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* ''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]].

* ''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.

* 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 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.]]

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%%* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants: "So, you like kicking ''butts'', do ya? '''''WELL, WE'LL SHOW YOU, OLD MAN!!!'''''"

* In ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa'', Alex the lion is more than willing to get in a one-on-one combat with [[NeverMessWithGranny the little old lady]] who beat him up in the first film. Despite Alex being a fully grown male lion, the old lady still wins the fight.

* ''Film/Blade1998'' and ''Film/BladeII'': Blade's elderly if tough-as-nails mentor Whistler is on the receiving end from vampires at times. Beyond combat, in both movies there are instances where vampires go out of their way to have him slowly and painfully brutalized while he's down.

* ''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 ''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.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': In the Season 6 finale, 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.

* 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.

* This trope is the selling point of the old Flash BeatEmUp, ''VideoGame/{{Disorderly}}'', in which you are an orderly in an old folk's home being given an assignment by your boss to "curb overpopulation crisis" in the home. For pretty much the entire game, you get to go around beating the snot out of elderly folks with assorted weapons (they DoNotGoGentle either, a ''lot'' of those elderly folks puts up a fight before going down) across five levels, and all of these are PlayedForLaughs.
* This is how Reddo, the first boss from ''VideoGame/DustyRevenge'', introduces himself. You're speaking with Gladdius, an elderly FortuneTeller, and before Gladdius could reveal your true fate Reddo suddenly barges in and shoots Gladdius in the back of her head. With a smile on his face.
* 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 ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'', Mr. I and his men are about to kill Yattansai Mochizuki as a demon sympathizer before his student, Azami, intervenes.

* 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.

* Eustace and Muriel in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' are frequent victims of this. Each MonsterOfTheWeek capture them and/or attempt to harm them in any way they possibly can without a single qualm of their actions regardless of their old age. Of course, unlike Muriel, Eustace often deserves whatever horrible fate he receives since half of the Bagges' ordeals are due to his stupidity and stubbornness getting them in the mess, which is also helped by [[PsychopathicManchild his immaturity despite his old age]].

* 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.
* 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.]]

%%* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants: "So, you like kicking ''butts'' do ya? '''''WELL WE'LL SHOW YOU, OLD MAN!!!'''''"

* 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.

* This is how Reddo, the first boss from ''VideoGame/DustyRevenge'', introduces himself. You're speaking with Gladdius, an elderly FOrtuneTeller, and before Gladdius could reveal your true fate Reddo suddenly barges in and shoots Gladdius in the back of her head. With a smile on his face.

** "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 a transmitter hidden in a bible connected to Walker's pager.

* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': A cornered Jimmy/Saul/Gene threatens to strangle Marion when she discovers his fugitive identity. While he is unable to fully go through with it, it signifies both to the audience and to [[HeelRealization himself]] just how far Jimmy, a man who started his legal career passionately defending the elderly from exploitation, has fallen.

** "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.

** A more serious example is "Forgotten People", where 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 where its elderly patients are the 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 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.

** A more serious example is the episode "Forgotten People", where a corrupt nursing home administrator and her staff of rogue doctors and criminal orderlies wanting to put a new Alzheimer's drug on the market to profit from were using the home as a front for an illegal testing facility where its elderly patients are the guinea pigs. 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 also undercover for the same reason.

** A more serious example is the episode "Forgotten People", where the Rangers had to deal with corrupt doctors and their criminal orderlies hoping to put a new Alzheimer's drug on the market to profit from and were using a nursing home as a front for an illegal testing facility where its elderly patients are the guinea pigs. 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 also undercover for the same reason.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'':
** C.D. Parker, a retired Ranger, is often targeted by the villains in a way to try to intimidate Walker. [[TooDumbToLive This tactic, of course, only makes Walker madder]].
** The episode "Forgotten People" has the Rangers dealing with corrupt doctors and their criminal orderlies hoping to put a new Alzheimer's drug on the market to profit from and were using a nursing home as a front for an illegal testing facility where its elderly patients are the guinea pigs. 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 also undercover for the same reason.

** C.D. Parker, a retired Ranger, is often targeted by the villains in a way to try to intimidate Walker. This tactic, of course, only makes Walker madder.

** One episode has the Rangers dealing with corrupt doctors and their criminal orderlies hoping to put a new Alzheimer's drug on the market to profit from and were using a nursing home as a front for an illegal testing facility where its elderly patients are the guinea pigs. 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 also undercover for the same reason.

** One episode has the Rangers dealing with corrupt doctors and their criminal orderlies hoping to put a new Alzheimer's drug on the market to profit from and were using a nursing home as a front for an illegal testing facility where its elderly patients are the guinea pigs. An investigation into the nursing home is soon prompted when one patient, who was an old friend of Trivette's, mysteriously dies, with C.D. going undercover as a patient and making a new friend also undercover for the same reason.

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.

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

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': C.D. Parker, a retired Ranger, is often targeted by the villains in a way to try to intimidate Walker. This tactic, of course, only makes Walker madder.
** One episode has the Rangers dealing with corrupt doctors and their criminal orderlies hoping to put a new Alzheimer's drug on the market to profit from and were using a nursing home as a front for an illegal testing facility where its elderly patients are the guinea pigs. An investigation is soon launched against the nursing home when one patient who was an old friend of Trivette's mysteriously dies.