History Main / WhileYouWereInDiapers

''[[DescribeTopicHere I was describing tropes here while you were in kindergarten.]]''

* In one of Colonel Flagg's ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episodes, he showed up insisting that a bombardier who believed himself to be Christ should get "his highly trained thumb" back into action immediately. He was rude to Colonel Potter. Potter said that he didn't appreciate abuse. "I was in [[http://www.wordwizard.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3810 this man's army]] when the only thumb you cared about was the one you had in your mouth."

-->"Slap a Jap? That's what the enemy is to ya, huh? A fucking bucktooth cartoon, dreamt up by some asshole on Madison Avenue to sell soap? Let me tell you something: the Jap ''I'' know? The Japanese ''soldier''? He has been been at war since you were in ''FUCKING DIAPERS''!"

--->"I was piloting Black Ops missions in the jungles of North Vietnam while you were sucking on your mama's tit at Woodstock, Kelly." [[note]]Stryker's actor Brian Cox is only 28 days older then Kelly's actor Bruce Davison.[[/note]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Fry's status as a HumanPopsicle means he's able to accurately tell his eventual LoveInterest Leela, "I was delivering things before you were born!" [[TheDitz Which doesn't make him competent, of course]].

A common variation is a LongLived character, or an [[{[Immortality}} immortal supernatural being]], stating "I was doing X while your ancestors were in diapers". Also, "I've forgotten more about X than you will ever know!"

A common variation is a LongLived character stating "I was doing X while your ancestors were in diapers". Also, "I've forgotten more about X than you will ever know!"

For some people, looking back at their past achievements is not a sign they are over the hill, but a sign that they've been awesome all along, and that the awesome just compounded over the years. This trope comes into play with them saying to younger people that they were doing awesome things when those younger people were too young to do anything great, often in the form of "I was doing X while you were in diapers".

* A variant occurs in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers''. Hayate, speaking with Auris Gaiz, suggests that Auris' superior, Lieutenant General Regius Gaiz, is somehow involved with the Jail Scaglietti incident. Auris then asks Hayate how long she has been with the Bureau, and the 19-year-old Hayate says she has been with them for 10 years. Auris then says that Regius has been in the Bureau for 40 years, and when Hayate was committing crimes to save her life during the Book of Darkness Incident[[note]]Hayate was actually TakingTheHeat for the Wolkenritter[[/note]] Regius was upholding the law and defending the people, implying Hayate has no right to question him.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Suzerain}}'', if the player decides to partially or even entirely nationalize Bergia Steel, the company run by oligarch Walter Tusk, an angry Tusk will threaten President Anton Rayne as he signs away the rights to the company's daily operations. If the player have Anton say that he is not intimidated by Tusk's threats and that it is Tusk who is the one should be worried if he tries anything, he will spit this line at Anton:

--> '''Orthopox-13''': Never heard of... I'm Orthopox-13 man! ''The'' Orthopox-13! The conqueror of Zargon 5? The Hero of the battle of Tharsis Mons? The winner of the Xanthrax-47 cruelty award six years running? I'm the second most senior fleet commander in the entire Furon Navy! I was enslaving hyper-dimensional insectoids on the dunghills of Beedleblat '''while you were still in short pants!''' ''And you've never heard of me?''

* A railway variant in the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS20E28OverTheHill Over the Hill]]"; Stephen challenges Glynn to a race, but neither of them move very fast, and this holds up bigger and faster engines like Gordon. When Gordon complains about how slow Stephen is going, Stephen tells Gordon that he was winning races before Gordon was even a sketch on a drawing board.

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* In the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' drama ''The Legacy of Time: Collision Course'', when Leela suggests that maybe she'd be the best qualified to lead them through a jungle, the Doctor retorts "I was yomping through jungles when you were still in nappies! Leather nappies!" He immediately walks into a low-hanging branch.
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* A railway variant in the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS20E28OverTheHill Over the Hill]]"; Stephen challenges Glynn to a race, but neither of them move very fast, and this holds up bigger and faster engines like Gordon. When Gordon complains about how slow Stephen is going, Stephen tells Gordon that he was winning races before Gordon was even a sketch on a drawing board.

* In Part 2 of the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip "The Crystal Throne", the villain gives a BadassBoast to [[TheReptilians Madame Vastra]] about the number of fighting styles she's trained in. Vastra replies "Is that so? ''I'' learned to fight when your species [[SonOfAnApe still had tails]]!"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Marge Gets a Job", Groundskeeper Willie fights a wolf, and after he wins the two share some hooch and Willie tells him not to feel bad for losing, because he's been wrestling wolves since he was at his mother's teat.

-->'''Control:'' You think I don't care about your father? Your father and I were [[FireForgedFriends covering each other's backs and saving each other's lives]] before you were born!

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E106HesAlive He's Alive]]" has a scene where UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's ghost tells off a neo-Nazi wannabe.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E4HesAlive He's Alive]]" has a scene where UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's ghost tells off a neo-Nazi wannabe.

** In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E7MessageInABottle Message in a Bottle]]", ''Voyager'' 's [=EMH=] tells ''Prometheus'''s [=EMH=] Mark II that "I was saving ''Voyager'' from annihilation when you were only a gleam in your programmer's eye!"

** In the season five episode "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS5E3HighSparrow High Sparrow]]", Lord Janos Slynt refuses to take a post at Greyguard, telling Jon Snow that he was "charged with the defence of King's Landing while you were soiling your swaddling clothes".This defiance [[spoiler: earns him a swift death.]]

--->"I was piloting Black Ops missions in the jungles of North Vietnam while you were sucking on your mama's tit at Woodstock, Kelly." [note] Stryker's actor Brian Cox is only 28 days older then Kelly's actor Bruce Davison.[/note]

--->"I was piloting Black Ops missions in the jungles of North Vietnam while you were sucking on your mama's tit at Woodstock, Kelly." (Note: Stryker's actor Brian Cox is only 28 days older then Kelly's actor Bruce Davison.)