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* For '''Oldest''' Old Retainer ever, I nominate Jenkins, the robotic butler in Clifford D. Simak's novel, ''City''. He serves the Webster family and their descendants faithfully for... oh, at least 10,000 years. Probably more like half a million.
* NDR-113, better known as Andrew, serves several generations of the Martin family before gaining emancipation in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s story, "The Bicentennial Man" (expanded to novel-length as ''The Positronic Man'' by Asimov and [[Robert Silverberg]], and adapted to film as ''[[Bicentennial Man]]'', starring [[Robin Williams]]).
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Willikins, the Ramkin/Vimes family butler in ''[[Discworld]]'' novels. Although in later appearances he seems to have been retconned to about the same age as Vimes, making him more believable as a [[Battle Butler]].
** [[The Igor|Igor]] in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]''. He doesn't mind working for vampires, but is so offended by innovations that he revives [[Good Old Ways|the old master to deal with the next generations]].
*** Actually, Igor was willing to tolerate it up to a point, but when Count Magpyr started his [[Villainous Breakdown]] Igor decided it was time to bring back the old count.
* Butler of ''[[Artemis Fowl]]''. The Butlers have worked for the Fowls for generations, and Butler also has a strong personal loyalty to Artemis.
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