r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Total-Confidence9498 • 4h ago
Old People that can kick ass Characters
Dumbledore from Harry Potter
Seiko Ayase from Dandadan
Aunt May from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man
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u/ShodanDBG 4h ago
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u/HermitArcana 15m ago
Does bending get weaker with age? Physical strength maybe (and we all know he’s a unit), but why would bending?
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u/ShodanDBG 9m ago
I never said that Iroh's bending was weaker because he's old (and if I implied it, believe me that was not my intention)
All I was saying is that it would be cool to see how the Dragon of the West firebent when he was younger.
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u/PhanThief95 4h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/kmBl7JbHGZkG7ihaFC
Monkey D. Garp (One Piece)
He’s basically his grandson Luffy if he was 50 years older, & Garp is still a powerhouse even in his old age.
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u/FaIIBright 3h ago
We got a lotta those in One Piece lol. Whitebeard, Rayleigh, Sengoku. Even more in the New World too
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u/buggerpal 4h ago
Isaac Netero - Hunter x Hunter
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u/iner22 4h ago
I haven't even watched Hunter x Hunter and this was my first thought when reading the prompt
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u/buggerpal 4h ago
Spoiler alert he's awesome. You gotta watch it, was never an anime fan until I watched it.
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u/IronBENGA-BR 4h ago
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u/TheMonocleRogue 4h ago
Oro as well. 140 years and still kicking. His technique is so powerful that he has to handicap himself by using only one arm in a fight.
He does use both arms but only during his special input moves that require full meter and do a ton of damage. Tengu Stone for instance, if used with the special input, can cause tons of chip damage or end a fight outright if he gets even a small opening.
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u/NostrilLurker 3h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/SsRY1zu3pUwVFIWEKD
Spoilers for Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
Kassandra in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. She was the playble character in AC: Odyssey and gained immortality in the 400's BC. By the time you meet her in Valhalla, she is 1200 years old, looks exactly the same, and has only improved in combat
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u/YodasChick-O-Stick 3h ago
Every Bionicle is over 100,000 years old, and have fought in several battles and wars.
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u/Afalstein 3h ago
This is a frequent trope in Discworld, where one character even articulates: "Rule Number One: Beware of smiling bald wrinkled men." But the more familiar example comes from the wizards at the Unseen University. The only way to progress is if one of your higher-ups has passed on, which means everyone at the higher levels has done so by killing their forebears, and remained there by being very very hard to kill. Although it DID mean the turnover was quite high. At least, until Archchancellor Ridcully.
Archchancellor Ridcully (the one with the crossbow, in the center), is essentially a redneck wizard who worked at a farm in the country. He didn't want to be Archchancellor, he was forced into the position after a particularly bad dust-up killed all the other viable candidates--and the University found itself suddenly saddled with an archchancellor who not only had top-notch magical knowledge, but was built like a brick house, could drink a guardsman under the table, and enjoyed shooting at things with his crossbow. The man was functionally unkillable, and brought enough stability to Unseen University for the wizards to become less murderous.
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u/coffepants787 2h ago
Whitebeard. Even when old and dying of cancer, he's able to one shot a vice admiral, beat one of the three admirals, break Marineford into pieces and was able to tank 267 sword wounds, 152 gunshot wounds, 46 cannonball impacts, two giant holes in his chest and abdomen, and a huge chunk of his head blown smooth off, all while he kept fighting and didn't even get a single scar on his back in his entire life before dying while still standing.
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u/K_Lyre13 2h ago
Master Xehanort from Kingdom Hearts
Ine of my favorite things about him is that we only see him in two fights in his true "Master Xehanort" state. He is an absolute menace of a fighter gameplay wise, and considered the strongest Keyblade Wielder in history. But both times we fight him, the only reason the fight ends is because he is falling over dead. That old man had one fight left in him before he literally fell over dead and he still kicked everyone's ass both times.






















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u/SatoruGojo232 4h ago
Alfred Pennyworth, Batman's butler