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** [[Word of God]] says Hiko is so powerful that he could very easily take on virtually ANYONE in the series and completely ''[[Curb Stomp Battle|curb stomp]]'' them.
** Actually, Hiko is just in his 40s so he's still too young for it. (though ''very'' much in his way.) Nenji "Okina" Kashiwazaki, Misao's adoptive grandpa and the ex leader of the Oniwabashu, plays it straight...[[Let's Get Dangerous|when he gets serious.]]
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'':
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** Another example: If you read the ''Millennium World'' Manga, Yugi's Grandpa Sugoroku could be classified as this {{spoiler|the combination of James Bond and Indy Jones has him investigating a a pyramid containing the Millennium Puzzle ''in a tuxedo!!!''}}
** His friend and former partner Professor Arthur Hawkins (anime only) is still doing that (minus the tuxedo) leading the expedition to find Atlantis in the [[Filler Arc|DOMA Arc.]]
* ''[[One Piece]]''
** "Dark King" Rayleigh certainly qualifies. He was the first mate of the former Pirate King, and even after about 20 years is able to fight toe to toe with
** And
** Vice Admiral Garp, {{spoiler|the grandfather of the protagonist,}} who likes to attack people with a ball on chain the size of a boat, or throw/punch cannonballs at them. And like Rayleigh, he has no Devil Fruit power.
** Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate, called "The Strongest Man in the World"
** [[Dem Bones|Brook]], Strawhat Pirates´s musician is an 88 year old skeleton who can play any instrument, runs on water and can make a sword attack so fast, that you realize you have been cut [[You Are Already Dead|only when he re-sheathes his sword.]]
** Villainous example, when Five Elders member [https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Jaygarcia_Saturn Jaygarcia Saturn] finally decides to [[Orcus on His Throne|get his behind off his throne]] and become involved during the Egghead Arc, he proves a deadly adversary towards the heroes, his unnamed Zoan Devil Fruit letting him go [[One-Winged Angel]] and turn himself into a bull-spider-human [[Hybrid Monster]] (or more specifically, a yokai called the Ushi-oni). In this monstrous form, his mere presence causes everyone on Egghead Island to experience an ominous feeling of dread; he can injure normal people or knock them prone simply by looking at them, and was able to outfight Atlas, Sanji, and Bonney by himself, all while barely even ''noticing'' when Bonney impaled him with her rapier. This old geezer is ''tough''.
*** And as you'd expect, the rest of the Elders have abominable, insanely powerful yokai Devil Fruits of their own [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others|(except for Shepherd Ju Peter, whose fruit turns him into a Sand Worm straight from the pages of Dune)]] and are every bit as dangerous as Saturn. {{spoiler|When Saturn and Admiral Kizaru's operations on Egghead devolve into a disastrous shitshow that threatens to expose tightly-kept government secrets to the public, the rest of the Elders decide that the [[Godzilla Threshold]] has officially been crossed and back up their brother-in-arms. [[No-Nonsense Nemesis|And the very second they arrive, they transform into monsters and immediately start laying waste to the island with their overwhelming might without saying a word. There's no evil monologue, no taunting the Straw Hats or Bonney, just eerie silence as they show the heroes that they are '''not''' fucking around.]]}}
* Master Yupa from ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]'' is the ultimate [[Hayao Miyazaki]] Badass Grandpa. He wanders the world in peace and solemnity, looking for a solution to the Toxic Jungle, but also has a reputation across the entire world for being a legendary warrior. His finest moment may be ''stopping a sword at its point with his own forearm''—and the force behind the sword in question is the title princess in an [[Unstoppable Rage]].
* From ''[[Berserk]]'', we have Azan. He was once called the Bridge Knight for keeping [[One-Man Army|one hundred knights from crossing a bridge]], and while he's no longer in the prime of his life he's still able to match an injured, but still very mean protagonist, Guts in combat.
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* In ''[[Lupin III]]'', Inspector Kōichi Zenigata is clearly much older than Lupin, possibly twice Lupin's age [[Vague Age| (though sometimes it's hard to tell)]]; at first, the fact that he can never catch Lupin might seem to disqualify him from this Trope. Until, that is, you realize that police officers who are ''half'' Lupin's age can never so much as keep up with him, something Zenigata does while chasing him to the ends of the Earth and back. Clearly, Zenigata is '''the world's greatest cop''' and could collar any entire gang of crooks with ease if he had to, his stamina, determination, and skill the only one who could ''ever'' hope to bring down the world's greatest thief.
** One good example of how Badass Zenigata is occurs in ''[[The Fuma Conspiracy]]''. He scales a mountain cliff - without tools - and is barely out of breath by the time he gets to the top; his men catch up hours later, collapsing from exhaustion after doing so. At the end of the movie, where the whole cast is fleeing from a collapsing cave, he's carrying an old man to safety on his back (doesn't even slow him down) then holds a collapsing wall so the rest of the cast can escape before it all caves in on them. Oh, and he naturally gets himself out too.
* [[Only One Name|Hayakawa]], Hijiri's butler and driver in ''[[Bakuon!!]]''. Little is known about him, although the picture that slowly forms during the series seems to depict a [[Retired Badass]]. Among other things, he makes asides that indicate he was part of [[w:Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union|the Siberian Internment]], in which the Soviets held surrendered Japanese soldiers after World War II in the Siberian gulags. Which would make him at the very least ''ninety years old'' in the mid 2010s, when the show is set. Not to mention one serious survivor.
== Comic Books ==
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* ''[[Freedom Fighters (comics)|Freedom Fighters]]'' has [[Captain Patriotic]] Uncle Sam, [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of the American Spirit and looking exactly as old as he does in those world war two recruitment posters. He's also participated in every war of the country's existence and is as strong as the American People's faith in freedom.
* Gramps from ''[[Cavewoman]]''. Used a body enhancer to give himself superhuman strength and toughness, then turned up on a flying motorcycle to rescue his granddaughter from a gang of drug dealers before transporting himself, his granddaughter and his 15 ft. tall pet gorilla back through time to live amongst the dinosaurs.
* [[Daredevil]]'s mentor, the blind martial arts master Stick.
== Fan Works ==
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* Il Duce from ''[[The Boondock Saints]]''. He's an undefeatable hitman, who, in one scene, ambushes the three Saints and nearly kills them all. When later the police were investigating the crime scene, the main investigator from FBI decided that the Saints were ambushed by six men, because Il Duce was carrying six guns.
* Even though he's gotten older and balder, ''[[Die Hard]]'' Detective John McClane only gets ''more'' badass with age, to the point that he's driving cars into helicopters by the fourth film.
* By ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'', Dr. Jones has become this trope. In ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade|The Last Crusade]]'', his father is something of an inversion, being a bookish old man who nevertheless outfights the bad guys [[Guile Hero|with ingenuity rather than brawn.]]
* Mr. Miyagi from ''[[The Karate Kid]]''.
* In the Played By [[Sean Connery]] department, Allan Quatermain from the film adaptation of ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]''.
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* The upcoming [[Danny Trejo]] movie ''[[Film/Bad Ass|Bad Ass]]''. Trejo plays an old guy who becomes an internet sensation after a video is circulated of him being threatened on a bus and kicking the punk's ass. Looks like he spends much of the rest of the movie kicking more ass, chased by [[Ron Perlman]]. The tagline is even "He's mean...he's angry...he's old...he is [[Badass]]".
* The protagonist of ''[[Drive Angry]]'' breaks out of hell to save his baby granddaughter from a demonic cult. Of course, the character in question is played by [[Nicholas Cage]].
* Peter, Ray, and Winston become this in ''[[Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire]]'', coming out of retirement to give backup to their younger proteges.
== Literature ==
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** Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Horde distill the trope, chill it, and serve it with fava beans and ''your liver''. The books take the variation of 'A barbarian hero who gets to be that old is a very good barbarian hero indeed.'
*** As demonstrated when the Silver Horde (all seven of them) conquer the whole of the Counterweight Continent. The scene where they meet a dojo full of ninjas aptly demonstrates their awesomeness.
** In ''[[
*** Bear in mind that Rule 19 is "Never forget Rule One," emphasizing the importance of Rule One, which Lu-Tze emphasizes by example several times over the course of the book.
*** For that matter, Lu-Tze is actually the reason Rules 1 and 19 exist in the first place.
*** He gets a [[Badass]] warrior monk to wet himself mid-punch just by revealing his name!
** Quite a few of the staff at the Unseen University probably qualify, but the best example would be ArchChancellor Mustrum Ridcully, who sleeps with a pair of crossbows and single-handedly ended a tradition wherein advancement in the wizarding hierarchy was performed via assassination (also known as the [[Klingon Promotion|Dead Mens' Pointy Shoes]] rule) by virtue of being damned near unkillable.
** As of ''[[
** ''Technically'' {{small-caps|Death}} is one of these because he adopted a human girl, Ygritte, who gave birth to Susan who is ''almost'' as badass as her grandfather. Just off the top of my head {{small-caps|Death}} takes on an entire army of Auditors during the Apocalypse during ''Thief of Time''/ This is badass in itself, but even more so when {{small-caps|Death}} actually used a loophole to attack them (the true villains). To wit: {{small-caps|Nowhere does it say to ''whom'' we must ride out against.}} In ''[[
** Also, Sgt Jackrum from ''[[
** Don't forget the [[Badass]] Grandmas, Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax.
*** And the most terrifying thing about them is that [[Word of God]] states that NANNY OGG is the more powerful of the two! (She just refuses to use it.)
*** Refuses to use it? Just watch her play people like a one-woman band, convincing them she's nothing but a disgusting old baggage who's too busy drinking and smoking to notice anything. That, my friend, is all the power a witch needs.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'': Gandalf the White. After coming "back from the dead" (he was sent back, because his job wasn't done - very much hinted at in the book and by [[Word of God]] to have been by Eru Ilúvatar aka God), he is granted an even greater use of his power—specifically, it's estimated that he was allowed to use about a third of his full strength as "the White", and was still able to take down a Balrog with his ''old'' strength.
** Theoden also qualifies.
* Albus Dumbledore in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''. Although he was acknowledged to be the greatest wizard of all time since practically the beginning, so his magical abilities didn't came as a surprise; it's the raw badassitude he shows from the end of the fourth book onward.
** [[Word of God]] says McGonagall is "a sprightly seventy-year-old".
** Voldemort was 68 when he returned to power in ''[[
** By the same token, Hagrid, a half-giant and three years Voldy's junior.
** Interestingly, none of these characters have children, let alone grandchildren. Actual grandparents seem [[World of No Grandparents|quite rare]] in the Potterverse for some reason, while the childless just go on indefinitely.
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* Although he's only in his early forties, [[Batista]] is an actual grandfather. [http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/sites/sport/img/23677_b.jpg Yes,] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060505045900/http://www.kaladan.com/wwe/pictures/batista_formal.jpg that] [http://indianapolis.canalblog.com/images/Batista___Dave_Batista_49.jpg Batista]
== Newspaper Comics ==
* From ''[[Garfield]]''; in one strip, the protagonist meets a very old dog next to a sign that says, "Beware of the Old Dog". "What are you going to do, gum me?" he snarks to it. He finds out quickly that [[Mugging the Monster| "the old geezer is lethal with a cane..."]]
== Sports ==
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* Sensei Tetsuo Ito of the [[Whateley Universe]] is a little old (non-mutant) man, but a master of martial arts who is capable of beating the snot out of mutants in his classes, or even taking out a Syndicate battle-team.
* The Greatest Freak Out Ever videos on Youtube. In one video, the always-angry older brother is whacked in the face by his grandmother!
* Burt from [[
* ''[[Tasakeru]]'': {{spoiler|The decrepit old wolf called Drake delivers a savage beatdown to a [[Complete Monster]] in the opening chapter of Book III. Said beatdown involves throwing his opponent against a very large tree at a high velocity.}}
* Yamauchi-sensei of [[Greek Ninja]].
== Western Animation ==
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* When German Emperor Fredrick I Barbarossa went on the Third Crusade, he was 70 years old and hacked his way through the Balkans.
** He died at River Taurus, Asia Minor in 1189, not by drowning, but from a heart attack.
* The late Sir [[Christopher Lee]], who passed away in 2015 at the age of 93. Was in the SAS in [[World War II]]
* Jack LaLanne. He once swam handcuffed, shackled, and fighting strong winds and currents, towed 70 rowboats, one with several guests. '''At the age of 70'''. And he also maintained a healthy lifestyle until the end of his life.
** To clarify: he only did what's described above '''once''' because that was what he did to celebrate his 70th birthday. He performed '''lots''' of similar feats of strength and endurance throughout his life.
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* [[Brian Blessed]] is the oldest man to have walked to the magnetic North Pole (aged 64), has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and made his THIRD attempt (all unsuccessful, sadly) to climb Mount Everest aged 55. In doing so, he set the record for the highest distance climbed by the oldest man without carrying additional oxygen (28,000 ft) and only stopped to turn back so as to save the life of one of his fellow (younger!) climbers.
* [https://www.dw.com/en/elderly-men-escape-nursing-home-to-go-to-wacken-metal-festival/a-44955305#:~:text=Two%20elderly%20German%20men%20escaped,world's%20biggest%20heavy%20metal%20festival. Two Elderly Men] managed to escape from their nursing home. The police were able to find the two at a heavy metal concert.
* '''[[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'''. The man
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