Accelerated Aging

Accelerated Aging
Skaar (Marvel) became a full adult in a year.
Power/Ability to:	Age faster than usual

Power to age at an accelerated rate. Opposite power of Decelerated Aging

Also Called

• Accelerated Growth
• Rapid Maturity

Capabilities

The user's body ages faster than usual, though it usually stops when the user reaches maturity.

Associations

• Age Manipulation
• Biological Manipulation
• Enhanced Speed
• Time Acceleration

Limitations

• User may die upon reaching final stages of maturity.

Known Users

Anime/Manga

• Users of Energy Steroids (One Piece)
• Piccolo (Dragon Ball)
• Prayer Reverie (Gundam Seed X Astray)
• Rau Le Creuset (Gundam Seed)
• Rey Za Burrel (Gundam Seed Destiny)
• Alma (Darker than Black)
• Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun)
• Sophie (Howl's Moving Castle)
• Silpelit Diclonii (Elfen Lied)
• Proscuitto(JoJo's Bizarre Adventure); via Stand Grateful Dead

Film

• Jack Powell (Jack)
• Martin Brundle (The Fly II)
• Sil (Species films)
• Xenomorphs (Alien/Alien vs. Predator)
• Spock (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock); while on the Genesis planet

Literature

• Renesmee Cullen (Twilight Saga)

Live Action TV

• Spinnetods (Grimm)
• Alexis "Lexi" Glass-Mason (Falling Skies)
• Kreeyans (Mortal Kombat: Konquest)
• Emily Dinsmore (Smallville)
• Amazons (Supernatural)
• Adria (Stargate)
• Jem'Hadar (Star Trek)
• Billy Cranston (Power Rangers)

Cartoons

• Darkwing Duck (Darkwing Duck)

Comics

• Skaar (Marvel)
• Hiro-Kala (Marvel)
• Jenny Quantum (Wildstorm)
• Jai West (DC Comics); formerly due to unstable speed powers
• Iris West II (DC Comics); formerly due to unstable speed powers

Video Games

• Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)
• Solid Snake (Metal Gear)

Gallery

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Female Wieder Spinnetods (Grimm) experience the effects of rapid aging since they are unable to molt without consuming human entrails. Charlotte, who's actually 26 years old appears 70 due to her choice to not partake in the tradition of eating entrails.

Due to planned genetic changes in his creation, Solid Snake (Metal Gear) was designed to rapidly age, appearing to be a man in his eighties despite actually being in his early forties.

Martin Brundle (The Fly II), though chronologically five years old, has the body of a twenty-year-old man.

As a Silpelit Diclonius, Nana (Elfen Lied) ages twice as fast as an ordinary human, appearing to be in her early-to-mid teens while actually being only six or seven.

Piccolo (Dragon Ball) became a full-grown adult in three years.

Upon birth, Adria (Stargate SG-1) rapidly aged until she was a grown woman within days