Needs a rename so as not to conflict with the stock phrase: Getting Too Old For This

The trope name is an oft-parodied Stock Phrase that deserves an article of its own. First, however, we need to find a new name for the linked trope so as to avoid a conflict. Any ideas?

Since Real Life Writes the Plot is kind of an index, might I suggest The Vagaries Of Time?

Older Actors Older Characters?

Character Aged with the Actor?

Age Based Casting or something along those lines?

Definitely could use a rename, as a few of the examples are treating it like it is about the Stock Phrase:

• Don Diego de la Vega says this about himself and his horse, Tornado, after his final offical mission as Zorro in The Mask Of Zorro.
• Obi-Wan states he's getting to old for this in the origanal Star Wars.
• Bill from Left 4 Dead says this from time to time, more noticeably if his health is in the red. Quite understandable since he was in the Vietnam War and is now fighting an army of the undead in a much older state with bad knees.
• Bruce Springsteen. In his latest concert DVD he steps down from the stage to interact with the audience for a Crowd Song, but when faced with getting back up onto the stage he protests "Get me an elevator! I'm fucking sixty!"

Some suggestions:

• The Actor Aged But Stayed
• Aging Actor Stays
• Aging Actor Stll Same Character
• Old Actor Same Character
• Aging Actor Stll Acts

Though in my opinion, Character Aged with the Actor is the best so far.

edited 6th Dec '10 1:24:43 AM by fawn

Not a terribly serious suggestion, but... Real Life Writes The Pension?

^ No, just no.

Time Waits For No Character? Real Time Ages The Character? So as to move examples to whatever it gets named and have the original page be for the Stock Phrase.

I like Character Aged with the Actor best of the ones suggested so far. Or Character Ages With The Actor.

Bumping.

I'm agreeing with Madrugada

How about Real Time Marches On or Time waits for no sequel?

edited 5th Mar '11 6:12:21 AM by Blackfire

I kind of like Time Waits For No Sequel.

Character Aged with the Actor, I think. I'm amazed we don't have this phrase as a Stock Phrase already. It might at least enable me to contribute a Troper Tale, since I spend half my life these days thinking "I'm getting too old for this."

I really think this one needs a Trope Transplant to the stock phrase.

I support the proposed action.

Agreed with trope transplant. I am pretty sure Lethal Weapon made the stock phrase huge. Although it's a Beam Me Up, Scotty!.

edited 24th Apr '11 10:25:35 PM by Raso

Necro bump. Agree that this page should be for either the Stock Phrase, or for the characterisation.

I made a page action crowner here with the trope transplant option. I figured that some people might have other ideas about what to do with this trope, so I used a page action crowner so that others could add them to the crowner as they wished.

Bump. Looks pretty unanimous.

Actually, with the new anti-Stock Phrases attitude of the wiki, I'm wondering if this should be redone. Obviously, the trope currently by this name needs a rename, but creating a page solely for the stock phrase "Getting Too Old For This" would not fly.

Anybody saying it's clearly feeling his age though - the page could easily be that trope.

Bump again. Something should really be done here.

Actually, the trope that I most commonly see the stock phrase associated with is Retirony. It often tends to foreshadow a character's demise in a similar fashion to the "three days to retirement" that's the more common form of that trope.

I don't know if that means it should be merged, but it's worth considering.