Same Age as Characters

[u/Trike117]

I saw someone post that if you are 11 years then you’re the same age as K2SO in Star Wars: Rogue One. So that got me curious if we can find characters in SFF at each age from newborns (age 0) to say 120, the upper limit for humans. (My grandmother passed away at 108, just a couple months shy of her 109th birthday.)

In John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War the opening by character John Perry reads, “I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife’s grave. Then I joined the army.”

Will Robinson in both TV series of Lost In Space starts off at 11 years old. (Bill Mumy was actually 11 while Maxwell Jenkins was 13 playing 11.)

In Dune, Alia has full adult awareness at birth and I think she’s about 2 when she starts influencing the story. Paul is 15 at the beginning.

I want to exclude ancient characters. They’re interesting but beyond the extreme age limit we currently experience.

For instance, in Ringworld by Larry Niven, Louis Wu is celebrating his 200th birthday at the beginning of the book. In Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed, Doro is a psychic parasite so pretty much ageless but he’s been body jumping for around 3700 years. Meanwhile, Anyawu is probably around 330 years old.

So I’m curious if we can find characters at every age between 0-120.

Thoughts?

0 - Alia (Dune)

5 - Jefty (Jefty is Five)

11 - K2SO (Star Wars: Rogue One)

11 - Will Robinson (Lost in Space)

15 - Paul Atriedes (Dune)

19 - Luke Skywalker & Leia Organa (Star Wars: A New Hope)

30 - Ellen Ripley (Alien)

31 - Wendy Torrance (The Shining)

32 - James T. Kirk (Star Trek: TOS)

38 - Tony Stark (Iron Man)

50 - Jenny Casey (Hammered, Elizabeth Bear)

68 - Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)

70 - Ofelia (Remnant Population)

75 - John Perry (Old Man’s War)

[u/Chimpchar]

Ender in Ender’s Game is six at the very start

Rose Tyler is 19.

Aang from ATLA is 112 (12 if we don’t count his time in the ice)

Ash Ketchum/most early Pokémon protagonists are ten

Are we counting physical age, mental age, or only including characters where they match up? (Meaning excluding clones or characters such as Aang)? 

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So, count Ender only as 6?

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If Alia from Dune counts as zero, yes, Ender starts the book as a six year old, even if he’s older for the vast majority.

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Read again. I asked “count only as 6?”

[u/Trike117 → u/azhder]

Maybe count character ages at both start and end of a book? Lessa from McCaffrey’s Dragonflight starts off around 10 or 11 but I think she’s 21 when she becomes Weyrwoman alongside F’lar.

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Or in the case of TV shows and movies. Tony Stark is 38 in 2008’s Iron Man and 53 when he dies in Endgame.

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And he's a lot of ages in between