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To qualify for this trope, a character must be old (by their species' standards), and must also be visibly aged. Even if they're [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]], it doesn't count if they look like a ten-year-old child. Just being a cranky old man is not enough to qualify one as evil, either. World domination, death to humans, or anything else that could be pulled off by younger villains are all suitable goals to make one qualify as an Evil Old Folk. If they happen to be really old and remain young by [[Liquid Assets|stealing the youth of others]], it can count so long as they occasionally look old.
So next time Mr. Jenkins next door yells at you to get off his lawn, you might want to
See [[Liquid Assets]] for evil old folks who look young by stealing the youth of others. Compare [[Cool Old Guy]], [[Dirty Old Man]], [[Grumpy Old Man]]. See also [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]] and [[Jade-Colored Glasses]]. For old folks who were evil when they were your age, try [[Retired Monster]].
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== Folklore ==
* [[Baba Yaga]]. A powerful and immortal old witch of [[Russian Mythology and Tales|Russian folklore]]. Sometimes an enemy, sometimes a
** And another figure from Russian folklore as well, [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Koschei the Deathless]].
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* Tilda and Tabby from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''Paradise Towers'' {{spoiler|[[I'm a Humanitarian|cook and eat their guests]]}}. It is also implied that every one of their generation does.
** "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]].
* In ''[[Todd and the Book of Pure Evil]]'', it is revealed that virtually all of the residents of the Crowley Heights retirement home are Satanists. Considering they were keeping a man captive and drugged, it qualifies for this trope.
* Tubbs and Edward from ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'', who torture and sometimes kill any non-locals who intrude on their shop.
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* Granny Goodness on ''[[Smallville]]'' combines this with [[Straight Edge Evil]] and [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] for genuinely frightening results.
* 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
* On ''[[Leverage]]'', Nate's dad Jimmy is an aging member of [[The Irish Mob]] who, having lost his former position of influence in the Boston underworld during a long prison term, is scheming to get it back.
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* 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]]''.
* {{spoiler|Black Hole [[Big Bad|commander]]}} Von Bolt in [[Nintendo Wars|Advance Wars: Dual Strike]] {{spoiler|keeps himself alive by stealing the [[Life Energy|energy]] of Omega Land via his [[Artifact of Doom|wheelchair]], [[Enemy to All Living Things|turning it into]] [[Walking Wasteland|a wasteland]]}}. He shows [[Moral Event Horizon|no]] [[Complete Monster|regard]] for any other lifeform in the pursuit of this goal. Unlike [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|some other]] [[Immortality Seeker
** Which, unfortunately, does not keep him from being one of the most intimidating characters in the game, which should tell you something.
* 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.
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* Sarda from ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]''.
* 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>
* Xykon from ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' wasn't always a [[Our Liches Are Different|lich]]. Before he transformed, he was already 80 years old, yet he was still a strong enough sorcerer to wipe out a squad of paladins without any of them touching him.
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