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The writers may [[Lampshade Hanging]] this by having the hero make a comment like "I'm getting too old for this."
Compare with [[Role Reprisal]]. Contrast [[Not Allowed to Grow Old]]. The diametric opposite -- at least for child characters -- of [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]].
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== Film ==
* [[Star Trek: The Motion Picture
** Fandom seems to be agreed that although advanced medical technology has extended lifespans (as is shown in the first episode of ''[[Star Trek:
** It's also actor [[Brent Spiner]]'s rationale for Data's death in ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis
*** Remember Data's offscreen spoken line over the comm in the ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise
*** However, in the last regular episode of Star Trek TNG, the Data of the (possibly no longer valid) future had had some gray added to his hair to simulate aging just to 'try it out.' The perfect explanation should they ever want to bring Data is ''already established.'' Of course, it wouldn't have worked for an episode explicitly set during season 7.
** The age of the TOS characters was directly referred to by Ensign "Mister Adventure" in the [[Star Trek III:
** During the climax of ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection
** Note that between Kirk being shown in the command chair for the first time as a young and eager captain and what could be regarded as the end of his active service (Star Trek VI), there is about a quarter century in William Shatner's life. This seems about right for a young and aggressive captain (in a service which regularly takes lethal risks and consequently offers opportunities for command promotion) advancing to the rank of a senior admiral on the brink of his retirement.
** The second through fifth films are set, at most, within a few months of one another.
* ''[[Indiana Jones and
* ''[[Rambo]]''
* ''[[Lethal Weapon]] 4'', to the point where Riggs and Murtaugh use "We're not too old for this shit!" as a [[Survival Mantra]].
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* ''[[Rocky Balboa]]''
** And ''Rocky 5''.
* ''Live Free or [[
* ''[[Ghostbusters]] 3'' is to retain all the old cast from the original ''Ghostbusters''.
* The later part of [[Clint Eastwood]]'s career has been [[Cool Old Guy|him playing the over-the-hill, but still extremely badass, hero]]. For a more concrete example, he noticeably ages throughout the ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' series (and it's lampshaded).
** Indeed, Clint has stated that there won't be another ''Dirty Harry'' movie, because at his age, Harry would be retired.
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'', though only one human character has aged significantly: Andy. The toy characters are toys, and thus don't have biological systems that feel the effects of aging. The only [[Watsonian Versus Doylist|Doylist]] reason for this is that the kid who provided Andy's voice doesn't exactly have that little voice anymore. This is basically just the plot of the movie; it wasn't forced.
* ''The [[Road To]] Hong Kong''
* ''[[Tron
** Not to mention hiding the ''title character'' behind a mask, and generally sidelining him on top of it, because Bruce Boxleitner might have been too old (he did return to reprise his human character, and do a single voice-over line as Tron).
** Mind you, even in the [[Tron|first film]], Tron was neither the main character nor the hero.
* At the start of ''Beyond [[Re
* This ended up being the case ''[[Harry Potter]]'', which wasn't a major issue since the characters were getting older in each book and film.
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' was originally conceived as two separate projects: one a one-time reunion special for the characters of ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]'', the other a [[Middle School]] show called ''[[Working Title|Ready, Willing and Wired]]'' focused on a new group of kids. However, the producers decided that the new ongoing show would have a better chance if it carried the name of the still-popular older franchise. The original characters appear in recurring adult roles.
* ''[[Are You Being Served?
** This was lampshaded in the first scene when Mr. Humphries says that the shaky elevator ride has "put 10 years on all of us".
* The new ''90210'' has characters from the old... but thankfully, they're actually adults rather than [[Dawson Casting|adults playing high school students]].
* ''[[
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' special "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2007 Ci NS Time Crash
** [[Fanon]] also applies this to Patrick Troughton's aged appearance in ''The Two Doctors'', postulating the existence of a much greater gap between the last appearance of the [[The Nth Doctor|Second Doctor]] and the first appearance of the Third than suggested on screen.
* ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' featured an older Sarah Jane Smith, who had aged [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|very well]], along with guest appearances by [[The Brigadier]], a [[Badass Grandpa]] if ever there was one, and Jo Jones, formerly Jo Grant. Lampshaded in ''The Death of the Doctor'' when, after Jo expressed surprise that the Doctor had [[The Nth Doctor|changed his face]] "into a baby's", he shot back that she looked like someone baked her.
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* In ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'', the character [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Tommy]] was only supposed to be 25. But because of a little [[Dawson Casting]], and a [[Retcon]] that made him three years younger, the actor was 30 at the time of filming, so the character was played as slightly older than he should have been.
** Bulk started out in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' as a high school bully. When he returned in ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' 18 years later, he was now mentoring his best friend's high-school-age son.
* This is being taken for granted -- indeed, even planned for carefully -- in the 2018 ''[[Roseanne]]'' [[Sequel Series]].
== Video Games ==
* Video game example: ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''
** This is inverted in the U.S. remake of the [[Game Boy]] Advance game ''Chain of Memories'' (i.e., PlayStation 2's ''Kingdom Hearts: Re: Chain of Memories''). In this leg of the story, Sora has not yet aged by more than a few days, but they still use (the older) Haley Joel Osment, both for cutscene acting and in-battle cries (whereas on the GBA they used clips of Osment's younger voice; and there was no cutscene voice acting).
* Played straight in the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series from ''[[
** Also inverted is that Pat Pinney (Stan) and Neil Ross (Wally B. Feed) sounded younger only in ''Curse''; and S. Scott Bullock (Otis), [[Cam Clarke]] (Meathook), Wally Wingert (Herman Toothrot) and Jess Harnell (Estevan) sounded younger only in ''Escape''; while Leilani Jones-Wilmore (The Voodoo Lady) sounded younger in both games. When the actors returned to voice the characters in the Special Editions of ''Secret'' and ''LeChuck's Revenge'', however, the characters' younger selves now sound older than they were before.
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