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You have a Crowning Moment of Awesome in your past. It haunts you. Either your life went downhill, or you continually fail to match or top that moment, or you try coasting on that glory for the rest of your life. One of the classic examples is the stereotypical high school jock who won the big game, and spends the rest of his life in an unsatisfying job. Either he did not make it in college, or he is treated as a rank-and-file Office Drone in the business world. Later he may inform his miserable children that these are the Best Years of Your Life. Compare I Coulda Been a Contender!, Nostalgia Filter (when a character looks back on the past with rose-tinted glasses), Tough Act to Follow, White-Dwarf Starlet, Jaded Washout (spends his time wishing he was still back there), Loser Protagonist, and Trade Your Passion for Glory. When a character had to leave a dangerous life for a more mundane one, and spends it longing for his glory days, he is in love with being In Harm's Way. If the character is using her children as a vector through which to either achieve what she never did or relive her glory days (instead of letting the kids be who they are), she may become an Education Mama or a Stage Mom. See also Jock Dad, Nerd Son. Contrast While You Were in Diapers. |
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In Watchmen, Silk Spectre sums up her comrades' feelings: "I was a hero, goddamn it!". | |
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Dave Mustaine has never got over being kicked out of Metallica, not even after 30 years of his own successful band Megadeth. There are numerous Megadeth songs that refer to it, such as "This Was My Life", "Captive Honor" and "Don't Turn Your Back" just to name a few. Mustaine rejoined Metallica onstage and made it clear he really wants to do an album with Metallica. Metallica themselves view him as ancient history. | |
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Bojack Horseman opens with Bojack constantly watching episodes of his own show from the Nineties, due to being unable to move on from that era, though he still hates when the paparazzi recognize him and chase him down. | |
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The Dwarves in Dragon Age. Due to the Darkspawn having overrun the Deep Roads that once connected their Thaigs together, their great Empire that once spanned Thedas has been reduced to just two remaining cities, separated by thousands of miles. While the Surface Dwarves and Casteless are fully aware of their glory days being a long-distant memory, the Noble Castes refuse to admit it and insist on acting like they're still living them. | |
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Hector "Heck" Hammarskjold, protagonist of the graphic novel Heck, used to be the high school quarterback, and when he returns home for his father's funeral that's all that people remember about him. | |
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "King of the Lake", the father of the Victim of the Week is a former Olympian whose career was cut short and who is attempting to relive his glory days through his son's athletic success. | |
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Illyria, a Cthulu-esque goddess demon from Angel, awakens from millions of years of stasis to find herself trapped in a human body, her cult all but extinct and her armies long since turned to dust. She spends a lot of time moping about how powerful she used to be. It's actually quite poignant to see how she deals with the modern world. | |
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Burnistoun has recurring character Biscuity Boyle. As a young man he was a champion athlete and Burnistoun's most famous citizen, but now he's a sad, incontinent old man who's prone to physical comedy and can barely control his body. | |
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In The Hollow, Ian's father Carl is the high school football coach who is determined that Ian will have exactly the same high school experience as him, including being a football hero. He ignores the fact that Ian is more interested in drama than athletics. | |
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Bavragor Hammerfist from The Dwarves. He created some of the finest stonework in the world, before his love of drink took over. | |
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Abe Simpson from The Simpsons tells a lot of (obviously fake and nonsensical) war stories. It overlaps with his constant Rambling Old Man Monologue | |
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Totally Spies!: A common motive of the villains the girls face is trying to relive or regain past glory, even if it means kidnapping others and forcing them to live out their deranged fantasies or causing widespread damage. An example being Chet from "Evil Graduation", Beverly High's football captain who abducted everyone else aside from him that was set to graduate and placed them in a replica of the school with a force field around it in the middle of the desert all because he didn't want to move on. | |
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Yes, Your Grace: Sir Friderick became famous during several battles in his youth, but that fame is now long forgotten. By the time he's introduced, he's quite close to retirement age and wants to fight one last battle. Fortunately for Sir Friderick, a former student of his is invited to participate in a battle and refuses to join unless Sir Friderick gets to do the same. | |
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In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Simon and the rest of the Gurren Brigade find themselves bored out of their minds after the Time Skip. Averted in the Distant Finale, where Simon seems content Walking the Earth. | |
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Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite is a particularly sorry example of this trope, as he looks back on a football game that he spent warming the bench. He spends all his free time practicing his throw and lamenting that he could have won the game and gone pro if the coach had put him in. He even buys a "time machine" on the Internet so he can go back and change his life. | |
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Parodied in Hamlet 2; Elizabeth Shue plays herself as a survivor of the Hollywood Hype Machine having decided to quit acting and become a nurse instead. The main character is a huge fan of hers and invites her to the school to give a talk about acting to his drama class — which ends up embarrassing for all concerned, as the kids have no idea who she is. | |
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Camp Lazlo: on the episode "Dead Bean Drop", Slinkman, of all people misses his days as a death-defying daredevil, but he seems to have shoved it into the back of his mind over the years until Lazlo, Clam, and Raj find out and begin talking about it nonstop. He apparently moves past it when after fifteen years of having quit, he manages to jump the titular cliff, and it is never mentioned again. His inability to let it go was probably because he failed his final stunt; Turns out Lumpus sabotaged him out of petty envy. It's this that causes Slinkman to try once more, this time with Lumpus riding as well. He gets him to apologize and succeds in jumping. |
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Highlander actually has an episode called "Glory Days", where Joe Dawson, who was the star quarterback of the high school football team, meets up with the head cheerleader he'd once dated. He gets depressed because he lost his legs in Vietnam, and doesn't think she'll like him, that he's 'damaged goods' (she was actually married anyway, but she does reassure him that he isn't damaged). Meanwhile, Mac is targeted by a former mobster immortal who's depressed and unhappy and wants Mac dead for instigating the 'death' that got him kicked out of the mob back in the 30s. | |
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In The Day of the Locust, Harry Greener is a former vaudeville performer who was never that talented to begin with, but with the decline of both vaudeville and his health, he has been forced to take a job as a door-to-door salesman just to have an outlet to keep performing his shtick in front of increasingly less interested "audiences". | |
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Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard is convinced that she is still as big a star as she was in the silent film era, even though she hasn't made any films since then. | |
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The Documentary Special When Lit features Rick Stetta, the 1991 Pinball World Champion who struggles to cope with his place in a world where pinball is no longer a major cultural influence. | |
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Randy "The Ram" Robinson, the aging, lonely, deteriorating title character of The Wrestler, keeps going back into the ring to recapture as much as he can of the exhilaration and adoration of his heyday in the 1980s, culminating in a "revenge bout" against his in-ring rival, "The Ayatollah", several decades after their original rivalry. | |
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Cowboy Bebop has a trio of old men (possibly former cowboys) which keep talking of the great days back in their youth. | |
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King of the Hill gives us "Big" Willie Lane, a former backup lineman for the Dallas Cowboys who had an unremarkable career, except for when he blocked a kick that allowed the Cowboys to win the Super Bowl. He's pretty much spent his entire life since coasting on that glory and constantly brags about it. By the time he moves to Rainy Street, he's become an incredibly obnoxious, overweight alcoholic. This is best exemplified by Willie's Super Bowl Ring; he's never taken it off, and he's gained so much weight that it's now virtually impossible for him to do so, because of how fat his fingers have gotten. By the end of the episode, Hank has gone from worshipping him to blackmailing him with a potential assault charge to get him to move away. | |
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In Flashpoint (1999), Barry lived the good life up until the mid-60s and frequently reminisces on his past handiwork and adoration. | |
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Did you know that Al Bundy of Married... with Children once scored four touchdowns in one game of high school football? Al sure wants you to know. | |
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In Nextwave, Monica Rambeau can hardly start a sentence without mentioning how she once led The Avengers. | |
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Tiger & Bunny has a dark example in Mr. Legend, who after losing his powers became a drunk and an abusive husband and father. | |
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Guybrush at the start of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. After he beat LeChuck in the first game he had a great life, but people were expecting more and eventually he lost Elaine and people forgot about him. This one of the factors motivating him to find the Big Whoop. | |
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The main theme of The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine", in which aging actress Barbara Jean Trenton longs for the days when she and her friends were young, beautiful stars. Her inability to accept the reality in which they have grown old and moved on to other professions is so profound that at the end of the episode, she enters the world of one of her films so that she can remain young and beautiful forever. | |
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In This is Spın̈al Tap, the titular band spend most of the movie actively determined to pretend that the Glory Days aren't well and truly behind them, despite the fact that the crowds and venues are getting noticeably smaller. | |
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Wings (1966) is about a middle-aged Russian woman stuck in a dull life as a school principal, who can't stop thinking about her exciting youth as a fighter pilot in World War II. | |
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The main theme of There Will Be Brawl. Mario, Link, and a few other characters in particular seem to have taken it hard. | |
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The old men from GUN×SWORD. They keep drinking and talking about the glory days in a deceased member's granddaughter's tavern and are chewed out by the other people who don't even believe them. They prove themselves again when an armor attacks their town and they get to show off the El Dorado V. They trump their glory days with more epic moments in the quest to stop the Claw. | |
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The Best Page in the Universe was one of the most talked about websites of the Web 1.0 era. His attempts to translate his old popularity into YouTube popularity haven't fared well, as his real persona doesn't match well with his over the top troll style used in the writing that made him popular back then. | |
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This is the crux of the Team Rocket subplot in Pokémon Gold and Silver - three years after they were originally defeated and Giovanni disbanded the team, the remnants that are still calling themselves Team Rocket are left in a rather sorry state, going from an open presence in the largest cities of Kanto to having to resort to small-scale Poké-napping and audio experimentation out in the sticks of Johto. Even when they manage to pull together enough people to storm the radio tower in Goldenrod City, the whole purpose turns out to be to broadcast a plea for Giovanni to come back, because they're totally lost without him. | |
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In The Prowler (1951), Webb was a star high school basketball player who got a college scholarship but lost it after a violent argument with his coach. He has been stewing in a sea of bitter resentment ever since. | |
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Chowder has the episode "Big Food" regarding Chowder coming across the legendary Big Food, a now washed up Grand Dame actress based a lot upon Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. | |
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In Young Adult, Mavis Gary is a successful author of young adult novels who relives her Alpha Bitch high school days through an Author Avatar character and never got over her high school boyfriend (whom she attempts to win back despite him being Happily Married with a newborn baby.) | |
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Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman is so obsessed with his glory days that he occasionally flashes back to them. Whether or not the glory days actually had that much glory in them, or if Willy and his son are re-imagining the past is an important part of the story. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "The Big Game", the Glory Days for assistant-coach Gus "Snakehips" Geary was when he won the big game of 1912 almost singlehandly. After high school, he was hired as vice president of a local firm for publicity - then a few years after he was demoted to janitor. As it paid the same salary, he stayed on until he was layed off and returned to Madison High as a popular assistant coach. | |
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Better Call Saul: The first episode opens with a Flash Forward to Jimmy McGill on the run post-Breaking Bad, under the alias "Gene Takavic". Now living a life of anonymous drudgery in Nebraska, he is clearly depressed, lonely and utterly paranoid. When his shift as a Cinnabon Manager is over he heads home, pours himself a sizeable drink and watches a VHS tape of the gloriously tacky local commercials he made during his life as Amoral Attorney Saul Goodman. The segment is Deliberately Monochrome but the reflection of the TV screen in his glasses is in full colour, signifying that "Gene" is reliving happier times. | |
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Sam Rothstein laments the old Vegas at the end of Casino. | |
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In Galaxy Quest, the main character suffers from a brief Heroic BSoD at the beginning, when he overhears someone laughing at the fact that he and his colleagues haven't had an acting role since the titular Star Trek Fictional Counterpart a decade or two earlier. | |
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In The Club, Jock spends a lot of time reliving his time as a star player, and wants the club to be run the way it was in the old days. He also wants Laurie ousted as coach so that he can maintain the club record for most games coached. | |
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Tan'elKoth in Blade of Tyshalle literally fits this trope to a T. He used to be a god. As a line points out, his very name was changed to an unwilling admission that he no longer is that being. Hari also longs for the glory days of his career, when he was an unstoppable assassin instead of a paraplegic bureaucrat. See also Orbek's obsession with reviving the Black Knife nation in Caine Black Knife. | |
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Langdon Ricketts of Red Dead Redemption. He clearly misses the old days and refers to himself as an old relic sitting around Chuparosa as some 'low-rent would be messiah.' | |
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The World's End: In his teenage years, Gary was the coolest kid in school. Twenty years later, he still hasn't moved on. | |
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From Beyond the Grave: In "An Act of Kindness", Lowe longs for his army days, which he regards as his personal high point (possibly because he wasn't married). However, his attempts to invoke this drag him into Phony Veteran territory, and that leads him down a very dark path. | |
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On Glee, Terry accuses Schuester of obsessing over the Glee club in order to revive his Glory Days from high school. | |
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M*A*S*H had an episode, "Friends and Enemies," where Col. Potter learned that an old friend, Col. Woody Cooke, who was assigned to logistics duty had illegally assumed command of a combat unit and led into a needless engagement just to satisfy his thirst for the glory days of frontline action. Potter has to report Cooke for abusing his authority and violating the chain of command; he doesn't take it well. | |
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The Star League era of BattleTech. During its time the Star League was the unifying entity that held the Inner Sphere together, with the Star League Defense Force to protect it. However after the Amaris Civil War the Great Houses couldn't decide who would be new First Lord, and where eager to wage war with each other for supremacy. When the SLDF left the Inner Sphere, the Great Houses plunged the galaxy into the destructive Succession Wars which lead to a technological deterioration with each state scavenging anything they can use to maintain their war effort against each other. | |
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In Pixels, Sam used to be world vice-champion of arcade games. Today, he's fixing electronic installations and still regrets not doing anything with his talents. | |
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Most of the depowered heroes in JLA: Act of God seemed to not be able to get past the days when they were superheroes. Even Supergirl called the past 'The Glory Days'. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series, episode 2x24, "The Ultimate Computer," had Dr. Richard Daystrom who invented the duotronic computer system used on Federation starships when he was 24, and spent the next 25 years trying to recapture that moment of brilliance (leading to the disastrous results of the M-5 computer). However he seems to have made some historical impact, as by the 24th century a prominent scientific institute is named for him. | |
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Robert De Niro's character in The Fan, to an Axe-Crazy degree. | |
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Robert Baratheon in A Song of Ice and Fire longs for the days of the Rebellion, when he was a strong, dashing and popular hero, with a clear enemy to fight and a damsel in distress to rescue. He really hates being king, and he'd give it up in a heartbeat if he could. | |
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Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom in Rabbit, Run was a basketball hero in high school. At the time of the novel, however, he is a nobody in a loveless marriage and a Soul-Sucking Retail Job. | |
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Captain Qwark is implied to be this throughout the Ratchet & Clank series, particularly when his adventurous youth is shown in the third game as backstory. After that he sided with the villains on several occasions and was even the big bad for the second game to kickstart his big comeback, and is generally much more cowardly. However, while he is called out by the cognizant characters such as Ratchet and a disgruntled fan, the general populace is generally forgiving of the captain, his tumultuous term as galactic president aside. | |
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Many nations who were former empires in Hetalia: Axis Powers get moments reminiscing about the glory days. The Hot-Blooded Blood Knight Prussia, who spends the entirety of one strip retelling the story of how he became The Leader of the Germanic states and unified Germany, bragging about his awesomeness the entire time. France thinks wistfully about how powerful he was when Napoleon was in charge. England's got a powerful Nostalgia Filter for the days of The British Empire. The Princely Young Man Austria clearly misses his days as a great empire, to the point that he continues acting like one in the present day. | |
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The Crown (2016). Winston Churchill is Prime Minister again but while he's lauded by the public for his wartime leadership it's clear that his best years have passed and he's out of touch with the modern age. In "Act of God" his young secretary Venetia Scott, having read his book My Early Life, is talking of how much it inspired her to make her mark on the world. Churchill can only quietly beg her to stop, well aware that he's no longer that man. | |
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Most Chick Tracts portray the Protestant Reformation as the peak of human civilization, with the Gilded Age (the period between The American Civil War and World War I) as a close second, and an endless downhill slide after that. Writer Jack Chick is a fundamentalist Protestant Christian. | |
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Ernie from Naked Came the Stranger fantasizes about his days as a high school quarterback and later a marine, when he was known as Iron Man Ernie Miklos. Now, as a middle-aged man with a wife and kids he doesn't like, he lives mostly for Saturday afternoon football games. | |
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The three main characters of Mei Company were Magical Girl Warriors who were forced to retire from that life when their powers started to wane. Now they run a cleaning service and sometimes reminisce about the days when they were badasses. | |
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17 Again (2009): Unemployed, on the verge of divorce, and with kids who don't respect him, Mike views his high school days as this; he was a star basketball player about to get a scholarship, but gave it all up to be with his pregnant girlfriend. When he is magically returned to his 17 year old body, he sees it as a chance to Set Right What Once Went Wrong; however, he eventually realizes that he doesn't regret the choices he made. | |
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Saturday Night Live: In a sketch featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter is a Hogwarts graduate who never accomplished anything as an adult. He spends most of his time hanging out at the school and talking to the students about his past accomplishments. He also plays Quidditch by himself and makes cheering noises. | |
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Come the events of Sakura Wars (2019), the Imperial Combat Revue has seen better days. Far from demon-vanquishing vanguard and theater superstars they were in the 1920s, the Revue is in dire straits in 1940: the theater is understaffed and falling apart, the actresses are inexperienced and uncoordinated, and the Mini-Mecha are obsolete relics that are poorly maintained. Things are so bad that not only do they rely on a rival Revue from Shanghai to keep the peace, but they are now facing the possibility of dissolution. | |
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That Championship Season is about an all grown up group of friends from high school who long for the simplicity of their youth, even though some of them are now successful (though their success is built on rotten foundations). | |
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Game of Thrones: Robert still lives for the days when he was a powerful and victorious warrior and his beloved Lyanna was still alive. His brother Renly eventually calls him out for glorifying the bloody civil war that ripped the continent apart. | |
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The Incredibles: After a forced retirement from his career as a super-hero, Mr. Incredible settles down and becomes a typical cubicle dweller. While his wife has adapted to their new circumstances, he is stuck re-living his past glories, a fact which the villain exploits to get Mr. Incredible to unknowingly help him. He's even on the cover of a "Glory Days" magazine! This is subverted, however; Bob doesn't actually yearn for the glory within the glory days themselves, but rather the satisfaction of helping people around him and the freedom to do so during those glory days, even if nowadays he has to break some rules in order to do so. The soundtrack's track for the flashback opener of the film is even named "Glory Days". Edna is disdainful of her current job as a fashion designer and is clearly delighted at the prospect of doing more work for Supers: |
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Bryan Adams' "Summer of 69", by way of employing Nostalgia Filter. "Those were the best days of my life." | |
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Warhammer 40,000 has a few examples: The Eldar used to have galaxy-spanning empires which imploded with the birth of Slaanesh, and reduced to a Dying Race who can never return to their home worlds (which now lie in the midst of the Eye of Terror). It helps that the Eldar still maintain their supreme arrogance and superiority complex, wanting to put the other younger races to their place and reclaim their former glory. Humanity themselves had the Dark Age of Technology, where humankind created anything that could have been created and rapidly colonized known space. Then the Age of Strife happened, throwing everything to the crapper. Fortunately for humanity, after the Age of Strife came the rise of The Emperor and The Imperium of Mankind, which led to the second glory days of the Great Crusade. With Space Marine legions backed with mighty war machines fighting as the Imperium's basic troops, nothing could hope to stand in The Imperium's way. Then the Horus Heresy happened, and everything went to an even deeper crapper than before, and The Imperium has been repeatedly described as 'rotting' or 'decaying' ever since. Roboute Guilliman, who was put in stasis towards the end of the Heresy, was brought back to the current modern times. In a conversation with the Emperor, he actually says it might have been better that Horus succeed instead of the utter wreck that was left. |
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Codex Equus: Generally deconstructed, as one of the themes covered by the Codexverse is that looking back at the past with a Nostalgia Filter can be detrimental for everyone. This actually forms the basis of Moon Ray Vaughoof's character development — he never really got over how his music career and life were cut short by a helicopter accident, especially after he got sober, and working as a Reaper reminded him of all the things he left behind. Moon Ray's strong nostalgia causes him to shirk his duties in favor of hanging around places he used to frequent in life, and during the "Big Comeback Tour" he preferred to let the revived souls enjoy their second chance rather than take it away from them. However, participating in the "Applewood Rescue" makes Moon Ray realize the hard way that his yearning for the past nearly put him down the same dark path of depravity that his foalhood idol, Double Helix, took. He comes to term with this while visiting his own grave in Gallas, allowing him to Ascend to true godhood. Ironically, it's his letting go of his past and doing good deeds in the present that gradually turns Moon Ray into the Living Legend he originally wanted to be. | |
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Rumbling Hearts: Hayase Mitsuki, a once-in-a-generation swimming prodigy had the makings of an Olympic-Grade Champion. She leaves it behind to look after her best friend Haruka's boyfriend Takayuki. He is unable to complete high school because of his suicidal depression over Haruka's car-accident induced coma. An accident inadvertently caused by Mitsuki. Three years on, when Haruka awakens, Takayuki leaves Mitsuki behind to restart life where he left it. Mitsuki, now a mere office lady, meets an old-rival who is now an olympic grade champion-swimmer doubly reminding her of the meaninglessness of her sacrifice. | |
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Before he was upstaged by penguins, Dave the octopus from Penguins of Madagascar used to be a star attraction at the Central Park zoo, entertaining crowds with his dexterous antics. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the episode "The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone", Gilda's grandfather is stuck in the days when the kingdom of Griffonstone was a mighty nation instead of a dump. "Rarity Investigates" has an antagonist set up Rainbow Dash for a crime he committed so that he can preserve his flight speed record. He is exposed by Rarity for his frame up and is immediately stripped of his position and retirement benefits. |
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The end of Goodfellas has Henry lament his boring life in witness protection and flashing to a montage of his glory days as a gangster. It ends with a homage to The Great Train Robbery, implying an association to America's glory days of The Wild West. | |
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The Great Gatsby: Many characters, but especially Tom Buchanan, who used to be a star football player for Yale. Nick's impression of Tom is as a restless man who goes about his entire life looking for another football game to win. Gatsby himself inverts this. He never had such pure happiness in his past, but he's ignoring reality in order to try and make the future glorious and perfect and lovely. |
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In Survival of the Fittest, it's often argued that Version 1 was the glory days of the board, and that people preferred the old system. This was subverted in a thread on the board in which both V1 and V2 were criticised - V1 for being too spontaneous and for a lesser writing quality, and V2 for being overplanned. To quote the Admin of the site, "for the most part, V3's found a good mix of both planning and spontaneity". Read the thread here. | |
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Two are mentioned in Tears to Tiara 2. The Canaanites and the people of Hispania under legendary king Eshmun. Laelius mentions that The Empire has seen much better days and he's determined to return it to its former glory. | |
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In Hozuki's Coolheadedness, Momotarō has become like this. His companions only go along with him because they like him but complain amongst themselves. Hozuki fixes Momotaro up with a job caring for celestial peaches, and his animal companions find work punishing the spirits of those who were cruel to animals. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: Inverted regarding Penny's mom in "The Walk," given what her daughter says. She rightly has given Penny advice that secondary school will only be the high water mark for a certain subset of people. | |
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Astro City: In "Lovers Quarrel", Crackerjack and Quarrel are haunted by the growing realization that this might be happening to them, as their age makes it more and more difficult to keep up with their superheroics. Played with in "Old Times"; retired hero Supersonic is abruptly dragged into action by his civilian partner Ed Robbins because Ed is having a hard time admitting that he is past his prime. Ed is hoping that the two of them can continue their adventures together. |
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"Fast" Eddie Felson in The Color of Money. We saw his Glory Days in The Hustler (1961) but when The Color Of Money opens, he's a bitter burnout selling booze and ends up working as a stakehorse to a younger player. Subverted when he makes a comeback towards the end of the film. | |
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In Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, it turns out Commander Badass doesn't worry about these. What brought this speech on is that Lord Zedd does that: people nicknamed him 'Al Bundy'. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "The Witch", Amy's mother never got over her glory days as a cheerleader, so forcibly switched places with her daughter to relive "her glory days". Buffy has moments of this, at least at the beginning of the show, missing her popular cheerleader days, back when she didn't have to be a slayer. |
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In The Fighter, Dickie Eklund constantly replays his boxing match where he managed to score a knockdown against Sugar Ray Leonard, despite the fact that Leonard eventually won the match. Everybody gets tired of Dickie constantly talking about the fight and later, he runs into Leonard and Leonard can barely recognize him. | |
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In The Gamer's Alliance, after Agarwaen becomes the king of Manster, he gradually grows bored with his kingly duties and yearns for the days when he was a free adventurer. | |
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Subverted in Children of the Lens, last in the Lensman sequence: the surviving crew of the battleship "Dauntless", now top brass, cast off their regalia and revert to their original roles aboard ship of twenty years before in order to re-enter a strange universe and craft the ultimate weapon. They literally get to relive their glory days, even as they are living a second set. | |
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Mike Oldfield - After the surprisingly huge success of his debut album "Tubular Bells", he tried to reproduce it again, again and again to save his decreasing popularity, which didn't help much. Nor did completely re-recording it. | |
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Downplayed in Music and Lyrics; whilst former pop-star and professional has-been Alex Fletcher's glory days are well and truly behind him at the beginning of the movie, he is, if not exactly ecstatic with his lot, comfortably resigned to it. Having found some measure of contentment in the low-rent theme-park gigs he does to support himself, he doesn't demonstrate a burning desire to get back to the old days, and seems to have accepted the fact that his glory days are behind him. His main motivation throughout the movie is not getting back on the charts, but ensuring he has a sufficient profile to secure a lucrative contract singing at Disneyland. | |
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One of the main themes in The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar, at least for the characters associated with the secret societies that were crushed in 1825 (the book is set in 1828). The main character's glory days are seemingly still in full swing, but a) he has great and well-founded fear of suffering this trope in the future if he doesn't take some risks and b) while his political and social career has been doing well, he has become increasingly detached from many of his old friends and has also hit a major writer's block, which leads to a lot of regret and nostalgic reminiscing on his part. | |
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Contraptionology!: Applejack's realization that her Glory Days are ending, while Twilight's are just starting, is what caused her to flee to Dodge Junction in "The Last Roundup". She prides herself on her athletic skill, but athleticism is a young mare's game and she's just now starting to age out of her prime; additionally, her status as Ponyville's go-to dependable person and problem fixer also ended when Twilight moved in and huge magical crises became the order of the day. Twilight, by contrast, has chosen a life of research and academia where she will thrive until senility sets in, and is only just starting out on what is shaping up to be a long and successful career. | |
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Breaking Bad: In the opening episode Walter White is seen glancing at an award he was given... for contributing to what eventually became Nobel Prize-winning research. We soon learn that he impulsively left his career as an academic chemist behind, while if he'd been more patient he could have shared that Nobel Prize with the eventual victors. We also see he is now reduced to being a struggling Apathetic Teacher who is forced to wash his student's cars to make ends meet. | |
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Rocky Balboa was also meant to remedy such a situation caused by Rocky V. | |
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A running gag in Babylon 5 with the Centauri Republic in general and Londo Mollari in particular, leading to an in-universe Lightbulb Joke: | |
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Sins of the Past: Fifteen years after Hawkmoth and Lila triumphed, Chloe's family has fallen upon hard times, and she's eking out a living as a librarian while her former friend/sycophant Sabrina has long replaced her as the Bee Heroine. Seeing a comic featuring the original Miraculous team, including her former alter ego, nearly brings her to tears. | |
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The Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "O Youth and Beauty!" (based on a story by John Cheever ) features a man who likes to relive his glory days as a (college?) track star by competing with an old film of himself. | |
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