History Main / WhenEldersAttack

* Bruce Wayne fits this trope occasionally in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. Given that this is Batman as a senior citizen, he is much more effective than average.

* In ''TheSims'' games, Mrs. Crumplebottom is an NPC who visits community lots. If two Sims kiss on the lot, she'll come over and hit one of them with her purse.

* Wrestling/KevinSullivan and his army of darkness ([[OddlySmallOrganization or what was left of it]]) ambushing Ring Warriors Grand Champion Bruce Santee to prove they were still relevant.

* Wrestling/KevinSullivan and his army of darkness (or what was left of it) ambushing Ring Warriors Grand Champion Bruce Santee to prove they were still relevant.

* Just to hammer in how much Wrestling/{{TNA}} did not care for No Limit, it uncovered them from their shallow graves so they could be {{squash| match}}ed down to fit into deeper ones by the completely grey headed Wrestling/KevinNash.

->''"What's this? Attack of the old people? Oh, that's ridiculous."''
-->-- '''The Dream Lord''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]]

->''"What's this? Attack of the old people? [[LampshadeHanging Oh, that's ridiculous]]."''

* In one bit, comedian PattonOswalt says that, if you can live to be 100, you should be allowed to legally murder anyone you want, provided you kill them with your bare hands. He then says, "Would any of you come to the rescue if you heard, 'Help, a 100 year old woman is beating me to death!'?"

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* AndrewJackson did this to a guy who tried to kill him, chasing him with his cane after both of the would-be assassin's pistols failed to fire. Jackson, 67 at the time and reportedly having respiratory problems, had to be pulled off his target by his aides after administering a highly justified beatdown.
* It has been proven that elderly victims of muggings and armed robbery are twice as likely to retaliate against an attacker, compared to younger victims. The reason basically being that a younger victim would believe he or she had more to lose.
* More than once a mugger has targeted an elderly man they thought would be an easy mark, only to discover said elderly man is an ex-special forces RetiredBadass.
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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Madagascar}}'': Nana, the [[OneSceneWonder little old lady]] from the first movie returned in the sequel, ''Escape 2 Africa'', through sheer PopularityPower. Not only did she beat up a full-grown lion (''three times!''), but she showed a lot of skill as a survivalist and delivered a RousingSpeech to her fellow [[BigApplesauce New Yorkers]] after the Penguins jacked their tour jeeps.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Ratatouille}}'' had the crazy old woman who tried to shoot the rats with a shotgun [[spoiler:then gas her house with poison gas]], but completely and utterly failed to be {{Badass}}.

* In old-style British wrestling, a section of the audience with the power to ''terrify'' some of the largest, hardest, men to stalk the ring were.... the grannies. Little old ladies who let it all out on a Saturday afternoon at the wrestling. Special bile was reserved for whoever was playing the Evil Wrestler part. The old ladies were capable of seriously foul swearing, throwing things including handfuls of drawing pins or even nails. If anyone was unlucky enough to fall or be thrown out of the ring... ouch. Being belaboured with walking sticks was only the beginning of it. Some dedicated wrestler-baiters did things like sharpen the ferrule of an umbrella to a vicious point, and stab with it. Cigarettes would be stubbed out into bare flesh. Hatpins would be inserted where it hurt most. Imagine a ringside of wrestling grannies claiming vengeance on the baddie who'd just apparently beaten the golden boy to a pulp... the blows in the ring might still sting, but at least they were agreed and roughly scripted. In the ring the wrestler had an idea of what was coming. ''Outside'' the ring was a different matter.

* In old-style British wrestling, a section of the audience with the power to ''terrify'' some of the largest, hardest, men to stalk the ring were.... the grannies. Little old ladies who let it all out on a Saturday afternoon at the wrestling. Special bile was reserved for whoever was playing the Evil Wrestler part. The old ladies were capable of seriously foul swearing, throwing things including handfuls of drawing pins or even nails. If anyone was unlucky enough to fall or be thrown out of the ring... ouch. Being belaboured with walking sticks was only the beginning of it. Some dedicated wrestler-baiters did things like sharpen the ferrule of an umbrella to a vicious point, and stab with it. Cigarettes would be stubbed out into bare flesh. Hatpins would be inserted where it hurt most. Imagine a ringside of wrestling grannies claiming vengeance on the baddie who'd just apparently beaten the golden boy to a pulp... the blows in the ring might still sting, but at least they were agreed and roughly scripted. In the ring the wrestler had an idea of what was coming. ''Outside'' the ring was a different matter.

* An example from a soap opera is Crane Tolliver, Lila Quartermaine's first husband on ''GeneralHospital'', who shot Susan Moore (Jason "holy hitman" Morgan's mother) when she tried to double-cross him in a blackmail scheme.

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* The title character of the ''Madea'' series... especially in ''MadeasFamilyReunion'' and ''MadeaGoesToJail'' where a school bully in the former and the police in the latter found out.

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See also: BadassGrandpa, NeverMessWithGranny, OldMaster, ScrewPolitenessImASenior and ImprobableWeaponUser. Not to be confused with RacistGrandma, though it can overlap.

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->''What's this? Attack of the old people? [[LampshadeHanging Oh, that's ridiculous]].''
-->-- '''The Dream Lord''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E07AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]"

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', treat your elders with respect..... ''or else.'' Case in point: "Grey Dawn". In a parody of ''Film/RedDawn1984'', the town's seniors, organized by the American Association of Retired Persons, orchestrate a takeover of the town when the state of Colorado decides to revoke the driver's license of any person over 70. [[spoiler:They are thwarted when the boys lock the doors of the Country Kitchen Buffet (a real restaurant chain, actually, and it gets a lot of business from seniors), where all the seniors had been eating, and thus cutting off their food supply.]]

* The elderly superheroes of {{Bigtime}}.

* In ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode [[Recap/CommunityS1E18BasicGenealogy Basic Genealogy]], Troy's grandmother attacks one of his classmates with a switch.

* In ''SpiderMan2'', although she is the DamselInDistress at that point, this doesn't stop Aunt May from helping Spider-Man in fighting Dr. Octopus by giving the mad scientist a good whack with her umbrella.

* The title character of the ''Madea'' series... especially in MadeasFamilyReunion and MadeaGoesToJail where a school bully in the former and the police in the latter found out.

* The title character of the ''Madea'' series... especially in MadeaFamilyReunion and MadeaGoesToJail where a school bully in the former and the police in the latter found out.