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* ''[[Nemesis (film)|Nemesis]]'': a little old lady is harassed by one of the cyborg assassins searching for the protagonist. When he walks away, she pulls out a large pistol out of her purse and shoots him in the back several times, and then shoots him half a dozen times more when he's down for good measure.
{{quote|'''Old woman''': Fucking cyborgs. Streets aren't safe anymore. Can't even go to the market without meeting some punk...}}
* When Jeanine first appeared as a young woman in the original ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' she was the team's [[Sassy Secretary]]; forty years older in ''[[Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire]]'', she suits up and dons a proton pack to fight alongside them.
== Literature ==
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** Eda Bell, better known as the Shang Wildcat from the [[Tamora Pierce]] ''Kel'' books. She teaches hand-to-hand combat to the pages.
{{quote|'''Eda:''' Some grandchildren need more raising than others, and I provide it.}}
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''
** Neville's grandmother Augusta Longbottom in ''[[
** [[Badass Teacher|Professor]] Minerva McGonagall, who Rowling describes as a 'sprightly' 70-year-old. She holds her own against Death Eaters during the final battle, whether she's fighting them in person or bringing statues to life to attack them. She also lived through being hit with four Stunning Spells to the chest, which is apparently quite a feat for someone in her seventies.
** Molly Weasley may be a ''bit'' too young to qualify, but her oldest son is nearly thirty when she takes down Bellatrix so she's probably pretty close.
{{quote|[[Memetic Mutation|"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!"]]}}
* In Daniel Pennac's novel ''La Fée Carabine'', a group of old ladies had been taught to use guns, which is somewhat unusual in Paris. And then there were the accidents....
* In the first of the ''[[Stephanie Plum]]'' books, Grandma's response to being kidnapped (and having her own and her granddaughter's life threatened) involves bullets. Quite a few bullets. She doesn't actually shoot anyone (her aim isn't the greatest), but she starts a fire that burns down the funeral home (she apparently didn't know that the crates stacked along the walls contained ammunition, explosives, etc., or if she knew, she didn't care).
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'''Ridcully''': Yes.
'''Hughnon''': We have someone called Mrs. Cake. }}
* Another [[Terry Pratchett]] example is Granny Morkie from ''[[Nomes Trilogy|The Bromeliad]]''.
* ''[[Good Omens]]'': The title inspiring Agnes Nutter from ''The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter'', who knew she was going to be burned at the stake, ''packed her skirts with gunpowder and roofing nails'' (and pretty much controlled the plot of the whole book from a few hundred years ago).
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* In ''The Secret Diary of [[Adrian Mole]]'', after Adrian's grandma learns he's being tormented by local bully Barry Kent, she goes out, returning a little while later with the money Barry took from Adrian, and assurances that he won't be bothering Adrian again. Next day, Adrian writes, "It is all over school that a seventy-six-year-old woman frightened Barry Kent and his dad into giving back my menaces money," although [[Noodle Incident|precise details of what happened are never given]].
* Olenna Tyrell, aka "The Queen of Thorns" in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. While she only properly featured in one book thus far, by all accounts she's a vicious piece of work if she thinks you're a threat to her or her family. {{spoiler|Just ask Joffrey.}}
* [[Dorothy Gilman]]'s [[Mrs. Pollifax (franchise)|Mrs. Emily Pollifax]], wife of the late Virgil Pollifax. Prim, kind, innocuous, charming, genteel [[Badass]]. And yes, she would manage to avoid any asterisks in that ''without'' violating the "prim and genteel" clause. Joined the CIA when she was already a grandmother because she felt that she had outlived her usefulness. Promptly proved herself astonishingly practical and resourceful. Incidentally she was unleashed upon the world in 1966.
* Grandma Dowdell from ''Long Way from Chicago'' and ''A Year Down Yonder''. She lives by herself in a sleepy Illinois town, always manages to have enough to eat during the Depression, and engages in a number of fantastic escapades that leave her grandchildren (who grew up in Chicago) stunned. She owns a Winchester rifle which once belonged to her husband and is not afraid to use it, keeps a large snake in her attic to eat mice, and once expressed a desire to see the alleged body of a Chicago mobster who was killed and put on display. And lord help any idiot who tries to get the best of her. When some brothers blow up her mailbox, she tricks them into breaking into her house then throws a cherry bomb at them and holds them down with the Winchester Rifle, finishing it off by getting their milkman father to beat them after pretending they put a dead mouse in her milk. When the principal's son tries to vandalize her house on Halloween, she waits in the shed and trips him with wire before throwing a pan of hot glue at his head. She then takes the knife that he dropped and uses it to cut him a slice of pie at the school's Halloween party, adding insult to injury (the kid was still pretty much bald from the glue attack). Upon learning what his son did, the principal just said "Boy, you picked the wrong house".
* Rosa Klebb, the head of SMERSH in the ''[[James Bond]]'' novel ''[[From Russia with Love]]'' is a late middle-aged [[Big Bad]] who can dish out serious hurt and fights dirty.
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