Tropescilloscope: Dirty Old Man

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

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