Tropescilloscope: Cool Old Guy

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

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