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== Anime and Manga ==

** [[Abusive Parents|Dario Brando]], father of [[Big Bad|Dio Brando]] is also an example. He was a wife-beating self-centered drunk who tormented Dio as a child and the largest contributing factor to Dio's [[Complete Monster]] personality. Perhaps everything could have been avoided had Dario just been a little nicer to his son...

* Danzou from ''[[Naruto]]'', who is tied with Homura, Koharu, and [[Big Good|The Third Hokage]] for being the oldest known person in the Leaf Village. One word: {{spoiler|Sharingarm.}}

** Meanwhile in canon, {{spoiler|the second Espada, Barragan}} is this trope incarnate. Of the ten Espada, each of whom embodies an aspect of death, he is the one who represents "death by old age."

* ''[[Gash Bell]]'' has a [[Filler Villain]] named Dr. Ichiro (Dr. Hakase in the dub) who wants to use his demon to get his revenge on the scientific community for mocking his ideas. And from there? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8u7px_GzWQ Take over the world].

* ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'''s [[Big Bad]] is {{spoiler|Albert Maverick}}, who seems so nice in the first half of the series...until we learn [[Manipulative Bastard|what he's really like]]. Eventually picks up the [[Villain Ball]] and runs with it.

== Comicbooks ==

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Frau Totenkinder]] from ''[[Fables (Comic Book)|Fables]]''. She may look like a frail old woman {{spoiler|though she could easily undo her aging if she wished}}, but she is every unnamed witch in fairy tales; meaning she is one of the most powerful Fables alive. While she is firmly aligned with Fabletown, even a cursory glance into her past will reveal that she was(is?) ''not'' a good person. She even fought [[Baba Yaga]] at one point and, in a rather [[Eviler Than Thou]] manner, defeated her.

* [[Shazam|Captain Marvel, Jr]]. fought a villain named Greybeard a couple of times. Sentenced to 99 years in prison when he was a young man, Greybeard served his entire sentence. On his release, he became a supervillain, basing his crimes around the theme of age, to take revenege on a world that had passed him by.

* [[DC Comics]] villains Granny Goodness and DeSaad, [[New Gods]] and minions of [[Darkseid]]. Interestingly, both are actually ''younger'' than their master, who doesn't quite fit the trope himself; it may have something to do with his personal power being far greater than theirs.

* [[Sin City]] has the Roarke brothers who are powerful politicians who run crime in the city and harbor [[Serial Killers]]. Both of them are easily in their sixties or older. There is also the short story entitled ''Rats'' about a retired Nazi war criminal.

** [[Fat Bastard|Jabba the Hutt]], being 600 years old. He is an example, but not an extreme one. Hutts typically live 10 times longer than humans.

** Count Dooku from the prequels, who looks more like a dignified elderly statesman than a terrible Sith Lord. In fact, most of [[Christopher Lee]]'s roles from the past few decades likely count.

* {{spoiler|Every character past middle age}} in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''. Except, strangely, [[Bill Nighy]].

* [[London Gangster|Wilson]], [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Terry Valentine]], and [[The Dragon|Avery]] in ''[[The Limey]]''.

* Howard Beale from ''[[Network]]''

* [[Complete Monster|Brick Top]] from [[Snatch]].

{{quote| '''Larry Donner:''' She's not a woman-- she's the [[Terminator]]!!!}}

* Judge Smails from ''[[Caddyshack]]''

** "Amy's Choice" has a retirement home full of evil pensioners taken over by a race of aliens. {{spoiler|However, that was a dream.}}

* ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', in the January 21 2010 episode, lists "Old People" on the Threat Down, due to all the old folks who go on airplanes with [[Sword Cane|swords and knives hidden in their canes]].

* Tubbs and Edward from ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'', who torture and sometimes kill any non-locals who intrude on their shop.

* In ''[[Cutey Honey the Live]],'' the nice old lady who owns a fish shop {{spoiler|is one of Panther Claw's highest ranking generals. Get in her way and she will bludgeon you to death, cut you up with frozen food, or just use the ''missile launchers built into her stomach.'' But however she kills you, she'll do it without losing her kind, motherly demeanor for a second.}}

* Daniel Linderman and Arthur Petrelli, the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] of Volumes One and Three of ''[[Heroes]]'', are both in their sixties. In fact, they were Army buddies during the [[Vietnam War]] before becoming [[Fallen Hero|Fallen Heroes]].

* What about {{spoiler|Flemeth}} from ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins''? Old and evil and very powerful, and only seemingly [[Retired Monster|retired]].

* Master Xehanort from [[Kingdom Hearts]]: [[Birth By Sleep]].

** Also, we have {{spoiler|Greevil, second-generation [[Complete Monster|Cipher Grand Master]]}} from ''[[Pokémon Colosseum|Pokemon XD]]''.

* {{spoiler|Primarch Galenth Dysley}} from ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''. {{spoiler|He's ''really'' old too, being an immortal robot god.}}

* Ozwell Spencer of the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' series fulfills this trope when he finally makes an appearance in ''Resident Evil 5''.

* Mr. James Wong of ''[[Stranglehold]]''.

* There is a particularly suspicious one in Mardek Chapter 3. He is defined as [[Chaotic Evil]] in the game helper and [[Obviously Evil|literally looks evil]]. He's [[Evil Chancellor|the adviser of the king]] (who joins you) of the lizard village beneath the Sun Temple, leading to the Evil Black Temple, which gets you plot sooner or later.

* Tenpenny from ''[[Fallout 3]]'' is a wealthy, [[Affably Evil|amiable]] old man who wants you to nuke a nearby village ''because it's an eyesore''.

* The Hag from ''[[Thief|Thief: Deadly Shadows]]'': a centuries-old [[Serial Killer]] who skins and murders people including ''children'' to [[Immoral Immortality|extend her own life]].

* Baron Klaus Wulfenbach of ''[[Girl Genius]]'' may have gray hair, but he rules his empire with an iron fist and isn't afraid to subject people to unethical experiments or lay waste to entire cities if he finds it necessary.

** [[Anti-Villain|He's only evil from a very superficial standpoint]], though; he's more about efficiency and doing it right, and is, in fact, a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]<ref>Prior to becoming a hard-handed dictator, he, along with the Heterodyne boys, forged peace throughout Europa using diplomacy and nonviolence. After a brief leave of absence, he returned to discover that the Heterodyne boys had disappeared, and with them had gone the peace he'd worked so hard for. He reasoned that, if peace by diplomacy was so fleeting, peace by busting heads was going to be at least as permanent as he was.</ref>. His ruling style (and official mission statement) is "Don't make me come over there", and the local lords and mad scientists are largely left alone provided they don't break any rules; he's also very supportive of the arts and the sciences, and sponsors many young geniuses from noble families (even if his sponsorship does double as the taking of a hostage to keep said families in line).

== Western Animation ==

* And along that vein, we also have Mr. Burns from ''[[The Simpsons]]'', who could qualify as the [[Trope Codifier]] for the comedic version. He's done pretty much every evil deed imaginable, from blotting out the sun to stealing candy from a baby, and that was just in one episode.

** Agnes Skinner isn't as blatantly evil as Burns, but she's still a nasty old woman, [[My Beloved Smother|who treats Principal Skinner with condescension at best and open cruelty at worst]].

* Several [[Disney]] villains would qualify for this trope.

* Grampa Marsh once rallied the elderly residents of ''[[South Park]]'' to conquer the town.

* Señor Senior, Sr., of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' came out of retirement to conquer the world.

* An episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' involved "The Ministry of Pain", a supervillain team that used to terrorize Townsville but are now mostly harmless because they've become old and feeble. They're still as evil as ever, though, and the girls won't fight them because they're old...

* Ed Bighead from ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'', In the Episode: "Zanzibar" Rocko and the populace of O-Town had the courage to convince Conglom-O to turn against Ed Bighead and the evil he's done to the environment.

* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': Ms. Bitters. True to her namesake, she's completely devoid of any compassionate emotion and possesses demonic hatred for all life on planet Earth.

** Firelord Sozin died at the age of 102 after many years of prosecuting a war against the other nations. He was already this trope when he started said war.

** Old Lady Hama is a Water Bender who was captured and imprisoned by the Fire Nation and, along with dozens of others, kept locked in terrible conditions and away from water. She escaped when she realised that ''blood'' is water and she could manipulate it at the peak of her powers during a full moon, allowing her to seize control of a living person's body, which she used on the guards to escape. But she was still stuck in the Fire Nation so she set up shop as a kindly old innkeeper... and at the full moon used her new technique, which she called [[The Dark Arts|Bloodbending]], on the ordinary and innocent Fire Nation neighbours in revenge for her treatment.