Actual age vs. physical age

[KangConquers]

I thought it would be cool to list all the characters who aren't physically their chronological age, whether it's due to immortality, mutation, future technology, having their mind put in a new body, or whatever. (Note, this doesn't count Gods or cosmic beings.)


These are the ones I know (if the characters are dead, it's as of their last appearance.)


Apocalypse: over 5,000
Black Widow (Romanoff): late 60s
Captain America: early 90s
Diablo: 1,300
Juggernaut:70-75 (fought in Korea/ is Charles older step-brother.)
Kang The Conqueror: 75-80 (or 3,100 if you count that he was entombed alive for 3 millenia.)
Kraven: over 70 years old.
Magneto: 75-80 (born in the late 20s)
Mandarin: 87 (born in 1920.)
Morlun: several centuries old.
Mystique: 100+
Nick Fury: early 90s.
Professor X: 65-70 (fought in Korea.)
The Red Skull: nearly 100.
Sinister: 200-ish.
Spider-Woman 1- late 70s
Tyrannus: 1,600
Wolverine: 140

There's got to be more...remember..Earthborn, non-Gods.

 

[Manic]

Leech.
He was depicted as an adult (or older teen) in his first appearance. He was in his young teens around the same time as Wolfsbane. He's gotta be nearly 20 by now. Looks 11.

If you're counting reverse depictions and time travel, Cable is probably physically 30-40, but should be a toddler.

 

[November Rain]

Anybody that has come from the future of some sort or another is technically a minus age...

so valeria von doom, cable etc...

 

[MilkmanDan]

Thanks to wonders of time-travel, Cyclops and Jean Grey have minds that are about 12 years older than their physical bodies. Does that count?

 

[KangConquers]

Thanks to wonders of time-travel, Cyclops and Jean Grey have minds that are about 12 years older than their physical bodies. Does that count?

Yes.

 

[wobbly]

Are you only counting explained age discrepencies?

If not then both Reed Richards and Ben Grimm were also shown to have served in WW2 so they'd both be only a little younger than Fury.

Others...
Dum Dum Dugan.
Namor.
Bucky.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Whoops, missed the "non-gods" part.

Also, Kraven's still dead, isn't he? The current Kraven is his son.

 

[Silicon Surfer]

Black Widow is in her mid to late 70's. She was a kid in 1941 when she first met Logan and Cap in Madripoor. Sinister is 150+ and Exodus is 800 +or -. Puck I think fought in WW1.

 

[Manic]

Why is Bucky/Winter Soldier still so young?

 

[The Question]

Why is Bucky/Winter Soldier still so young?

The Russians kept him in cryo between missions, so they wouldn't have to deal with all that "conscience" crap.

 

[KangConquers]

Black Widow is in her mid to late 70's. She was a kid in 1941 when she first met Logan and Cap in Madripoor. Sinister is 150+ and Exodus is 800 +or -. Puck I think fought in WW1.

According to the handbook, Widow was born in 1939, making her late 60s.

Sinister is 200, being a contemporary of Darwin's, who was born in the early 1800s.

Exodus sounds about right.

 

[KangConquers]

Are you only counting explained age discrepencies?

If not then both Reed Richards and Ben Grimm were also shown to have served in WW2 so they'd both be only a little younger than Fury.

Others...
Dum Dum Dugan.
Namor.
Bucky.

They've completely Retconned Reed and Ben in WW2, and even nam. The current implied ages for Reed and Ben are early 40s, Sue in her early-mid 30s, Johnny in his late 20's-early 30s.

At one point Ben said that it was a ridiculous rumor or something, denying that he was old enough to fight in either war.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Exodus is closer to 900. He had to have been born in the 1100s or late 1000s because he participated in one of the first few Crusades alongside Eobar Garrington.

Also, Gustav Brandt, a.k.a. Libra, should be in his 60s. He served in the French army during the Vietnam War. I don't know if his age has been retconned or was somehow ******ed by the Priests of Pama or his later understanding of cosmic balance or whatever, but he looked to be a little bit younger than how old he ought to be in Avengers Forever, which I think was his most recent appearance.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

Whoops, missed the "non-gods" part.

Also, Kraven's still dead, isn't he? The current Kraven is his son.

But even then, its probably been like maybe 5 years since his death in comic time, so thats still pretty old.


Why was he so old, by the way, I swear Ive read his origin story but i cant really remember. Is it tied to some Stalin stuff. Is that why he had that mustache?

 

[Silicon Surfer]

The Widow could not possibly have been born in 1939 because that would have made her 2 years old when she met Logan and Cap in what was specifically stated to be 1941. She appeared to be 10-12 at the time. She was also accompanied by her friend Ivan who was an adult at the time and is still around AFAIK. He was an informal member of the Champions alongside the Widow.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

By the way, they really need to retcon some of these characters relations to real events. Xavier should be that freaking old. I still dont know what reason they give for Magneto apparently being that old

 

[KangConquers]

By the way, they really need to retcon some of these characters relations to real events. Xavier should be that freaking old. I still dont know what reason they give for Magneto apparently being that old

A major part of his character was that he was a holocaust victim...you can't put WW2 on a sliding time scale; thus Magneto has a set age.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

A major part of his character was that he was a holocaust victim...you can't put WW2 on a sliding time scale; thus Magneto has a set age.

Yeah I know that. But with Nick Fury, they retconned him into taking some age-reducing medicine or something, right? So whats the reason that Magneto ages so slowly?

 

[Majik1387]

Did Jubilee age over 16 yet?

 

[Manic]

Yeah I know that. But with Nick Fury, they retconned him into taking some age-reducing medicine or something, right? So whats the reason that Magneto ages so slowly?

Magneto got an age reduction. Some a-hole apparently aged him to an infant, then later returned him to adulthood-- several years younger than he's supposed to be.

 

[KangConquers]

Yeah I know that. But with Nick Fury, they retconned him into taking some age-reducing medicine or something, right? So whats the reason that Magneto ages so slowly?

He was transformed into an infant in the 70s or 80s. When he was restored, it was to the prime of his life (though he still retains some old manish features like the face of a 55 year old, and grey hair, his body is essentially that of a 30 year old.)

 

[Manic]

Did Jubilee age over 16 yet?

No, I think she's aging backward. I'm pretty sure she was 16 when she first joined the X-Men, 15 when she joined Generation X, 16 when Gen X disbanded, and 15 in her short-lived solo series.

 

[KangConquers]

No, I think she's aging backward. I'm pretty sure she was 16 when she first joined the X-Men, 15 when she joined Generation X, 16 when Gen X disbanded, and 15 in her short-lived solo series.

She was 13 when she joined the X-Men.

On that note, is Kitty Pryde an adult? Cause if she isn't her and Colossus (who I estimate is about 26) would be WEIRD.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

She was 13 when she joined the X-Men.

On that note, is Kitty Pryde an adult? Cause if she isn't her and Colossus (who I estimate is about 26) would be WEIRD.

Well she came back in Astonishing X-Men as a teacher, so Id assume she is an adult.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

He was transformed into an infant in the 70s or 80s. When he was restored, it was to the prime of his life (though he still retains some old manish features like the face of a 55 year old, and grey hair, his body is essentially that of a 30 year old.)

If only botox was popular in the 70s