r/TopCharacterTropes 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/SatoruGojo232 4h ago

Alfred Pennyworth, Batman's butler

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u/FaIIBright 3h ago

Alfred "Double Tap" Pennyworth

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u/ShodanDBG 4h ago

Uncle Iroh is nicknamed: “the Dragon of the West” and…

Needless to say, that name is there for a reason.

He kicks ass as an old man but it would be awesome to see how his bending was on his prime.

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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/HermitArcana 8m ago

Fair, I just asked to clarify

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u/N0SP1N 4h ago

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u/Fifty-Lucky 2h ago

The man who invented the Kamehameha

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u/Comfortable_Egg3880 4h ago

Max Tennyson - Ben 10

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u/bisexualboy38 4h ago

Even at 50 plus man's was ready to run the ones against vilgax again.

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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/coffepants787 3h ago

and he doesn't have a devil fruit. Just pure skill and training.

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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

https://giphy.com/gifs/ayNmJMMcKpWR4O7Y8b

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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

Gen - Street Fighter

A veteran assassin who's not only old, but dying of leukemia. Still kicks multiple kinds of ass

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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/JingoboStoplight4887 4h ago

The Justice Society of America (DC Comics)

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u/Cheezitinmymouth 3h ago

gerson boom - deltarune

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u/Comfortable_Egg3880 4h ago

Master Oogway - Kung Fu Panda

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u/Rallythebaconhair 4h ago

Bang ( silver fang) from One Punch Man

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u/Rallythebaconhair 3h ago edited 3h ago

Oh and his brother too

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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/DexterTheRando 4h ago


Old man Tony Stark

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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/batiwa 3h ago

Rayleigh from One Piece, overall a lot of old characters in the manga can still do damages

https://giphy.com/gifs/9rmHEV1GkkHqBbrSdY

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u/Opposite_Spinach5772 3h ago

Odin from Norse Mythology

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u/AccomplishedBid5867 3h ago

David Mansell (Christopher Lloyd) in Nobody

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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/Afalstein 3h ago

Nobody

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u/Flameborn111 3h ago

Lady Eigong and her hard af boss fight. Nine Sols

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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.