Tropescilloscope: Dirty Old Man

Elderly men are perverts. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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