Tropescilloscope: Badass Grandpa

Never mess with this old man. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Hate Sink Flipping the Bird Mundane Made Awesome Getting Crap Past the Radar The Casanova O.O.C. Is Serious Business Ragtag Bunch of Misfits A Minor Kidroduction Dirty Old Man Not Using the "Z" Word Big Fancy House Big Eater The '70s Rewatch Bonus Dissonant Serenity Bunny-Ears Lawyer Running Gag The Ace Evil Is Hammy Only Sane Man Pimped-Out Dress Take a Third Option All There in the Manual Never Trust a Trailer Eiffel Tower Effect Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Missing Mom Your Head A-Splode Pyrrhic Victory Christmas Movies Index Apocalypse How Horror Films A God Am I French Films A Date with Rosie Palms Bittersweet Ending Badass Grandpa Bond One-Liner Public Domain Feature Films Line-of-Sight Name Breaking the Fourth Wall Famous Last Words Hell Is That Noise I Did What I Had to Do Babies Ever After As the Good Book Says... An Axe to Grind Improbable Weapon User Grey and Gray Morality Animated Credits Opening Actually Pretty Funny Deliberately Monochrome Only Known by Their Nickname Unwitting Instigator of Doom Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Adorkable War Is Hell Translation Convention Nice Guy Depraved Bisexual Never My Fault Setting Update Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Shown Their Work Laughing Mad Animal Title Index Gilligan Cut Villain Protagonist Crucified Hero Shot Heel–Face Turn Redemption Equals Death Mexican Standoff Broken Bird Cold-Blooded Torture Wicked Cultured Karma Houdini Badass Normal Retirony Stalker with a Crush Fat Bastard Red Shirt Eagleland Put on a Bus Your Cheating Heart Expository Hairstyle Change Self-Deprecation Artistic License – Geography My God, What Have I Done? Hair-Trigger Temper Drowning My Sorrows The Power of Love Bare Your Midriff Big "NO!" Loophole Abuse Never Found the Body Crapsack World The Smart Guy Even Evil Has Standards Big Brother Instinct Race Lift The Sociopath Riddle for the Ages Ambiguous Disorder One-Word Title Distracted by the Sexy Destination Defenestration Sports Stories The Chick Evil Counterpart Heterosexual Life-Partners Comically Missing the Point Neck Snap Determinator aka: The Determinator Danny Peary Cult Movies List Peek-a-Boo Corpse Abhorrent Admirer Spiteful Spit Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The Stoner Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Insistent Terminology Annoying Younger Sibling How We Got Here Defiant to the End Video Credits Demonic Possession The Dragon Mugging the Monster Dark Is Not Evil Mind Screw Rich Bitch Anti-Villain Greater-Scope Villain Costume Porn Spell My Name with an "S" Darker and Edgier Man on Fire Make It Look Like an Accident I Have Your Wife Bond Villain Stupidity Mooks Fainting Deadpan Snarker Dirty Cop BFG Gainax Ending Silence Is Golden Gone Horribly Right Catapult Nightmare Car Fu Fantastic Racism Bad Boss My Beloved Smother Monumental Damage Death Glare Zombie Stories Sinister Minister Death of a Child Fingore Establishing Character Moment Book-Ends Mercy Kill Meaningful Echo Smug Snake Imagine Spot Death by Irony Obstructive Bureaucrat Sanity Slippage It Will Never Catch On Evil Brit Only One Name Final Girl Henpecked Husband The Chessmaster May–December Romance Roaring Rampage of Revenge Captain Obvious Developing Doomed Characters Evil Sounds Deep Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Television Movie Index Token Minority Mystery and Detective Films Pretty in Mink Police Brutality Took a Level in Jerkass Villain Opening Scene He Knows Too Much Woman Scorned Facial Horror He Who Fights Monsters Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Our Vampires Are Different Pre-Mortem One-Liner Unreliable Narrator Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Musical Irony Ship Tease Time Skip Dropped a Bridge on Him Sir Swears-a-Lot Dark Reprise Spiritual Successor Re-Cut No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Say My Name Kubrick Stare Blood Knight Determinator "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Adapted Out Stylistic Suck Five-Man Band More Dakka Anti-Hero Serial Killer Naïve Newcomer Arch-Enemy Exactly What It Says on the Tin Chase Scene Alliterative Name Brutal Honesty Meet Cute Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Ascended Extra Gender Flip Belligerent Sexual Tension Those Two Guys Soft Glass Ripped from the Headlines Only a Flesh Wound Suddenly SHOUTING! Parental Substitute Suspiciously Specific Denial Credits Gag No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Adaptational Heroism Double-Meaning Title Tap on the Head No Celebrities Were Harmed Fourth Date Marriage Plot Hole Artistic License – Gun Safety Country Matters Victoria's Secret Compartment Roger Ebert: Great Movies List What Happened to the Mouse? Twist Ending Red Herring The '60s The Remake Unresolved Sexual Tension The Un-Reveal Jerkass Genre Throwback I Need a Freaking Drink Artistic License – Physics Eldritch Abomination Mad Scientist Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Scenery Porn Manic Pixie Dream Girl Implacable Man Casting Gag Air-Vent Passageway Rule of Funny Cat Fight Ominous Latin Chanting Improbable Aiming Skills Not So Above It All Soundtrack Dissonance Skewed Priorities Sequel Hook Cluster F-Bomb Redshirt Army Hong Kong Films Throwing Your Sword Always Works I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Guns Akimbo Documentary Demoted to Extra Armor-Piercing Question Villain Song Protagonist Title Artistic License – Biology Spanner in the Works Noodle Incident A Father to His Men Covers Always Lie Tagline Sole Survivor Dutch Angle Cool Shades Straight Gay Fan Disservice Expy Non-Indicative Name Refuge in Audacity Card-Carrying Villain The Mole "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Faceless Heel Realization Overly Long Gag Naked People Are Funny Framing Device Chekhov's Gunman Cool Old Lady Pragmatic Adaptation Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Cavalry Tranquil Fury Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Character Development Male Frontal Nudity Meaningful Name Enemy Mine Disney Villain Death Epic Fail Children Are Innocent Intergenerational Friendship Major Injury Underreaction Gory Discretion Shot Downer Ending Biopic Big Bad Obviously Evil Evil vs. Evil Killed Mid-Sentence Stealth Pun Rule of Cool Better to Die than Be Killed Black Comedy The Vamp Married to the Job Retired Badass Hoist by His Own Petard Didn't Think This Through Early-Bird Cameo Brainless Beauty Sassy Black Woman Fanservice Extra Pragmatic Villainy Too Dumb to Live Let's Get Dangerous! Wrong Genre Savvy Blood from the Mouth The Quiet One B-Movie Fate Worse than Death Advertised Extra An Arm and a Leg Hollywood Darkness One Steve Limit Love Triangle Off-into-the-Distance Ending Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Deliberate Values Dissonance Romantic Comedy Historical-Domain Character Bald of Evil Drugs Are Bad Training Montage Creator Cameo Villain with Good Publicity Not So Stoic Nice Hat The Smurfette Principle Cloudcuckoolander All Just a Dream Evil-Detecting Dog Bi the Way Blackmail Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Deal with the Devil For Want of a Nail Based on a True Story What You Are in the Dark Black Best Friend Intrepid Reporter Fun with Acronyms Playing Gertrude Frame-Up Coming-of-Age Story The Hero Dies timeperiod Composite Character Vampire Fiction Shirtless Scene Adaptation Distillation Pay Evil unto Evil Call-Forward All Girls Want Bad Boys Beard of Evil Historical In-Joke Celebrity Paradox Take That! Guile Hero Heroic BSoD Alpha Bitch Knight Templar Leitmotif You Killed My Father Brother–Sister Incest Stuff Blowing Up Bad "Bad Acting" Exact Words Logo Joke And the Adventure Continues Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Slashed Throat Foregone Conclusion Betty and Veronica Race Against the Clock Cassandra Truth Smoking Is Cool Rasputinian Death Genre Shift She's Got Legs Precision F-Strike After the End Would Hit a Girl My Greatest Failure Every Car Is a Pinto Mood Whiplash Only in It for the Money Psycho for Hire Camera Abuse Hidden Depths Camp Gay Green-Eyed Monster Posthumous Character Dark and Troubled Past Manipulative Bastard The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Ungrateful Bastard Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Unusually Uninteresting Sight Darkest Hour Bait-and-Switch Beware the Nice Ones Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Really Gets Around Evil Laugh Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Instant Death Bullet Adults Are Useless Leaning on the Fourth Wall Dogged Nice Guy Auto Erotica Thriller Gold Digger Dull Surprise Taking the Bullet Older Than They Look The Lost Lenore Extremely Short Timespan Ass Shove Animal Motifs Blatant Lies Visual Pun A.I. Is a Crapshoot Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Big Guy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Kill 'em All Morality Pet German Films Shell-Shocked Veteran Made of Explodium Vacation Films Action Prologue Red Eyes, Take Warning Defrosting Ice Queen Sci-Fi Horror Villainous Breakdown Love at First Sight You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Jitter Cam The Ghost Fish out of Water All Men Are Perverts World of Ham Index of Film Westerns The X of Y Pretty Little Headshots 20 Minutes into the Future Vitriolic Best Buds Stealth Hi/Bye Punch-Clock Villain Sequel Escalation Evil Plan Historical Villain Upgrade Due to the Dead Berserk Button The Voiceless Big Bad Duumvirate Break the Cutie Slasher Movie Bowdlerise The Film of the Book Amoral Attorney Not Even Bothering with the Accent Hero of Another Story Damsel in Distress Film Series Closed Circle Drives Like Crazy Death Seeker Bland-Name Product Asshole Victim The Alleged Car Fire-Forged Friends Ax-Crazy NO INDOOR VOICE Does Not Like Shoes In Name Only Genre Savvy Drill Sergeant Nasty Conspicuous CG The Great Depression Stock Footage Star-Crossed Lovers Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Music Stories British Films Adaptational Villainy Friend to All Children Have a Gay Old Time Rated M for Manly Extreme Doormat The End... Or Is It? Adaptational Badass Nothing Is Scarier Creative Closing Credits Bavarian Fire Drill Ms. Fanservice Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Attempted Rape Kill It with Fire All There in the Script Beta Couple Wham Shot Idiot Ball Dumb Blonde Canadian Movies Psychological Thriller Loads and Loads of Characters Title Drop Mama Bear The Load Rule of Symbolism Reasonable Authority Figure Hollywood Law Not So Different True Companions Australian Movies Not What It Looks Like Left the Background Music On Face Death with Dignity Four-Temperament Ensemble Suspiciously Similar Substitute Captain Ersatz Bilingual Bonus Even Evil Has Loved Ones Dressing as the Enemy Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Eureka Moment Martial Arts Movie Japanese Films Fatal Flaw Italian Films Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Karmic Death And Starring Disappeared Dad Despair Event Horizon Arranged Marriage Lighter and Softer Stepford Smiler The Hero Ghost Fiction Maybe Ever After Bolivian Army Ending Trailers Always Spoil Parental Abandonment Scenery Gorn Broken Pedestal Kick the Dog The Reveal The Mafia Reckless Gun Usage Flashback Cat Scare Gratuitous English Would Hurt a Child Authority Equals Asskicking Sadistic Choice Arc Words Affably Evil Curb-Stomp Battle Break the Haughty Artistic License – Military Groin Attack Dies Wide Open Film Noir "Shaggy Dog" Story Word of God Dual Wielding The Stinger No-Sell Anyone Can Die Fiery Redhead Ambiguous Ending Match Cut No Name Given Cruel and Unusual Death Anguished Declaration of Love Adaptation Name Change Death by Sex In the Back Serious Business Bound and Gagged MacGuffin Corrupt Corporate Executive Black Dude Dies First All for Nothing Daylight Horror Jerk Jock Shipper on Deck Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Age Lift Overprotective Dad Sealed Evil in a Can Red Oni, Blue Oni Informed Ability Scary Black Man No OSHA Compliance Russian Films Mighty Whitey folderlabel The Alcoholic The Oner Half the Man He Used to Be Affectionate Parody You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Funny Foreigner Foil Kids Are Cruel And I Must Scream Deus ex Machina Police are Useless As You Know Mythology Gag Properly Paranoid From Nobody to Nightmare Good Is Not Nice Rousing Speech Badass in a Nice Suit Black Comedy Rape Award-Bait Song Action Girl Our Zombies Are Different Disguised in Drag The Dreaded Slasher Smile Plucky Comic Relief An Aesop Foreshadowing Woman in White Those Wacky Nazis Unusual Euphemism Disproportionate Retribution Action Genre Last-Name Basis Reality Is Unrealistic Driven to Suicide Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Once More, with Clarity! Shoot the Shaggy Dog Worthy Opponent Offscreen Teleportation Parental Neglect Room Full of Crazy Hypocrite Leave the Camera Running Antagonist Title No Ending Vomit Discretion Shot Canon Foreigner Improvised Weapon Shower Scene Curse Cut Short Rape as Drama Toplessness from the Back Crazy-Prepared Well-Intentioned Extremist Bloody Hilarious Black and Gray Morality Accidental Misnaming Immune to Bullets Bullying a Dragon Hooker with a Heart of Gold Mr. Fanservice Failed a Spot Check Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Author Appeal Homage Awesome, but Impractical Manchild Central Theme Taking You with Me Dying Moment of Awesome Ambiguously Gay Back from the Dead Badass Bookworm Diabolus ex Machina There Is No Kill Like Overkill Together in Death Silent Movie Body Horror Took a Level in Badass Jerk with a Heart of Gold Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Dirty Coward The Lancer Evil Is Petty You Have Failed Me It Can Think Motor Mouth Wham Line Manly Tears Earn Your Happy Ending Face–Heel Turn Film Noir Index The '90s Madness Mantra Undying Loyalty Market-Based Title Rule of Three The '50s Important Haircut Superhero Super Strength Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Daddy's Girl Totally Radical Historical Hero Upgrade Ironic Echo Spared by the Adaptation Knife Nut La Résistance Cool Guns Up to Eleven Same Language Dub Wretched Hive Everyone Has Standards Empathic Environment Be Careful What You Wish For Big Applesauce Did Not Get the Girl Hero Antagonist Mr. Exposition N-Word Privileges Scare Chord Anachronic Order From Bad to Worse Adaptation Expansion '80s Hair Alas, Poor Villain Corpsing Those Two Bad Guys Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Decoy Protagonist Wounded Gazelle Gambit Author Avatar Freudian Excuse Humans Are Bastards Early Installment Weirdness Off with His Head! Bloodless Carnage Shout-Out Military and Warfare Films Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Red Right Hand The Place Dark Action Girl Cain and Abel Tempting Fate Dwindling Party Romantic False Lead Artistic License – Law Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience In Medias Res Retcon Pet the Dog Continuity Nod Neck Lift The Dog Bites Back Fantasy Films Abusive Parents Meaningful Background Event Fanservice Product Placement Brick Joke Dramedy Narrator Laser-Guided Karma Villain Ball Adaptational Attractiveness Dramatic Irony Easily Forgiven Slap-Slap-Kiss Shut Up, Hannibal! Cool Old Guy Calling the Old Man Out Department of Redundancy Department Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! As Long as It Sounds Foreign Here We Go Again! Cowboy Cop Papa Wolf Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Artistic License – History Storming the Castle Chekhov's Skill The Atoner The Ditz One-Man Army Politically Incorrect Villain Humiliation Conga Mistaken for Gay Reality Has No Subtitles Epic Movie Handicapped Badass Combat Pragmatist Batman Gambit Eye Scream Recycled IN SPACE! Names to Run Away from Really Fast Poor Communication Kills Not Quite Dead Insane Troll Logic Hypocritical Humor Chewing the Scenery Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Dramatic Gun Cock Aluminum Christmas Trees Unspoken Plan Guarantee Jerkass Has a Point Malevolent Masked Men It's All About Me The Bad Guy Wins No Antagonist Call-Back Adaptation Dye-Job Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Starscream Amusing Injuries Offscreen Moment of Awesome Bloodier and Gorier Broken Aesop I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Obfuscating Stupidity Badass Longcoat Faking the Dead Heroic Sacrifice The Cameo Oh, Crap! Paper-Thin Disguise Creepy Child Death by Adaptation Moment Killer Small Name, Big Ego Eyepatch of Power Fake Shemp As Himself Almost Kiss The Bully "Well Done, Son!" Guy For the Evulz Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Bring My Brown Pants Jump Scare Gorn Reality Ensues Bar Brawl Whole Plot Reference Parental Incest Horror Comedy Men Are the Expendable Gender Real Life Writes the Plot Lampshade Hanging Action Survivor Made of Iron Boom, Headshot! Happily Married Badass Boast The Brute Catch-Phrase Anachronism Stew Bottomless Magazines Actor Allusion This Is Gonna Suck Large Ham Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor She Cleans Up Nicely Freeze-Frame Bonus Crazy Jealous Guy Heroes Want Redheads Get Out! Deconstruction Big Damn Heroes Interrupted Suicide Accidental Murder Needs Wiki Magic Love Cool Car Punny Name Funny Background Event Show Within a Show Real Life What the Hell, Hero? Does This Remind You of Anything? Bury Your Gays Outrun the Fireball Becoming the Mask Chiaroscuro Sexy Discretion Shot Big-Bad Ensemble Beauty Is Never Tarnished Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Psychopathic Manchild Adult Fear Kick the Son of a Bitch Fatal Family Photo I'm a Humanitarian Contrived Coincidence Hope Spot It's Personal Aside Glance Works Set in World War II Male Gaze Domestic Abuse Butt-Monkey Light Is Not Good "Awesome McCool" Name Truth in Television Novelization Double Entendre Very Loosely Based on a True Story Revenge Lock and Load Montage Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Honor Before Reason Yandere The '80s Random Events Plot Faux Affably Evil Disney Death Insult Backfire Agony of the Feet Femme Fatale Science Fiction Films The Stoic Chekhov's Gun Sacrificial Lion Grievous Bottley Harm