometimes make innocent physical moves such as hugging or cuddling to ease the tension, so long as it doesn't end up becoming sexual in nature.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_e9e265b6	comment	Fire Emblem: Awakening: Ricken is the youngest male among the Shepherds but is able to marry most of the female characters. His S support with Cordelia addresses this, by having her accept his proposal but wait until he's a little older for them to actually marry. Averted by necessity with Nowi, at least as far as looks go. She looks like a cute preteen human but is actually a manakete (a Were Dragon that can switch between humanoid and dragon form), and really over a 1000 years old, making her a preteen in Dragon years. Any partner of hers that is not nearly as long-lived would have to accept her looking like that if they want to marry and have children within their lifetime, and the game does bring it up when Nah, her daughter, wonders what her dad saw in Nowi for her to be the result.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_ea49d044	comment	In The Red Tent, Laban agrees to give Rachel in marriage to Jacob, but (per Adah's orders), they have to wait until a) Rachel menstruates and b) a customary 6 months after her first period. Only then would she be considered (in that time and place) eligible for marriage. (So the "7 years" he was to work for Laban to get her in the Biblical canon become 7 months instead.)
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The Jailbait Wait / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: In the episode "The Thin White Line" mega-pervert Quagmire asks Meg if she's 18 yet. When she says no, he quickly moves on to talk to someone else (an example of Hollywood Provincialism, since the age of consent in Rhode Island is 16). What's really bizarre about Quagmire in this case is that he's willing to have sex with underage girls, including a 12-year old crossing guard (though he claims she was Older Than They Look) and Connie D'Amico but is willing to wait for Meg. Word of God suggests that since Peter's his best friend, he respects his daughter slightly more than most women. In the episode "Barely Legal", Meg is confused about romance, as she's developed a creepy crush on Brian because he was nice to her. Quagmire advises her to come to his house so he can "set her straight". When she arrives, Quagmire puts on some romantic music, takes off his robe (revealing his tiger print banana-hammock underneath)... and gives Meg some heartfelt advice to help her work things out, before sending her home with a children's book he remembered fondly, being an almost-perfect gentleman the whole time. Go figure. In the episode "Quagmire and Meg", Meg did turn eighteen, and Quagmire was trying to seduce her from the get-go. Peter and Lois' enraged reactions at finding their daughter in a love shack with Quagmire border on the out-of-character. In the episode "Deep Throats" Meg is romantically involved with Mayor West, who has no problem waiting for Meg to turn 18, 21, or 25 (the age at which Meg could legally rent a car). note This is also incorrect; a car rental company will rent you a car if you're at least 18 and have about $5,000 in cash plus a credit card because their insurance won't cover damage to the vehicle. It's not that it's illegal to rent below 25, it's that the insurer won't cover the vehicle and someone under 25 might not be carrying insurance of their own that would cover the vehicle. In the episode "Hannah Banana" Stewie tells Brian that Miley Cyrus is sixteen, and Brian responds, "I'm eight." It turned out to be a moot point since she was actually a robot.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_eb347ec	comment	Random Harvest: Charles' 15-year-old step-niece Kitty says straight-up that she wants to marry him and asks him not to do "anything rash" over the next three years until she becomes legal.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_ef6880c5	comment	In Long Live the Queen, Elodie is fourteen at the start of the story, and many of her suitors are significantly older or several years younger than her, leading to this trope surfacing in several routes. The age of majority in Nova is fifteen, but even among the characters, it's usually considered too young for marriage. The trope is discussed most extensively in the case of twenty-six-year-old Talarist, since he is the only character who tries to court Elodie in every route of the game. Should she agree to marry him early in the story (as opposed to the final chapter), her outraged father Joslyn reminds Talarist that she is only fourteen, and Talarist assures him that he understands it will be a long betrothal and he wouldn't rush her with anything. In case Elodie marries him when she is sixteen, the epilogue makes it clear that he is "in no hurry to provide an heir for the throne". Elodie herself becomes the one to wait in case she betroths herself to twelve-year-old Adair during the game. There is an option to allow him to try to kiss her, but it results in nothing but awkwardness; so the best way to really bond with Adair is to share his interests in animals.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_f0a86c12	comment	On How I Met Your Mother, after Ted reveals that he and Victoria have decided to date for a month before having sex, Barney comments, "The only reason to wait a month for sex is if she's 17 years 11 months old." This, and the Friends example below, are examples of Hollywood Provincialism, as New York's age of consent is 17.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_f326e803	comment	In Lords of the Underworld, the protagonists occasionally comment on the obvious sexual tension between Gilly (who's either 16 or 17, depending on the chronology of a given book) and William. Most of them note including William himself are disgusted by the idea and try to prevent it, but a few distinctly immoral or alien characters don't see what the problem is: the Harpy Kaia actually refuses to sleep with William because of Gilly's "prior claim" on him.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_f5c28dbb	comment	In the 1632 series: A rather non-squicky example between Princess Kristina of Sweden (9) and Prince Ulrik of Denmark (28), who are betrothed by their parents, to be married when she grows up. Ulrik has no romantic interest in her and accepts the betrothal out of duty and political necessity. As it happened, Kristina turned out to be Wise Beyond Her Years, and Ulrik grows fond enough of her to look forward to their marriage. (His greatest fear had been being married off to a boring, unintelligent noblewoman — fortunately for him, Kristina is neither boring nor unintelligent). Also played with in the series, with Lt. Eddie Cantrell. He's all of twenty when he falls head over heels in love with the sixteen-year-old Anne Cathrine, daughter of King Christian of Denmarknote but not a princess, as her father's marriage to her mother was morganatic. He specifically ruminates on the different age-of-consent laws he's used to but acknowledges that none of that applies in the 17th centurynote at sixteen, Anne Cathrine in her time is very much considered a grown woman of an age to get married; it's her royal bloodline that makes her off-limits. In the end, it turns out her family had been plotting to manipulate him into marrying her, knowing that he'd be a useful political and technical resource. Neither Eddie nor Anne Cathrine have any problem with this.
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The Jailbait Wait / int_f6b6fa77	comment	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:
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The Jailbait Wait / int_f6c05e8e	comment	A Friends episode that aired in 2001 had Joey hit on a woman who revealed she was 16 years old. His response? "See you in 2003."
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The Jailbait Wait / int_f8eaad5b	comment	Another episode did this with Britney Spears in a parody of Citizen Kane.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Cold Comfort Farm / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
Gil's All Fright Diner / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
Mercy Hills Pack / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
She Is The One / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
The Circumstances Leading to Waltraute's Marriage / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
The Time Traveler's Wife / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
The Villainess Turns The Hourglass / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
Tuck Everlasting / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Wolfsong / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
Ephebophile	seeAlso	The Jailbait Wait
JuliaQuinn	seeAlso	The Jailbait Wait
TheJailbaitWait	sameAs	The Jailbait Wait
A Bride's Story (Manga) / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
A Polar Bear in Love (Manga) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
FAKE (Manga) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Iono the Fanatics (Manga) / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
Seimaden (Manga) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Sensei Wa Koi O Oshierarenaii (Manga) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Strawberry Shake Sweet (Manga) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
The Ancient Magus' Bride (Manga) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
The Love and Creed of Sae Maki (Manga) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Until Death Do Us Part (Manga) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Gary Glitter (Music) / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
Is This It (Music) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Personification Life (Roleplay) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Broadchurch / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Danger 5 / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
Drifters / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Langt fra Las Vegas / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
19 Kids and Counting / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
The Other Two / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
The Vow (2020) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Waterloo Road / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Devil May Cry (Video Game) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
The House in Fata Morgana (Visual Novel) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
How It Should Have Ended (Web Animation) / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
Grim Tales from Down Below (Webcomic) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
CinemaSins (Web Video) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Shane Dawson (Web Video) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait
Johnny Bravo / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
Love and Rockets (Comic Book) / int_87317385	type	The Jailbait Wait

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