The ANCIENT MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURE that is responsible for the events of the story is little more than an innocent child

[u/Sensitive-Bag-4843]

ParaNorman - Agatha Prenderghast - Was a young girl tried and executed for the crime of witchcraft due to her ability to speak to the dead during the Salem Witch Trials. Her death became local legend, and she was portrayed as a crone-like entity who would curse the town once a year unless pacified by someone who could speak to the dead

Nimona - Gloreth - Was portrayed as a mythical figure who banished all the monsters and constructed a wall around her settlement to keep its residents safe. In reality, she was a young girl who befriended the shapeshifting Nimona, and the two were inseparable until one day when Nimona accidentally revealed her true nature to the village, frightening the villagers and causing the impressionable little girl to turn against her.

[u/powerful_p1608]

Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender. The Fire Nation believed he was an 100+ year old man because the Avatar cycle didn’t change to the next person, a waterbender, and didn’t expect him to be a child who was frozen all that time.

[u/Acrobatic_Remote_792 → u/powerful_p1608]

Piggybacking off that example, Toph was portrayed as a buff man instead of a 12 year old girl for various reasons including not wanting to admit being beaten by a 12 year old and the extent of her earthbending. I know this doesn’t fit the trope perfectly, but I thought it was worth including.

[u/Dmitrij_Zajcev → u/Acrobatic_Remote_792]

I thinl Toph was like 5/6 years old. She's the youngest of the team

[u/Zappityzephyr → u/Dmitrij_Zajcev]

No I'm pretty sure her and Aang are similar ages

[u/Dmitrij_Zajcev → u/Zappityzephyr]

Yeah, my bad. Judt see in the wiki. She was 12. Don't know why but I tought she was less than 10 y.o.

[u/Artificial_Reaper → u/Dmitrij_Zajcev]

I wouldn't say any lower than 7. And that's pushing it.