History Main / FeelingTheirAge

** Cohen the Barbarian is an Age in his own Legend. He has trouble with joints, missing teeth, and after one fight is laid out after throwing out his back. However, he still deserves his reputation as the ultimate BarbarianHero; he's still at it in his eighties because he compensates for his physical limitations with [[OldMaster experience and cunning]].

* Played with in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story ''Recap/DoctorWhoS15E3ImageOfTheFendahl'' with the character Ma Tyler, who takes an active role in the fight to stop the titular EldritchAbomination, despite being of an advanced age (the actress who played her, Daphne Heard, turned 73 two weeks after shooting finished; given the age of her character's grandson, Ma Tyler was probably meant to be somewhat older than this). After one particularly narrow escape:

* ''Film/BadBoysForLife'': Twenty years after the original movies, both Marcus and Mike feel their age catching up to them and deal with it in opposed ways. In Marcus' case, it's about this health (he needs prescription glasses to pull of the kind of gunslinging he used to do in his youth) and family status (he is now a grandfather who has to prioritize his family over his job). In Mike's, it's mostly about his CowboyCop mindset that is barely compatible with the more sensitive and more technology-heavy nature of modern police work, compared to how it was in his youth. Also, when Mike gets shot by an assassin, it takes much longer for him to recover than he did from similar injuries in the earlier movies.

* As with Batman, Franchise/{{Superman}}, starting with ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'' sees Clark dealing with the fact he's no longer a man in his 20s and 30s with part of ''ComicBook/SupermanPhillipKennedyJohnson'' and the kick-offs of ''ComicBook/SupermanAndTheAuthority'' and ''ComicBook/SupermanSonOfKalEl'' being Clark's age, mortality, and legacy.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Moana'', it's heavily implied that keeping the Heart of Te Fiti for fifteen years provided Grandma Tala with a longer life and more energy. The moment she passes it down to her granddaughter, she visibly weakens, struggling to even sit down, and dies within the hour.

** As of ''ComicBook/InfiniteFrontier'', the mainline Batman is also beginning to deal with this. He's still in as peak physical condition as he can be, but ultimately he has begun to enter middle age — being in his early forties at bare minimum — and is grappling with the fact that his BadassNormal body isn't going to be able to keep up with the demands of being a superhero for more than another decade or two. His insecurities over this are pronounced by the fact that nearly all of his sidekicks/children are now adults themselves.

** As of ''ComicBook/InfiniteFrontier'', the mainline Batman is also beginning to deal with this. He's still in as peak physical condition as he can be, but ultimately he has begun to enter middle age — being in his early fifties at bare minimum — and is grappling with the fact that his BadassNormal body isn't going to be able to keep up with the demands of being a superhero for more than another decade or two. His insecurities over this are pronounced by the fact that nearly all of his sidekicks/children are now adults themselves.

* Toph explains that this is the reason she and Katara, both of whom are now in their 80s, sat out much of the conflict in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' compared to their active roles in [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the original series]] when they were preteens, and even though Toph manages to completely [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] the much younger Korra in a fight she comments after that her back was about to give out.

** It's also mentioned as early as the start of [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood the previous game]], when a doctor tells Ezio (at that point in his early- to mid-forties) that he can't just walk off injuries like he used to. Ezio's...a little offended by the concept.

* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': [[spoiler:This happens to Lilia Vanrouge. Being ridiculously old even for his species of LongLived fairies, his age comes back to bite him in the ass in chapter 7, when his magic has weakened to the point where continuing magical studies would be impossible, leading him to quit school before he could advance to senior year.]]

* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': [[spoiler:Due to attending Night Raven College too late, Lilia can't finish his magic education as his powers weaken from old age, and decides to drop out partway through his third year.]]