Tropescilloscope: Badass Grandpa

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

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