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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Frau Totenkinder]] from ''[[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.
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* [[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 Killer]]s. Both of them are easily in their sixties or older. There is also the short story entitled ''Rats'' about a retired Nazi war criminal.
* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', IQ lives in a squalid retirement home and has not lost an inch of his hate for the good guys.
* ''[[Howard the Duck (comics)|Howard the Duck]]'' had a foe called the Kidney Lady who was obsessed with the notion that there was some widespread conspiracy threatening people's kidneys. (Maybe [[Organ Theft| illegal organ trafficking]], maybe purposely marketing food that was high in cholesterol, anything that might involve them) and was also obsessed with the notion that Howard was involved in said conspiracy. It may have been easy to write her off as some nutty [[Conspiracy Theorist]], but she wasn't harmless, being a witch of some sort who could teleport herself and animate objects, in one story creating a monster called [[Animate Inanimate Object| the Chair-Thing.]]
* [[Spider-Man]] villain and [[Daredevil]]'s [[Arch Enemy]] Wilson Fisk, [[The Don| the Kingpin of Crime]]. When he first appeared in ''The Amazing Spider-Man #50'' he had already been an influential and powerful mobster for well over a decade, and in later stories, Peter recognizes the name of a crime boss that Fisk used to work ''three'' decades ago, so Fisk likely in his late 50s, at least.
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