1001 awesome elderly people (not actually 1001 oxymorons)

[enderlord99]

Let's list all of the fiction characters that are both really old and really awesome.

1. Mr. McGorium (from Mr. McGorium's Wonder Emporium)

[Athaniar]

Challenge accepted!

2. Yoda (Star Wars)
3. Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
4. Palpatine (Star Wars, evil but still awesome)
5. Count Dooku (Star Wars)
6. Tirion Fordring (Warcraft)
7. Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
8. Mr. Miyagi (Karate Kid)
9. Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek)
10. Professor X (X-Men)
11. Magneto (X-Men)
12. Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
13. Saruman (Lord of the Rings)
14. Jolee Bindo (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)
15. Varok Saurfang (Warcraft)
16. Velen (Warcraft)

(I decided against listing characters who look young but are actually old or immortal)

[AtlanteanTroll]

17. Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
18. Gregorovich (Harry Potter)
19. Professor Oak (Pokemon)
20. Leo McGarry (The West Wing)

[Ravens_cry]

21a Brother Cadfael, both as purely a creation of Edith Pargeter, AKA Ellis Peters and as Sir Derek Jacobi.
If you have read the books and/or watched the BBC show, you know this is a man of strength, conviction, honour and integrity, forgiving yet a seeker of justice, with a sense of humour to boot.

[MoonCat]

Define 'old'

[Mixt]

21: Master Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep)

He's like the Square Enix counterpart to Palpatine!
Come on, you can't deny the similiarities between the two of them.

All three of the heroes went down in the process of halting his plans, and even then he still won a partial victory, he got away with memory loss while the heroes are all either comatose, stuck in the Realm of Darkness, or without a body.

And then despite the amnesia his plans still continued to work like he wanted afterwards, despite his defeat and the heroes sacrifices he still won in a sense.

Took 10 years after that before he suffered a real defeat, but he recovered and is coming back for a rematch (Dream Drop Distance and Kingdom Hearts 3 better hurry up, i wanna see what happens next!)

He may be an evil bastard, but i can't help but admire the man.

[Lord Raziere]

22. Chejop Kejack
23. Gaius Sextus
24. Ebenezar McCoy
25. Ten Winds
26. Fizban

[Athaniar]

28. Cairne Bloodhoof (Warcraft)
29. Genn Greymane (Warcraft)
30. Uther Lightbringer (Warcraft)
31. Drek'thar (Warcraft)
32. Pai Mei (Kill Bill, even though he was a bit... malicious)
33. Bra'tac (Stargate SG-1)
34. The Wolf (Stronghold, as of Stronghold 3)
35. Sir Longarm (Stronghold)
36. King Bumi (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
37. Pakku (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
38. The Doctor (Doctor Who, in his First and Third incarnations)
39. Doc Brown (Back to the Future)
40. George Hammond (Stargate SG-1)
41. Wilfred Mott (Doctor Who)
42. Leeroy Jethro Gibbs (Navy CIS)
43. Anduin Lothar (Warcraft)
44. Shepherd Book (Firefly)
45. Frank Moses (RED)
46. Victoria (RED)
47. Joe Matheson (RED)
48. Marvin Boggs (RED)
49. M (James Bond, the old one)
50. M (James Bond, the new one)
51. Q (James Bond)
52. Henry Jones Sr. (Indiana Jones)
53. Ramirez (Highlander)
54. John Mason (The Rock)
55. Inspector Morse (Morse)

[Tengu_temp]

56. Keldorn Firecam (Baldur's Gate 2)
57. Master Asia (G Gundam)
58. Captain Daitetsu Misame (Super Robot Wars OG1&2)
59. Old Snake (Metal Gear Solid 4)
60. Big Mama (Metal Gear Solid 4)

[Teutonic Knight]

61. Mister Rogers (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
62. K'Kruhk (Star Wars)

[Comet]

63. Wolfgang Ritter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZZHLlbBvP0&feature=related)

[Mx.Silver]

Define 'old'
Over 60 I would imagine given the usage of the word elderly (which usually refers to that age group).

[enderlord99]

Challenge accepted!
(I decided against listing characters who look young but are actually old or immortal)

That's good. "Old," in this case, means "looks old AND is of the Old or Venerable age category." So, yeah, thanks.

[The Glyphstone]

If their music is too loud, you're too old?

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Cmon people...you're missing like the most epic one ever.

64. Mr. Fredrickson from UP

[polity4life]

Does elderly necessarily mean degenerating? If not, I'm going to throw in a conditional 65: Mazer Rackham.

[endoperez]

65. Vanion, leader of the Pandion Knights in David Eddings' Elenium and Tamuli books.

66. Druss, the legend, from Legend, by David Gemmel. He's old and kicking ass and taking heads with his axe. Also suffering from arthritis and various ills that come with old age.

67. Cohen The Barbarian. Like Conan, but 60 years later. He was the best, and despite his age, and he still is. Appears in various books by Terry Pratchett.

68. Sam Vimes, has been kicking ass for over 30 years and doesn't know how to stop. He has bit of a drinking problem in the early books. Also from Pratchett's Discworld.

69. Bruce Wayne, from Batman Beyond. He's old enough to have been force to retire from being batman, but Batman never was just about the muscle.

70. King Theoden in the Lord of the Rings was old and feeling it.

70. Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings was old, but I'm not sure if he felt it, being Dunedan and all.

71. Scrooge McDuck , depending on the stories. If nothing else, he's an awesome businessman, and in most stories he's incredibly fit for someone his age.

[Gaius Marius]

Rackam really qualifies

72: Hereticus Eisenhorn
73: Commodus Voke

Edited for numbers

Even if their age are to be taken with a grain of salt, seeing the Wh40k capacity to lengthen the life expectancy, these two can easily qualify as "old people" seeing what they've went through and how many times they had to e rebuilt.

[Venom3053000]

74. "Injun Joe" Listens-To-Wind (The Dresden Files)

75. Arthur Langtry, The Merlin (The Dresden Files)

76. Shiro Yoshimo (The Dresden Files)

77. Toot-Toot (The Dresden Files) he"s a faerie so i think he's old enough not sure and he tried to take on a Skinwalker

[Mx.Silver]

[quote]70. Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings was old, but I'm not sure if he felt it, being Dunedan and all.

Given that he's got the physique of a normal man half his age (at most), it's fairly safe to say he probably doesn't 'feel it' at all.

[Edge]

78. Noximilien the Watchmaker (Wakfu)
79. Grougaloragan (Wakfu)

Observe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eajJocbh0w8).

[NikitaDarkstar]

80. Kallor (The Malazan Book of the Fallen) Okay technically immortal, but immortal in the way of not being able to die, he has not stopped aging, or swinging swords and taking names. (Hell, the guy turned an entire empire into ash just to spite the gods, every single man, woman and child. And spite them he did.)

81.Shadowthrone/Ammanas/Kellanved (The Malazan Book of the Fallen), Over 100 when he managed to become a god, still old obviously and kickass. Not quite in same way as Kallor, but more along the lines of fairly insane and probably has at least 5 decks of aces up his sleeves, along with another pair of sleeves.

82.Ezio Auditore (Assassins creed 2 and Brotherhood), Getting on the old side for his time period (the Renaissance) and still a master assassin that doesn't have enough common sense to slow down. (Apparently he's going on a pilgrimage to Maysaf in the upcoming game...) Even if he comments on "I'm getting to old for this" every now and then it doesn't seem to stop him one bit.

Conditional 83. Meandor (Age of Wonders) While young by elven standards in the first game.. and well not old-old by the thrid, he's still old enough to have manage to cause hell for humans, turn into legend, be forgotten, resurface, oh and during that time found a race. Yhea he's fairly kickass, but elves are near immortal by default in the game so he might not qualify.

And umm... most that would qualify for this list has been mentioned already, and the others... well characters like Methos may be 5000 years old but he doesn't look like it or act like it... and I'm not really willing to put anime characters on here since they don't accept the concept of age anyway.... especially not when the laws of their universe states it doesn't really apply to all of them. (Bleach anyone?)

[Fjolnir]

84. Makarov from Fairy Tail, he's an 80 year old man who is concidered to be one of the strongest mages in the world who work for a legitimate guild.
85. Whitebeard from One Piece, the strongest man in the OP universe physically (which is saying something in and of itself) who goes down in an effort to save one of his crewmen from the executioner's block.
86. Shimon Bar-El from Not For Glory & Hero by Joel Rosenberg A disgraced member of the Metzadan mercenary corp, exiled for breaking a contract. He is still considered one of the best military minds for low technology warfare (semi modern or slightly below) in the universe. Hero details his character before the fall and Not for Glory details him afterwards, both are told from the viewpoint of his nephew, Tetsuo Hanavi, who might not see eye to eye with him on everything but certainly identifies with him in very real ways.

[endoperez]

Given that he's got the physique of a normal man half his age (at most), it's fairly safe to say he probably doesn't 'feel it' at all.

Aragorn was 87 at the start of the LotR, so he might not be at his prime any more. He died aged 210. If that's equivalent to a 90-year-old normal man, he was equivalent to a 37-year-old when the trilogy started. In any case, he'd feel it more than the various immortals already mentioned in this thread.

[Dienekes]

87. Benjamin Franklin (http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p29/)

[Gaius Marius]

Aragorn was 87 at the start of the LotR, so he might not be at his prime any more. He died aged 210. If that's equivalent to a 90-year-old normal man, he was equivalent to a 37-year-old when the trilogy started. In any case, he'd feel it more than the various immortals already mentioned in this thread.

Wait, what?

Your argument makes no sense. Review and edit. How is being the equivalent of 37 would make you feel old?

88. Master Oogway
89. Master Shifu

[endoperez]

Your argument makes no sense. Review and edit. How is being the equivalent of 37 would make you feel old?

I said "past his prime", not "old". Not a good suggestion in a thread for elderly people, in hindsight. But then, isn't Gandalf the White technically reborn after Moria, making him a few years old at most when LotR ends! :D

[AtlanteanTroll]

90: Tsunade (Naruto)
91: Jiriya (Naruto)
92: Dr. Kureha (One Piece)
93: Silver Reyleigh (One Piece)
94: Garp (One Piece)
95: Master Roshi (Dragon Ball Z)
96: Genkai (YuYuHakusho)

[dehro]

97: Belgarath (the belgariad)
98: Lu-Tze (discworld series)
99: Monk Gyatso (avatar, the last airbender)
100: Granny Weatherwax (Discworld series)
101: Treebeard (LOTR)
102: Ryuken (fist of the north star)
103: Julio Scoundrél ( OoTS)
105: Thaco (goblins)
106: Xykon, with crown (OoTS)
107: Nanny Ogg (Discworld series)
108: lord Barristan Selmy (song of ice and fire)
109: Dracula
110: Geriatrix (Asterix)

[grimbold]

111. Indiana Jones
112. Obi-Wan Kenobi
113. C-3PO

[Yora]

114: Yamaoto (Bleach)
115: Aramaki (Ghost in the Shell)

[turkishproverb]

116: Christopher Lee

EDIT: Didn't see it was fictional characters

116: Norman Burg (Big O)
117: Sarda (8 Bit Theater)
118: Pearl (mystery s cience theater 3000) (Anyone whom tries to take over the world in a space modified VW Bus gets some credit)
119: Galder Weatherwax (Discworld)
120: Sherlock Holmes (His Last Bow)

[AtlanteanTroll]

111. Indiana Jones
112. Obi-Wan Kenobi
113. C-3PO

Obi-Wan was one of the 1st people posted. :smallsigh:

[Maho-Tsukai]

So many in Naruto....

121: Madara Uchiha
122: Danzo Shimura
123: Hiruzune Sarutobi
124: Kakuzu
125: Tsunade
126: Granny Chio
127: Mifune

(Will list more as I think of them..)

[Tengu_temp]

128. Dan McNinja (The Adventures of Dr McNinja)
129. Mitzi McNinja (The Adventures of Dr McNinja)

Possibly. We don't know their age and haven't seen their faces, but their son is in his thirties, so...

[OrchestraHc]

130. Master Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
131. Jay Garrick (Golden Age Flash and Justice Society)
132. Ted Grant (Wildcat and Justice Society)
133. Alan Scott (Golden Age Green Lantern and Justice Society)
134. Kal-L (Earth 2 Superman)
135. The Guardians of Oa, Especially Ganthet. (Green Lantern)
136. Uncle (Jackie Chan Adventures)
137. Grampa (American Dragon: Jake Long)
138. Ah-Ma (Juniper Lee)
139. Zordon (Power Rangers)
140. Owner (Kamen Rider Den-O)
141. Jii (Shinkenger)
142. Master Shafu (Gekiranger)

[turkishproverb]

143: Fu Manchu.
144: Sokichi Narumi (Kamen Rider W)

[Teutonic Knight]

So many in Naruto....

121: Madara Uchiha
122: Danzo Shimura
123: Hiruzune Sarutobi
124: Kakuzu
125: Tsunade
126: Granny Chio
127: Mifune

(Will list more as I think of them..)

Tsunade was listed already. People do a quick Ctrl+F to make sure it hasn't been said already otherwise the numbering will get messed up.

145. Administrator Helen (Team Fortress 2) - the announcer

[Velaryon]

21a Brother Cadfael, both as purely a creation of Edith Pargeter, AKA Ellis Peters and as Sir Derek Jacobi.
If you have read the books and/or watched the BBC show, you know this is a man of strength, conviction, honour and integrity, forgiving yet a seeker of justice, with a sense of humour to boot.

Yes! High five! :smallbiggrin:


146. Vince McMahon (WWE) - Yes, Vince McMahon is a real person, but the character he portrays is at least a caricature of his real self, if not an entirely fictional person. I think he counts.

147. Lord Commander Jeor Mormont (A Song of Ice and Fire) - Leader of the Night's Watch, generally all-around awesome dude.

148. Tywin Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire) - I'm not sure of his exact age, but I think he's old enough to qualify. He's a grandfather at least. Best bad guy of the series so far, IMO.

149. Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander (Sword of Truth) - Say what you will about the rest of the series, but Zedd is awesome incarnate.

[hamishspence]

to go with Eisenhorn, quoted earlier, I would suggest:

150: Logan Grimnar (40K Space Wolves).

[Zen Monkey]

151. Walt Kowalski - Gran Torino

[Sipex]

152: Wynne (Dragon Age Origins)

[cleric_of_BANJO]

153. Deckard Cain (Diablo)

[grimbold]

154 Theoden Lord of Rohan (LOTR)

[enderlord99]

155. Mr. Briny (Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald(get the old map event dealybob and you'll see what I mean))

[Das Platyvark]

156.Cthulhu
157.The God-Emperor of Mankind (40k)
158. The Divine Emperor of Dorok (Nausicaa comics)

[The Glyphstone]

128. Dan McNinja (The Adventures of Dr McNinja)
129. Mitzi McNinja (The Adventures of Dr McNinja)

Possibly. We don't know their age and haven't seen their faces, but their son is in his thirties, so...

159. Hans Rayner (he was a contemporary of Dan McNinja, after all, so if the McNinja couple qualifies...)



Also...has anyone checked for duplicates yet?

[enderlord99]

160. Wattson (also from Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald)

[Sanguine]

161. Gareth Bryne (The Wheel of Time)
162. Thom Merrilin (The Wheel of Time)

[NikitaDarkstar]

156.Cthulhu

He's a god and immortal, thus doesn't count.

163. Greymane (Malazan Novels)

[Zoomba]

164. King Bradley (Fullmetal Alchemist)
165. Batman/Bruce Wayne (Dark Knight Returns universe)

[dehro]

166. R Daneel Olivaw.. I know he's a robot, but then, Gandalf is an Istari, and Yoda is a green midget, so there.

[Seerow]

Bringing in some ASOIAF

167) Tywin Lannister
168) Maester Aemon
169) Barristan the Bold

Does Walder Frey count as awesome or just someone you love to hate?

[dehro]

Bringing in some ASOIAF

167) Tywin Lannister
168) Maester Aemon
169) Barristan the Bold

Does Walder Frey count as awesome or just someone you love to hate?

done already

[The Glyphstone]

166. R Daneel Olivaw.. I know he's a robot, but then, Gandalf is an Istari, and Yoda is a green midget, so there.

Gandalf was already disqualified on grounds of his immortality, so a robot wouldn't work unless it was an old robot whose functionality was degrading....Yoda's actually legitimately old.