Tropescilloscope: Cool Old Guy

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

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