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Author: Tuomas

Feb 7th 2013 at 1:01:22 AM

I'm not sure if this counts as an example, but I thought it was interesting case:

* In the beginning of ''TronLegacy'', Kevin Flynn disappears in the 1989 while his son is still a kid. The rest of the movie takes place 2009, so in the one scene set in 1989 CGI is used to make Flynn's actor Jeff Bridges look 20 years younger. In 2009, Flynn's son Sam discovers Flynn has disappeared inside a virtual reality called The Grid. He hasn't had a physical body in 20 years, but for some reason still looks 20 years older, even though he's just a piece of computer code now. This isn't a straight example, because Flynn is never stated to be immortal, but on the other hand there's no reason why he shouldn't be able to live as long as the computer running The Grid has power, nor does the movie give any explanation why a computer code would age in real time. All of the other entities inside The Grid seem to be ageless, since [[spoiler:Clu, a sentient copy Flynn made of himself,]] still looks the same as he did 20 years ago.