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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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