Would read a book about a 40-50 year old that has to leave his job to slay the dragon and save the world.
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Reminds me of a line from Douglas Adams' Life, the Universe, and Everything.
He dropped into a kind of alert crouch that he had once seen somebody do on television, but it must have been someone with stronger knees.
Obviously she's never heard of Cohen the Barbarian and the Silver Hoard!
Read Dashiell Hammett's books.
The Thin Man's hero is pushing forty, and the Continental Op is 'neither young enough or old enough to think any woman finds [him] fascinating.'
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That's not always true. In LoTR Frodo is 50 and Aragorn is 67.
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They said 40, not fucking 70
This is why Pluribus is refreshing (though I haven't finished it and also it's just ok otherwise)
Books maybe not, but it's become a film trope for sure. Taken, Wick, and Nobody comes to mind.
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Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he is getting old.
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I hate vertical videos, but at least it's funny.
One reason I loved Ace Attorney, it at least got a few steps away from the “high school hero” tropes of everything else made in Japan.
They eventually retread that issue with Apollo and Athena, but they were there for a bit…
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Lucky Wander Boy's protagonist is around 30.
Great Teacher Onizuka was around 30, too, iirc.
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