Evil Old Folks: Difference between revisions

 

== 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.}}

** For that matter, Kakuzu (91) and {{spoiler|Madara Uchiha}} (at ''least'' in his early 80s) are probably two of the oldest humans in the entire world, and are both bad guys. Orochimaru would count too, being in his 50s, but [[Body Surf|he retains his youth using new bodies]].

* The main antagonists from both ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' continuities fit this trope nicely. Father has the appearance of an imposing old man robed in white, and even though he can be somewhat goofy at times, his evil is hardly a secret. He's behind nearly every tragedy in the entire series.

** {{spoiler|Dante}} from the first anime is arguably a little more faithful to the trope. {{spoiler|When she's first introduced, she seems like a genuinely nice old woman, and Alphonse in particular seems to take a liking to her. After all, an old bonnet-wearing pharmacist couldn't possibly be the leader of the homunculi, right?}}

** Don't forget turning hapless human intruders into pigs or pieces of coal, used for food and fuel respectively.

* In ''[[Bleach]]'' [[Filler]] episodes, the Bount are several centuries old, but retain their youth by eating ghosts. The exception to their youthful appearances is Sawatari, who looks very old due to recklessly devouring human souls.

* Dr. Gero from ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z/GT''.

** In the earlier ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', Piccolo Daimao originally looked ancient and wrinkled like an old prune. This didn't stop him from [[Curb Stomp Battle|completely dominating]] Goku in their first encounter; when he got his youth back thanks to the Dragon Balls, well, [[It Got Worse]].

* For the first three arcs of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', Kinzo isn't portrayed quite so much as evil as he is [[Love Makes You Crazy|crazy]] and [[Evil Is Not a Toy|desperate]]. Then comes the fourth arc, and he definitely [[Love Makes You Evil|crosses that boundary]]. {{spoiler|By the end of the arc, though, it's subverted, since Kinzo was dead the entire time}}.

* In ''[[The Tower of Druaga (anime)|The Tower of Druaga]]: The Sword of Uruk'', we learn that {{spoiler|King Gilgamesh is immortal, as his mortal self was sealed atop the tower. As he grows older, his heart grows colder, until he becomes a cold-blooded tyrant who slaughters his own citizens.}}

* 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]]''

* [[Son of the Mask]]: Odin, Ruler of Asgard & Valhalla, His Wrathful arrogance & his tyrannical all-mighty stature is physically a dead giveaway. He's grown more impatient as his son Loki fails time and time again to find and recover the lost God-Mask.

* Parodied with Old Man McGinty in ''[[Mystery Team]]''. Despite being clearly comatose, the trio still suspects him of murder.

* The Duke brothers from [[Trading Places]] decide to completely upend the lives of two men for the sake of a dollar.

 

** "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.

* A few UnSubs of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' fall into this category, but Anita and Roger Roycewood from "Mosley Lane" stand out the most.

** {{spoiler|Damon Gant}}, murderer and blackmailer, is 65 years old, [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|believe it or not]].

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

* Charon from ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Pokémon Platinum]]''. Doesn't help matters any that he's the oldest Galactic member by at least thirty years.

** {{spoiler|The Societea}} from ''[[Pokémon Ranger]]: Guardian Signs'' is composed of four really old [[Retired Outlaw|retired]] [[Phantom Thief|thiefs]]; fittingly, their primary goal is [[Immortality]].

* 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]].

* The classic Evil Old Guy of video games would have to be [[Mega Man (video game)|Dr. Albert Wily]], an elderly [[Mad Scientist]] bent on world domination, with an army of robots at his command.

 

== Webcomics ==

* 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).

* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' has the Senior Citizen Squad, a trio of old people that from time to time fight the main group. There's also [[Bigger Bad|Grandfather]] and his senior citizombies.

* 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...

* Mad Mod from ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Fire Lord Azulon was canonically 95 years old when he ordered [[Complete Monster|Ozai]] to kill [[The Woobie|Zuko.]] He [[Mama Bear|never made it]] [[Beware the Nice Ones|to 96.]]

** 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.

{{quote|'''Arthur:''' Oh, come on. The guy's got to be, what, a hundred and fifteen?

 

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