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I was describing tropes here while you were in kindergarten. 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, or maybe even before they were a gleam in their parents' eyes, often in the form of "I was doing X while you were in diapers." Sometimes said by old people, but more often than not it is said by any adult character to claim that they have Seen It All, or as a Badass Boast. It is unlikely to find a Chekhov's Gun in those boasts, as those past experiences rarely become plot-relevant later on. A common variation is a Long-Lived character, or an 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!" Cultural Posturing often involves this kind of statement, except that it's "my culture was awesome when your culture was still banging rocks together!" In real life, you really should keep this to a minimum, or better yet, not at all. It's very hard to do this without coming off as condescending or dismissive. Compare When I Was Your Age..., Years Too Early. Contrast Glory Days. |
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In Hawkman vol 5 #3, Hawkman, attacked by a flock of Fetherians tells them "You were born to fly. I was flying before your race was born!" | |
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In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Relaunch, the Ferengi politician Kain has the following retort when criticized by a colleague: "You watch it, boy. I was cheating Yridians when your mother was too young to chew food." | |
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Blatant lampshading in the episode "Planet of the Slave Girls", when retired 'Commander Gordon', played by Buster Crabbe, the original Buck Rogers, chides Gil Gerard's Buck during a dogfight that "I've been doing this since before you were born, young man." (Literal because the Buck Rogers serials date to 1939, years before Gil Gerard's birth; ironic since Buck comes from the 20th century via suspended animation and his character is centuries older than the 'vintage' fighter pilot Crabbe plays here.) | |
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The Simpsons: In "Marge Gets a Job", Groundskeeper Willie fights a wolf, and after he wins the two share some hooch while Willie says "Ah, don't feel bad for losing. I was wrestling wolves back when you were at your mother's teat!" | |
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A railway variant in the Thomas & Friends episode "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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Parachute Jumper: Bill, an ex-Marine pilot, is trying to get a job with the parachute stunt pilots. He is asked if he has any experience. He says "I was flying airplanes when you thought a joystick was a lollipop!". | |
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In Mama's Family, Mama says to Iola: "I was making booties before you had feet!" | |
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In The Candy Shop War, Nate tells Mr. Stott that Belinda White has claimed that Hanaver Mills is her ancestor. Mr. Stott's response? "Belinda White has been using magic since Hanaver Mills was in diapers." | |
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Grey's Anatomy: In "The Time Warp", Dr. Richard Addison recalls working with Meredith's late mom Ellis while treating an AIDS patient in 1982. | |
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Naruto: Kakuzu makes a point of reminding his opponents that he once fought the First Hokage — a man who's at least seventy years dead. Essentially, he fought the most powerful shinobi to ever live before any of the main characters were even born. Interestingly enough, the Edo Tensei reanimated Second Mizukage remembers Grumpy Old Man Ohnoki, the current Tsuchikage, from when he was a child. Though it only ever comes up three times, Ohnoki fought Madara when he was a lot younger and remembers the encounter with fear. (It's implied that his fight with Madara is why he became a grumpy old shinobi as opposed to the Wide-Eyed Idealist he was in his youth.) |
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The Uncomplaining Corpses: Private detective Michael Shayne's Friend on the Force, Chief Will Gentry, helps him in part because Gentry dislikes his rival and Shayne's enemy, Chief Peter Painter. A scornful Gentry says that "I was running this department when Painter was wearing a safety pin instead of a belt buckle." | |
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One of Cranky Kong's quotes in Donkey Kong Country is "Last time I saw you, you were in diapers!" | |
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In Part 2 of the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "The Crystal Throne", the villain gives a Badass Boast to Madame Vastra about the number of fighting styles she's trained in. Vastra replies "Is that so? I learned to fight when your species still had tails!" | |
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In the Rick and Morty episode "Something Ricked This Way Comes", after Mr. Needful proceeds to "Zuckerberg" (i.e., backstab) Summer, the former gleefully responds: | |
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In The Pacific, John Basilone takes exception to one of the recruits he's training to be Marines expressing a desire to 'get out there and slap a Jap'. | |
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At WrestleMania 21, during the Piper's Pit segment between Roddy Piper and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Roddy Piper says: | |
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From the WordGirl episode "Becky's Bad-itude", when Mr. Botsford reveals that he got four tickets to the Squishy Funbots Robo-Rama; | |
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In World of Warcraft, Xaril the Poisoned Mind, one of the mantid Paragons (heroes sealed in amber and released in times of crisis — although for Xaril, it was in the relatively recent past, as opposed to centuries or millennia ago), says he remembers when Amber Shaper Un'sok, one of the sha-corrupted Empress' minions and the penultimate boss in Heart of Fear, was afraid to mix his first toxin. | |
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Justice League Action: The wizard Shazam claims to have dealt with the forces of evil since the oldest of Batman's ancestors were in diapers. | |
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Subverted in Just Shoot Me!. Nina tries to do this with Adrian, but Nina names a specific year, and Adrian says she wasn't even born then. Nina instantly breaks down. | |
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In The Secret Life of Dolls, Cleolinda decides to keep The Littlest Edward busy by having him take care of her My Little Ponies. When he protests this, she tells him he'd better look after them and do a damned good job of it, because the ponies are all vintage and "I have friends who are younger than this!" | |
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Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Captain Rescue took offense at being called an "oldtimer" by Sonic in the episode "Over the Hill Hero", retorting that he had been saving Mobius from bad guys since Sonic was a "hedgehoglet". | |
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Ultimate Marvel: Ultimate X-Men: Wraith has been nailing mutants for Weapon X before Cornelius discovered Corduroy. The Ultimates: Herr Kleiser had been fighting Steve Rogers before Bruce Banner was even born. |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): The episode "He's Alive" has a scene in which Adolf Hitler's ghost tells off a neo-Nazi wannabe. | |
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A variant of this occurs in Point Break (1991) with Angelo telling Johnny "I was takin' shrapnel in Khe Sanh when you were crappin' in your hands and rubbin' it on your face!" He does it again later on to a somewhat older man: "I was in this bureau when you were still popping zits on your funny little face and jacking off to the lingerie section of the Sears catalogue." | |
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Dark Nights: Metal has Kendra Saunders claim that she's been fighting wars back when Wonder Woman was just a speck of dirt. | |
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"I made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders!" snarls Moe Greene in The Godfather. | |
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In Persona 4 a drunk Dojima once gripes that he was solving crimes while Adachi was still learning his times tables. | |
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An even more extreme variant when Chris Jericho was arguing with MJF, with Jericho boasting that he'd been wrestling Juventud Guerrera in WCW before MJF had even been born. Supporting his point, MJF didn't even know who "Juvi" was. | |
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In the "Kill Killbane" ending of Saints Row: The Third, Final Boss Cyrus Temple boasts to the Boss, "I've been a soldier longer than you've been alive!" This boast loses a lot of its effect if you've made your Boss just as old as or even older than him. | |
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From O Brother, Where Art Thou?: | |
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In Blue Thunder, Braddock says he was in the police force when new recruit Lymangood was "watching cartoons" and "eating a Fudgesicle". | |
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Baron Zemo tells Baron Strucker, current leader of Hydra, that he "was running Hydra while you were still a child." It should be noted that both characters served in World War II, so they're both pretty old by this point. | |
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Jem: One episode invokes this trope with Bobby Bailey's criticism of Jem and the Holograms' version of a song he did back in the The '50s. He told Kimber he did it while her father was in diapers. | |
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In Neuromancer, the Finn wearily observes "I gotta pair a shoes older than you." | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who 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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In Baldur's Gate III, when the player first meets high elf and secret vampire Astarion, he yanks them to the ground and holds a knife to their throat. If the player tries and fails to escape, he'll deliver this boast. | |
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X-Men Film Series: X2: X-Men United: Colonel Stryker says this to Senator Kelly (or who he thinks is Kelly). X-Men: The Last Stand: Beast pulls one of these on Wolverine, but, unbeknownst to both, the former is approximately 110 years younger than the latter. |
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In The Venture Brothers, Sgt. Hatred uses this when he mouths off to the Monarch in the season 3 episode "Home Is Where the Hate Is": | |
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Speaking of MJF, he got this during his epic promo shootout with CM Punk on a November 2021 edition of AEW Dynamite: | |
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An interestingly phrased variant in Farscape from Zhaan to Chiana: | |
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Dead Ringers: Sue Johnston, utterly unimpressed with Time and its attempts to be a gritty Scouse drama, tells Stephen Graham that she's been doing gritty Scouse drama since he was in short trousers. | |
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Cradle Series: Ziel advanced through his world's Power Levels at a breakneck pace, so he's able to say something like this to someone only a few years younger than him (with a caveat). | |
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X2: X-Men United: Colonel Stryker says this to Senator Kelly (or who he thinks is Kelly). | |
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Mass Effect 2: During Grunt's loyalty mission, if Gatagog Uvenk gets too uppity with the Shaman, the Shaman will remind him that "I was a warrior before your mother was born!" During a sidequest on Illium, an asari with a grudge against other species says that she was negotiating contracts while Shepard's ancestors were burning witches and enslaving each other. | |
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Later done in Mass Effect 3 with Javik, resident Last of His Kind former Precursor Popsicle, who is fond of mentioning what the dominant species of the current cycle were like in his time: humans lived in caves, hanar were like minnows in the ocean, yahg were small and salarians ate flies and licked their own eyes. He also jokes that asari used to be unable to count beyond ten without their toes but then again this is Javik we're talking about... | |
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A variant occurs in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. Hayate, speaking with Auris Gaiz, suggests that Auris' superior, Lieutenant Genderal 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 Taking the Heat for the Wolkenritter Regius was upholding the law and defending the people, implying Hayate has no right to question him. | |
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In The Late Late Show with James Corden's Drop the Mic rap battle between Corden and Jeff Goldblum, Corden makes several jokes about Goldblum's age (he was 66 at the time) among other things, but Goldblum ends the second round with the following: "When you were born, I was already 25/Which means I've been a sex symbol longer than you've been alive!" | |
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Mass Effect: Mass Effect 2: During Grunt's loyalty mission, if Gatagog Uvenk gets too uppity with the Shaman, the Shaman will remind him that "I was a warrior before your mother was born!" During a sidequest on Illium, an asari with a grudge against other species says that she was negotiating contracts while Shepard's ancestors were burning witches and enslaving each other. Later done in Mass Effect 3 with Javik, resident Last of His Kind former Precursor Popsicle, who is fond of mentioning what the dominant species of the current cycle were like in his time: humans lived in caves, hanar were like minnows in the ocean, yahg were small and salarians ate flies and licked their own eyes. He also jokes that asari used to be unable to count beyond ten without their toes but then again this is Javik we're talking about... Comes up again in Mass Effect: Andromeda. If Ryder criticizes Sarissa Theris for putting the asari ark at risk by stealing kett navigational data, Sarissa will snidely shoot back that she was studying tactics when Ryder's ancestors were toddlers. Ryder is not impressed. |
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DM of the Rings, after Frodo cringes at Gimli's IC introduction (not so far back as the others being in diapers, but it counts): | |
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Batman comics and other adaptations often have Alfred invoke this trope. In the Justice League animated series, Alfred tells the Flash that he had been working for the Wayne family "since Master Bruce was in diapers", and on several occasions when Batman brushes off Alfred's assistance or gets frustrated with him, Alfred is quick to remind Master Bruce that he was an MI6 agent before he was born. | |
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Lucky Luke: One story features an old-timer character in a wheelchair roping cattle. When Luke congratulates him, the old guy gives him the line. In the climax of the story called Ma' Dalton, the elderly mother of the Dalton Brothers boasts about being a good shooter. Too bad she's about to shoot the hero. |
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The Equalizer: In "Mission: McCall", the title character goes missing, so his son Scott tries to get help from his former boss, Control. Control seems to have his own agenda, but when Scott calls him on his apparent lack of concern he replies thus: | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Relics", Scotty angrily remarks to Geordi that he was repairing warp drives when LaForge's great-grandfather was in diapers. In "Redemption", Guinan beats Worf at target practice and tells him that she's been at it since before he was born. Since she's Really 700 Years Old, she's not kidding. In "Unification: Part II", Picard describes Spock's dealings with the Romulans as "cowboy diplomacy" and tells him that the Federation won't tolerate it. Spock retorts that he was involved with such cowboy diplomacy before Picard was even born. In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Message in a Bottle", the EMH of Voyager tells the EMH Mark II that "I was saving Voyager from annihilation when you were only a gleam in your programmer's eye!" |
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Artie in Warehouse 13: "Like I don't know how to improvise an electromagnet. I was doing this when MacGyver was still trapped in his crib!" | |
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Skyfall: Kincaid, the groundskeeper at the Bond family estate, gives a nicely understated Badass Boast when they hear the dogs barking, showing a bunch of mooks have just turned up. | |
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In one of Colonel Flagg's M*A*S*H episodes, he showed up insisting that a bombardier who believed himself to be Christ should get "his highly trained thumb" back into action immediately. When he's rude to Colonel Potter, Potter says he doesn't appreciate abuse. "I was in this man's army when the only thumb you cared about was the one you had in your mouth." | |
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In the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee," a Romulan Commander tells a subordinate who he suspects of plotting against him that, "I've been stabbing commanders in the back since before your mother killed her first traitor." | |
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In Northanger Abbey, Catherine is surprised to discover that her love interest Henry Tilney shares her enjoyment of Gothic novels. He cheerfully replies that given how much older he is, he's almost certainly read lots more of them than she has. | |
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Encountering Captain Terell and Commander Chekov on Ceti Alpha V in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Khan Noonien Singh tells Terell and Chekov that appealing to Khan's people was useless as these people had sworn themselves to him 200 years before Terell and Chekov were born. | |
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In Moana, Maui's song "You're Welcome" has him bragging "What has two thumbs and pulled up the sky / While you were waddling yea-high? This guy!" | |
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A variant in Daredevil (2015) when Karen Page is talking with Ben Urich about Union Allied: | |
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In one episode of Cow and Chicken, a new school bully starts picking on the kids that the previous bully picked on. After the new bully twists the noses of two kids, the original bully tells him: | |
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One Piece: During the Battle of Onigashima, Big Mom boasts to Eustass Kid and Trafalgar Law that she and Kaido have been Emperors of the Sea since before the Worst Generation were "Weaned off your mother's milk." | |
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Futurama: Fry's status as a Human Popsicle means he's able to accurately tell Leela, "I was delivering things before you were born!" He may be right, but that doesn't make him competent. Professor Farnsworth tells a former student of his "I was inventing things when you were barely turning senile". |
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In Destroy All Humans! 2, a frustrated Orthopox-13, calling the Furon homeworld, chews out a space traffic controller for not recognizing him by name alone. | |
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Ultimate X-Men: Wraith has been nailing mutants for Weapon X before Cornelius discovered Corduroy. | |
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In I, Cthulhu the title character says it "slimed out of the dark stars when your most eldritch nightmares were suckling at their mothers’ pseudomammaria". | |
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Warriors Orochi gives us Huang Zhong, who, in spite of the quote below, is not actually senile. | |
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In Naked Came the Stranger, Gillian suggests that Ernie drink his martinis slowly instead of downing them in one gulp. Ernie snarls, "I'll drink what I fucking please. I was drinking when you were still using candles on yourself." | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: A variation happens in "Adrift". Galadriel angrily tells Halbrand that she has been hunting her foe even before the existence of the first sunrise and that it would take more than Halbrand's human lifespan to even name all the people she lost in that time. | |
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One elf in The Santa Clause dislikes being mistaken for a kid. "I have pointy shoes that are older than you." | |
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Joel Suzuki: In Fable of the Fatewave, Blackspore tells Fireflower, "I was a master Wavemaker long before you knew how to tune your instrument." | |
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Ghosts of Tomorrow: When Griffin tells his boss Phil that he's 20, Phil mutters something about diapers. | |
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Game of Thrones: In "The Ghost of Harrenhal", one of Theon Greyjoy's crewmen, less than impressed by their new captain, goes even further back, saying that "I have been reaving and raping since before you left Balon's balls." In the season five episode "High Sparrow", Lord Janos Slynt refuses to take a post at Greyguard, telling Jon Snow that he was "charged with the defense of King's Landing while you were soiling your swaddling clothes". This defiance earns him a swift death. Bronn smacks the dwarf Tyrion Lannister in the face. When Tyrion complains that his nose is broken, Bronn says it isn't because he knows what that sounds like. "I've been breaking noses since I was your height." |
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In the Starsky & Hutch episode "Iron Mike", the titular character finds out the guys suspect him of being a Dirty Cop. He tells them, "I was busting scum in this division when you two were still playing patty-cake." | |
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X-Men: The Last Stand: Beast pulls one of these on Wolverine, but, unbeknownst to both, the former is approximately 110 years younger than the latter. | |
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Although Invader Zim's diminutive stature allows him to go undercover as a human in elementary school, in "NanoZim" he tells his nemesis and classmate Dib that he's been piloting ships since before he was born. This doesn't stop him from getting outmaneuvered by Dib's younger sister. | |
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During the Celebrity Deathmatch between Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Zombie, Ozzy threatened Rob not to mess with him, saying "I was worshipping the devil when you were still in black leather diapers." | |
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In the sixth issue of the Justice League Unlimited tie-in comic, John Stewart tells fellow Green Lantern Zibar to stand down. Zibar responds by snapping that he's worn his ring before Stewart's sun was lit. | |
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In The Rock, during his negotiations with the government, General Hummell calls out the White House Chief of Staff, reminding him that he and his men were in combat when the Chief was 9 years old. | |
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In Anne's House of Dreams, Miss Cornelia uses this to crush an obnoxious minister. | |
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Inverted by Wade Barrett, who tried to call Rob Van Dam a has-been by claiming that the last time he held the Intercontinental Title, Barrett was still in diapers. The only problem being that Van Dam's last title reign was in 2006, when Barrett was 25 years old... | |
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In Transformers: Animated, when Starscream and his clones try to kill Megatron, his Opposite-Sex Clone Slipstream (while not a child per se, but she was formed yesterday) criticizes his tactics, prompting Starscream to try and shut her up. | |
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Sheriff Teasle does this to illustrate why he's so determined to find and kill Rambo in First Blood after the latter had accidentally caused his asshole deputy's death: | |
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6teen: Ron the Rent-a-Cop decides to get a job at the Khaki Barn, and starts folding some shirts. When Kristen and Kirsten tell him he's doing it wrong, he responds with a harsh, very loud "I WAS FOLDING SHIRTS IN THE JUNGLE WHEN YOU TWO WERE IN DIAPERS!". | |
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Hulk Hogan during his infamous Face–Heel Turn at WCW Bash at the Beach 1996: | |
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Doctor Who: "An Unearthly Child" has this from the First Doctor, combined with Cultural Posturing. Again in "Genesis of the Daleks", and again with Cultural Posturing. |
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Dr. Dre's "Forgot About Dre" ends on this image: | |
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In Flashman and the Mountain of Light, General Gough says to his intelligence officer: "I was fightin', an' gatherin' intelligence, while your grandfather hadn't got the twinkle in his eye yet." | |
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The Wire does this in the season 3 premiere. Major Colvin asks two rookie cops which direction is north. One points to the east, the other points at the ceiling. Colvin immediately orders them to carry compasses at all times until they know their sense of direction. The two officers leave Colvin's office, and as they do so, walk past Herc and Carver, who are sitting at Carver's desk writing up on an arrest. | |
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In the final episode of Good Luck Charlie, when Gabe tries to stop his may-soon-be new-neighbor, Matt, from moving in to prank Mrs. Dabney, he gives him this quote: | |
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In Star Trek: Generations, Kirk says this about Picard's grandfather being in diapers. The problem that many fans noticed was the context of the line was why he should enjoy a form of retirement, which directly contradicts scenes both before and after this, within the very movie. The funny thing about this line is that it's not true. Kirk, for all his recent knowledge that the man he's speaking to is from the future, is only seventy two years older than Picard. While this is no small age gap, he was probably having adventures while Picard's father was in diapers, not his grandfather. Kirk entered service approximately 50 years before Picard was born. If we assume he and at least one of his parents were born when their own parents were in their twenties, it works out. |
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The Ultimates: Herr Kleiser had been fighting Steve Rogers before Bruce Banner was even born. | |
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In the DuckTales comics, Scrooge tells one of the Beagle Boys that "I learned to fence while you were still crawling in diapers!" | |
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In the Warrior Cats series, Mudclaw is told to show more respect to his dying leader, Tallstar, because Tallstar was leader when Mudclaw was a kit mewling in the nursery. | |
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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: | |
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Dragons: Riders of Berk feature this exchange when Hiccup is trying to find a job for Gobber: | |
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Pagan Vengeance: Juvage pulls this on himself when preparing to fight Genghis Khan: "He has forgotten more about fighting than I ever knew." | |
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Doctor Strange remarks in The Oath that he was patrolling New York City when "Spider-Man was in diapers." His faithful manservant Wong chimes in "But he still gets lost in the outer boroughs." | |
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A tweet from The Rock during his feud with John Cena: | |
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Comes up again in Mass Effect: Andromeda. If Ryder criticizes Sarissa Theris for putting the asari ark at risk by stealing kett navigational data, Sarissa will snidely shoot back that she was studying tactics when Ryder's ancestors were toddlers. Ryder is not impressed. | |
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In Suzerain, if the player decides to partially or even entirely nationalize Bergia Steel, the company run by the powerful 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: | |
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Mick Foley once told Randy Orton "I was spilling blood on six continents while you were still latched onto your mother’s breast!" | |
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This exchange from Undercover vs. Undercover. The speaker is the elderly bombmaker known as "The Master", and she's taunting one of the comparatively younger heroes while in the middle of a car chase, though the trope somewhat loses its effect when nobody else can hear it over the sound of speeding vehicles and explosions: | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Message in a Bottle", the EMH of Voyager tells the EMH Mark II that "I was saving Voyager from annihilation when you were only a gleam in your programmer's eye!" | |
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A variation, but with upbringing instead of age, is done in Battlefield Earth. | |
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From The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: | |
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1632: Paul Santee ends up on the receiving end when he offers to teach Ruth Tippett how to handle a shotgun. Santee is a Vietnam War veteran and the story begins in the year 2000. | |
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The Saga of Darren Shan: Mr. Crepsley, while saving the life of one of Darren's friends (in exchange for Darren becoming a vampire), tells Darren to "have some faith in someone who was doing this long before your grandfather was born." | |
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In Midnight Caller, television mogul Kenneth Miller tells Devon, "I was interviewing presidents when you were in diapers!" | |
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Cold Case: Said word for word by the killer to the Victim of the Week in the episode "The Dealer". The episode is a Whole-Plot Reference to Glengarry Glen Ross and the victim is a new but talented used car saleswoman in The '80s, which makes her older male coworkers jealous and eventually leads to her murder. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Relics", Scotty angrily remarks to Geordi that he was repairing warp drives when LaForge's great-grandfather was in diapers. In "Redemption", Guinan beats Worf at target practice and tells him that she's been at it since before he was born. Since she's Really 700 Years Old, she's not kidding. In "Unification: Part II", Picard describes Spock's dealings with the Romulans as "cowboy diplomacy" and tells him that the Federation won't tolerate it. Spock retorts that he was involved with such cowboy diplomacy before Picard was even born. |
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