Tropescilloscope: Cool Old Guy

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

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The Cavalry Nothing Is Scarier The Smurfette Principle Accidental Murder Mugging the Monster Curb-Stomp Battle The X of Y Department of Redundancy Department Affably Evil No Celebrities Were Harmed Stalker with a Crush Drives Like Crazy Overly Long Gag Demonic Possession Reality Ensues Token Minority From Nobody to Nightmare Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Improvised Weapon Anti-Hero Early-Bird Cameo Kids Are Cruel Those Wacky Nazis Armor-Piercing Question The Quiet One Leitmotif Pragmatic Adaptation Villain Opening Scene Karma Houdini What the Hell, Hero? The Atoner Agony of the Feet Extreme Doormat Logo Joke Ambiguous Disorder Refuge in Audacity "Shaggy Dog" Story Faking the Dead All for Nothing Unspoken Plan Guarantee Captain Obvious The Reveal Captain Ersatz Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Guy Never My Fault Daylight Horror As You Know Bullying a Dragon Cat Fight Adaptation Dye-Job More Dakka Monumental Damage Fingore Cool Old Guy Anguished Declaration of Love Madness Mantra It's All About Me Actually Pretty Funny You Have Failed Me Dramatic Irony Call-Forward Blatant Lies Rule of Three Dirty Cop Wham Line Animated Credits Opening B-Movie Jerkass Has a Point Mistaken for Gay Super Strength Race Lift Sequel Escalation Beta Couple Meaningful Background Event Off with His Head! Neck Lift The Faceless Irony Jerkass Serious Business All Just a Dream Danny Peary Cult Movies List Sole Survivor The Load Badass Normal My Beloved Smother Asshole Victim It's Personal The '60s As Himself Intergenerational Friendship Woman in White Car Fu Product Placement Femme Fatale Bad Boss Same Language Dub Up to Eleven Documentary Hero Antagonist No-Sell Pimped-Out Dress Parental Neglect Author Appeal Grey and Gray Morality Ass Shove Vitriolic Best Buds The Vamp Leaning on the Fourth Wall Not So Stoic '80s Hair Book-Ends Man on Fire Wicked Cultured Becoming the Mask Brainless Beauty Cain and Abel Animal Motifs Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Voiceless Sassy Black Woman Dutch Angle May–December Romance Bavarian Fire Drill Adapted Out The Stinger Dark and Troubled Past Abusive Parents Left the Background Music On Naïve Newcomer Heroic BSoD Black Comedy Rape Manchild Green-Eyed Monster Laser-Guided Karma Foreshadowing Spiritual Successor Drowning My Sorrows Film Series Homage Names to Run Away from Really Fast Meaningful Echo Market-Based Title Protagonist Title The Alcoholic Heroic Sacrifice Mythology Gag Film Noir Index The Bad Guy Wins Big-Bad Ensemble Damsel in Distress Lampshade Hanging Depraved Bisexual Scenery Porn Action Prologue The Bully Camp Gay Motor Mouth Mr. Exposition Visual Pun Star-Crossed Lovers Five-Man Band Developing Doomed Characters Disney Death Spared by the Adaptation Time Skip Biopic Bolivian Army Ending Missing Mom Body Horror Ungrateful Bastard Peek-a-Boo Corpse Even Evil Has Standards Jitter Cam Dogged Nice Guy Drill Sergeant Nasty Facial Horror You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Big Brother Instinct Mood Whiplash Tap on the Head Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Belligerent Sexual Tension Informed Ability Amoral Attorney Comically Missing the Point Defiant to the End Every Car Is a Pinto Dramedy Awesome, but Impractical Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Dull Surprise Very Loosely Based on a True Story Hoist by His Own Petard Offscreen Teleportation And I Must Scream Adaptational Attractiveness Match Cut Japanese Films Rousing Speech The Film of the Book Crazy Jealous Guy Hollywood Darkness Stylistic Suck Fake Shemp Children Are Innocent Villainous Breakdown Deliberately Monochrome Domestic Abuse Dying Moment of Awesome Would Hurt a Child Dark Reprise World of Ham An Arm and a Leg Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Heroes Want Redheads Reckless Gun Usage Retired Badass Happily Married Re-Cut Badass Bookworm Empathic Environment Artistic License – Gun Safety Arch-Enemy Break the Haughty Death of a Child Dropped a Bridge on Him Australian Movies Eiffel Tower Effect Evil Brit Auto Erotica Fanservice Extra The Ace Daddy's Girl Disney Villain Death Eye Scream The Ditz A God Am I Throwing Your Sword Always Works Spiteful Spit Fire-Forged Friends Bring My Brown Pants Random Events Plot Flashback Our Zombies Are Different A Father to His Men Ominous Latin Chanting Thriller Bad "Bad Acting" Kill 'em All And Starring Rich Bitch Mooks Last-Name Basis Villain Ball Hypocrite Red Shirt folderlabel Psychological Thriller All Men Are Perverts Older Than They Look A.I. 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Shower Scene Diabolus ex Machina Setting Update Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Despair Event Horizon Lighter and Softer Beauty Is Never Tarnished Historical In-Joke Music Stories Bloody Hilarious And the Adventure Continues Naked People Are Funny Hell Is That Noise Bond One-Liner Heel–Face Turn Reality Has No Subtitles Calling the Old Man Out Humans Are Bastards Chewing the Scenery Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Scenery Gorn Redemption Equals Death Chase Scene Playing Gertrude Well-Intentioned Extremist timeperiod Horror Films Alliterative Name Unreliable Narrator Amusing Injuries Reasonable Authority Figure Ambiguous Ending One Steve Limit Decoy Protagonist Take That! Coming-of-Age Story Artistic License – Physics Pretty Little Headshots Artistic License – Biology Double-Meaning Title Narrator Sadistic Choice Covers Always Lie What You Are in the Dark Room Full of Crazy Nice Guy Catapult Nightmare Pyrrhic Victory As Long as It Sounds Foreign Woman Scorned Boom, Headshot! O.O.C. Is Serious Business Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil No OSHA Compliance Enemy Mine Parental Abandonment Does This Remind You of Anything? Knight Templar Pre-Mortem One-Liner Hong Kong Films Offscreen Moment of Awesome Parental Substitute Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Corpsing Sealed Evil in a Can Line-of-Sight Name Extremely Short Timespan Psychopathic Manchild Death by Adaptation Mighty Whitey Once More, with Clarity! Hate Sink Shell-Shocked Veteran Evil Laugh Pet the Dog Trailers Always Spoil Bait-and-Switch Distracted by the Sexy Love at First Sight Taking the Bullet Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Not Quite Dead Kill It with Fire Truth in Television Bottomless Magazines Grievous Bottley Harm Sinister Minister Dies Wide Open Badass Boast Earn Your Happy Ending Camera Abuse The Mafia Cold-Blooded Torture Historical Hero Upgrade Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Laughing Mad Stuff Blowing Up Bi the Way Dual Wielding Cat Scare Villain Protagonist Genre Throwback Broken Aesop Manly Tears Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Card-Carrying Villain I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Epic Fail Married to the Job Put on a Bus Ax-Crazy Psycho for Hire She Cleans Up Nicely Really Gets Around Tempting Fate All Girls Want Bad Boys Mad Scientist Disguised in Drag Chekhov's Skill The Casanova Posthumous Character Disproportionate Retribution Important Haircut Riddle for the Ages Police Brutality The '70s Groin Attack Together in Death Based on a True Story Annoying Younger Sibling Fun with Acronyms Bald of Evil Suspiciously Similar Substitute Fiery Redhead Funny Foreigner Cool Guns Famous Last Words Plucky Comic Relief Heterosexual Life-Partners Rule of Funny Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Crapsack World Death Glare Would Hit a Girl One-Word Title The Power of Love Skewed Priorities Gone Horribly Right Call-Back Twist Ending Too Dumb to Live Only One Name Superhero Big Damn Heroes Adaptation Distillation Artistic License – History The Cameo Rule of Cool Brutal Honesty Your Cheating Heart Karmic Death Mama Bear Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Jerk Jock Moment Killer Properly Paranoid Mr. Fanservice Handicapped Badass Affectionate Parody Self-Deprecation All There in the Script Loads and Loads of Characters A Date with Rosie Palms Video Credits No Antagonist La Résistance Artistic License – Law French Films Framing Device Deliberate Values Dissonance Creepy Child Bloodless Carnage The End... Or Is It? Scare Chord Drugs Are Bad Rule of Symbolism Big "NO!" Hero of Another Story Action Survivor Brick Joke One-Man Army Never Trust a Trailer Sir Swears-a-Lot It Can Think Death by Irony Pretty in Mink Gorn Cool Old Lady Failed a Spot Check Casting Gag Vomit Discretion Shot Freeze-Frame Bonus Military and Warfare Films Spell My Name with an "S" Even Evil Has Loved Ones Fan Disservice Neck Snap Fish out of Water German Films Here We Go Again! Contrived Coincidence Romantic Comedy The Stoner Blackmail Black and Gray Morality The Place Whole Plot Reference Eldritch Abomination The Musical The Starscream Darker and Edgier Action Genre Soft Glass Artistic License – Military Zombie Stories Reality Is Unrealistic Black Comedy Retirony Humiliation Conga The Lost Lenore Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Suspiciously Specific Denial Index of Film Westerns Title Drop Adaptation Name Change Silent Movie Sacrificial Lion Anachronic Order Tagline Only Sane Man Gender Flip Instant Death Bullet Easily Forgiven What Happened to the Mouse? Disappeared Dad Black Dude Dies First Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Big Fancy House Bland-Name Product Italian Films Precision F-Strike Dark Action Girl Took a Level in Jerkass Ripped from the Headlines The Un-Reveal An Axe to Grind Scary Black Man After the End Vampire Fiction Downer Ending Everyone Has Standards Final Girl Alas, Poor Villain Gory Discretion Shot Pay Evil unto Evil Horror Comedy Broken Bird No Ending Knife Nut Evil Sounds Deep Bare Your Midriff Unusually Uninteresting Sight Friend to All Children Cool Car I Need a Freaking Drink Romantic False Lead Genre Shift Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Sexy Discretion Shot Didn't Think This Through Gold Digger Beware the Nice Ones Sequel Hook Hypocritical Humor My Greatest Failure The Hero The Great Depression Toplessness from the Back Rewatch Bonus The Oner Antagonist Title Corrupt Corporate Executive Suddenly SHOUTING! The Smart Guy An Aesop "The Reason You Suck" Speech Adaptational Heroism Not So Above It All