History Main / CrankyLandlord

* The ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse has Scrooge to his nephew Donald, forcing him to do a number of ridiculous jobs and chores or be evicted. {{Justified}} in that Donald, being often jobless, tends to be behind of months or even years with the rent alongside other debts (stories where Donald manage to pay off all his debts present it as a rare occurrence and have Scrooge surprised by it).

* Dr. Chaos's tenant in ''Anime/GhostSweeperMikami'', due to him never really paying his rent. She does have some PetTheDog moments in the "magic sweeping brooms" episode.

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* Mr. Shickadance (quoted above) from the ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' 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.

* Mrs. Peenman from ''Film/TheMask'' (pictured above). Stanley lives in fear of her, while he also takes revenge whenever he changes into his alter ego, the Mask.

* In Film/GoodManners, Clara's landlady Dona Amélia is first seen revealed to have stolen Clara's clothes just because she hasn't paid the rent yet, and later on feeds a steak to Joel even though Clara kept telling her that he was allergic to meat[[note]]He's not. Clara put him ona vegetarian diet throughout his life because she's worried meat could affect his lycanthropy, [[spoiler: and it does]].[[/note]].

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' has the landlord of Mohinder's apartment, who makes a few appearances (including TemporaryOnlineContent answering-machine messages) complaining about noise, late rent, and government spooks, being rude about Matt's weight and calling Mohinder's late father "crazy", and generally being cranky.
-->"Mr. Suresh, you're late on your rent again. Even-up by Monday or I'm changing the locks."\\
"Mr Suresh, I've had a ton of complaints about the noise coming from your apartment last week. I'm warning you 'cos you've been trouble since you moved in, keep it down or I'm kicking you out. If there's any damage it's coming out of your deposit."

* ''Literature/SamTheCatDetective'': Local apartment owner Horton F. [[MeaningfulName Meany]] is described as quite a sourpuss, although his wrath focuses more on his wrongfully accused employee than his tenants but he also does any repairs they want bad cheap and fast.

* [[PunnyName Evictus]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheRomanHolidays''.

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-->-- ''Film/AceVentura: Pet Detective''

->'''Mr. Shickadance:''' ''Ventuura''!\\

Compare CrankyNeighbor.

* Sumi's former landlady in ''Manga/SteppingOnRoses'' qualifies, though not without justification: The gang of adopted children Sumi's brother brings home with him ''are'' extremely noisy, and Sumi and her brother ''are'' well behind on their rent payments.

* Dr. Chaos's tenant in ''Anime/GhostSweeperMikami'', due to him never really paying his rent. She does have some PetTheDog moments in the "magic sweeping brooms" episode.
* Kanae from ''Anime/{{Classicaloid}}'' is a rare and benevolent case of a main character fitting this trope. While she doesn't exactly hate her tenants, she's frequently frustrated by their destructive antics and refusal to listen to the house rules. She often demands that the freeloaders pay rent, and threatens to kick them out when she's really pissed. Unsurprisingly, she's the OnlySaneMan.

* Averted in, of all places, ''ComicBook/SinCity''. Dwight and Wallace's landlady was actually pretty sweet and wanted both men to get a nice girlfriend.
* The ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse has Scrooge to his nephew Donald, forcing him to do a number of ridiculous jobs and chores or be evicted. {{Justified}} in that Donald, being often jobless, tends to be behind of months or even years with the rent alongside other debts (stories where Donald manage to pay off all his debts present it as a rare occurrence and have Scrooge surprised by it).

* Mr. [=McCleery=] from Film/TheGraduate, who can't stand agitators or men that do indecent things to young women. When Mr. Robinson confronts Ben about his flings with Mrs. Robinson, he threatens to take legal action against Ben if he ever sees Elaine again, which prompts Mr. [=McCleery=] to evict Ben from his boarding house.
* Mrs. Peenman from ''Film/TheMask'' (pictured above). Stanley lives in fear of her, while he also takes revenge whenever he changes into his alter ego, the Mask.
* A scene in ''Film/{{Kingpin}}'': Roy cannot pay his rent, and his hysterical landlady threatens to call the police. [[spoiler:A desperate Roy is forced to play the [[PizzaBoySpecialDelivery "I'm sure that we can work something out"]] card.]]
* In ''Film/KungFuHustle'', the landlord isn't cranky at all, while he's the HenpeckedHusband to the landlady, who's cranky to most of the tenants.

* In addition to being cranky, the landlord in ''Film/{{Repulsion}}'' also is a creep who tries to force himself on the heroine.

* In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Fred and Nobby, and later Carrot and Angua, have to investigate an apartment rented to a dead wannabe assassin by a Cranky Landlady. She demands the rent in advance (especially from Nobby, although that's probably a smart move), and tells both ThoseTwoGuys and Carrot "No cooking, no music, no women, no pets." (The last two ''both'' present problems for Angua, who has to sneak into the apartment as a werewolf. She doesn't get caught though.)

* Mr. Roper was somewhat like this toward Jack Tripper on ''Series/ThreesCompany''.
* ''Series/TheMonkees'' had a cranky landlord, Mr. Babbit.
* The (in)famous Funny or Die video "The Landlord" casts Creator/WillFerrell's daughter, barely past infancy at the time, as one of these to comedic effect.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Time-travelers Picard and company take up residence in a boarding house in 1890s San Francisco in the "Time's Arrow" two-parter. When their landlady Mrs. Carmichael irately demands the long-overdue rent, Picard distracts her by offering her a role in his "acting troupe's" upcoming play ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream''.
* In an episode of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Earl had one of these back in the day. He found a walkie-talkie that she was able to hear through her hearing aid, and convinced her that he was {{God}}, taking advantage of her devout religiosity. As "God", Earl convinced her to be nicer to him, his then-wife, his brother, and their friends. Eventually she became a nun, and Earl had to tell her what he did because it was on the list, thus giving her a CrisisOfFaith.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'': In "Loyalty", Mrs Mason is Hornblower's Cranky Landlady. She's nervous when he owns her rent as officers starve on half-pay and is displeased that he goes to to play cards. Even though he actually usually earns some money because he's a mathematical genius and skilled whist player. When he brings his friend Mr Bush, she grunts whether he has money to pay her. Her daughter Maria (not very pretty and on her way to become an OldMaid) is crazy about him, which Mrs Mason doesn't like either, because her husband was a sailor and died at service, and she might be angry at Hornblower because he's not interested in Maria romantically and considers her just a friend.

* 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 ''Webcomic/DustpitFollies'', the landlord will hound the main characters till they pay the rent, even if that means breaking a hole in the roof to drop in.

* Bullock's landlord in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' ''hated'' him, for reasons that were arguably justified, mainly his abrasive nature and the fact that his slovenly habits caused a major vermin problem in the building. The man ended up sending Bullock death threats in an effort to get him to move, coincidentally at the same time that a mobster that Bullock had put away years before was released on parole and tried to get revenge.
* WesternAnimation/{{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.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has Grandpa Phil. While normally he was either a CoolOldGuy or CloudCuckooLander, he would often get grumpy at his tenants when their antics annoyed him.
* Thurgood Stubbs, the cranky superintendent of an inner city low-income tenement building, is the main character of ''WesternAnimation/ThePJs''. He has an antagonistic relationship with most of the other tenants, especially Mrs. Avery, who hates his guts.

* Inverted in "VideoGame/FantasyLife". Pam is a motherly figure to the player and even gives the player candy!

* In ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', Fred and Nobby, and later Carrot and Angua, have to investigate an apartment rented to a dead wannabe assassin by a Cranky Landlady. She demands the rent in advance (especially from Nobby, although that's probably a smart move), and tells both ThoseTwoGuys and Carrot "No cooking, no music, no women, no pets." (The last two ''both'' present problems for Angua, who has to sneak into the apartment as a werewolf. She doesn't get caught though.)