Tropescilloscope: Badass Grandpa

Never mess with this old man. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes An Arm and a Leg Freeze-Frame Bonus Destination Defenestration Happily Married Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Action Prologue Black Dude Dies First Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Biopic Contrived Coincidence The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Kill It with Fire Asshole Victim Your Head A-Splode Scenery Gorn The Ditz Anachronic Order She's Got Legs Vomit Discretion Shot Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Beware the Nice Ones "The Reason You Suck" Speech Arranged Marriage I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Chekhov's Skill Domestic Abuse Bring My Brown Pants Taking You with Me Tagline Silence Is Golden Victoria's Secret Compartment Monumental Damage No OSHA Compliance Punch-Clock Villain Not Quite Dead Wrong Genre Savvy Bowdlerise Madness Mantra Actor Allusion More Dakka Continuity Nod Totally Radical Artistic License – Physics Evil vs. Evil Cold-Blooded Torture The Lost Lenore Karma Houdini Curb-Stomp Battle Eldritch Abomination Red Right Hand Fat Bastard Manic Pixie Dream Girl May–December Romance Bound and Gagged Big "NO!" War Is Hell Diabolus ex Machina Downer Ending All for Nothing Eyepatch of Power Flashback The Ghost Unusually Uninteresting Sight Cool Car Men Are the Expendable Gender Calling the Old Man Out Canadian Movies NO INDOOR VOICE Storming the Castle Alpha Bitch Rated M for Manly Deliberately Monochrome Belligerent Sexual Tension Department of Redundancy Department Non-Indicative Name What the Hell, Hero? Big Brother Instinct Refuge in Audacity Up to Eleven Real Life Sequel Hook Death by Adaptation The Smurfette Principle Artistic License – Biology Pragmatic Villainy A Minor Kidroduction No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Married to the Job Enemy Mine Broken Bird The Cameo N-Word Privileges Sir Swears-a-Lot The Ace Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Naked People Are Funny Henpecked Husband Fish out of Water Back from the Dead How We Got Here Time Skip Dirty Cop Peek-a-Boo Corpse Gorn Cluster F-Bomb Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Dirty Coward Advertised Extra Red Shirt Jitter Cam Bittersweet Ending Insult Backfire Mugging the Monster Black Best Friend Credits Gag Stealth Hi/Bye Armor-Piercing Question The Cavalry Disney Villain Death Even Evil Has Standards Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bald of Evil A Date with Rosie Palms "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue BFG Central Theme Precision F-Strike Ambiguously Gay The Lancer Disguised in Drag Only a Flesh Wound And I Must Scream Works Set in World War II Video Credits Damsel in Distress Obfuscating Stupidity Funny Foreigner Morality Pet Male Gaze Dark Is Not Evil The Mole Off with His Head! Sadistic Choice Idiot Ball What You Are in the Dark Re-Cut Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Thriller Music Stories Bait-and-Switch Adaptation Distillation Make It Look Like an Accident Big Bad Duumvirate The Place Better to Die than Be Killed Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Death by Sex Scary Black Man Scare Chord You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Berserk Button The Chessmaster Artistic License – Gun Safety Disappeared Dad Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Needs Wiki Magic Love Batman Gambit Dramedy Conspicuous CG The Oner Big-Bad Ensemble Sanity Slippage Sinister Minister Corrupt Corporate Executive Death Glare Made of Explodium Genre Shift Fatal Flaw Reality Is Unrealistic The Dog Bites Back Animated Credits Opening Police are Useless Suspiciously Specific Denial Leave the Camera Running Market-Based Title Eye Scream Did Not Get the Girl "Shaggy Dog" Story Anguished Declaration of Love Badass Grandpa You Killed My Father Television Movie Index Vacation Films Bullying a Dragon Drowning My Sorrows One-Word Title Gainax Ending Rule of Funny Race Against the Clock Fingore Loophole Abuse German Films You Have Failed Me Lighter and Softer Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Bavarian Fire Drill In the Back Zombie Stories Flipping the Bird Double-Meaning Title Mistaken for Gay Shipper on Deck Evil Laugh Jerkass Has a Point Evil Counterpart Dull Surprise My Beloved Smother All There in the Script Break the Cutie Rule of Three Butt-Monkey Extremely Short Timespan Training Montage Agony of the Feet Once More, with Clarity! Psycho for Hire Amusing Injuries Freudian Excuse 20 Minutes into the Future Names to Run Away from Really Fast Rule of Symbolism Shirtless Scene Cat Scare Not Using the "Z" Word Blatant Lies Mighty Whitey Genre Savvy Parental Incest Anachronism Stew Humans Are Bastards Gold Digger Frame-Up Mr. Exposition '80s Hair Offscreen Moment of Awesome Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Big Applesauce Redshirt Army Made of Iron Award-Bait Song Obviously Evil Dark Action Girl Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Translation Convention The Stoic Half the Man He Used to Be Hate Sink Red Herring Suspiciously Similar Substitute Becoming the Mask Death by Irony Affectionate Parody As the Good Book Says... No Ending Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer I Have Your Wife Word of God Adaptation Expansion Fun with Acronyms Ungrateful Bastard Small Name, Big Ego Super Strength Badass in a Nice Suit Fourth Date Marriage The Hero Black Comedy Rape Toplessness from the Back Action Genre Eureka Moment Not What It Looks Like "Well Done, Son!" Guy Retirony Random Events Plot Badass Boast Actually Pretty Funny Pre-Asskicking One-Liner You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! "Awesome McCool" Name Kids Are Cruel Fantasy Films Antagonist Title Overprotective Dad Chase Scene Lock and Load Montage Smoking Is Cool Developing Doomed Characters It's Personal Good Is Not Nice Meaningful Background Event Gender Flip Bond Villain Stupidity Italian Films In Name Only Fire-Forged Friends Spiteful Spit From Bad to Worse Adapted Out I Need a Freaking Drink Ass Shove Shown Their Work Spiritual Successor The Vamp Imagine Spot Stock Footage Sci-Fi Horror folderlabel Canon Foreigner Nice Hat Dying Moment of Awesome Cassandra Truth Despair Event Horizon Straight Gay Same Language Dub Daylight Horror Broken Pedestal Facial Horror Meaningful Echo Coming-of-Age Story Boom, Headshot! Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Leitmotif Would Hit a Girl Dirty Old Man Wretched Hive Villain Song Line-of-Sight Name Faux Affably Evil Creator Cameo Have a Gay Old Time Hair-Trigger Temper Faking the Dead Science Fiction Films Only One Name Took a Level in Jerkass Deus ex Machina Australian Movies Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Catapult Nightmare Black Comedy Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Hooker with a Heart of Gold Superhero Distracted by the Sexy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Badass Bookworm Only Sane Man Adult Fear Dark and Troubled Past Hollywood Law Hypocritical Humor This Is Gonna Suck No Name Given Cool Old Lady Fatal Family Photo The Power of Love Crucified Hero Shot Accidental Misnaming Animal Motifs Stylistic Suck Hero Antagonist The Atoner Vampire Fiction Artistic License – Geography Ghost Fiction Unusual Euphemism Adaptational Badass Together in Death All Just a Dream Unresolved Sexual Tension No-Sell Chekhov's Gunman Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Dragon Tap on the Head Stealth Pun Meet Cute Final Girl Ax-Crazy Big Fancy House Nothing Is Scarier Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Leaning on the Fourth Wall Crapsack World Bloodier and Gorier Left the Background Music On Heel–Face Turn Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Parental Abandonment Hypocrite Playing Gertrude Dressing as the Enemy Dissonant Serenity Let's Get Dangerous! An Aesop French Films Not So Stoic Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Your Cheating Heart Tempting Fate No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Fantastic Racism Defrosting Ice Queen Bond One-Liner Deconstruction Redemption Equals Death Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Bottomless Magazines Adaptational Villainy The Faceless Artistic License – History Famous Last Words Soundtrack Dissonance Grievous Bottley Harm Martial Arts Movie Artistic License – Military Darker and Edgier Accidental Murder Shell-Shocked Veteran Film Noir Rasputinian Death Properly Paranoid Major Injury Underreaction Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Hero Dies Foregone Conclusion Fiery Redhead Femme Fatale Red Eyes, Take Warning Children Are Innocent Serious Business Double Entendre What Happened to the Mouse? Mr. Fanservice Mythology Gag Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Does This Remind You of Anything? timeperiod Historical Villain Upgrade Determinator Captain Ersatz Kubrick Stare Yandere Drill Sergeant Nasty Action Survivor Immune to Bullets Laser-Guided Karma Pyrrhic Victory A Father to His Men Book-Ends Cain and Abel Fan Disservice He Who Fights Monsters Badass Longcoat Well-Intentioned Extremist Instant Death Bullet Mystery and Detective Films Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Great Depression Insane Troll Logic Heel Realization And Starring Creepy Child Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Pimped-Out Dress Blood Knight Rape as Drama Psychological Thriller Action Girl Disney Death Heterosexual Life-Partners Skewed Priorities Manly Tears Composite Character Five-Man Band Mundane Made Awesome La Résistance Manipulative Bastard Casting Gag The Voiceless Adults Are Useless Race Lift Here We Go Again! Ironic Echo Index of Film Westerns Greater-Scope Villain Took a Level in Badass Friend to All Children Protagonist Title Kick the Dog Love Triangle All There in the Manual Male Frontal Nudity Fake Shemp Implacable Man Woman Scorned Bland-Name Product Russian Films Car Fu Public Domain Feature Films Demonic Possession Camp Gay Based on a True Story Dumb Blonde Rule of Cool The Quiet One Heroic BSoD Hidden Depths The Stoner Cruel and Unusual Death Papa Wolf In Medias Res Those Two Guys Didn't Think This Through Dogged Nice Guy Bolivian Army Ending Title Drop After the End Historical Hero Upgrade And the Adventure Continues Amoral Attorney Extreme Doormat Stuff Blowing Up Decoy Protagonist Handicapped Badass Abusive Parents Heroes Want Redheads Military and Warfare Films B-Movie It Can Think Expository Hairstyle Change Knight Templar Real Life Writes the Plot Depraved Bisexual Never Found the Body Improvised Weapon Framing Device Documentary Get Out! Author Avatar Aluminum Christmas Trees Throwing Your Sword Always Works Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Dutch Angle Pay Evil unto Evil I Did What I Had to Do Face Death with Dignity Visual Pun Bad Boss Adorkable A.I. Is a Crapshoot Guns Akimbo Woman in White Catch-Phrase Sports Stories Chiaroscuro Aside Glance An Axe to Grind The Bad Guy Wins Film Noir Index Rewatch Bonus Bunny-Ears Lawyer Pretty Little Headshots Riddle for the Ages Anyone Can Die Reckless Gun Usage Crazy Jealous Guy MacGuffin There Is No Kill Like Overkill Four-Temperament Ensemble Country Matters Adaptation Name Change Improbable Aiming Skills Expy Arch-Enemy Exact Words Arc Words Bloody Hilarious Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Creative Closing Credits Card-Carrying Villain Epic Movie Brutal Honesty Sealed Evil in a Can Age Lift Babies Ever After The '60s Killed Mid-Sentence Not So Above It All Honor Before Reason Ambiguous Ending Everyone Has Standards Cat Fight He Knows Too Much Pragmatic Adaptation The Un-Reveal Big Damn Heroes Large Ham Anti-Villain Celebrity Paradox Ms. Fanservice Tranquil Fury Slap-Slap-Kiss Really Gets Around Last-Name Basis Only Known by Their Nickname Early Installment Weirdness Suddenly SHOUTING! Karmic Death Authority Equals Asskicking Romantic False Lead Whole Plot Reference Our Vampires Are Different Self-Deprecation Big Eater Exactly What It Says on the Tin Posthumous Character Important Haircut Logo Joke Rich Bitch Character Development Author Appeal Cool Guns Hope Spot Betty and Veronica Unwitting Instigator of Doom Meaningful Name Dark Reprise Improbable Weapon User Adaptation Dye-Job Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Silent Movie Empathic Environment Retcon Our Zombies Are Different Apocalypse How Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Auto Erotica The '80s Would Hurt a Child Narrator Those Wacky Nazis Mercy Kill The Stinger Sequel Escalation Noodle Incident The Brute Serial Killer Evil Brit The '50s The Alcoholic Bi the Way Naïve Newcomer Drugs Are Bad Mexican Standoff Genre Throwback Failed a Spot Check The Remake Break the Haughty For Want of a Nail Older Than They Look Sassy Black Woman Every Car Is a Pinto Driven to Suicide Air-Vent Passageway Neck Lift No Antagonist Fainting Rousing Speech I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Match Cut Shower Scene Face–Heel Turn Alas, Poor Villain Vitriolic Best Buds Drives Like Crazy Beta Couple Villainous Breakdown Paper-Thin Disguise Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Comically Missing the Point Lampshade Hanging Unreliable Narrator Never Trust a Trailer Historical-Domain Character Motor Mouth Loads and Loads of Characters Fanservice Extra Guile Hero The X of Y Light Is Not Good Green-Eyed Monster Not So Different Only in It for the Money The Smart Guy Mood Whiplash Bad "Bad Acting" Malevolent Masked Men My God, What Have I Done? Police Brutality Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Adaptational Attractiveness Evil Sounds Deep Gilligan Cut True Companions Brother–Sister Incest Running Gag Novelization Neck Snap Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Early-Bird Cameo Chewing the Scenery Knife Nut Chekhov's Gun Foreshadowing Smug Snake Shout-Out The End... Or Is It? Those Two Bad Guys Say My Name Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Outrun the Fireball Never My Fault Intrepid Reporter Blood from the Mouth As You Know Hoist by His Own Petard Bury Your Gays Overly Long Gag Body Horror Corpsing Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Adaptational Heroism Mama Bear Taking the Bullet Oh, Crap! The Load One-Man Army Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Kick the Son of a Bitch Dual Wielding Gory Discretion Shot She Cleans Up Nicely Romantic Comedy Call-Back As Himself Danny Peary Cult Movies List Parental Substitute The Chick Deal with the Devil Trailers Always Spoil Horror Films Alliterative Name Dropped a Bridge on Him Animal Title Index Villain Ball Captain Obvious Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Cloudcuckoolander The Reveal Roaring Rampage of Revenge Easily Forgiven Hero of Another Story Undying Loyalty Setting Update Manchild Slasher Smile For the Evulz Fanservice Poor Communication Kills Sexy Discretion Shot Jerk Jock Worthy Opponent Bar Brawl Annoying Younger Sibling Maybe Ever After The Starscream Affably Evil Bloodless Carnage Pet the Dog Token Minority Big Bad Humiliation Conga Reasonable Authority Figure Politically Incorrect Villain Retired Badass Cool Old Guy Pretty in Mink Plot Hole Offscreen Teleportation Jump Scare Combat Pragmatist Dramatic Gun Cock The Mafia Almost Kiss Mooks Blackmail Brick Joke Darkest Hour Villain Opening Scene Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Spared by the Adaptation Shut Up, Hannibal! Abhorrent Admirer Slasher Movie The '90s Mind Screw Slashed Throat Product Placement Funny Background Event Psychopathic Manchild Twist Ending Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Camera Abuse Interrupted Suicide Recycled IN SPACE! Very Loosely Based on a True Story Bilingual Bonus Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Off-into-the-Distance Ending Defiant to the End A God Am I Death of a Child Mad Scientist Deliberate Values Dissonance One Steve Limit Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Spell My Name with an "S" Moment Killer Ambiguous Disorder Death Seeker Hong Kong Films Take That! Show Within a Show Vomit Indiscretion Shot Disproportionate Retribution Ominous Latin Chanting Brainless Beauty Bare Your Midriff Beauty Is Never Tarnished All Girls Want Bad Boys Getting Crap Past the Radar Eiffel Tower Effect Ripped from the Headlines The '70s Wham Line Soft Glass Evil Is Hammy Homage World of Ham Epic Fail Call-Forward Parental Neglect Christmas Movies Index Cool Shades Sacrificial Lion The Sociopath Stalker with a Crush Star-Crossed Lovers Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Attempted Rape Anti-Hero The Dreaded Does Not Like Shoes Japanese Films Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Reality Has No Subtitles Crazy-Prepared Deadpan Snarker Jerk with a Heart of Gold Villain with Good Publicity Irony Ascended Extra Daddy's Girl I'm a Humanitarian As Long as It Sounds Foreign Establishing Character Moment Room Full of Crazy Awesome, but Impractical No Celebrities Were Harmed Demoted to Extra The Musical Dwindling Party Dies Wide Open It's All About Me The Big Guy Film Series Plucky Comic Relief Evil-Detecting Dog Breaking the Fourth Wall Horror Comedy Be Careful What You Wish For Reality Ensues Grey and Gray Morality Dramatic Irony Artistic License – Law British Films All Men Are Perverts Shoot the Shaggy Dog Hell Is That Noise Gone Horribly Right Black and Gray Morality Gratuitous English Jerkass Due to the Dead Covers Always Lie Even Evil Has Loved Ones Historical In-Joke Earn Your Happy Ending Wham Shot Scenery Porn Punny Name Evil Is Petty Obstructive Bureaucrat Eagleland Villain Protagonist Insistent Terminology Wounded Gazelle Gambit My Greatest Failure Take a Third Option Red Oni, Blue Oni Laughing Mad The Bully Beard of Evil Spanner in the Works Costume Porn Ship Tease Sole Survivor Wicked Cultured Broken Aesop The Film of the Book Informed Ability Too Dumb to Live It Will Never Catch On Stepford Smiler Determinator aka: The Determinator Put on a Bus Revenge From Nobody to Nightmare Curse Cut Short Nice Guy Kill 'em All Not Even Bothering with the Accent Closed Circle Man on Fire Truth in Television Cowboy Cop Evil Plan Fate Worse than Death The Alleged Car The Casanova Intergenerational Friendship Foil Groin Attack Love at First Sight Missing Mom Heroic Sacrifice Hollywood Darkness Badass Normal