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* [[Bloody Monday|Fujimaru "Falcon" Takagi]] appears to be this in ''[[Bloody Monday]]: Season Two'', claiming to have not even touched a keyboard since the first season {{spoiler|but this is just a facade to prevent his friends from getting involved again.}}
* Nanoha herself during ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Vi Vid (Manga)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Vi Vid]]'', though the existence of ''Force'' shows that she'll be back in action after [[Time Skip|two years]]. [[The Rival|Einhart]] mistakes her for an ordinary housewife in Chapter 10, leading to lots of barely constrained snickering from the other cast members.
* Takumi's dad Bunta from ''[[Initial D]]'', currently the owner of a tofu-shop in the sticks, but is still pretty much a driving god. Demonstrated when he drifts his car, then proceeds to [[Badass|light a cigarette and smoke it in the middle of the drift]]. Also the fact that the unnamed person who's calling on his cellphone for advice is hinted to be real life Drift King [
* [[Samurai Champloo|Kariya]] [[Big Bad|Kagetoki]]. He spends most of the series gardening and listening to what's happening to the main characters, he eventually is coaxed out of retirement This is a very bad thing for Mugen and Jin
* Kira Yamato starts off like this in ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]''. Though it's not long before circumstances get so dire that he decides step out of retirement. It helps that {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] tried to assassinate his girlfriend}}.
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* [[Bones|Max Brennan]], [[Papa Wolf|the kindest guy who will stab you to death, gut you, put you on a stick and set you on fire if you put his family in danger]]. Normally he's a science teacher who loves kids. Mess with his kids and he comes out of retirement.
* Christopher Henderson in ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'', though a dark take since once Jack attempts to coax him out of retirement, it's revealed that he had actually already come out of retirement, did a [[Face Heel Turn]] and was now a [[The Dragon|Dragon]] for the season's [[Big Bad]].
** Jack himself attempts to retire <s>twice</s> FOUR TIMES. The first time is following the first season. Jack is not retired in the true sense and listed as inactive. This is mainly due to the breakdown of his relationship with Kim, as well as suicidal thoughts following the big twist at the end of the season. Even so he's pretty quick to tell people he doesn't work for CTU anymore. Next is between seasons three and four, where he opts for a desk job in the Department of Defense. The third time is between seasons six and seven where he chooses simply not to come back to the United States. [[But Thou Must!|Obviously, this doesn't quite work out.]] As of Day 8, Jack is FINALLY truly retired from government work. He even tells someone this in the trailer for the season. He's living peacefully in New York City with Kim and his grandchild (guess this means you can add [[Retired Badass]] as well). [[Desk Jockey|No DoD desk job]], [[He's Just Hiding|no running from China]] and [[Walking the Earth|no trip to Africa]]. Needless to say since this is 24 it's not going to last long. Near the end of said trailer cue [[Dramatic Gun Cock]] and typical [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] that goes with nearly everything 24 related.
** President of Awesome David Palmer. After some rather unfortunate business in Season 3, he decided not to run for re-election and left political life. Come Season 4, and the current President, the weakly Charles Logan, decides that he needs somebody with balls to save America from mass nuking. One phone call later and President Palmer is back in the saddle (much to the annoyance of the actual Republican cabinet). [[Rule of Cool]]? Yes, but who cares?
* Shepherd Book of ''[[Firefly]]'' fame is a relatively kindly old preacher whose mission in life is to guide the flock he's found on the good ship ''Serenity.'' Sometimes, said flock gets in trouble, and when that happens, the same kindly old preacher starts blasting men in the knees, knocking a cop senseless with his bare hands, and slicing apart battle droids with a giant curved machete.
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'''Sam''': * drawing a second gun and getting up* Not stupid enough to let you near a loaded gun. Now sit down. * fires an inch from Milovan's foot* Please. }}
** Well, he's played by [[Bruce Campbell|Bruce Campell]] of all people...
* [[The Brigadier|Brigadier]] Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart of ''[[
** Unless he's [[Running Gag|stranded in Peru]].
** It doesn't take any great leap of the imagination to see the First Doctor companion Ian Chesterton as belonging here. People often remark on the incongruity of a Secondary School science teacher apparently being able to nonchalontly kick various kinds of arse. Glance at a calendar and do some mental arithmetic, and you'll realise that, as a man in his late-30's/early-40's in 1963, Ian [[World War II|probably had quite an important event tucked away in his backstory.]] You can bet that not even the mental kids acted up in ''his'' class.
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* [[NCIS|Mike Franks]], [[Cynical Mentor|Gibbs's mentor]], is this. Implied that he retired {{spoiler|[[Heroic BSOD|due to the Khobar Towers bombing]]}}, then he went to live in a beach at Mexico. Whenever a situation arises that has him come back to the United States, however, he turns to be still quite good at what he used to do, and during at least ''two'' cases he got and trailed leads ''before'' Gibbs did, in one of these occasions taking the [[Monster of the Week|episode's villain]] himself. He also sneaked by and terminated {{spoiler|Jenny Sheppard's killers}} and was instrumental in a case holding some keys to Gibb's past.
* Tommy from ''[[Power Rangers]]'' has tried to become this several times, but he ''keeps getting [[The Chosen One|chosen]]'' for new powers and duties. He probably would have stayed retired, if his initial idea of "peaceful retirement" hadn't been "mad scientist experimenting with oversized cyborg dinosaurs and magic rocks on a private island". By the end of [[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]], however, he had managed to take care of the aftermath of that little booboo, and was in the much more relaxing career of "high school science teacher", which, while stressful, is not ''apocalyptically'' so.
* While not a conventional example, Hal from ''[[Malcolm in The Middle]]'' can take any one of his sons in a fight and leave them ''gasping for air'' in ''seconds'' (his words). Now if you've ever seen Francis and/or Reese [[Hot
* Although we haven't seen him cut loose it's implied that Zeke from ''[[Parenthood (TV)|Parenthood]]'' is this.
* Samuel Colt of [[Supernatural]], as shown in one of the Time Travel episodes. When two demons come knocking, he tells them quite politely to walk away, he's retired. When they refuse, he kills both of them in the span of two seconds, and only laments that they knocked over his bottle of whiskey.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The original Uncle Sam in the [[Less Than Three Comics|LessThanThree]]-Verse.
* The seventy-something headmistress Elizabeth Carson of [[Super
** Also Dr. Yablonsky, one of the Powers Lab teachers, who has a cybernetic arm and leg. One of the character thinks he teaches pretty much the way Batman faces down thugs.
*** A lot of the teachers and staff are this. Even most of the dorm mothers, apparently. The instructor Earth Mother used to be the 60's/70's counterculture superheroine Flower Child.
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