Just reread the end of Dark Knight Returns…“Today 55 year old Bruce Wayne passed away…”
Wait…he’s 55 in that?? Is 55 supposed to be old???
I’ve also felt that when seeing Kirk in Star Trek 2. Shatner is around 51 in that. But 51 as an Admiral or even a Captain doesn’t particularly seem old.
Well, it seems old when compared to what you used to be and what you used to be able to do. It’s certainly not too young to start feeling old, which Kirk was definitely doing and Bruce Wayne… well, who the hell knows; The Dark Knight Returns is in many ways an annoyingly-written tale.
Not to derail my own thread of ‘stuff seems old til you get that age’ but…YEAH
The Soviets have killed thousands of Americans with their EMP and nuclear winter bomb…and the response is, “Get Batman!”??
Well, I promise this’ll be my last comment along these lines in your thread (the topic might be deserving of a Cafe thread), but Dark Knight Returns, the storyline behind the Injustice: Gods Above Us game, the Batman vs Superman film (and to some minor degree, Kingdom Come) like to stage this conflict just to give Batman some kind of dragon to slay. Batman’s own arch-enemy, the Joker, has been defeated repeatedly just to come back with the writers straining to make him even more homicidal, so he’s pretty much played out as an epic opponent until the long-overdue moment where Batman just kills him, already.
Of course, the fight with Superman can’t plausibly be one of will or even planning. They always rely on Superman being stupid/overconfident/reluctant.
Anyway, Kirk starts out in Wrath of Khan as feeling old, and not without reason. He sees the up-and-coming Saavik as his eventual replacement. His vision is starting to go. He’s stuck behind a desk. Then it gets a whole lot worse for a bit. He gets his primal “KHAAAN!” scream, which I suppose releases a lot of tension, starts to perk up when seeing the lushness of the Genesis cave and gets his own back (albeit with a terrible cost) in the Mutara Nebula, where his experience carries the day.
As Fountains of Youth go, it ain’t bad.
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Just reread the end of Dark Knight Returns…“Today 55 year old Bruce Wayne passed away…”
Wait…he’s 55 in that?? Is 55 supposed to be old???
Oops. I misread your OP. NM.