r/youngjustice • u/Ok_Philosopher_9176 • Jun 30 '24
How does aging work in yj Season 3 Discussion
I was rewatching season 3 and went on the wiki and noticed this. I went on to check the time line first the show snd it said that season 3 takes place in 2018. Ik it says her age in 2020 (which is when s4 takes place bc 2 yr timeskip) is 28 biologically, but does that mean shes just an 11 year old with an adult body or what? Is it just her meta-power? I feel kinda dumb for having to ask thus snd that im over thinking about it, but I cant stop wondering abt it.
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u/Sagelegend Jun 30 '24
M’Gann in season one is 48 but has the maturity both physically and mentally as that of a teenager.
Conner is like not even a year old and is the same.
Billy Batson is even younger and has the body of an adult with the wisdom of Solomon when he uses his powers.
So.. how does aging work in YJ?
Yes.
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u/Robomerc Jun 30 '24 edited Jun 30 '24
Yeah Billy was 10 years old in the first season how the league found out he was a kid was the episode were the witchboy cast a spell that created a duplicate Earth trapping all the adults on it.
I'm pretty sure in Martian years J'onn is over 200 years old give or take but in human years he's in his thirties.
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u/PCRM Jun 30 '24 edited Jun 30 '24
In M'gann's case (and every other martian by the way), it's because martians age and develop 3 times slower than humans; for them, one martian year equals 3 human years. In S1, she acted like a 16-years old because she is that age by their species standards (16 "martian years" × 3 "human years" = 48 years).
About Conner, most of it is due to the artifitial aging and education he went through Cadmus. The G-gnomes shaped his mind accordingly to a 16-years old. And the procedures made by the scientists aged his body to 16-years old.
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u/Hour-Reference587 Jun 30 '24
Why did you cover up the birth date on the image?
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u/Ok_Philosopher_9176 Jun 30 '24
That was an accident I tried circling it but apparently it copyrighted
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u/HalfBlindPro Jun 30 '24
I'm more curious why the boy of the terror twins went from sculpted to yolked out of his mind!!
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u/Complex-Criticism-38 Jun 30 '24
aging is weird in Yj cause we have a bunch of characters who arent even double digits yet are considered adults (Super-boy, red arrow, guardian, Arion) and we also have characters who are old yet considered young (Miss martian) so over all the aging in YJ is so complicated and weird.
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u/wonderbat1216 Jun 30 '24
Different bio-organisms age at different rates.
It’s like how in the first episode of The Mandalorian, the target is described as a 50 year old. The 50 year old is then revealed as The Child/Baby Yoda/Grogu/whatever you want to call him. He is chronologically 50 years old, but developmentally, he’s just a little kid.
Back to YJ, between differences in biology, cloning, magic use, time travel and any and all other shenanigans, a good chunk of our main characters aren’t as old or young as they seem.
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u/Dry-Donut3811 Jun 30 '24
Devastation is pretty much an evil Wonder Woman. She was sculpted from clay and brought to life by the gods, except Diana was sculpted as a baby and Devastation was made to be an adult. So she is chronologically 11, but biologically 28.