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[[File:Yamamoto color 3317.jpg|link=Bleach|frame| For God's sake, get off his lawn.]]

 

 

Old men are weak, right?

 

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* ''[[Bleach]]''

** Pictured above: Genryuusai Shigekuni Yamamoto. [[The Captain|Captain]] of the First Division, creator of the modern two-thousand-year-old Shinigami Academy (yes, he really is that old), he's been [[The General|Captain-Commander]] of the entire [[Authority Equals Asskicking|Gotei 13]] for [[Asskicking Equals Authority|a thousand years]]. He has the most powerful [[Playing with Fire|fire-based]] [[Empathic Weapon|weapon]] which doubles as the strongest offensive power of ''any weapon'' in the series to date. Despite his aged, scarred appearance, he's incredibly [[Elderly Immortal|toned and well-muscled]]. He can outpace Shunsui and Ukitake easily (both considered brilliant in their own right) and take them both on in his primary release form without breaking a sweat. He has a [[Pillars of Moral Character|stern sense of justice]] and will [[Handicapped Badass|sacrifice his own limbs]] in battle without hesitation. Even the [[Invincible Villain]] fears his strength. In fighting games, he's almost a [[Game Breaker]]. Playing him makes fights easy.

** Taken literally in the end of DBZ and all of DBGT. With Pan, Goku is literally a grandpa, and he's always been badass. Granted, he's not old, it's kinda made comical when {{spoiler|he gets turned into a kid in DBGT. He's a Badass Grandpa who looks like he's 6.}}

* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', we have Lordgenome. He looks like your average guy...or, uh, your average bodybuilder, not like he's over 1000 years old. However, in the final fight of the first story arc with {{spoiler|Simon, after his mech gets wrecked, Lordgenome pops out of the cockpit and beats the crap out of Lagann bare handed. He eventually lost, and had his final monologue without a heart, lungs, etc.}} Later, {{spoiler|he's brought back as a bio-computer, Futurama head-in-a-jar-style. In the final fight of the second story arc against the Anti-Spiral, Lordgenome first recreates his body and his mech from nothing}} in order to do battle. He holds back the {{spoiler|Anti-Spiral's Infinity Big Bang Storm, an attack on par with the creation of the universe, eventually being disintegrated on a quantum level. However, he actually ''absorbs'' the attack and turns its power into pure Spiral Energy, to give to the good guys}} as his final Badass Grandpa act. It's a shame, he was content to sit on his throne for the rest of his immortal life, ruling Earth, having an infinite number of mistresses, but those silly protagonists forced his hand...

* In ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'' manga, Tezuka's grandfather Kunikazu is in his 70s, but ''still'' has incredibly sharp reflexes (is able to use chopsticks to catch a falling teapot) and is one of the most respected (if not feared) instructors in the Tokyo Police Academy.

* ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]''

* Touhou Fuhai in ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'' is a great great grandfather, and he's still more than a match for [[The Dragon|Akuha]]. Subverted in that he's at his most [[Badass]] when he [[Older Than They Look|doesn't look like]] [[Bishonen|a grandpa]].

* Nurarihyon from ''[[Nurarihyon no Mago]]'', the eponymous character's grandfather. Though the years have not been kind on him, as he is now far from what he was back in his prime, he still manages to curb stomp [[The Hero|Rikuo]] in a fight.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Gramps from ''[[Cavewoman]]''. Used a body enhancer to give himself superhuman strength and toughness, then turned up on a flying motorcycle to rescue his granddaughter from a gang of drug dealers before transporting himself, his granddaughter and his 15 ft. tall pet gorilla back through time to live amongst the dinosaurs.

 

* [[Tiberium Wars|Colonel (Retired) Nick Parker]] is an aging veteran of the [[Command & Conquer|First Tiberium War]] well into his seventies, spends much of his free time as a conservative pundit on the 24-hour news networks, and is twenty-percent cybernetics by this point. He also [[Crazy Prepared|keeps a submachine gun in his car's glove compartment]], [[Improbable Aiming Skills|can still land a headshot with a pistol at a hundred meters]] ([[I Am Not Left-Handed|left-handed]]), and once the Third Tiberium War breaks out starts hunting down and demolishing [[Humongous Mecha|Avatars]] [[One-Man Army|by his lonesome]]. "But that was why they called him 'Havoc.'" [[Stuff Blowing Up|He's got a present for ya]].

** He even volunteers to rejoin the war effort as an adviser to Commander Karrde when they ship out to Egypt.

* The ''[[Firefly]]'' fic ''[[Forward]]'' has [[Badass Preacher|Shepherd Book]] further cement his badassery multiple times over the story, including having a scene where he silently knocks out several mercenaries while Mal keeps their leader distracted, and a particularly memorable moment where he {{spoiler|saves River's life}} by facing off against {{spoiler|an entire horde of Reavers singlehandedly, armed with nothing but a pistol and a sword.}}

* {{spoiler|Fuhrer}} Grumman, of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', becomes this in the third part of the [[Elemental Chess Trilogy]]. He spends the first part being a [[Chessmaster]] who's pretending to be a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] and having great fun at everyone else's expense, and is absent for most of the second part, but in the third installment he {{spoiler|survives an assassination attempt, utilizes a secret escape passage to fool everyone into thinking he ''didn't'' survive it, and then comes [[Back from the Dead]] to rescue his grandson-in-law from execution by firing squad.}}