History Main / CrankyLandlord

* Surprisingly for this trope, the protagonist's landlord in ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'' actually kicks him out after catching him with a girl in his apartment. Surprising in that it sticks: He's evicted for good and has to find a new home while taking care of his new MagicalGirlfriend.
** However the landlord is nice enough to give him his deposit back, since he was a good tenant until then.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Time-travelers Picard and company take up residence in a boarding house in 1890s San Francisco in the "Time's End" two-parter. When their landlady irately demands the long-overdue rent, Picard distracts her by offering her a role in his "acting troupe's" upcoming play.

-> '''Mr. Shickadance:''' ''Ventuura''!
-> '''Ace Ventura:''' [''whispering''] Yes, Satan? [''turns around''] Oh, I'm sorry, sir. You sounded like someone else.
-> '''Mr. Shickadance:''' Never mind the wisecracks, Ventura. [''coughs in Ace's face'']...You owe me rent.

* In ''VideoGame/AlwaysSometimesMonsters'', your landlord's sick of waiting for you to get your act together and pay your rent. You owe him $500, and if you don't get it together, you're outta there!

* Mr. Ditkovich in the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' movies is usually seen hounding Peter for rent money, and at one point takes all of the money Peter has (because he pulled out the bills from his pocket) before Peter can finish saying that he needs it to purchase some other stuff he needs. He does show a softer side in the third film. His name is a reference to Creator/SteveDitko, Spider-Man's co-creator.

* Pete is the Cranky Landlord at the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''. For some reason, he wants Mickey and the gang out of the club and he tries different plans to do it. Of course, he always fails.
* Clint Clobber was created by Gene Deitch for the Terrytoons studio in the late 1950s. He was superintendent and janitor for the Flamboyant Arms apartments, where anything that could go wrong for him did.

* In ''Film/KungFuHustle'', the landlord isn't cranky at all, while he's the HenpeckedHusband to the landlady.

A subtrope of {{Landlord}}. Compare CrankyNeighbor.

* This is played with in ''Film/KungFuHustle'', where the landlord isn't cranky at all. It's his ''wife'' that you have to watch out for.

* Enid Borden, the [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed]] landlady in the 1987 ''Film/{{Dragnet}}'' movie. The same actress plays a nearly identical character in ''[[Film/TheNuttyProfessor1996 The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps]]''.

* Enid Borden, the [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed]] landlady in the 1987 ''Film/{{Dragnet}}'' movie. The same actress plays a nearly identical character in ''Film/TheNuttyProfessorIITheKlumps''.

A subtrope of {{Landlord}}. Compare the CrankyNeighbor.

* Mr. Ditkovich in the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' movies is usually seen hounding Peter for rent money, and at one point takes all of the money Peter has (because he pulled out the bills from his pocket) before Peter can finish saying that he needs it to purchase some other stuff he needs. He does show a softer side in the third film. His name is a {{pun|ny name}} on Creator/SteveDitko, one of Spider-Man's creators.

* Mr. Ditkovich in the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' movies is usually seen hounding Peter for rent money (and at one point takes all of the money Peter has (because he pulled out the bills from his pocket) before Peter can finish saying that he needs it to purchase some other stuff he needs), but he does show a softer side in the third film.

A common trope is that the tenant is late with the house-rent, and has to argue at length with the landlord to be allowed a few days' respite.

[[folder: Comic Books]]

** Inverted in the episode "No Loan Again, Naturally", in which because of Homer's utterly idiotic financial sense they lose their home and Ned Flanders purchases it, making him the Simpsons' landlord. The moment they figure out that this means Ned has to do such things as fix their home if they ask for it, they make his life a complete hell.

* Mrs. Davis from the live-action Disney film ''Film/ThatDarnCat!'', who also can count as a [[NosyNeighbor Nosy Neighbor]] as she lives downstairs from her tenants, two men whom she suspects are hiding a woman in their apartment, unaware they are actually bank robbers holding a woman hostage.

* Mr. Ditkovich in the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' movies is usually seen hounding Peter for rent money, but he does show a softer side in the third film.

* The Mexican comedy ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' had Señor Barriga ("Mister Belly"), the fat owner of the neighborhood the characters lived in, who would occasionally show up to collect the rent. Despite his gruff appearance, Barriga was actually a nice man--it's just that characters like Chavo and Don Ramon unintentionally provoked his anger almost all the time.

* Miriam Fry from ''Series/AgentCarter'' treats her tenants like they were school girls in a dormitory rather than adults living on their own, the way she strictly controls the schedules of the girls in her boarding house and forbids men higher than the first floor..

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Behind the Laughter", Homer had a stint on Broadway as the landlord in ''Theatre/{{Rent}} II'':

* Mr. Shickadance (quoted above) from the ''Film/AceVentura: Pet Detective'' movie and video game, is a cranky old man who hates animals. Despite his warnings for Ace not to bring any work home, Ace secretly keeps more than a dozen housepets in his room, having trained the animals to hide when the landlord appears.

* Enid Borden, the [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed]] landlady in the 1987 ''Film/{{Dragnet}}'' movie. The same actress plays a nearly identical character in ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor 2: The Klumps''.

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* Time-travelers [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard and company]] take up residence in a boarding house in 1890s San Francisco in the "Time's End" two-parter. When their landlady irately demands the long-overdue rent, Picard distracts her by offering her a role in his "acting troupe's" upcoming play.

* Pete is the Cranky Landlord at the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''. For some reason he want Mickey and the gang out of the club and he uses different plans to do it. Of course, he always fails.