Vague Age / Western Animation

• Arcane: While Jayce and Heimerdinger outright state their ages in Act 1 (24 and 307 respectively), every other character has to be guessed. Word of God◊ is that Caitlyn and Vi are around 14-16 and Powder is 11-12ish in Act 1. The Timeskip to Act 3 ages them 6-7 years.
• Archibald the Koala: None of the characters give out how old they are exactly. But the named characters are likely adults due to their jobs, their voices sound like they're in their 30s-50s and the fact some of the characters are married to each other.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Unlike with the kid characters, Ozai and Iroh's ages are never explicitly given for some reason. This seems especially odd given the two are brothers, yet Iroh looks about 20 years older, given his hair is entirely gray while Ozai no grey hairs at all. While it could be Azulon just had Ozai much later, this seems to contradict the comics implying that Ozai was The Unfavorite and got along badly with Iroh, from whom he usurped the throne, as he obviously wasn't a baby when he did that. Complicating the issue further is that Iroh had a son, Lu Ten, whom we only see as a portrait but looks to be in his late teens at bare minimum (possibly his twenties) at a time when Zuko, Ozai's son, was eleven.
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: Alvin, Simon and Theodore, as well as Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor are obviously intended to be the chipmunk equivalents of human children. Throughout the franchise's history, though, they have cycled through all three stages of schooling (elementary, middle, high) with no visible signs of aging.
• Similarly, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan places the older kids in their teens and Flip in his preteens. Only the three youngest are given actual ages in canon.
• The Amazing World of Gumball: Rob had attended Elmore Junior High and was one of Gumball's classmates, which means that he's no older than 14 years old (As 14 is the maximum age for an eighth grader who has not been held back, and most junior high or "middle" schools only go up to eighth grade), and most people seem to agree that he's 12 or 13. However, due to his status as the main villain of the show and time spent in the Void, he acts much more mature for his age- at least intellectually. Emotionally, though, he's still an awkward teenager, and he seems incapable of taking accountability for his actions. He also apparently has a major in Canadian history, though this could be a result of his deeper voice as of "The Nemesis" and his previously-mentioned increased intellect.
  • Initially the case for Nicole and Richard, who are the same age and the latter of whom says he’s middle aged, as many conflicting numbers and retcons across seasons (ie Nicole in season one Gumball’s grandfather lived to be 102 which was later retconned, Richard in the same season saying him and Nicole have been together for twenty years, Richard implying he’s older than 40 in "The Worst", and saying his father left him 42 years ago in Season 3, which was later changed to 33 years in Season 4) placed them from in their late thirties-early forties to pushing 50. Ben Bocquelet would confirm they are 38.
• American Dad!: Toshi's sister Akiko was originally prepubescent, thus younger than Toshi, but was given a case of Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome and attends the same high school. Since Toshi is a freshman, that would mean that Akiko is now either the same age as Toshi or older.
• Warner Brothers didn't want the writers to give Bruce Wayne an established age when he and Terry were celebrating his birthday in the Batman Beyond episode "Out of the Past". They said in the commentary that he would have been around mid to late eighties.
• On Beat Bugs, the characters have their own homes and manage their own affairs like adults, yet still exhibit child-like behavior, especially with Buzz who is clearly intended to be more of an Audience Surrogate in terms of the show's target age group. Show creator Josh Wakely has stated that the lack of parents is very much intentional and intended to set the show apart from others by making it so that the characters have to solve their problems themselves because there aren't parents there to fix things.
• In The Beatles cartoon, the Fab Four themselves are in their moptop-era designs, meaning they're meant to be very young adults. However, a few episodes have them refer to themselves as teenagers, and yet another episode has them at a legal drinking age. It should be noted that it is possible to be all three simultaneously in Britain, where 18 is the drinking age and the age when one becomes an adult.
• Betty Boop appears to be an adult or young adult, but in "Minnie the Moocher" she is running away from home because her parents grounded her when she didn't eat her peas. She is implied to be a teenager, and she can be between 16 and 19 in most shorts.
• Beverly Hills Teens:
  • Chester McTech is younger than most of the cast, but by how much is never specified.
  • Whilshire looks like a teenager like the rest of the cast, but he's almost never seen attending school with them and apparently has a full time job as a valet/chauffeur. This was most likely done to make his crush on the obviously teenage Bianca less squicky.
• Blaze and the Monster Machines act and sound like they're adults, predominantly at least 18-21 years old, seeing they're old enough to get adult jobs and even live on their own.
• How old are the live-action cast in Blue's Clues supposed to be? Apparently Steve is an adult, maybe a late teenager, as he eventually leaves for college but what about his brother? Joe acts immature like a kid but lives alone and is played by an adult. There's also Blue, who has her own First Day of School Episode but one episode reveals that her puppyhood was years ago.
  • Blue's Clues & You! somehow makes this all worse. Here is a picture of Josh, Steve and Joe being played by kids in the same age group on Blue's first birthday, even though Joe is a baby in Steve's childhood in the original series and Josh’s actor is more than a decade younger than his predecessors.
• Breadwinners
  • SwaySway and Buhdeuce live on their own and have jobs, but "Chest Hair Club" implies they are quite young as SwaySway said he just became an adult but growing chest hair and Buhdeuce wasn't allowed in an R rated movie because he didn't have any.
• The Brothers Flub: Fraz and Guapo are called "kid" by older characters and are treated as kids in "Teacher's Pest" and "Mother's Little Helpers", but in most other episodes they are treated as adults with "responsibilities".
• On Butterbean's Cafe, Butterbean and her friends act like they're 8-10 years old, yet they are allowed to go around on their own. Ms. Marmalady looks like she could be at least 30. Averted with Cricket who says she's six years old in a few episodes.
• Camp Lazlo: Edward is canonically the youngest Bean Scout, but the episode that establishes him as such continually skirts around stating his actual age.
• In Central Park, Helen has been working as Bitsy's assistant for some time now and she looks pretty old, but not old like Bitsy, but her exact age hasn't been revealed yet. It gets lampshaded in "The Shadow", when Helen asks who the Shadow is, Bitsy tells her she should remember since it was in the newspaper 60 years ago. When Helen claims she never read about it and asks Bitsy how old she thinks she is, Bitsy isn't sure of Helen's age and thinks her age is between 40 and 90.
• The chalk drawing characters in ChalkZone are technically as old as when they were first drawn (for example, Snap turns two in "Lost in Chalk" because it marked two years since Rudy first drew him), but most of their physical/mental ages are still left vague. While Snap lives on his own and has been shown driving in a few episodes, he appears to be around eight to ten physically and mentally.
• The main characters of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers qualify, most notably Gadget Hackwrench. The closest the series ever gets to specifying the characters' ages is that two episodes imply that Monterey Jack is much older than Gadget, Chip, Dale, and Zipper. His character design also suggests this, as he's considerably taller than the others, heavyset, and mustachioed.
• Classic Disney Shorts: Mickey Mouse and friends. They're typically to be portrayed as adults, Goofy even has a son, but some merchandise and cartoons can easily portray them as students without changing much of anything. Of course even when they're portrayed as adults their ages are hard to pin down. Goofy is old enough to have the aforementioned college aged son and was shown to be an adult in 70s according to An Extremely Goofy Movie (which was a turn-of-the-millennium film), but Mickey and Donald seem much younger than that most of the time. Most of the time Donald Duck is portrayed as an adult, however one short "Donald's Better Self" depicts him as a child. In shorts where Huey, Dewey and Louie appear, he's obviously an adult, since their mom is his twin sister.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog: Eustace and Muriel seem to be quite elderly, but Eustace's mother is still alive and in excellent health. Muriel still has white hair when she was de-aged into a toddler in "Little Muriel", so she may not be that old, though she was shown with red hair when she found Courage. Another episode also implies that Muriel actually dyes her hair white.
• Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: King Friday looks elderly, yet his wife Queen Sarah does not have grey hair.
• Ember from Danny Phantom has been suggested to be have died in her twenties according to Word of God, despite her general persona and appearance seeming more like a rebellious high schooler, and despite Mr. Lancer calling her a "teen idol" in her first appearance. Fans typically interpret the claim of her not being a teenager as being an attempt by the show's creator to discourage people from shipping Ember with Danny, rather than an accurate statement. The confusion is added when the creator would suggest years later she is secretly in love with the 14 year old hero.
• Daria: In "The Lost Girls", Daria is profiled by a journalist named Val for her eponymous teen-focused magazine. Val claims to be 28, but is animated with noticeable wrinkles and facial lines, and it’s implied she’s really in her late 30s.
• Davey and Goliath: Davey, or any of the other characters, never have their ages mentioned. In the earlier 1960's episodes, Davey looked to be about 9-12, but in the 1970's series, he appeared to be around 12-14. We know he is younger than high school age, thanks to the episodes "The Stopped Clock", where Davey is a waterboy for the local high school's baseball team, and "Rickety-Rackety", where a boy who was failing french (The fact that they study french indicates that they are in middle school) says "Anyhow, my dad said he didn't have to take french until high school!" However, in "School, Who Needs It!" Davey and friends only have one teacher, suggesting they are in elementary school, but it is very possible they go to a K-8 school where each grade only has one teacher, judging by the fact their school is simply called Palmview School, not Palmview Elementary School or Palmview Middle/Junior High School. In the 1972 Davey and Goliath educational film "The Family of God", Davey takes his first communion, and the average age for Lutherans to start communing is fifth grade. However, it seems like a no-brainer for the Lutheran church to use popular children's characters that they owned in their first communion film, and the show was already running for 11 years when the episode was made, so this doesn't necessarily indicate the age of the characters. Furthermore, in the 1960's episode "Happy Landing", Davey's neighbor brings him to his job as a air traffic controller at a commercial airport. When the neighbor gets jokingly asked if Davey is a new pilot, he replies "Give Davey 12 more years and he will be up there flying in that plane." We don't know how old you needed to be to fly a commercial plane in the 60's, but if it was still 18 like it is now, that would suggest Davey was 6 in that series. However, if you need a Airline Transport Pilot license, you have to be 23, suggesting the more likely possibility that Davey was 11 in the 60's series.
• Dorg Van Dango: Unlike her brother Dorg, who is explicitly stated to be thirteen years old, Voulez's age doesn't seem to be specified.
• Gwizdo of Dragon Hunters. In The Movie (which was a prequel to the series) he's established as a homeless young adult; in the series he lives in an inn and has apparently been staying there since the innkeeper's daughter Zoria (who is around 20-21 now) was a child, which would mean that he is quite an experienced careerist. Yet appearance-wise he barely looks over 20 and in "The Isle of Mist" when he ends up in a Fountain of Youth for a few seconds he immediately reverts to a young child even though the monks before him had to bathe in it for several minutes just to revert to their thirties — thus they find themselves at the age of the main characters, Lian-Chu and Gwizdo.
• The Dragon Prince does this for their adult cast members. In official materials, the ages of most of the teenage cast are explicitly given, but for their parents, who should be somewhere between their mid-thirties to early fifties, their ages are given as "Dad-ish" or "Aunt-ish".
• Elliott from Earth: Averted. In the second episode, when Frankie holds her son's hand, Elliott protests that he is an 11-year-old boy, saying "we don't need to hold hands in public." Frankie replies that she is a 36-year-old woman on an alien planet, this is for her benefit.
• HBO Family sometimes airs a show called El perro y el gato. The two protagonists seem like adults but in one episode the dog asks the cat what he wants to be when he grows up, and the dog says he wants to be a veterinarian.
• Enforced in Face's Music Party. According to David Kleiler in an interview, Face has no defined age. He further elaborated by stating that Face is more like an older cousin of sorts to the show's preschool demographic, but how much older hasn't been stated.invoked
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • The fairies are immortal and have been alive for millions of years, however it's unsure how old most of the characters are in "human" terms, as well as physically and mentally, through Cosmo and Wanda come off as 30-somethings.
  • Tootie's age seems to be a bit debated. In one tie-in book from 2004, she's stated to be eight (making her two years younger than Timmy). However in some material, she's stated to be ten.
  • Princess Mandie of Boudacia. She's trying to marry Prince Mark Chang, who desires Vicky, a 16 year old. Mark also once tried to hit on Trixie Tang, who is not a teenager. Also, both Cosmo and King Chang were attracted to her despite both being married adults.
• The titular duo of Fanboy and Chum Chum could be no younger than 11 given the fact they are implied to attend fifth grade as said in a few episodes. Kyle says he's a preteen wizard, putting his age between 9-13, yet he sounds like he's at least 18-25.
• The exact age of Felix the Cat is never made clear, with the ambiguity of it most notable in the Trans-Lux television series, where he is depicted as living on his own and being trusted by the Professor to look after his nephew Poindexter, but is occasionally referred to as a kid.
• In the Fillmore! episode "Next Stop, Armageddon", according to Jr. Commissioner Vallejo, it's Principal Folsom's birthday, and even though no one knows her true age, it is hinted that it starts with a 4.
• The titular character of Flip the Frog has a different age in different episodes. Sometimes he's portrayed as a kid, sometimes as an adult.
• It's never stated how old the human main characters of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy are supposed to be, and their school seems to combine elements of elementary school and junior high. In "The Crass Unicorn", Billy states that he gets to "do third grade all over again", which could imply him and Mandy are around 8 to 9 years old.
• Gummi Bears: The exact lifespan of the Gummi Bears is never made clear but without ever saying the exact ages the show implies that: Gruffi, Zummi and Grammi are adults. On this, Zummi is clearly the older and Grammi is sometimes referred by non-gummis as “the Old Lady Bear”, although she and Zummi were cubs at the same time and friends in their childhood so probably have similar ages. Tummi is in his late teens or is a young adult as he is often seeing playing with the cubs but is treated more closely to an adult (one episode has exactly this as the conflict, as Tummi feels he is considered too young to be trustworthy but too old to be allow to play like the cubs), Zunni is in her early teens, Cubby is a pre-teen (and both are considered “cubs” although Zunni is treated accordingly to her adolescent status) and The Sixth Ranger Gusto is according to Tummi from his same age but is mentally more mature.^note Probably because he had to survive on his own on an island for twelve years.
• Ami and Yumi from Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. They are assumed to be adults like their real life counterparts^note Ami was 30 and Yumi was 29 at the time of the show's creation, but the art style makes them look like children and they act like teens.
• The Histeria! Kid Chorus is stated to be in middle school (even the clearly teenage Toast and Pepper), but their exact ages are never stated (except for Froggo, who's ten).
• Jackie Chan Adventures:
  • None of the characters have exact ages. Jade and Paco's ages being unknown is especially strange, since child characters are almost always given definitive ages. Supplemental material says that Jade is twelve, but she looks and acts a bit younger than that.
  • One thing we do know is that the Jackie Chan character is at least a decade younger than the real life Jackie Chan. The episode "Through the Rabbit Hole" features Jade traveling back in time to Jackie's childhood in 1976. The real Jackie Chan (born in 1954) was 22 years old in 1976.
  • Although Uncle's exact age was never mentioned onscreen, in "The Dog And Piggy Show", Jackie says that Uncle was born in the year of the dog. Since he appears to be in his 60s or 70s during the show's run (starting in 2000), this would mean he was born in either 1922 or 1934.
• None of the Jem main characters have confirmed ages. All that is noted is that Kimber is the youngest and the others are somewhere in their twenties. The series bible states Kimber is three years younger than Jerrica but that doesn't say much. We never see her show signs of being in high school so we can assume she already graduated and is either eighteen or nineteen. The IDW comic reboot averts this trope by clearly showing ages in the character bios.
• According to Word of God, the ages of the main characters of Jimmy Two-Shoes are purposely left vague in order to allow a bigger range of stories. Heloise looks like a little girl, but holds down a job as Misery Inc's top inventor, and all three live without parental supervision. Beezy can still get grounded and gets an allowance, but is old enough to get married.
• KaBlam!: Henry and June's ages are never stated in the show, but appearance wise, most likely nine to eleven, most fans put them at ten.
• The entire cast of Kaeloo, except for Stumpy, who is ten. The only thing that is known about the other characters' ages is that none of them have hit puberty yet, Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are older than Stumpy, Quack-Quack is younger than Kaeloo, and Stumpy's sisters are younger than him, with Cramoisie in particular being stated to be "less than 6".
• Kid Cosmic: While Papa G is clearly an old man, it's not made clear exactly how old he is. He is shown in a picture of Mo's Oasis where Flo is a young child and he looks the same as he does in the present, and he is mentioned to have a rather large government file. Compounding this is that Craig McCracken posted a tweet revealing the ages of the main characters, but leaves out how old Papa G is, stating that he, "can't talk about Papa G". Season 3 reveals that he's 112 years old and stayed alive for that long because the crystal he wears around his neck is a healing stone.
• Kim Possible:
  • Shego apparently has a degree in teaching but (when she's not committing crimes For the Evulz) acts like a teenager, lounging around the Supervillain Lair reading fashion magazines. Her relationship with Dr. Drakken (who is Kim's father's age) flipped between father-daughter and romantic throughout the show's run, even though she had a one-episode romance with Senor Senior Junior... who is apparently young enough to crush on Kim and end the show dating her high-school rival Bonnie. The series' character designer states that he designed Shego as a 30-32 year old woman, but Word of God would reveal that she was in her mid-20s by the end of the show.
  • The ages of Kim and Ron (and by extension, their fellow students) are also never really addressed beyond Word of God describing them as "high school age". However, given a few details throughout the series (moving to senior year, being able to drive, graduating etc.) it can be reasonably assumed that they start out in the series at 14/15, before ending up at 17/18 in the final season.
  • Shego's youngest brother, the Wego twins, add onto her vague age by being vaguely aged themselves. They seem around the same age as Tim and Jim, if not a bit older, yet have apparently been superheroes for a while. They also received their powers at the same time as the rest of their family.
• General Iroh II from The Legend of Korra is older than Korra while still being young enough to be the youngest general in the United Forces. He was going to be Asami’s Love Interest when the show was going to be a miniseries. She was 18 during the first season so this puts him probably in his early to mid-twenties. There’s a cut joke floating around the internet where Mako called him 36 when Asami told him they were dating but in context, it’s clearly an exaggeration for comedic effect. His sister was cut out of the show due to time constraints and she was tossed around as a potential girlfriend for Mako after the three year Time Skip. This would put her in her early 20s like Mako, giving credence to the idea of him being in his mid-20s.
• The Lion Guard:
  • Kion and Kiara are not littermates but appear to be of similar ages, despite Kiara explicitly being older. Kion has a tuft of mane growing already and has gotten The Talk however both siblings have the same generic 'cub' design.
  • Fuli looks like a cub but is apparently old enough to have left her mother (unless her mother died). She lives alone and hunts alone.
  • Bunga is obviously young but flashbacks show him even younger when he was taken in by Timon and Pumbaa.
  • Vitani, Kovu, and Nuka all feature Role Reprises from their movie. The problem is that Kovu uses his adult voice but has his cub design. The impression is that of a preteen with a grown man's voice. Some fans have theorized that he is in his early teens though and that he looks a bit older. This only makes Kiara's age more vague as she seems older than Kion, also uses the cub design, but is younger than Kovu.
• In Little Bear, Little Bear is around 5 years old—he has a birthday early in the series—and Emily turns 7 at one point. They are both regarded as young children and live with their adult guardians, and Little Bear is voiced by an actress who was ten when the show began. However, all of Little Bear's forest friends live by themselves and are voiced by adults, but unlike Emily's Granny or Little Bear's parents and grandparents, they fall victim to the same childish misconceptions as Little Bear, spend all day playing the same pretend games, and in general have as much to learn as Little Bear. The confirmed adults (Granny and the parent and grandparent Bears) treat Cat, Hen, Duck, and Owl as children, not as fellow adults. Perhaps their naivete comes from their being Partially Civilised Animals instead of Funny Animals like the bears, rather than due to being children.
  • Hen and Owl in particular sometimes act more like adults (though this may be due to their more pompous personalities), and Hen is an aunt, so she must have a sibling old enough to have chicks.
  • When Little Bear and Duck recall their first meeting, he was only slightly younger and she was a recently hatched duckling, so Duck must be younger than Little Bear, who had not been a baby for years. When Little Bear recalls meeting Owl, he and Owl both look the same as they do now.
• Looney Tunes:
  • In his earliest cartoons, Porky Pig fluctuated between being a child and being an adult. The latter is easier to relate to, considering his future mild-mannered personality compared to the other Looney Tunes characters.
    • His co-stars in 1935-1936 (Beans the Cat, Oliver Owl, and Little Kitty) also had their ages change from cartoon to cartoon; they were schoolchildren in their first cartoon, but in many subsequent appearances, they were adults. Ham and Ex the St. Bernard puppies were the only consistent exceptions.
  • For that matter, Bosko definitely counts. He seems to live on his own, hold down jobs and the like in his Warner Bros. shorts, but many MGM shorts (especially after his redesign) depict him as a child with an imagination.
  • The main characters of Tiny Toon Adventures are young enough to be the offspring of the original Looney Tunes, to whom they are otherwise not related. Acme Looniversity has a prom as well as spring and summer breaks, and the Tiny Toons appear to be quite independent, but most of them still live with parents and are expected to obey their rules. These facts would normally suggest that they are high schoolers, but the majority of the cast do not seem like actual 9th to 12th graders at times. Montana Max and Elmyra Duff both look and behave more like elementary schoolers, while only Fifi La Fume and Arnold the Pitbull resemble teenagers in appearance and temperament. Further confusing matters is the theme song's reference to getting a "degree" as well as the fact that "Looniversity" is a pun on "university". In the first episode, Babs says she's 14, which would make sense for most of the characters, though Elmyra definitely looks and acts younger.
• While most characters from The Loud House have their ages explicitly stated, a few don't:
  • Carlitos is a toddler and some sources put him at one (like Lily) and others at two.
  • Rosa is old enough to be the grandmother of two seventeen-year-olds, making her 53 at the youngest (if Bobby and Carlota were born when their parents were eighteen and she in turn had Maria and Carlos when she was eighteen, which seems pretty unlikely, so she's probably older) but she hasn't gone grey yet. Similarly, Myrtle is dating Pop-Pop (who's explicitly old) but she hasn't gone grey yet.
  • Carl's age is said to be six in one source, but eight in another.
• On Maisy the characters, a cute female mouse and her friends, go where they want, do what they want, drive cars, fly planes, take their own baths, etc. Really, there's nothing explicitly indicating that they aren't adults, other than their very childlike appearance, childlike babble speech and tendency to play with toys and stuffed animals (not that adults don't ever do that last one, of course.)
• Meg and Mog: Mog is a fully grown cat and Meg is an adult (although she could be anywhere from her 20s to her 50s.) Owl, however, can fly, but he goes to school. Then again, it's possible that owls in this series start their education as adults.
• The members of Dethklok on Metalocalypse are of a vague adult age. In the first season, Pickles is said to have run away from home 15 years ago at the age of 16, which makes him 31. However, he also played in a hair metal band in The '80s. If he was, say, 19 in 1985, that makes him 40 when the series begins.
• Mike, Lu & Og: Mike's age is unstated, but looks to be around 10 to 12. Lu says she's 10 in "High Rise", while Og celebrates his 7th birthday in "The Great Snipe Hunt".
• My Little Pony:
  • This occurs throughout the generations. Characters are explicitly referred to as adults and several of them even have children, however they're notoriously immature and love playing with toys. Then again they are horses. The My Little Pony (G3) characters are especially hard to pin down ages for.
  • Megan from My Little Pony TV Specials and My Little Pony 'n Friends looks somewhere between ten and fourteen. She has younger siblings who seem under ten.
  • All the main characters in My Little Pony Tales go to school, which would put them anywhere from six to sixteen, and they generally behave like middle schoolers. Sweetheart was the only aversion, celebrating her tenth birthday in "Happy Birthday, Sweetheart".
  • The main cast in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic are generally assumed to be anywhere from older teens at the youngest and late twenty-somethings at oldest. They all live independently and most work professionally, but also engage in activities such as slumber parties, and their interactions with explicitly pre-adolescent characters vacillate between older sibling and responsible adult figure. This isn't helped by the show's unexplained time scale of "moons", which Word of God pointed out on one occasion would depend on several factors that they don't really care about in order to actually nail down.
    • Spike is several years younger than the rest of the main cast, but how old he is relative to the other children in the show is unclear. He lives with Twilight Sparkle and is eventually confirmed to be her younger brother in the final season, but unlike the other young characters, he has a job (as Twilight's assistant) and doesn't attend school. All the while still being considered a "baby" dragon and sounding like a child or young teen. He starts molting and then grows wings in Season 8, which is treated similarly to puberty, further implying he's physically in his late preteens or early teens. Word of God states that Spike is a pre-teen by dragon standards and "at least 7 - 10 years younger than Twilight in pony years◊.
    • This is even worse for supporting and background characters, with whom the writers care little about episode-to-episode consistency. The ones you might assume are the same age may be either adults or foals in flashbacks.
    • There's also the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They're significantly older than five, as shown in "For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils", and talk about how they're not little kids anymore, yet are clearly not teenagers.
    • No one gets this worse than Sunset Shimmer from the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls spinoff series. In general, the portal-mirror seems to age ponies down slightly when going from Equestria to the human realm, since the adult Twilight is a high-schooler there (not to mention 1000+ years old Celestia and Luna being regular middle-aged women), so the same presumably applies to Sunset, who appears to be the same age as Twilight in both forms. However, Sunset was also a student of Celestia before Twilight, and Twilight became Celestia's student when fairly young, so unless Sunset left Celestia when very she was very young herself, there would have to be at least a few years between them. The comics (subject to Schrödinger's Canon) shows that Sunset was in her mid-to-late teens when she left, and just to make things even more complicated, shows a filly Twilight in the background, which would make her at least a decade older. Fans tend to interpret the human realm as operating on Year Outside, Hour Inside, which would explain how Sunset is not in her thirties like she should be.
• In Nina Needs to Go!, Nina herself is four, but her brother Frank could be anywhere between seven and twelve.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes has this Played for Laughs, with the official bios giving characters no exact age, but only a general range like "late teen", "adult", or "a little past his prime". K.O. in particular is repeatedly referred to as being "six to eleven years old". In one episode, upon learning that his mom gave up being a superhero "6-11 years ago," K.O. gasps "That's exactly how old I am!" Later in the show's Dénouement Episode, we see three of his birthdays in the future; he's given pancakes with candles saying "13-17", "18-24", and "35+".
• Peg + Cat: In "Peg Meets Cat", it's revealed that Peg met Cat when he was a kitten and she was a semi-verbal toddler. This happened explicitly four years ago (Tessa was nine and she's thirteen now), meaning Peg is five or six and Cat is four (which is an adult in cat years), however, in "The Big Dog Problem", Cat states that he is growing (though he could possibly be referring to psychological growth). There's also Richard, who's younger than Peg but not a baby, making him anywhere between two and five, and Ramone. Ramone is older than Peg and works jobs, but is not an adult. He could possibly be a teen, but he's not part of The Teens. In "I Do What I Can: the Musical", they do a play about Ramone having to do thirty good deeds before he's ten, which possibly suggests he's ten or younger, but it's hard to say.
• Who knows how old any of the penguins in The Penguins of Madagascar are? It's worth noting that apparently Private is younger than the rest (but interestingly had at least one earlier identity as the Mini Golf champion Mr. Tux). We're given a clue that Skipper and company weren't alive, or at least were not yet adults, in the 1960s as Skipper wants to go back in time and slap a hippie. Skipper recalls an adventure where he woke up in a bed covered in Deutchmarks (the German currency that was discontinued by 2002). It's also worth noting that Buck Rockgut had been down in the tunnel under the zoo for forty-seven years when the penguins found him, and that it's implied that he's much older than they are. That's around twice a normal penguin's natural lifespan. The Movie has a flashback to the time when Skipper, Rico, and Kowalski meet a newborn Private. The character designs of the very young penguins reflects the fact that they themselves were definitely not yet adults at the time and have not yet begun their adventuring. But then again, Word of God indicates that the movies are an Alternate Continuity.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • The title characters are a little young to be doing the things they do, but how young isn't stated. They, as well as their friends, were originally supposed to be nine years old (as mentioned in the pilot), but when the creators saw how well various age groups responded to them they decided they were simply "less than fifteen" (in other words, younger than Candace). It's hard to get any clearer an example from how they act: Phineas is a Cheerful Child who's Oblivious to Love, while Ferb sounds like a teenager and has hints of being a Covert Pervert.
  • In "Quantum Boogaloo", they travel twenty years into the future, and future-Linda says that "her Phineas and Ferb" are thirty (which Word of God said not to take too literally). However, the Distant Epilogue episode "Act Your Age" is supposed to be set ten years in the future, and the two are just now heading for college.
  • In "Cranius Maximus", Isabella says she was "so looking forward to junior high", making her no more than 12.
  • Averted with Candace, who was 14 at the start of the show but turned 15 in "Candace Loses Her Head". In "Comet Kermillian", she says she will bust the boys when she's 88 (Ferb: "Actually, you'll be 88½."), and the comet can be seen every 73½ years, placing her age at 15 at the time of the episode (88−73=15).
  • Jeremy also averts this, as in The Movie Candace mentions he's one year older than she is, placing him at 16, the same age as Vanessa.
• The Popeye characters don't have their ages revealed, though "Goonland" and "Popeye, the Ace of Space" imply that Popeye himself is around 40, while "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" has Olive being called "a maid in her teens". Also, in "Puttin' on the Act" (from 1940), it's shown that Popeye and Olive had an 1890s vaudeville act.
  • In the 1960s cartoons, Swee'Pea is sometimes portrayed as a baby, and sometimes has the intellect of a preschooler, despite always wearing his blue onesie.
• The age of the titular trio in The Powerpuff Girls (2016) is this. In the original show Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup were explicitly five years old biologically (but younger due to being Artificial Humans), however the reboot is more ambiguous. They are in an elementary school and their class teaches elementary level subjects, however their kindergarten teacher Ms. Keane is still their teacher. Their classmates look older than six, many of the students outright look like middle schoolers, and in one episode the girls were teased by classmates for "looking like babies". They sound older and act older but still use the same designs they did when they were five. According to one episode the girls have had five Picture Days, which pins them around ten or eleven years old. However, their classmate Princess is explicitly six. It's made even more confusing when a fourth Powerpuff Girl named Bliss appears who is explicitly a teenager and looks taller and curvier than the others.
• Suga Mama of The Proud Family was presented as quite old. For one, she had a driver's license that expired in 1938. However, in The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, her father is still living and her brothers, who look decades younger than her (though Chuck, the youngest, probably is much younger than her, as he was born after Suga Mama was disowned), comment that she hasn't aged well, implying that she's a case of Younger Than They Look.
• The three main ducks in Quack Pack. They are portrayed as teenagers, but their actual age is never revealed. However, they mentioned in one episode if they’re old enough to drive a car, which would make them at or around 16.
• In The Raccoons, Bert acts like a child, but he also seemed to have graduated school and works as both a professional journalist and paperboy.
• Rainbow Brite: Rainbow barely reaches ten year old Brian's hips but is old enough to have Ship Tease with him. She and the other Color Kids act awfully mature for their looks and live alone. There are implications that Rainbow has lived in Rainbow Land for years which brings to question if she even ages.
• Ready Jet Go!: Mitchell's age is unclear; all we know is that he's younger than Jet, Sean, and Sydney, who are each 10. Due to the inconsistency with the animation, Mitchell is either taller or the same size as Mindy, and does not know how to spell "electric engine" yet can make a replica of Saturn V and somehow managed to acquire an ion drive.
• While most of the characters on Recess are given ages, what age Cornchip Girl is and what grade she's in was left ambiguous. In "One Stayed Clean" she's shown among the kindergarteners, though this may have been accidental as she was shown running away from them earlier. Most episodes suggest she's in between grades first and third, but has been confirmed not to be in the same grade as the main six. Most fans tend to place her around seven.
• Rick and Morty: Rick Sanchez is old enough to have an adult daughter and two teenage grandchildren, though his exact age is never conclusively given, and he generally acts and sounds much younger than an elderly man. Not helping matters is that whenever a younger version of himself does appear (either through flashbacks or sci-fi shenanigans), there's little if any difference between them and his present day self, aside from a different hairstyle and skin that's less pale. Rick's hair is shown to have always been the same bluish-gray color, even as a child. Also, 17-year-old Summer — Rick's oldest grandchild — was the result of a Teen Pregnancy, meaning that Jerry and Beth (Rick's daughter) are only in their mid-thirties tops. So unless Rick had Beth at a late age (which, given his attitude on love and relationships, isn't implausible), he may not be that old. On the flip side, Rick has been known to transfer his consciousness into new bodies at various points, so it's possible that his consciousness is much older than his physical body.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • The gang are old enough to travel on the road on a consistent basis but still young enough to be considered "Meddling Kids". This would suggest that they are young twenty-somethings, but some episodes of the original series seem to treat them as high schoolers. Word of God would later place them as older teens: Velma as the youngest at fifteen, Daphne at sixteen, and the boys at seventeen. But that's only for the original series, as every installment since the late 1990s have put the gang somewhere in their twenties when they aren't explicitly high-schoolers (such as in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated), and even then, their ages are kept ambiguous outside Velma usually remaining the youngest.
  • Scooby himself, who is either a puppy who met Shaggy when the foodie was still a young child or even an infant (like A Pup Named Scooby-Doo) or a spry full-grown dog who meets an already teenage Shaggy (like in Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins). Either way, the various incarnations of the series tend to treat him as aging more like a human than a dog.
  • Scrappy is also an enigma. He's smaller than Scooby and his catchphrase is "Puppy power!", but in the 2002 live-action movie, Daphne states that he isn't a puppy but has a gland problem.
  • Futurama joked on this.
  "Here's a puzzler: How old are we on a scale of 14 to 32?"
• Seven Little Monsters lacks a consistency regarding the titular monsters' ages. They are giants who look and sound like adults, but are frequently shown to lack basic knowledge they have to be educated about by their mother or another person which would be unlikely for an adult to be ignorant about, plus "The Whole Tooth" centers around Six losing a baby tooth when it is impossible for adults to have any baby teeth left. On the other hand, Three's personas often have his chosen character demonstrate knowledge and skills appropriate to his role that he'd realistically obtain through years of higher education, while the alternate timeline shown in "It's a Wonder-Four Life" shows the timeline's counterparts to One, Two, Three, Six and Seven in lines of work where they'd have to at least graduate high school to be eligible for hiring (such as Six's counterpart being a dance instructor). Further complicating matters is that they are shown to have been significantly smaller as young children and their mother mentions in "Seven Monsters and a Baby" that it's been 40 years since she last had a chance to rest, but doesn't state where in that timeframe her children were born.
• The Simpsons:
  • Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney. They are implied to be teenagers, but apparently attend Springfield Elementary. Kearney has a very screechy voice and acts like a teenage bully, but a few seasons in was frequently shown as being in his thirties. Yet even after that start, he would for instance need a fake ID or someone else to buy him beer. One episode shows that Jimbo is bald under his knit cap.
  • And then there's Mr Burns...usually treated as being just on the high side of 100 years old, but one throwaway gag had him mentioning his birthplace: Pangaea. In the early years (1989-1993), when the show was more realistic, he gave his age as 81, suggesting he was born in the decade just prior to World War I. Also of note is that his Social Security number is 2 (only behind FDR).
  • Homer's father, Abraham "Grandpa" Simpson is a pretty strong example. He was old enough to serve in the second World War and is apparently around Mr. Burns' age, give or take a few years younger, as both men had served together. Also, it's been lampshaded in a few episodes that not even members of his own family are aware of how old he truly is. In "The Mansion Family", during a moment in a local awards show that was trying to determine who the oldest resident of Springfield was, he reports his age as less than 90, greater than 80, and less than 70. His character design is no help either, as in the episode with Homer's mother, she states that he's aged badly, which he blames on having to raise Homer by himself.
  • Then there's Ned Flanders. In "Hurricane Neddy", he's seen as a kid thirty years ago but this kid is also quite ambiguous in age (his voice sounds quite high, but the adult Ned has quite a high voice for a dude anyway). This could make him probably in his thirties or maybe forties. However, in "Viva Ned Flanders", he claims he is actually sixty but is so healthy (and possibly is blessed by God from going to church so often if the "daily dose of vitamin church" line is to be believed) that he looks younger. It's possible that he was lying to get the seniors' discount, but that would be very out-of-character for Ned. There's also the fact that until the episode "Alone Again, Natura-Diddly", he had a wife named Maude who was either fertile or had only recently gone through menopause as their sons Rod and Todd are still children.
  • Some of the students in Springfield Elementary will shift between being classmates with Bart (4th grade) and Lisa (2nd grade) depending on the needs of the plot.
  • Then we have Rod and Todd. Both were around when Lisa was born, making them no younger than eight, and Rod looks a bit older (and in Lisa's story where she bases two alien brothers off the Flanders brothers, she says that one is two "space years" older than the other). This probably makes them either eight and ten, nine and eleven, or ten and twelve (Rod's voice hasn't changed, so he's probably not a teenager).
  • Then there's Waylon Smithers. Troy McClure in "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" mentions Smithers is in his 40s. In "The Blunder Years" shows him as a baby by his father in the flashback 25 years ago when Homer was around 12. Other episodes show him as a classmate to Homer and Marge.
  • Speaking of Homer and Marge, they're in their 30s—that is, their early 30s in Season 1 (with Marge celebrating her 34th birthday in "Life on the Fast Lane"), their late 30s by Season 8 (which makes Marge 37 and Homer 38), and just at some point in their 30s from thereon in.
  • There’s also Hans Moleman. He is seen regularly hanging out with other Springfield senior citizens but he's still young enough that at least one of his parents is still alive. TheRealJims discusses this, ultimately landing on his mid-to-late 60s, old enough he isn't out of place in a retirement home but young enough the fact that his father is still alive doesn't require any cartoon logic like with Mr. Burns (assuming, of course, that the line about him being only 31 and having been prematurely aged by alcoholism is just a throwaway gag).
  • Kent Brockman. He is middle-aged at the minimum, with visible wrinkles and white hair (which is shown to be a toupee at one point). "The Great Louse Detective" and The Simpsons Movie show that in its natural state, his face is so saggy and wrinkly◊ that he needs clothespins to keep it back, and "Mother Simpson" shows that he's been reporting since at least the 1960s. All that is known for sure is that he's under 70, because he's affected by the amended curfew set at the end of "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken."
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • The ages of SpongeBob and Patrick are unknown and inconsistent. Are they adults? Children? Immature teenagers? Man children? Thanks to the Negative Continuity and lack of official confirmation, we may never know for sure. ^note According to his driver's license in the 2000 episode "Sleepy Time," SpongeBob SquarePants was born on July 14, 1986, which would make him 38 years old as of 2024. Though this is probably not official confirmation, since it would mean he was only 13 years old on the episode's airdate, too young to apply for a driver's license or have a job, unless the laws are different for sea creatures. They both live on their own, hold down jobs (in Patrick's case, they're not steady due to his laziness and idiocy) and can apply for a driver's license. Some early episodes even mention them having attended high school and community college in the past, suggesting that they must be adults. However, they are often referred to as "kids" by other characters, are quite emotionally immature and have childish pastimes such as blowing bubbles and playing with toys. The movie explicitly states that SpongeBob has won 374 Employee of the Month awards, meaning he's been working at The Krusty Krab for a little over 31 years by that point, even though most of the characters say he's "just a kid." Though if he ages like a real sponge, he's essentially The Ageless.
  • Squidward is this as well. While consistently hinted to be older than SpongeBob, some episodes imply that he's only a few years older, while others present him as a cranky middle-aged man. In the spin-off Kamp Koral, which is supposed to be a Prequel to the main show, while SpongeBob and Patrick are 10 years old, he is a junior counselor in the titular camp, which means that he's around 2-5 years older than them.
  • Mr. Krabs is old. How old he is, on the other hand, seems to vary from episode to episode. Mr. Krabs’s driver’s license says he was born on 30 November 1942, but “Can You Spare a Dime?” shows that his first dime was a giant rock, implying that he’s been around much longer than that. In "Mall Girl Pearl", however, his birthdate is 25 September 1960. Further complicating things, both his mother and his grandfather are still alive.
  • Plankton's age is also uncertain. In "Friend or Foe", he's said to be born on the same day as Mr. Krabs, thus being the same age as him. Despite this, in "Kamp Koral", he's saving money for college, which means he must've been a young adult when SpongeBob was ten (thus younger than Krabs) unless he went to college much later than average.
  • Sandy is almost certainly an adult, but whether she's closer to SpongeBob and Patrick's ages or Squidward's age is unclear, especially since her demeanor seems youthful and immature sometimes while being more restrained and snarky other times.
• Bo-Katan Kryze in Star Wars: The Clone Wars is the sister of Mandalorian Duchess Satine Kryze. Neither have confirmed ages yet, but Satine is Obi-Wan Kenobi's former childhood crush, which would place her in her late thirties at that point. Bo-Katan looks to be around the same age as Satine, but it's hard to tell because all of the adult characters under fifty look more or less the same age due to the show's art style (for example, Obi-Wan and Anakin look to be about the same age even though the former is 16 years older than the latter). Bo-Katan later shows up in Star Wars Rebels, about 15 years after the Clone Wars and she still looks relatively young. Then she made her live-action debut in The Mandalorian, which takes place nearly thirty years after the Clone Wars, yet she looks to be no older than her forties (Bo-Katan's actress, Katee Sackhoff, was about 40 during her appearances in season two of The Mandalorian) while Satine would have been in her late sixties were she still alive at that point. It's possible that Bo-Katan was in her early twenties or even her teens during the Clone Wars, making her much younger than Satine and possibly a half-sister. Katie Sackhoff seems to confirm that Bo-Katan was in her teens during the Clone Wars, but this is Word of Saint Paul and may not be matter-of-fact canon.
• Steven Universe:
  • Steven and Connie's ages were debated for a long time among fans, and were generally thought to be somewhere between 8 and 12. They're both very short and Steven is also quite immature. More than a year passed in-universe, without either visibly aging, before the late season two episode "Steven's Birthday" had Steven turn fourteen, though he stopped growing around age eight because of his Half-Human Hybrid genes. Connie, who's a few months away from turning thirteen, is rather stunned by this news, having assumed Steven was younger than her.
    Greg: Whoa, looks like you stagnated there a little bit, buddy.
  • Sadie and Lars have been working at Big Donut for two years by the series' beginning, and in America most chain stores will only hire people older than sixteen. They don't seem to have any adult supervision at their job either. "Sadie's Song" states that she never went to prom, so she's presumably out of high school at the least. Lars has mentioned he's a teenager, and is apparently still in high school, meaning that he's probably either eighteen or nineteen. Their peers' ages are similarly broad, though the show's timeline implies Sour Cream specifically was about fifteen at the show's start.
  • Gems technically have no physical ages, however most look like adults. Ruby and Sapphire are both the same height as Steven, Ruby is hot-headed and unstable like a child, and unlike Amethyst they have childish bodies. Fans are torn whether they're supposed to look like little kids or are short, small chested women. It doesn't help that their fusion, Garnet, is clearly an adult. The timeline the show's creator used states Sapphire is eight thousand years old while Ruby is six thousand.
  • Amethyst's age is the least vague of all the Gem characters, but is still within the wide range of "less than 5000 years old", as the Kindergarten Amethyst was born in was shut down 6000 years ago and she wasn't present at a certain battle that took place 5000 years ago. The timeline rounds this to five thousand, including the half millenia before she joined the Crystal Gems.
  • Peridot is The Napoleon, has an immature personality, and like Amethyst the Great Offscreen War was before her time. She could be almost any age younger than five millenia, though Lapis once insisted she was still much older than any human. The timeline lists her has being three thousand.
  • Onion is obviously younger than Steven, but how young he is is never mentioned. Two years have passed in Future and he still looks the exact same age.
• It's hard to pin an age onto the Strawberry Shortcake characters. They look like preteens both in their 2003 and 2007 designs, despite the fact Apple Dumplin' aged noticeably at least six years. It's made even more confusing by the fact the later episodes involve the characters getting jobs, moving out, and driving cars but no one looks over fourteen. The 2009 series is equally bad, with the characters owning their own stores but looking no older than fifteen. Even prior to this, they lived in their homes, planned their own sleepovers, and otherwise generally managed their own lives and there were no parent characters shown. In "Baby Takes the Cake" from the 2003 series, Strawberry Shortcake warns viewers to leave certain dangerous things related to cooking like using knives or handling a hot stove to an adult. Which would seem to be her way of suggesting that she is one.
• Sunny Day: Sunny, Rox and Blair are old enough to live and work on their own, about 13-18 to be exact, and even have the voices and appearances to prove it. However, the description says they are ten, which is rather odd.
• Sym-Bionic Titan: None of the characters' ages are explicitly stated, with almost all of them falling into vague groups like "teen". Lance comes the closest to specifics; his unfazed reaction to Ilana saying he'd have to be 16 to get a driver's license in "Roar of the White Dragon" suggests he's at least that old, but when he eventually receives his license this trope is ultimately played straight, as when we see it onscreen it's shown to completely lack a field for age or a birthdate.
• Teen Titans (2003):
  • They're all teenagers between 13 and 20, with Beast Boy implied to be the youngest and Cyborg the oldest. That's all that's stated about their ages. Raven has a plot-relevant birthday that fits the Dangerous 16th Birthday trope, but no one actually ever mentions her age. Teen Titans Go! has Cyborg more explicitly as 18-21, but it's unknown if that applies to the 2003 cartoon. Go! would also joke that Starfire is 156 in Tamaranian years, without saying how that translates to human years.
  • Beast Boy in the New Teen Titans comics was sixteen during the arcs adapted. His age in the animated adaptation is harder to pin down. He's the shortest of the group, has a higher pitched voice than the other two boys, and is treated as the youngest member. He's a Teen Titan so he can't be any younger than thirteen. In one Bizarro Episode, he gets a part-time job, which implies that he's at least sixteen. To make it more confusing, he split from the Doom Patrol years ago but doesn't seem much older than he did in flashbacks.
  • Mas y Menos look and sound even younger than Beast Boy yet they are Teen Titans, pinning them at thirteen at the youngest.
• In 3-2-1 Penguins!, it's never explicitly stated or even implied how old the penguins are. Since they're penguins, their ages can't be determined by their appearances alone. If their ages are determined by their voices and how long it's been since Bert Bertman graduated from the Federation Academy, their ages would be from late twenties to early thirties.
• On ToddWorld, the main characters all seem to largely conduct their own affairs, roaming freely throughout ToddWorld, handling their own baths and scheduling activities and stuff. Yet they're also very childlike, often engage in pastimes generally enjoyed by children, and in "Snack Happy," Stella mentions having a special tuna sandwich that her mom made her. While there are adults on the show, the only parent that's ever seen is Sophie's cat, who is an adoptive mother of puppies.
• On Toot & Puddle, Toot and Puddle live together on their own and do stuff like travel the world. Yet they seem to have a childlike quality about them and sometimes don't seem to know stuff that an adult should already know. For example, in "The Legend of Pocket Hollow," when Otto tells Puddle that a story of his is "just a legend," Puddle asks what a "legend" is. There's also the fact that neither of them stand much taller than cousin Opal, who is a clearly a young little girl, and in I'll Be Home for Christmas, Toot's aunt and uncle are both quite a bit wider and taller than him. On the flipside, however, the two are often have Opal stay over at their home and are responsible for her while she's there.
• The four cadets of Top Wing act like they could be 6-8 years old.
• Total Drama has a downplayed case with Blaineley. She is certainly elder to the original twenty-four contestants (who are around 17 in the third season), but it is not clear how large the age difference really is. She has a hosting job with both one adult and two teenagers, ends up briefly competing for the money alongside more teenagers, gets Ship Tease with both adult Chef Hatchet and teenaged Owen, and admits to having crushes on Justin as well as Alejandro, who are both teenagers.
• Spike in The Transformers - when he first appeared, he was working on an oil rig, but in a later episode, he mentioned he was too young for a driver's license. In the same episode, he begins a romance with a girl who is in college.
• It is difficult to tell if Piglet in the Disney versions of Winnie the Pooh is supposed to be a child or an adult. His name and his short stature should imply that he is young, but his relatively mature personality suggests that he may be significantly older than Roo.
• The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: It is difficult to determine the intended ages of Birdie the Early Bird and Hamburglar in this continuity. They might be children due to Hamburglar being around Tika, Franklin and Org's height as well as Birdie being even shorter than how she appears in the standard McDonaldland advertisements and attending a karate class where the other students are clearly children in Visitors from Outer Space (assuming this isn't a similar case to Johnny Bravo being his karate class's sole adult student). On the other hand, the lack of any indication that Hamburglar and Birdie attend school or live under any semblance of adult supervision, in addition to them being de-aged into toddlers like the rest of the McDonaldland gang in Birthday World while Tika and Franklin de-aged into slightly younger babies (which would indicate that Ronald and friends are intended to be around the same age) suggests that they may be adults.
• In Winx Club, Faragonda, Griffin, and Saladin are all depicted as mature adults on the side of elderly. However, flashbacks that show them acting as the Company of Light and Griffin as working with Valtor depict their younger selves in the same way the main cast (in their teens/twenties) are drawn—except those flashbacks are from when Valtor was last active only eighteen years ago. If they were in their twenties then, they should be in their forties now, not their sixties-seventies.
  • Helia further complicates this point—Saladin is drawn as being young man eighteen years ago, but he has a grandson who is at least nineteen.
• Wonkidos has Evan the boy. He looks like he could be anywhere from two to eleven and he's still learning to do things like use the toilet. The cartoon was meant for autistic children... but autism is so varied that its effects can vary from severe developmental problems to none at all and it's never revealed whether Evan himself is autistic or not. If he is, he'd likely be on the "high-functioning" end of the spectrum as he is fully verbal, doesn't stim or do anything like that, and becomes a pro at the lesson of the day as soon as it's explained to him.
• Due to it being a preschool show, the ages on Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! are hard to pin down due to multiple factors.
  • Characters like Wubbzy, Daizy, Huggy, Buggy and the Kooky Kid are at least seem to be at least elementray school age (Earl might be around the same age range, though it's hard with him due to him having a deeper voice), yet they live by themselves without any parents and roam around Wuzzleburg without adult supervision most of the time^note During an interview with several real-life children, Wubbzy stated that he is old enough to ride every ride at the amusement park, but not "not old enough to like Brussel sprouts".
  • Widget is taller than Wubbzy and Daizy, is somewhat more mature compare to them and is seen to be an inventor. Yet she attends classes with either Wubbzy or his friends, likes playing with dolls and sometimes tend to be childish as Wubbzy. Either she's a Child Prodigy or just an older character that still likes childish things.
  • Walden is just as short as Wubbzy and, like with Widget, hangs out with Wubbzy in classes they attend. Yet he's the most mature out of the four and in "Who Needs School" has him as a teacher.
• In Xiaolin Showdown and Xiaolin Chronicles, none of the Xiaolin Dragons have their ages stated, neither in the show nor in outside sources. Kimiko and Omi celebrated their birthdays in the second series (although Omi techniqually chose the day he wants to celebrate it since he doesn't know when his birthday actually is), but no mention of their age whatsoever. The only known thing is that Ping Pong is the youngest, followed most likely by Omi. Likewize, there's no mention about Jack Spicer's age, either, and it's not made clear if he's a teenager or a young adult.

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