Age Shifting

Age Shifting
With his Stand, The Grateful Dead, Prosciutto (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V/5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo) can alter his age at will.
Power/Ability to:	Alter physical age in oneself or others.

The ability to alter the physical ages of oneself or others. Sub-power of Age Manipulation.

Also Called

• Age Alteration

Capabilities

The user can either accelerate or reverse the aging process in themselves or others.

Applications

• Age Acceleration
• Age Deceleration
• Age Negation
• Age Reversal
• Youth Inducement

Associations

• Age Manipulation
• Semi-Immortality
• Shapeshifting
• Time Manipulation

Limitations

• Aging too far in either direction may have a bad effect on the victim.
  • Aging too far back could lead the user too mentally regressed, their brains being too underdeveloped to remember who they were or at least how to undo it.
  • Aging too far forward could lead to death from old age and other natural causes.

Known Users

Anime/Manga

• Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck (Bleach)
• Hikari Sakurada (Castle Town Dandelion)
• Shenron (Dragon Ball Series)
• Son Goku (Dragon Ball GT); via Super Saiyan 4
• Natsumi (Date A Live)
• Morrigan (Hatena Illusion)
• Chaos (Heavens Lost Property); manga version only
• Jewelry Bonney (One Piece); via Unknown Devil Fruit
• Ultear Milkovich (Fairy Tail); via Third Origin Awakening
• Tsunade (Naruto)
• PallaPalla (Sailor Moon); when she switched Super Sailor Moon's and Super Sailor Chibi Moon's biological age
• Hotaru Tomoe (Sailor Moon); as the reincarnation of Sailor Saturn.
• Sailor Cosmos (Sailor Moon); when she appeared as Chibi-Chibi
• Heartseed No. 2 (Kokoro Connect)
• The Principal (Hina Logi: From Luck and Logic)
• Akio Fudo (Trinity Seven)
• Prosciutto (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V/5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo); via the Grateful Dead
• Tsubaki (InuYasha)
• Hinako Ninomiya (Ranma 1/2)
• Koenma (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Kaolla Su (Love Hina)

Comics

• William "Billy" Batson (DC Comics); via speaking the magic word "Shazam"
• Julia Diggers (Gold Digger)
• Franklin Richards (Marvel Comics)
• The Russian (Heroes)
• Dracula (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight)

Cartoons

• Clockwork (Danny Phantom)
• Professor Paradox (Ben 10: Alien Force)
• Anodites (Ben 10: Alien Force)
• Clockwork (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
• Mr. B (Codename: Kids Next Door) via his Age Cigar
• Steven Universe (Steven Universe)
• Mad Mod (Teen Titans Series); via technological cane
• Madam Min (Disney's The Sword in the Stone)
• Unicorns (My Little Pony Series); via higher level

Live Television

• Eon (Ben 10: Race Against Time)
• Cryto (Charmed)
• Ruth (Misfits)
• Seelie Queen (Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments)

Literature

• Ella (Lorien Legacies)
• Chameleons (Shadow Falls)
• Witches (Shadow Falls); via Magic
• Warlocks (Shadow Falls); via Magic

Video Games

• Mithos Yggdrasil (Tales of Symphonia)
• Pollux and Castor (God of War)
• The Bronze Dragonflight (World of Warcraft)
• Headmaster (Valkyrie Crusade)

Known Objects

• Dragon Balls (Dragon Ball series)
• Black Star Dragon Balls (Dragon Ball GT)
• Magic TV Remote (Fairly Odd Parents)

Known Powers

• Super Saiyan 4 (Dragon Ball GT)
• Third Origin Awakening (Fairy Tail)
• Transformation Technique (Naruto)

Gallery

Due to her broken mask, Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck (Bleach) initially kept unwillingly reverting to a weaker child form whenever she exerted herself...

...but thanks to a device made by Kisuke Urahara she was able to control her age shifting.

Eon (Ben 10: Race Against Time) can hit people and objects with temporal energy blasts that causes rapid aging.

Hikari Sakurada (Castle Town Dandelion) commonly uses her power, God Hand, to age herself into a middle school student.

By speaking the magic word Shazam, William "Billy" Batson (DC Comics) can transform himself into a costumed adult with the powers of superhuman strength, speed, flight, and other abilities.

Shen Long (Dragon Ball series) is able to return the wisher's age to the requested, as both Great Demon King Piccolo and Lord Slug both wished to return to their physical prime.

The Ultimate Shen Long (Dragon Ball GT) can regress one's age to requested, as Emperor Pilaf accidentally wished for Son Goku to return to his child form, a wish so powerful that it cannot be undone by the regular Shen Long.

Having been transformed into a child by the Black Star Dragon Balls, Son Goku (Dragon Ball GT) rapidly ages back into an adult whenever he transforms into a Super Saiyan 4.

Clockwork (Danny Phantom) constantly shifts ages between an infant, a young adult, and an old man.

Pollux, and Castor (God of War) can shift their age from being an old man into a younger self.

The Russian (Heroes) can alter his age at will.

Kaolla Su (Love Hina) ages from a young teenager to an adult when in the presence of a red moon.

Tsunade (Naruto) can use her mastery of the Transformation Technique to appear as a young woman, and also to alter her age to evade her gambling debts.

When Steven Universe (Steven Universe) begins to focus on his own physical aging and mortality, his gem-powers cause him to age forwards and backward at a rapid pace depending on his mood.

Mad Mod (Teen Titans) uses his technological cane to switch ages with Robin...

...turning himself young, while Robin turns old.

Headmaster (Valkyrie Crusade) is the magic school headmaster and is a wise old sage, she uses her magic to look young.

Koenma (Yu Yu Hakusho) can freely shift between a toddler and a teenager.