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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* ''[[Fables (Comic Book)|Fables]]'': Tommy Sharp plans to do this to the Fables living in Fabletown. He's been gathering evidence of their inhuman nature; following Bigby and photographing him shapeshifting, but also checking back on the title deeds of the land and buildings in Fabletown - all owned by members of the Fable community since old New York was New Amsterdam and early photos of them dating back into the 19th Century which show that none of them have aged.
* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'': {{spoiler|Proinsias}} Cassidy. He's a vampire and was made one during the Easter Rising in Dublin 1916, which makes him 80+ during the series' run. He tells Jesse all about how he was turned and how he came to America and all the friends he's left behind and lost to old age through the years during a long conversation on top of the Empire State Building. [[Unreliable Narrator|Turns out he missed a few details, though.]]
** The Saint Of Killers got a four-issue mini-series all of his own to tell us about his mortal life in the Civil War and the terrible winter of 1878. He dumps a silver dollar with just that date on the counter of a bar in ''Gone To Texas,'' too.
* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' features Orlando, an immortal [[Gender Bender]] who frequently makes passing mention of the historical figures s/he has met at various points their life.
** Major ''League'' character [[King
* ''[[Lucifer]]:'' During opening arc ''The Morningstar Option,'' Lucifer returns to Hell for a conversation with Remiel in which he reminisces about the time before The Fall and before the creation of Man.
* ''[[The Sandman (Comic Book)|The Sandman]]'''s Hob Gadling. Hob lives forever, thanks to the whim of Dream. He meets up with Morpheus every 100 years, allowing for several instances Such Memories in their conversations with each other; the changing times get a visual reference in the differing costumes and backgrounds shown; ranging from the Tudor tavern they first meet in to the glass and chrome, trendy wine bar they're shown in at the end of ''Men Of Good Fortune.''
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Bram
* ''[[Cocoon]]'': The aliens in ''Cocoon'' make casual mention that they built a base on Earth before. It was Atlantis. Their leader also makes passing comment about his own extreme age:
{{quote|''"Every ten or eleven thousand years or so, I make a terrible mistake."''|'''Walter''' ''Cocoon''}}
* ''[[Dogma]]'': Loki and Bartleby explicitly discuss Loki's past career, including the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah whilst buying guns and have long argument about the creation of Man and the actions of Lucifer that precipitated his Fall from Heaven.
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* ''[[Legend (
* Subverted in ''[[The Man From Earth]]'': John Oldman ("Old Man"), an immortal human being born in the stone age and surviving, barely aged, into the 21st century, has a particular paleolithic tool in his home, which he claims he bought in a flea market. Even after [[The Reveal|he reveals]] [[Time Abyss|that he is really approximately 14,000 years old]], he still claims that the tool came from a flea market. When asked by his friends why he doesn't keep some mementos of his old life, John tells them that the idea of a person hanging onto the same object for thousands of years is actually pretty absurd.
* ''[[Underworld (
** The werewolf doctor in Underworld has a family tree showing the dates for the Corvinus family dating back to the 5th century AD with Marcus Corvinus.
** And then there's Alexander, who reveals himself to have been the father of the original Marcus Corvinus; still alive after approximately 1600 years.
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* [[David Gemmell]]'s ''Dark Prince'', one of the Sipstrassi novels, has an epilogue in which the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] philosopher Aristotle is strongly implied to also be Leonardo da Vinci; maintaining his long life with the use of [[Green Rocks|Sipstrassi]]. The time is given as "unknown," but when {{spoiler|Parmenion}} asks about what happened to Alexander, we're told he died seventeen hundred years ago.
* The Howards in [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''Future History'' series, particularly Lazarus Long, are usually too careful to accidentally reveal their true ages. Though a third of ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' is Lazarus recollecting things that happened over his 2300 year life (most of it things that haven't happened yet, considering he was born in 1912).
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* [[John Masefield]]'s [[The Box of Delights]] had Ramon Lully, aka Cole Hawlings, 14th century philosopher posing as a 1930s children's entertainer. His reveal comes courtesy of the [[Big Bad]], Abner Brown, who's been in pursuit of him for some time and shows his henchmen a book with pictures of Lully when he was alive which look remarkably like Hawlings.
* [[Kim Newman]]'s ''[[Dark Future (
** ''[[Drachenfels]]'' has this a couple of times, between Genevieve and the eponymous villain. Drachenfels himself has his immense age pointed early on; the adventurers reminding themselves that he was around when Sigmar Heldenhammer was still alive, a least two thousand years ago and coming across the remains of his infamous [[And I Must Scream|Poison Feast]] in which an ancestor of Oswald's was a victim.
* [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''Armageddon Trilogy'' features a version of [[Elvis Presley]] who evaded his own death and is [[Sharing a Body|bonded to a genetically-engineered sprout with TimeTravel powers]] who grants him near-immortality. Elvis looks the same and [[Paper-Thin Disguise|conceals his identity]] with several new names like '''T'''heodore '''H'''enry '''E'''dward King and [[Punny Name|Noah Never]] (it's a play on the Elvis song ''No, I Never'').
* [[
* In ''St. Austin Friars'' a short story in [[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Alcatraz (TV series)|Alcatraz]]'', the character of Sophie was just a minor character working on the special task force investigating the reappearing criminals who disappeared from Alcatraz Island several decades before, but a flashback revealed her working as a psychiatrist in the 60s on Alcatraz Island. A single video of her known to have been taken in the 60s is the one clue to the other characters of her true age.
** The criminals and guards who disappeared from Alcatraz in 1963 return to the present day the same age as when they left, as evidenced by photos of them taken in the prison, and a few individuals who happened to have known them before their disappearance.
* [[Angel]] mentions crashing [[Elvis Presley|The King]]'s Vegas party and several famous Las Vegas mobsters in ''The House Always Wins.''
** Angel tells a Muggle about being somewhere "during [[The Great Depression|the Depression]]...[[Verbal Backspace|I mean]]...''my'' depression...I was depressed there."
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has Kosh and Lorien, both of whom have invoked the ''"I was old when the world was young"'' line. Sebastian, the Vorlon Inquisitor invokes the Such Memories subtype when reminiscing about his past life as [[Jack the Ripper]].
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' uses this on several occasions. Fourth Doctor serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S16 E3 The Stones of Blood|The Stones of Blood]]'' is a case of Incriminating Evidence in the form of a set of portraits showing the villain over several centuries.
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S13 E5 The Brain of Morbius|The Brain Of Morbius]] contains a sequence in which the three previous incarnations of the Doctor are shown, and [[Canon Dis Continuity|eight additional faces beyond that]]. Morbius asks ''"How far back Doctor, how long have you lived?"'' - even by Time Lord standards, it seems The Doctor has been around for a while.
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* ''[[Forever Knight]]'' has several types. Nick has Incriminating Evidence photos, mementos like Joan of Arc's cross and plenty of memories he likes to share, usually [[Once an Episode]].
* ''[[Lexx]]'': His Divine Shadow's Divine Predecessors have attained a [[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
* ''[[Lost]]'': The character Richard never ages, which we first see in a flashback when Ben meets him as a child and Richard looks exactly the same. Through time travel and more flashbacks, we see Richard in various eras, still looking exactly the same as he does in the present.
* In an episode of the newer ''[[Outer Limits]]'', a character proves she's immortal by having her father-in-law-to-be look up a photograph of a portrait of the wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), who she is.
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* ''[[Sanctuary]]'': Between the revelations and remembrances about times she worked for the French Resistance, sailed on the ''Titanic'' and had sex with the man who became [[Jack the Ripper]], ''Sanctuary'' wants you to know Helen Magnus has lived through her 159+ years on this Earth.
* "Dr. Curtis Knox" in ''[[Smallville]]'' is never implicitly referred to as Vandal Savage, but that's pretty much who he is. A Civil-War era photo of a bearded Knox which Lex shows Clark confirms he's immortal, or at least older than he looks. He also tells Chloe that he was once Jack the Ripper himself.
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** In the ''[[Star Trek:
** In "Time's Arrow", a two-part episode of ''[[Star Trek:
** In an episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
* In the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Something Wicked", Sam discovers the identity of the witch they are looking for, because he finds a news article with a picture of the witch as a doctor back in the 1890's.
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* ''[[True Blood]]'' has done this a few times. Bill gets given a Civil War era photo of himself, Russell and Talbot have centuries old paintings and tapestries decorating their home, Russell has his collection of trinkets and trophies from down the ages and Maryann not only has her ancient statue but speaks Ancient Greek.
* In the original [[Twilight Zone]] episode ''Long Live Walter Jameson'' the titular character is a history prof. who knows his stuff, who has a retiring colleague who comments on his appearance, and who is seen in a Civil War picture.
* In ''[[The X
* In ''[[The Dresden Files (TV series)|The Dresden Files]]'', while looking through an abandoned building, the vampire Bianca refers to it as a hideout. Harry repeats the word, and jokes that Bianca sounds like a 30s gangster's mall. She responds she ''was'' a 30s gangster's mall, and adds she's led a long and interesting life.
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== [[Tabletop Game]] ==
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* In the ''[[
* ''[[Shadowrun]]''. Some of the elves in the game are immortal and have lived thousands of years, but this is not generally known. Several supplements provided evidence of their great age.
** In Jenna Ni'Fairra's home in Tir Tairngire there's a painting of her that "felt ''old''" to the person who saw it, showing signs of cracking and decay.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
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** Some of his dialogue and unused security logs in the terminals imply that Fawkes was alive during the initial FEV experiments conducted in Vault 87 prior to the war.
** Harold makes his third and final appearance (to date) in Fallout 3. A further fifteen years down the line from the last time a player could meet him in FO 2, Harold's most distinguishing feature, a tree growing out his head has now mostly consumed his body; making him into a face growing out of a tree.
* ''[[Fallout
* Sovereign, Harbinger and the other Reapers of the [[Mass Effect]] series make a lot of noise about how they were here ''long'' before humans and that they'll be here ''long'' after they've devoured them all.
** Conversations during [[Mass Effect
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* Lucius Heinous VII from ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' looks like he's in his mid-thirties at the oldest. However, according to one episode it took him four hundred years to grow his horns. Since he's essentially [[Satan]], it's likely he's immortal.
** In flashbacks where Lucius VII has fully grown horns, Lucius VI doesn't look a day over 90.
* [[Played for Laughs]] in a ''[[The Simpsons (
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