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Advertising
- Emily Skinner, The Woman Who Lived Longer Than Any Person Who Has Ever Lived.
- This phone commercial.
- She may always be outwitted by Sugar Bear, but Granny Goodwitch still fits. Here's a good example.
anime and manga
- Dola, from the Hayao Miyazaki movie Castle in the Sky, is both cool and incredibly badass... even though she has about 10 adult sons.
- On the subject of Miyazaki, there's Sophie (while under the Witch of the Waste's curse) from Howl's Moving Castle.
- Pinako Rockbell, Winry's grandmother from Fullmetal Alchemist.
- Sumire Ryuzaki, the Seigaku coach from The Prince Of Tennis.
- Torogai from Seirei No Moribito
- Genkai from YuYu Hakusho.
- One Piece has a few:
- Doctor Kureha
- Vice-Admiral Tsuru
- Amazon Lily's Elder Nyon
- Shakky, who is older than she looks.
- Sakae Jinnouchi from Summer Wars.
- Rui in Free Soul.
comic books
- Grandma "Rose" Ben, from Bone.
- Safa, the gruff, one-eyed old lioness from Pride Of Baghdad.
- Edith Manning, one of The Invisibles.
- Dennis The Menace's granny from The Beano.
- If villains count, Granny Goodness should be mentioned here. She may be Darkseid's sadistic Torture Technician, but she's cool as hell.
Fan Fiction
- Pretty much all the Old Keepers from Keepers of the Elements are this.
- What little we've seen of Trixie's grandmother Helena in Getting Back on Your Hooves implies she's one of these.
- Lady Silvermane from Whispers has shades of this.
film animation
- The old lady from Madagascar.
- Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather from SleepingBeauty.
- Mama Odie from The Princess And The Frog.
- Grandmother Fa of Mulan.
- Lucille from Meet The Robinsons
- "Boob Lady", the Inuit Medicine Woman from The Simpsons Movie.
- Ted's grandmother Norma from The Lorax.
- Sid's grandmother from Ice Age: Continental Drift.
- The Fairy Godmother from Cinderella.
film live action
- Ruriko, aka Bloody Benton, from Sukiyaki Western Django.
- Maude in Harold And Maude.
- The medium in Insidious.
- Maggie's grandma from The Last Starfighter
Literature
- Nannie from The Baby-Sitters Club. Mimi too, but in a different way.
- Mama Jason from Janet Kagan's short story collection Mirabile.
- Yellowfang from Warrior Cats.
- Hazel Stone from the Robert A. Heinlein classic The Rolling Stones.
- George Macdonald is particularly fond of these.
- Sylvia Redbird and Sister Mary Angela from The House of Night.
- Professor Chambers from The Power of Five. As it turns out, however, the cool factor isn't quite enough to fend off the Old Ones.
- Jayne Deverill is a villainous example.
television
- Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development.
- As Time Goes By's Mrs. Bale, although she'd be the last to acknowledge it.
- Karen McCluskey (Kathryn Joosten) from Desperate Housewives.
- And of course, Daisy May Moses AKA Granny from Beverly Hillbillies.
- Shirly Shmidt from Boston Legal.
- Downton Abbey:
- Lady Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, is this trope. And is played by Maggie "Minerva McGonagall" Smith.
- Lady Cora's mother, Martha Levinson also fits the bill.
- The Golden Girls are four cool old ladies. Yes, even Rose was cool. Sophia was even a Cool Old Lady with respects to the other three, being Dorothy's mother.
- Diane Lockhart from The Good Wife.
- Debbie from Queer As Folk.
- Scrubs did this twice, first in the episode aptly titled "My Old Lady" and with the season 5 Mrs. Wilk arc.
- On Gilmore Girls, a character played by Kathryn Joosten.
- Stephanie Cole's role as Joan Norton (Dr. Ellingham's aunt) in Doc Martin.
- Mona from Whos The Boss.
- Fay Evelyn Schlob Dumbly De Vay Cochran from Wings.
music
- Meet Ruth Flowers, aka "Mammy Rock, world's oldest DJ.
theatre
- Mildred Z. Maxwell in Done To Death.
video games
- Niime from Fire Emblem 6.
- Kreia, from Knights Of The Old Republic II. Though a bit more evil and bitter than most on this list.
- Ravel Puzzlewell from Planescape Torment is kind of like this too, although her "other faces", especially Mebbeth is more straight example.
- Impa, from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Her incarnations in other games are this, as well.
- Anjean from The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks certainly qualifies. She is pretty much what happens when Impa meets Tetra and becomes her BFF.
- Unei from Final Fantasy III qualifies.
Web Original
- From the website of the ever-awesome artist/author Ursula Vernon: http://www.redwombatstudio.com/blog/wpg2?g2_itemId=309
- Madam Karin Mayweather from Arcana Magi Zero. Alysia Perez and Megumi Miyazaki thought Karin was cool after their visit and wanted to see her again.
- Equestria Chronicles has a minor amount of cool old mares.
Western Animation
- Slappy Squirrel from Animaniacs alternates between this and a Grumpy Old Lady, depending on her mood.
- Arnold's Grandma Gertie in Hey Arnold!!.
- Madame Foster, founder of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
- Nana Wu from Three Delivery.
- Torhu's ruff and ready mom from Jackie Chan Adventures.
- Miss Finster from Recess.
- Archer makes friends with one of these in Placebo Effect, while they're both under treatment for breast cancer.
Real Life
- Jane Goodall.
- Old Grandma Hardcore.
- Helen Mirren is positively made of this trope.
- The leader of Burma's pro-democracy movement Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Stevie Nicks.
- The late Maila Nurmi.
- The also late Celia Cruz. AZĂCAR!!!!!
- The entire Red Hat society. It's like a magnet.
- Maggie Smith.
Thing about these examples is, they fail to explain why they are examples.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
AnimeOtaku
Since: Aug, 2009
Nov 23rd 2010 at 6:00:50 PM
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Removed Mother Teresa, doing some research on the woman would show that calling her a Complete Monster may be justified, if I'm feeling charitable then Well-Intentioned Extremist works too.
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rose64bud
Since: May, 2010
XFllo
Since: Aug, 2012
Jul 30th 2013 at 2:18:07 PM
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It has to be said that nobody is a Complete Monster in real life.
If you are interested in Mother Theresa and how her work can be viewed negatively and justifiably criticised, I suggest you look up Christopher Hitchens' documentary about her. I think there might even be a book by him.
XFllo
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Since: Aug, 2012
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Jul 30th 2013 at 2:15:18 PM
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These are either poorly written examples or too generic or natter.
- Her co-stars in The Golden Girls before their passing were very much the epitome of Cool Old Ladies too.
- What, no love for Betty's one-time rival on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cloris Leachman?
- Heck, any old lady on that list who is still around in the music business as of 2010 automatically qualifies for this trope, which include but are not limited to Joan Jett and Yoko Ono. (
YMMV onThe latter even sang with Lady Gaga!)
- Heck, any old lady on that list who is still around in the music business as of 2010 automatically qualifies for this trope, which include but are not limited to Joan Jett and Yoko Ono. (
This page needs help with Zero Context Examples.
myexplodingcat
Since: Nov, -0001
Jun 3rd 2013 at 11:41:10 PM
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Grace Cahill from the 39 Clues belongs here, I think. Even though for 99% of the series we only see the effects of her actions since she dies in the first chapter (and her death sets the rest of the story going), Amy and Dan's memories of her and her stories of travelling the world and hunting down Clues set her in this trope.
about how old must someone be to qualify for this trope