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{{quote|''What's this? Attack of the old people? [[Lampshade Hanging|Oh, that's ridiculous]].''|'''The Dream Lord''', ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 E07 Amys Choice|Amy's Choice]]"}}

See also: [[Badass Grandpa]], [[Never Mess Withwith Granny]], [[Old Master]], [[Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!]] and [[Improbable Weapon User]]. Not to be confused with [[Racist Grandma]], though it can overlap.

* Kidney Lady, basically [[Howard the Duck (Comic Bookcomics)|Howard the Duck]]'s only unbeatable enemy. Wields a mean cane against anyone who smokes or sends off harmful fast-food fumes,. Clearly nuts, but can be tricky; will use magic in a pinch.

* ''[[Madagascar]]'': Nana, the [[One -Scene Wonder|little old lady]] from the first movie returned in the sequel, ''Escape 2 Africa'', through sheer [[Popularity Power]]. Not only did she beat up a full-grown lion (''three times!''), but she showed a lot of skill as a survivalist and delivered a [[Rousing Speech]] to her fellow [[Big Applesauce|New Yorkers]] after the Penguins jacked their tour jeeps.

* ''[[Mad Men]]'' provides a disturbing example when Layne Pryce's father Richard, who {{spoiler|hits his grown son upside the head with a cane and threatens to break his fingers--all because Layne doesn't want to go back to England and has started dating a black woman.}} The [[Deliberate Values Dissonance|attitudes are right for the generation]], but even then, it comes off as pretty harsh. It's enough to make it somewhat surprising that Pryce turned out as as stable and sympathetic as he did given his upbringing, instead of totally screwed up, given the series' norms (on the other hand, [[Stiff Upper Lip|perhaps not]]...).

* The example that provides the page quote in 'Amy's Choice' of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', which is frankly hilarious, except when the old people turn out to be possessed by aliens that kill people with lethal bad breath. Amy has no compunction in running them over.

** Turns out in the end that {{spoiler|its all a dream created by the Doctor's evil side}}. He choose 'alien-possessed old people' as something the Doctor and his companions would believe, which probably tells you something about the common [[Monster of the Week]] tropes this show uses.

* In ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community (TV)/Recap/S1 /E18 Basic Genealogy|Basic Genealogy]], Troy's grandmother attacks one of his classmates with a switch.

* Tellah does this to Edward in a scripted ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]'' battle, hitting him with his cane and calling him a [[Spoony Bard]]. It barely even hurts him, and this is [[Spoony Bard|Edward]] we are talking about.

* [[Paper Mario (Video Gamefranchise)|ELDER]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|POWER ACTIVATE]]!! {{spoiler|The Puni Elder's [[Crack! Oh, My Back!|back acts up]] before it can even do anything}}

* One of the [[Weirdness Magnet|Wild Wasteland]] encounters of ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' has The Courier being ambushed by a trio of old biddies armed with rolling pins and knives, as a [[Shout -Out]] to the ''Hell's Grannies'' above. They're about as threatening as they sound, especially since the player character should be pretty well-armed by this point.

* In ''[[World of Warcraft (Video Game)|World of Warcraft]]'', the playable race the Forsaken, are fairly clearly modeled on the elderly. ''[[Undead]]'' elderly.

* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'': the Senior Citizen Squad and [[The Horde]] of Senior Citezombies lead by the borderline-[[Eldritch Abomination]] [[Ultimate Evil|Grandfather]].