History Main / BadassGrandpa

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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''
** Pictured above: Genryuusai Shigekuni Yamamoto. [[TheCaptain Captain]] of the First Division, creator of the modern two-thousand-year-old Shinigami Academy (yes, he really is that old), he's been [[TheGeneral Captain-Commander]] of the entire [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Gotei 13]] for [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority a thousand years]]. He has the most powerful [[PlayingWithFire fire-based]] [[EmpathicWeapon weapon]] which doubles as the [[ThePowerOfTheSun strongest offensive power]] of ''any weapon'' in the series to date. Despite his aged, scarred appearance, he's incredibly [[ElderlyImmortal toned and well-muscled]]. He can outpace Shunsui and Ukitake easily (both considered brilliant in their own right) and take them both on in his primary release form without breaking a sweat. He has a [[PillarsOfMoralCharacter stern sense of justice]] and will [[HandicappedBadass sacrifice his own limbs]] in battle without hesitation. Even the InvincibleVillain fears his strength. In short, he's a StoryBreakerPower. The only one that doesn't fear his strength is his thousand year ArchEnemy [[TheEmperor Yhwach]] [[spoiler: who proves his own badass credentials by stealing Yamamoto's [[SuperMode bankai]] and ''killing'' him. However, he was still only able to do so through misdirection and after stealing Yamamoto's bankai.]]
-->'''[[MalevolentMaskedMen Masked Invader]]''': "I am surprised. It was quite easy to break into this room. Despite it being the office, or better, the personal room of the Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13. Isn’t security a bit too soft?"
-->'''[[BadassBoast Yamamoto]]''': "There is no need to worry. I am here. There is no better security than this."
** Arrancar version: Barragan Luisenbarn, owner of a [[AnAxeToGrind frigging huge axe]] and with the power to [[spoiler:age anything he touches or breathes on into nothingness. Barragan was "King of Hueco Mundo" before Aizen arrived.]]
* Jack Rakan from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' is somewhere around 70 years old, but he is easily the strongest member of the cast after the centuries old Evangeline. He can fight an Ancient Dragon to a draw, blow up mountains by accident and survive getting hit by the magical equivalent of a ''tactical nuke''. [[spoiler: Not to mention thrashing a NighInvulnerable RealityWarper without much trouble and ''willing himself back into existence'' after being erased.]]
** Note that member's of Rakan's race live much longer than humans. If memory serves right, Rakan would be in his mid-thirties in human years.
* Joseph Joestar in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' Part 3. He may not get as many action scenes as he did in his youth so as to make place for the new protagonist, but he still displays his characteristic cunning (perhaps more than any other JoJo, he won his fights by outsmarting his opponents) by completely turning the tables on both the Empress and Mariah/Bast. Not in Part 4, though, where he is, indeed, too old and frail to still qualify as a Badass (though he doesn't lack courage at all, as proven in the Achtung Baby episode).
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** The Third Hokage is a bit of a subversion. While he does have a mastery of jutsu that Orochimaru can't begin to match, the ANBU members observing the fight realize that the Third has less chakra than he did in the past due to his old age. [[spoiler: This is one major reason the Third had to resort to a HeroicSacrifice to stop Orochimaru]].
** Jiraiya also counts, being around 50 at the time of his introduction, as a Kage-level ninja who spends his time writing porn and perving on young women.
** There's also Jiraiya's former teammates Tsunade and Orochimaru, who are also in their 50s. The former is a [[NeverMessWithGranny badass grandma]] ([[BerserkButton just don't call her that]] unless your name is "Naruto Uzumaki"!) with super-strength and incredible medical ninjutsu skills that make her near-impossible to kill, even when she's [[spoiler:cut in half at the waist]]. The latter may be a MadScientist EvilOverlord, but he's also the most talented ninja of the trio (and is possibly even more resistant to physical damage than Tsunade), being able to easily hold his own against high-level opponents [[spoiler:even without the use of his arms.]]
** Danzo. Although, at the age of 72, he normally appeared to be a frail old man, Danzo was actually an extremely powerful ninja. He was able to easily kill several would-be assassins and was able to fight on the same level as Sasuke.
** Chiyo is a [[NeverMessWithGranny badass grandma]]. She's a 70-ish year old war veteran who's a specialist in poisons and a skilled puppeteer. With the help of Sakura, she managed to beat her grandson Sasori, perhaps the strongest ninja ever produced by the Hidden Sand Village, and his army of puppets. She used '''10''' puppets against his '''''100'''''!
** The Third Tsuchikage, Onoki of Both Scales, stands above them all. Despite being one of the oldest (mortal) characters in the series, he's still strong and fast enough to give modern-day shinobi an ass-kicking. In chapter 515, he's seen easily carrying an enormous island-sized turtle (one large enough to support its own ecosystem, complete with smaller but still very large animals on its back) with one hand thanks to his weight-decreasing jutsu.
*** He even stops Madara's ''[[ColonyDrop Meteorite Attack]]'', [[spoiler:though he can't quite halt the second one.]]
*** Keep in mind that the position of Kage has a very high mortality rate. Yet, he's the only active-duty ninja from Hiruzen's generation who has managed to live this long so far.
** Hashirama Senju. Loving grandfather who spoiled his grand kids and OneManArmy who's widely considered the most powerful shinobi after the Sage of Six Paths.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall''
** In the Buu arc from ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. Goku, though TheHero for most of the series, and never, ever regarded as frail or feeble, tries to become a Badass Grandpa during the Buu Arc. It's revealed that he ''could've'' defeated Majin Buu himself, but instead thought it wiser to let Gohan and the others fight the battle for themselves, rather than they becoming reliant on a dead Goku. This, however, royally blows up in his face, and in the end, he's the only one who can save the day after all.
** From [[Manga/DragonBall the original manga]] onwards, Master Roshi, the man who taught Goku his most powerful regularly used technique, was one of the very few people to beat Goku in a fight, and one of the most powerful humans alive at the beginning of the story, and at the end is still #4 or #5. Of his three latest students, two take the "strongest human alive" spot, and the other becomes "strongest anything anywhere", except perhaps for ''his'' own son.
** Taken literally in the end of ''Dragon Ball Z'' and all of ''Anime/DragonBallGT''. With Pan, Goku is literally a grandpa, and he's always been badass. Granted, he's not old, it's kinda made comical when [[spoiler: he gets turned into a kid in DBGT. He's a Badass Grandpa who looks like he's 6.]]
* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', we have Lordgenome. He looks like your average guy...or, uh, your average bodybuilder, not like he's over 1000 years old. However, in the final fight of the first story arc with [[spoiler: Simon, after his mech gets wrecked, Lordgenome pops out of the cockpit and beats the crap out of Lagann bare handed. He eventually lost, and had his final monologue without a heart, lungs, etc.]] Later, [[spoiler:he's brought back as a bio-computer, Futurama head-in-a-jar-style. In the final fight of the second story arc against the Anti-Spiral, Lordgenome first recreates his body and his mech from nothing]] in order to do battle. He holds back the [[spoiler:Anti-Spiral's Infinity Big Bang Storm, an attack on par with the creation of the universe, eventually being disintegrated on a quantum level. However, he actually ''absorbs'' the attack and turns its power into pure Spiral Energy, to give to the good guys]] as his final Badass Grandpa act. It's a shame, he was content to sit on his throne for the rest of his immortal life, ruling Earth, having an infinite number of mistresses, but those silly protagonists forced his hand...\\
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Lazengann, the personal mech of said Lordgenome, can be considered a Badass Grandpa HumongousMecha. Despite being at least one-thousand years old, it is far from rusty and clunky, [[BareFistedMonk it kicks ass using kung-fu]], and even [[spoiler: defeats the once-undefeated Gurren-Lagann]] with only a shredded hand to boot. The only reason it [[spoiler: was defeated by Simon in Lagann was because of Simon's superior Spiral Power compared to Lordgenome's.]]
* In ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' manga, Tezuka's grandfather Kunikazu is in his 70s, but ''still'' has incredibly sharp reflexes (is able to use chopsticks to catch a falling teapot) and is one of the most respected (if not feared) instructors in the Tokyo Police Academy.
* ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo''
** Genji Kamogawa and Jinpachi Nekota. Both are in their 70s and retired, but still have impressive strength for their ages.
--> '''Kimura:''' (after seeing them exchange blows as a greeting)...''THAT'' is how old men fight? Wow!
** Their friend and rival Dankichi Hama also fits.
* GhostInTheShell: What's Aramaki's response to being captured and put at gunpoint? Call his captors dumbasses and order them around. And they ''listen''. As does Section 9; an elite team of combat cyborgs, without serious question and with utmost respect, obeying a smallish older man.
* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'': Master Asia. Taking out a HumongousMecha with only a loincloth (ON FOOT!) may be [[HowUnscientific unscientific]], but it cements his badassery and he follows up with much more feats of bad ass. ''Look! The east is burning reeeed!!!''
* CrossboneGundam: Grey Stroke, an elderly [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Judau Ashta]] is possibly the best pilot in U.C. While everyone has their claim to fame, Grey Stroke can admit to living until 80 years old, piloting the Gump(a broken ZZ Gundam with a PEG LEG and barely any of the original parts) and defeating ZANSCARE EMPIRE MOBILE SUITS despite a tech difference of 60+ YEARS. To put in perspective how badass that is, imagine taking on F-22 Raptors with a makeshift-customized P-51 Mustang and ''winning.''[[note]]The Gump may be an ancient machine with jury-rigged repairs, but it's still got the "bio-sensor" which has the mysterious ability to make a mobile suit faster, stronger and more durable when used by a powerful [[PsychicPowers Newtype]] pilot whose emotions are sufficiently focused...and Judau is one of the three strongest Newtypes ever recorded.[[/note]] Also, there's also the part of him being one of the few, if not ''only'' major characters from the earlier U.C. series who actually ''survive'' to old age.
** He shows up in ''CrossboneGundam'' to lend Tobia Arronax a hand during one particularly strange mission (which coincidentally [[spoiler:explains how the Gump got its aforementioned peg leg]]). [[CrazyAwesome Umon]], one of the Crossbone Vanguard pilots meanwhile is mentioned as being a non-Newtype ''One Year War veteran'' who managed to scare the ''[[MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Nightmare of Solomon]].'' While piloting a ''[[MechaMooks Ball]]''.
* ''Manga/VinlandSaga''
** More a case of a Badass Great Uncle than Grandpa but still...Thorkell the Tall. Pure BadAss, despite the goofy grin he's always sporting.
** Askeladd's getting along in years as well, yet he is still stronger and harder than most men half his age.
* Tenchi's grandfather Katsuhito in the ''[[Anime/TenchiMuyo Tenchi]]'' series, [[spoiler: who is later revealed to be Ayeka's half-brother Yosho.]]
** Some exposition may be needed, since there are like 5 different continuities. In the spoiler above is the case in the {{OVA}}s, and his feats include fighting off a brainwashed [[PersonOfMassDestruction Ryoko]] who's under Kagato's control and fighting Kagato himself at the same time...and not even seeming to take the fight all that seriously.
** In the ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'' series, he's still [[spoiler: related to Jurai, but ran away to chill on Earth.]] As an old man, he...does fairly well...against the BigBad [[spoiler: Kagato who is his old friend and has a huge advantage due to a much younger body]], and is introduced into the series by taking out a Galaxy Police Mecha with a [[RockBeatsLaser wooden sword]].
** In ''Anime/TenchiInTokyo'' he's [[spoiler: Guardian of the Earth]], but he was getting Tenchi to take over.
** In ''Magical Girl Pretty Sammy'' he never shows up, but in ''Magical Project S'' he makes a cameo as a sickly old man. Though he still talks like a badass though.
* Hiko Seijiro from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', Kenshin's teacher and master of the Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu sword style, is an example of this trope. He is by ''far'' the most powerful swordsman in the series, capable of matching Kenshin, already established as an impossibly fast and powerful swordsman, in speed even when wearing a 30 kilogram cloak made of metal and possessing strength beyond any other character in the series by a ridiculous degree. In fact, during Kenshin's second training, Kenshin strikes at Hiko with his "entire body and soul" at one point (devoting so much attention that he fails to land properly and passes out), and only manages to graze one of Hiko's bracers.
** WordOfGod says Hiko is so powerful that he could very easily take on virtually ANYONE in the series and completely ''[[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]]'' them.
** Actually, Hiko is just in his 40s so he's still too young for it. (though ''very'' much in his way.) Nenji "Okina" Kashiwazaki, Misao's adoptive grandpa and the ex leader of the Oniwabashu, plays it straight...[[LetsGetDangerous when he gets serious.]]
* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', the Dark Magician becomes more powerful when aged a thousand years, becoming the Dark Sage.
** Another example: If you read the ''Millennium World'' Manga, Yugi's Grandpa Sugoroku could be classified as this [[spoiler: the combination of James Bond and Indy Jones has him investigating a a pyramid containing the Millennium Puzzle ''in a tuxedo!!!'']]
* ''Manga/OnePiece''
** "Dark King" Rayleigh certainly qualifies. He was the first mate of the former Pirate King, and even after about 20 years is able to fight toe to toe with a Marine ''Admiral'', one of the strongest fighters in the World Government (and in the case of this particular Admiral, capable of moving at the speed of light).
*** And recently, [[spoiler: he swam across the Calm Belt. A strip of ocean filled with giant sea creatures that even the most hardened Marines & Pirates avoid]]. Why would he do this? Because [[spoiler:His boat sank in the Grand Line, so he had to swim through part of the ''Grand Line'' in order to ''get'' to the Calm Belt. No problem for him, of course. He had a message to deliver.]]
** Vice Admiral Garp, [[spoiler: the grandfather of the protagonist,]] who likes to attack people with a ball on chain the size of a boat, or throw/punch cannonballs at them. Which delivers the cannonballs at far greater velocity than any actual cannon could manage.
** Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate, called "The Strongest Man in the World" [[spoiler: has the power to create earthquakes and massive tidal waves, a particularly devastating ability considering that the entire One Piece world is one big ocean and a collection of islands and archipelagos.]] He controls a massive fleet of pirate ships, and is stated to have the power to destroy the world. Unlike many of the examples on this page, whose fighting abilities seem unaffected by aging in the slightest, the story makes it clear that age has ''already'' more than caught up with Whitebeard. He pulls off some of the most destructive and BadAss stunts seen in ''[[WorldOfBadass One Piece]]'' yet, and he does it all as a [[HandicappedBadass sluggish, half-dead shadow of the man he used to be]].
*** And when he finally does [[spoiler:die... well, I'll quote the book directly. "Even in death, even with ''half his face gone,'' he would never fall. He will forever be remembered as a monster for the way he destroyed his enemies that day. In this one battle alone he suffered 267 sword wounds, was struck by 152 bullets, and 46 cannon blasts. And yet neither that mighty body nor his pirate's pride suffered even one "coward's wound!" To put it in perspective: When his brain and heart stopped, his body didn't fall over. He had continued to fight for a good ''fifteen minutes'' after HALF OF HIS DAMN HEAD had been blown off by lava. Then he suffered a total of ''four hundred and nineteen'' sword and gunshot wounds, one of which is often an OHK device in manga, and the other of which is an OHK device in the real world. Additionally, 46 cannon blasts, which in the One Piece universe are inexplicably explosive, hit his actual body.]] And this was all in one battle. And over the hundreds of battles he'd fought in over 60 years, ''he had never been hit in the back because he had never turned away from a fight.''
** [[DemBones Brook]], Strawhat Pirates's musician is an 88 year old skeleton who can play any instrument, runs on water and can make a sword attack so fast, that you realize you have been cut [[YouAreAlreadyDead only when he re-sheathes his sword.]]
* Master Yupa from ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' is the ultimate Creator/HayaoMiyazaki Badass Grandpa. He wanders the world in peace and solemnity, looking for a solution to the Toxic Jungle, but also has a reputation across the entire world for being a legendary warrior. His finest moment may be ''stopping a sword at its point with his own forearm''--and the force behind the sword in question is the title princess in an UnstoppableRage.
* From ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', we have Azan. He was once called the Bridge Knight for keeping [[OneManArmy one hundred knights from crossing a bridge]], and while he's no longer in the prime of his life he's still able to match an injured, but still very mean protagonist, Guts in combat.
* ''[[Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple History's Strongest Disciple: Kenichi]]''
** Hayato Furinji might be the baddassest grandpa of them all. His [[RedBaron nickname]] translates to "The Man Without Enemies", because nobody in the entire world qualifies. He's only ever faced ''one'' opponent in his past that gave him trouble in a fight (it still ended in a draw). Unfortunately, it's implied that his opponent was [[spoiler: Pencak Silat Master Silcardo Jenazad of YAMI]]. Another nickname (or perhaps a different translation of the same nickname) is "The Invincible Superman."
** To get an idea at just what we're dealing with here, [[http://www.mangareader.net/337-23736-4/historys-strongest-disciple-kenichi/chapter-230.html this]] is what Hayato considers [[IAmNotLeftHanded holding back.]]
** For further reference, he's currently operating at ''[[http://www.onemanga.com/Historys_Strongest_Disciple_Kenichi/230/09/ 0.0002 percent]]'' of his full power.
*** Well hold on. That wasn't Furunji. That was [[PaperThinDisguise mysterious 20 year-old Garyuu-X]]!
** Hayato once decided to take on an entire American Army base; when Kenichi expressed concern everyone reassured him that the Elder had too much control to kill anyone.
** Danki Kugatchi fits this to a T, right down to being the tiny bald wrinkled doddering old man. He then proceeds to tear a sword apart with a stick. Badass? I think so.
* ''Manga/DeathNote''
** Watari. Not only is he able to put up with L (a fairly awesome feat by anyone's standards), he's also able to work round-the-clock with him and in the anime version, he shoots [[spoiler: Higuchi]] from a helicopter at least 10 metres away.
** Although he may not be quite on the level of Watari, there's also Light's father, Yagami Soichiro. Often cited as being the only truly righteous character in the BlackAndGreyMorality of the series, he pulls off various feats of badassery in the name of his idea of justice.
*** Just to give you an idea, he rammed a van into a TV station in order to shut down the pro-Kira broadcast. And in the manga and anime, this was after suffering a ''heart attack''.
* In ''TwentiethCenturyBoys'', a couple time skips causes just about the entire original main cast to become this. "When a man is singing, you DON'T SHOOT HIM!"
* ''Anime/ShinMazinger'': Juzo. Kabuto.
* Yagyu Retsudo from ''Manga/LoneWolfAndCub''. Despite his old age he virtually controls the nation and is equal in combat with the main character (who is awlays portayed as the most skilled swordman).
* Shiryu's master Dohko from ''Manga/SaintSeiya''. He is a subversion, though, since [[spoiler: thanks to his powers, his old appearance is [[SleepModeSize just an illusion]] and he hasn't really aged ''at all'' in 200 years]].
* Balgus from ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'' definitely counts for ''chopping off the arm of a mecha with a giant sword, on foot''. The only reason he lost was because he was fighting ''giant robots. On foot.'' ''[[EscortMission While protecting someone.]]'' He would've been fine if he'd been alone.
* Bookman from ''Manga/DGrayMan''. Just try to call him "Old Panda" and you'll see.
* Tokaki and his wife Subaru from ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' are [[BattleCouple Badass Grandparents]], fighting demons and the Seiryuu Seishi Miboshi at over 100. Justified as both of them are Byakko Seishi. Tatara, their fellow Seishi, is a subversion of this trope, seeing as Subaru cast a spell on him to make him look, feel and fight like he's younger.
* While not actually related to anyone, and a DirtyOldMan to the core, Happosai of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is also a legitimately dangerous old man who, when he puts his mind to it, can be the most powerful OldMaster in the series. Though one of two MiniatureSeniorCitizens, he has once stopped a bomb the size of a small house with just his finger, sent a giant yeti-ox-crane-eel mishmash rocketing skyward with only his pipe, knocked said abomination against nature out with a single one of his homemade bombs, can use his BattleAura with such proficiency he can grow into a kaiju-sized giant version of himself, and can defeat just about any combination of the teenaged cast with no difficulties whatsoever.
* ''Manga/HunterXHunter''
** [[OldMaster President Netero]].
** And Killua's grandfather.
* Aniya-sensei from ''Manga/KarateShoukoushiKohinataMinoru''. He's over 80 but is extremely muscular and very skilled at karate.
* Fu in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is a badass grandpa ninja. [[spoiler:Or at least he was until he got killed by the series other badass grandpa, King Bradley.]]
* ''{{Cyborg Grandpa-G}}''. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' has '''THREE''' Badass Grandparents. There's "Knocking Master" Jirou [[spoiler: who can ressurrect the recently deceased through acupuncture among other thingsd]], his cook, Setsuna the Gourmet Living National Treasure [[spoiler: who can easily break the BigBad's [[TheDragon Dragon]]'s weaponry through sheer force of will]], and finally there's Ichiryuu, president of IGO who recently [[spoiler: either stopped or tanked every attack from Toriko and then casually one-shotted him.]]
* Professor Oak is still a pretty good fighter, even though he actually ''is'' a grandfather in ''Manga/PokemonSpecial''. [[NeverMessWithGranny Agatha is the same age]], and is a member of the Elite Four. Wattson and Pryce also probably count. [[NeverMessWithGranny Bertha]] will probably be added to the list once she makes an appearance.
* Xerxes Break of ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' qualifies as well. While his body doesn't show visible sign of aging, he couldn't possibly be any younger than seventy, with eighties or nineties being more likely, and he ''is'' still aging on the inside, often making reference to how surprised he is he hasn't died yet. While Break's main power is technically the Mad Hatter, he's a pretty good badass in his own right- even moreso in the anime, where in episode 24 he takes on dozens if not hundreds of giant supernatural abominations ''with his sword'' while his comrades are struggling to fight them with Chains. Before, of course, [[spoiler: finally just calling out the Hatter to cleanse the entire city of a few thousand rogue chains in seconds.]]
* ''Manga/FairyTail''
** Makarov definitely fits. If you hurt his guild members--[[PapaWolf whom he thinks of as his family]]--he will [[UnstoppableRage nuke your ass.]]
** For a villain example, we present you Hades of Grimoire Heart, the former master of Fairy Tail. He seems to be at least a few decades older than Makarov (and Makarov is 88!), but still kicks Makarov's ass without any seemingly problem.
* Walter C. Dornez from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' originally appears as a somewhat [[HandsomeLech pervy]] butler. Next episode, you learn he's a [[RetiredBadass former Master Vampire Hunter]], is highly skilled in creating firearms specialized to destroy vampires, and still has his old touch with his [[RazorFloss monofilament wire skills]].
* ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia''
** Cuba's "boss" (who could be either of the Castros) in ''Manga/HetaliaBloodbath2010''.
** Germania and Rome are considered to be this in {{Fanon}}.
* Touhou Fuhai in ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' is a great great grandfather, and he's still more than a match for [[TheDragon Akuha]]. Subverted in that he's at his most {{badass}} when he [[OlderThanTheyLook doesn't look like]] [[{{Bishonen}} a grandpa]].
* Nurarihyon from ''NurarihyonNoMago'', the eponymous character's grandfather. Though the years have not been kind on him, as he is now far from what he was back in his prime, he still manages to curb stomp [[TheHero Rikuo]] in a fight.
* Sir Archer from ''Franchise/LupinTheThird" Pursuit Of Harimao's Treasure, in his youth he was a former soldier and a secret agent for the British Secret Service, in his 80's he can defeat several armed soldiers in combat.
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* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' is becoming one of these the hard way, due to the lack of ComicBookTime in his universe. 22nd century medicine helps, but several stories have focused on his feeling like the old man of the Justice Department, and the decreasing number of his classmates still alive and active.
* The Shade, from ''Comicbook/{{Starman}}'', might count, though he's not a grandpa. He's over a hundred and seventy, looks like he's on his mid-forties, still dresses like it's the Victorian era, complete with cravat and spats. Oh, and he's [[spoiler:the world's best shadow channeler, capable of summoning shadow monsters by the imperial ton, and a very experienced assassin, both with his skills and with swords.]] Not enough? [[spoiler: He kicked a [[BlackestNight Black Lantern]]'s ass. After his heart was torn out. With that very same heart.]] Immortal he may be, but add in his incredible wit, his own occasional act of heroism (though if you call him hero, he'll pound you) and his impeccable sense of fashion and you've got yourself a man you'd hate to offend. And that's without his actual powers.
* Gorgo from ''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets'', retired hit man and self-appointed protector of Luba's family. He's around 90 and spends most of his time asleep, which doesn't stop him from taking out two armed assailants by himself. With his cane.
* [[TheFlash Jay Garrick]]. [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Alan Scott]]. Wildcat. Just about any surviving member of the original JusticeSocietyOfAmerica falls into this category. ({{Hawkman}} is an iffy case, considering that he's been reincarnated into a younger form.)
** Wesley Dodds, the original Golden Age Sandman, trashes them all in this department. He doesn't have the benefit of magical shenanigans to keep him young like the other living members of the JSA, and yet while physically over 80 years old, still suffering the after-effects of a stroke and barely able to walk without a cane, goes out to save the goddamn day anyways, up to and including telling one of the most powerful evil wizards in the DCU to go fuck himself.
* {{Bone}} Lucius Down.
* NickFury, original flavor. Over ninety, looks like he's fifty, can kick your ass like he's twenty-five, and a MagnificentBastard, to boot.
** And then ''{{Nextwave}}'' gave us his parody CaptainErsatz Dirk Anger, who is a subversion in the WhoWantsToLiveForever vein:
--->"I'm ninety years old. You know how I look so pretty? I take drugs. Special H.A.T.E. drugs. Life-extending drugs. H.A.T.E. has the best drugs. Because H.A.T.E. loves me. And I love H.A.T.E. Every day of my horrible drug-extended terrorist-fighting life."
* Joe Higgins a.k.a. the Shield is this in ''Comicbook/NewCrusaders''.
* The Guardians of the Universe from Comicbook/GreenLantern are this; being the oldest beings (technically only Ganthet is this, as the other Guardians had been killed by Hal Jordan and replaced by Kyle Rayner) in the universe and subsequently one of the most powerful.
-->"He's ''old''. Like beginning-of-time, big bang-theory old. But don't let the red robe fool you. Ganthet could crack the ''planet'' in half with a ''thought''."
* CaptainAmerica is a World War II veteran. On the other hand, he was turned into a HumanPopsicle in his twenties, and only defrosted 13 to 15 years ago, comic-book time, so he only counts if Buck Rogers does.
** BuckyBarnes too, he looks young, but he's in his 60s.
** Ultimate Red Skull being [[spoiler: Cap's illegitimate son]] is in his 60s at least, but is A) in his physical prime and B) doesn't really have a ''face'' so it's difficult to judge.
* Jenny Sparks of ''TheAuthority'', She may be as old as the 20th Century, but don't mess with her or [[BerserkButton London]] or she'll electrocute you back to 1945. And she looks like she's in her early 20s to boot.
* ThePunisher. Doesn't fully fit the description as he's been anything but passive, but he's still an BadassNormal AxCrazy antihero, despite being over 60. Lampshaded in the first Arc of Punisher MAX, as Microchip points out that Frank would've been a grandfather by that time, if his family hadn't died.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' has several.
** Batman.
** James Gordon, who in his 70s could take down a teen that got a drop on him with a military grade machine gun.
** Oliver Queen, even missing one of his arms he is still probably one of the best archers in the world.
** And a non-heroic example, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
** Two more Batmen who meet this trope. The first is the Batman from {{Kingdom Come}}, who, despite having wrecked his body through years of abuse and being dependent on an exoskeleton just to move, still has the balls to deck [[spoiler:a brainwashed [[CaptainMarvel Billy Batson]], whom everyone else is [[TheDreaded shit-scared of]] ]] ''on a hunch''. He later joins in the climatic fight scene in {{Powered Armour}}. The other is [[spoiler:Thomas Wayne, Bruce's father]], as seen in {{Flashpoint}}, in the alternate time where [[spoiler:Bruce died instead of his parents that night in Crime Alley.]] He has nowhere near [[spoiler:his son's]] training, skill, or discipline, and is pretty much running on pain and rage, but he can still toss around criminals decades younger than him, and [[spoiler:even kills not only Killer Croc, but also the [[BigBad Reserve Flash]]. By [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling them]], no less. Yikes. ]]
** The [[RetiredBadass Semi-Retired Badass]] Bruce Wayne from the various comicbook versions of ComicBook/BatmanBeyond.
* John Hartigan from ''SinCity'' (FrankMiller seems to like this trope).
** Frank Miller has said that he has a problem with certain badass heroes being younger than himself.
* You do ''not'' mess with [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]]. Period.
* Bor, the father of Odin and grandfather of TheMightyThor. He was at last as strong as combined powers of Thor and Odin and possibly could easily destroy the Earth. [[spoiler: When Thor has to kill him, he has to punch so hard, that his hammer was broken]].
** Buri aka Twiaz, father of Bor and great-grandfather to Thor, is literally the first of the Asgardian gods. Whereas Bor had kept young (about middle-age) due to being turned to snow, Buri has aged all that time. He comes off as a big man living in a cave. Despite being the oldest of a slow-aging race of gods he is still as strong as Thor, can sometimes beat Thor in a wrestling match, and has mystical powers beyond that of most other gods.
** Don't forget Big Daddy Odin himself. The very image of a {{Grandpa God}}, yet he can throw down with the likes of {{Thanos}}, {{Galactus}}, and [[EldritchAbomination Surtur]].
* Great-Uncle, really, but Aloysius Crumrin, relative of CourtneyCrumrin is at least over eighty and will still fuck up the nastiest hobgoblin ever (with a cane sword!) or fight off vampires threatening his great-niece. It's acknowledged fact that even at his age, he's still the one that gets called in to handle the nastiest business that threatens the witch and warlock community.
* Kaine in SpiderGirl. He's even got the [[BadassLongcoat coat]] and [[BadassBeard beard]]!
* The {{Superman}} from ComicBook/KingdomCome. He is out of shape, has grey hair, and wrinkles, but when he crossed over into the {{DCU}}, he takes a punch from Heracles ''without flinching'', and can move normally in a 100 G environment. Heracles earlier knocked our Superman through a building and bloodied his nose.
** Similarly, Kal-L the Earth-2 Superman in ''CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' and ''InfiniteCrisis''. He's at least in his fifties or sixties, yet can still trade blows with [[UltimateEvil The Anti-Monitor]], a being inimical to all life in the matter universe. He's actually the one who takes the bastard down, in a pure CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* In ''StarWarsLegacy'', Treis Sinde, Imperial Knight. Infiltrating Dac, beating up a lot of Stormtroopers and squaring off against a Sith Lord, all in the Issue of his first appearance. Has also the rather un-Imperial tendency to reinterpret or openly defy orders from the Emperor if he believes it is the will of the Force. [[EvilOverlord Darth]] [[BigBad Krayt]] is also long over human expire date and you DON'T want to anger him. [[spoiler: The Mon Calamari learned that the hard way.]] His counterpart, deposed Emperor Roan Fel, does qualify too.
* Ekuar in ''ElfQuest'' looks pretty wizened and decrepit, and he only has one arm and a wooden leg. On the other hand, he's pretty handy with his rock-shaping powers, and can wield his walking-stick as a formidable weapon (looks like wood, but it's reinforced with stone).
* Dan Turpin.
-->'''Turpin''': Call off your goons, I'm an old man. And they'd hate to get their asses handed to 'em by an old man.
* Slam Bradley, aging Hardboiled PrivateDetective who took a beating from Franchise/{{Batman}} and [[DeTerminator kept getting up for more.]]
* {{Magneto}}. Leaving aside his damn near phenomenal cosmic powers level of control, he can and will throw down without them, even if he won't always win. He's been de-aged at least once, but since most writers and artists tend to ignore that and white him at his original age, he's at least a good eighty.
** He's also a literal grandfather.
* {{Wolverine}}, the guy was born in the 1800s. His enemies Sabretooth and Cyber are also (evil) examples, as is his son {{Daken}}, who was born in 1946 and looked to be in his 20's as of 2012.
* Also X-Men-related, {{Cable}} first [[TimeTravel came back]] to the present day as a grizzled 50-something, and must be around ''70'' by now, due to spending nearly 20 years on top of that in various futures raising his adopted daughter Hope. He's spent all that time fighting wars and against massively superpowered foes in various [[BadFuture horrible timezones]], relying mostly on his skills as a warrior, a survivalist, a tactician, and a strategist (plus his [[{{BFG}} really big guns]]) whilst at the same time using most of his nearly godlike telekinesis to stop the spread of what is essentially super-cancer (which he's had since he was an infant). On the occasions when he's able to to use his powers to their fullest extent, it's been shown that they are pretty much ''cosmic-level'' in scope, allowing him to go toe-to-toe with the ComicBook/SilverSurfer whilst simultaenously levitating an ''entire island''.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain [[NormanOsborn The Green Goblin]] is around 60 years old now and actually has two grandsons to boot. His legacy character Hobgoblin is one as well, but only in {{Spider-Girl}} continuity.
* At least one [[{{Flashback}} flashback]] story showed that Ben Parker, Spider-Man's uncle, could be like this. A former MP in the army, he wasn't a violent man by nature, but he was still capable of defending himself. He was not only [[PapaWolf very protective of young Peter]], but there was also the unpleasant case where Peter befriended a classmate named Charlie Weiderman who was even more unpopular, but unlike Peter, purposely provoked the other teens. One day, he was chased to the Parker home by a group of bullies led by a rather mean guy named Rich and Ben intervened; Ben told them that if they wanted Charlie, they would have to go through him. They tried to, but Rich got a pretty rude awakening when Ben pummeled them. (Unfortunately for Charlie, Ben was rather angry at him too for provoking them, and after he clearly lied about it, told him he was no longer welcome at their house. Indeed, years later, Peter would ''very'' much regret [[StartOfDarkness ever making friends with Charlie...]]))
* Iran "Pops" Sekula from ''ComicBook/BodyBags''. He's old with gray hair, practically a dead man walking, and he still whips serious ass.
* JohnConstantine himself. He still kicks ass, even though he's almost sixty (although a transfusion of demon blood means that his aging is slowed somewhat), and his alcoholism and smoking hasn't lessened that much. Granted, his comic book is on par with real time, so he's gonna get a bigger badass with time. His best mate Chas Chandler is a good example too; he's about the same age as Constantine, has an actual granddaughter, and [[BadassNormal lacks]] his friend's magical acumen or demon blood, but he still acts as John's muscle when needed.
* ''ComicBook/NthManTheUltimateNinja'' has Dr. Yagyu, [[McNinja ninja dentist]]. His satchel includes throwing stars and an Ingram MAC-10 in .45 ACP machine pistol.
* Armando's grandfather in ''ComicBook/LeScorpion''.
* ''ComicBook/FreedomFighters'' has CaptainPatriotic Uncle Sam, AnthropomorphicPersonification of the American Spirit and looking exactly as old as he does in those world war two recruitment posters. He's also participated in every war of the country's existence and is as strong as the American People's faith in freedom.
* Gramps from ''{{Cavewoman}}''. Used a body enhancer to give himself superhuman strength and toughness, then turned up on a flying motorcycle to rescue his granddaughter from a gang of drug dealers before transporting himself, his granddaughter and his 15 ft. tall pet gorilla back through time to live amongst the dinosaurs.
* ''Deathstroke the Terminator'', aka Slade Wilson. And he has no problems messing with heroes [[TeenTitans half his age]].
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[[folder: Fan Fic]]
* [[FanFic/TiberiumWars Colonel (Retired) Nick Parker]] is an aging veteran of the [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer First Tiberium War]] well into his seventies, spends much of his free time as a conservative pundit on the 24-hour news networks, and is twenty-percent cybernetics by this point. He also [[CrazyPrepared keeps a submachine gun in his car's glove compartment]], [[ImprobableAimingSkills can still land a headshot with a pistol at a hundred meters]] ([[IAmNotLeftHanded left-handed]]), and once the Third Tiberium War breaks out starts hunting down and demolishing [[HumongousMecha Avatars]] [[OneManArmy by his lonesome]]. "But that was why they called him 'Havoc.'" [[StuffBlowingUp He's got a present for ya]].
** He even volunteers to rejoin the war effort as an adviser to Commander Karrde when they ship out to Egypt.
* Aburame Katsu from [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4627879/1/The_Middle_Ground The Middle Ground]] (A Manga/{{Naruto}} fanfiction) is so bad-ass he can make Jounin shake in their boots by drinking tea. His son-in-law Aburame Shibi considers him to be scarier than his maternal grandfather who was a prison torturer. In fact he's so bad-ass he can take down a minor in-clan rebellion by just making it generally felt he disapproves of it, without once even mentioning it. That's how bad-ass he is.
* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fic ''Fanfic/{{Forward}}'' has [[BadassPreacher Shepherd Book]] further cement his badassery multiple times over the story, including having a scene where he silently knocks out several mercenaries while Mal keeps their leader distracted, and a particularly memorable moment where he [[spoiler: saves River's life]] by facing off against [[spoiler: an entire horde of Reavers singlehandedly, armed with nothing but a pistol and a sword.]]
* [[spoiler:Fuhrer]] Grumman, of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', becomes this in the third part of the FanFic/ElementalChessTrilogy. He spends the first part being a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] who's pretending to be a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and having great fun at everyone else's expense, and is absent for most of the second part, but in the third installment he [[spoiler:survives an assassination attempt, utilizes a secret escape passage to fool everyone into thinking he ''didn't'' survive it, and then comes BackFromTheDead to rescue his grandson-in-law from execution by firing squad.]]
* [[spoiler: The Arbiter]] in Fanfic/TheLastSpartan is in his golden years by the time he and Master Chief meet again, but even then, charges headlong into a warehouse full of mercenaries holding the Spartan prisoner with only [[Franchise/MassEffect Garrus Vakarian]] for assistance.
* ''[[FanFic/MyLittleMagesTheNightmaresReturn My Little Mages: The Nightmare's Return]]'': [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Grand Master]] is an old man, but is still Nightmare Moon's [[TheDragon most powerful minion]] -- ultimately, only [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Pinkie]] is able to take him in a fight, and that's just because [[spoiler: as his daughter, she knows how he fights.]]
* In the {{Fanfic/Uplifted}} series, Joachim Hoch becomes one in the first interlude. In his late 80's, having battled multiple bouts of cancer and survived World War II, he is still gearing up to lead the push to take back Rannoch from the Geth. He has decided that he can't even think of dying until he has set foot on, and preferably liberated the Quarian homeworld.
* Harry's martial arts instructor in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8670912/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Gift-of-Memories Harry Potter and the Gift of Memories]]'' was over seventy and described as capable of routinely beating Harry "six ways to Sunday with one hand tied behind his back, hopping on one foot, while blindfolded."
* In the ''VideoGame/MedievalIITotalWar'' fanfic/LetsPlay ''Fanfic/AScotsmanInEgypt'', King Edward of Scotland faces the Mongol Prince Subatai The Merciless in single combat. At the time of the duel, Subatai is 26 years old, and Edward is ''pushing 70''. Place your bets on who wins, ladies and gentlemen. Hint: Don't choose Subatai.
-->'''Edward''': "This? This is GenghisKhan reborn? This is the great Mongol warlord? [[TheDreaded This is the death of Scotland?]]"
-->*[[DecapitationPresentation holds up Subatai's severed head]]*
-->'''Edward''': "[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome THIS IS NOTHING BUT A PIECE OF SHIT!]]"
* ''FanFic/LegendaryGenesis'''s Headmaster Arcanine is remarkably strong and fast, and his senility makes him even more dangerous. Thinking his academy is under attack, he nearly ends up killing a couple of soon-to-be students.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* Though Oogway from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' doesn't get to show off his Badass Grandpa skills much, one flashback shows a fight with fellow {{badass}} [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Tai Lung]] that lasts all of a couple of seconds. Oogway completely immobilizes Tai Lung with a few [[PressurePoint nerve taps]]. Shifu himself is no slouch, trouncing all of the Furious Five at once and holding his own against Tai Lung even though crippled by his regretful feelings.
* The 2009 animated Pixar film ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' has Carl Fredricksen, who's one heck of a badass old guy. Although he technically isn't a grandpa, since he [[{{Tearjerker}} couldn't even have kids]]. There's also [[spoiler:[[BigBad Charles Muntz]] who was a famous adventurer when Carl was a child, and is still in better shape than him when they meet.]]
* The 2006 animated Blue Yonder film ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' does this with Granny Puckett, who is a Badass Grandma for Red Puckett. After all, we're talking about a granny who does alpine skiing, skydiving, half-pipe skateboarding, surfboarding, and more, and much like Red, is proficient somewhat in karate.
* Rafiki the Mandrill in ''Disney/TheLionKing'', who can take on a pack of hyenas as well as any lion.
* Claude Frollo of Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. Although he mostly makes his soldiers do all the work, he's quite capable of going after anyone himself. He's almost as physically strong as Quasimodo.
** Hell, in the climax he manages to ''[[AbsurdlySharpBlade cut through stone gargoyles with a sword.]]''
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* For a literal example, JohnWayne in ''BigJake'' [[PapaWolf cut a swathe]] through a gang of desperadoes who kidnapped his grandson. Made even more [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming]] by the fact that Big Jake has never even laid eyes on his grandson.
* Frank from ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest''. He's older than most of the characters in the film, however, he's a ProfessionalKiller. Not a nice man, but still badass.
* Practically every one of Creator/JackieChan's '70s to '80s kung-fu movies (not to mention the similar movies starring other actors) featured an OldMaster who looked like a strong gust of wind should knock him over but who invariably mopped the floor with not only rooms full of mooks but also Jackie Chan himself until he learned to respect his elders. Most famously the film ''Film/DrunkenMaster'', but many others.
* Il Duce from ''TheBoondockSaints''. He's an undefeatable hitman, who, in one scene, ambushes the three Saints and nearly kills them all. When later the police were investigating the crime scene, the main investigator from FBI decided that the Saints were ambushed by six men, because Il Duce was carrying six guns.
* Even though he's gotten older and balder, ''Film/DieHard'' Detective John [=McClane=] only gets ''more'' badass with age, to the point that he's driving cars into helicopters by the fourth film.
* By ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', Dr. Jones has become this trope. In ''Film/TheLastCrusade'', his father is something of an inversion, being a [[NonActionGuy bookish old man]] who [[GuileHero nevertheless outfights the bad guys with ingenuity rather than brawn]].
* Mr. Miyagi from ''TheKarateKid''.
* In the Played By SeanConnery department, Allan Quatermain from the film adaptation of ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''.
* ''TheLostBoys'' features a grandpa who only reveals his trope-worthiness at the very end of the film, by [[spoiler:crashing his jeep through the wall of his own house and killing the Head Vampire with a hood full of fenceposts]]. He also delivers the best line, "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach -- all the damn vampires."
* How the ''hell'' has [[LordOfTheRings Théoden]] not been mentioned yet? He's a 70-year-old manifestation of pure badass.
* ''StarWars'' features a few examples:
** Yoda is around 800 and nearing the end of his species's natural life span, but can still go toe-to-toe with the likes of Count Dooku and [[BigBad Emperor Palpatine]]. Even thirty years later, Yoda retains enough power to easily lift an almost-completely submerged X-Wing from a swamp. In the ''[[StarWarsCloneWars Clone Wars]]'' cartoon, he performs a variety of insane feats of the force while taking down a bunch of GiantRobot mooks.
** Count Dooku, who not only takes down the respected Obi-Wan Kenobi but the prodigious Anakin Skywalker in the same fight, and still has enough in the tank to go to a fighting retreat with Yoda.
** Sith Lord/Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine. He takes on five of the best swordmasters in the Jedi Order despite maybe 40 odd years lack of practice. He kills all but Mace Windu in roughly 10 seconds, then battles Yoda into submission. Decades later, he's got Luke Skywalker at his mercy.
** Old Obi-Wan Kenobi handles himself pretty darned well in a bar fight, and he does go off to deactivate the Death Star's tractor beam alone.
* [[spoiler:Spock Prime]] in the 2009 ''Film/StarTrek'' movie.
* Bryan Mills (played by Liam Neeson), PapaWolf on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge in ''{{Film.Taken}}.''
* 20 years after defeating the Russians alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan, [[{{Rambo}} John J Rambo]] can still [[OneManArmy single handedly waste]] the Burmese military, in spite of being a 60 year old man. It helps being thick as a tree and wielding a .50 caliber mounted machine gun.
* Hub [=McCann=] in ''SecondhandLions'' is an old man who's just suffered from a heart attack and walked out of the hospital as soon as he could stand. He's still able to take on four teenage greasers, then takes them home and gives them his "what every boy needs to know about being a man" speech. He's got a few good lines along the way, too:
** After being attacked by a teenager with a knife: "You hold it wrong, son. Not like this. You always do it like this...smooth. (tosses the knife back) Try it again."
** His BadassBoast: "I'm Hub [=McCann=]. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, killed many men and loved only one woman with a passion a flea like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am. Now, go home, boy!"
* Three of the main characters in ''KungFuHustle'' (Landlord, Landlady, and the Beast) are shown as unassuming older folk -- until they start kicking the hell out of asses.
* The old man guarding the Wall in the film version of ''Film/{{Stardust}}'' apparently got much more badass after having failed to defend the gate nearly two decades ago. When Tristan tries to use the same trick his father used, the old man somersaults over the gate and delivers a few well-executed martial-arts moves. When his father points out that the man is 97 years old, Tristan defends himself by saying that he's had a long time to practice.
* While only in his fifties at the time, Principal Joe Clark from ''Lean on Me'', played by none other than Creator/MorganFreeman laying the smackdown on a knife-wielding, teenaged drug dealer by using his megaphone is a badass moment.
* Command Sergeant Major Basil Plumley in ''We Were Soldiers''. Hardass extraordinaire, he doesn't so much as duck when the Vietnamese soldiers are taking pot shots at him. He doesn't even bother with a rifle, and uses his pistol for the entire battle. Even more impressive? He's based on a real person.
-->"Gentlemen! Prepare to defend yourselves!"
-->"Why no rifle, Sergeant Major?"
-->"By the time I need one there'll be plenty of 'em laying around on the ground."
* Most Creator/ClintEastwood's late films
** ''Film/GranTorino''
** In ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'' has Eastwood as well as Morgan Freeman's Eddie Scrap-Iron, who defeats a much younger fighter with one glove just to teach him a lesson.
** The emergence of this in Clint's work appears to have been ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'', which he admits having suppressed because he badly wanted to play the lead role but wasn't old enough.
* Bob Barker in ''HappyGilmore''. And in real life, too (a Karate Blackbelt trained by Chuck Norris).
* Parodied with The Chief in the ''Film/GetSmart'' movie, who tackles the Vice President offscreen during an argument and later punches out an obnoxious Secret Service agent.
--> '''Chief''': (after decking agent) What's that, Sonny? Speak up. I'm an old man, y'know.
* ''TransformersFilmSeries''.
** Jetfire. His cane is also an axe, he can teleport, he kills two Decepticons single-handedly, and [[spoiler:performs a heroic sacrifice so that Optimus has the necessary parts]].
** Sentinel Prime also. He's been in stasis lock for a couple million years, but can kick ass with the best of 'em. Apparently, being badass is a requirement of being a Prime. [[spoiler: He would have killed Optimus Prime if Megatron didn't intervene.]] Having none other than [[Creator/LeonardNimoy Mr. Spock]] as his voice actor didn't hurt, either.
* Joe Sarno in ''WayOfTheGun'' puts a lampshade on this after getting attitude from some hot-shot younger guys: "The only thing you can assume about a broken down old man...is that he's a survivor." Later, the two main characters shoot it out with some older bag-man, though only Sarno himself proves to be much of a threat.
* Although in the comic the specifics of his death are left much more vague, Hollis Mason's death in the extended cut of ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' shows that he fits this trope pretty damn perfectly. Although surprised by 6 gang members, he gets in more than a few hits before they overwhelm him. It's one of the more [[TearJerker moving scenes]] in the film.
* In the Hong Kong film ''Purple Storm'', the BigBad Soong is a veteran terrorist who can handle himself well in a firefight despite his head and beard full of white hair.
* Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) plays an elderly Zorro in ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' who is still tough enough to trounce his student.
* The really old Native Americans in ''AlmostHeroes''.
* Dr. Loomis in the original ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' series. This guy took so many ass-kickings from Michael and still came back for more.
** In ''Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers'', where after a decade of chasing the madman, he finally lures Michael in to a trap, then beats him savagely with a 2x4, screaming "DIE! DIE!" for each hit, and not even stopping when Michael was knocked unconcious all the while having a stroke. Payback well deserved!
** Donald Pleasance in real life. According to the writer of ''Halloween 4'', he did most of his own stunts in the film. He did all this while pushing 70!
* In the Mormon film ''Passage to Zarahemla'', the previously mild-mannered, violin making grandpa scales a wall, breaks into a house, and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome careens down a staircase with a machine gun in each hand]]. The guns belong to the two thugs he and a guy recovering from being ''shot'' just knocked out. Later he stares down a handful of ancient warriors, armed to the teeth and covered with blood. Very calmly, he puts down one gun, scoops up his granddaughter, and [[UnflinchingWalk walks away]].
* Mickey Goldmill in the ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' movies.
** And Rocky himself in the ''Film/RockyV'' and ''RockyBalboa''.
* {{RED}} is built on this trope. {{RED}}: Retired Extremely Dangerous.
* Grandpa Seth of ''Film/{{Troll 2}}'', who, despite being ''dead'', takes on goblins with an axe, makes molotov cocktails, and summons lightning bolts!
* Kevin Flynn in ''Film/TronLegacy''. (Castor even says "He shut the whole room down just by walking into it!" Or something to that effect.) Doesn't hurt that he's [[PhysicalGod actually God]] in that world, and proceeded to demonstrate it.
* In ''BreakingTheWaves'', an old Norwegian man at a wedding [[AGlassInTheHand breaks a glass]] with his bare hand to show up a punk kid sitting at his table. He doesn't even have any dialogue.
* The Creator/DannyTrejo movie ''Film/BadAss''. Trejo plays an old guy who becomes an internet sensation after a video is circulated of him being threatened on a bus and kicking the punk's ass. Looks like he spends much of the rest of the movie kicking more ass, chased by Creator/RonPerlman. The tagline is even "He's mean...he's angry...he's old...he is BadAss".
* The protagonist of ''Film/DriveAngry'' breaks out of hell to save his baby granddaughter from a demonic cult. Of course, the character in question is played by Nicholas Cage.
* All the main characters in ''TheExpendables'' are all action heroes at least over 60 and they show they can still do what they do best.
* [[Creator/BorisKarloff Byron Orlock]] in ''Film/{{Targets}}''; he ends a deranged killer's shooting spree by [[spoiler: knocking the punk's gun away with his ''cane'' and then slapping him.]]
* General Joseph Colton from ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation''.
* That old guy from Germany in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheAvengers The Avengers]].
* Sergeant Mooney from ''Film/{{Cellular}}''. It's his last day at the job, and he beats the living shit out of a CorruptCop twice his size and half his age. Who was supposed to ambush him, no less. Then he [[spoiler: shoots the main villain. Choke on that, {{Retirony}}.]]
* Averted in ''TheWeddingSinger'' as a bar brawl is about to begin, an old man punches the antagonist . . . and it has no effect. He comments apologetically that he was much stronger as a young man.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Almost every single old man in Creator/JinYong's ''Literature/LegendOfTheCondorHeroes''.
* [[DropTheHammer Stephen the Stonewright]] of Micah E. F. Martin's ''Literature/TheCanticle'' is a two-hundred-year-old cleric capable of taking down {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with just his trusty warhammer.
* [[PersonOfMassDestruction Gaius]] [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Sextus]], [[MagnificentBastard First]] [[TheChessmaster Lord]] of Alera, from Creator/JimButcher's ''Literature/CodexAlera''. Even when he's around 80, he still manages to lead Alera.
** Doroga also qualifies, although he's rarely physically underestimated on account of being incredibly buff. Not only can he accurately throw a coffin-sized chunk of solid rock, he's bonded to Walker, who at one point smashed a hole in a wall made of bedrock.
* Belgarath from ''Literature/TheBelgariad''. He is seven thousand years old, generally accepted as the most powerful sorcerer in the world, and has about three and a half thousand years worth of descendants whom he calls "Grandsons". To add to it, Belgarath likes drinking, thieving, wenching, and has a surprisingly young body for a man who appears to be at least in his seventies.
** Another Eddings example: Preceptor Abriel of the [[ChurchMilitant Cyrinic Knights]] from the [[Literature/TheElenium Elenium/Tamuli]]. Near seventy, having been a knight for at least fifty of those years, [[spoiler: eventually died in an attempt to charge [[EldritchAbomination Klael]]]].
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' has almost as many Badass Grandpas as it has younger badasses.
** Cohen the Barbarian is a barbarian hero who is over 80 when he's introduced and he has survived over 60 years of fighting monsters and everything the gods can throw at him. He has a set of false teeth made from the teeth of a Troll. Trolls are made of rock and their teeth are made of diamonds. The books take the variation of 'A barbarian hero who gets to be that old is a very good barbarian hero indeed'. This is demonstrated when the Silver Horde (all seven of them) conquer the whole of the Counterweight Continent. The scene where they meet a dojo full of ninjas aptly demonstrates their awesomeness.
** In ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', young History Monks at their isolated mountain temple headquarters are taught Rule One (of at least Nineteen): "Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men" and, in case this rule is forgotten, Rule Nineteen exists ("Never forget Rule One"). The reason these rules exist is because of one single History Monk, Lu-Tze. In fact, not only can he get BadAss warrior monks to wet themselves mid-punch simply by revealing his name, but he's also the reason why Ankh-Morpork's underworld has learned the value of Rule One as well!
** Quite a few of the staff at the Unseen University qualify, but the best example would be [=ArchChancellor=] Mustrum Ridcully, who sleeps with a pair of crossbows and single-handedly ended a tradition wherein advancement in the wizarding hierarchy was performed via assassination (also known as the [[KlingonPromotion Dead Mens' Pointy Shoes]] rule) by virtue of being unkillable.
** As of ''Discworld/NightWatch'', it's established that Vetinari and Vimes are both in their late forties. The novel also confirms that they are the only two people alive who have been taken off the Assassin Guild's register: they're so badass at their respective roles that the Assassin's Guild views their deaths as a catestrophic disaster for the city and therefore have banned contracts being put on their lives. So, not only do their enemies live in terror of them, but they're not allowed to be officially assassinated either!
*** Vimes also makes a habit of thoroughly boobytrapping his house against would-be assassins. [[AssassinOutclassin Not one of them has gotten through]], which helped the decision to take him off the list and definitely cemented his role as an object lesson for cocky assassination students.
** ''Technically'' [[AC:Death]] is one of these because he adopted a human girl, Ysabell, who gave birth to Susan who is ''almost'' as badass as her grandfather. [[AC:Death]] takes on an entire army of Auditors during the Apocalypse during ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'' This is badass in itself, but even more so when [[AC:Death]] actually used a loophole to attack them (the true villains). To wit: [[AC:Nowhere does it say to ''whom'' we must ride out against.]] In ''Discworld/ReaperMan'' where he was forcibly retired and in a semi-indestructible body he rescued a child from a burning building, ''defying fate'' and ended up killing the New Death with a scythe sharpened by ''his anger''. He blackmailed the multiverse into letting the main characters of ''Discworld/SoulMusic'' live... really, any moment where [[AC:Death]] appears show him as a badass. Even while masquerading as the Discworld equivalent of Father Christmas!
** Also, Sgt Jackrum from ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment''. Having been in the Borogravian army for sixt... a very long time and not dying makes you a prime example, even though he's not [[FromACertainPointOfView a grandpa.]]
* ''Creator/LordOfTheRings'': Gandalf the White. After coming "back from the dead" (he was sent back, because his job wasn't done - very much hinted at in the book and by WordOfGod to have been by Eru Ilúvatar aka {{God}}), he is granted an even greater use of his power -- specifically, it's estimated that he was allowed to use about a third of his full strength as "the White", and was still able to take down a Balrog with his ''old'' strength.
** Théoden also qualifies.
* Albus Dumbledore in ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Although he was acknowledged to be the greatest wizard of all time since practically the beginning, so his magical abilities didn't came as a surprise; it's the raw badassitude he shows from the end of the fourth book onward.
** Voldemort was 68 when he returned to power in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''.
** By the same token, Hagrid, a half-giant and three years Voldy's junior.
** Neville's grandma, Augusta, is a badass grandma herself, especially in the 7th book when she was able to fend off Dawlish (who was sent by the Death Eaters to go after her and take her hostage in order to blackmail Neville for standing up to the Carrows) all by herself; subsequently, she went on the run unscathed. The Death Eaters clearly underestimated her; lesson learned: never, EVER mess with Augusta Longbottom.
** Another notable badass grandma from the Potterverse is [[http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/McGonagall Minerva McGonagall]]. She's a strict, but fair and effective teacher, and at the same time she has her many moments of badassery herself. Each of them were shown from the 5th book onwards. And hey, she survived 4 Stunning Spells to the chest in the 5th book -- something that was not expected for someone of her age, as noted by Madam Pomfrey.
* Lazarus Long's Badass Grandpa, Ira Johnson, from Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove''. At seventy, we're told, he can hold an anvil at arm's length. By the horn.
** An age of seventy doesn't really mean as much to him, however. That would be more like an age of forty, tops, due to the Howard Foundation thing.
** And Lazarus Long's first known appearance is at over 200. It's implied his lifetime is so long he may never die, and is bad ass enough to be a master at every profession including Piracy. He wears a kilt to have better access to his weapons at all time.
* Ser Barristan "the Bold" Selmy in ''Creator/ASongOfIceAndFire''. The Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, Selmy is still one of the toughest knights in the realm at the age of almost 60. When he's [[spoiler:kicked out of his post for advanced age, an unprecedented insult, he travels halfway across the world in the guise of "Whitebeard," an old squire. His badass chops with a staff betray his identity, however, and he eventually offers his services to a rebel queen. At the queen's court, some courtiers call him "Barristan the Old" and "Ser Grandfather," but he's still got enough spunk to train a new crop of knights and take down a pitfighter.]]
** Tywin Lannister, who is a literal grandfather and most certainly not to be messed with.
* Creator/AmeliaPeabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson are Badass Grandparents in development. They are detective archeologists in a mystery series by Elizabeth Peters, and started the series at thirty-something. They are now actual grandparents but just as formidable as ever. Their major disqualification is that they aren't cryptic enough about it. Having been badass archaeologist detectives in Egypt for at least thirty years, their badassery is well-known to the locals. Also, Emerson at sixty-something is still a roaring bull of a man, only rendered more distinguished-looking (at least in Amelia's eyes) by the streaks of gray at his temples.
* Creator/DavidGemmell's Druss the Legend. Half a million Mongol {{Mooks}} are attacking a fortress held by nine thousand raw recruits. The only thing they're scared of is a 60-year-old man with an axe and an attitude.
* In Creator/SandyMitchell's novels, Literature/CiaphasCain, '''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM''', manages to retain his (in his own opinion, undeserved) badass status well into his ostensible retirement in ''Cain's Last Stand'', going so far as to [[spoiler:defeat Warmaster Varan in personal combat. On ''live, planet-wide pictcast.'']]
** Same can be said for Commisar Yarrick. At least a hundred years old he keeps coming out of retirement to fight the orks on Armageddon, and will probably keep fighting until he and Gazghul Thraka kill each other. The orks think he's immortal.
* Dirk Pitt and Kurt Austin of their respective adventures are in their fifties in their latest books and yet they still get to kick serious ass and save the world.
* Papa Jan from ''Literature/ThisPerfectDay''. A construction worker into his early 60s, as a young man he helped build UNICOMP, the [[MasterComputer supercomputer that rules the world]], but came to regret it. Inspires his grandson Chip to break the system, and gives him crucial information on how to do so. Wanders around without touching his bracelet to scanners, defeating [[BigBrotherIsWatching UNICOMP's efforts to keep tabs on him]].
* Creator/DavidWeber has Wencit of Rum. The only living White Wizard and Wild Wizard. He's several thousands of years old and the one person upholding the rules of White Wizardry. He also is a PersonOfMassDestruction, controlling the Strafing Spells that will coat an entire continent with Flames when he wills it. [[spoiler:He also may be a god.]]
** Elsewhere in the Weber bibliography, the existence of the drug Prolong in the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' setting means that physical infirmities from old age are effectively no longer a bar to maintaining badassitude decades into the future.
* In the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' ExpandedUniverse Millennium trilogy, Picard is a 95 year old Admiral in poor health and well into the process of going senile. But when three Romulan assassins armed with disruptors attack him, he kills them all with a bat'leth. ''Naked'', because he was in the shower when they attacked.
** In one of the other expanded universe novels (written after ''Millennium'', at a time when the novels had begun to be combined into a cohesive whole), the point is made that one of the benefits of an ever-lengthening lifespan is the increasing number of active centenarians -- Picard is most certainly not alone in the badass 'old enough to be a grandpa' category.
* In the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, Luke Skywalker has gotten well along in years, but shows little sign of this other than mellowing out. He is still considered the strongest Jedi to have ever lived and perhaps the best lightsaber duelist as well. Toward the end of the [[Literature/LegacyOfTheForce last lengthy series]], Luke pins [[spoiler: Jacen Solo, also know as Darth Caedus,]] to a wall using Force Telekinesis in what essentially amounts to a shrug while he proceeds to calmly ask questions and inspect the room.
** At about Luke's age we have Wedge Antilles. He was quite respectably awesome in the Franchise/XWingSeries, but at the end of it, in ''Starfighters of Adumar'', he made a pivotal decision that [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight doing the right thing was more important than duty]], and from that point on, any time that AaronAllston wrote him Wedge was ''unbelievably'' awesome. He became more picky about who he obeyed and why, blunter, more willing to screw the rules to preserve lives, tighter with his family and friends - and his tactics became outstandingly unorthodox. And his reflexes, if anything, sped up. Not only was he an [[AcePilot outstandingly impressive pilot]], but also one who had a fine grasp on strategy, tactics, and political ramifications, and who was a ReasonableAuthorityFigure of the highest caliber, who could sort of speed up his thinking to make complicated decisions within seconds.
*** By ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'', when the Corellian military kicked him out for being too moral to support tactics like the assassination of neutral leaders, a sixty-year-old Wedge was given the choice to publicly hand over his position, swallowing his pride to do so, or just go off. He was able to examine the choice, realize that both were bad in different ways, and decide on the one which would hurt the fewest people in ''a quarter of a second''. After that, just outside of the room he slumped in shock but was able to pull himself together as he realized that someone was going to try to assassinate him - yes, the idea that people were going to try to kill him ''made him relax'', and by the time he left the building he was able to give the guards a smile "like he was a rancor and they were made of meat".
** Why haven't we mentioned the literal Badass Grandpa in the Star Wars EU? After spending the past 71 years seeing the beginning of the Clone Wars, leading to the end of the Republic, the rise of the Empire, the subsequent fall and the rise of the New Republic, Boba Fett is a literal Badass Grandpa. His granddaughter is as badass as he is, surviving being [[spoiler: tortured and crippled by Jacen Solo/Darth Cadeaus]], Fett is the leader of the Mandalorians until [[spoiler: Cadeaus releases a toxin that would kill anyone with Fett genetics, wherein he passed the leadership to his second-in-command and one of his only friends]], issued a father-like warning to Mirta's future husband - "You break her heart, I'll break your legs" - and proved he is still a badass by tricking Jaina into letting her guard down around him and knocking her on her ass. Boba Fett, 71 years old and still proving to be the baddest of the badasses.
** Basically, any member of the original cast who is still alive is a Badass Grandpa by this point. Some characters introduced in the '90s also qualify.
* ''Literature/SnowCrash'': Uncle Enzo, who is head of the Mafia as well as an ex-special forces soldier. He manages to fight off [[BadAss Raven]] with a straight razor.
* Papa O'Neal from Creator/JohnRingo's ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'' may not perhaps as physically old as some mentioned on this page, he ''is'' a grandpa, literally, and is ([[spoiler:or ''was'', until the end of ''The Honor of the Clan'']]) the head of a BadassFamily, after having served in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar and later as a mercenary in various hotspots around the world.
* A malevolent example would be Literature/{{Dracula}}, who was of course Vlad the Impaler several hundred years ago and who (unsurprisingly) has white hair when we first meet him in the book before we discover him drinking blood.
* The old blind gardener from ''Literature/WorldWarZ''. We know his age because his blindness is from the bombing of Nagasaki during World War Two, and the story takes place around 2006. When he hears of the [[ZombieApocalypse zombie attacks]] and pending evacuations, he runs away into the forests so nobody has to worry about him. There, armed with his digging stick, ''he tracks and kills thousands of zombies with his hearing alone''. And [[DueToTheDead cremates the bodies and prays for them]]. Later he encounters the sorely-out-of-place {{Otaku}} and trains him in combat, and by the end of the book they're training more Japanese survivors to battle the zombies.
* Any old wizard from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. Wizards only get more powerful with age and after a couple hundred years (or more) they are extremely powerful.
** The Senior Council deserves special mention here. Ebenezar [=McCoy=], their youngest and weakest member, [[spoiler:''[[ColonyDrop pulled a satellite out of orbit]]'' to get revenge on Duke Paolo Ortego (he's a literal grandpa, too)]]. A couple steps up the seniority chain, we have Listens-to-Wind, who once sent a [[EldritchAbomination horrifically evil]] [[PhysicalGod demigod]] off crying. And their oldest, most powerful member? He held off ''the entire Red Court'' [[spoiler:and the Outsiders they'd summoned]] with a single impromptu ward.
** We can't forget Shiro, a Knight of the Cross and a swordsman so good that he once managed to beat Nicodemus, a PersonOfMassDestruction if ever there was one. [[spoiler:Naturally, he's TooCoolToLive; he makes a HeroicSacrifice to save Harry.]]
* [[Franchise/TheDarkTower Roland Deschain]] is by far the oldest member of his ka-tet, even when one takes into account the differences in time between Mid-World and Earth, but he is also by far the most {{badass}}.
* Moses and Joshua from ''Literature/TheBible'' lived to be 120 and 110 respectively, leading the Israelite people in their advanced age.
** A companion of Joshua, Caleb, lived through 40 years of wandering in the desert and the entire campaign to take the Holy Land. And what did he ask for his reward after these long years of service? He picked to live on a mountain filled with giants and brigands, near the city of Debir. Just so he could eradicate the city by himself.
** Elisha has a [[BearsAreBadNews unique way to deal with thugs poking fun of his bald head]]. From 2 Kings, Chapter 2:
--->23. From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "God on up, you baldhead!"
--->24. He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled fourty-two of the youths.
--->25. And he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria. (NIV)
* In the Creator/AndrewVachss Burke book ''Strega'', Burke briefly passes by an old black man who, after getting knocked down by a punk, proceeds to get up and school him like the retired boxer he probably was.
* Martin Silenus from the Literature/HyperionCantos surgically modified himself to become a satyr at one point just to deflower as many females as possible. His vocabulary once dropped to a slight variation of the SevenDirtyWords. He's the only survivor of a Shrike attack on the city of Keats on Hyperion. Later (read: At the age of 700+), he got impaled on the Shrike's Tree of Pain. He died at the age of 1000, staying alive only because he refuses to die anywhere apart from Earth, and only if the Pax, the church is destroyed completely. The only problem is that Earth is either completely destroyed or in the Magellan Clouds, hundreds of light years away. He succeeds, and is buried on Earth.
* In ''Literature/EndersGame'', Mazer Rackham single-handedly wins the Second Invasion, then takes a fifty-year, near-lightspeed space trip only to come back and kick the crap out of a kid that has been specifically bred, raised and trained to be 100% {{Badass}}.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has several examples. Gareth Bryne and Rhuarc are probably the best ones.
** Don't forget Thom Merrilin. He says he's just a gleeman but that doesn't stop him from taking on a Myrdraal with nothing more than his daggers and surviving the encounter or from killing a king over a dead girlfriend and throwing an entire country into civil war in the process. And that's just his offscreen badassery...
* Kirth Gersen's grandfather from ''Literature/TheDemonPrinces'' is another literal example.
* Gorynel Desse in Melanie Rawn's ''The Ruins of Ambrai'' is an expert swordsman, fabulous with both escapes and magic, and arguably the only character the villains even consider a threat. It doesn't hurt that he's in charge of a secret [[LaResistance resistance]] and has been on the run for as long as some of the other characters have been alive.
* The Literature/{{Fablehaven}} series has Seth and Ruth Sorenson, AKA Grandma and Grandpa Sorenson. Grandpa is [[AwesomenessByAnalysis smart enough to get buy without sheer brute strength]], and Grandma generally packs heat in the form of a crossbow. And boy, is she a crack shot!
** The second book introduces Coulter Dixon, who, despite being the MrViceGuy of the cast, brings along many, many [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys wonderful toys]] to the party. They make him ''very' awesome.
** The fifth and final book also brings us [[spoiler: Grandma and Grandpa Larsen, who are ''also'' storied asskickers. [[HesJustHiding Rumors of their death were greatly exaggerated.]]]]
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's "The Hyborian Age", the BackStory to ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'':
-->''Gorm was slain by Hialmar, a chief of the Nemedian Aesir. He was a very old man, nearly a hundred years old.''
** In "The Shadow Kingdom" Literature/{{Kull}} holds a man in contempt for weakness, and his age does not excuse him, because Kull has seen older men fight.
* Cassel's grandfather in Holly Black's ''Curse-Workers'' novels.
* Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's heroes Literature/{{Tarzan}} and [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars John Carter]] certainly qualify, by having a grandchild and being disobedient donkeys. John Carter certainly fits the trope starting his story with:"I am a very old man; how old I do not know."
* Otsi from the Literature/NorthlandSeries is 15+-year-old Hazel's [[spoiler: great-grandfather]], and boy can he kick arse.
* Literature/JakubWedrowycz, between some 80 and 90 years old (depending on when a particular story is set) is as fit as a youngster, has an entire arsenal of weaponry of all kinds hidden around and under his house (and can use them ''very'' well) -- enough perhaps to defeat an entire army, and faces demons and psychopathic killers without the slightest hint of fear. And nearly all the old people in his village embody this trope to a similar extent.
* Tadeo Kurita, in ''[[Literature/CarrerasLegions Carnifex]]'', is over 90 years old, but still as ready to fight for the ''Dos Lindas'', losing his life in the process.
** See also Mr. Nguyen, helping the titular characters of ''The Amazon Legion'' in their guerrilla warfare campaign against the invaders even though he's probably[[note]]his age is never really specified[[/note]] well into his seventies by that point.
* Aral Vorkosigan, as of ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Diplomatic Immunity]]''. He's not ready to retire, still governing a planet.
* Characters like Firestar, Cloudtail and Graystripe in ''Literature/WarriorCats'' are grandpas, but still manage to kick large amounts of [[HoldYourHippogriffs tail]].
* Benedict from Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber has spent millennia studying combat and warfare. His godlike siblings have stated that if Benedict wanted the throne, they'd abandon their game of multiplayer XanatosSpeedChess and let him have it.
* The Literature/InDeath series. Everyone who participated on some level in the Urban Wars TookALevelInBadass. Some of them took more than one level and retained it better.
* Kit Carson of ''Literature/TimeScout'' found out he was a grandfather well after becoming a badass.
* Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: Either Deconstructed or Subverted in the book ''Home Free''. Harry Wong is training to become the number one martial artist in the world. To that end, he hires an old martial arts teacher who is at least 100 years old. Unfortunately, the old man does nothing except sit there and sleep...for 24 hours a day. Harry's friends, Jack and Bert pull some strings and have the old teacher/master carted out and bring in another old martial arts teacher who is at least 80 years and could wipe the floor with all three men. Shortly afterwards, the three men discover that the old teacher has up and died! In the end, Jack and Bert decide to be Harry's teachers.
* Velisarios in ''Literature/CaptainCorellisMandolin''. At his last appearance, he's 87 years old and still has strength men a quarter of his age could only dream of.
* Father James in ''Literature/SomeoneElsesWar'' is not afraid to hide children in his church, no matter ''what'' the LRA does to him as a result.
* Yamauchi-sensei of ''Literature/GreekNinja''.
* Soo Kim [=McDivott=], generally called "Teacher", in ''Literature/{{Emergence}}''. A tenth-degree black belt, he intervened in a disturbance at a soda fountain. Four young toughs wound up being carted off to the hospital, and witnesses were certain Teacher hadn't moved a muscle. He's that fast, even in his 70s. [[spoiler:Helps that he's a member of a HumanSubspecies much stronger and faster than humans.]]
* ''Literature/LegacyOfTheDragokin'': Technically Taurok was this in ''Literature/TrappedOnDraconica'' but here his granddaughter is fifteen, has replaced him as Baalaria's FourStarBadass, and his age comes up more often. [[spoiler: He still defeats Ravage, an enormous monster man with axes for hands.]]
* Pagan the Knight in ''Literature/DragomirsDiary'' is initially portrayed as a weird old man in armour who needs a cane to walk. Get him into a scrap, though, and he'll cut your damned arm off.
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* Father Jack Hackett and Bishop Brennan from ''Series/FatherTed''.
* Bra'tac from ''Series/StargateSG1''. "Not bad, for an old man."
** Teal'c himself who, despite looking young, was actually about 100 when the show began. Then, in the last episode he alone is aged 60 years on top of that. He still mopped floors with those who were dumb enough to cross him.
** General George Hammond, despite being over 60, put on fatigues every now and again and blasted the crap out of bad guys. (see also General Jacob Carter, father of Colonel Sam Carter).
** In ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' Major Sheppard is aged into an old man by the constantly feeding Wraith. Most people would literally wither and die. Major Sheppard ain't most people....
** Lt. General Jack O'Neill, over 50 by now, a legend across the galaxy, and ''still'' a badass...
* ''Series/{{Vikings}}'' is about the codifiers of the ProudWarriorRaceGuy trope, so it has several examples. Most prominent is Tostig, an OldSoldier [[TheBerserker Berserker]] DeathSeeker with a ''seriously'' awesome beard whimanages to handily slaughter several Anglo-Saxons half his age at the same time.
** Earl Haraldson (played by Gabriel Byrne) is also no slouch. Having been described as a great warrior in his youth, he proves it when he faces the protagonist; [[{{Badass}} Ragnar Lodbrok]], in single combat. Despite his age, they're evenly matched. (though Ragnar has handicapped due to his leg and was barely healed from several life threatening wounds)
* ''{{Firefly}}'s'' Shepherd Derrial Book. He punches out cops, shoots down space ships, decapitates deathbots, and [[ImprobableAimingSkills shoots out men's kneecaps with rifles, one-handed, without even having to aim.]] If you called him a Badass Grandpa to his face, he would point out that [[CatchPhrase he never married]], so he is not a grandpa, but he couldn't deny the rest. He also orders an Alliance captain around, despite belonging to a group of outlaws. That man has a History.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''.
** The First Doctor is a crotchety old man...who somehow outfought armed knights with just his cane. The Second Doctor pretended to be a clown, yet was more than capable of taking out the strongest Yeti. And then there was the Third...who was a master of Venusian Aikido and was also capable of out-fighting two men in a sword fight at the same time, while wearing a horribly clunky suit of armor that offered little protection. The fact that the Doctor is probably over a millenium old and has / [[LastOfHisKind had]] a granddaughter makes him technically this trope even when [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld he looks around 30 years old.]]
** In his last appearance in the old series TheBrigadier was getting into this territory as well, facing down the Destroyer of Worlds all by his lonesome with nothing but a revolver and silver bullets. ''And winning''.
--->"Get off my world!"
** He continued to do so in his guest appearance in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''.
** Wilfred Mott. Apart from using a ''paintball gun'' against a Dalek (it didn't work, but that takes balls), between the pistol and the laser turret, he becomes one of the biggest badasses in "The End of Time".
*** Don't forget he was the only person that stayed in London on Christmas in "Voyage of the Damned".
** Captain Jack Harkness. He doesn't look it, but he has at least one grandson. [[spoiler: or rather, ''had''.]]
** [[spoiler:The War Doctor was the Doctor who fought and put an end to [[WarIsHell the Last Great Time War.]] He is played by JohnHurt, who to date is the oldest actor to portray the Doctor.]]
* Jack Bristow from ''Series/{{Alias}}''.
* An episode of ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' featured a Dopant who can affect people's age. After he ages Shotaro into an old man, Double is unable to form since one half is having trouble just staying awake through the fight. [[spoiler: Then Old Man Sho decides to take on Old by himself, including his trademark 'Count up your sins!' catchphrase and pose. He's not very effective but damn he's got guts.]]
* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** Captain Jean-Luc Picard of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', especially in [[TheMovie the movies]]. Notable for the breadth of his badassery--whether it's ship combat, shooting, hand-to-hand, fencing, or sheer endurance, Picard remains harder than {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s half his age.
** Captain James T. Kirk was busting bad guy asses well into his 50s and then came out of retirement to help Picard take down Tolian Soran.
*** [[spoiler:And for "retirement", see "death."]]
** Admiral Kathryn Janeway (the older, gray-haired version of Capt. Janeway) who defied the Prime Directive, the ''Temporal'' Prime Directive, lied to Starfleet, '''and''' swindled a Klingon and gave him the finger. All to bring ''Voyager'' home earlier. Even people who don't like Captain Janeway love the Admiral.
** The Klingon captains Kirk butted heads with (Koloth, Kang, and Kor) turned up well past the century mark and still ready to kick serious ass in ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]''.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' has Daniel Linderman, Maury Parkman, Angela Petrelli, and the granddaddy of all badasses Arthur Petrelli. (See also Hiro's father Kaito Nakamura, whose badassery is increased by being played by GeorgeTakei).
* Mrs. Westen from ''Series/BurnNotice'' manages to break a suspect by just sitting down and explaining how things will end if he refuses to talk. And this was after Sam and Fiona failed in interrogating him. All Madeline did was offer him a cigarette and talk about how he wouldn't have to worry about cancer. In another situation, Madeline also directly resisted the FBI by sending them on a wild goose chase while warning Mike about their investigation. They arrested her and she still didn't tell them anything.
* ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'''s Jack Bauer as of season 7.
* ''MidsomerMurders'' episode "Sins of Commission" has a female version, [[spoiler:Camilla Crofton. She killed them all. In self-defence, as they were trying to off her.]] It's quite possibly one of the most awesome "how they did it" flashback sequences ever.
* ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'': Mess with the Samurai Sentai authorized by the Providence, you may just get to face their BadassBiker SternTeacher head of the household servants, Kusakabe Hikoma. Lovingly known as Jii, he keeps the Samurai-tachi fed, trains them in the use of their powers... [[spoiler:and will go hand to hand with the demonic mooks for his Lord if he needs to.]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8a2RkjRpU This Eggo waffle commercial]] depicts a grandma beating the rest of her family to the waffle in question ''and'' eating it at a speed that would put SonicTheHedgehog to shame.
* The Zen Master from ''FistOfZen''. He has been shown, among other things, demolishing a nuclear reactor by sneezing. And then putting it back together through sheer force of will.
* ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'': Admiral William Adama. In season 4, [[spoiler:during a mutiny of Galactica's crew, the Admiral can be seen dual-wielding ''assault rifles'' for the better part of the conflict.]] He's also '''''73''' by the end of the series''.
** Arguably Battlestar Galactica as well, akin to a UsefulNotes/WW2 era aircraft carrier taking on a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and winning
* Dr Quentin of the ''SpyGame'' television series, played by Patrick [=MacNee=] as a semi-regular. His first appearance has him playing a sedate round of golf with an old espionage buddy (played by ''Series/MissionImpossible'''s Peter Lupus), when they're suddenly confronted by a much larger squad of young toughs. A fight ensues. Guess which side wins?
* John Locke from ''Series/{{Lost}}''.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'': The old billiards instructor in the episode "Physical Education".
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}''
** Some might argue that Ducky,who has chased down kids who egg his van and had Fornell in a respectable (and accurate) headlock, shows signs of Badassery.
** Jackson Gibbs is also a good example of this, chasing off [[spoiler:Paloma Reynosa and Alejandro Hernandez when they come to attack him with just his old rifle.]]
* The ''Series/{{JAG}}'' episode "Yesterday's Heroes" has three retired underwater demolition divers (one played by Creator/ErnestBorgnine) in Florida avenging on a South American drug dealer who'd hurt one of their grandchildren.
* Jason Gideon of ''Series/CriminalMinds'', who has shown himself capable of outmaneuvering a man who had him at shotgun point, both mentally and physically. Dave Rossi as well.
* Master Po, ''Series/KungFu''.
* ''Series/{{Bones}}'':
** Angela's father, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top fame, playing himself. Angela's middle name in the show, "Pearly Gates," is a reference to Gibbons's favorite guitar.
** Let's not forget Bones's father. When a corrupt cop posed a threat to his daughter Brennan he gutted him and burned him at the stake. Now, that's badass. And during the Season 7 finale, it's revealed he used his underground contacts to help his daughter and granddaughter get off the grid for a while when they're being targeted by a serial killer.
* Mike the cleaner in ''Series/BreakingBad''. Loves spending time with his granddaughter. Capable of taking out a small building full of Mexican Cartel enforcers.
* Gaius on ''Series/{{Merlin}}''. Probably Uther, too. Not grandpas, but still old enough to be and definitely both have moments of badassery.
* Joe Dawson on ''HighlanderTheSeries''
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'''s Jim Brass and maybe even Grissom. In later seasons, D.B.Rusell has a few moments, especially when his granddaughter was kidnapped.
* ''Series/{{M.A.S.H.}}'': ** Colonel Sherman Potter in ''M.A.S.H.'' is old enough to recall WWI but can keep up with his younger medical collegues on operating table; further he runs the hospital with warmth coupled with a do-it-now voice of command that makes even Hawkeye tow the mark.
* ''SonsOfAnarchy'':
** Clay Morrow is still leading an outlaw biker gang at an age where his adopted son has a kid. His hands are getting brittle, but otherwise he's still able to mix it up with the rest of the gang.
** Despite being an IrishPriest in his 60s, Father Ashby is a high-ranking leader of the Real IRA. When BadassBiker Jackson Teller rushes him in a rage, Ashby simply tosses him to the ground.
** Piney is one of the original founders of the Sons, and his own kid (Opie) is in the club as well. He's not entirely hearty and hale, and does have to carry around an oxygen tank for his emphysema... which he's used to beat the crap out of someone on more than one occasion.

* Hooch, The Listener, in ''CriminalJustice'', runs with this. As a ParentalSurrogate AND PapaWolf to Ben, he takes out Milroy in ''one punch'' despite the thug being a lot younger and apparently in much better shape, then later [[spoiler: nearly kills [[TheDon Freddy]] so he'll give him the name of the man really responsible for Melanie Loyd's death and clear Ben's name, knowing Freddy's retaliation, having his thugs inject him with a lethal dose of heroine to make it look like suicide, will know doubt follow, and takes it without fear.]] For an old dude who doesn't appear particularly tough, that's pretty impressive.

* Howard Stackhouse, a United States Senator in ''TheWestWing'', [[spoiler:out of pure desperation to attach an appropriation for autistic children to a bill, that has been closed and is about to pass to a vote, seeing himself devoid of political leverage to reopen the bill, at the ripe old age of 78 starts a NINE HOUR MONOLOGUE, wherein he is not allowed to stop speaking, eat, drink, sit or even LEAN ON SOMETHING. The staff of the White House is able to determine, that Stackhouse is in fact doing this for his autistic grandkid, and finally muster a kind of "rescue operation" where other Grandpas in the Senate alleviate Stackhouse by posing questions pertinent to autism and are together able to push the vote so far back as to reopen the bill for appropriations.]] Maybe not the most colourful example of this trope, but as Jed Bartlet puts it: "Don't ever, EVER underestimate the will of a grandfather. We're mad men. We don't give a damn. We got here before you and they'll be here after. We'll make enemies, we'll break laws, we'll break bones, but you will not mess with the grandchildren.!!!"
* Jane in ''Series/TheSecretCircle'' is the female equivalent.
* Rupert Giles from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' initially a bookish man in his mid 40's. By the series end he is in his 50's and while he isn't a parent or a grandparent he has gone toe to toe with innumerable vampires, fought demons (both the regular hybrids, an insane cyborg and a full fledged one) fought a god, stopped a witch from destroying the world (admittedly he lost that fight but she was coked up on more magic than was safe) and helped stop the end of the world. About a dozen times.
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[[folder:Music]]
* [[http://bardbook.flame.org/songs/3 "Aged Swordsman"]] is the Badass Grandpa anthem.
* "Pushed to the Limit", by [=UFO=], is about maintaining the rock lifestyle instead of giving in to "age-appropriate" behavior:
--> ...I still love women, sex and fancy cars...
--> ...I'm just not ready for the shade of an old oak tree...
--> My doctor says it ain't right
---> for a man my age to fight
---> he don't get it, he ain't in it, I'm pushed to the limit
--> ...kiss my ass, I'm still alive
* John Fogerty's "The Old Man Down the Road:"
-->He take the thunder from the mountain
-->He take the lightning from the sky
-->He bring a strong man to his beggin' knee
-->He make the young girl's mamma cry
* Many rockers from the 60's and 70's are still alive and kicking, and definitely count as this trope.
** Mick Jagger, for instance, has four grandchildren, and has only gotten more badass with age. The guy continues to live up to his legend as a pioneer of rock, still is in great shape, and can still dance like he's still in his twenties. Put it this way: there's a ''reason'' [[{{Maroon5}} Adam Levine]] and Music/ChristinaAguilera aspire to have "Moves Like Jagger." His latest project? A duet with Will.i.am of the Music/BlackEyedPeas, a Rock/R&B/Techno fusion song called "Go Home." And it sounds awesome.
* If Mick counts as one, so certainly do the rock, R&B and blues musicians from TheFifties and earlier that influenced classic rockers like Mick, along with many jazz, folk, country, bluegrass and country musicians. Music/ChuckBerry, Music/JerryLeeLewis, Music/FatsDomino, Music/LittleRichard and other rock pioneers still tour regularly, often still with a lot of the fire that they first demonstrated in their prime.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* There are a few to be found in the realms of ProfessionalWrestling - Wrestling/HarleyRace and Wrestling/StanHansen spring to mind - not to mention Wrestling/TerryFunk, who took part in a No DQ match featuring copious amounts of barbed wire in his SIXTIES. Most retired wrestlers also get the Badass Grandpa treatment whenever they show up for a cameo (look at Wrestling/RickySteamboat, Wrestling/JimmySnuka, and Wrestling/RoddyPiper during their feud with Wrestling/ChrisJericho leading into ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 25'').
* Wrestling/RicFlair. There's the WorkedShoot promo Flair cut on Carlito (''"I'll tell you what my problem is. Guys like you that have no passion, no GUTS! You want all the money, you want all the glory, you wanna fly first-class, you wanna walk around with someone like her? You don't deserve it!"''). Not to mention working a full-time schedule in his sixties and blading like a mofo more than a few times to sell a feud. Still king of the craaaazy eyes, Flair.
* WWE Hall of Famer and wrestling legend The Fabulous Moolah qualifies as a Badass Grandma; Moolah won her last WWF Women's Championship in 1999 ''at the age of 76'' and remained a force in the WWE's Women's Division right up until her death at age 84. Her longtime friend and tag-team partner, Mae Young, was ''still'' semi-active at age 86; by that time, she was more of a comedy character in the mold of Mae West, though. VinceMcMahon famously promised that, if either Moolah or Young (or both) lived to see their 100th birthday, he'd let them wrestle a match. (Furthermore, the match would be against StephanieMcMahon's daughter, who would be 17 that same year.) However, Young didn't make it either; she died at age 90 in January 2014.
** To reiterate that Mae Young deserves the Badass Grandma label as well: in 2000, during [[Website/{{WrestleCrap}} the infamous angle that saw her give birth to a hand]], Mae Young was put through a table by Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys. '''Twice.''' According to the Dudleys, they weren't sure if they should go easy on her, but Mae smacked them upside the head and told them not to hold back. Keep in mind, Mae was in ''her 70s'' when this happened.
** On the Old School Raw she challenged Wrestling/{{LayCool}} to a No-holds Barred match and won.
* More common in Japanese wrestling: some older wrestlers develop an ability known to some fans as "grumpiness", when they get so fed up with those gosh-durn kids with all their fancy moves that they just suddenly no-sell everything and knock the whippersnapper's block off with a single slap. Best exemplified by Wrestling/GenichiroTenryu, though by no means is he the only wrestler who does this.
* Wrestling/TerryFunk once commented that he thought the most hardcore man in wrestling was [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]]. Terry's reasoning? On some level, the wrestlers do what they do because they need a paycheck; Vince, on the other hand, is a billionaire who will never want for money again, and could do anything he pleases with his life, but gets beaten up, thrown around, steel chairs wrapped around his head, thrown through tables, etc. on national television just because ''he likes it'' (and he knows people love to see him get beaten up, since he plays the heel all too well). Vince is also an actual grandfather, which puts him squarely in this trope in RealLife.
** It's been said that there's nothing Vince won't ask a wrestler to do that Vince won't do himself.
* British wrestling legend Johnny Saint, though semi-retired now, has been wrestling since 1958. That's right, he's been a professional wrestler for ''over half a century.'' And he's still very capable of wrestling circles around men half his age, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdg9tTqPrg as the footage of him facing off against Delirious starting at the two minute mark clearly displays.]]
* Wrestling/TheUndertaker certainly qualifies. Even in his forties, he's capable of putting out a good effort against guys younger and healthier than he; in fact, 'Taker and ShawnMichaels - both at least 40 years old at the time - showed up EVERYONE younger than them at ''[=WrestleMania=] 25''.
* On that note, Wrestling/ShawnMichaels: he's over 40, and he can ''still'' pull out at least a three-star match out of pure instinct. And this is AFTER suffering a back injury that left him on the shelf for four years and unsure if he'd ever wrestle full-time again.
* Wrestling/TheIronSheik. He may not go in the ring anymore, but WATCH OUT or he will suplex you, put you in a camel clutch and fuck your ass to make you humble old country way.
* Although he's only in his early forties, Wrestling/{{Batista}} is an actual grandfather. [[http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/sites/sport/img/23677_b.jpg Yes,]] [[http://www.kaladan.com/wwe/pictures/batista_formal.jpg that]] [[http://indianapolis.canalblog.com/images/Batista___Dave_Batista_49.jpg Batista]]
* Wrestling/BrockLesnar is a step-grandfather. He's also a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/mma/ufc/ufc-h.html UFC World Heavyweight Champion]] and breaks arms For The Evulz.
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[[folder:Sports]]
* Just about any athlete over the age of 45 has the tendency to be a badass grampa by the standards of the sport, as their performance starts to wane as they get older.
* Pitcher Nolan Ryan threw fastballs in the 90-mph's and two no-hitters over the age of 40.
** And in his final season, when he was 46, he hit Robin Ventura with a pitch. Ventura charged the mound to fight him, and Ryan ''kicked his butt''. The real kicker: Ventura was ejected from the game and Ryan wasn't.
* George Foreman. Won a heavyweight boxing championship aged 45, and STILL can beat the crap out of anyone.
** Evander Holyfield is trying to follow his footsteps, at the age of 48.
** We must mention boxing's original Badass Grandpa Archie Moore, who won his first world title at the age of 39 ''and defended it for the next 10 years''. His second to last fight was against a young MuhammadAli well into his 50s, after having begun his career when Joe Louis hadn't even won the title yet. He still has the all-time record for most knockouts, 131. Think about that. The man had more knockouts in his career than Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather have fights ''combined''.
** I must now add Bernard Hopkins to this list, as he just recently became the oldest man to win a world title at 46 by defeating a man nearly half his age and who was considered the top light heavyweight in the world. And it's not like it's a one time thing, Master Hopkins has been outfighting younger men for the better part of the last 12 years. The only men who can claim wins are Jermain Taylor (and both fights were controversially scored, most people thought Master Hopkins won), and Joe Calzaghe (a decisive win for Calzaghe, who himself was a cagey, grizzled veteran at 38). Master Hopkins eats, sleeps, and breathes boxing and says he'll keep fighting at a high caliber until he's 50.
* While not as old as some on this list, Brett Favre was literally a grandpa during his final years with the Minnesota Vikings, and was still one of the most feared players in the NFL.
* George Blanda started his NFL career in 1949. He ended it in 1976. He only missed one season in that span - 1959; and then only because Chicago Bears owner/coach George Halas wouldn't let him play quarterback anymore (In 1960, he signed with the Houston Oilers of the fledgling American Football League). He made All-Pro as a kicker in 1970 and 1973 with the Oakland Raiders.
** In 1970, after Blanda's last-second field goal against the Kansas City Chiefs salvaged a tie, Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt [[LampshadeHanging famously quipped]], "Why, this George Blanda is as good as his father, who used to play for Houston."
* In August 15 2009, Fred Ettish, a 53 years old karate instructor, scored victory in CFX-Gladiator Evolution against Kyle Fletcher, who was almost 30 years younger than him.
* Any tenth-degree black belt. Since almost every martial art requires at least half a century of study before you can try for tenth-degree, these are some of the most dangerous old men/women alive. (Apparently, martial arts is second only to swimming for exercise, as proper training will work every muscle group.)
** Keiko Fukuda just advanced to tenth degree black belt in Judo. [[http://abcnews.go.com/Health/98-year-woman-receive-highest-degree-black-belt/story?id=14274097 Age? 98.]]
*** One of the original founders of SCA, Sir Paul of Bellatrix, who participated in the crown tournament 2011 in the age of 73. He still teaches SCA heavy combat.
* British ex FormulaOne driver Sterling Moss has stated he's glad he was racing in the era he did because it's too safe now for his tastes.
** Not to mention that he didn't retire from motorsport in general until 2011...when he was '''81'''.
* Former IndyCar, FormulaOne, and {{NASCAR}} driver Mario Andretti, now in his 70s, still drives race cars, including the two-seater car at all IndyCar events. Son Michael is a team owner (and former driver) in the series, whose drivers include Marco Andretti, Mario's grandson.
** In NASCAR alone, Mark Martin counts as he is 55, is in a part-time ride with the successful Michael Waltrip Racing, and despite his part-time schedule in 2012 was able to win multiple poles and a number of top-five and top-ten finishes, including a runner up finish in June at Pocono to Joey Logano. Martin probably fit more aspects of the trope in 2009 when he was driving full-time in the #5 Chevrolet at Hendrick Motorsports: five wins, seven pole positions, 14 top-five and 21 top-ten finishes, and a runner-up finish to Jimmie Johnson.
* Ciriaco "Cacoy" Cañete, one of the grandmasters of the Doce Pares School of Eskrima and developer of Eskrido (Eskrima, Aikido, judo combination). Born in 1919, he is still quite capable of kicking ass. Go to youtube and search for "Cacoy Cañete" and you'll find many videos of him in a demostration almost nonchalantly disarming and/or knocking down his students or fellow eskrimadors. Some of those guys have been doing Eskrima for years, even decades, and he still knocks them down without even moving from his spot.
** He's also had experience as a guerilla against the Japanese during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Svenson Bo Svenson]] finished second place in the 2009 USA Judo Championships at the age of ''68''. Oh, and he did it with ''[[HandicappedBadass three broken ribs]]''.
* Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the oldest baseball player in history, with a 40 year career that he only ended at age 59. In 2010 he was named the hardest thrower in baseball history, having garnered praise from the likes of Joe [=DiMaggio=], Bob Feller, Hack Wilson, and Dizzy Dean.
* Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli, a French racing cyclist, born 1958. Won her first french championship title in 1979 - she started riding ''a few months earlier''. Has since won ''57 more titles'' (including some world and olympic medals), the last one being in [[LongRunners 2011]]. Today, her rivals are ''20 or 30 years younger than her''. And she still beats'em.
* Morihei Ueshiba, founder of the martial art Aikido. Even at an advanced age, five grown men in their prime were unable to take him off his feet.
* [[MasterSwordsman Aladar Gerevich]], a member of the Hungarian sabre team, is the only Olympian to win gold in the same event six times. In 1960, he earned his spot by challenging each of the other members to prove that he was still fit at the age of 50. He led the team to gold as its captain.
* Tom Coughlin still coaches the [[AmericanFootball New York Giants]] as of the 2013 season at age 67, and has no plans of retiring any time soon.
* As for [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball college football]] coaches...
** Steve Spurrier, currently at South Carolina, is 68.
** Bill Snyder, now in his second stint at Kansas State, is 74.
** John Gagliardi, who won more games than any other coach in college history (mostly in the small-college NCAA Division III ranks), retired at the end of the 2012 season at age 86. (He had been coach at his second and final school, St. John's of Minnesota, for ''60 seasons''.)
** Amos Alonzo Stagg, one of the pioneers of the sport, was a head coach until he was 84. He then moved to another school and shared head coaching duties with his son for six more seasons. After that, he was kicking coach at yet another school until finally hanging up his cleats at ''96''. And he lived for another six years.
* In [[HorseRacing horse racing]]:
** John Henry was U.S. Horse of the Year in 1984 at age 9—an advanced age for a competitive racehorse, and certainly old enough that he could have been a grandpa if he hadn't been gelded.
** English steeplechase racer Red Rum (also a gelding) won the Grand National, the world's most prestigious race of its type, an unprecedented three times—the last in 1977 at ''age 12''.
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[[folder: Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Commissar Yarrick. He's not a SuperSoldier, a [[InSpace Space]] [[OurElvesAreBetter Elf]] or a [[RobotWar robot zombie]]. He's just an old, old man with unfinished business and a ''giant power claw for a hand and a laser beam eye.'' Though everyone in the above three categories does outlive a normal human a few times over and still remains badass.
** Scout Sgt. Torias Telion of the Ultramarines. He's personally trained at least three of the Chapter's Captains, making him older than many people who outrank him. Most Ultramarines say that they owe their lives and successes to his training.
** Commander Dante, the Chapter Master of the Blood Angels is one of the oldest Space Marines alive, being over 1000 years old. The closest most Marines has gotten is several hundred. This makes Dante a master strategist and is still a beast on the table. He even fought and clove one of The Mightiest Daemons of Khorne, the Bloodthirster Skarbrand, in two.
*** Let's not forget: he's been ''Chapter Master'' for over 1000 years. His real age is unknown, though it must be decidedly greater. No one else, outside of Dreadnaughts, can remember a time he wasn't the Chapter Master of the Blood Angels.
** Space Wolves tend to have quite a few of these. Their Chapter Master, Logan Grimnar, is so old that he's earned the name of "Old Wolf", and has a full-on grandpa beard, completely grey hair.He's said to be strong enough to be able to fight a Bloodthirster one-on-one. And Ulrik the Slayer, the chief Wolf Priest, is old enough to call him "Young Grimnar."
*** The oldest Space Wolves Dreadnought is Bjorn the Fell-Handed, one of the few individuals who can claim to have fought alongside Leman Russ and the Emperor. Also, as a corpse locked inside a giant robot loaded down weapons, he has a rather foul mood and the firepower to back it up.
*** The 13th Great Company of Space Wolves consists of ancient marines who served alongside with Bjorn and Russ himself.They have been fighting Chaos inside Eye of Terror for 10,000 years[[note]]Kind of,the time flow in the warp is very strange so there could be only few hundred years for them since Horus Heresy or their fight lasted longer than Imperium itself[[/note]]
** Eldrad Ultharan can MindRape any character in the game to death with a little bit of luck, is a brilliant support mage, and isn't too shabby in close combat either. He was around during the Founding of Imperium and rumored to be just about the only living being in the galaxy who knows the Emperor's given name.
** The Phoenix Lords were around during the Fall of the Eldar, and (depending on which one) eat Space Marine Chapter Masters, Land Raiders, and possibly even entire Imperial Guard Regiments for lunch.
** Asdrubael Vect. The guy was old enough to have seen ''the Fall'', which would make him easily ten thousand years old and probably the only living thing older than a Chaos God. He's also a big enough MagnificentBastard that he rose to the top of Dark Eldar society from slavehood and has stayed there for millennia, and he's an epic close-combat beatstick on the tabletop; he's one of the few special characters who can reliably take on and smack down the Tyranid Swarmlord, and squads of regular mooks suffer CriticalExistenceFailure the moment he gets within arms reach.
** The inimitable Marneus Calgar, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines; probably around a thousand years old, fitted with bionic replacements for his four severed limbs and his damaged left eye, dual-wields PowerFists, and punched out an ''[[PhysicalGod Avatar of Khaine]]'' and lived to tell the tale. (Arguable: Calgar is just slightly old by the standard of Chapter Masters and certainly younger than Grimnar or Dante.)
** And last but certainly not least, '''THE EMPEROR OF MANKIND'''. A PhysicalGod almost as old as Homo Sapiens, who's spent the last 10,000 years holding the Imperium together and protecting it from Chaos WHILST BEING A VIRTUAL CORPSE IN A LIFE SUPPORT MACHINE.
*** According to [[UnreliableNarrator Imperial Propaganda]].
* A sizeable portion of the Magi in ''MagiNation'' are like this. In particular, if you ever meet a Magi with "Elder" in their title, it's probably a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast good idea to run away.]]
* ''MutantChronicles'' has a number:
** Jake Kramer, part of the spec-ops well past the time when he should have gotten a discharge. And kicking ass.
** Sebastian Crenshaw. Picture SeanConnery playing Ryu Hayabusa, and you have Crenshaw in a nutshell. Around sixty in a setting where average life expectancy is forty, and the personal assassin of the most powerful man alive. Also a social chameleon and the life of every party.
** Cardinal Dominic, an old bitter KnightTemplar who has personally executed innumerable heretics.
* WhiteWolf's epic anime fantasy game ''{{Exalted}}'' has plenty of those. To name a few most outstanding:
** Chejop Kejak is about 5000 years old and will die of old age in about 5 years. He's old, tired and bitter. He's also the most powerful Exalt currently living and a master of several Kung Fu styles capable of literally rewriting reality. Not to mention he actually rules Heaven.
*** Well, to be more precise, he is one of the people most listened to in Heaven. He is the most senior member of the Bureau of Destiny, has very deep connections across the rest and has an Essence rating of 10. To put it in perspective, no god in Heaven other than the Incarnae have Essence ratings of 10, and the Incarnae are hopelessly addicted to the Games of Divinity, so Chejop Kejak is the most powerful personage in Yu-Shan still politically active.
** Saibok Gauto's age is hard to assess, but definitely over ten thousand years. He's a feeble, senile man with more wrinkles than body hair, and the only thing he cares for is his great garden. When in danger, however, he shows superb strength and fighting abilities sufficient to beat the living crap out of any starting character.
** Though he's ''much'' younger than either of the above, the events of Yurgen Kaneko's Exaltation were tinged with this. He was a barbarian warlord who realized he'd grown too old for the battlefield and, following the standards of his tribe, walked out into an ice storm to die. The Unconquered Sun had other plans, and now he's managed to unite the various barbarian tribes of the North and give the Realm hell.
* In ''BattleTech'', Clan Mechwarriors are but mayflies to the Inner Sphere, where your average 'Mechwarrior (Assuming s/he isn't killed in combat) will be in the cockpit till their 40s. But several examples of Badass Grandpas (And Grandmas) include Natasha Kerensky (In her 70s when she was finally taken down by a rare Clan 'mechwarrior almost as old as her), Jaime Wolf (died in his 80s during the Word of Blake-sponsored invasion of Outreach, after taking out an entire company nearly singlehandedly), Takashi Kurita (Who at the age of 80 had to be restrained by an agent of his son just to stop him from charging headlong into a clan invasion force of the capital world) and his son Theodore (Who fought a war on two fronts, against the Lyran Commonwealth and Federated Suns forces, and against his own army's staunch traditionalism sponsored by his father, at the age of 43, and only went further as time went on.)
** Special mention should be made of Morgan Kell, who fought in his ancient ''Archer'' Battlemech into his '''90s''', and was the only living 'Phantom Mechwarrior' - essentially invisible to targeting computers, a condition he gained in his late 30s.
** Nondi Steiner. She is 86, General of The Army of the Steiner side, and still deadly (although ''WeKnowBetter'').
* ''WerewolfTheForsaken'' has a whole Lodge of these, known as the Lodge of Scars. Somewhat justified, as the werewolves who quality for said Lodge have survived ''decades'' in a life where they're constantly hounded by hostile spirits, in the middle of a holy war with their bastard cousins, and always one step away from going into a killing rage.
** Another New World of Darkness example is the Chevalier Theleme from ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil''. A veteran member of an order whose members [[HalfHumanHybrid believe they are the children of Lucifer and have the powers to prove it]], his aging has been greatly slowed, and he's still kicking monstrous ass centuries into his Vigil. The field handbooks of the [[TheyWouldCutYouUp Cheiron Group]] basically say, "If you encounter him, ''do not engage''. Just summon reinforcements. ''All of them.''"
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' characters can potentially become this if the player makes them old. Outside of this though, two specific examples come to mind: Elminster from the ForgottenRealms and [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/dmg2_gallery/90090.jpg this guy]] who appeared in 3.5 Edition's DMG 2.
** Some veteran players and {{Game Master}}s, especially those who do not keep ComicBookTime between dungeons/campaigns, end up with characters that become this. Veteran players themselves, can be seen as this to younger players, in that they know very well how to break a character - because they had to try much, much harder back in the day to do so.
** Monks (or at least 3.X monks) are destined to become this if they hit level 17 while still "young". They will not receive any further penalties (existing ones stay) to physical ability scores for aging, but continue to gain the increases to mental scores. As wisdom is a mental score, and important to monks, if they do hit level 17, they will be at the peak of their combat skills at an age where any other melee class would be '''long''' retired.
*** Druids get the same ability to resist aging two levels earlier, and Wisdom is even more important to them because [[LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards they cast spells with it]]. Not that they're slouches in physical combat either, with the ability to Wild Shape into a variety of ferocious animal forms.
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' has an option to pre-age your character at character generation. The harshness of the penalties depend on the era you're playing in, but by the 1920s you can effectively trade a little strength for enough skill points that you never miss with your preferred firearm type at a realistic range.
* In ''[[TabletopGame/IronKingdoms Warmachine]]'', promoting a warcaster to General is usually a final honour before retirement; upon getting his new rank badge, General-Adept Sebastian Nemo stoped inventing cool weapons and went straight to the northern border to save the primary defence fortress from destruction. Before promotion, he invented the Storm-Chamber tech powering the weapons of the various Storm Companies, built two sets of armour based on the same power (one for him, one for his star pupil), designed and built the most advanced Warjack in the whole game, and trained Lord-Commander Stryker, a man in command of about half of Cygnar's military power. He has gone toe to toe with the biggest and baddest warcasters of rival nations time and time again over 60-ish years of service, beat them all into death or retreat, and will happily demonstrate the exact reason why you should respect your elders, if you push him.
* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'' by Steve Jackson Games, meanwhile, has [[ArchangelMichael Michael, the Archangel of War]], who is the second oldest created being in the universe and still able to kick the butt of anyone who gets in his way. With a battleaxe.
* In ''MagicTheGathering'', several characters are Badass Grandpas :
** Nicol Bolas, the oldest known planeswalker, is a 25,000 year-old dragon (and actually one of the BigBad of the storyline). He [[OlderThanTheyLook doesn't exactly ''look'' like he's that old]], but he does get some aging problems after the Mending in ''Shards of Alara'', which bothers him a lot as he [[AGodAmI usually thinks he's a god]].
** More grandpa-like is Barrin, Master Wizard, in ''Urza's Saga'' and the following sets of the ''Weatherlight'' Saga. Thanks to [[FountainOfYouth some slow-time water]], he stops aging and starts [[MerlinSickness getting younger instead]], so that he actually looks stronger, and, one might say, [[OlderThanTheyLook sexier with age]], so that in the end he doesn't look a grandpa any more.
** Don't forget Urza, who fought a war against his brother (the end of which destroyed most of a continent and started a world-wide Ice Age) then struggled aginst the plane of Phyrexia for several thousand years before personally suiting up (along with eight of his closest "friends") to take the fight directly to Phyrexia.
* In TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}, [=FastJack=] is one of the best Deckers/Hackers on the Matrix (both the old and the new.) He was born in 1999, which means that in 2nd edition he's close to sixty, and in 4th edition he's in his early seventies and perfectly capable of [[GrumpyOldMan booting kids off of his (virtual) lawn.]]
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* ''Theatre/TheLionInWinter'' references this trope right in the title. The play opens with King Henry outfighting his teenage son.
* ''Theatre/TheWarriorsAtHelgeland'' by {{Henrik Ibsen}} has Ørnulf from the fjords, a {{cool old guy}} and {{warrior poet}}, an old warrior who is so incredibly awesome that people in Norway named their sons after him. He assails the biggest champion of the age with a spear, knowing him well enough to know when to back off, gets an honorable flesh wound from him and chants a poem about it on the spot. Later, he loses all his sons in combat, and the youngest of them because of a misunderstanding, but is {{genre savvy}} enough to let the killer live, ''because that man is a trusted friend''. Upon buring all his sons, he makes an elegic poem about them, stating that they ended well, and moves on to help the man who killed the youngest of them.
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* In ''{{RuneScape}}'', the Wise Old Man is likely the most powerful human mage ever lived. [[spoiler:[[TheWorfEffect Traiborn defeated him in about five seconds.]]]]
-->'''Wise Old Man''': Vini; volui; mihi est ([[{{Creator/GaiusJuliusCaesar}} I came]]; [[BadassBoast I wanted; it's mine]]).
* Hectan, from the obscure-yet-well-known ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames Zelda: Wand of Gamelon]]''. He's got to be AT LEAST 60, has sky blue hair, and, well...[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHxJXE1BR7w NEXT.]]
* And from games that [[CanonDiscontinuity actually count]], there's the Hero's Shade and Auru from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''.
* From ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', we have Orca, who is an aged and avid swordsman. He practices constantly, and is Link's primary trainer in the ways of the blade. His intellectual older brother Sturgeon is exasperated by Orca's apparent refusal to exercise his brain in favor of sword practice, but surprisingly he himself used to be a talented swordsman in his younger days.
* The entire 501st legion, of StarWarsBattlefront. They were active from Geonosis until Hoth at least, and never accepted new recruits (they have always been composed of original Kaminoan clones), which counting growth acceleration and elapsed time makes them ''at minimum'' 45 years old and more probably around 70 years old biologically at the time of the original trilogy.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'', the only character in your entire party with the balls to fight dragons barehanded is Haschel, who taught the hero, Dart, martial arts a few years before the game began [[spoiler:and is actually Dart's grandfather, although he doesn't find this out until near the end of the game]].
* Adam, from the ''Videogame/TraumaCenter'' series. He may not be able to move, but not only is he ''121 years old'', he uses his own body to manufacture deadly pathogens that border on the self-aware, plus his skin is dark grey with blue lines.
* Sergeant Avery J. Johnson, from the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series, is a [[SuperSoldier SPARTAN-I]] who served in classified Spec-Ops before rejoining the regular Marine Corps, and fought at both the first and last battles of the 28-year-long Human-Covenant war. He kills enough Flood to astonish the [[OneManArmy Master Chief]] himself, and successfully hijacks a [[SpiderTank Scarab]]. He even badmouths the Prophet of Truth to his face while being beaten by a [[KillerSpaceMonkey Brute]]. He's probably at least in his 70s when you fight alongside him in the games; even taking into account cryo-sleep, he's still at least in his 60s.
** While not a ground pounder, Captain Keyes certainly qualifies as well.
* ''VideoGame/InFAMOUS'' has Alden Tate, an "old grizzled man" who introduces himself by [[MindOverMatter hurling a bus into the sky with the power of his mind.]] And he only gets more extraordinary from there...
* Trema, the BonusBoss of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'', fits this perfectly, being a little wizened old man who can kick your ass faster than you can blink, as well as being a complete aversion of the normal tendency for {{Bonus Boss}}es to be giant robots, cosmic horrors, or otherwise huge and improbable monstrosities.
* Gen from the ''StreetFighter'' series. A professional assassin in his heyday, he's still capable of matching Akuma in his old age. Oro from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' is over a hundred and is more or less the most powerful character in the series outside of Gill and Akuma. In fact, Akuma himself is old enough to be an example.
** Actually, Akuma himself faces Oro, a match that apparently ends in a draw. Mind you, Oro has ''magically sealed his other arm to prevent him from accidentally killing someone''.
** Don't forget about [[OldMaster Gouken]]!
* In the same vein as Gen, Fo Fai from ''VideoGame/BattleArenaToshinden''. Over a hundred, and still kicking it with kids 1/6th his age.
* ''VideoGame/PsychicForce'''s Genshin Kenjoh definitely qualifies for this trope. Despite finding himself taking on young psychiccers who are able to either use [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[AnIcePerson ice]], or [[BlowYouAway wind]] psychic powers, he doesn't yield or falter from within sight and that he battles against all threats through the use of his {{UsefulNotes/Shinto}} [[ReligionIsMagic magic]]. The fact that he's also determined to save a young Shinto {{Miko}} named Shiori from the BigBad and his minions proves his strong nobility and heart, so much that [[spoiler:he ends up [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing himself]] to help revive and save her so that she can go live on and attempt to save the world from its [[CrapsackWorld current ruin]]]].
* ''BaldursGate'' has Keldorn Firecam. Quoting the {{Badass}} page: at least fifty-something, but still covered in armour and swinging a two-handed sword whilst singing the praises of his rocking-out god. Plus he's the only NPC in the game capable of wielding the game's most powerful sword, and is a rare example of how to be a righteous paladin without [[LawfulStupidChaoticStupid having a stick up his ass]]. His epilogue says he eventually checks out at [[RetiredBadass age sixty]], pulling a fatal YouShallNotPass on an army of Giants only to get [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence picked to be the right hand man to the God of Righteousness]].
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'': Tellah may appear to be an old codger and have a pathetic supply of MP, but keep in mind he was quite the mage back in his days -- this is demonstrated in the fact that he knew (and forgot) almost every White and Black spell there is, and fully remembers them, along with ''Meteor'', at far earlier levels than either of your other Black Mages can hope to learn them. The only shame, then, is that actually pulling Meteor out of his bag of tricks is his [[HeroicSacrifice swan song]]. And then there's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Fusoya]], who actually knows them ALL, AND dispels Zemus's hold on Golbez and Kain in one transaction.
** Also this game's incarnation of Cid. In the original game, he's 54 years old, and in ''FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears'', he's 71, which ties with [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Strago]] for oldest playable character ever. What are his accomplishments? Let's see: he invented the airship (duh), is a playable character relying on brute force and [[DropTheHammer hammers]], has a [[BoisterousBruiser boisterous and loud personality]], and...oh yeah, he takes a flying leap from an airship and detonates what appears to be a mini nuke in his hand in order to seal up a passage for the party. And in a week, he's back on his feet and fixing your airship again.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': Galuf, who can best be summed up in the following quote:
-->"But man, you fucking kids! Back in GALUF'S day, you didn't die from a single sword wound from a pretty boy! No sir! If you wanted to die, you had to go and find the world's most powerful black mage, who despite BEING a mage is wearing FULL ARMOR and WIELDS A SWORD, and knows all the most powerful spells in the game. And hell, just getting to him was a lot harder, too! You had to go through TWO worlds. And it was uphill in BOTH of them. And when you were finally AT that fucking mage, you didn't say "oh hey, stab me, it's a cut scene". No, you PUSSY, you FOUGHT him! And you kept fighting until your hit points were fucking negative ten thousand billion. THEN you can die, you cock-sucking youngin'."
** In short, there's a damn good reason why his CrowningMomentOfAwesome is mentioned across this wiki more than any other part of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV FFV.]] He's simply the coolest guy in the entire game, and arguably the ''franchise''.
* Strago from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' proves to be an exceptionally powerful wizard in spite of his age, and his granddaughter is also a player-character. Note that he is ten years older than the abovementioned Tellah, and that his first act as a member of the party is to ''charge into a burning building'' to rescue his adopted granddaughter.
** And we must not forget Cyan. At fifty years old, he's nearly twice the age of any of the other party members, save Strago. ''His'' first act in the story is to single-handedly kill the leader of the Imperial siege of Doma, and then later to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, fully ready to kill every last Imperial in their base before stopping..
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': The only qualification that Auron lacks for this is his actual age. He's only 35 [[spoiler:(technically, only 25 since he actually died 10 years before the game takes place). That's right, his own death barely slowed him down]]. Despite his relatively young age compared to most of the other examples on this page, he is still at least a decade older than any of the other playable characters and he certainly looks and acts the part in every other respect.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': Similarly to Auron, Sazh is notably younger than most of the other examples on this page, only being in his early-mid forties. Yet, he frequently complains about being the old man on the team due to all of the other playable characters being less than half his age.
** [[spoiler:Vanille and Fang are chronologically over 500. However, due to spending most of that time as [[HumanPopsicle Human Popsicles]], they are still physically and emotionally in their late teens-early twenties, so the trope still fits in regards to Sazh.]]
* Same place as Kliff Undersn from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', apparently. As a previous Commander of the Holy Order of Sacred Knights (at bare minimum 76 years old by the final battle of the Holy War, and he doesn't have [[{{Badass}} Sol Badguy's]] [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld enhanced longevity]]), he was an engine of destruction in his prime, being able to go toe-to-toe with [[PersonOfMassDestruction Justice]] no less than seventeen times throughout the war and living through all of them. Even as an old and stooped dwarf of a man, he can still expertly wield his [[{{BFS}} Dragonslayer Sword]] and strike hard enough to easily stun people one quarter of his age and four times his size. His only limiting factor is apparently his back, which does give out from time to time.
** [[spoiler: Sol Badguy]] is possibly a literal example during the events of Guilty Gear: Overture.
* ''DynastyWarriors'' brings us Huang Zhong, easily the oldest looking character in the game, but a good swordsman and an amazing archer nonetheless.
* Sister series ''SamuraiWarriors'', not to be outdone, gives us Yoshihiro Shimazu, who - despite being a craggy old man with the requisite white beard - is built like a brick outhouse and can swing around a giant hammer with ease.
* Drachma from ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia''. He's an old Captain Ahab {{expy}} who uses a freaking MECHANICAL ARM to fight, either by shooting the hand at the enemy, or running up and pimp slapping the enemy in the face. Lets not forget that he's likely to be at least twice the level of any of the other party members at the time and will easily double the HP of any party member except maybe Vyse long after they've caught up.
* Shujinko from ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception''. Over the 50-something year period in which the game takes place, he receives training from every martial arts master in the realms. Oh, and he can absorb the fighting ability of anybody he meets.
* The End from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''. Sure, the guy's over a hundred years old, with about a week's worth of life left in him, but he's still the best sniper in the world. In addition, he can run faster then Snake, is capable of photosynthesis, and is the absolute king of camouflage. He may be as old as the hills, but he ''will'' take you down. With ''[[CherryTapping tranquilizer rounds]]''.
** What about Old Snake himself in [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 MGS4]]?
** You can't forget Big Boss himself, who, by the time of the first VideoGame/MetalGear game, was in his 60s and was considered THE most badass soldier of the century. [[spoiler:By the time of [=MGS4=], he's already survived being (supposedly) killed TWICE (the first time had his fortress collapse around him, the second involved being set on fire), was in a coma for about 15 years, had his body restored partially from the remains of his dead clones, and he was STILL considered to be THE badass to end all badasses. Also, he still scared Snake shitless when they had their little encounter in the cemetery. He was in his eighties.]]
*** Four syllables: [[spoiler: CQC Hug.]]
** Revolver Ocelot was in his sixties in [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid MGS1]], but that didn't stop him from being a badass 'Ricochet Genius' or handling his revolvers like he was still in his twenties. In [=MGS4=] he's aged 10 years, and he's able to take Old Snake on in hand-to-hand combat. Twice.
** Really all the Cobras can count for this. You have to remember that they were already veteran soldiers when the group was founded 32 years ago and by the time of their deaths were well into their 50s. The Boss is a slight exception since she is only 48, but she makes up for it in sheer badassness.
* Bill from ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' may look like a nursing-home candidate, but he doesn't walk, talk, or shoot like one. He is, in point of fact, a former Green Beret who did two tours of duty in Vietnam.
** "I was too old for this shit fifteen years ago."
** He also is extremely close with the "kid" on the team, Zoey, acting much like a father or grandfather to her.
* The Franchise/{{Pokemon}} [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:534Conkeldurr.png Conkeldurr]] is a monster Badass Grandpa. The Pokédex says that it uses the pillars as walking canes. And it's a [[BareFistedMonk Fighting-type]] too.
** Literal example: There is a battle with Professor Oak in Gen I that was [[DummiedOut taken out]] of the final game. He uses Pokémon that are level 66 to 70, placing his strength on-par with the player's rival and the Pokémon League Champion.
** The Veteran class may count. They're all old men [[NeverMessWithGranny and women]] who, likely from the years of training, have pokemon generally of higher levels than those of other trainers around them.
** Drayden from Unova. In White he's a RetiredBadass, but in Black, White 2, and Black 2, he's the Dragon-type Gym Leader. In Black 2 and White 2, [[HeirToTheDojo Iris]] even refers to him as her grandfather, though they aren't actually blood relatives. It is mentioned that he ''wrestles'' with his pokémon--one of which being Haxorus, a species that boasts one of the highest attacking stats in the game.
*** Special mention goes to the fact that Drayden wrestles his dragon pokemon to train ''them''. Again, he considers wrestling ''dragons'' to be training... ''for the '''dragons'''''.
** VideoGame/Pokemon X and Y adds gym leaders Ramos and Wulfric to the list. The former, while only the 4th leader of the region, is said to make his way through his whole gym himself to his podium at the top. His gym being a climbing frame with climbing and swinging ropes. Wulfric, however is the final gym leader in the region.
* Heihachi Mishima from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' is improbably hardcore...not just incredibly strong and muscled for such an old guy, but also highly proficient at martial arts ''and'' he can generate electricity from his fists. And beat up 4 generations of his own family who tried to go against him. And he's incredibly rich and runs a world-spanning corporation. [[BearsAreBadNews And he has a grizzly bear as a pet]].
** And you can then go one step further into the Mishima family tree with Heihachi's dad, Jinpachi Mishima. Had the family business taken from him, but chose to remain peaceful even though he kicks arse...then he gets possessed by a demon. Now he has blue skin, huge muscles, a gaping demon pair of jaws WHICH BREATHE FIRE in his chest, and has electricity always coruscating around him. That makes him a Badass GREAT Grandpa. Oh, and his goal is to destroy all of existence.
** Not to mention that his son and grandson are both infused with the Devil himself and he can still take them down. And he can also take down an army of Jack-5's AND survive an explosion strong enough to level a mountain fortress AND survive for 5 months unconcious.
** There's also Wang Jinrei. He's pretty damn old during his first appearances (in the first two games), but, by ''Tekken 4'', he is well over 100 years old. And he ''still'' kicks ass.
** ''SoulCalibur'' had Edge Master.
** And Olcadan. Both come from an age before Soul Edge was even forged and have never lost a single battle, and the only draw they have ever experienced is heavily implied to have been against each other.
** Mitsurugi is headed towards this fast. With nothing other than being damn good with a katana, he's able to defeat any opponent in single combat, turn to tide of hopeless battles by himself, can block bullets with his blade, has only one confirmed loss in the series's 20+ year history and ''has'' to seek out opponents like Nightmare just so combat doesn't bore him to death. He's in his fifties.
* Muramasa from ''NinjaGaiden'' (specifically ''Ninja Gaiden 2''). In the first one you can tell he was awesome in his prime. In the second one, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRB16kS9Dbg you gotta wonder why he isn't taking on hell instead of Ryu.]]
* Ammon Jerro in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2''. His age is indeterminate but he's at least old enough to be the thirty-something Shandra Jerro's grandfather (or great-grandfather, or great-great-grandfather; Shandra isn't sure). And he's definitely a badass: [[spoiler:he's the warlock in the game's intro, going toe-to-toe with the King of Shadows. He's also a very powerful warlock in his own right (insofar as the game's rules can let a warlock be powerful).]]
* [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Ezio Auditore]]. It's most prounounced in [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations Revelations]], where he holds off armies and leaps around like he's still 17. He's 55. In the 16th Century!
** Altair as well in his segments, where at the age of 60 he's still at least capable of free-running. While Ezio lived to be 65, Altair lived to be 92 in the 14th Century. He even lived to see his own son Darim become a Badass Grandpa as well. Even one of the later segments, when Altair's age is clearly taking its toll on him and he can no longer run or climb and he occasionally goes into coughing fits he makes up for his physical infirmity with the upgrades to his gear he invented by studying the Apple [[spoiler:like the second Hidden Blade and the Hidden Gun]], and even when he has the entire legion of Masyaf Assassins against him he can turn each and every one of them to his side just by disarming these young, fit, trained Assassins of their weapons...At 90 years of age.
* J from ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}: [[CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Aria of Sorrow]]'' spends most of the game wandering around as an amnesiac. He's at least fifty years old, and honestly, doesn't seem like he can do much. Then right before you get to the final boss, he's standing in the doorway. With Vampire Killer. [[spoiler: And of course you've recently found out Soma Cruz, the main character, is Dracula's reincarnation.]] This is when he reveals he's in reality Julius Belmont, last in the line of very, VERY successful vampire hunters. Oh, guess what you are. Belmont charges, and you realize all of a sudden [[OhCrap you are about to be in an entire universe of hurt]].
** The sequel features Julius getting beaten by Dario because Dario can use the dark seals to regenerate. This is because Julius can't use seals, whereas Soma has learnt to for the bosses. However, the badass part is that before then Julius was killing regenerating enemies ''before they had a chance to regenerate''. Even Soma notes that should be impossible.
* If the player dawdles long enough, he can become a Badass Grandpa in ''VideoGame/FableI''. The ancient hero Scyth is also [[InformedAbility supposedly]] pretty badass.
* Jolee [[RetiredBadass "I'm Too Old For This"]] Bindo from ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. When you first meet him, he goes four-on-one against some of Kashyykk's native predators. And wins. Without breaking a sweat. Also, he's a Jedi, and old and respected enough to basically walk out on the Council without consequence.
* Kreia from ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2'', who serves as a rather morally ambiguous [[TheObiWan Obi-Wan]] to your character [[spoiler:after having already been a Jedi Master ''and'' a Sith Lord.]] If that's not enough, her ultimate purpose is equally badass: [[spoiler:she wants nothing less than the death of the ''Force itself'', so people will stop being so weak and dependant on it]]. You're the key to making it happen, and she will remove ''any'' obstacle or inconvenience to her plan.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** 1000 years prior to the setting of ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade]]'', eight legendary heroes cleansed the land of dragons. Two of them are still alive, and still the most powerful beings on the continent (one of them becomes playable for the final chapter and is the most powerful character you ever get, but the other one outdoes him by [[spoiler:bringing a dragon back to life, complete with its original soul.]] The BigBad qualifies, also, having been an old friend of one of those two some 500 years previous before a differing in opinions led to his turn toward evil.
** Dheginsea the Black Dragon King from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius''. Throughout the two games, he's portrayed as an exceptionally stubborn old man who wouldn't budge from his neutral position no matter what, just so he doesn't break his covenant with the goddess Ashera. He made a promise to not start or fight in any war, which certainly makes him seem like just an old, bitter scalebag...[[spoiler: until the goddess herself calls upon him for help against her sister, Yune. It's only at this point where you realize that Dheginsea is a gigantic black dragon capable of destroying your whole army with utmost ease. In the game, normally each class would have one or two stat that can cap at 40, but Dheginsea? He has Strength and Defense capped at 50, and a HP of 100 (where your units with the highest caps will have a max of maybe 80). Not only that, he has Mantle, a skill which nullifies critical attacks, makes him invincible to anything that's not blessed by Yune, heals him the amount of luck he has (30) every turn, and nullifies any skill you might have. And then he has Ire, which randomly enables him to deal 3x damage. Oh boy...]] It's worth mentioning that he's probably ''over 2000 years old''.
* Anduin Lothar from the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series. He formed TheAlliance and led it to victory while in his sixties.
** Cairne Bloodhoof and (according to some accounts) Prophet Velen.
*** The Tauren Chieftain multiplayer hero shares it with Cairne - while they have some choices for names that are randomized, they complain about their old bones aching while having the highest amount of the strength stat compared to all the other ones, even the demonic Dreadlord (not to mention creating shockwaves by swinging their axes and stomping the ground...).
*** Velen is a [[TierInducedScrappy lolsmitepriest]] who makes [[SelfFulfillingProphecy self fulfilling prophecies]] and managed to outsmart [[ManipulativeBastard Kil'jaeden]] for 25,000 years. He definitely qualifies.
*** Cairne was 97 during Warcraft III, so about mid 80s in human years
*** And despite his age, Cairne was still able to put the smackdown on Garrosh [[spoiler: for awhile anyways...]]
** High Overlord Varok Saurfang (yes, [[MemeticBadass THAT Saurfang]]) who is at least in his late 60s (I don't really know how orcs age but read that Thrall was in his twenties in WarcraftIII so I am guessing Saurfang's age on how he looks) and still can one-shot anyone with cleave and puts Chuck Norris to shame with his awesome.
** The Alliance were getting Genn Motherfucking Greymane.
** Tirion Fordring. TIRION FRIGGIN' FORDRING. When the Lich King states outright that he is going to recruit you ''whether you like it or not'' and your sheer strength of faith is enough to not only [[spoiler:cleanse a cursed corrupted sword that's been that way for YEARS, but also bust the living hell out of the tiny glacier immobilizing you so you can '''break Frostmourne''' with the same sword]]...you know you're a badass.
* Gogen from ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'': 3.000 years old, already survived one apocalypse and spent most of his time sealed with the big bad: during [[EstablishingCharacterMoment his first appearance in Arc II]] he litteraly blows up the game's equivalent of the Statue of the Liberty with one spell.
* Daitetsu Minase from ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration''. Has a six year old graddaughter, qualifying his on the age front. On the BadAss? Well, he survived getting blown the fuck up by the Granzon mecha (whose weaponry can warp dimensions), commanded a single battleship against some crazy odds involving submarine warfare, facing off against an entire enemy force by himself twice (first time against six submarines, second time against the combined forces of the Divine Crusaders at Aidenous while his crew were beating the piss out of Bian Zoldark's Valsion), and has served as captain of two battleships that he kicked major ass with in both the first game and the anime adaptation.
** In the second game, he gets many BigDamnHeroes moments, and at the risk of spoilers, manages to get his troops to safety after Operation Plantagenet goes awry, and flips a massive middle finger in the form of a massive energy blast at the enemy troops simultaneously.
** Super Robot Wars has a whole bunch of those, for example Master Asia (the grand-daddy of badasses from G Gundam), Master Rishu (he trained The Sword That Cleaves Evil, and he's still good for a fight) and Alpha 3's Baran Doban.
* Wess from ''Videogame/MOTHER3'' is probably the most powerful and helpful Nonplayable party member in the game.
* Two words: [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Master Xehanort.]] Good fuckity God. The guy's a bald, bent, skinny old man who might just be the biggest {{Badass}} out of Sora, Riku, every other Xehanort, Organization XIII, Mickey Mouse and Sephiroth. This is really no exaggeration. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsNEwm0Vp8w Behold.]]
** Also, [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII Xigbar]]. First Organization member you fight upon entering the castle, only Nobody with visible age lines and graying hair, has an EyepatchOfPower and shows that he's been watching by eliminating every heartless facing you in about five seconds. THEN he reveals that he knew the previous Keyblade Masters and you don't match up to them at all. Yeah, you beat him eventually. But he doesn't go down easily.
* Not exactly an old man but has the same "must be good or else he would be dead" pre-requisite. Namely the Demoman from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''
--> "What makes me a good Demoman? If I were a bad Demoman, I wouldn't be sittin' here, discussin' it with you, now would I?!"
** A straighter example is Gray Mann, with his first appearance (in the comics) having him sneaking into a room where his two brothers are and casually stabbing two Engineers in a way that mimics the Spy, and then [[MemeticMutation he adds the most famous line of the Spy.]]
--> "Gentlemen."
** There's also the Medic, who seems to be the oldest of the mercenaries, with hints scattered throughout the game that he was a young field surgeon in the German Wehrmacht during WWII, which would place his age bracket into the early fifties to mid-fifties during the time frame of the game (1968-1972).
** And the Soldier fought (sort of) in that very same war.
* The title character of ''HenryHatsworthInThePuzzlingAdventure'', a QuintessentialBritishGentleman AdventurerArchaeologist. In-game, he can however de-age when properly powered up, but his default from is his white-haired form.
* Cidolfas Orlandu of ''FinalFantasyTactics'', the "Thunder God" himself. The leader of the Nanten Knights and a general within the ranks of the banner of the Black Lion of Prince Goltana, he defects to Ramza's (you) forces because he realizes that despite having served the house of Goltana for decades...the war the Prince is esclating against Duke Larg for the crown will tear Ivalice (the games' setting) apart. Right from the moment you see him, even though he's among the ranks of many of the games' antagonists...you know he's honorable and awesome, daring to question his liege' intentions. You realize from reading his profile that he can probably do this because no one would stand a chance against him if they felt then need to quiet him...as is displayed later in the game. No martyrdom for this undefeated swordmaster! Oh no, he joins you after that and subsequently breaks the game because he's so damn powerful...the need for your other party members becomes tertiary. He has every major sword ability in the game including one that heals him while still doing massive damage, he comes with Excalibur, and he has superior stats. He IS Ramza's army by the end. If you can actually lose with Cid on your team then you...you just suck.
** Technically, your whole party can become this. The game keeps track of the date and moving between each space on the map takes one game day. The game asks for Ramza's birthdate at the beginning and when that date passes, Ramza gains a year in the character biographies page. This happens for every unique character. It doesn't affect the story or abilities in any way, however.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}} 2'' had Master Shiunsai and...Urano Takehito.
* Tobias from LocksQuest: Lock's (grand)father figure, and [[spoiler: the BigBad]].
* Father Paul Rawlings from ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersJericho'' is a combination of this and BadassPreacher. He's 67 years old, wields two pistols effortlessly in combat, is a powerful exorcist, takes no nonsense, and has SeenItAll to the extent that he's barely even fazed by the supernatural terrors he faces.
* Gen Fu from ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive''. He may be in his 60s, but that man can kick some ass.
** He also overlaps with CulturedBadass as some of his attacks suggest. Catching a woman in freefall and setting her down gently after kicking her into the air first? Very noble.
* Some of the Capos and Underbosses in ''VideoGame/TheGodfather: The Game'' are clearly old men with heads full of grey hair, but they're every bit as willing and able to kick your ass - or, if they're Aldo's Corleone brothers-in-crime, help him kick ass - as their younger underlings.
* Master Li of ''JadeEmpire'' fame. He's your tutor in the martial arts, and when a weird evil-lookinng bloke turns up in your village on a ship, Master Li arrives and jumps onto the ship, punching it so hard that it ''sinks''. Then you find out he's actually [[spoiler: the Emperor's brother, Sun Li the [[ChessMaster Glorious Strategist]]]]- and ''boy'', does he deserve that title. Just after you kill [[spoiler:the Emperor (did we mention he is, at that point, powered by a God?), Sun Li kills you. With a single punch. This is his way of telling you that [[MagnificentBastard he's been playing you right from the start.]]]]
* It's rather relative to species in ''Franchise/MassEffect''. For example, krogan can live over a thousand years, and Urdnot Wrex is old even for one of them. He's got the battle philosophy of a seasoned old wardog, and is packing [[AppliedPhlebotinum Bio]][[PsychicPowers tics]] to boot. There's also Mordin, who is 38 (approximately 88-ish in human years). Most salarians don't live past 40, and looking at his face you can see the wrinkled, dry skin and numerous injuries.
** Asari have an entire stage of life devoted to this; Matriarchs are explicitly stated to be some of the most powerful biotics in the galaxy. In the second game, your asari squad member, Samara, is technically a marginal case of this trope: she hasn't entered the [[TheHecateSisters matriarch stage]] of her life, so she's probably only middle-aged. That said, she can devastate much younger opponents, and you can level up her class ability to the point where her biotic power is equivalent to a matriarch's. One can only imagine what she'll be capable of when she actually does reach matriarch status.
* Detective Badd in ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Ace Attorney Investigations]]''. He wears a [[BadassLongcoat trenchcoat pockmarked with bullet holes]] and is the only person to sucessfully dodge Franziska's whip. By the final case of the game, he's over sixty years old but still manages to [[spoiler: keep up the Yatagarasu tradition on his own, where previously the job was done by three people]], not to mention his dramatic [[spoiler: ClickHello to Shih-na when she takes Kay hostage.]]
* Zeus in ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''. He looks like an old man, but is still more physically imposing than Kratos. When you fight him at the end of the game, Kratos has a half-dozen weapons, including a supposedly-ultimate weapon called the Blade of Olympus, and Zeus is still a tough opponent even though he's only using his bare hands for most of the fight. And towards the end of their fight in ''III'', Zeus [[LetsGetDangerous officially quits screwing around]] and unleashes his full power, overwhelming Kratos completely, and at that point ''would have killed him'' had Kratos not used [[spoiler:the power of hope]].
* Cassidy of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}''. Of all the recruitable [=NPCs=], he is arguably the most helpful in a fight, with enviable amount of experience using small arms, melee weapons and unarmed combat. He's well into his 60s and suffers from a heart condition that prevents him from taking combat drugs, but considering how good he is to begin with there's not much reason to try.
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has the Enclave Remnants, former members of TheEmpire from Fallout 2. While it's been a long time since the fall of Navarro and all of them are probably in their sixties at least if convinced by The Courier to participate in the final battle for old time's sake will prove that even now they can still be utterly deadly in combat (especially if you're wearing Power Armor).
** Joshua Graham, AKA the Burned Man. While his age is never outright stated, as the co-founder of Caesar's Legion he would have to be in his mid-fifties by the time of the game. He's considered one of the biggest in-game {{Memetic Badass}}es renowned for surviving almost anything, be it the NCR's elite snipers or being burned alive and tossed down the Grand Canyon.
* ''Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos'' has Lucrecia Johnston. While she's dead by the time the game begins, she was apparently one hell of a SpacePirate in her day with many followers, even having set up an elaborate base of operations capable of [[{{Nanotechnology}} constructing ship parts at a molecular level]] and receiving communications without giving away its position, among other things. [[PlayerCharacter Cal Johnston]] is impressed to learn this side of his grandma's life, to say the least (note that his [[YouKilledMyFather recently murdered father]] was just a miner trying to make an honest living who presumably wanted the same for his son), and it's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by his fellow escaped inmates when they see the base for the first time.
* [[FluffyTheTerrible Sprout]] from ''PhantomBrave''. Despite his name, he single-handedly kills and absorbs the essence of a monster responsible for the deaths of three of the main characters in the prologue, [[spoiler: comes into at least two [[HopelessBossFight Hopeless Boss Fights]] and wins the battle]], is the largest humanoid character in the game (he's about the same size as a ''dragon''), and [[spoiler: attacks Sulphur, the BigBad, and weakens it to about 1/20th of its full power before, unfortunately, [[DemonicPossession having his body taken over by it. He commits suicide to weaken Sulphur further.]]]].
* Kainen from ''Tomba 2'' definitely counts during the cutscene between dongolin woods and Circus Town.
* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' is almost entirely composed of {{Little Miss Badass}}es, almost all of whom are over one hundred years old. Hell, one of the oldest ones is Yukari Yakumo who is ''at least'' 1200 years old and also [[RealityWarper essentially unstoppable]].
** Suwako Moriya is an actual badass grandma (with lots of grands at that, as she is over 3000 years old), despite looking [[OlderThanTheyLook very very young]] and {{Moe}}.
* How about dear old [[TheDragon Conrad Marburg]] of ''AlphaProtocol''? PsychoForHire, veteran of dozens of field operations, and still prefers to punch you to death.
* The Chinese explorer in ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIII'' is an aged Shaolin master armed with only his bare fists.
* Ford Crueller from ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}.'' Before he retired, he was known as one of the greatest Psychonauts in the world. He can't help you much (because [[spoiler:a psychic injury fractured his mind, making him senile when he's away from Psiantium]]), but he still manages to [[spoiler:show up to help Sasha and Milla battle Oleander, a huge hunk of Psiantium tied onto his back]].
* Landon Ricketts from ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' certainly qualifies. Not only is he someone John Marston somewhat looks up to (for being famous back in the day), but he teaches you the third level Dead Eye aiming and keeps pace with you for a few missions.
** It gets better in ''RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare''. There are three towns in the game that will NEVER come under zombie attack. Two of them are fortresses with tall walls and only ladders to access it. The third? A brothel in Mexico with no tall walls. Landon Ricketts is single-handedly keeping the zombies down in Casa Magruda with nothing but his trusty-six shooter. He also has the idea of combining the zombie bait and dynamite into a weapon that draws the zombies in before blasting them into red mist.
* Boyd in ''VideoGame/TheRumbleFish''. He's old and short, yes, but he is an assassin. And he'll fry you with his [[FingerPokeOfDoom Finger Poke of]] ShockAndAwe.
* [=McBain=] in Legend of Heroes V: Song Of the Ocean. Sure, he's a troubadour, but he's a troubadour who can punch through solid rock. At age 62. And, while Forte is the designated protagonist, it's really [=McBain=] that is leading the party to save the world.
* Valkenhayn R. Hellsing from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' is a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] [[BattleButler butler]] working for the Alucard family who also happens to be one of the legendary Six Heroes.
* Sam Fisher of SplinterCell is practically an embodiment of this trope. Let's see what's on the menu! A S.E.A.L vet? Check. Capable of taking down numerous Special Forces operatives more than half his age? Check. Can and WILL take these operatives on without a weapon? Check. A fan of the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique? As every victim knows (assuming they're still alive), check. Oh, Dear Lord, check.
* Does Tung Fu Rue of FatalFury qualify? I certainly think so!
* VideoGame/TeamFortress2: Radigan Conagher, mechanical genius, possessor of HotBloodedSideburns, became even more BadAss after he came in contact with [[{{Unobtanium}} Australium]]. [[http://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/handyman/ Exhibit one]], Radigan with a robot hand and chest hair in the shape of Texas.
* Colonel Victor Hoffman from ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' definitely qualifies. In world where almost 99% of the human population has been killed off and average life expectancy can't be far past 30, Hoffman is canonically 60 years old at the time of ''Gears of War 3.'' Despite being almost twice as old as the other player characters, he hoists heavy machine guns and rocket launchers easily. His character is essentially RLeeErmey plus 100 pounds of muscle.
* In Fallout: New Vegas and The Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Skyrim, you can easily make a badass grandpa.
** Skyrim also has the Greybeards. To put things in perspective, most of them don't talk because if they did they'd take out half of the mountain they live in with their voices. That's how powerful their Thu'um is.
* In ''[[VideoGame/IcewindDale Icewind Dale II]]'', the description ''[[InfinityPlusOneSword Light of Cera Sumat]]'' tells the story of its previous owner: an 80 years old [[ThePaladin paladin]] who slain 6 followers of Bane with just his wits, skills and a battered blade.
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype 2}}'' has Dr. Koenig. At first, he just seems like a regular MadScientist working for Blackwatch. He's easily pushing into his 70's, looks like a typical frail old man and speaks like a kindly grandpa. [[spoiler: Then he proves he's not quite such a nice grandpa after all. He successfully manipulates both Heller and Blackwatch into helping him with his goal, playing both sides against each other until Heller gets wise to it. And this is before his arms turn into guillotines]].
* ''AnarchyReigns'' has Douglas Williamsburg who's stats says that he might be 180 years old. that doesn't prevent him from kicking alot of ass though
* Rowen J. Ilbert from ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia''. He's the oldest playable character in the ''Franchise/TalesSeries,'' and a MagicKnight/BattleButler who's also a war veteran. He doesn't take his master's kidnapping sitting down, to say in the least.
* There's not one Badass Grandpa, but TWO of them in ''VideoGame/ChronoCross''. Radius and Viper.
* Joel, from ''TheLastOfUs'' is over 50, but works as a smuggler, and regularly beats both zombies and people to death with his bare hands.
* Old Peppy Hare, senior member of the ''StarFox'' team. As a member of the original team from the backstory, he's a full generation older than the rest, but still kicks ass in an Arwing.
* Gaza, in ''VideoGame/LegendOfLegaia'' is one of these. [[AllThereInTheManual 61]] during the game, a feared warrior deemed nigh unstoppable by [[spoiler:soldiers in Conkram when you [[TimeTravel travel back in time]] 10 years]], and by far the strongest being in the game who isn't wearing a Seru[[note]]Or is one, in the case of Rogue or [[{{God}} Tieg]][[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'' shows that though Cranky Kong may have passed the title of "Franchise/DonkeyKong" to his grandson, he can still hold his own alongside the younger Kong generation with his pogo stick cane.
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* ''TheBeastLegion'' -- [[http://www.thebeastlegion.com/issue-06-page-29-powerful-offense/ Master Surya unleashes a powerful Ice spell]] to stop Xeus's Beast form.
* ''{{MAG ISA}}'' -- Fr. Jose fits this trope. [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119402 He can beatup a guy half his age.]]
* Feng from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' is ''supposed'' to be one of these, but his combat skills remain an InformedAbility.
** Until he fights Kusari on even terms.
* Thaco from ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}''.
* Old Man-Man from ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak''.
* Clark from ''[[http://www.shapequest.net Shape Quest]]'', who is a wizard.
* Ten Winds, from ''KeychainOfCreation''.
* Raven in a more recent story arc in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''.
* Ol' Man Death from one of the ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' side stories qualifies as this and as a (semi-)RetiredBadass. The guy 'rode with the Jaegers' in his youth, is referred to by Maxim as the greatest warrior ever, and despite his advanced age can toss a Jaeger (Maxim again) through a window without breaking a sweat.
--> "No. '''Listen''' to me. I'm just a '''human'''. Rode with the ''[[BadassArmy Jaegers]]''. [[BadassBoast Never. Lost.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis A . Fight.]]"
** Dr Sun as well. The man is capable of getting [[AxeCrazy Dupree]] to behave with a few words, and his response to the Baron's attempt to [[LoopholeAbuse weasel around his orders for bedrest]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080523 well]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080526 just]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080528 see]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091223 for yourself]].
** The Baron himself counts, as well as Othar Trygvassen, '''GentlemanAdventurer''', and practically [[WorldOfBadass any character over the age of 50]].
* Jade's Grandpa was this in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' before he died [[spoiler:which didn't happen yet as far as the Timeless Expanse in which many of the events take place is concerned]].
* ''SoulSymphony'': Although physically a normal old man in real life, in Eric's [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Soul World]] his deceased grandfather is a dark, evil monster who fights in a shadowy suit complete with fedora and cane.
* Discussed in [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/020401.html this]] page of Webcomic/RealLifeComics.
-->Do not underestimate the power of old-fu.
* ''Webcomic/{{Remus}}'' gives us Marcus Laurent, a gruff, TwoFaced CIA agent who's part of Williams's grab squad.
* From ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' is (retired) [[FourStarBadass General]] [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-07-04 Karl Tagon]], who took on a squad of mob enforcers in the buff with nothing but a show-piece carbine and inflicted heavy casualties before they managed to stick his severed head in a jar. And he still managed to [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-08-18 escape]].
* Commander Heroic in ''EvilInc'' still fights crime when not in the hospital.
* White Noise is one in LastRes0rt, who functions as the Captain of the Executioners (and thus, the other players on the show).
* ''Webcomic/MSPaintMasterpieces'': Dr. Light, oh so very much. He has giant robots and isn't afraid to take on a Robot Master.
* In ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' Nemesites are an alien race with a lifespan of about 2,000 years. Fructose Riboflavin is 1,900, and looks it, being incredibly frail-looking and haggard. He can still outmaneuver and disable a hulking guard robot and make it look easy... and then complain that his back hurts, but that's okay.
* ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'': Krillin (or "Kulilin" as the author insists on calling him), of all people. He seems to have mellowed out in his old age.
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* [[Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}} AAA]]. If he really got highscores of every single videogame in the world the same day they were published, he must have played them at least ([[OlderThanTheyThink probably earlier]]) since TheSeventies. Note that videogames were originally only played in universities or similar places, meaning that he wasn't very young back then ([[ChildProdigy unless he was just that good in school]]). In other words, ''he's over 60 and he's the best gamer in the world''.
* ''LessThanThreeComics''' Uncle Sam manages to hold his own against a horde of ninjas...at around 80 years of age. Sure, Mr Perfect helped him out, but the <3-Verse's oldest superhero held his own.
* Semi-retired mystery man The Stranger of ''RedPandaAdventures'' would prefer to stay retired but Nazi Germany and other magical forces won't let him.
* Sensei Tetsuo Ito of the WhateleyUniverse is a little old (non-mutant) man, but a master of martial arts who is capable of beating the snot out of mutants in his classes, or even taking out a Syndicate battle-team.
* The Greatest Freak Out Ever videos on Youtube. In one video, the always-angry older brother is whacked in the face by his grandmother!
* Burt from WereAlive fits this trope to a T, as is befitting a crazy Vietnam vet who has been stocking everything from claymore mines to automatic rifles since the 60s, and kills 20 or more zombies with a single clip.
* ''{{Tasakeru}}'': [[spoiler: The decrepit old wolf called Drake delivers a savage beatdown in the opening chapter of Book III. Said beatdown involves throwing his opponent against a very large tree at a high velocity.]]
* An odd case is in Xionic Madness Episode 5 Part 3 where [[spoiler: Zero the last member of the Bolverk Team (Him, Askad, Omega and Kary)]] states he will die within a VERY short time (regardless), charges into a ARMY of enemies in his last armor while leaving his student to finish what he and the others started.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has this in spades.
** AVATAR ROKU.
** Uncle Iroh. For most of the series, Iroh seems an overweight, over-the-hill, past-his-prime wise man who would rather spend his days sipping tea, playing music and Pai-Sho, and generally forgetting about his past warrior-exploits. Early inklings of his badassness are shown, though, when, after being captured, not only does he manage to lead Zuko to him, but also nearly escape by himself; finally, with Zuko's help, he completely frees himself, and both fight off a band of half-a-dozen Earthbender soldiers with nothing but a pair of chains and martial skill (they didn't even have to Firebend...that would've been unfair).
---> '''Earthbender:''' Stay where you are! You're clearly outnumbered!
---> '''Iroh:''' That's true...but you are clearly ''outmatched''!
*** You also have his line when they were about to be captured by Azula in Season 2...
---> '''Iroh:''' ''Picks up some tea and sips at it calmly, surrounded by soldiers'' Do you know ''why'' they call me "The Dragon of the West?" ''Stands up and '''breathes fire''' at his enemies''.
*** Not to mention smoking his niece Azula, one of the most feared Firebenders in the world, in two seconds flat. Or tearing apart thick prison bars with his bare hands. Or using the Sozin's Comet powerup to blast through the functional equivalent of the Great Wall of China like it was tissue paper. Or leading a hand-picked team of four other Badass Grandpas to defeat an entire Fire Nation army, which leads to...
** The over 100-year-old King Bumi: "You thought I was just a frail old man, but I'm the most powerful Earthbender you'll ever see!" While Toph is pretty close to his level, this is a man who can earthbend with his FACE, launch ''buildings'' made out of solid sandstone, and stack ''tanks'' on top of each other like dominoes.
*** "Escape? I didn't escape! Everyone ELSE escaped!" (When he [[spoiler: escaped imprisonment using only his chin and highhandedly retook an entire city in under eight minutes, ''on his own'')]]
** Next is Master Pakku, one of the greatest waterbenders in the world. Howzabout his waterspout when he's empowered by the full moon in "Siege of The North"? Or the waterfall/freeze it/unfreeze it thing for his party's grand entrance into Ba Sing Se?
** Followed by Jeong Jeong, another Badass Grandpa firebender. He shows off his skills by creating ''walls of flames'' to destroy ''tanks'' while flying using jet feet.
** Last is Piandao, who looks like he's at least 50. He tends to use his sword as a cane (although that might just be for effect). He's also touted as the best swordmaster in Fire Nation (that is, the militaristic, imperialist, industrialized capital of the world) history. The Fire Nation sent 100 soldiers to arrest him for deserting the army, and they were all promptly defeated. It's unclear whether they were actually killed or just chased out by a 50-year-old man with a sword, but they still lost.
*** The previous five Badass Grandpas are members and leaders of the Order of the White Lotus, AKA Badass Grandpa: [[AncientConspiracy The Conspiracy]]. During the GrandFinale, they decide to retake Ba Sing Se, the largest city in the world, from the Fire Nation. They ''conquer the largest city in the world'' in less time than it takes to resolve Aang and Ozai's final battle.
** And rounding out the bending arts is Monk Gyatso, Aang's long since dead teacher. The man's a pacifist, but when Aang finds his corpse a hundred years later, it immediately becomes apparent why he was the master. His corpse is sitting in a simple hut...surrounded by PILES of Fire Nation soldier skeletons. Skeletons that, when alive, were likely powered by Sozin's comet.
** The creators actually commented about this propensity in an episode commentary: There are either prodigious kids or badass grandpas; Martially exceptional young or middle aged adults are rare. The only major examples are Firelord Ozai, Admiral Zhao, Chief Hakoda (who's still only a clever BadassNormal in a world of superpowered martial artists) and apparently Combustion Man. While there are plenty of young/middle-aged opponents who are ''relatively'' proficient fighters, they're just not up to snuff with the kids or the old badasses.
* Master Splinter of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' fame quickly comes to mind. Not only does he train otherwise normal mutant turtles to be freakin' ''ninjas'', he also manages to kick his own fair share of ass on several occasions in the comic books and the television series.
** sadly, at least in the 1980s series, his job was all too often to get captured or otherwise indisposed. That being said, he was the only character who could take Shredder in a fair fight.
** The 2012 series sees Splinter kick butt a lot. The first time they fight Shredder, he waits until it's clear the Turtles can't take him on their own, then proceeds to beat him without any help (except for gravity, perhaps).
** Also, later in the show they all go to a multidimensional fighting tournament, and the Turtles learn from a contest veteran that Splinter once won the whole thing...with a [[HandicappedBadass broken leg]], no less.
** One time, there was a villain doing the BodySurf who had taken over Master Splinter, but moved on earlier unbeknownst to the Turtles, who dogpile on Splinter...and two seconds later, are ''sent flying away'' by Splinter, who stands up, looking only mildly annoyed while asking them "What is the meaning of this?"
** Several mooks who are dumb enough to try sneaking up on this ninja master often get one hit KO'ed by Splinter's cane without him even needing to look.
* ''AmericanDragonJakeLong''. Despite his old age, Grandpa Lao will still take on his dragon form to fight side by side with his grandson on frequent missions. This is the opposite case in ''The Life and Times of Juniper Lee'' where Grandma Jasmine only assists Juniper Lee in extreme circumstances or when she is absent during a mission.
* Nana Possible from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. While only making a few appearances in the show, the two times she's been directly involved in one of Kim's adventures, she's shown remarkable martial skill for anyone of any age. In fact, Dr. Drakken revealed that, in her prime, her exploits apparently dwarfed even Kim's (in fairness to Kim, it's implied Nana's career was much longer than Kim's has been so far), and after he uses a mind-controlling transition on Nana, he has her fight Kim herself. Nana had one clean hit on Kim, but when Kim quickly ended the fight by shutting off the said transition. After everything is back to normal, we see Nana beat Kim in a sparring match, and the end.
** Think that's badass? She was the first woman to complete the Navy's Underwater Demolitions Training program, the training Navy SEALS go through with a low success rate, complete with five days of sheer endless torture during Hell Week. Never, ever, mess with granny.
** Senor Senior Sr is a legend of extreme sports.
* Master Fung in ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown''.
* The Senior Citizen Squad in WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor, but then again, pretty much everything is considered badass there.
** Even more so with Grandfather, [[UltimateEvil the greatest evil in the KND universe]].
* Max Tennyson in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' -- the protagonist's ''literal'' Grandpa, a former [[TheMenInBlack Plumber]]. The fact he's voiced by the same guy who bossed [[Franchise/MetalGear Solid]] [[BadAss Snake]] around just puts the icing on the cake.
* ''AtomicBetty'''s grandma Beatrix was a famous Galactic Guardian in her day, and still kicks butt as needed. Bakes great pies, too.
* ''{{Transformers}}'' features many. Primus, practically as old as the Universe is the friggin' creator-god of Transformers, and the size of a Planet, so he could take on anything! Landmine from ''TransformersCybertron'' took out a super-sized Starscream; granted, he was the same size, but bear in mind he was built before Optimus. Vector Prime from the same continuity was the keeper of space and time! Just a little younger than Primus, he could use his transformer-scaled Claymore-sized mystical Infinity Plus One "Rhisling" which could teleport all the 'Cons into a black hole. Ironhide is usually old, but he's tougher than any other 'bot on the Autobots, except maybe Omega Supreme, who's a friggin' spaceship for crying out loud!
** ''TransformersAnimated'' has Ratchet, the old war veteran medic who can kick your ass and then put you back together again. Also known as the person who had the ball bearings to call out the Autobot Elite Guard on their unethical practices.
*** It could be argued that Brawn is this, but seeing as he was only on screen for a small part of the opening of one episode it's a little hard to tell. In that time he did rip out a chunk of the ground and nerly take out two Decepticons single handed. [[PintsizedPowerhouse Oh, And did I mention he's tiny?]]
** The Ratchet of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' follows suit. His advice for dealing with [[spoiler: a small army of undead robots?]] "I recommend dissection."
** Kup is another triumphant example.
* Bruce Wayne from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. A bat-shit CrazyPrepared old man who can beat up street thugs with nothing more than his cane, and who can still beat supervillains as well (in fact, Terry has stated that Bruce was the only person who could beat his toughest foe, Inque). Subverted in the fact that [[spoiler:Bruce is Terry's father, not his grandfather]] but now we're just playing with semantics. Made all the more awesome when the writers make him believably old -- when he gets riled he needs a dose of his heart meds and a nap afterward, but you're lucky if you ''survive'' him getting riled. Oh, and he's still got pinpoint accuracy with batarangs.
** In one episode, Old Bruce and young Bruce team up. Old Bruce is so bad ass that young Batman HAS. TO. PLAY. GOOD. COP.
--->'''Henchman:''' "I've told you everything I know."
--->'''Old Bruce:''' "Everything?"
--->'''Henchman:'''' "I wet my bed until I was 14."
--->'''Old Bruce:''' "I'm losing my patience".
--->''(Batman puts his hand on Old Bruce's shoulder, pulling him away from the perp)''
--->'''Batman:''' "I can't control my friend here much longer, you better give us something we can use."
** Static even [[LampshadeHanging comments]] on the dynamic.
** Immediately preceding the above example, young Batman, trying to get information on the VillainOfTheWeek, holds the henchman over the edge of a skyscraper.
--->'''Batman:''' "Where's Cronos? My arm's getting tired."
--->'''Old Bruce:''' "I can't believe I was ever that green." ''(throws Henchman back onto rooftop and advances on the terrified Henchman holding his cane)'' "'''This''' is how you interrogate someone." ''(Cue [[GoryDiscretionShot cut to the above exchange]].)''
*** Both examples can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PETk8eBbfN0 here]] At approximately 3 minutes in.
* Not actually an example, but the ''Beast With A Billion Backs'' four-episode ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' special has Dr. Farnsworth describe [[AppliedPhlebotinum Electromatter]] as "matter's BadAss grandma".
** Hell, Farnsworth himself sometimes qualifies, when he stops acting like a Senile Old Loon and starts breaking out the [[DoomsdayDevice Doomsday Devices]].
** Old Man Waterfall was a badass great-grandfather.
* The last surviving member of the [[Comicbook/{{Blackhawk}} Blackhawks]] in ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited''. Has what looks like a modified (to have two heavy cannon) F-4 Phantom-II in his barn. Shoots down a robot-vulture (part of the subverted Blackhawk Island defences) that was giving Hawkgirl, Flash, and Fire serious trouble. Gets taken hostage by Lex Luthor, which is not so BadAss, but manages to get away and get back to disable the island self-destruct, which is.
* In the ''Adventures of SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' episode "Christmas, Bloody Christmas", Sam's Granny Ruth is a former prison warden who manages to both spread holiday cheer at the prison where she used to work and thwart a prisoner's escape attempt.
* Grampa Abe Simpson from ''TheSimpsons'' is for the most part a crazy old man, but he showed he still had it in "The Flying Hellfish."
** When he helped Bart in "Bart the General" that was pretty awesome too. It's quite sad that this this side of Abe is rarely shown, and nowadays is all but forgotten.
* Hudson and the Archmage of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''. Macbeth is certainly a BadAss. His aging may have been magically done, but now he's one step removed from immortal due to said magic, and as such he's been alive for about 1,000 years.
** Halcyon Renard manages to pull this off while riding around ''[[HandicappedBadass in a wheelchair]]''. Said wheelchair has a laser gun built into the armrest, potent enough to knock out a full-grown gargoyle like Goliath.
--->"[[SarcasmMode I'm trembling in my chair]]."
*** After capturing Goliath and [[WhatTheHellHero calling him out]] on the destruction of his last airship, he responds to Goliath's denials with "You sound like every whiny employee I ever fired!"
* [[CatchPhrase One More Thing]]...Uncle from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' appears to be your typical elderly Chinese man obsessed with the cleanliness of his shop...but he's also the local expert on the mystic arts and no slouch in the martial arts, either. Not that he cares...if he had a choice in the matter, he'd rather just run his shop.
** He gets even more BadAss in The Dog and Piggy Show, when powered up by an immortality/youthful energy talisman. Not so antique anymore...
** Do you want a piece of uncle?
* The Vulture and Silvermane from ''TheSpectacularSpiderMan''.
* Lucius Heinous VI on ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'', if "Team X-treme Team" is anything to go on.
* Papa Smurf in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs''. He often saved the day and would often volunteer for dangerous physical tasks.
* The nurse from ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'', beating up the thief when he tries to steal her bananas and attacked some of the banits. The witch in the [=ReCobbled=] version, swinging around the mountain like Tarzan.
* Both Saladin and Hagen in ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' have shades of this. Hagen is ''the'' Smith of the Universe, willing to take on ''six'' Enchantix fairies and Saladin can stop massive burns as if they were simple campfires. He also is roughly equal in power to [[NeverMessWithGranny Faragonda and Griffin]]. Both of them were in the Company of Light.
* Mr. Herbert from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' fought possessed trees and Nazis to save Chris.
** Peter's "father" Francis retired from one job, was hired at Peter's factory, and immediately worked circles around everyone. He was also on the Pope's road crew, punching out photographers and such.
* Brother Blood from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' never has his age specified, though going by both his appearance and general personality he's unlikely to be younger than late middle-age. He's also probably the most individually powerful villain in the series barring [[BigBad Slade]] and [[GodOfEvil Trigon]].
* [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Cotton Hill]] is in his mid 70's, and "Had his shins shot off by a Japan mans machine gun" but he's still easily capable of kicking the asses of men several ''decades'' his junior.
* General Treister from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''; though he is a bit of a CloudCuckoolander (probably comes with the territory of running an ultra-secret espionage organization), he is undoubtedly badass.
* Ruel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}''. In fact he is hinted at being the strongest of the group.
* Jaga from ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' is old, but he's also the head of a ChurchMilitant [[TheOrder order]] of KungFuWizard {{Magic Knight}}s, fully capable of dispatching a WalkingTank on his own.
* Sheen must fight a karate champion on WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron and is trained by an old person. Sheen asks the trainer "Arent you a little bit old to be teaching karate"? so he beats up Sheen to show him.
* Nearly every old person in ComicStrip/TheBoondocks. Grandpa's belt-fu, Rukas's being able to take on Huey, Stinkmeiner [[spoiler:after his death (where even Satan had to give him his props)]] and Stinkmeiner's squad of friends who are basically a badass grandparents trio.
* In DanVs, Dan's attempts to destroy [[SoulSuckingRetailJob Gigundo Mart]] are constantly thwarted by a very old store greeter. He's so old that he fought in [[UsefulNotes/SpanishAmericanWar San Juan Hill.]]
-->'''Old Man:''' ''(Has Dan in a neck-lock)'' I learned this move on the ''(cough),'' on the beaches of Normandy.
-->'''Dan:''' Shooting out or shooting in?
* Arthur Puppington is this in the ''MoralOrel'' prequel ''Beforel Orel''. Especially when he [[spoiler: stops Orel from stabbing Shapey]].
* Hank's dad from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''. He's Cotton Hill, and he killed fiddy men. Ever since he lost his shins to a Japanese machine gun in dubya dubya two, he spends most of his time smashing things and slapping rear - that is, when he's not getting his wife pregnant through "four layers of protection".
* ''BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'': Commander Nebula. In his youth, he was the Buzz Lightyear of his day, and he can still kick copious amounts of ass. That peg-leg of his? It's a blaster cannon.
* ''Westernanimation/{{Spider-Man the Animated Series}}'' had an entire team of WWII-era superheroes who had fought alongside {{Captain America}}, and were able to give the Insidious Six a run for their money despite being over 70 and only having limited powers.
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* ArnoldSchwarzenegger: 65 and still starring in action films.
* SylvesterStallone, age 67, likewise.
** Not to mention some his fellow "[[Film/TheExpendables Expendables]]"; Creator/DolphLundgren (63), Mickey Rourke (61) and BruceWillis (63).
* Possibly ''your own grandparents''. If they're still around, talk to them. [[RetiredBadass Your Grandpa may have fought in]] UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Your Grandma [[WrenchWench might have helped rivet together]] [[B17FlyingFortress Flying Fortresses]]. [[YouDidntAsk You'll never know unless you ask.]]
** Likewise they could have some other feat of badassery you're unaware of. Who would have thought that granddad fought off a robber or grandma used to go hunting?
* Jean Parisot de la Valette, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallier. He led the Knights from the front during the Great Siege of Malta, refusing all of his advisers arguments that he was too valuable to risk and killing a good score of Turks with his own sword, all without taking a wound at age 69. Valetta, the largest city on Malta, is named after him.
** Keep in mind he did all this at a time when just living into your 60s was considered a serious achievement.
* William Marshal. Most badass knight that ever lived. Skipping his seriously epic early life, as with the above example he lived in times when the life expectancy was around 30 [[note]] Yes, there were other causes of death besides violence and as a noble he was better off then some but we don't need a paragraph about it here[[/note]]. He died at 73 peacefully in bed after having months before fought at a battle where the other knights were about to abandon the fight. Not good ol' Will, no, he charged straight into the attacking enemy lines, and it was said that the knights then followed him because they couldn't be seen to leave when the 73 year old was berserker mad and kicking ass. The battle then swung in their favour.
* Sir John Talbot, KG. Commanded the English army in the battle of Castillon 1453 at age of 80. He got killed in the battle... by a ''[[NoKillLikeOverkill cannon ball]]''!
* Many of the Medieval knights fought actively until their fifties and sixties. They were professional soldiers, after all, and if they avoided getting killed, crippled, plague, dysentery or gout, they were usually in incredibly good shape even old.
* Keith Richards. It's been over forty years since Music/TheRollingStones formed up; after all the drugs, sex, trials and blood transfusions, Keef Riffhard can still kick your ass.
** His role models, both in music and longevity? Many of the classic blues, R&B and rock icons who influenced Keith, like B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, James Brown, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, who were alive and well and still active into their seventies and eighties (and some of whom are still with us today). Many of them had also cheated fate with wild lifestyles and hard living.
** WaynesWorld: "Listen, sunny Jim. Sleeping like this will add ten years to your life. I learned it from Keith Richards when I toured with the Stones. This may be the reason why Keith cannot be killed by conventional weapons."
** Or witness this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyK0y02HvVc Rolling Stones concert]] in which a rogue fan runs onstage. Keith takes off his guitar, whangs the guy in the face, then ''calmly puts his guitar back on and picks up exactly where he's supposed to in the song.'' Best part is that the rest of the band continues playing "Satisfaction" like nothing out of the ordinary is going on.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Martin Buster Martin.]] Kicking the butts of young muggers at the age of 101?!
* Actors: Creator/HarrisonFord, JackieChan, Willem Dafoe, and Chow Yun Fat are HOW OLD and STILL do their own stunts?
** Sifu Lau Kar Leung. Veteran Hong Kong martial arts actor, director, and choreographer. Practitioner and Grandmaster of Hung Gar style Kung Fu (a.k.a. "[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender earthbending]]".) He's old enough to be your grandpa but he can still [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgd7fw3uUhs kick]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngMR7k02H80 your]] ass. His last starring role (as of yet) is in the film Drunken Monkey and he's not mellowing with age. He's nearing 70 in the film, for crying out loud!
* Lemmy Kilmister. He has taken more drugs than you or I have cells in our body, his diet consists of practically nothing but meat and Jack Daniels, yet he's been in Music/{{Motorhead}} since the beginning and he still owns every stage he walks on.
** As a former JimiHendrix roadie, he's even [[OlderThanTheyThink older than you think]].
** Some of the people who know him personally have remarked that even though he's in his sixties, he still parties like he's in his twenties.
** Fellow rocker Ozzy Osbourne (who is close to the same age and did just about as much drinking and partying as Lemmy but came out much more damaged) stated that he wouldn't be surprised if Lemmy outlived him '''and''' Keith Richards.
* [[http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/feb/23/stuart-man-75-tackles-hefty-robber-who-stole-his-c/ Recent example from Florida.]] 75-year-old man has just bought a computer (he plans to take classes to learn how to use it) and is waiting to be picked up. 6'1", 230 lb., 29-year-old grabs the goods and takes off. Rightful owner of said goods throws a flying tackle and takes him down. For extra Badass Grandpa goodness, off-duty cop who assists in the capture is himself a senior citizen at 68, per comments.
* ChuckNorris. In RealLife the man has a 10th-degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, an 8th-degree black belt in Taekwondo (one of only 3 Americans to ever achieve this), black belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Shito ryu Karate, belts in Muay Thai and Shotokan, invented his own martial art style incorporating all of these, and has a tournament record of 183-10-2, with presumably both losses [[ReturnOfTheDragon coming from]] BruceLee.
* RonaldReagan. A 70-year old man who was shot by an insane young man, [[CasualDangerDialogue rushed to the hospital still healthy enough to crack jokes]], and lived for another 20 years before dying at age 93? Not something an average grammy can accomplish. What's even more impressive, (if you believe in it) is that he broke a century old curse that killed a number of earlier presidents.
* [[http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43601852.html This real story's]] even better than the would-be-computer-thief saga. This one features two attackers vs. 84-year-old. 84-year-old is a [=WWII=] veteran and retired prison guard. 84-year-old kicks two butts (along with [[GroinAttack other body parts]]) and sends the offenders fleeing (they were later captured by police).
* Never mind bringing a knife to a gunfight, [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7002829.stm Never bring a gun to a handbag-fight!]]
* Daniel M'Mburugu is a 77-year-old grandfather who earns his living by farming. On June of 2005, M'Mburugu was tending to his farm in Kenya when a sneaky leopard suddenly attacked him. When the leopard sank its teeth into M'Mburugu's wrist and started mauling M'Mburugu with its claws, M'Mburugu did NOT take the machete that was in one of his hands and start striking the animal with it. Instead, M'Mburugu decided to take care of business by '''reaching his hand into the leopard's mouth and pulling the animal's tongue out'''. Think about that. Simply hacking the cat into bits with a machete wasn't good enough for him; he ''jammed his fist down the creature's throat and ripped out its tongue''.
* Mark Shuey is not only a Badass Grandpa himself, he's out teaching other seniors the art of [[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2008911838_canefu24.html?syndication=rss Cane Fu]], so they can ALL be Badass Grampas and Grannies Not to Mess With.
* [[http://badassoftheweek.com/wanyandie.html Tom Wanyandie]], a 78-year-old man who, when confronted with an enraged MamaBear attacking his [[PapaWolf son]], proceeded to beat the bear with his walking stick, shove the stick down its throat, ''punch the bear in the face'', take a solid blow from said bear across the face, and then ''tackled the Goddamn bear and beat it into retreat with his stick'' [[ForeignLanguageTirade while screaming every single profanity of his native language.]]
* A former junior boxing champion by the name of Frank Corti showed that, at age 72, he could still throw one HELL of a punch. When a man less than 1/3 his age tried to attack him at knifepoint, Corti responds by beating the man so hard that he appeared to have been hit by a train. With only TWO PUNCHES. [[http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1196479/Pictured-The-battered-bruised-face-burglar-got-wrong-72-year-old-boxer.html See for yourself]].
* Bass Reeves. Got his job as a Deputy Marshal in the Indian Territory when he was in his late forties, early fifties. Kept going until well into his eighties. Thousands of arrests, many gunfights, never wounded. Lotsa kids, lotsa grandkids. The best part? Escaped slave. Though he didn't get his cushy government job until after the Civil War,
* Back when America was a British colony, an elderly farmer named Samuel Whittemore was America's oldest fighter in the Revolutionary War. The 80-year old man killed one guy with a musket, two with dual pistols, and tried stabbing his way through a platoon of British soldiers with his favorite French sword. In the end, he got shot in the face, butted by a musket, and bayonetted several times to the point where any young man with those injuries would be dead, especially in an era with no first aid on the battlefield. But the old man was found not only alive but ready to fight as he was found attempting to load his musket while injured badly. Hell, even his doctor thought he wouldn't make it. [[WorstAid Some shitty doctor he was]]. The grammy lived to see American independence and for another 18 years before dying of natural causes. Just goes to show, you're never too old to fight for your country.
* At age 96, Jack Ury broke his own record and became the oldest person to ever play in the World Series of Poker Main Event in 2009. Despite the fact that he's blind in one eye, nearly blind in the other, and deaf in one ear, he's still played in the past three Main Events (with the aid of his grandson) and even more incredibly, has made it to Day Two ''every time.'' Moreover, this year he pulled off a CrowningMomentofAwesome by beating his opponent's full house with a full house of his own. Jack Ury is the man.
* Konrad Adenauer wasn't known for physical prowess, but [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer for crying out loud, look at the dude!]]
* Bolo Yeung. He was 50 when he was in ''Bloodsport''.
* Shih Kien played the BigBad in ''EnterTheDragon'' when he was ''sixty years old'', and still managed to look like a fearsome adversary for BruceLee (who was about thirty years younger at the time).
* [[http://notalwaysright.com/best-grandpa-ever This]] grandpa really don't like shoplifters.
* '''97 years old man''' [[http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/622647/0/anciano/bici/ladron/ takes a bike and chases the mugger that had just stolen his retirement pension until he's arrested by the police]].
* Genghis Khan was out conquering until he died at 65.
* Creator/TomSavini. Hard to believe the guy's in his mid-60s.
* [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/7408503/Walking-stick-self-defence-a-demonstration.html?utm_source=tmg&utm_medium=TD_walking&utm_campaign=video1003pm Walking Stick defense classes]]
* [[Series/{{Survivor}} Bob Crowley]]: He may not be as old as some of the guys on this page (57), but in a game dominated by fit young 20-somethings, he proved himself not only to be the most able survivalist in the game (a lifelong outdoorsman, he was mostly responsible for building the shelter and keeping the fire going), but when it came down to the endgame, when many strong older contestants are usually picked off, he not only managed to win the game (becoming the oldest winner ever by over 15 years) but he did it by beating contestants half his age in physical challenges!
* Creator/GeorgeCarlin, truly a Badass Old Fuck.
* Buzz Aldrin. When a conspiracy nut jumped his shit about the "faked" moon landings and called him a coward (because it takes a lot of bravery to pick on a 72-year-old man), Buzz simply countered the {{jerkass}}'s arguments with [[TalkToTheFist the ultimate argument counterer]]: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wcrkxOgzhU Granpa Astronaut Super Mega Face Punch of Awesome!]]
** And that is why you do not pick fights with a USAF Lieutenant Colonel with a doctorate from MIT.
** Especially in front of his daughter, who was with him at the time and whom Buzz felt he was protecting. PapaWolf, indeed!
* AndrewJackson. Aside from being a grizzled old war veteran, he also personally foiled the first attempt on the life of a sitting US President (himself, no less). A would-be-assassin fired two pistols at him at point-blank range, both of which miraculously misfired. At almost seventy years old, Jackson nearly beat his attacker to death. [[ImprobableWeaponUser With a]] ''[[ImprobableWeaponUser cane]]''.
** That's half of the reason he got the name "Old Hickory." One, he was a very tough, stiff, wooden man. Two, he carried around a hickory cane to beat people with. One of his most famous quotes was "I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun." For the record, Calhoun was his vice-president. As ''Cracked'' said: "In a life filled with murdering people, Jackon's biggest regret was that he didn't kill ''quite enough people''."
** Andrew Jackson had survived being shot in so many duels (mostly over insults to his wife) that he was reputed to rattle when he walked. He was also reputed to have once been so bored in a cabinet meeting that he took out a knife, dug one of the slugs out, and sent it back to the man who put it in him in the first place with a note to the effect of 'I believe this is yours.' It is also said that in the incident above where he foiled his own assassination, the only reason the assassin survived is that other people restrained Jackson before he could finish the job.
* Nelson Mandela, also a CoolOldGuy.
** Mandela's badass credentials are gained by 1) having put the final nails in the coffin of apartheid in South Africa; 2) having survived ''27 years'' in [[HellholePrison South Africa's toughest prisons]] before that; 3) having been active in the militant wing of the anti-apartheid movement (which resulted in his imprisonment) before ''that''; 4) having been an amateur boxer in college before ''that''; and 5) having been [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething a member of the Xhosa royal family]] who was [[IHaveNoSon expelled]] when he broke a taboo by marrying a woman from the rival Sotho tribe. The man was made of badass from birth!
* Creator/RidleyScott, 72 and still on the blockbuster business. [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder Attached to at least 9 projects right now!]]
* Creator/ClintEastwood. Survived the Great Depression and the Korean War, this former lifeguard became respected actor, then respected director, and did [[FlagsOfOurFathers two]] [[LettersFromIwoJima simultaneous]] war films at the age of 76! He's also a talented jazz musician (and his son Kyle is a professional), a licensed pilot who still flies a chopper to his studio in order to beat the traffic, an avid supporter of animal rescue efforts (he and his wife have actually adopted ''dozens'' of animals to live on their ranch, and anytime Clint talks about his beloved pets it ends up being a huge CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming), and has kept physically fit ever since his youth. He still practices meditation and exercises regularly. All this on top of making some of the best movies in Hollywood. [[MemeticBadass And he can kick your ass any day.]] Truly one of the most badass people in the world
* Just about any old guy with a cane could easily qualify.
* [[http://www.kravmagafederation.com/Haim-Zut.htm Haim Zut]].
* In April 1940 the new 31000 ton German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau intercepted the 25 year old, 27000 ton HMS Renown... and were sent packing by the UsefulNotes/WW1 veteran battlecruiser, a badass (metaphorical) 'grandpa'.
** The American battleships commanded by Adm, Jesse Oldendorf in the battle of Surigao Strait 1944, were all over 23 year old and the youngest (USS West Virginia) was launched 1921. Those battleships also ''all were Pearl Harbor veterans''. Surigao Strait was the last battleship vs battleship action in history.
** USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which was launched 1961 and is scheduled to be phased out in 2012, making her 51 years old in continuous service.
* When German Emperor Fredrick I Barbarossa went on the Third Crusade, he was 70 years old and hacked his way through the Balkans. He died at River Taurus, Asia Minor in 1189, not by drowning, but from heart attack.
* Sir ChristopherLee had a long career of badassery as a younger man, having been in the SAS in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84i82QxNk74 instructed Peter Jackson on the proper reaction to have when backstabbed based on his experiences]]), an expert fencer and an uncredited stunt driver in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''. In his old age, he is still proficient enough with stunt swordsmanship and even recorded a heavy metal album.
* Jack [=LaLanne=]. He once swam handcuffed, shackled, and fighting strong winds and currents, towed 70 rowboats, one with several guests. '''at the age of 70'''. And he also maintained a healthy lifestyle until the end of his life.
* [[http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2632316/posts Don Alejo]], Nov. 2010, 77 years old. The drug cartel comes to his ranch telling he has one day to leave. He warns them he'll be waiting for them if they come. The next day the drug gang arrives armed with assault rifles and grenades. Don Alejo is alone, barricaded in his home, armed with bolt action hunting rifles. Don Alejo greets the gang with gunfire, starting a gun battle during which he kills 4 gunmen, and wounds 2 more so badly they were left for dead. Finally the drug cartel breaches Don Alejo's home with grenades and kill him. The authorities show up on the scene and describe he as riddled with bullets and two guns by his side.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWUWPx2VeQ Winnebago Man]]. In the words of an audience-goer interviewed for the [[WinnebagoMan namesake documentary]], "He's everyone's grandpa."
* [[http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/24051/kayaker+64+completes+marathon+paddle+across+atlantic/ Aleksander Doba]] crossed the Atlantic in a kayak with no pitstops.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gij3E0VZrUA This guy]]. A monk who fronts a heavy metal band.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Saito Minoru Saito]]. Japanese solo sailor, who in 2008 in the age of 73 left for his ''eighth solo circumnavigation'' via the Roaring Forties...(that is: 40th and 50th South, where there is no land masses to hinder the westerlies from blowing, and wind speeds are often 40 kn or more) ''against'' the prevailing winds. That means he had to sail around the Cape Horn from east to west, which is extremely dangerous, even if done following the winds from west to east. Saito arrived home in Japan 2010 in the age of 76, making him the oldest solo circumnavigator.
* [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13598607 Yasuteru Yamada]] singlehandedly organised a group of retired engineers and others to help clean up radioactive waste from Fukushima power station, on the grounds that the elderly had less to lose than the young.
* [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19242_6-old-people-who-could-kick-your-ass.html?wa_user1=2&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=feature_module 6 Old People Who Could Kick Your Ass.]] Includes a 70-year-old retired Marine who throttled a 20-year-old bus hijacker to death, and one [[NeverMessWithGranny Badass Grandma]] who beat up armed robbers with her '' purse''.
* TheodoreRoosevelt went on Safari at age 50. While he wasn't literally a grandpa (his only daughter didn't have children until 1925, 19 years after her marriage) he was old enough, and ''[[MemeticBadass certainly]]'' [[{{Badass}} a badass]].
* Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. Born into a Prussian family shortly after the unification of Germany, he served in the army since Hitler was in preschool. He was critical about the Nazi regime, but managed to pull off some impressive strategy during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, such as leading German armour through the Ardennes forest to knock out the French military, and later charging across Russia even while suffering a friggin' heart attack. He even had the courage to speak against Field Marshal Keitel; after the landings at Normandy, Keitel asked Rundstedt for options and he replied "Make peace, you idiot!"
* John L Burns, a 69 year old (pushing 70) War of 1812 veteran lived in Gettysburg at the time of the battle. When the battle started, he, a pro-northerner, began heckling the rest of the townsmen, who were mostly pro-southern. Not content with hectoring younger, stronger men, he decided the best course of action would be to grab a rifle and start shooting. He joined the Union and was wounded multiple times. His comrades left him behind, and he could have been executed for being a non-uniformed combatant. He crawled away from his rifle and buried his ammunition before the Confederates arrived and he convinced them that he was a noncombatant who just so happened to be wandering the battlefield, looking for aid for his wife. They treated him and brought him back to his house, and he lived 9 more years.
* Armen Amerigian, an 82 year old antique store owner, chased a fleeing robber in his car through [[http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/10/year-old-store-owner-chases-robber-through-three-towns-south-boston/PkrpRoW8XvpE2pHW7aF5jN/index.html?p1=Local_Links three different towns]] in Massachusetts, and only stopped chasing him because the robber was running red lights and he didn't want to endanger anyone else, but got enough of the license plate number that the robber was apprehended.
* MargaretCho's grandpa: He was badly burned after his house caught fire and he kept going back in to save his 19 adopted children who were orphaned by the UsefulNotes/KoreanWar. He was the only person in the family who gave Margaret any encouragement or even told her she was pretty ("All those people who say you're ugly, [look at me,] they don't know ''shit''"). When she got her own TV show he started watching [[CrazyPrepared two hours early]] to make sure he wouldn't miss it and when it was cancelled he was so angry he ''[[HeroicBSOD fell into a coma]]''. When he died his coffin was filled with love letters from his many, many girlfriends -- not bad for a guy who was disfigured from running into a burning house 19 times.
* MahatmaGandhi proves this trope applies to {{Badass Pacifist}}s as well. He took on the British Empire and won without any violence at all.
* Any Israeli over the age of 40 has [[BadassIsraeli fought in multiple wars]], and many of the elderly made it through the Holocaust.
* Canadian actor Hume Cronyn (1911-2003) was in his youth an amateur boxer. In one of his last films, ''Cocoon: The Return'' (1988), his character Joe Finley has to help his friend Bernie escape from the retirement home, so he punches an orderly. Fine, you might say. But Cronyn was blind in one eye and therefore had little depth perception. When you see that guy playing the orderly fall down, it's because Cronyn had literally just knocked him out.
* Another list from [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19748_7-old-people-who-gave-retirement-finger.html Cracked.com]].
* The masked bandit Black Bart terrorized the stagecoaches of TheWildWest for ten years. During this time, he became famous as a "gentleman bandit" who, despite brandishing a shotgun left poetry at the scene of his robberies, was exceedingly polite and never fired a shot even when being shot at. At the end of those ten years, he committed his last robbery and was traced to a boarding house in San Francisco. He was discovered to be a 53-year-old man named Charles Earl Bowles. Bowles was a 49er and Civil War veteran who was thought to have died years back. 53 may not seem old, but to compare, Billy the Kid died at the age of 21 and Jesse James's life ended at 34.
* [[BrianBlessed BRIAN BLESSED]] is the oldest man to have walked to the magnetic North Pole (aged 64), has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and made his THIRD attempt (all unsuccessful, sadly) to climb Mount Everest aged 55. In doing so, he set the record for the highest distance climbed by the oldest man without carrying additional oxygen (28,000ft) and only stopped to turn back so as to save the life of one of his fellow (younger!) climbers.
* Bill Haast. He spent the majority of his life handling snakes, acquiring venom to be made into anti-venom, collecting 172 snake bites, and injecting himself with snake venom in order to have an immunity to most snake venom. He passed away in 2011 at the ripe old age of 100 years old, but not because of the snake bites.
* This entry from [[http://www.fmylife.com/work/20062193 FMyLife]].
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Thurel This French guy]], who joined the army at 17, served under three different kings, lived during ''three different centuries'', and served over ''90 years as a frontline soldier''.
* In 1998, 70-year-old Joe Robinson, best known for his turn as minor JamesBond villain Peter Franks in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', was accosted by a gang of eight hoodlums in Cape Town as he was getting off a bus. Not letting the swarm of baseball bats and knives outdo him, he kicked two of the hoodlums, karate-chopped a third, and broke the arm of a fourth. That was enough for the other four to flee before he could deal with them!
* [[http://swns.com/news/boxing-champion-71-swings-massive-roundhouse-blow-knock-6ft-4in-thug-attacked-27606/ John Cokeley]], a 71 year-old 5'10" former boxing champion managed to floor a 34 year-old 6'4" thug.
* [[http://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/tirol/Opa-70-ueberlebt-6-Tage-in-Eis-Spalte/75428104 Manfred W.]], 70 years old, fell 20 meters into an ice rift and wasn't rescued for 6 days. Good thing he had provisions for a day of hiking, so he had just enough to survive.
* [[http://www.jarrowandhebburngazette.com/news/local-news/from-fascist-fighter-to-fitness-phenomenon-1-5316454 This man]], a Spanish Civil War veteran who has the energy of a nineteen year old, works out at the gym four times a week and does fifty minutes of press ups and sit ups on a daily basis every morning. How old is he? [[spoiler:93]].
* [[http://www.inquisitr.com/489644/welsh-man-wrestles-shark-to-protect-children-on-the-beach-video/ This badass grandpa]] heard someone shout "Shark!"[[note]]it was a dusky shark, though I'm not sure it'd have made a difference if it was a great white[[/note]] and wrestled it to protect kids in the water.
* [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/visiting-veterans-storm-closed-wwii-memorial/2013/10/01/0fc2a376-2ab4-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html These men]] wasn't going to let a Government Shutdown to stop them from visit a memorial in memory of their friends who [[HeroicSacrifice who died in the war to protect America]]. [[HandicappedBadAss Some of seniors were wheel bound and that didn't stop them either]].
* Jiang Ziya, ancient China's first military strategist, was said to have charged into battle in his ''nineties'', helping the state of Zhou to overthrow the Shang Dynasty.
* Creator/NorioWakamoto does a couple hundred pushups a day despite being in his sixties and will fall back into his police officer and martial arts training to help quell riots and lead people to safety, like during the 2011 earthquake in Japan.
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** Not to mention some his fellow "[[Film/TheExpendables Expendables]]"; DolphLundgren (63), Mickey Rourke (61) and BruceWillis (63).

* RidleyScott, 72 and still on the blockbuster business. [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder Attached to at least 9 projects right now!]]

* Creator/NorioWakamoto does a couple hundred pushups a day despite being in his sixties and will fall back into his police officer training to help quell riots and lead people to safety, like during the 2011 earthquake in Japan.

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** Arguably Battlestar Galactica as well, akin to a WW2 era aircraft carrier taking on a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and winning

* In April 1940 the new 31000 ton German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau intercepted the 25 year old, 27000 ton HMS Renown...and were sent packing by the WW1 veteran battlecruiser, a badass (metaphorical) 'grandpa'.

* WWE Hall of Famer and wrestling legend The Fabulous Moolah qualifies as a Badass Grandma; Moolah won her last WWF Women's Championship in 1999 ''at the age of 76'' and remained a force in the WWE's Women's Division right up until her death at age 84. Her longtime friend and tag-team partner, Mae Young, was ''still'' semi-active at age 86; by that time, she was more of a comedy character in the mold of Mae West, though. VinceMcMahon famously promised that, if either Moolah or Young (or both) lived to see their 100th birthday, he'd let them wrestle a match. (Furthermore, the match would be against StephanieMcMahon's daughter, who would be 17 that same year.) However, Young didn't make it either; she died at ago 90 in January 2014.

** And in his final season, when he was 46, he hit Robin Ventura with a pitch. Ventura charged the mound to fight him, and Ryan ''kicked his butt''. The kicker: Ventura was ejected from the game and Ryan wasn't.

** We must mention boxing's original Badass Grandpa Archie Moore, who won his first world title at the age of 39 ''and defended it for the next 10 years''. His second to last fight was against a young Muhammad Ali well into his 50s, after having begun his career when Joe Louis hadn't even won the title yet. He still has the all-time record for most knockouts, 131. Think about that. The man had more knockouts in his career than Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather have fights ''combined''.

* George Blanda started his NFL career in 1949. He ended it in 1976. He only missed one season in that span - 1959; and then only because Chicago Bears owner/coach George Halas wouldn't let him play quarterback anymore (In 1960, he signed with the Houston Oilers of the fledgling American Football League) He made All-Pro as a kicker in 1970 and 1973.

** Not to mention that he didn't retire from motorport in general until 2011...when he was '''81'''.

** Bob Ford, at Division I FCS Albany, is 76.

* WWE Hall of Famer and wrestling legend The Fabulous Moolah qualifies as a Badass Grandma; Moolah won her last WWF Women's Championship in 1999 ''at the age of 76'' and remained a force in the WWE's Women's Division right up until her death at age 84. Her longtime friend and tag-team partner, Mae Young, is ''still'' semi-active at age 86; she's more of a comedy character in the mold of Mae West, though. VinceMcMahon famously promised that, if either Moolah or Young (or both) lived to see their 100th birthday, he'd let them wrestle a match. (Furthermore, the match would be against StephanieMcMahon's daughter, who would be 17 that same year.)

* Papa O'Neal from Creator/JohnRingo's ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'' may not perhaps as physically old as some mentioned on this page, he ''is'' a grandpa, literally, and is ([[spoiler:or ''was'', until the end of ''The Honor of the Clan'']]) the head of a BadassFamily, after having served in TheVietnamWar and later as a mercenary in various hotspots around the world.

** Mick Jagger, for instance, has four grandchildren, and has only gotten more badass with age. The guy continues to live up to his legend as a pioneer of rock, still is in great shape, and can still dance like he's still in his twenties. Put it this way: there's a ''reason'' [[{{Maroon5}} Adam Levine]] and ChristinaAguilera aspire to have "Moves Like Jagger." His latest project? A duet with Will.i.am of the BlackEyedPeas, a Rock/R&B/Techno fusion song called "Go Home." And it sounds awesome.
* If Mick counts as one, so certainly do the rock, R&B and blues musicians from TheFifties and earlier that influenced classic rockers like Mick, along with many jazz, folk, country, bluegrass and country musicians. ChuckBerry, JerryLeeLewis, FatsDomino, LittleRichard and other rock pioneers still tour regularly, often still with a lot of the fire that they first demonstrated in their prime.

* ''BaldursGate'' has Keldorn Firecam. Quoting the {{Badass}} page: Sixty-something, but still covered in armour and swinging a two-handed sword whilst singing the praises of his rocking-out god. Plus he's the only NPC in the game capable of wielding the game's most powerful sword, and is a rare example of how to be a righteous paladin without [[LawfulStupidChaoticStupid having a stick up his ass]].
** Is he, though? He may not be a day over fifty. Men don't dye their grey hair or try to hide their age like Hollywood actors in Medieval settings! And Keldorn certainly never comes off as a frail old (or even frail older) man, being a clear Badass from square one, and thus doesn't really make this trope.
** He does make this trope - making it to forty is rare in a medieval-esque setting, unless you're a wizard, and making it past then is rare indeed: Keldorn explicitly notes that he's old enough to be Imoen's father, and Imoen is twenty, meaning Keldorn could very well be a grandfather. Also given that he's a paladin on active combat duty, and has been for a long time, he definitely clocks in with the others who * have* to be a BadAss simply to make it to old age, given their chosen career.
** If the age thing is still a problem, well his epilogue says he eventually checks out at [[RetiredBadass age sixty]], pulling a fatal YouShallNotPass on an army of Giants only to get [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence picked to be the right hand man to the God of Righteousness]]. That should be enough to qualify him even if we disallow his earlier accomplishments.

** He's also had experience as a guerilla against the Japanese during WorldWar2.

* In DanVs, Dan's attempts to destroy [[SoulSuckingRetailJob Gigundo Mart]] are constantly thwarted by a very old store greeter. He's so old that he fought in [[SpanishAmericanWar San Juan Hill.]]

* Possibly ''your own grandparents''. If they're still around, talk to them. [[RetiredBadass Your Grandpa may have fought in]] WorldWarII. Your Grandma [[WrenchWench might have helped rivet together]] [[B17FlyingFortress Flying Fortresses]]. [[YouDidntAsk You'll never know unless you ask.]]

* Sir ChristopherLee had a long career of badassery as a younger man, having been in the SAS in WorldWarII (and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84i82QxNk74 instructed Peter Jackson on the proper reaction to have when backstabbed based on his experiences]]), an expert fencer and an uncredited stunt driver in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''. In his old age, he is still proficient enough with stunt swordsmanship and even recorded a heavy metal album.

* Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. Born into a Prussian family shortly after the unification of Germany, he served in the army since Hitler was in preschool. He was critical about the Nazi regime, but managed to pull off some impressive strategy during WorldWarII, such as leading German armour through the Ardennes forest to knock out the French military, and later charging across Russia even while suffering a friggin' heart attack. He even had the courage to speak against Field Marshal Keitel; after the landings at Normandy, Keitel asked Rundstedt for options and he replied "Make peace, you idiot!"

* MargaretCho's grandpa: He was badly burned after his house caught fire and he kept going back in to save his 19 adopted children who were orphaned by the KoreanWar. He was the only person in the family who gave Margaret any encouragement or even told her she was pretty ("All those people who say you're ugly, [look at me,] they don't know ''shit''"). When she got her own TV show he started watching [[CrazyPrepared two hours early]] to make sure he wouldn't miss it and when it was cancelled he was so angry he ''[[HeroicBSOD fell into a coma]]''. When he died his coffin was filled with love letters from his many, many girlfriends -- not bad for a guy who was disfigured from running into a burning house 19 times.

* The upcoming DannyTrejo movie ''Film/BadAss''. Trejo plays an old guy who becomes an internet sensation after a video is circulated of him being threatened on a bus and kicking the punk's ass. Looks like he spends much of the rest of the movie kicking more ass, chased by Creator/RonPerlman. The tagline is even "He's mean...he's angry...he's old...he is BadAss".

* Joel, from TheLastOfUs is over 50, but works as a smuggler, and regularly beats both zombies and people to death with his bare hands.

* In ''{{RuneScape}}'', the Wise Old Man is likely the most powerful human mage ever lived. [[spoiler:[[CrazyAwesome Traiborn defeated him in about five seconds.]]]]

* In ''{{Warmachine}}'', promoting a warcaster to General is usually a final honour before retirement; upon getting his new rank badge, General-Adept Sebastian Nemo stoped inventing cool weapons and went straight to the northern border to save the primary defence fortress from destruction. Before promotion, he invented the Storm-Chamber tech powering the weapons of the various Storm Companies, built two sets of armour based on the same power (one for him, one for his star pupil), designed and built the most advanced Warjack in the whole game, and trained Lord-Commander Stryker, a man in command of about half of Cygnar's military power. He has gone toe to toe with the biggest and baddest warcasters of rival nations time and time again over 60-ish years of service, beat them all into death or retreat, and will happily demonstrate the exact reason why you should respect your elders, if you push him.

* An episode of ''KamenRiderDouble'' featured a Dopant who can affect people's age. After he ages Shotaro into an old man, Double is unable to form since one half is having trouble just staying awake through the fight. [[spoiler: Then Old Man Sho decides to take on Old by himself, including his trademark 'Count up your sins!' catchphrase and pose. He's not very effective but damn he's got guts.]]