Tropescilloscope: Cool Old Guy

Someone for whom awesomeness increased with age. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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