—, 'At Least I'm Not Like All Those Other Old Guys' The effectiveness of a cast member is often determined by his distance from. Deviations up or down will always be coupled with a lack of effectiveness.

The Cool Old Guy is an exception to this. At some point, if one character is much older he swings the meter to 'totally awesome'. In a lot of anime and video games, this makes him somewhere around middle age and the only non. Expect him to be greying, a loud voice, but in peak physical condition and unafraid of anything. For reasons that should be clear enough, this trope frequently overlaps with. He usually but that's only to marginally keep him from intruding on the others' limelight.

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He usually either has a dated and dramatic but lovable personality or is a complete no-nonsense hardass, depending on how the other characters act. In Japan, this trope is called the Oyaji, written 親父 or オヤジ, which means 'daddy'. Can often stray into or territory. Is a younger version (usually no younger than late 20s at minimum) that has many of the same characteristics. See also:,,,,,,,. • Uhm, Uncle Sam.

You know, • Fred the Baker from the Dunkin Donuts commercials, from 1981 to 1997. (As in ) Originally portrayed as an atypical baker, a hard-working, average joe who always got up early so his product could be ready and fresh for his customers, Fred got progressively cooler as the years went on, doing such things as dressing up like a woman to investigate a supermarket bakery (to show their inferiority), waiting on modish 1980s customers while going into a black and white kitchen full of 1940s employees working to swing music (to show that quality has not changed throughout the years) or even creating his Halloween-themed mini donuts -style. • Colonel Sanders;, he's much cooler than he was when he was alive. • Dave Thomas was one both in the Wendy's commercials and out of them. • No Fukumoto series is complete without one — a lot of the time they're complete nutjobs too though. Just to name a few, Ichikawa in Akagi, Ginji in Gin to Kin and Akagi in Ten.

• Bear from was an older man comfortably pals with a teenage girl, Mimiru, through their shared love of virtual reality online gaming. • Phyllo in Roots.

He sits on the bridge in Mac Anu all day, talking to anyone who's interested and becoming close with Haseo. In real life he's an old man, widowed and with two cats. As he tells Haseo, he's just there to kill time, and dies of cancer at the end of the anime.

• loves its Cool Old Guys. Since it starts its characters around ten and takes them up to a prematurely-aged forty-something, yeah.

Later-appearing Kenji is pretty good with this, especially considering his scruffy chin, but last-stage Shogun wins. • Yukiatsu in ( Ghost Slayers Ayashi), a special case, since he's also the protagonist. • The protagonist's grandfather in may be getting up there in age - but that's not gonna stop him from dancing on the tables in Vegas! • Dutch from.

Given that he's a Vietnam vet, and, he must be at least in his fifties. • Apparently, he lied about being a Vietnam vet. Who knows how old he really is. •: Yamamoto is the of the series and the kind of cool old guy that could into a if you disagreed. • Master Tiellagory of is one of the best fencers in France and possibly all of Europe, as well as having more experience with court parties and often wittier repartee than his younger companions. • Jet from (although almost all of the main characters are hardened ultra-cool characters).

Jet: Wait a minute! First of all, I'm, all right? Why, if anything, I would be your boyfriend. Note Jet's 36, and the girl he's having the current conversation with is around 16.

No, wait, that would be bad, wouldn't it?,. I mean, I'd be more like your older brother. • Kanchou/Skipper from certainly fits this trope to a t; even his death is cool. An argument could also be made for Muta, even though he's more. • Watari, acting as L's assistant, proxy and in. • Early on in Master Roshi filled this role, even defeating the main character Goku at the end of the series's first tournament arc, where he actually blew up the frickin' moon!

Unfortunately, Roshi's power level remained fairly constant throughout the series, while the younger characters became vastly stronger every arc, to the point where, by the start of Roshi was relegated to being the comic relief. He eventually manages to double subvert it and bring himself back to this status for and. • Axel Thurston, grandfather of Renton Thurston in. Robot mechanic extraordinaire and full of determination, even if a bit grumpy. Not to mention that he does a near-suicidal stunt to make possible for Renton to get an indispensable device and lives through it.

• Alan Nichol in. Alan is a retired astronaut who essentially plays to a group of societal dropouts, helps them supercharge their racing vehicles, and even gets them into space. •: • Lt General Grumman, Old Man Fu and Dr Knox. • Fuhrer King Bradley aka Wrath, who despite being at least 60 and regularly complaining about feeling his age is one of the most badass characters in the universe.

• has Andrey Kalinin, who admittedly plays mostly a support role, but is still a tough old soldier who still has some fight in him, made especially obvious during the Behemoth arc. • Gauron could be considered this. His, nutty ways and apparent have made certain parts of the fandom feel that he's completely awesome.

• features Chad the police officer and Monroe the mafioso. • Worick and Nic are in their 30's so technically they are too. • Chief Daisuke Aramaki, the Mission Control of the franchise. • His brother, from what little we see of him, would also count. • The Claw from. • For a heroic example, every member of the El Dora V.

•: • Master Asia from. Han the fisherman is pretty cool for a non-fighter.

• gave us Sergei Smirnov. Despite being not very bishounen (and obviously older) that most of bishounen/bishoujo protagonist cast, he has a crapton of fans for being a. • Andrew Waltfeld from; the show's director specifically referred to him as a Cool Old Guy, and this fact, combined with the director's being friends with Andy's, are often credited with his return from the 'dead' later in the series. • reveals that grew up into this.

Not to mention become one of the only UC protagonists to survive into old age. Dornez, the butler of the. • Family is also a prime example.

• features 2 super-powered old men, The former is the Chairman of the Hunter Association, where tough fights and Nen are needed JUST to qualify, and was right until his death. The latter is the patriarch of one of the world's most dangerous assassins, where the kids are trained from birth itself to be able to cope with the Nen-infused world. He almost managed to, not without great damage. And yes, both of them are friendly and amusing to their peerage.

• has three: dr. Toshiya 'God Hand' Joushima, Kozo 'God Foot' Hoshino, and Bunta Fujiwara himself. All three are top-tier racers, and nobody has ever beaten Bunta. Even when he's not serious. • Joseph Joestar by of.

Not only does he alongside the younger heroes, but he collects comic books and has a wickedly awesome sense of humor; the latter two are especially put into play in the finale chapter. After being killed by and having his blood drained, Joseph is brought back to life with a blood transfusion from Dio's remains. He pretends to be possessed by the vengeful spirit of Dio as a prank on Jotaro, and barely saves his skin from his angry grandson by stating his personal interests. Namely, that he collects comic books, that he knows starred in, and that sang 'Eat It'. Jotaro relents, because. • Technically count, Shiba Hiroshi in the sequel.

While he is a cyborg and still looks like a normal adult, the sequel takes place 50 years after the original, and his girlfriend already has a grand-daughter as a reference of his age. His age doesnt affect his Badassery though. • has Fleet Admirals Merkatz and Bucock from the Empire and Alliance respectively. • Max Jenius in.

He might be 52, but he can still pretty much wipe the floor with everybody in the show, both in cockpit and with his bare hands, and he's the heroine's dad. Ah, BTW, he's also the fleet military commander. • Max is another case of. Says it's because age is a state of mind and his genius allowed him to conquer it.

• Gil Graham of. A kindly old English gent who also happens to be one of the most experienced and powerful mages under the employ. Though he turned out to be a who once the book turns, the cast didn't blame him too much for it considering the complicated circumstances. •: • While about half of Nagi's group could potentially count, Takahata-sensei and Graf Wilhelm are likely two very good examples. Takahata counting as old mostly because almost 90% of the cast is between 9 and 17. While god knows how old Wilhelm actually is.

Takahata's teacher Gatou likely is one too but we rarely see him do anything but smoke in flashbacks. • Hell, almost every old guy in the series could qualify, especially the (currently middle-aged) members of the Ala Rubra. Juzo Kabuto from. Hell sicced an army of on him and his colleagues, he managed escaping alive. Afterwards he spent several years building the titular, an eighteen-meter-tall robot. When one of the henchmnen of Hell blew up his mansion, he got half-buried under several metal rafts, but in spite of he was moribund and trapped in an underground basement, he managed surviving several hours until his grandsons showed up and he could hand Mazinger over to the eldest (). Also, he saved his son's life by turning him into a cyborg after he nearly got killed cause a lab experiment gone wrong.

And in the manga and he overlaps this with. • In, Prince Eccentro's mentor Tanaka.

• Zelik and Graham from, though they're only in their 50s. • Professor Itsuki from. He's rather laid back for a college professor, referring to nearly everyone.

Though he does get rather passionate about fermented foods and his research into bioremediation. •: • Third Hokage is a very kind, very awesome old man who cared for the people in his village. Just watch the scene where he visits the Academy class to talk to them about the village and the people he cares about. Watch Naruto and his contemporaries' memories of him at the funeral.

Everyone has a memory about something awesome he did for them. • The fact that Sarutobi Hiruzen was one in the real Uchiha massacre, even if he wasn't happy about it, has caused many fans to adopt a very cynical view of him, even though he is probably the single biggest reason Konoha isn't insane like Mist or as cruel as Sand. The fact that he runs a society of professional murderers who start before they hit puberty is kind of a reality check problem when compared to the actual events of the show. Except that he'd gone through great lengths to try and prevent the Uchiha massacre from happening, and even Itachi pleaded with him that he protects Sasuke. Also, every village has been running a society of mercenaries before they hit puberty, possibly since around the time of the First Hokage himself. • Jiraiya when he's not acting pervy.

• It's implied the Tsuchikage was less harsh in the past since, and over the years he just grew more cynical with the shinobi world. With the world's constant militarization, and the fact that every major village had at least one tailed beast or dealings with Akatsuki by the beginning of Shippuden, he became cynical to match the times.

What with the and Gaara, his protege, he's softening again. • There's also the original Ino-Shika-Chou trio, aka the fathers of Team 10, although they're all in their forties. • Zelretch from the ( all of the works)., he beat down and killed the 'ultimate' being, Crimson Moon Brunestud (and in the process singlehandedly stopping the moon from falling into the Earth), only because of a he had with it. He's also one of only five ' users — his magic? Operation of parallel worlds, which lets him do pretty much anything involving. He pops into the every now and then to take apprentices and until they're near useless from shock and trauma. Or until they become badasses.

Whatever comes first. • Lord Yupa from has traveled widely, is one of the most knowledgeable members of the cast, and is universally recognized as the best swordsman around. • Bang from is a quintessential of his martial art, who runs his own dojo on top of his dedication to what he considers the duties of an S-Class hero.

• has two: Ojii, the Rokkaku coach, and Banda Mikiya aka Banji from Yamabuki. Taro 'Itte yosh' Sakaki of Hyoutei is still a bit young compared to them, but he's heading there. • Just about any elderly person from, but especially Shiba. • Hiko Seijuuro from is in his forties when the main series takes place, but the man is easily in superhuman condition with strength light years beyond anyone. • Subverted because Seijuuro looks significantly younger than his actual age; when Yahiko and Misao learn that he's 43, they're shocked and conclude that 'Hiten Mitsurugi is the secret to eternal youth!!'

• Ditto for Kenshin, who also looks significantly younger than his thirty, despite quite a turbulent life. • Played somewhat straighter with Okina, who is old and LOOKS it. Upbeat and always ready with a bad joke, he's not afraid of chasin' some young skirts. He's also quite powerful in combat, being nearly a match for Aoshi.

• The highly skilled but aged and wearily bitter Shimada Kambei of. Quite possibly the reason Kirara surprisingly fell for him.

Alas, his hardass nature solidifies when he coldly rejects her feelings before she can even get them out. • In, we have the heroine's father, who is the leader of the vigilante-ish mercenary group, the Lions of the Mountains. •: Katsuhito Masaki/Yosho is a In the original OVA, he's actually physically younger than he appears, but in the Tenchi Universe and Tenchi in Tokyo series, he's genuinely old and a straighter example of the trope.

Nobuyuki Masaki is this at times too. • Old man Ichiryu from definitely counts.

It's been determined that he was the apprentice of the creator of the current age, which was over five hundred years ago and he still looks like he's in his late 30's. He might also cross into territory at times, but he can still throw fully powered Toriko around like a pizza. To top it all off he has a that he can move at will. •: • Lief the Lucky might have only appeared during the flash back arc, but he still came off as a cool old sailor who liked to tell kids stories about his journeys amongst the skraelingar. • Even more so than Lief, there's the Askeladd and Thorkell.

• Oboe from manga is revealed to be this near the end. Whenever he decides to show his (really good-looking, despite the obvious signs of age) true form, an epic battle ensues. • Grandpa Tanaka in. He, drinks, speaks informally, and it's implied he sleeps around with younger women (though not too young - when asked to charm a high school girl he was highly reluctant to do so). He's also good natured and friendly to just about everybody, and dispenses useful advice often. His grandson who lives with him, protagonist and Manabu, has a huge inferiority complex about it though. • Sugoroku Mutou in (Solomon Muto in the dub), Yugi's grandfather, especially during the Grand Prix arc where he was Jonouchi's opponent during the first round.

Instructor Solutions Manual For Visual Communications there. • In, there was Dr. Albert Zweinstein. (An of, who would likely fit this Trope too.) • Yanagi from. (But also a little loony.) • Rokujuro Misawa in (called simply Roku in the dub), the franchise's answer to the Trope. Jinlon appeared to fit the Trope too, but as it turned out he was actually the spirit of Number 46: Dragluon in human form, still cool, but not an old guy. • Genkai from, although she is female, follows this trope better than. Oh, and also discounting the fact some of the teenage-appearing cast is.

•, despite looking like a man in his mid-twenties, is a 90-year old WW2 vet who can take on much younger heroes such as Black Panther and Daredevil and fight to a stand still. • Marvel's short-lived revival features an elderly superhero called Centennial, a little old man in a sweater who came out of a coma thanks to extremely delayed identical to 's. He is played mostly for laughs, but when the team needs someone to give them a good kick in the pants for motivation, he is always ready to provide. • Marvel also has Roger Aubrey (the Destroyer) and the Thin Man, and they did have Iron Cross, who was still active as a hero in the present day despite being old enough to have seen service in, until he sacrificed himself to save the world. •: Getafix the Druid, maker of the magic potion, speaker of Gothic, one of the calmest and most sensible inhabitants of the village, and with tendencies.

No wonder the Romans are after him. •: • Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred is pretty darn cool, a magnificent example of the, and. • Batman becomes this whenever the timeline allows for it (usually in Elseworlds). The most famous example being. For an animated version, see (and the Batman Beyond version of Old Bruce guest-stars in a time-travel episode of Justice League Unlimited.

And proves to still be a downright scary interrogator, even moreso than his younger self!) •, a comic book series revolving entirely around a very old man. • has a few examples. • Likewise, after some initial misunderstandings have been cleared up, Lord Voll of the Gliders, who is even older, endears himself to the Wolfriders in much the same way. Unfortunately the trolls kill him.

• Then there's Ekuar, the wizened old rock-shaper, who retains his charm and wit despite having survived centuries of mistreatment by the trolls. • The is more or less built around this trope, along with that of the. Alan Scott, Jay Garrick, and Wildcat are pretty much the coolest old guys in the entire. • In fact, Jay Garrick is so cool that he's the guy Nightwing (the original Robin) wants to grow up to be.

• While not the, Garrick is referred to as 'One cool old man.' By Jack Knight in JSA #2. • Wildcat slept with 's mom. •, who's been standing up to supervillains since and whose only power is his longevity and is a badass in every sense of the word. He was born in 1920. • — pick anywhere in the world, and he's been there.

Pick any type of adventure, and he's done it. •: Uncle Chuck, who, despite being, still serves as a viable and reliable role model to his nephew. •, depending on the writer. Mainstream writers tend to downplay his age, but people who write the more hard-edged stories acknowledge that he's in his late fifties. He is still a bigger badass than anyone else he faces.

•: Kup, as is franchise-standard. He manages to yell at Optimus Prime and get away with it, and is one of the few Autobots to survive the series' constant situations without so much as a scratch. He's also this in IDW's Transformers works (,.). Prowl even notes this when he has Kup turned into a, since it means Optimus Prime will listen to what Prowl has programmed Kup to say. •: Charles Francis Xavier. •, whose healing factor slows down his aging immensely.

He was born in the late 1800s but has looked like he's in his mid-to-late 30s since his introduction. • and also count, though means both are subject to suddenly being white-haired 20-year-olds. • Magneto is actually physically in his 40s or so, having been de-aged and re-aged by one of his many experiments. And seeing as Quicksilver was born white-haired, it might just be genetic.

• Marvel supervillain Grizzly. Despite being a veteran super-crook he's a pretty nice guy when you get to know him, possessing a surprisingly strong set of morals and always being willing to help/give advice to others. He's also a badass who's tangled with many superheroes, almost none of whom actively dislike him.

Once he robbed a guy while desperate for cash and when he got back on his feet he tracked the man down and bought him a pizza in order to apologize. • Paulie in is kind and caring and treats those close to him like family. • Lezaford of. He has a, is skilled in magic and provided a temporary place to stay for Clan Gully. • Major-General Adiemus of the Holy Order of Juno, retired missionary and mercenary guild leader in: Soldiers of Fortune. Over sixty and still going strong.

• Master White-Beard the Grey, to the Great and Powerful Trixie in. He's now, but she reveres his memory, and he is one of the origins of Trixie's strange but very real code of honor. • has Master Lau Dan, Kyoshi's Earthbending instructor and member of the White Lotus. •: Blazen Sun, the oldest of the captains (who, in chapter 11 of the sequel Picking Up the Pieces, mentions having needed to stop and help one of his great-granddaughters that morning), and Mist Flight, a grizzled stallion who was lieutenant when Gentle Step began guard training, are both this. • Preston Whitmore from.

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He also, all but telling Shang 'Go after her, you idiot,' after the former leaves. One hundred percent. • Rafiki from. • Sheriff Woody from the films.

If he was made in the 1950's, then he's roughly 60 years old in. • Carl Frederickson from crosses into this territory near the end, even though he starts out in territory, even going into territory. • Both Old Fred and Lord Mayor from. • Master Oogway in was quite old when he beat one of the most dangerous known martial artists. Master Shifu probably could have replicated the success 20 years later if not for his sentimental attachment to said artist. • Vitruvius from. He' an extremely talented Master Builder, and is able to take on a small army of Lord Business's minions with nothing but a makeshift walker/nunchucks.

He's also voiced.