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Compare with [[Role Reprisal]].
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== Film ==
* [[Star Trek:
** Fandom seems to be agreed that although advanced medical technology has extended lifespans (as is shown in the first episode of ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', when a 137-year-old McCoy -- by current estimates this is older than a human is biologically capable of living -- is given the grand tour), strictly cosmetic procedures such as plastic surgery have fallen out of favour -- with the notable exception of hairpieces.
** It's also actor [[Brent Spiner]]'s rationale for Data's death in ''[[Star Trek Nemesis (Film)|Nemesis]]''; in that case, of course, the actor's aging couldn't be handwaved or worked into the plot, since Data is an ageless android.
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* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' special "[[Doctor Who (TV)/2007 Ci NS Time Crash/Recap|Time Crash]]" has [[Peter Davison]] -- now rather older -- and [[David Tennant]] sharing a TARDIS as the Fifth Doctor ends up crossing paths with the Tenth. They [[Hand Wave]] it away by saying that the temporal disaster that's brought them into the same place seems to have affected Davison roughly.
** [[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.
* Between 1987 and 1994, Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner reprised their famous Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman roles for a trilogy of TV movies. Wagner actually held up quite well over the years, Majors less so, and the second film, ''Bionic Showdown'', actually pushed both into the background in favor of a younger "bionic woman" played by a pre-stardom [[Sandra Bullock]].
* 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.
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