Retired Badass Roundup: Difference between revisions

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The world has changed. Years have passed since these old heroes, villains, or neutral characters all were in their prime. In fact, most of them are now [[Retired Badass]]es. But the world needs them, one last time, for one last battle. Or they're just getting old and need to feel alive again before they're too old to do anything anymore.

 

Compare to [[Putting the Band Back Together]], when its any kind of group. Or to the [[Magnificent Seven Samurai]], when its about any group of people who are Badass. What makes this different from those tropes is that this trope is about those who are old and have had their turn coming back.

 

For the singular version, look for [[Back in the Saddle]]. See also [[One Last Job]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Gun X Sword]]'', there was that fan-favorite episode featuring the El Dorado Five - a bunch of former Hot Blooded Super Robot pilots, now octogenarians who do nothign but hang around the local bar chatting 'bout the glory-days. Untill suddenly, a Monsterof The Week appears, (as always happens when Van is around), only this time, the old coots decide to pull their Combining Mecha out of mothballs for one last fight... Van, out of respect for the pride of these old warriors, decides to sit out the fight, only providing a bit of timely aid from the sidelines. It was popular enough that the El Dorado team came back as the collective [[The Big Guy|Big Guy]] for Van's [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] in the second half of the series. And when Gun X Sword was finally featured in a [[Super Robot Wars]] game, the El Dorado V was a recruitable, permanent mecha for your team.

* ''[[Space Cowboys]]'': a movie in which a Russian satellite is falling to Earth and so four retired astronauts that never got into space go up because no one else is old enough to remember how to fix it.

* ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]'': The three Musketeers meet to try and replace the king with his twin brother.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Happens at the end of the book ''Belisarius'' by Robert Graves (of ''[[I, Claudius]]'' fame), when the titular character has to defend Constantinople with literally no army. So he gathers his former soldiers, now old bureaucrats and retired commanders. And they still win.

 

* ''[[Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]]'' had a squad of old retired fighters led by Peter Graves come back for [[One Last Job]].

* Within the 1980 version of ''[[Zorro]]'', a bandit troupe threatens the town and Don Diego's father calls in the badass crew he used to work with. Their skills have noticeably degraded in the time they've been retired, so Zorro has to do their job behind the scenes without letting them realize their failure.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' had the Order of the White Lotus and their battle to retake the Earth Capital of Ba Sing Se.

* [[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]] had [[World War II]] superheroes come out of retirement to aid [[Captain America (comics)]] against a newly rissen [[Red Skull]] and his son [[Psycho Electro|Electro]] (alternate continuity) and their army of robots.

 

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