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13	->''"I'm too old for this shit."''
14	-->-- '''Martin Riggs''' ([[BorrowedCatchphrase echoing his partner, Roger Murtaugh's, catchphrase]]), ''Film/LethalWeapon4''
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16	An old franchise [[SequelGap comes back after many years]], but, of course, now the actors are all older. Instead of recasting or making the actors up to look younger (or using DigitalDeaging), it's decided to acknowledge how much time has passed and just have the characters be that much older.
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18	The writers may {{lampshade\|Hanging}} this by having the hero make a comment like "I'm getting too old for this," or may even have the entire plot of the story revolve around the characters dealing with how much older they've gotten.
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20	Compare with RoleReprise. See also TheCharacterDiedWithHim.
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22	!!Examples:
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26	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
27	* When the first ''Anime/{{Aikatsu}}'' series got finished, Ichigo and her voice actress, Creator/SumireMorohoshi aged.
28	* Everyone in the ''Music/{{Tsukipro}}'' franchise (''Music/{{Tsukiuta}}''), since it takes place in real time. This is especially helpful since the greater part of the stories are in [[Theatre/{{Tsukiuta}} stage play form]].
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32	* In ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', Max appeared to be about 14 or 15 and was performed by the 19-year-old Jason Marsden. When ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie'' came out five years later, Max was now visibly older and going off to college. Four years after that, Max appears as a young adult in ''WesternAnimation/MickeysTwiceUponAChristmas'' introducing his new girlfriend to his father.
33	* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', Andy has aged from a child to a young adult leaving for college. The toys are physically unchanged, but have had to deal with the psychological effects of their owner becoming less interested in them as well as the loss of several friends who were sold, given away, or discarded, part of the natural aging process of a toy. The [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory4 fourth film]] explores Woody's willingness to move on to the next phase of his life when he is still in working condition but is no longer needed by a child.
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37	* As a sixty-year LongRunner, the ''Film/JamesBond'' series might have some of the most well-known cases in film history. Bond himself generally appears to age with any actor who stays longer than two films.
38	** Creator/SeanConnery starred as James Bond in seven different films. The first six films began with the 1962 ''Film/DrNo'' and ended with ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' in 1971. He only appeared to age slightly during that timespan. However, when he returned as Bond in the 1983 ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'' (not produced by Creator/EonProductions), he was visibly aged as he was 21 years older than when he had first appeared.
39	** Creator/RogerMoore starred as James Bond in seven different films, starting with ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' in 1973, and ending with ''Film/AViewToAKill'' in 1985. He started the role at the age of 45, so Bond quite visibly ages over the course of his films, a point that is regularly criticized about his last film.
40	** Also the case with the tenures of Creator/PierceBrosnan ([[Film/GoldenEye started at 41]], [[Film/DieAnotherDay ended at 49]], though his haircut change between ''Film/GoldenEye'' and ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' also gave that impression - even though those were only two years apart).
41	** Creator/DanielCraig ([[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 started in the role at age 37]], [[Film/NoTimeToDie ended at age 51]]). The later films embrace the idea of an aging Bond, showing the mental and physical toll his years of service have brought and exploring whether agents like him are still necessary in an increasingly modern world.
42	** Creator/DesmondLlewelyn played Q in seventeen different films, appearing in all but one Eon Productions ''Bond'' films between ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' in 1963 and ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' in 1999, with the character becoming more and more of a CoolOldGuy as time went on. The only exception to this was ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''.
43	** Creator/JudiDench started playing M at age 61 and ended her tenure with a cameo in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' at 80.
44	** Creator/LoisMaxwell appeared as Miss Moneypenny in fourteen different films; every one from ''Film/DrNo'' in 1962 to ''Film/AViewToAKill'' in 1985. She acknowledged getting older in ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', her next-to-last appearance.
45	** Creator/BernardLee played the part of M in eleven different films, starting with ''Film/DrNo'' and ending with ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' in 1979. Again, he looked noticeably older as time went on.
46	** Creator/DavidHedison played Felix Leiter in ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' in 1973, then reprised the role 16 years later in ''Film/LicenceToKill'' in 1989, becoming the first actor to play Leiter twice. Initially, he thought about declining his return since he'd aged considerably before signing on again.
47	** Creator/JeffreyWright also looked visibly older as Leiter in ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', twelve years after he was last seen in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''.
48	* ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' [[spoiler: features the return of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield to their own versions of the characters, as well as the villains from their respective films. While the villains are subject to CGI de-aging and other effects to mask their actors' true ages (such as Flint Marko being stuck in sand form), the legacy Spider-Man characters are simply older. This is most noticeable with the Raimi-verse Spider-Man, who pretty much behaves as a TeamDad since he's in his forties. A cured Octavius even lampshades KidHeroAllGrownUp when he finally meets up with the Peter Parker he remembers.]] Also played for laughs when Maguire and Garfield's characters discuss the [[CrackOhMyBack back pain]] they experience after years of webslinging.
49	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
50	** ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'', made 10 years after the series ended but set only a couple of years later, attempted unsuccessfully to cover up how much the actors had aged. [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan The next installment]], however, plunged full-force into this, even making it a major plot point (to the point where Creator/WilliamShatner has admitted he absolutely did not like the idea at first and "had to be dragged in kicking and screaming"). This wasn't emphasized quite as much in the later films, though they continued to make no effort to hide the actors' ages.
51	** Creator/BrentSpiner rationalized Data's death in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' as the inability to continue handwaving his aging while portraying an ageless character. The actor even refused to appear visually in the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' finale for this same reason.
52	** Creator/LeonardNimoy plays Spock again in ''Film/StarTrek2009'' and ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', coming from a point in time after the [[Film/StarTrekNemesis last TNG movie]], and playing the role of the [[TheMentor grey-haired wise old mentor]] to [[MyFutureSelfAndMe his younger self]] (played by Creator/ZacharyQuinto) in an alternate timeline.
53	* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''. As a consequence of moving the time period to match Creator/HarrisonFord's age, the villains had to be changed from Nazis to the Soviets.
54	* ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'': Rambo doesn't age much in the initial run of his films, but in ''Film/RamboIV'', he is acknowledged as a salty old veteran getting long in years. He's finally given a fitting character finale in which he retires from his wandering and goes back home.
55	* ''Film/LethalWeapon'': Murtaugh's advancing age is a major characterization point in the very first film. By ''Film/LethalWeapon4'', Riggs has adopted Murtaugh's "I'm getting too old for this shit" catchphrase, and Murtaugh himself is considering retirement.
56	* ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'', where after over a decade, John [=McClane=] now has to deal with a teenage daughter and is constantly questioned for being out of place in the modern world.
57	* The later part of Creator/ClintEastwood's career has been [[RetiredBadass him playing the over-the-hill]], [[CoolOldGuy but still extremely badass, hero]]. For a more concrete example, he noticeably ages throughout the ''Film/DirtyHarry'' 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. Doesn't stop a lot of people from dubbing ''Film/GranTorino'' "Dirty Harry 6".
58	* Invoked in ''Film/{{Boyhood}}''. The film was shot over the course of twelve years, following the characters are they age together with the actors.
59	* In ''Film/TheRoadToHongKong'', Hope and Crosby are ten years older than in the previous movie of the series, and over twenty years older than when the series began.
60	* ''Film/TronLegacy'' was notable for featuring ''both'' old Creator/JeffBridges as Flynn and CGI-made young Jeff Bridges as his program. There's also [[spoiler: hiding the title character behind a mask, and generally sidelining him on top of it, because Creator/BruceBoxleitner might have been too old (he did return to reprise his human character, and do a single voice-over line as Tron, as well as lend his appearance to a CGI younger version for a flashback).]]
61	* At the start of ''Film/BeyondReAnimator'' (2003), Herbert West has served 13 years in prison since ''Film/BrideOfReAnimator'' (1990). Which didn't stop one interviewer asking Creator/JeffreyCombs if he was going to wear aging makeup to reflect the TimeSkip.
62	* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
63	** ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' is the first film where the title {{Cyborg}} is aged to fit Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger. This time, a T-800 is sent back to 1973, and decades of operation age his living tissue exterior.
64	** ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'' features "Carl", a T-800 who's spent years living as a civilian and has even grown a beard.
65	* From ''Franchise/StarWars'':
66	** Ian [=McDiarmid=]'s case is something of a strange inversion in that he became age-appropriate for middle-aged Palpatine in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', filmed 16 years after ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''; in his original appearance, [=McDiarmid=] was [[UnderageCasting a younger man playing an elderly man]] with prosthetic makeup on to appear older.
67	** In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', aka ''Episode VII'', Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/CarrieFisher, and Creator/HarrisonFord reprise their original trilogy roles, and since it's been over thirty years since their characters' last film appearance, a 30+ year TimeSkip was inevitable.
68	** In ''Film/{{Solo}}'', Maul appears in his mid-forties, same as his actor Ray Park who reprised his role after 19 years.
69	* ''Film/RockyBalboa'' was made 16 years after ''Film/RockyV'' (and over 20 years after the more famous Rocky movies), and one of the central themes of the movie is precisely how old Rocky is compared to his glory days.
70	* ''Film/KamenRider1'' features Creator/HiroshiFujioka reprising his role of [[Series/KamenRider Takeshi Hongo, aka Kamen Rider #1]] leading to his character being the same age as himself, seventy years old. [[OldSuperhero His advanced age]] hasn't slowed him down, but the main theme of the film is him fighting in spite of [[DentedIron his cyborg body slowly breaking down]].
71	** Another film has Kensuke Jin from ''Series/KamenRiderX'' return. His age isn't a plot point, and he keeps up with the younger Riders, but he's now a doctor and takes care of his teenage granddaughter, showing that his life has definitely moved at the same pace as the rest of the world.
72	* ''Film/T2Trainspotting'' is set twenty years after ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'', so in this case, this trope is inevitable. Creator/DannyBoyle joked that the film would take a long time to get made due to the natural vanity of actors. Fortuitously, however, [[Literature/{{Porno}} the sequel to the original book]] on which the sequel is partly based has a substantial TimeSkip anyway and makes a plot point of the fact that the characters are all getting older (if not necessarily wiser).
73	* ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'':
74	** Laurie Strode. Although she invoked DawsonCasting at twenty to play Laurie at seventeen (and then at twenty-three to play her in the ImmediateSequel filmed three years later) - she reprised her role in ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'' and ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'' where the character was now into middle age. She came back again for ''{{Film/Halloween 2018}}'', where Laurie is now a grandmother.
75	** Lindsey Wallace is the girl Laurie babysits when Michael attacks her in the 1978 film. Her actress, Kyle Richards, reprises her role over 40 years later in ''Film/HalloweenKills'', where Lindsey is now a middle-aged bartender at Haddonfield's bar.
76	** Other actors from the original films who played children wanted to come back and play them as teenagers, but were recast; Danielle Harris was replaced with JC Brandy and Brian Andrews with Creator/PaulRudd for ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers''.
77	* ''Film/BadBoysForLife'' has Martin Lawrence's Marcus becoming a grandpa and subsequently considering retiring from the police, and also calling out Will Smith's Mike for still behaving as if he was in his early twenties.
78	* ''Film/KaamelottPremierVolet'': Ten years have passed InUniverse, while the film was made ten years after the end of [[Series/{{Kaamelott}} the series]], and everyone has aged accordingly, [[SheIsAllGrownUp Karadoc's daughters]] especially.
79	* ''Film/TopGunMaverick'': Takes place 30+ years after the first film. Ice Man has moved up the ranks to admiral and it's lampshaded that given Maverick's tenure in the Navy, he should hold a much higher rank than he does.
80	* ''Film/{{Insidious}}: The Red Door'' is set nine years after ''Insidious: Chapter 2'', but the actors portraying the Lamberts remains the same. Instead of young boys, Foster (Andrew Astor) is in high school, while his older brother, Dalton (Creator/TySimpkins) has just entered college.
81	* ''Film/{{Scream}}'' notably retains its main cast over the years. We got to see Sidney Prescott (Creator/NeveCampbell) as a high school student in [[Film/Scream1996 the first film]], to a college student in [[Film/Scream2 the second]], to a young adult in [[Film/Scream3 the third]] and [[Film/Scream4 fourth]], to a middle-aged mother of two kids in [[Film/Scream2022 the fifth]].
82	* ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' has the main characters from the first two films reappearing having aged 30+ years since then, including [[spoiler:the ghost of Egon Spengler, digitally recreating how Creator/HaroldRamis looked during the last years of his life]].
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86	* ''Series/ACaseForTwo'': Inevitably happened for PrivateDetective protagonist Josef Matula, since Claus Theo Gärtner portrayed him for 32 years straight and then some TV films.
87	* ''Series/CoronationStreet'' is a LongRunner, so...
88	** The definitive example is William Roache, who appeared in the soap's very first episode in 1960 and by late 2019 was still a regular cast member. In 2010 he earned a world record as the longest-serving cast member in a televised soap.
89	** Anne Kirkbride first played Deirdre Hunt (later Barlow) in the 70s when she was introduced as an eighteen-year-old. She remained on the soap until 2014, shortly before her death from cancer.
90	** Chesney Brown was ten when he debuted on the soap in 2003. Unlike many other child characters that were recast as they aged, Sam Aston has continued to play him into his late twenties.
91	* ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' was originally conceived as two separate projects: one a one-time reunion special for the characters of ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'', the other a MiddleSchool show called ''[[WorkingTitle 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.
92	* ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' sequel series ''Grace and Favour'' (known in the United States as ''Are You Being Served? Again!''). This was lampshaded in the first scene when Mr. Humphries says that the shaky elevator ride has "put 10 years on all of us".
93	* The new ''[[Series/BeverlyHills90210 90210]]'' has characters from the old... but thankfully, they're actually adults rather than [[DawsonCasting adults playing high school students]].
94	* ''Series/RedDwarf: Back to Earth'' begins with a title card that reads, "Nine Years Later".
95	* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a unique problem: the Doctor changes actors through [[TheNthDoctor regeneration]], and often runs into their past selves while travelling in time. This means multi-Doctor team-ups have to reckon with the fact that in-universe, the returning Doctor ''never'' looks quite the same as during their actual tenure. How some appearances have gotten away with it:
96	** The ''Series/ChildrenInNeed'' special "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash Time Crash]]" has Creator/PeterDavison -- now rather older -- and Creator/DavidTennant sharing a [=TARDIS=] as the Fifth Doctor ends up crossing paths with the Tenth. The Fifth Doctor still looked young when suffering the events of "The Caves of Androzani," so how can he, in "Time Crash," look like he'd aged as much as Davison ''just for this adventure?'' They HandWave it away by saying that the temporal disaster that's brought them into the same place seems to have affected Davison roughly.
97	** {{Fanon}} also applies this to Creator/PatrickTroughton's aged appearance in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]", postulating the existence of a much greater gap between the last appearance of the [[TheNthDoctor Second Doctor]] and the first appearance of the Third than suggested on screen.
98	** {{Inverted\|Trope}} with River Song, whose appearances are (roughly) in reverse chronological order due to time-travel shenanigans; that is, each time we see the character, she's younger but the actress is older. In River's first chronological appearance, she suggests that she's going to dial back her age occasionally [[ItAmusedMe just to freak people out]].
99	** Averted in "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]", where Creator/DavidTennant has visibly aged from his time playing the Tenth Doctor, but the character is depicted as being taken from a timeskip previously implied to exist by a RunningJoke in his final season. This aversion is lampshaded by the Eleventh Doctor in the warmup footage played in cinema screenings of the episode, where the Eleventh Doctor complains about how all the Tenth Doctor's "lines and crinkly bits" are going to come out at viewers in 3D.
100	** Also played with in "Day of the Doctor"-- Creator/TomBaker appears as a very elderly version of the Fourth Doctor, but he's implied to be a separate, distant future incarnation of the Doctor who's retired from traveling and become a museum curator on Earth. So, "The Curator" isn't the Fourth Doctor, he's possibly the fortieth or four-hundredth who happens to ''look'' like an aged version of the Fourth (the Curator told the Eleventh Doctor he might find himself revisiting some of his old faces in the future.) This also potentially sets the stage for future past-Doctor appearances to use the same excuse.
101	** A WhatCouldHaveBeen, also with Tom Baker-- the DevelopmentHell multi-Doctor "Dark Dimensions" film, conceived when Tom Baker went to the BBC and told them he wanted to be the Doctor again, would have starred an elderly version of the Fourth Doctor from an alternate dimension where he had never regenerated, who now [[GothicHorror lived as a hermit in an old Victorian church dressed in a black version of his outfit]]. Unfortunately, the other actors playing the other Doctors disliked the CharacterFocus, CharacterShilling, and CanonSue treatment Tom Baker's Doctor got compared to their Doctors and dropped out of the project, which was then shitcanned by ExecutiveMeddling.
102	** Tom Baker's visible and drastic aging over the course of his run-- going in seven years from looking much younger than his real age to much older than his real age-- was an inspiration for his character, in his final season, getting a SameCharacterButDifferent ReTool from his usual bohemian ManChild persona (which was starting to come across as a bit too creepy rather than cute) into a dark, morbid ByronicHero dressed head-to-toe in blood red.
103	*** In-story, the change is helped by the fact that he'd spent the bulk of the previous seasons traveling with a member of his own race and a robot dog, so there could have been extended periods not portrayed onscreen to account for the Doctor's aging.
104	** Baker eventually parodied his ties with this trope in the 2017 reconstruction of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada "Shada"]], which ends with a sight gag of the Doctor suddenly being played by the elder Baker as a riff on his closing question on whether he will be remembered as a kindly old man like Professor Chronotis-- formerly the Time Lord criminal Salyavin-- had been in the story.
105	** In an example not related to the above is [[TheBrigadier Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]], one of the show's longest-running recurring characters, was played solely by Creator/NicholasCourtney throughout the decades, and the character was constantly rewritten to accommodate his progressing age. In fact, the show was so devoted to this that the Brigadier was eventually killed off [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim when Courtney himself died in 2011]] (though the character would later be resurrected three years later as a benevolent and conscious Cyberman, albeit in a brief, non-speaking role, intended more as a tribute to Courtney).
106	* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' featured an older Sarah Jane Smith, who had aged very well, along with guest appearances by TheBrigadier, an OldSoldier if ever there was one, and Jo Jones, formerly Jo Grant. Lampshaded in "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS4E5E6DeathOfTheDoctor Death of the Doctor]]" when, after Jo expressed surprise that (from her point of view) the Doctor [[TheNthDoctor had changed]] [[Creator/JonPertwee his face]] [[Creator/MattSmith "into a baby's"]], he shot back that she looked like someone baked her.
107	* Between 1987 and 1994, Creator/LeeMajors and Creator/LindsayWagner reprised their famous Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan 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 Creator/SandraBullock.
108	* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
109	** In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', the character [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Tommy]] was only supposed to be 25. But because of a little DawsonCasting, and a {{Retcon}} that made him three years younger, Creator/JasonDavidFrank was 30 at the time of filming, so the character was played as slightly older than he should have been. However, [[OlderThanTheyLook he didn't look it]].
110	** Bulk started out in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' as a high school bully. When he returned in ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai 18'' years later, he was now mentoring his best friend's high-school-age son.
111	*** However like Tommy, he doesn't look much older aside from not having any hair, as he apparently started shaving his head. When Skull later appears, he looks exactly the same.
112	* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld''. The main characters are in middle school when the series begins and in college by its end. In the sequel/spin-off series ''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'' which started airing 14 years after the original series ended, the protagonist is Cory and Topanga's 13-year-old daughter Riley.
113	* ''Series/{{Poirot}}'': Happens to some of the main cast in the series finale ("Literature/{{Curtain}}"), most notably Captain Hastings (played by Hugh Fraser) and Literature/HerculePoirot (played by David Suchet). This is not surprising, given that almost the entire series is set in [[TheGreatDepression the mid-to-late 1930s]], before the start of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, due to SettingUpdate (and sometimes a SeriesContinuityError with Hastings meeting his wife Bella). Since Poirot was in his 60s when he first met Hastings during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, and in his late-70s to early-80s in the 1930s, by the time "Curtain" aired, the time period is set a few years after the end of the Second World War (1949), with some of the characters having aged over a decade, leaving Poirot almost in his mid-to-late-90s [[spoiler: when he dies of a heart condition]].
114	* Parodied in ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat''. One episode had Shaquille O'Neal guest star as himself, despite the fact that the show is set in the '90s, and he no longer has the physique he did back then. This is handwaved by him saying that he'd simply gotten fat in the off-season and that he'll look normal again once training for the new NBA season begins.
115	* The 2018 revival of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' takes place 21 years after the ending of the show's original run. Roseanne and Dan are now seniors, teens Becky and Darlene are now middle-aged, and youngest child D.J. is all grown-up. Darlene and D.J. both have children of their own.
116	* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
117	** It's established that both Vulcans and Klingons age more slowly than humans, meaning that even though ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' aired 20 years after ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and was set roughly 80 years later, Vulcans Spock and Sarek can both appear in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' played by their original actors without trying to conceal their age in either direction, and several Klingons from the original series (namely Kor, Koloth, Kang, and Arne Darvin) can do the same in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''[[note]]although the Klingon case is complicated by the smooth-vs-ridged forehead thing[[/note]]. Spock even manages to return in the Kelvin Timeline movies, no attempt made to hide the fact that he's still older, as it's been quite some time between his ''TNG'' appearance and the well-post-''TNG'' era he time-traveled from chasing Nero. ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'''s Tuvok, another Vulcan, also reappears in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', who looks older in appearance [[YoungerThanTheyLook despite being ageless]] between 2293 to 2378, due to Tim Russ being in his mid-to-late [=60s=].
118	** Creator/DeForestKelley appeared as a 137-year-old [=McCoy=] in the TNG pilot episode "Encounter At Farpoint". Not being an alien, he had to be aged up, made to look and act quite the same as he appeared during the ''TOS'' episode "The Deadly Years" where some characters were hit with a RapidAging virus.
119	** Creator/JamesDoohan would later make a guest appearance as Scotty in the TNG episode "Relics". Although he had spent 75 years stored in a transporter holding pattern, [[note]](a transporter can hold a person, not re-materializing them right away. It's not supposed to be able to do it for 75 years, but if you're a miracle worker like Scotty and it's the only way to survive your ship's crash, you make it work!)[[/note]] the episode spared no opportunity to point out his advanced age. He looks a little older than in the later ''TOS'' movies, a good while but ''far'' from 80 years having passed for him. Mostly, the problem he has in the present is that technology has changed enough that he's gone from TheSmartGuy to a FishOutOfWater who annoys Geordi by screwing up any time he tries to do anything. He does save the day with an unorthodox idea in the end. The ExpandedUniverse has him go on to do exactly what you'd expect from him: familiarize himself with the newer tech and become a miracle worker once more!
120	** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' premiered just over seventeen RealLife years after Creator/PatrickStewart last played Picard in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', and 20 InUniverse years after the film. The eponymous Picard is, according to [[https://nypost.com/2020/01/21/star-trek-picard-which-next-generation-characters-are-back-which-are-new/ promotional material]], 94 years old. Accordingly, all ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' characters who appear -- and, as of the end of Season 3, this includes ''every'' character whose actor has ever been in the opening credits, not to mention a number of guest stars -- has aged as well.[[note]]The sole exceptions are Tasha Yar (Creator/DeniseCrosby), whose character was killed during Season 1 and thus appears in a picture looking as she did back in 2364; and Dr. Katherine Pulaski, who does not appear, possibly due to Creator/DianaMuldaur having retired from acting.[[/note]] Exceptions and notable subversions include:
121	*** In {{flashback}}s and a couple other situations, Data returns, a good fifteen years ''after'' Spiner insisted that he be heard but not seen because unlike him, Data doesn't age. A little DigitalDeaging helps; additionally, the scenes are short.
122	*** Season 2 shows [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien the immortal Q]] aged, due to Creator/JohnDeLancie being in his 70s by this point. Of course, Q isn't really human to begin with, having teased he could appear as a ''[[GenderBender woman]]'' before. His aged-up appearance is to make Picard feel like he's simply meeting an old friend, as he first appears digitally de-aged until using his abilities to match Picard's appearance.
123	*** Guinan had been established as part of an alien race capable of looking the same over centuries. Obviously Creator/WhoopiGoldberg looked older by 2022, so when Picard notes how he thought El-Aurians didn't age, Guinan {{handwave}}s it by claiming they can if they choose to.
124	*** Finally, Season 3 has the introduction of [[spoiler:a not-fully completed Soong Android, built by [[RememberTheNewGuy Soong's son]] Altan Inigo and intended to be his own SoulJar... meaning that, naturally, it has aged. This is used to justify bringing Data back ''as'' an aged character; the advanced design of the android also allows Spiner to finally ditch the pasty-gold-tinged makeup. He still has the gold eyes though; Spiner and showrunner Terry Matalas discussed discarding the contact lenses, only to conclude that they were too important to the character.]]
125	*** Similarly to Creator/JohnDeLancie as Q, Creator/DanielDavis was in his late 70s when he reprised the role of the holographic [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Professor James Moriarty]] during season 3. So, like Q, the Moriarty hologram now physically appears at that same age, rather than in his forties as he did during TNG. This may be justified in-universe due to the original holodeck programming persisting and Moriarty still experiencing the passage of time even while outwardly deactivated.
126	* The protagonist of ''3 Nen B Gumi Series/KinpachiSensei'' was played by the same man for the roughly forty years the series ran. Naturally, he aged accordingly.
127	* ''Series/TwinPeaks'': Many members of the original cast returned for the 2017 revival after 26 years (25 within the show's continuity).
128	* ''Series/TheXFiles'' revivals have the main cast return to reprise their roles, 14 years after the show originally ended. Their age does come up once, Mulder musing on just how long they've been doing what they do and hypothetically wondering if there's a reason or if they're just going in circles.
129	* Done with all of the cast of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' in Season 4 which was released seven years after Season 3 and ten years since Season 1. Lampshaded particularly hard for comedic effect with Justin Grant Wade (Steve Holt!) who looks nothing like his younger self.
130	* ''Series/ICarly2021'', the revival of ''Series/{{iCarly}}'', features all returning characters played by their original actors after nearly a decade. Carly and Freddie are now adults (with Freddie having been twice divorced and raising a stepdaughter).
131	* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
132	** When Creator/AdamSandler hosted SNL in 2019, he played Opera Man in the "Weekend Update" segment for the first time in 24 years, something he humorously acknowledged, singing "So very long since I’ve been around-ah. [[SelfDeprecation 24 years and 24 pounds-ah]]!".
133	** Parodied in a sketch for a trailer for ''Film/{{Father Of The Bride\|1991}} [[RidiculousFutureSequelisation Part 8]]'', with co-hosts Creator/SteveMartin and Creator/MartinShort playing older versions of their characters George Banks and Franck, respectively.
134	--->'''Annie (Creator/HeidiGardner):''' But, Daddy, I'm your little girl!
135	--->'''George:''' (''annoyed'') You're 52!
136	* ''Series/CobraKai'' follows characters from ''Franchise/TheKarateKid'' films in the modern day, with Daniel [=LaRusso=] and Johnny Lawrence as adults now running their own karate dojos. John Kreese, Terry Silver, and several other characters eventually return, now much older. All are played by the original actors from the films.
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140	* Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey did this with Jimmy Barclay, even having an episode about him dealing with the [[GrowingUpSucks "joys"]] of puberty.
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144	* Since ''Feng Shui 2'' came out 20 years after ''TabletopGame/FengShui'', one suggestion for transitioning between editions is "Getting Too Old For This Shit", where the [=PCs=] have aged 20 years too.
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148	* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' -- which averts DawsonCasting in both the English and Japanese voice acting -- aged Sora up approximately a year between the first and third games, to allow for the voice actors going through puberty.
149	** Inverted in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsReChainOfMemories''. While this is set a few days after the first game, it came out after ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', but Sora is still voiced by an older Creator/HaleyJoelOsment, both for cutscene acting and in-battle cries, meaning Sora's voice is just as deep as it was in ''II''. In the original GBA version, they used clips of Osment's younger voice, and there was no voice acting in cutscenes.
150	* Played straight in the ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' series from ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' to ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', with Dominic Armato as Guybrush, Alexandra Boyd as Elaine (even though [[TheOtherDarrin the voice actress herself was absent]] in ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland''), Earl Boen as [=LeChuck=] (though, of course, [[TheOtherDarrin Boen was in semi-retirement and absent only in the PC download version of Chapter 1]] of ''Tales''), and Denny Delk as Murray. Inverted in the Special Editions of ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'' and ''VideoGame/{{Monkey Island 2\|LeChucks Revenge}}'', however, when the now-aged Armato, Boyd, and Boen return to play their characters' younger selves.
151	** Also inverted is that Pat Pinney (Stan) and Neil Ross (Wally B. Feed) sounded younger only in ''Curse''; and S. Scott Bullock (Otis), Creator/CamClarke (Meathook), Creator/WallyWingert (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.
152	* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': The Heavy (and Demoman)'s voice actor is one of the oldest out of the bunch, and his voice has started to sound even deeper as a result. It's even lampshaded in Mann vs. Machine mode (released on the game's fifth year), which takes place four years after the main storyline (jumping from 1968 to 1972):
153	--> '''Heavy:''' I am getting too old and giant for this.
154	* Unintentionally done with ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'', which is set about 9 years after the second game. [[Creator/TakeTwoInteractive Rockstar]] had initially planned to [[TheOtherDarrin replace James McCaffrey]] as the voice of Max to reflect the TimeSkip, but due to fan outcry, [=McCaffrey=] was eventually brought back aboard as both Max's voice and [[InkSuitActor face model]] -- and by that point, the game had been in DevelopmentHell for so long that [=McCaffrey=] had aged just about as much as Max had (it came out in 2012, following 2003's ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2'').
155	* The returning skaters from 1999's ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater'' and its 2000 sequel appear as their present-day middle-aged selves in 2020's ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2''.
156	* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'', the sequel to ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', Atreus/Loki has been aged up to match his motion and voice capture actor Sunny Suljic, who's become a teenager and whose voice has broken since the original game.
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160	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' had a TimeSkip for its movie and SequelSeries, finally Steven ages somewhat as much as his actor had over the course of the series.
161	* According to WordOfGod, the title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' aged with his voice actor.
162	* Finn from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' started as 12 [[ChildrenVoicingChildren with a similar-aged actor]], and ages as the show goes along. However, while he started aging in almost real time (his 13th birthday was just before the show's first anniversary), the passage of time [[NotAllowedToGrowUp gradually slows]], and by the last recordings Finn is 17 and his voice actor is 20.
163	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', baseball player Mike Scioscia made a guest star appearance in Season 3. He later returns in Season 22, with a much older appearance, while the rest of the characters remain under the perpetual [[NotAllowedToGrowUp floating timeline]]. Because celebrities are linked to pop culture and aren't established characters in the series, they're exempt from the floating timeline. However, visual changes in age don't apply to recurring celebrities like Creator/StephenHawking and UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch.
164	* In ''WesternAnimation/RobotechTheShadowChronicles'', Rick Hunter briefly appears as a white-haired, battle-scarred middle-aged Admiral (canon gives his age in 2044 as 54). His voice actor, Tony Oliver is about the same age. The ''Sentinels'' novels and comics attempted to use Applied Phlebotinum to delay the aging of Rick and the other original ''Macross'' Saga characters, namely by having their trip to Tirol fall victim to unexpected TimeDilation thanks to the shapings of Protoculture. The older comics and novelizations also set the events of Invid Invasion in early 2031 when Rick would have been only about 40 (but still look like he was in his early to mid-30s). The retcon of the Robotech timeline avoids all of this and Rick is now clearly too aged for the Veritech cockpit.
165	* ''WesternAnimation/ScienceCourt'': Tim's voice actor hit puberty and, instead of replacing him, they had the character do the same.
166	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The [[MediumBlending live-action]] Chief played by Martin Olson, who first appeared in the Season 3 episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V", returns in the Season 12 episode "Swamp Mates". You can tell he has quite aged in the timelapse between both episodes.
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