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Line 99: * ''[[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 == Line 104 ⟶ 105: ** 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.}} : [[Action Mom]] Alanna, who is reaching her forties in ''Tricker's Choice'' and still beats Kel, who is much younger than her, in a practice fight. * ''[[Harry Potter (novel)\|Harry Potter]]'' Neville's grandmother Augusta Longbottom in ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)\|Deathly Hallows]]''. A couple of Death Eater-controlled ministry thugs came to take her to try and threaten Neville into behaving himself at school. Her grandson put it best: "Dawlish is still in St. Mungo's and Gran's on the run." And she still showed up for the final battle. Line 110 ⟶ 111: 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!"]]}} *: She's a grandmother in less than a year after that event happens, so, close enough. * 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). Line 124 ⟶ 125: '''Ridcully''': Yes. '''Hughnon''': We have someone called Mrs. Cake. }} ~~**~~:: Later in the same book, Mrs Cake goes for a walk to deliver information about the uncanny events going on to Mustrum. She occasionally pauses or inexplicably steps aside, and terrible things happen where she would have been had she not done so. (That means for anyone who tries to lay an unwelcome hand on her.) ~~**~~:: Near the end of book, Death raids one of Offler's more remote temples to steal the largest diamond in existence. As he's about to break through the last defenses before the innermost shrine, the priests there scream in horror: '''"Mrs Cake!"''' : And no one wants to mess with the Agony Aunts, who protect the [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold\|seamstresses]] of Ankh-Morpork. They took ''[[Badass\|Vimes]]'' down with absolutely no trouble, and he's killed werewolves with his bare hands. : Granny Aching, despite being dead before Tiffany's stories begin, was the best shepherd on the Chalk and had the respect of all her neighbors. And might have been the greatest witch ever in terms of keeping it low-key and getting others to solve their own problems. When Tiffany described her to the aforementioned Granny Weatherwax, the latter ''expressed admiration''. * 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).