Tropescilloscope: Cool Old Guy

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

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