Tropescilloscope: Badass Grandpa

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

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