History Main / WouldHarmASenior

->''"You want me to beat up a feeble old man? Well, that's cold even for you."''

-> ''"And still you stand? That's pathetic, old man! Recognize your limits and retire already!"''
-->-- '''Ganos''', ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''

-> ''"And still you stand? That's pathetic old man! Recognize your limits and retire already!"''

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': In Season 7, Walder Frey being a very elderly man doesn't save him from having his throat slit by [[Characters/GameOfThronesAryaStark Arya Stark]] in vengeance for her family's deaths. Not that Walder didn't have it coming.

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* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': In this ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' Franchise/MonsterVerse fanfiction, [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures the Many]] threaten to go after [[spoiler:Vivienne's mother]] in Chapter 13.
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* ''Film/ThePianist'': In a horrifying scene, a pair of Nazi SS officers drop a wheelchair-bound Jewish grandfather from a second-floor balcony, for no other reason but to be pointlessly cruel.
* ''Film/MarsAttacks'': The Martians attack a retirement home at one point.
* ''Film/IpMan4'': The boyfriend of Becky Walters and his gang attempt to rough up the 71-year old Ip Man after he defends Yonah from them. It doesn't end well for them, however, as he repels them without breaking a sweat.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlss3E1FallenArchesTheManeEvent Fallen Arches]]", the Ministry of Pain come 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 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.

* 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 see this knife on the old man's person, this is likely to be a lie.

Any video game that has an OldMaster, OldSoldier or OldSuperhero as a playable character is likely to have this.

* ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'': PlayedForLaughs. During the Vaizel Fighting Destival, King is paired off against an unassuming old guy, and is eager to beat him in order to impress [[LoveInterest Diane]]. Alas, King is so ineffective in a fight when unarmed that the old guy, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass who it turns out is a capable fighter]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqxa3N9oaRk wipes the floor with him]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'', Jenner has no qualms about killing an ailing Nicodemus, and viciously shoves aside a crippled Mr. Ages to [[WouldHitAGirl pursue Mrs. Brisby]].

* In ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'', the titular monster hero goes on a murder spree towards every thug, rapist, pedophile and bank-robber in Tromaville and quickly becomes beloved by the people for it (it's a Troma film, so over-the-top violence and murder is the norm). When he is found dry-cleaning a seemingly defenseless old lady, [[HeroWithBadPublicity the corrupt mayor uses this as an excuse to send the army and his corrupt, Nazi police commissioner after him]], leaving out the fact that the old lady was a sex-trafficker with a criminal record a mile long.

** In the last episode of season 1, Fisk murders his 73 year old accountant Leland Owlsley, after learning that Owlsley participated in poisoning Vanessa.
** In season 3, Fisk spares the life of 77 year old Esther Falb after learning the story behind the "Rabbit in a Snowstorm" painting. Too bad Dex doesn't seem fit to give the same courtesy, killing her offscreen. When Fisk realizes what Dex did, he shrugs it off with only mild disappointment.

* Wrestling/RandyOrton's "Legend Killer" gimmick sounded badass, until you realized to him "killing legends" mostly consisted of disrespecting and beating up retirees, included women less than half his size. Only occasionally would Orton have a match with someone still capable of having matches.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlss3E1FallenArchesTheManeEvent Fallen Arches]]", the Ministry of Pain come 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 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.

* 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 see this knife on the old man's person, this is likely to be a lie.

** In the first season Wilson "The Kingpin" Fisk puts a hit on [[spoiler:Elana Cardenas]] so that her apartment can be demolished, and to enrage Matthew "Daredevil" Murdock. He notes Murdock has a soft spot for women and kids, and concludes that it must extend to the elderly as well.
** Later in the season he murders his [[spoiler:accountant Leland Owlsley]]. Much more understandable given that [[spoiler:Owlsley tried to poison Fisk's girlfriend Vanessa]].
** In the third season while Fisk spares the life of Mrs. Falb, deduces that Dex killed her he shrugs it of with only mild disapointment.

* ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'': The SecretPolice's PoisonAndCureGambit on Locke fails because Locke is a NominalHero at best and a CombatPragmatist who's fully prepared to sucker-punch an eighty-year-old lady to grab the antidote.

Compare WouldHurtAChild, when someone is willing to hurt someone ''younger'' than them. If the harm is domestic in nature, then it's ElderAbuse. Contrast WhenEldersAttack and NeverMessWithGranny, when a senior would harm you.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' [[spoiler:Rourke punches the King of Atlantis, who's [[Really700YearsOld thousands of years old]], in the stomach, causing him to die of internal bleeding.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' [[spoiler:Rourke punches the King of Atlantis, who's thousands of years old, in the stomach, causing him to die of internal bleeding]].

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* ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'': The SecretPolice's PoisonAndCure gambit on Locke fails because Locke is a NominalHero at best and a CombatPragmatist who's fully prepared to sucker-punch an eighty-year-old lady to grab the antidote.

* Villains in ''Literature/WarriorCats'' occasionally attack elders; one example is in the first book when [=ShadowClan=] attacks [=ThunderClan=] and Blackfoot kills the elder Rosetail as she defends the nursery.

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* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': In a short comic, [[OmnicidalManiac Judge Death]] tried to use a teleporter to escape imprisonment in Mega-City One, but somehow wound up at a senior citizens gathering in the late 20th century UK. He proceeded to grant everyone an early ticket to the grave before Dredd showed up to recapture him and take him back.

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--> '''Old Lady''': Have you ever seen such cruelty?

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--> '''Augustine''': Well, unless you decide that you do have something to tell me, I'll go 'chat' with that old lady. But you should know, concrete is especially hard on brittle bones.

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* [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants "So, you like kicking]] ''[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants butts]]'' [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants do ya?]] '''''[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants WELL WE'LL SHOW YOU, OLD MAN!!!]]'''''"
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Compare WouldHurtAChild, when someone is willing to hurt someone ''younger'' than them. If the harm is domestic in nature, then it's ElderAbuse. Contrast WhenEldersAttack and NeverMessWithGranny, when a senior would hurt you.

Compare WouldHurtAChild, when someone is willing to hurt someone ''younger'' than them. If the harm is domestic in nature, then it's ElderAbuse.

** In ''SakuraWars2019'', Mr. I and his men are about to kill Yattansai Mochizuki as a demon sympathizer before his student, Azami, intervenes.

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': In a short comic, [[OmnicidalManiac Judge Death]] tried to use a teleporter to escape imprisonment in Mega-City One, but somehow wound up at a senior citizens gathering in the late 20th century UK. He proceeded to grant everyone an early ticket to the grave before Dredd showed up to recapture him and take him back.

* In ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', Rock Ridge goes from being a humble little western {{Arcadia}} to a WretchedHive, this cemented by a pair of thugs brutally beating on a defenseless old lady.
--> '''Old Lady''': Have you ever seen such cruelty?
* In ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'', the titular monster hero goes on a murder spree towards every thug, rapist, pedophile and bank-robber in Tromaville and quickly becomes beloved by the people for it (it's a Troma film, so over-the-top violence and murder is the norm). When he is found dry-cleaning a seemingly defenseless old lady, [[HeroWithBadPublicity the corrupt mayor uses this as an excuse to send the army and his corrupt, Nazi police commissioner after him]], leaving out the fact that the old lady was a sex-trafficker with a criminal record a mile long.

* ''Film/{{Circle}}'': As soon as people realize that the order of killing is based on voting, College Guy suggests killing off the oldest people first in order to buy themselves more time because it's "more fair", which the room begrudgingly agrees to. However, when they run out of truly elderly people, the room turns against him because it's clear he's just going to keep targeting people based on age.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/CthulhuSavesTheWorld'' bonus campaign "Cthulhu's Angels", where [[ComedicSociopathy Dark Umi]], evil personality of Umi, expresses delight when she gets to destroy [[spoiler:the game's InteractiveNarrator, who is an elderly man. Mitigated only by the fact that he's a RealityWarper and a PhysicalGod]].
* While the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series doesn't have many EvilOldFolks, presumably because AfterTheEnd, EverythingTryingToKillYou, especially if you've screwed over many people in your youth, the few EvilOldFolks you will meet are not treated differently than younger villains by the narrative, and killing [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Father Elijah]] (or trapping him into an inescapable vault until the end of his days) is not treated any differently by the narrative than killing anyone else who has crossed the MoralEventHorizon like him, and with the SillinessSwitch turned on, killing the Hell Grannies from Monty Python as they try to bludgeon you to death with rolling pins is not treated as any differently as killing the other thugs in the WretchedHive they operate from.

* In ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' [[spoiler:Rourke punches the King of Atlantis, who's thousands of years old, in the stomach, causing him to die of internal bleeding]].
* ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': When Kuzco accidentally bumps into an old man unfortunate enough to be standing nearby during his opening song, Kuzco has the old man [[DestinationDefenestration thrown out the window]]. Fortunately, the old man ends up comically wrapped up in some banners and unharmed, and this is just meant to show that Kuzco is a {{Jerkass}}, although [[CharacterDevelopment he gets better]].

* [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants "So, you like kicking]] ''[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants butts]]''' [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants do ya?]] '''''[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants WELL WE'LL SHOW YOU, OLD MAN!!!]]'''''