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** Also Sentarô's grandma/the matriarch of the Daimonji Clan, grandmistress of [[Martial Arts and Crafts|Martial Arts Tea Ceremony]] and very handy with a napkin.
* Genkai from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. She wins half a round of the Dark Tournament pretty much single-handedly... ''after giving most of her power to Yusuke.''
** Later in the series, she takes under her wing ''six'' C-class fighters (Chuu, Rinku, Jin, Touya, Shishiwakamaru, and Suzuki) and in months, [[Training
* "[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]" has a parody in Grandmano, and how.
* ''[[Naruto]]''
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* Antonia in ''Antonia's Line'' decides to deal with the man who raped her granddaughter her own way—so she heads to the local tavern with a shotgun. When she gets there, she decides instead to put a curse on him instead of killing him ([[Karmic Death|which apparently works]]). Whether you think he got off easy or not it was definitely a [[Badass]] grandma moment when she has him on his knees terrified.
* 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!
* Alice, the Ministry agent in ''[[The Avengers (1998 film)|The Avengers 1998]]''.
* The Penguin from ''[[The Blues Brothers]]''. Maybe a little young, but she fits the badass by whipping the piss out of Jake and Elwood.
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* Relda Grimm from ''[[The Sisters Grimm]]'' series.
* Scott Westerfeld's ''[[Midnighters]]'' trilogy features Madeleine, the elderly mindcaster who {{spoiler|sold out her fellow midnighters for popularity}}, then hid in a crepuscular contortion for decades to stay away from the darklings and ''create a whole new generation of midnighters'' to back up natural-born Seer Rex. By manipulating the vulnerable minds of women in labour. And that's when she had relatively good intentions. [[Mind Rape|You don't want to know what Madeleine will do to you if you get on her bad side]].
* ''[[Gentleman Bastard Sequence|The Lies of Locke Lamora]]'' has Dona Vorchenza, an elderly noblewoman with no heirs and a penchant as acting as a sort of "foster mother" for various other noblewomen, calling them up to midnight tea to discuss their issues. {{spoiler|She's also the Spider, head of Duke Nicovante's secret police force, who often uses these midnight teas as a way of both keeping up on noble doings and finding possible violators of the Secret Peace between the nobles and the criminal element.}}
* Leia Solo, in the latest books of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Expanded Universe]].
* Pearl Bright in Jane Lindskold's ''[[Breaking the Wall]]'' trilogy. When your first on-page action in one of the books is beheading an attacker who took you completely by surprise, you are this trope.
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* Not to be confused with the UK children show ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtymNiYlSD4 Super Gran]'', about a Scottish granny who gets superpowers from the bad guys mishandling a piece of [[Applied Phlebotinum]]. The [[Title Theme Tune]] says it all:
{{quote|''Stand back [[Superman]], Iceman, [[Spider-Man]]. [[Batman]] and Robin too.
Don't wanna cause a ruckus, but [[The A-Team|B.A. Baracus]], have I got a match for you.
She makes them look like a bunch of fairies.
She's got more bottle than United Dairies.
Hang about -- Look out! For Super Gran.'' }}
* Granny Clampet of ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]''. None of them were wimps, but Granny was one of the toughest scrappers in the whole family. And you don't want her shooting at you.
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* Maddie "[[Mama Bear]]" Westen in ''[[Burn Notice]]''. She manages to successfully interrogate a terrorist into near-pants-wetting fear when Sam and Fi couldn't break him, hides weaponry in her house, and {{spoiler|successfully stalls and distracts a pair of government agents in order to help Michael escape, fully aware that they'll arrest her once they inevitably figure out she's protecting him.}} When the normal standard of badass is made by ex-spies and bounty hunters and you're still considered badass, you deserve to be on this page.
* Gemma in ''[[Sons of Anarchy]]''. She only recently became a grandmother but she definitely fits.
* ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'': The old Jewish lady in a wheelchair... with an [[Cool Guns|Ingram MAC-10]] under her blanket.
* T'Pau in the original ''[[Star Trek]]'' series, thanks to Celia Lovsky's amazing presence.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''. Grandma Ruth, Bill Adama's grandma in ''[[Caprica]]''. Initially she just appears as a Tauron traditionalist who wants her grandson to know the family roots and having a (somewhat justified) dislike towards Graystones. Then you see her Ha'la'tha tattoos just as she is talking about "blood for blood" and you just ''know'' that she killed people. She's also somewhat terrifying. She claims that the dead never truly rest until they're avenged, for example. There's a reason that Joseph initially believed her when she said "Tauron children play jacks with the fingerbones of children who lose at jacks." Made explicit in episode 17. Meat cleaver to the back, and she's a retired hitman.
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* Erin Tarn of the ''[[Rifts]]'' role-playing series. She's in her 60s and is the Coalition State's Public Enemy #1, simply because she spreads knowledge. She's one of the few people in that world that is known around the world (and across dimensions) to be both respected and feared.
** However, while she is entirely fearless and has dominated intense situations by sheer force of personality or charm, she's never actually been in a fight in her life and unlike some other entries on this page (such as Granny Weatherwax), she shows no signs of being ''able'' to fight. She does, however, employ some of the most formidable bodyguards available anywhere.
* Difficult, but possible in ''[[Dungeons
** There are several class features that entirely eliminate age penalties while still letting you keep age bonuses. One of them is being a high-level monk. So yeah.
** The crone statue in 4E's "[[Tomb of Horrors]]" qualifies.
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* ''[[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]]:
{{quote|'''R&D Comments'''
'''BB:''' [[Fridge Logic|Why does a life-gaining card show an old lady killing people?]]
'''MR:''' [[Fix It in Post|We'll fix it in the flavor text]]. }}
** A more recent (and tournament legal!) example from the new ''Dark Ascension'' set is the kindly old [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Lambholt Elder]]. The flavor text says it all:
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