History Main / RetiredBadass

* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7425620/1/To-The-Journey To the Journey]]" opens with James T. Kirk being saved from his death on Veridian III. Reading about the current state of the galaxy, such as escalating tensons with the Cardassians and the Dominion, he decides to apply to return to Starfleet, receiving command of the ''Defiant''-class ''Fearless''.

How well do you know your neighbors, shopkeepers, the old guy down the street with all the little mementos from around the world? If you haven't known them your whole life there's a chance they may be a badass.

Just as badasses come in many different varieties, so do retired badasses. Some are happily retired from adventuring, sports, fighting, or whatever they used to do and are content to [[HomeSweetHome live a normal life in a normal little town]], or even the simple life in {{Arcadia}}. Some have become shopkeepers who just do a little work to keep in touch with people and get by in their old age. Some get promoted within their organization to a DeskJockey supervisory role. Often, they spend all their time [[CallToAgriculture tending a field]]. Some of them never really get into retirement because every time they start to settle into it they [[TenMinuteRetirement get jolted back out]]. Maybe they have [[InHarmsWay a secret longing to get back into the game]], (whatever it may be) or regrets about the past. [[HeroicNeutral Often they're perfectly happy in their retirement]] and are pointedly ignoring events of the outside world until the evil {{Mooks}} of whatever BigBad that is looking to take over the world come in and wreck his shop, then laugh at him because, after all, what can an old man do about it? It doesn't take long for the asskickery to commence.

* General, later Field Marshal and even later President, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, born 1867. He made his lifetime career in the Czarist Russian army, retiring as a fully serving General of Cavalry of the Lifeguards in 1917, having participated in both Russo-Japanese war 1904-1905 and WWI 1914-1917. After the declaration of Independence of Finland in December 1917, he was pleased to become the commander-in-chief of the White Army. After the Finnish Civil War, he retired. [[LittleDidIKnow Little did he know]] that his SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome was yet to become. His happy pensioneer's days were over in 1939 when the Winter War began. Again he was called to service, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army. He was promoted to Field Marshal in 1940, and he served as the Supreme Commander of the Finnish Armed Forces until the end of the Continuation War. After theArmisticee with the USSR in 1944 and resignation of President Risto Ryti, he was nominated as ''the President of Finland''. Why? Because [[WorthyOpponent he was the only person both Finns and Soviets could trust]]. He passed away in 1951.

* In ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'', [[EccentricMentor Professor Ozpin]] is heavily implied to be this, considering that he cows even the badass Adam Taurus into following him with nothing more than a [[TranquilFury glare]].[[/folder]]