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{{quote|''"Ted, dear, I think you'd better leave. I'm gonna tear this little fella apart from the inside out."''|'''Gran'ma Ben''' (shortly after Ted introduces her to [[Jerkass|Phoney Bone]]), ''[[Bone]]''}}
Little old lady is [[Mugging the Monster|attacked]]. [[Badass Bystander|Little old lady]] [[Weak but Skilled|kicks ass]]. Moral of the story:
The [[Distaff Counterpart]] to "[[Badass Grandpa]]". Commonly we hear her say that "[[I Was Quite a Looker]]". She may also be a [[Retired Badass]] or the matriarch of a [[Badass Family]]. Older [[Iron Lady|Iron Ladies]] will generally be this. Might overlap with [[Good Is Not Dumb]]; '''''always''''' a [[Cool Old Lady]].
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*** Young. She is 139 years ''young''. Refer to any way she might be old and she will hurt you.
* Oryou Sonozaki of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' is shown to be a very, VERY scary old granny (whom is even called Oni-Baba [Demon Granny] by her granddaughters!). Not only does she sit in watch as her granddaughter has her fingernails ripped off, she encourages the punishment. At one point she even threatens to kill Keiichi Maebara with a katana and dump his body in the family well. She gets what is coming to her though, when she is killed during during an interrogation in Watanagashi-hen and Meakashi-hen.<br />Apparently, "[[I Was Quite a Looker]]" can apply too, as seen in one of the anime-only omakes. And if you can make her like you, you've got one hell of an ally {{spoiler|as shown in the second-to-last arc when Keiichi manages to win her favor and get her and the entire village to help rescue Satoko from her uncle. And when the official at the DCF equivalent threatens to call in her son-in-law to kick everybody out...[[Right Behind Me|well, let's just say he doesn't actually know the man.]] Too bad that wasn't the good world Rika and Hanyuu were looking for.}}
* Grandma Hina from ''[[Love Hina]]'' is known as the Demon of Hinata. No-one ever questions her orders. Not [[Action Girl]] Motoko, not rebellious [[The Kitsune|Kitsune]], nor [[Genki Girl]]
* Elda Marker from ''Karin'', or ''[[Chibi Vampire]]''. Grandmother of the main character Karin, she is approximately a 250 year old vampire. Physically, she is still a young adult, possibly even an older teenager, despite the fact that she's had one kid before named Henry, the father of Karin. To make things even more awkward, she is a near identical twin of Karin, her own granddaughter. She has [[Boisterous Bruiser|an eagerness to fight and attitude befitting a teenager]], which is somewhat appropriate. Still this makes things weird with her son Henry, who looks far older then she does. She is a perfect [[Badass]], fighting with insane physical strength and skill even among vampires, she is even said to be the most powerful vampire in all of Japan. While indoors, she sometimes wears clothes befitting her matriarch status, but when she travels outside she sometimes wears a simple black shirt, shorts and sneakers, usually when she wants to kick someone's ass.
* The Russian assassin from ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' is over 80 years old, but like many other characters is really a brain in a [[Mobile Suit Human|cybernetic body]] that doesn't look a day older than 30. And with 60 years of experience, she's extremely dangerous.
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* Mable Simmons. Better known as '''[[Tyler Perry|Madea]]'''. If she reaches for her purse, the best thing for you to do is... RUN.
* ''[[The Mist]]'' has one of these, a little old schoolteacher who stops one of the crazy fundamentalist's rants by conking her on the head with a thrown can of peas (and asserting that there are plenty more where that came from), and not only goes along on the expedition out into the eponymous mist but kills one of the mist's monstrous bugs with [[Aerosol Flamethrower|a flamethrower improvised from a can of hair spray and a lighter]]. The character's pretty tough in the original [[Stephen King]] novella as well.
* Antonia in ''Antonia's Line'' decides to deal with the man who raped her granddaughter her own
* The old lady with whom Max and Jess stay in the middle part of ''[[Mad Max]]''. She threatens the Toecutter's biker gang with a pretty hefty gun (by real life standards, not [[More Dakka]]), and they listen.
* ''[[Stop or My Mom Will Shoot]]'' featuring Sly Stallone as a cop who is troubled by his pistol-packing elderly mother. The film was universally reviled.
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** Granma Plum was based on a real person that author Janet Evanovich met while researching bounty hunters. She was still skip-tracing in her seventies.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** Any witch that fits the [[The Hecate Sisters|Mother or... other one]] slot. Granny Weatherwax isn't a grandmother from the technical viewpoint of not having children of her own, but she's still the little old lady known as Granny by a good deal of the main characters, and she Will Take You Down. Her name in
*** Nanny Ogg ''is not afraid'' of Granny Weatherwax. That should be a hint.
*** [[Discworld/Wintersmith|Miss Treason]] isn't either. Granny is [[Insistent Terminology|Mistress Weatherwax]] to other people and witches who have not earned the right to call her Granny yet. Miss Treason refers to her as "the girl Weatherwax". Possibly because she's 113 years old.
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* Granny Cane of ''[[Bigtime]]''.
* ''[[Animorphs]]'' had an old lady in "The Diversion" who actually gets dubbed Granny-Controller. She keeps shooting at the group and flies a helicopter after them, finally crashing with it.
* ''Supergran'', which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]
* Mother Superior Mary Francis in [[James Byron Huggins]]' novel ''Cain''. Frail, aged nun vs. demon-possessed assassin/cyborg/vampire??
{{quote|'''Cain:''' Holy water, Mother?
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== Pro Wrestling ==
* The Fabulous Moolah won her first Women's World Championship in 1959, which was recognized as the NWA Women's World Title in 1964. Her seventh, and final, Women's World Title reign, with the WWE, was in October
* Mae Young, whose wrestling career began in the early 1940s, is actively involved in the WWE as of 2008, having competed in several matches since reappearing in the WWE in 1999. Among her exploits, she was powerbombed off the stage through a table by Buh-Buh-Ray Dudley, appearing the next week on the program none the worse for wear.
** A funny note is that before the show, Bubba was hesitant to actually go through with the stunt, so Mae started smacking him around and demanding he put her through the table "like a man." You see that he went through with it...
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* Difficult, but possible in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', where being in the Venerable age category gives you -6 to all physical abilities and +3 to all mental abilities. This can be an attractive prospect to [[Min-Maxing]] players of mentally-oriented characters, or there are workarounds that grant the bonuses but not the penalties. Never Mess with Granny if she's a Kobold, a [[Old Master|Monk]], a Druid, or any other form of [[Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards|high-level spellcaster]].
** The crone statue in 4E's "[[Tomb of Horrors]]" qualifies.
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' has Morathi, the Hag Queen. She is over five thousand years old, maintains her attractiveness through regular blood sacrifices, seduced the first Phoenix King, masterminded her son's attempt on the Phoenix Throne that led to the great schism in the Elven people, and is a capable warrior and a powerful sorceress. Who beat up a ''Daemon Prince'' that shredded her entire bodyguard and tried to capture her because he was jealous of her beauty. Also [[Ms. Fanservice]], a wielder of [[Black Magic]], and one of the setting's foremost [[Big Bad
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', in one of its comedy sets, has a card named "Granny's Payback" whose art depicts an old lady slaughtering her way through a horde of people. The card's [[Flavor Text]]:
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* The ''Super Granny'' franchise. Not only does Granny plonk her enemies with frying pans and run at super speed, she loves to sing [[Michael Jackson]]'s "Bad" as she does.
* Lokomo sage Anjean from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks]]'' happens to be this in a pure form. The lavender-haired, steam-powered Segway-riding old maiden releases the Spirit Train from its sleep at the least. {{spoiler|She also conjures the Lokomo Sword and a custom Phantom for Zelda, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|despite injuries sustained from fighting Byrne to a stalemate while you were out at the Fire Temple]]. Mock her now.}} She spends most of the game {{spoiler|holding the Spirit Tower together to keep Malladus from entering the world completely. And she did it ''by herself''.}}
* Kreia from ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II''. It doesn't exactly come as a shock to discover that under that {{spoiler|she used to be a Sith, and hasn't exactly "seen the error of her ways"...}}. That's putting it
* Mrs. Crumplebottom from the first two ''[[The Sims|Sims]]'' games. She is a mean old lady who does not approve of public displays of affection. Kissing in public will invoke the unpredictable wrath of her ginormous [[Handbag of Hurt|handbag]], unless you have the foresight to distract her with [[Frothy Mugs of Water|frothy mugs of fruit juice]], or take your date to a bowling alley.
* It's been suggested on a modder forum that made mods for the ''[[In Name Only|Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' game, that carrying cash should increase the chance that a player gets attacked on the streets, which in turn would lead to a big fight involving muggers, pirates, guards, and old ladies with broomsticks, who don't want to miss the fun. How serious this suggestion was, is anyone's guess.
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* The Stroller Grandma spirit in ''[[Fatal Frame]] 3''. She goes down in about one or two shots, but she can also ''one-hit kill you!''
* Halak of ''[[Vanguard Bandits]]'', the little old lady with a [[Strange Syntax Speaker|case of Yoda-speak]] who's a [[Giant Mecha|giant mech]] pilot in order to be a bodyguard to her Princess Granddaughter. She willingly faces off against the strongest [[A Mech by Any Other Name|ATACs]] to ensure her job is done.
* Both [[Rival Science Teams|Class I and Class M]] from ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' are full of [[Badass Grandpa
* Raja from ''[[Suikoden V]]''. A former navy admiral who later defeated her [[A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil|student who defected to the enemy Godwin faction]].
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* Even though she has no kids of her own, Hama of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' definitely counts as someone who could kick your ass without even striking you. [[He Who Fights Monsters|She's also one of the]] [[Nightmare Fuel|scariest characters in the series.]] Note that she wouldn't kick your ass. As long as there's a full moon, [[People Puppets|she'd make you kick your own ass.]]
* From the ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (animation)|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' animated series, Sam's Granny Ruth, who works at a ''maximum security prison'' on [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Blood Island]]. The duo visit her on Christmas Eve just as the prisoners attempt a jailbreak. True to this trope, Granny kicks seventeen types of ass to get the rapscallions back into place.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''. Mr. Krabs' mother may seem like a sweet old lady at first, but when she finds out that Plankton was just using her to get the Krabby Patty formula, she flexes her bicep, revealing it to be huge and accompanied by an image of battleship cannons going off inside it. Cue [[Oh Crap]] from Plankton followed by him being [[Megaton Punch|punched clean out of the Krusty Krab and back into the Chum Bucket]].
* It's revealed in ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'' that Ben and Gwen's grandmother is an extremely powerful [[Energy Being]] that was able to take them all on at once... and she was playing!
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' had one extremely short segment of a little old lady rolling down the street in a tank.
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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7002829.stm Helen McAdam] confronted an armed robber who was holding a security guard at gunpoint. She then proceeded to beat him with her handbag and he fled.
* Azrael at [http://www.outpostnine.com/gaijin_smash/ Gaijin Smash] blogged frequently about the terror that is the obaasan (Japanese grandmother). School policies tended to be made with deference to them, and discipline couldn't be carried out for fear of facing their wrath; the obaasan were feared as much as yakuza parents. Az also describes a field trip in which he was driven from half-way up Mount Fuji by a typhoon, and on retreat was ''passed up'' by a group of marching obaasan who had already been to the top.
* The Sisters of Mercy might count as an entire sect of badass
* Australian Olympic gold medalist [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Dawn-Fraser-71-year-old-Olympic-champ-fights-o?urn=oly,186159 Dawn Fraser, 71, grabs a would-be crook by the ear and kicks him in the groin]. He threatens her, she's annoyed, grabs him again by the ear and his hair.
* Four grandmas in an Impala get hit by a young man at an intersection and the man is yelling at him like it's their fault even though it was him who ran the red light. One rolls down the window, gets the guy with pepper spray and the four old ladies proceed to get out of the car and beat the guy senseless with two umbrellas, a purse, and a black luggage bag until he gets so scared he runs back into his car and takes off. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj-6nJCQYdo Listen to it here].
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* Everyone on [http://raginggrannies.org/ Raging Grannies]. They invoke the trope by being over sixty, marching in protests, and singing mildly raunchy songs on street corners to call attention to government and corporate corruption.
* Sydney news: [http://www.3news.co.nz/Grandmother-punches-off-shark/tabid/417/articleID/141899/Default.aspx grandmother punches] shark.
* According to ''Albions Seed'' by David Hackett Fischer, a number of Scotch-Irish [[Apron Matron
* A criminal, attempting to hide from the police, broke into a house he knew to be owned by an old widow, thinking he'd be safe. After he heard the distinctive sound of a pump-action shotgun and received a polite warning that he might have a better chance with the police, he chose to surrender.
* As mentioned before, an older [[Iron Lady]] will generally be some form of this.
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