History Main / WouldHarmASenior

* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheProudFamilyS2E22ThelmaAndLuis Thelma and Luis]]", in which [=LaCienega's=] Papi is sent to a nursing home that turns out to be a front for an illegal okra plantation where the residents are enslaved. While not under the category of beating up old people, the owner's treatment of the elderly is anything but saintly. [[spoiler:When [[CassandraTruth the rest of the adults don't believe the kids]], only Suga Mama does and helps them spring Papi from his HellholePrison, then the two go on the run when his escape doesn't go unnoticed.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlss3E1FallenArchesTheManeEvent Fallen Arches]]", the Ministry of Pain comes out of retirement after several decades to commit crimes. Even though Bubbles and Buttercup are more than willing to stop them, Blossom refuses to let them because [[HonorBeforeReason they have to respect their elders]]. The Powerpuff Girls get around this by enlisting Captain Righteous and Lefty, two equally elderly former superheroes, to fight the Ministry of Pain. [[spoiler:It doesn't work out.]]
* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' episode "[[Recap/TheProudFamilyS2E22ThelmaAndLuis Thelma and Luis]]", where [=LaCienega's=] Papi is sent to a nursing home that turns out to be a front for an illegal okra plantation where the residents are enslaved. While not under the category of beating up old people, the owner's treatment of the elderly is anything but saintly. [[spoiler:When [[CassandraTruth the rest of the adults don't believe the kids]], only Suga Mama does and helps them spring Papi from his HellholePrison, then the two go on the run when his escape doesn't go unnoticed.]]

* In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', when one old man (who is implied to have lived through Hitler's regime and felt quite indignant about the Nazis) refuses to bow down to Loki, Loki is about to kill him before Captain America stops him.

** The game's first culprit, [[spoiler:"Zilch Alexander"]], is very much willing to target [[spoiler:Zange Eraser, a senior detective,]] as part of their murder case.

** The game's first culprit, [[spoiler:"Zilch Alexander"]], is very much willing to target [[spoiler:Zange Eraser, a senior detective]], as part of their murder case.

** The game's first culprit, [[spoiler:Zilch Alexander]], is very much willing to target [[spoiler:Zange Eraser, a senior detective]], as part of their murder case.

* In ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'', multiple people are willing to harm the senior Amaterasu Corporation head researcher [[spoiler:Dr. Huesca]], for their own reasons.
** [[spoiler:Yakou Furio, his killer, targets him due to Yomi manipulating him into doing so.]]
** [[spoiler:Yomi Hellsmile, the one who manipulated him into doing so, was intending to kill him ''six months ago'' due to betraying him, but manipulated Yakou into doing so to keep his hands clean (and to prevent himself from dying too).]]
** [[spoiler:Makoto Kagutsuchi, the CEO of the company, manipulated '''both of them''' by introducing Fink the Slaughter Artist to Yakou to aid their plan, as part of his ''own'' agenda to oust Yomi Hellsmile from power.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', Ratigan gloats in song about having killed both elderly widows and [[WouldHurtAChild orphans]] as part of his criminal schemes, and his climactic EvilPlan is to [[TyrantTakesTheHelm take over the British Mouse Empire]] and establish a tax hike to the children, elderly and [[BullyTheDisabled the infirm]] that is heavily implied would be penalized [[KillThePoor by death]].

* ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'': A mugger tries to steal an old woman's purse, then punches her several times in the face when she fights back. Unbeknownst to him, the woman is an expert in Tae Kwon Do, and she demonstrates her skills by giving him an [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown absolute thrashing]] before finishing him off with a punch to the throat that severs his trachea, causing him to suffocate to death.

* In ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'', one unusually dark "The Lighter Side Of..." strip has three young men sizing up various passers-by, and ultimately deciding that an old woman fits their needs before the final panel reveals that they intend on attacking and robbing her. A follow-up strip has a judge deliver a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to them, but the three of them are confident that [[KarmaHoudini they'll be released before long]].
* Franchise/SpiderMan's burglar, who infamously shot his elderly Uncle Ben and sent Peter Parker on the path to superheroism.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "Jet", the gaang meet with Jet and his Freedom Fighters. While Sokka does not trust any of them from the get-go, his distrust is cemented when he joins their patrol and finds Jet needlessly threatening an elderly traveler. When Sokka goes to tell Katara and Aang about it, Jet claims that the old man was a Fire Nation assassin sent to kill him and shows him a poison-laced dagger that he claims to have frisked off of the old man. Since neither Sokka nor the audience ever sees this knife on the old man's person, this is likely to be a lie.

** Bender has been shown to have no qualms with causing harm to the elderly Professor Farnsworth, such as bending his spine backwards in "Bendless Love" or sawing his hand off to get to a satchel he's handcuffed to himself in ''Bender's Big Score''.
** In "A Tale of Two Santas", one of the children's letters to Robot Santa read by Fry and Leela is from a boy whose grandfather was choked to death by Robot Santa with a chestnut last Xmas. The kid writes the letter to request that Robot Santa get his grandfather a coffin, complaining that Grandpa's festering corpse is starting to smell.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': "The Bully" has a gag where [=SpongeBob=] runs screaming about how Flatts is going to kick his butt, with bystanders mistakenly thinking it's an innocent senior citizen who was threatening [=SpongeBob=] before proceeding to beat the crap out of the old man. This happens twice, in fact, with the second time having the old man [[UnexplainedRecovery show no signs of injury]] and [[EasilyForgiven cheerfully welcome the mob that's about to beat him up again]].

** "Forgotten People" plays this trope seriously straight. A corrupt nursing home administrator and her staff of rogue doctors and ex-con orderlies were using the home as a front for an illegal testing facility using its elderly patients as guinea pigs to create variants of an Alzheimer's drug originally banned by the FDA that they plan to sell to pharmaceutical companies to make a large profit for themselves since running a nursing home would throw off suspicion. Because of those experiments, nine patients had already died. However, an investigation into the nursing home is soon prompted when one patient, who was an old friend of Trivette's, is murdered by the doctors to prevent him from exposing their scheme, with C.D. going undercover as a patient and making a new friend who was also undercover for the same reason. With the corrupt doctors having killed two other patients-- one who tried to escape the facility and another used in their experiments-- C.D. and his new friend would have been next had Walker and Trivette not been alerted, thanks to a transmitter hidden in a bible connected to Walker's pager.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlss3E1FallenArchesTheManeEvent Fallen Arches]]", the Ministry of Pain comes out of retirement after several decades to commit crimes. Even though Bubbles and Buttercup are more than willing to stop them, Blossom refuses to let them because [[HonorBeforeReason they have to respect their elders]]. The Powerpuff Girls get around this by enlisting Captain Righteous and Lefty, two equally elderly former superheroes, to fight the Ministry of Pain. [[spoiler:It doesn't work out.]]

** Bender has been shown to have no qualms with causing harm to the elderly Professor Farnsworth, such as bending his spine backwards in "Bendless Love".