History Main / MenGetOldWomenGetReplaced

** This trope is played straight in the canon games, where the only notable time skip in the series is the 20-year gap between ''Tekken 2'' and ''Tekken 3''. Following this jump, every human male character from the first two games returns at least once, except for King I and Armor King I, masked wrestlers who were killed and replaced with [[LegacyCharacter younger counterparts]]. These men show their age in their designs. Conversely, ''no'' female characters from the first two games return for a canon game, except for Nina and Anna Williams, who were put into cryostasis and thus remained unchanged. As such, Nina [[MumLooksLikeASister barely looks any older than her son]], Steve.
** This trope is played with in the non-canon games. Over the course of the series, Kunimitsu and Michelle Chang were replaced by their daughters Kunimitsu II and Julia, while and Jun Kazama was replaced by her son, Jin, and teenage relative, Asuka. When they all returned in the non-canon ''Tekken Tag Tournament'' {{Dream Match Game}}s, Kunimitsu and Michelle hadn't aged a day, with the latter looking [[MumLooksLikeASister nearly identical to her adopted daughter]]. (Though this at least has the excuse of the characters' designs being based on their last canonical appearance, even if [[ArtisticAge the game treats them as being as old as they would be at that point in the series timeline]]. To wit, an older Michelle did appear in Julia's ''T3'' ending, while ''Tag 2'' has her interacting with Julia as one would expect a mother-daughter duo to behave.) In those same ''Tag'' games, several of the older male characters have comedic stories about plotting to restore their youth, or mocking each other for how old they are.

* Many people suspect that the reason why time in the ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' series [[WebcomicTime never moves on]] after [[VideoGame/Tekken4 the fourth game's]] two-year TimeSkip is because of this trope. Moving up ahead means the women age, and, as shown by this series and the ''VideoGame/{{Soul|Series}}'' series (see above), Creator/{{Bandai Namco|Entertainment}} doesn't seem to want women to age past 25. Prior to ''VideoGame/Tekken 8'', the biologically oldest playable female character was Lidia Sobieska in ''VideoGame/Tekken7'', the 29-year-old Polish Prime Minister who is FamedInStory for her youth, and is the only female main character who is biologically older than 25. The biologically oldest playable male character is Wang Jinrei at 105, who continued to fight alongside his replacement in ''Tekken 6''.

* Many people suspect that the reason why time in the ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' series [[WebcomicTime never moves on]] after [[VideoGame/Tekken4 the fourth game's]] two-year TimeSkip is because of this trope. Moving up ahead means the women age, and, as shown by this series and the ''VideoGame/{{Soul|Series}}'' series (see above), Creator/{{Bandai Namco|Entertainment}} doesn't seem to want women to age past 25. Prior to ''Tekken 8'', the biologically oldest playable female character is Lidia Sobieska in ''VideoGame/Tekken7'', the 29-year-old Polish Prime Minister who is FamousInStory for her youth, and is the only female main character who is biologically older than 25. The biologically oldest playable male character is Wang Jinrei at 105, who continued to fight alongside his replacement in ''Tekken 6''.

** Like the other Legendary Sannin, Tsunade is over 50 years old, but she consciously maintains her youth with a spell and has never been seen in her real form (a shot of her wrinkled hand is shown at the ending of the Pain Invasion arc when she exerted her chakra to help the villagers, but we're not shown her face). Meanwhile, Mei Terumi is [[ChristmasCake worried about getting married at her age]], but her problem sounds rather petty ([[ValuesDissonance especially in the West]]) when you consider that she's only 31 and still gorgeous (then again, it's [[MaamShock Mei]]).

* Many people suspect that the reason why time in the ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' series [[WebcomicTime never moves on]] after [[VideoGame/Tekken4 the fourth game's]] two-year TimeSkip is because of this trope. Moving up ahead means the women age, and, as shown by this series and the ''VideoGame/{{Soul|Series}}'' series (see above), Creator/{{Bandai Namco|Entertainment}} doesn't seem to want women [[ChristmasCake to age past 25]]. Prior to ''Tekken 8'', the biologically oldest playable female character is Lidia Sobieska in ''VideoGame/Tekken7'', the 29-year-old Polish Prime Minister who is FamousInStory for her youth, and is the only female main character who is biologically older than 25. The biologically oldest playable male character is Wang Jinrei at 105, who continued to fight alongside his replacement in ''Tekken 6''.

* Played straight in the canon ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' games, and played with in the non-canon ones:
** Many people suspect that the reason why time in the series [[WebcomicTime never moves on]] after [[VideoGame/Tekken4 the fourth game's]] two-year TimeSkip is because of this trope. Moving up ahead means the women age, and, as shown by this series and the ''VideoGame/{{Soul|Series}}'' series (see above), Creator/{{Bandai Namco|Entertainment}} doesn't seem to want women [[ChristmasCake to age past 25]]. Only one playable woman is biologically older than 25, Lidia Sobieska.
** The only notable time skip in the series is the 20-year gap between ''Tekken 2'' and ''Tekken 3''. Following this jump, every human male character from the first two games returns for at least one canon game (whether or not they were replaced at some point), except for King I and [[spoiler:Armor King I]], who were killed and replaced with younger counterparts. Most show some signs of aging at at least one point. Conversely, ''no'' female characters from the first two games return for a canon game, except for Nina and Anna Williams, who were put into cryostasis and thus remained unchanged. As such, Nina [[MumLooksLikeASister barely looks any older than her son]], Steve.
** Over the course of the series, Kunimitsu and Michelle Chang were replaced by their daughters Kunimitsu II and Julia, while and Jun Kazama was replaced by her son, Jin, and two games later by a teenage relative, Asuka. When they all returned in the non-canon ''Tekken Tag Tournament'' {{Dream Match Game}}s, Kunimitsu and Michelle haven't aged a day, with the latter looking [[MumLooksLikeASister nearly identical to her adopted daughter]]. (Though this at least has the excuse of the characters' designs being based on their last canonical appearance, even if [[ArtisticAge the game treats them as being as old as they would be at that point in the series timeline]]. To wit, an older Michelle did appear in Julia's ''T3'' ending, while ''Tag 2'' has her interacting with Julia as one would expect a mother-daughter duo to behave.) In those same ''Tag'' games, several of the older male characters have comedic stories about plotting to restore their youth, or mocking each other for how old they are.
** Setting aside characters with unknown ages, the biologically oldest playable female character is Lidia Sobieska in ''VideoGame/Tekken7'', the 29-year-old Polish Prime Minister whose youth is a major selling point of the character. The biologically oldest playable male character is Wang Jinrei at 105, who continued to fight alongside his replacement in ''Tekken 6''.

*** Just as only two women visibly aged, only two men did: Mitsurugi and Siegfried, to 46 and 40 respectively. The difference is more male characters were allowed to return at all, with ten (human) male characters returning: Algol, Cervantes, Dampierre, Edge Master, Kilik, Maxi, Mitsurugi, Raphael, Siegfried, and Voldo. Several of those characters appeared "old" or ageless to begin with, and those who didn't had some kind of Soul Edge-related reason for their aging being halted or significantly slowed. Furthermore, only two male characters (Astaroth and Yoshimitsu) were replaced, with [[LegacyCharacter their successors]] behaving so similarly that it'd be easy for one to think they were still the originals (though Yoshimitsu II explicitly refers to himself as "Yoshimitsu the Second" in one of his intros and mentions Yoshimitsu the First in his intro against Cervantes, who was responsible for the chain of events leading to Yoshi II's KlingonPromotion). This makes Voldo the biologically oldest male main character, at 67.