Tropescilloscope: Cool Old Guy

Someone for whom awesomeness increased with age. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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