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links
(AP FF) A group for "un-youtube-friendly" age progression videos: Dailymotion AP group
(Katsumend)
links
(male) muscle development: The Biology of Love (O')
links
(AP FF only, with text description) The Adolescent Period: A Pictorial Atlas
Warning: this is NOT an anime/manga link, but a medical textbook describing the various stages only for those interested in the growth process. 8 MB Rapidshare link: pdf
(Katsumend)
text fragments
movies
Big City
(kinda looks like ARed) 2007 French western, Djamel Bensalah. Children act out the roles of adults after their parents have temporarily departed.
books
Tortoise by Candlelight
(UC scene) Nina Bawden, 1963.
Snipet view "She was growing out of her clothes but only length-wise. Her pyjama jacket barely covered her rib cage and the trousers were two-thirds up her smooth,..."
books
Remember Me?
(flash forward amnesia) Sophie Kinsella
Our lives take unpredictable turns and we all change over time. But it's so gradual we don't always notice it. Would your younger self recognize your older self? Amnesiac heroine Lexi Smart awakens in a hospital, blinking up at her Greek god of a husband, whom she doesn't recognize. Convinced that it's 2004, she finds it's actually 3 years later, and she no longer has crooked teeth, frizzy hair or a loser boyfriend. She's become a gorgeous, cut-throat businesswoman with a perfect new glossy, unrecognizable life - from the designer handbag to the perfect millionaire husband. The only drawback she can see is that she's aged 3 years. But then so has her mother and (not-so-now) little sister...
manga
Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo!
(AP, RN) 2006 anime. Marie (Hitomi Nabatame) can change her age from a young child to a grown woman in an instant. (TvTropes)
books
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids
(age TFs) Orion Children's Books, Jamie Rix.
- (male giant) "The Giant who grew Too Big for his Boots" Huge Hugh needs more space. He gets too big for his boots, growing to such enormous proportions that he eventually explodes.
- (AP, old age) "The Childhood Snatcher"
Also: Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids, Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids, The 'Me!' Monsters.
comics
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
(AP UC FF, also male, old age) 2008 webcomic. Link: Thumb cold war lasts 50 years
links
(adult flash forward) female celebs then and now
(time manipulation) 1 (2bya) 2 characters
Tv
Heimat
(adult ff, OA makeup) 1984 West-German miniseries. Maria Simon, played by 31 y.o. Marita Breuer, is shown from age 19 to 82.
Following info provided by TvTropes.com:
software
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
(male AR) Grown male Kafei is about to be married. When he refuses to play a game, Skull Kid transforms him into a boy. Kafei spends the game in hiding or covering his face with a mask.
short story
Rosenbaum, Benjamin
(age stasis, mental AR) "Start the Clock" 2004. A virus that caused humans to stop aging struck the Earth 30 years ago, confining the protagonist in a 9 year old body. Characters who are physically children tend to act like children with 30 years of extra experience. The protagonist meets a girl who is mentally the same age as she is physically, having been infected at age 2, and having been administered a cure to allow her to age naturally.
software
Guilty Gear
(accelerated growth) Dizzy looks very adult but isn't much older than 3. She was found as an infant by an old couple with no children of their own to depend on. The other villagers became afraid when Dizzy shot up from an infant to her late teens in 3 years. This was compounded when she discovered that she had wings and a tail.
software
Ar tonelico
(AP, age stasis) Misha Arsellec Lune is trapped in a 12-year old girl body until her hymn is recovered. After that, she regains her adult form.
words
Older Than They Look
(adults disguised as children, age delay or age stasis) Tv Trope mostly used in anime/manga. An adult woman who looks like a child. AKA "fauxli", a portmanteau of "faux" and "loli". Contrivance designed to allow fandom to lust after apparent preteen in a mostly guilt free manner. Other Tropes: "Age Is Relative", "Improbable Age", "Older Than They Think". (TvTropes)
manga
Doki Doki School Hours
(age delay, adult as child) Mika-sensei is a 27-year old woman who appears to be only 10, which encourages her student Kitagawa's attractions.
manga
Gunsmith Cats
(age stasis) Minnie-May Hopkins took "growth retarding" drugs to appeal to a certain clientele.
manga
Honey And Clover
(age stasis, adult as child) Hagu is 18 at the beginning of the series, despite looking and acting like an 8-year-old. She stopped growing at age 6, which doesn't keep guys from falling in love with her.
manga
Moetan
(age delay) 17 year old high school girls Ink Nijihara and Sumi Kuroi look about 5. Their ex-magician partners have an extreme case of Lolicon.
manga
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
(flash forward) 2006 anime. "Lolita-looking" Mikuru Asahina is actually 17. Her future form sometimes appears. Time Travel makes her real age impossible to determine.
manga
Zettai Karen Children
(male age stasis, man as boy) White Haired Pretty Boy Evil Mentor looks like a middle school student, but is really in his 80's. He intends to "groom" the titular 10-year olds.
manga
Mahou Sensei Negima
(age stasis, age disguises) Asuna Kagurazaka is likely over 15, complicating her status with 10-year old hero Negi. Evangeline is 700 years Old, yet stuck in the body of a 10 year old girl. She can project an adult body.
manga
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
(age disguise) Cinque looks around 10, but she's one of the oldest Numbers Cyborgs. Her small size make her well suited for infiltration missions.
manga
Kare Kano
(age delay) Tsubasa Shibahime is a high schooler who looks 12. Her father is a children's clothes designer who tests out his new designs upon her. Tsubasa loves to dress up. Kazuma saves her from a pervert.
manga
Ouran High School Host Club
(male age delay) Cake loving Mitsukuni Haninozuka looks and acts like a 6-year-old to appeal to the Shotacon crowd, but is really 18.
manga
Mermaid Saga
(male age stasis, stuck as boy) Because Masato is stuck with the body of a young boy, he can't get by in society without a caretaker, whom he often outlives. He can't stay in one place for more than 2 years, and eventually goes nuts after 800 years.
manga
Toward The Terra
(adult age delay) The Mu can keep a youthful appearance much longer than normal humans.
manga
Kyou Kara Maou
(age stasis, adult as child) The Mazoku live many a century while aging much slower than humans. Ulrike is 800 years old yet looks like a little girl. Ondine is even older and still seems very much like a kid.
manga
Vampire Princess Miyu
(age stasis, adult as teen) Miyu looks 13, but her growth was magically stunted by the Shinma so she can hunt the ones who ran away to the human world.
manga
Baccano!
(male age stasis, adult as child) Czeslaw Meyer looks like he's 10 years old. He probably should have waited a little longer before drinking the elixir of immortality in 1711...
manga
FullMetal Alchemist
(male age disguise) 400 year old Pride/Selim Bradley/Salem has the body of a little boy.
software
Xenosaga
(male age stasis, man as boy) "Jr." (Gaignun Kukai) appears to be about 12 years old, but is actually 28. His genetically engineered powers stuck him with a kid's body due to major trauma when he was actually that age. His younger clone brother has aged normally. Being so young in appearance makes it acceptable for Jr. to have a romantic interest in an artificial Loli girl.
software
Disgaea
(age delay) Yukimaru is 20 years old but looks only about 10.
books
Honor Harrington series
(age delay) David Weber, set in the "Honorverse". Recipients of prolong treatment have a very extended adolescence. You could be a 25 year old military veteran controlling weapons capable of vaporizing planets, but you would still be biologically 12. Combat warships are full of apparent teenagers and even preteens. Sex among crewmembers happens fairly regularly.
short stories
Whateley Universe
(age delay, TF, TG) Fan stories. Superhero School Whateley Academy students Generator (Jade Sinclair) and Warlocke are both 14, but look only 10. Headmistress Elizabeth Carson looks like a hot movie starlet in her early 30's, but is actually over 70.
comics
Ghastly's Ghastly Comic
(age deformed) Adult webcomic. Super Deformed Chibi Sue is 36, but appears to be an 11 year old girl.
comics
Errant Story
(age delay) Webcomic. 17 year old half-elf Meiji Hinadori looks only 12. Angsting and insecurities cause her to attempt to enslave reality for her senior project.
manga
Magic Knight Rayearth
(male age disguise, man as boy) Mage Clef appears to be about 12 in the original series, older in the OAV. Umi falls for him well after he reveals his true age.
manga
Kiddy Grade
(AP, age rebirths, adult as child) Eclair and Lumiere physically look 16 and 10 respectively, but they're centuries old. When Lumiere reorganizes her own particles, she takes on the form of a much taller, adult version of herself
manga
Trinity Blood
(age stasis, adult as child) Empress Seth Nightlord of the Methuselahs is at least 900 years old, despite looking like a "cute young girl", by her own description.
manga
Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni
(frozen age) Furude Rika is stuck as a preteen thanks to the Groundhog Day effect, but her maturity matches her mental age, though this is deliberately hidden so as to not freak people out. She occasionally shows a secondary personality whose manner of speech is much more advanced than what her age would suggest. A main component of the eternally repeating June 1983, she is the only one consistently able to remember the past repetitions. She believes she has lived over 100 years. Despite her young appearance, she seems to be quite fond of wine.
manga
Slayers
(male age stasis) Demon lord Hellmaster Phibrizzo was created at least 1000 years ago, yet continues to appear as a 10 year old boy.
manga
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
(possible AP, age stasis, adult as child) Vita looks no older than 10, yet as a Wolkenwritter, she is an ancient program who can count her age in centuries. It has been mentioned in the manga that she may use transformation magic to appear older.
Tv
Law And Order Special Victims Unit
- (adult age disguise) Janie Spear has Turner's Syndrome, so even though she is 17 years old, physically she looks like a 12-year-old child. The episode focuses on her relationship with a 30-year-old employee of her father's; since she's 17, it's not statutory rape, but none of the detectives are comfortable with this.
- (adult age delusion) A girl in her late to mid 20s not only poses as a 16-year-old, but is under the delusion that she is one, despite having a complete memory of all the years she has spent creating false identities.
Tv
Law And Order
(adult age disguise) A seeming teenager is arrested for the murder of a teacher, followed by the arrest of another teacher for sleeping with her. In actuality, the teenager is a con-artist in her 30s, who killed the teacher to prevent her from revealing her real age.
A very similar plot forms one episode of Psych. The premise of 21 Jump Street was cops who looked young enough to go undercover as high school students.
books
Xanth
(old age) Piers Anthony. Electra is technically 800 years older than she looks. Whenever she visits non-magical Mundania, she starts aging rapidly.
Man from Mundania
"...Electra here is aging and we have to get her back. She's actually fifteen years old, in Xanth..."
"She was older emotionally, too. She was aging in every way."
"AT THE PRESENT RATE OF PROGRESSION, SHE SHOULD HAVE ABOUT THREE MORE DAYS BEFORE FAILING FROM OLD AGE, the screen printed."
words
Really Seven Hundred Years Old
(age stasis, age disguise) Tv Trope mostly used in anime/manga. what better way to hide your identity than by taking on the form of a perky prepubescent girl who looks like she's barely out of elementary school? (TvTropes)
manga
Cowboy Bebop
(male age stasis, adult as child) Ep6. Wen looks like a young boy while actually being 80 years old.
manga
Soukou No Strain
(age stasis, adult as child, FF) Melchisedec and Carmichael appear to be young children, but are treated as adult mechanics. In the epilogue where the rest of the Space Squadron has aged, they have scarcely changed.
manga
Card Captor Sakura
(male age stasis, man stuck as boy) Eriol Hiiragizawa seems to be a regular, 11 year-old transfer student from England, but he has stopped himself from aging for decades. Kaho falls in love with an adult man stuck as jailbait, adding what may be unintentional squick to certain scenes.
manga
Bleach
(age stasis) Shinigami spirits look like kids. Hitsugaya usually acts more adult while Yachiru is like a hyperactive 5 year old.
software
Tales Of Symphonia
(age delay, mental age stasis) Namco. Lumberjack Presea Combatir had her biological and mental growth stunted by a magical implant, leaving her with the body and heavily traumatized mind of a 12-year old at age 28. Height: 4'6"/138cm (ToS), 4'11"/150cm (DotNW). Weight: 58lbs/24kg (ToS), 84lbs/38kg (DotNW).
books
Discworld
(male reincarnation ARed) Abbot of the History Monks wound up in the body of a young baby. The Monks play with time.
stage
Iolanthe
(age stasis) Gilbert And Sullivan comic opera, 1882. Immortal fairy who looks 17 married mortal and had a son. When 25 year old Strephon is seen in Iolanthe's company, no one will believe that's she's his mum.
movies
Not Bewitched XXX
(AA pornography, RNed not depicted) 2008 parody of 1964-1972 Bewitched sitcom. USC Title 18 Section 2257. Porn stars experiment with sexual positions and recreational group sex. Tabitha was previously an unseen toddler who was AA'd into adult sex worker wearing a 1-piece porn costume.
link (Fulg18)
Tv
Return of the Condor Heroes, The
(flashed forward AA scene) 2006 series Ep 3. The adventures of Yang Guo, an orphaned boy in a mid-13th Century China. Net in the Sky scene takes years of practice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geqrljrriYI
comics
Captain America
(APed, old aged, RNed, APed) #294-296, 7-8/1984, Marvel Comics, DeMatteis, Neary. The "Sisters of Sin"
- Slash (Sister Agony) A preteen disciple of the Red Skull, her physical age was accelerated into an old woman, calling herself Sister Agony because of the razor-sharp talons she had in place of hands. She and her Sisters attacked Captain America, but were defeated and eventually restored to their natural ages. She returned alongside the Sisters of Sin as a young adult, and was once again defeated by Captain America.
- Torso (Sister Death) Her age was accelerated into an adult with superhuman strength and endurance. Restored to childhood, and progressed into younger adult.
- Sister Dream: AKA "Hoodwink"
- Sister Pleasure: AKA "Raunch"
- AKA: Sister Pain, Sister Desire.
books
Witch Switch, The
(body swap like ARed) Anne Harler, 1987. Wendy uses her magic powers to change places with her baby sister.
toons
Smurfs, The
(AR) 192 "The Smurflings" 9/21/1985. Natural, Snappy, and Slouchy were childized with the help of Father Time. There was no cure for the miniaturization, but they didn't mind.
stage
Happy Family, The
(AA adults dressed and acting like children) 1966, London, Maisie Mosco play.
movie adaptation
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny, and Girly 1969 UK horror-comedy, Freddie Francis. AKA "Girly".
Novella by Brian Comport.
Dysfunctional family in Victorian mansion acts out role-playing fantasy, called "The Game". They are free from strife, sibling rivalry, and even the divisiveness of growing up; "children" Sonny and Girly are in their 20's, but they sleep in giant cribs in a room full of toys and dress like British 6th-formers.
links
(male 12 to 28 FFed) Potatoe Boy weighs in on Quayle's campaign gaffe male - male (O')
(slight FF toon) dream sequence love story
(preteen strength increase) strong little girls
(male adult ff) comic
Oni links:
(AR) AR and commissions.
(AR) Baby Teen Titans
(AR) Osakatan
(AR) Lance
books
Stories and Mis-Adventures of Cassandra West, The
(APed) John Hattaway, book not yet written. Cassandra was magically pulled into her adult body, and wants to return to being 11 years old. She cannot cross a certain river in her adult body and must find another way to return home.
text fragments
books
Mary Margaret's Tree
(preteen TF dream sequence) Blair Drawson, 1996. Mary Margaret plants a tree in her garden, and, wonder of wonders, it immediately starts to grow. In a matter of minutes, it has become a magnificent towering tree. Mary Margaret climbs up to the top and watches the seasons unfold. Cuddling up with some hibernating animals, she sleeps the winter away. She wakens to find that her feet have grown roots and her fingers are sending out green shoots. Soon Mary Margaret, herself, has transformed into a full-grown tree.
books
Tramp, The
(adult rejuvenation) L. Ron Hubbard, 1937. Down-on-his-luck tramp Doughface Jack has the two halves of his brain stitched together, and his cranium sealed with a silver bowl. He acquires phenomenal mental powers: he can instantaneously heal or kill, or make the old young.
comics
Hulk
(male slight CBed) Hulk parody fan art
words
Age Cut
(flash forward) Tv Trope. A type of Match Cut that shows a character aging. Often, different actors are used for the young and old version of the character. By showing both in the same position and location, it is shown that it is the same person, only older. Common version starts with a slow zoom in on a character’s eyes, which then cuts to the older version and zooms out. Another is to dissolve from one version to another. The same technique can be used to start a flashback, in which case the character gets younger. Ex: the ending of Kung Fu Hustle. (TvTropes)
books
Singularity
(male flash forward) William Sleator, 1985. When quirky and cute neighbor Lucy enters their lives, the competition between 16 year old twins escalates. Harry makes a decision that will change the nature of their relationship forever: he locks himself inside a Year Inside Hour Outside device, so that he'll be a year older than his brother.
manga
Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica
(AP transformation scene) 2007 anime. Lil girl can transform into adult form with big breasts. Most of the time, 6-winged elder spirit Corticarte Apa Lagranges (Corti) has the appearance of a child. She has a selfish character and dislikes it when Phoron is being kind to other girls.
software
Fable II
(flash forward AA) Players start as either a little boy or a little girl and grow up to adulthood. You will change visually to reflect your choices and actions in the world of Albion.
fan characters
Pleasures of the Flesh
(ageshifter) A carnal tavern RP, 2007.
Tiki is a mysterious woman of unknown age. Known only as an "age shifter" she has no powers beyond the abilities to become older or younger at will. Her hair is pink and her eyes are blue set over normal toned skin. Appearance changes with age. She studies herblore.
comics
Silver Spider
(male AP AA, RN) Joe Simon said that Spider-Man was based on a 1953 project. A young boy makes a wish on a magic ring to morph into a full-grown superhero. The character wears a Batman-like cowl with goggles, clings to walls, and carries a net.
words
Not allowed to grow up
(UC, Tv Trope) My Three Sons, 1970. Child star Erin Moran (Victoria) was forced to wear ridiculously inappropriate short dresses way past her growth spurt.
manga
Happy Lesson
(kinda like AR, AP RN UC) In 1st season eyecatch video, the girls of the series turned into chibis, then grew back to normal anime proportions in extremely tight constraints.
(Silver Spoon)
software
Onesama no (are) ~Moe Kishinku no Junan!?
(age forms AA) Futanari manga game. Little child like fairy responsible for the main character had loli and APed forms.
(Process)
software
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney
(AP TF) Manga game. 8 year old Pearl and 17 year old Maya Fey gain Mia's height and huge bust while channeling her.
words
De-Aging story
(AR) Common plot device in Fan Fics.
words
Thelarche
(AP BE) 1st stage of secondary breast development, occurring at the beginning of puberty in girls. Referred to as "breast bud", or Tanner stage 2.
manga
Ranma 1/2
- (male rejuvenation) Lukkosai tried to use the Spring of Drowned Child to regain his youth, but instead went from way too old to way too young (both about the same size). He used this form to get revenge on Happo while pretending to be his own grandson.
- (male AR) Mushrooms change your age in years to their length in centimeters. Ryoga eats a short one and makes Ranma eat one. They spend most of the chapter trying to change back by growing mushrooms big enough to return them to their normal ages, while sabotaging each others' mushrooms.
- (male AR) Happosai feels the pangs of old age. To restore his youth, he needs the tears of a beast that is both male and female. Tear gas and onions fly liberally around Ranma. When he pokes a pressure point that makes Ranma gush out tears like a firehose, Kasumi wipes them up with a rag used to clean up soy sauce. The resulting potion regresses Happosai's mind to that of a baby.
manga
Rosario To Vampire
(AP, AR) Yukari and Kokoa, realizing they're not being taken seriously, use age-up pills for a temporary change. When the pills wear off, Kokoa finds herself younger than before. She is later saved by the Unwanted Harem (sans Tsukune) turned into children along with her.
comics
X-Men
(AR) Claremont-era. Extra-dimensional media mogul Mojo manipulated enemies ages:
Uncanny X-Men Annual #10: Mojo de-aged the X-Men into children.
Uncanny X-Men Annual #12: The X-Babies are a group of child clones of the X-Men.
X-Babies Reborn The Mitey 'Vengers are based on the Avengers.
Uncanny X-Men #461: 2005. The X-Men were once again reduced to infancy by Mojo. As kids, they were able to defeat the villains and restore their rightful ages, though Juggernaut had second thoughts.
comics
New Mutants
(adult aging) vol 1, #9, Marvel Comics. Selene Gallio can move at super speed, though this can cause her to age rapidly and require more life energy. Selene must drain human life force to rejuvenate herself.
comics
Penny Arcade
(male AR dream sequence) Webcomic 10/1/08 link (O')
media
Richard Phillips
(age forms) "GirlChild" painting. A little girl, 3 or 4 years old, stands alongside an older version of herself, a teenager on the cusp of womanhood. Both are in a state of suggested undress, and both stare at the viewer with a same vague stare that, were the older girl alone, might be regarded as demure or even sensual. The dynamic between them and the viewer is confrontational; they demand to be regarded in equal measure, on the same ground. This juxtaposition defines the terrifying transition of the child into an adult. 1
media
Fases Growing Girl
(slight age forms) 1
comics
Flash, The
(AP AA, AR RN) #241, 243, 6/2008, DC Comics, Tom Peyer. Mark Waid brought Linda and the kids back. Instead of the kids aging naturally, Iris and Jai’s metabolisms are all screwed up to the point where they will experience rapid development, and could grow old and die with no warning. During a kidnapping attempt, Iris experiences an age jump from pre-teen to teenager. We see the results of puberty after her first growth spurt, wearing a form-fitting costume similar to her future counterpart. While the growth helps save Wally and Jay Garrick from Gorilla Grodd, jumping a few years is nothing compared to the spurt Iris experiences at the end of the issue. Now wearing a "kid flash"-like costume, she displays superspeed and ages into adulthood after defeating Grodd. The crimson daughter's life is on the line. In #243, Iris is returned to her original age, and her powers revert back to molecular acceleration.
stage
Kimberly Akimbo
(old aged) Manhattan Theater Club, David Lindsay-Abair, 2003.
62 y.o. Marylouise Burke depicts the plight of a levelheaded, lonely 15-year-old girl in a frantic family, afflicted with a disease that ages her at four and a half times the usual rate. Her parents are so preoccupied with themselves that they have forgotten her crucial 16th birthday. According to the cruel arithmetic of Kimberly Levaco's disease, "like progeria without the dwarfism," 16 is the age at which most victims die. Will Kimberly find a boyfriend? Will she experience her first kiss? Burke seems to keep turning from a teenage girl into an old woman and back again. Viewers may genuinely take her for a girl when they first see her: the bell-bottom jeans and clamped blondish hair, defensively hunched shoulders, her sullen tucking of her chin into her neck, her way of saying "Da-ad" as two syllables, the luminous ecstasy on Kimberly's face as her father teaches her to swing dance, and her increasingly hobbled walk up and down the stairs as the illness takes its toll. For complicated plot purposes, Kimberly dresses up as an old lady, with sensible shoes, a turban and a cane.
comics
Marvin
(male growth spurt) 08/09/2008 daily funnies Hulk parody
short story
Belknap, Frank
(old aged) "Temporary Warp" 1937, Astounding Science Fiction. A couple at a restaurant stares googly-eyed at each other, whispering about their prospective marriage, when she suddenly ages to one hundred years in seconds.
links
(kinda looks like male ared) little O'Reilly
Tv
Caminhos do Coração
(male APed) Brazil, 2007 telenovela.
- Cris has the ability to grow older. The result of one of those spurts: male UC (O')
- Other mutant powers: Metamorpho, Eduardo Mayer can copy the look and voice of others. Guest appearances of fish or any animal using strength of mind. Plant manipulation: able to control or animate vegetation, and accelerate the growth of plants and nature. Ability to generate involuntarily pheromones that cause the effects of seduction.
- Gór and Marli look on, as Cris grows to manhood inside an opaque bubble.
Link: male
movies
Enteng Kabisote 2: Okay ka fairy ko
(APed) "The legend continues" 2005, Philippines, based on sitcom. The magical world Engkantasya and the human world welcome Ada, Enteng and Faye's fast growing baby princess who hatched from giant egg. Angel Sy (5/4/2000): Ada Kabisote.
Enteng Kabisote 3 2006. Mikylla Ramirez (8/27/1998): Ada Kabisote.
movies
Skazka o Tsare Saltane
(male AP AA) 1966, USSR. "The tale of the Tsar Saltan" Many Russian fairy tales feature a fast growing child. While the Tsar was at war, his wife gave birth to a son. A rider was sent to the tsar to convey the good news. The message and his reply were changed. Since there was no way to disobey an order from the tsar, the palace guards put the queen and her son into a barrel, and rolled it into the water. As the queen wept inside the barrel, her son grew stronger, not by the day, but by the minute (not depicted). He begged the waves to wash them onto dry land. The waves obeyed and he and his mother found themselves washed ashore on a deserted island.
male
Tv
Twilight Zone, The
(adult age forms, AA) "Spur of the Moment" Ep 141.
Young woman Anne sees a terrifying woman dressed in black on horseback, yelling at her to stop. Anne flees in terror, escaping her pursuer. 25 years later Anne has a fight with her husband and goes horseback riding, where she sees herself as a young woman on a horse. She repeatedly chases her younger self in the hope of warning her not to make the mistake of eloping with Mitchell, but can never catch up, and thus can never change her past.
stage
Girl in the Flammable Skirt, The
(FF) 2005 adaptation of Aimee Bender’s story collection. The story of a pregnant teen who falls in love with her hunchbacked step-uncle, the rapid evolution from pregnancy to love to disillusionment, rejection, and a progeny who becomes an adult in a matter of seconds give the spectator a feeling of puzzlement and whiplash.
toons
Ananda
(FF) 2003, Vinton Studio, Mike Smith, 5 min, Young & Rubicam, Sony. Compositing, animation and live action are blended to create a highly stylized love story set in India. A young girl and boy sit blissfully in a colorful world where imagination is king, but midway through the film, they morph into adults and separate. 1
books
Breaking Dawn
(accelerated growth) Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer, 2008. Renesmee "Nessie" Carlie Cullen is the half-vampire, half-human daughter of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. Renesmee grows at a fast rate, being able to speak 7 days after her birth, and by the end of Breaking Dawn she is able to read, run, hunt, and perform other tasks at advanced levels for her young age. Renesmee's curly hair already comes down to her waist. She will reach physical maturity in 7 years, when her physical appearance will be around 17, and will then stop aging.
205: "You shot right up. I could watch you getting taller by the minute. He's like that, too. Growing so fast."
460: "Carlisle came down the stairs with his hands full of odd things - a measuring tape, a scale. ... You do this every day? ... Four times a day," Carlisle corrected absently ... I thought I saw Renesmee sigh ... Four times? Every day? Why? ... She's still growing quickly," Edward murmured to me..."
461: "She looked well on her way to being a toddler just days after her birth. If this rate of growth held..."
592: "Renesmee grows at an unprecedented rate. By the time the month is past, she'll have gained another half year of development."
702: "many witnesses stand ready to give evidence that they have seen this miraculous child grow and mature in just the short time they've known her."
comics
Asaf Hanuka
(male mental ghost ared) Israel. male
links
(aged makeup list) vid
(slight age disguise) AA the Major and the Minor
(male age stasis flash forward AA) Hovis ad
software
Sims 2
(AP) CGI (prettybird)
comics
Superman/Batman
cover
books
Xanth
(AP, RN) Two to the Fifth, Piers Anthony, 10/2008.
Princess Rhythm, age 12, confesses to having a crush on Cyrus Cyborg, a playwright dating several lovely actresses. He refuses to take her seriously. Bad mistake; never antagonize a Sorceress of any age. She enchants herself to be 10 years older, hauls him into a love spring... And reverts to her normal age after an hour, leaving him hopelessly in love with a woman who won't exist for another decade. The stork, having received the signal, brings a baby.
books
Princess of Roumania, A
Tourmaline, The
(AP, also male AP) Paul Park, 2005, 2006
Teenaged Miranda, wearing her black jeans, and her otherworldly friends Peter Gross and Andromeda are transported across the dimensions to the world of their birth: uncivilized North America. Buried memories begin to flood back into their minds, and strange changes assail their bodies. With the removal of spells, they age 5 years instantly, becoming adults. The 3 adult teens strive to master a world of deceits and dark magics. Many things remain unspoken.
- Roumania:
97: Now Peter was staring at her with a puzzled expression, as if he were noticing her for the first time that morning. "What happened to you?" he said. "What's wrong with your face?"
She put her hand up to her nose as if to brush away some smut.
What was he talking about? Why did he say that?
"Look at yourself," he said. "You're different."
Which maybe didn't sound so bad. She didn't feel any different.
99: If the trees had grown up over - what was it called - the fairway...? Maybe they had gone into the future.
101: She was older than he'd expected, older than the photographs the baroness had shown him: not a child at all, really - a young woman with the pale, narrow face and dark eyebrows of her father's family, and she looked older than the boy...
He tightened the focus, held him in the circle of his glasses - no, a chance resemblance to an older man.
119: "Go on," Miranda said.
What was different about her? Her hair was the same length, kept in place behind her ears. Her dark eyebrows were the same, and her blue eyes. She was more solid, somehow. Had she put on weight? Was she taller?
...Her skin looked rougher, darker, older.
321: "I dreamt I was twenty years old," she told him.
He was surprised to see her at the bottom of an odd, small dell, taking her clothes off in the snow.
Then she took off the old gypsy's bulky coat, and lifted her shirt up so her skin was bare. She was touching and pressing at her breasts.
She was looking at her hands, and she undid the front of her pants and turned away from him completely, and he could see the arch of her back as she leaned to examine herself, as he imagined.
- Tourmaline:
46: She sat down and studied her face again in the dark glass. The candle was behind her. But even in the uncertain light she could tell. In Williamstown she'd been fifteen years old.
She turned her face, lifted her chin, put her fingers to her upper lip. What was the difference? Peter had seen it right away. "What's wrong with your face?" he'd said on that first morning in the woods. Well, what was wrong with it? Something lost and gained. She did look older now. Peter had said so and it was true.
Was it coarseness, a thickening? Everywhere and nowhere - rougher skin, a darkness around her eyes? Or else she'd put on weight. Maybe it was to avoid perceiving these things that she'd been thinking so insistently about her friends.
She touched her cheeks and forehead, touched her breasts.
...here in this room when she was a child, now she remembered wanting to grow older ... she had looked into this same mirror, desperate to grow older so the Lieutenant Prochenko might look at her. And sometimes in Williamstown for other reasons...
57: The night before, she'd slept in her dirty clothes and her damp underwear. The wool shirt was Blind Rodica's, but the jeans she'd worn all the way from Massachusetts. Her bra was too tight. Her underpants were stiff and gray and streaked with blood.
58: But she wanted new clothes ... The clothes in her own room were for a seven-year-old girl.
When she was younger, she had always tried to avoid looking at her own body. She was self-conscious about it and had not kept a full-length mirror in her room.
...Miranda had tended to slip into her clothes without looking, especially as she'd started to mature.
59: ...Stanley had walked in on her while she was staring glumly at her face and hair.
Even now, with no one around, she found it hard to strip down to nothing and examine herself. She found it hard to strip out of the hateful clothes, the chafing underwear, stiff with salt from the previous day. And even when it was all off, she found herself looking at different parts in isolation. Close to the surface of the miror, she examined her elbow, the seawater rash along the crease of her thigh.
Maybe she couldn't remember anymore, but there was no individual part of her that seemed different when she looked at it alone. And maybe it wasn't just modesty that had made her hesitant, but a premonition. When finally, with a lump in her throat, she held up the candle and stepped away from the glass, and stared at her face and head and body all together, her first impression was she scarcely recognized herself. Something given, something stripped away ... there she was after all, her pale skin and narrow nose, her ears that stuck out, and her nice, wide forehead ... her thin lips, her long neck, and then the rest, and you might even say there was an improvement.
Look at her - her childhood was gone.
How many people could recall more than just a couple of things from when they were five or six or seven? So what difference did it make?
Now, standing nude before the mirror, the thought of Peter filled her with embarrassment; she looked for a small moment more, and then she put the candle down.
...she slipped on some men's clothes that she had found in a back bedroom ... everything was much more comfortable...
99: Peter found himself thinking one more time about the tunnel to the future. "A little older," he murmured, part of a longer phrase ... he'd used to say in front of the mirror ... "I would like to be a little older," ... something he'd always felt in school, where gym class had been a nightmare...
Miranda had left him behind. In high school she'd been a couple of years younger, which had felt good to him. But as soon as they'd arrived here he had seen the change in her. Now he wanted to catch up.
108: "Andromeda?" he asked. Almost he didn't recognize her, although she'd scarcely changed out of the girl he'd known at school - years before, it suddenly seemed.
...in a moment he looked back, fascinated (or so he told himself) by how she'd aged: a woman, he supposed. Five years. was this what getting older meant, this sudden vertigo, this aching in his head?
movies
How I Married My High School Crush
(AA movie) Katee Sackhoff, 2007 Lifetime. "The Wedding Wish", "Be Careful What You Wish For" Thanks to an eclipse on her wedding day, a 1990's teenager wakes up 20 years in the future.
Link: adult to older adult AA
books
Boy I Loved Before, The
(flashback to high school) Jenny Colgan. At her best friend's wedding, Flora reflects on her life and wishes she could be 16 again. When Flora wakes up the next morning she discovers her wish has come true. Can she change her life?
movies
Eonni-ga ganda
(flashback to younger adult) AKA: Go Go Sister, Operation Makeover, Eonniga Ganda. South Korea, 2007
So-young Ko: Na Jung-ju, Alice. An Jo: Na Jung-ju.
30 year old Jung-joo despises her life. The turning point was failing to become the girlfriend of high school poster-boy Ha-ni. Given a chance to go back to her past for 1 week, she meets her younger self, and is determined to change the course of her life. But the task is much harder than it had first appeared to be.
links
(AR comic) $7 to download: Lauren and Betsy, Girls Gone Child! commissioned by Dreamtales
(male adult flashed forward) not too mature to throw pie Two 18 year old men vowed that when they turned 50, they would have a pie fight. "At 75 we’re going to be throwing empty Ensure cans at each other." (O')
(male adult face) FF
(AR wish?) art film A dark fairy tale about a young woman trying to kill her adult self, in order to become a child once again.
(gigantic 12 y.o.) tall girl
(slight aging) mirror Anti-smoking PSA
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AP: age progression
AR: age regression
CB: clothes burst or rip
UC: undersized clothing
AA: age-appropriate clothing or clothes grow too
RN: return to normal
