Tropescilloscope: Cool Old Guy

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

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