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* In one episode of "Series/Cops1989", the police are called to a fight outside of a strip club. When they arrive, they ask the bouncer who was fighting. He points at two people: one is a 30 something man laid out on the sidewalk, the other is a smallish Hispanic senior citizen without a mark on in him. When the police question the old man, he says the guy attacked him with a knife and tried to mug him. While they are talking to him, other officers are trying to rouse the other guy. His face is beat so bad he CAN'T open his eyes and he is definitely out of it. They search around and find an obviously dropped knife nearby. The then ask the old man if he was a fighter or something. His reply was that he won the Golden Gloves boxing competition back in the late '60s. The cops called an ambulance for the mugger. They then decided not to charge either of them. The old man was defending himself, and the mugger "paid for his crime."
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS7E4 Sins of Commission]]", it turns out the three "victims" all tried to murder the same nice older lady - who happened to have been an agent with the Special Operations Executive during WWII.
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* Subverted in ''Series/TheShield'' with Vic's mentor Joe Clark. He taught Vic everything he knows and is played by the quintessence CoolOldGuy actor Creator/CarlWeathers, but it quickly turns out that being a rule-bending CowboyCop resulted in him being stripped of his pension for assaulting a suspect unprovoked and he's now a broke, washed-up loser barely scraping by and on often illegal work to boot.
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* ''Series/BillyTheExterminator'': Big Bill used to be an exterminator, but due to his age and health problems, he mostly stays in the office. He still occasionally goes out into the field, but only in spite of Donnie's extreme reluctance.
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* fires an inch from Milovan's foot* Please.
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* The [[Series/TheFlash2014 2014 Flash series]] has Jay Garrick, the Scarlet Speedster of Earth 3. He is introduced as an old, but not obsolete hero with loads of experience. Jay guides the Earth-1 Flash, Barry Allen several times, but he ultimately grows too old and tired of his profession. By Season 6, he has successfully retired.
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* On ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', [[GentlemanThief Archie Leach]] is this. He is also [[ClassyCatBurglar Parker's]] mentor and father figure. With a [[StunGun taser]] built into his cane. And another cane with a six inch stiletto blade.
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* On ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', [[GentlemanThief Archie Leach]] is this. He is also [[ClassyCatBurglar Parker's]] mentor and father figure. With a [[StunGun [[StaticStunGun taser]] built into his cane. And another cane with a six inch stiletto blade.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s Rupert Giles, the [[SmartGuy bookish demon expert]] of the group, has a hinted-at past as rebellious badass "Ripper", but now all he does is sit around in the library and help out a few kids. Except for, you know, when he ''charged into the Big Bad's headquarters'', no support, ''completely'' alone, with a flaming baseball bat. And kicked vampire ass.
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* Christopher Henderson in ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'', though a dark take since once Jack attempts to coax him out of retirement, it's revealed that he had already come out of retirement, did a FaceHeelTurn and was now a [[TheDragon Dragon]] for the season's BigBad.
** Jack himself attempts to retire [[strike:twice]] FOUR TIMES. The first time is following the first season. Jack is not retired in the true sense and listed as inactive. This is mainly due to the breakdown of his relationship with Kim, as well as suicidal thoughts following the big twist at the end of the season. Even so he's pretty quick to tell people he doesn't work for CTU anymore. Next is between Seasons 3 and 4, where he opts for a desk job in the Department of Defense. The third time is between Seasons 6 and 7 where he chooses simply not to come back to the United States. [[ButThouMust Obviously, this doesn't quite work out.]] As of Day 8, Jack is FINALLY truly retired from government work. He even tells someone this in the trailer for the season. He's living peacefully in New York City with Kim and his grandchild (guess this means you can add Retired Badass as well). [[DeskJockey No DoD desk job]], [[HesJustHiding no running from China]] and [[WalkingTheEarth no trip to Africa]]. Needless to say since this is 24 it's not going to last long. Near the end of said trailer cue DramaticGunCock and typical SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic that goes with nearly everything 24 related.
** President of Awesome David Palmer. After some rather unfortunate business in Season 3, he decided not to run for re-election and left political life. Come Season 4, and the current President, the weakly Charles Logan, decides that he needs somebody with balls to save America from mass nuking. One phone call later and President Palmer is back in the saddle (much to the annoyance of the actual Republican cabinet). RuleOfCool? Yes, but who cares?
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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Ned's had enough of fighting in war and clearly intends to spend his remaining years governing the North with his family. That is, until Robert showed up out of the blue, hellbent on making him the next Hand of the King.
** Sandor looks to be at peace with Septon Ray and his followers, and seriously considers just giving up his hate and living a normal life. Rogue members of The Brotherhood Without Banners derail that, though.
** Barristan, after being removed from the Kingsguard by Joffrey to elevate Jaime and make room for the Hound - until Season 3, that is.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': [[TheLancer John]] and [[BadassAdorable Mary.]] You don't want to mess with those two. Oh, and if you mess with John's best friend-[[BadassBookworm you'll wind up lying in a pool if your own blood.]] Also, don't mess with John. [[PregnantBadass Mary will kick your ass if you do.]]
** Mary wants to stay in this position, though, in contrast to [[InHarmsWay John.]]
* Christopher Henderson in ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'', though a dark take since once Jack attempts to coax him out of retirement, it's revealed that he had already come out of retirement, did a FaceHeelTurn and was now a [[TheDragon Dragon]] for the season's BigBad.
** Jack himself attempts to retire [[strike:twice]] FOUR TIMES. The first time is following the first season. Jack is not retired in the true sense and listed as inactive. This is mainly due to the breakdown of his relationship with Kim, as well as suicidal thoughts following the big twist at the end of the season. Even so he's pretty quick to tell people he doesn't work for CTU anymore. Next is between seasons three and four, where he opts for a desk job in the Department of Defense. The third time is between seasons six and seven where he chooses simply not to come back to the United States. [[ButThouMust Obviously, this doesn't quite work out.]] As of Day 8, Jack is FINALLY truly retired from government work. He even tells someone this in the trailer for the season. He's living peacefully in New York City with Kim and his grandchild (guess this means you can add Retired Badass as well). [[DeskJockey No DoD desk job]], [[HesJustHiding no running from China]] and [[WalkingTheEarth no trip to Africa]]. Needless to say since this is 24 it's not going to last long. Near the end of said trailer cue DramaticGunCock and typical SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic that goes with nearly everything 24 related.
** President of Awesome David Palmer. After some rather unfortunate business in Season 3, he decided not to run for re-election and left political life. Come Season 4, and the current President, the weakly Charles Logan, decides that he needs somebody with balls to save America from mass nuking. One phone call later and President Palmer is back in the saddle (much to the annoyance of the actual Republican cabinet). RuleOfCool? Yes, but who cares?
* Shepherd Book of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fame is a relatively kindly old preacher whose mission in life is to guide the flock he's found on the good ship ''Serenity.'' Sometimes, said flock gets in trouble, and when that happens, the same kindly old preacher starts blasting men in the knees, knocking a cop senseless with his bare hands, and slicing apart battle droids with a giant curved machete.
* Jack O'Neill begins ''Series/StargateSG1'' in retirement, but doesn't stay that way long once Apophis comes to town. SG-1's ReasonableAuthorityFigure, General Hammond, had also ''planned'' on retiring before the Stargate mission began, though he wasn't retired yet...and didn't retire for many years afterward, as he was having ''too much goddamn fun''.
** Ned's had enough of fighting in war and clearly intends to spend his remaining years governing the North with his family. That is, until Robert showed up out of the blue, hellbent on making him the next Hand of the King.
** Sandor looks to be at peace with Septon Ray and his followers, and seriously considers just giving up his hate and living a normal life. Rogue members of The Brotherhood Without Banners derail that, though.
** Barristan, after being removed from the Kingsguard by Joffrey to elevate Jaime and make room for the Hound - until Season 3, that is.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': [[TheLancer John]] and [[BadassAdorable Mary.]] You don't want to mess with those two. Oh, and if you mess with John's best friend-[[BadassBookworm you'll wind up lying in a pool if your own blood.]] Also, don't mess with John. [[PregnantBadass Mary will kick your ass if you do.]]
** Mary wants to stay in this position, though, in contrast to [[InHarmsWay John.]]
* Christopher Henderson in ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'', though a dark take since once Jack attempts to coax him out of retirement, it's revealed that he had already come out of retirement, did a FaceHeelTurn and was now a [[TheDragon Dragon]] for the season's BigBad.
** Jack himself attempts to retire [[strike:twice]] FOUR TIMES. The first time is following the first season. Jack is not retired in the true sense and listed as inactive. This is mainly due to the breakdown of his relationship with Kim, as well as suicidal thoughts following the big twist at the end of the season. Even so he's pretty quick to tell people he doesn't work for CTU anymore. Next is between seasons three and four, where he opts for a desk job in the Department of Defense. The third time is between seasons six and seven where he chooses simply not to come back to the United States. [[ButThouMust Obviously, this doesn't quite work out.]] As of Day 8, Jack is FINALLY truly retired from government work. He even tells someone this in the trailer for the season. He's living peacefully in New York City with Kim and his grandchild (guess this means you can add Retired Badass as well). [[DeskJockey No DoD desk job]], [[HesJustHiding no running from China]] and [[WalkingTheEarth no trip to Africa]]. Needless to say since this is 24 it's not going to last long. Near the end of said trailer cue DramaticGunCock and typical SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic that goes with nearly everything 24 related.
** President of Awesome David Palmer. After some rather unfortunate business in Season 3, he decided not to run for re-election and left political life. Come Season 4, and the current President, the weakly Charles Logan, decides that he needs somebody with balls to save America from mass nuking. One phone call later and President Palmer is back in the saddle (much to the annoyance of the actual Republican cabinet). RuleOfCool? Yes, but who cares?
* Shepherd Book of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fame is a relatively kindly old preacher whose mission in life is to guide the flock he's found on the good ship ''Serenity.'' Sometimes, said flock gets in trouble, and when that happens, the same kindly old preacher starts blasting men in the knees, knocking a cop senseless with his bare hands, and slicing apart battle droids with a giant curved machete.
* Jack O'Neill begins ''Series/StargateSG1'' in retirement, but doesn't stay that way long once Apophis comes to town. SG-1's ReasonableAuthorityFigure, General Hammond, had also ''planned'' on retiring before the Stargate mission began, though he wasn't retired yet...and didn't retire for many years afterward, as he was having ''too much goddamn fun''.
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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Ned's had enough of fighting in war and clearly intends to spend his remaining years governing''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s Rupert Giles, the North with his family. That is, until Robert showed up out [[SmartGuy bookish demon expert]] of the blue, hellbent on making him group, has a hinted-at past as rebellious badass "Ripper", but now all he does is sit around in the next Hand of library and help out a few kids. Except for, you know, when he ''charged into the King.
** Sandor looks to be at peaceBig Bad's headquarters'', no support, ''completely'' alone, with Septon Ray and his followers, and seriously considers just giving up his hate and living a normal life. Rogue members of The Brotherhood Without Banners derail that, though.
flaming baseball bat. And kicked vampire ass.
**Barristan, after being removed from the Kingsguard by Joffrey to elevate Jaime and make room for the Hound - until Season 3, that is.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': [[TheLancer John]] and [[BadassAdorable Mary.]] You don't want to mess with those two.Oh, and if you mess with John's best friend-[[BadassBookworm you'll wind up lying in a pool if your own blood.]] Also, don't mess with John. [[PregnantBadass Mary will kick your ass if you do.]]
** Mary wants to stay in this position, though, in contrast to [[InHarmsWay John.]]
* Christopher Henderson in ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'', though a dark take since once Jack attempts to coax him out of retirement, it's revealed that he had already come out of retirement, did a FaceHeelTurn and was now a [[TheDragon Dragon]] forthe season's BigBad.
** Jack himself attempts to retire [[strike:twice]] FOUR TIMES. The firsttime is following the first season. Jack is not retired he scared or tortured someone for information in the true sense and listed as inactive. This is mainly due time it took for Willow to fetch some rope. And the breakdown of his relationship with Kim, as well as suicidal thoughts following the big twist at the end of the season. Even so he's pretty quick time he forced Ethan to tell people he doesn't work for CTU anymore. Next is between seasons three and four, where he opts for a desk job in the Department of Defense. The third time is between seasons six and seven where he chooses simply not him how to come back to the United States. [[ButThouMust Obviously, this doesn't quite work out.]] As of Day 8, Jack is FINALLY truly retired from government work. He even tells someone this in the trailer for the season. He's living peacefully in New York City with Kim and his grandchild (guess this means you can add Retired Badass as well). [[DeskJockey No DoD desk job]], [[HesJustHiding no running from China]] and [[WalkingTheEarth no trip to Africa]]. Needless to say since this is 24 it's not going to last long. Near the end of said trailer cue DramaticGunCock and typical SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic that goes with nearly everything 24 related.
** President of Awesome David Palmer. After some rather unfortunate business in Season 3, he decided not to run for re-election and left political life. Come Season 4, and the current President, the weakly Charles Logan, decides that he needs somebody with balls to save America from mass nuking. One phone call later and President Palmer is back in the saddle (much to the annoyance of the actual Republican cabinet). RuleOfCool? Yes, but who cares?
* Shepherd Book of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fame isbreak a relatively kindly old preacher whose mission in life is to guide the flock he's found on the good ship ''Serenity.'' Sometimes, said flock gets in trouble, and when that happens, the same kindly old preacher starts blasting men in the knees, knocking a cop senseless with his bare hands, and slicing apart battle droids with a giant curved machete.
* Jack O'Neill begins ''Series/StargateSG1'' in retirement, but doesn't stay that way long once Apophis comes to town. SG-1's ReasonableAuthorityFigure, General Hammond, had also ''planned'' on retiring before the Stargate mission began, though he wasn't retired yet...and didn't retire for many years afterward, as he was having ''too much goddamn fun''.spell.
** Ned's had enough of fighting in war and clearly intends to spend his remaining years governing
** Sandor looks to be at peace
**
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': [[TheLancer John]] and [[BadassAdorable Mary.]] You don't want to mess with those two.
** Mary wants to stay in this position, though, in contrast to [[InHarmsWay John.]]
* Christopher Henderson in ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'', though a dark take since once Jack attempts to coax him out of retirement, it's revealed that he had already come out of retirement, did a FaceHeelTurn and was now a [[TheDragon Dragon]] for
** Jack himself attempts to retire [[strike:twice]] FOUR TIMES. The first
** President of Awesome David Palmer. After some rather unfortunate business in Season 3, he decided not to run for re-election and left political life. Come Season 4, and the current President, the weakly Charles Logan, decides that he needs somebody with balls to save America from mass nuking. One phone call later and President Palmer is back in the saddle (much to the annoyance of the actual Republican cabinet). RuleOfCool? Yes, but who cares?
* Shepherd Book of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fame is
* Jack O'Neill begins ''Series/StargateSG1'' in retirement, but doesn't stay that way long once Apophis comes to town. SG-1's ReasonableAuthorityFigure, General Hammond, had also ''planned'' on retiring before the Stargate mission began, though he wasn't retired yet...and didn't retire for many years afterward, as he was having ''too much goddamn fun''.
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** Well, he's played by Creator/BruceCampbell of all people...
** Well, he's played by Creator/BruceCampbell of all people...
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---> '''Sam''': * drawing a second gun and getting up* Not stupid enough to let you near a loaded gun. Now sit down. down.
* fires an inch from Milovan's foot* Please.
** Well, he's played by Creator/BruceCampbell of all people...
* fires an inch from Milovan's foot* Please.
** Well, he's played by Creator/BruceCampbell of all people...
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s Rupert Giles, the [[SmartGuy bookish demon expert]] of the group, has a hinted-at past as rebellious badass "Ripper", but now all he does is sit around in the library and help out a few kids. Except for, you know, when he ''charged into the Big Bad's headquarters'', no support, ''completely'' alone, with a flaming baseball bat. And kicked vampire ass.
** Oh, and the time he scared or tortured someone for information in the time it took for Willow to fetch some rope. And the time he forced Ethan to tell him how to break a spell.
* King Uther Pendragon of ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'', played by the same guy as Giles, has handed over most of the combat to his extremely Badass son. He spends most of his time being a ReasonableAuthorityFigure (unless magic is involved) and WellIntentionedExtremist against any magic he encounters (he genuinely believes it is evil) and by series 4 he is bed/chair bound and in a permanent bout of HeroicBSOD. Try and hurt [[PapaWolf his son or his people and he will kill you]]. He once held off his own son, who is unmatchable with a sword, refusing to attack, and took out an assassin during the 4th series bout of HeroicBSOD.
** Oh, and the time he scared or tortured someone for information in the time it took for Willow to fetch some rope. And the time he forced Ethan to tell him how to break a spell.
* King Uther Pendragon of ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'', played by the same guy as Giles, has handed over most of the combat to his extremely Badass son. He spends most of his time being a ReasonableAuthorityFigure (unless magic is involved) and WellIntentionedExtremist against any magic he encounters (he genuinely believes it is evil) and by series 4 he is bed/chair bound and in a permanent bout of HeroicBSOD. Try and hurt [[PapaWolf his son or his people and he will kill you]]. He once held off his own son, who is unmatchable with a sword, refusing to attack, and took out an assassin during the 4th series bout of HeroicBSOD.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s Rupert Giles, Shepherd Book of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fame is a relatively kindly old preacher whose mission in life is to guide the [[SmartGuy bookish demon expert]] of flock he's found on the group, has a hinted-at past as rebellious badass "Ripper", but now all he does is sit around good ship ''Serenity.'' Sometimes, said flock gets in the library trouble, and help out a few kids. Except for, you know, when he ''charged into the Big Bad's headquarters'', no support, ''completely'' alone, with a flaming baseball bat. And kicked vampire ass.
** Oh, and the time he scared or tortured someone for information in the time it took for Willow to fetch some rope. And the time he forced Ethan to tell him how to break a spell.
* King Uther Pendragon of ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'', played bythat happens, the same guy as Giles, kindly old preacher starts blasting men in the knees, knocking a cop senseless with his bare hands, and slicing apart battle droids with a giant curved machete.
* In ''Series/TheFlash1990'', the Nightshade used to be a masked hero and a GadgeteerGenius decades ago. He hashanded over most since retired. Barry eventually learns the Nightshade's secret identity, when the latter decides to don his costume again to fight an old enemy known as the Ghost. And then again, when someone calling himself the Deadly Nightshade shows up and tries to take up the Nightshade's mantle.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Ned's had enough of fighting in war and clearly intends to spend his remaining years governing the North with his family. That is, until Robert showed up out of thecombat blue, hellbent on making him the next Hand of the King.
** Sandor looks to be at peace with Septon Ray and hisextremely Badass son. He spends most of followers, and seriously considers just giving up his time hate and living a normal life. Rogue members of The Brotherhood Without Banners derail that, though.
** Barristan, after beinga ReasonableAuthorityFigure (unless magic is involved) removed from the Kingsguard by Joffrey to elevate Jaime and WellIntentionedExtremist against any magic he encounters (he genuinely believes it is evil) and by series 4 he is bed/chair bound and in a permanent bout of HeroicBSOD. Try and hurt [[PapaWolf his son or his people and he will kill you]]. He once held off his own son, who is unmatchable with a sword, refusing to attack, and took out an assassin during make room for the 4th series bout of HeroicBSOD.Hound -- until Season 3, that is.
** Oh, and the time he scared or tortured someone for information in the time it took for Willow to fetch some rope. And the time he forced Ethan to tell him how to break a spell.
* King Uther Pendragon of ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'', played by
* In ''Series/TheFlash1990'', the Nightshade used to be a masked hero and a GadgeteerGenius decades ago. He has
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Ned's had enough of fighting in war and clearly intends to spend his remaining years governing the North with his family. That is, until Robert showed up out of the
** Sandor looks to be at peace with Septon Ray and his
** Barristan, after being
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* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Mike Franks, [[CynicalMentor Gibbs's mentor]], is this. Implied that he retired [[spoiler:[[HeroicBSOD due to the Khobar Towers bombing]]]], then he went to live in a beach at Mexico. Whenever a situation arises that has him come back to the United States, however, he turns to be still quite good at what he used to do, and during at least ''two'' cases he got and trailed leads ''before'' Gibbs did, in one of these occasions taking the [[MonsterOfTheWeek episode's villain]] himself. He also sneaked by and terminated [[spoiler:Jenny Sheppard's killers]] and was instrumental in a case holding some keys to Gibb's past.
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** Admiral Boone (Creator/TerryOQuinn), the wingman of Harm's dad, is recalled to active duty in season 7.
* Tommy from ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has tried to become this several times, but he ''keeps getting [[TheChosenOne chosen]]'' for new powers and duties. He probably would have stayed retired, if his initial idea of "peaceful retirement" hadn't been "MadScientist experimenting with oversized cyborg dinosaurs and magic rocks on a private island". By the end of Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder, however, he had to take care of the aftermath of that little booboo, and was in the much more relaxing career of "high school science teacher", which, while stressful, is not ''apocalyptically'' so.
** On the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' side, technically ''everyone'' who lost their powers during ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'''s [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Great Legend War]]. While some heroes, such as the members of the ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' and ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhRanger'' are still active in their day jobs, some have settled down to be teachers, shop owners and, in one case, [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarRanger driving instructors]].
** Some of the mentors qualify as well. ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' features Ji, who's old enough to be a grandfather and is mainly in charge of the day-to-day operations of Shiba manor, but he is able to take on a horde of Nanashi using a naginata and a katana, and once killed one ''barehanded''.
* Tommy from ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has tried to become this several times, but he ''keeps getting [[TheChosenOne chosen]]'' for new powers and duties. He probably would have stayed retired, if his initial idea of "peaceful retirement" hadn't been "MadScientist experimenting with oversized cyborg dinosaurs and magic rocks on a private island". By the end of Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder, however, he had to take care of the aftermath of that little booboo, and was in the much more relaxing career of "high school science teacher", which, while stressful, is not ''apocalyptically'' so.
** On the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' side, technically ''everyone'' who lost their powers during ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'''s [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Great Legend War]]. While some heroes, such as the members of the ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' and ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhRanger'' are still active in their day jobs, some have settled down to be teachers, shop owners and, in one case, [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarRanger driving instructors]].
** Some of the mentors qualify as well. ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' features Ji, who's old enough to be a grandfather and is mainly in charge of the day-to-day operations of Shiba manor, but he is able to take on a horde of Nanashi using a naginata and a katana, and once killed one ''barehanded''.
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** Admiral Boone (Creator/TerryOQuinn), the wingman of Harm's dad, is recalled to active duty in season Season 7.
*Tommy from ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has tried to become this several times, but he ''keeps getting [[TheChosenOne chosen]]'' for new powers On ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', [[GentlemanThief Archie Leach]] is this. He is also [[ClassyCatBurglar Parker's]] mentor and duties. He probably would have stayed retired, if father figure. With a [[StunGun taser]] built into his initial idea of "peaceful retirement" hadn't been "MadScientist experimenting cane. And another cane with oversized cyborg dinosaurs a six inch stiletto blade.
* ''Series/MadamSecretary'': Secretary [=McCord's=] husband Dr. Henry [=McCord=] now teaches at Georgetown, but he's also a [[SemperFi retired USMC captain]] andmagic rocks on a private island". By operative for the end of Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder, however, he had to take care of the aftermath of that little booboo, and was NSA [[spoiler:and is reactivated in the much more relaxing career of "high school science teacher", which, while stressful, is not ''apocalyptically'' so.
** On the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' side, technically ''everyone'' who lost their powers during ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'''s [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Great Legend War]]. While some heroes, such as the members of the ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' and ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhRanger'' are still active in their day jobs, some have settled down to be teachers, shop owners and, in one case, [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarRanger driving instructors]].
** Some of the mentors qualify as well. ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' features Ji, who's old enough to be a grandfather and is mainly in charge of the day-to-day operations of Shiba manor, but he is able to take on a horde of Nanashi using a naginata and a katana, and once killed one ''barehanded''.episode eight]].
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* ''Series/MadamSecretary'': Secretary [=McCord's=] husband Dr. Henry [=McCord=] now teaches at Georgetown, but he's also a [[SemperFi retired USMC captain]] and
** On the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' side, technically ''everyone'' who lost their powers during ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'''s [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Great Legend War]]. While some heroes, such as the members of the ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' and ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhRanger'' are still active in their day jobs, some have settled down to be teachers, shop owners and, in one case, [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarRanger driving instructors]].
** Some of the mentors qualify as well. ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' features Ji, who's old enough to be a grandfather and is mainly in charge of the day-to-day operations of Shiba manor, but he is able to take on a horde of Nanashi using a naginata and a katana, and once killed one ''barehanded''.
* King Uther Pendragon of ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'', played by the same guy as Giles, has handed over most of the combat to his extremely Badass son. He spends most of his time being a ReasonableAuthorityFigure (unless magic is involved) and WellIntentionedExtremist against any magic he encounters (he genuinely believes it is evil) and by Series 4 he is bed/chair bound and in a permanent bout of HeroicBSOD. Try and hurt [[PapaWolf his son or his people and he will kill you]]. He once held off his own son, who is unmatchable with a sword, refusing to attack, and took out an assassin during the fourth series bout of HeroicBSOD.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Mike Franks, [[CynicalMentor Gibbs's mentor]], is this. Implied that he retired [[spoiler:[[HeroicBSOD due to the Khobar Towers bombing]]]], then he went to live in a beach at Mexico. Whenever a situation arises that has him come back to the United States, however, he turns to be still quite good at what he used to do, and during at least ''two'' cases he got and trailed leads ''before'' Gibbs did, in one of these occasions taking the [[MonsterOfTheWeek episode's villain]] himself. He also sneaked by and terminated [[spoiler:Jenny Sheppard's killers]] and was instrumental in a case holding some keys to Gibb's past.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Mike Franks, [[CynicalMentor Gibbs's mentor]], is this. Implied that he retired [[spoiler:[[HeroicBSOD due to the Khobar Towers bombing]]]], then he went to live in a beach at Mexico. Whenever a situation arises that has him come back to the United States, however, he turns to be still quite good at what he used to do, and during at least ''two'' cases he got and trailed leads ''before'' Gibbs did, in one of these occasions taking the [[MonsterOfTheWeek episode's villain]] himself. He also sneaked by and terminated [[spoiler:Jenny Sheppard's killers]] and was instrumental in a case holding some keys to Gibb's past.
* Tommy from ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has tried to become this several times, but he ''keeps getting [[TheChosenOne chosen]]'' for new powers and duties. He probably would have stayed retired, if his initial idea of "peaceful retirement" hadn't been "MadScientist experimenting with oversized cyborg dinosaurs and magic rocks on a private island". By the end of Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder, however, he had to take care of the aftermath of that little booboo, and was in the much more relaxing career of "high school science teacher", which, while stressful, is not ''apocalyptically'' so.
** On the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' side, technically ''everyone'' who lost their powers during ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'''s [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Great Legend War]]. While some heroes, such as the members of the ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' and ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhRanger'' are still active in their day jobs, some have settled down to be teachers, shop owners and, in one case, [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarRanger driving instructors]].
** Some of the mentors qualify as well. ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' features Ji, who's old enough to be a grandfather and is mainly in charge of the day-to-day operations of Shiba manor, but he is able to take on a horde of Nanashi using a naginata and a katana, and once killed one ''barehanded''.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': [[TheLancer John]] and [[BadassAdorable Mary.]] You don't want to mess with those two. Oh, and if you mess with John's best friend-[[BadassBookworm you'll wind up lying in a pool if your own blood.]] Also, don't mess with John. [[PregnantBadass Mary will kick your ass if you do.]]
** Mary wants to stay in this position, though, in contrast to [[InHarmsWay John.]]
* Jack O'Neill begins ''Series/StargateSG1'' in retirement, but doesn't stay that way long once Apophis comes to town. SG-1's ReasonableAuthorityFigure, General Hammond, had also ''planned'' on retiring before the Stargate mission began, though he wasn't retired yet...and didn't retire for many years afterward, as he was having ''too much goddamn fun''.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': By the start of the series, Picard has long since retired from Starfleet to tend his family vineyard in France, in the wake of Starfleet banning artificial lifeforms and refusing to help the Romulans in the face of their impending supernova. Though 94 and showing his age (yet still fitter than many people now would be) he managed to take out a couple of the Romulans who invaded his chateau.
** On the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' side, technically ''everyone'' who lost their powers during ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'''s [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Great Legend War]]. While some heroes, such as the members of the ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' and ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhRanger'' are still active in their day jobs, some have settled down to be teachers, shop owners and, in one case, [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarRanger driving instructors]].
** Some of the mentors qualify as well. ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' features Ji, who's old enough to be a grandfather and is mainly in charge of the day-to-day operations of Shiba manor, but he is able to take on a horde of Nanashi using a naginata and a katana, and once killed one ''barehanded''.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': [[TheLancer John]] and [[BadassAdorable Mary.]] You don't want to mess with those two. Oh, and if you mess with John's best friend-[[BadassBookworm you'll wind up lying in a pool if your own blood.]] Also, don't mess with John. [[PregnantBadass Mary will kick your ass if you do.]]
** Mary wants to stay in this position, though, in contrast to [[InHarmsWay John.]]
* Jack O'Neill begins ''Series/StargateSG1'' in retirement, but doesn't stay that way long once Apophis comes to town. SG-1's ReasonableAuthorityFigure, General Hammond, had also ''planned'' on retiring before the Stargate mission began, though he wasn't retired yet...and didn't retire for many years afterward, as he was having ''too much goddamn fun''.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': By the start of the series, Picard has long since retired from Starfleet to tend his family vineyard in France, in the wake of Starfleet banning artificial lifeforms and refusing to help the Romulans in the face of their impending supernova. Though 94 and showing his age (yet still fitter than many people now would be) he managed to take out a couple of the Romulans who invaded his chateau.
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* On ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', [[GentlemanThief Archie Leach]] is this. He is also [[ClassyCatBurglar Parker's]] mentor and father figure. With a [[StunGun taser]] built into his cane. And another cane with a six inch stiletto blade.
* On ''Series/TeenWolf'', Dr. Deaton. He repeatedly states HE'S RETIRED, but the end of season two sees him back in action going after Gerard.
* ''Series/MadamSecretary'': Secretary [=McCord's=] husband Dr. Henry [=McCord=] now teaches at Georgetown, but he's also a [[SemperFi retired USMC captain]] and operative for the NSA [[spoiler:and is reactivated in episode eight]].
* In ''Series/TheFlash1990'', the Nightshade used to be a masked hero and a GadgeteerGenius decades ago. He has since retired. Barry eventually learns the Nightshade's secret identity, when the latter decides to don his costume again to fight an old enemy known as the Ghost. And then again, when someone calling himself the Deadly Nightshade shows up and tries to take up the Nightshade's mantle.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': By the start of the series, Picard has long since retired from Starfleet to tend his family vineyard in France, in the wake of Starfleet banning artificial lifeforms and refusing to help the Romulans in the face of their impending supernova. Though 94 and showing his age (yet still fitter than many people now would be) he managed to take out a couple of the Romulans who invaded his chateau.
* On ''Series/TeenWolf'', Dr. Deaton. He repeatedly states HE'S RETIRED, but the end of season two sees him back in action going after Gerard.
* ''Series/MadamSecretary'': Secretary [=McCord's=] husband Dr. Henry [=McCord=] now teaches at Georgetown, but he's also a [[SemperFi retired USMC captain]] and operative for the NSA [[spoiler:and is reactivated in episode eight]].
* In ''Series/TheFlash1990'', the Nightshade used to be a masked hero and a GadgeteerGenius decades ago. He has since retired. Barry eventually learns the Nightshade's secret identity, when the latter decides to don his costume again to fight an old enemy known as the Ghost. And then again, when someone calling himself the Deadly Nightshade shows up and tries to take up the Nightshade's mantle.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': By the start of the series, Picard has long since retired from Starfleet to tend his family vineyard in France, in the wake of Starfleet banning artificial lifeforms and refusing to help the Romulans in the face of their impending supernova. Though 94 and showing his age (yet still fitter than many people now would be) he managed to take out a couple of the Romulans who invaded his chateau.
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* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': By the start of the series, Picard has long since retired from Starfleet to tend his family vineyard in France, in the wake of Starfleet banning artificial lifeforms and refusing to help the Romulans in the face of their impending supernova. Though 94 and showing his age (yet still fitter than many people now would be) he managed to take out a couple of the Romulans who invaded his chateau.
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* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': Max Keenan, [[PapaWolf the kindest guy who will stab you to death, gut you, put you on a stick and set you on fire if you put his family in danger]]. Normally he's a science teacher who loves kids. Mess with his kids or his grandkids and he comes out of retirement.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Ned's had enough of fighting in war and clearly intends to spend his remaining years governing the North with his family. That is, until Robert showed up out of the blue, hellbent on making him the next Hand of the King.
** Sandor looks to be at peace with Septon Ray and his followers, and seriously considers just giving up his hate and living a normal life. Rogue members of The Brotherhood Without Banners derail that, though.
** Barristan, after being removed from the Kingsguard by Joffrey to elevate Jaime and make room for the Hound - until Season 3, that is.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': [[TheLancer John]] and [[BadassAdorable Mary.]] You don't want to mess with those two. Oh, and if you mess with John's best friend-[[BadassBookworm you'll wind up lying in a pool if your own blood.]] Also, don't mess with John. [[PregnantBadass Mary will kick your ass if you do.]]
** Mary wants to stay in this position, though, in contrast to [[InHarmsWay John.]]
* Christopher Henderson in ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'', though a dark take since once Jack attempts to coax him out of retirement, it's revealed that he had already come out of retirement, did a FaceHeelTurn and was now a [[TheDragon Dragon]] for the season's BigBad.
** Jack himself attempts to retire [[strike:twice]] FOUR TIMES. The first time is following the first season. Jack is not retired in the true sense and listed as inactive. This is mainly due to the breakdown of his relationship with Kim, as well as suicidal thoughts following the big twist at the end of the season. Even so he's pretty quick to tell people he doesn't work for CTU anymore. Next is between seasons three and four, where he opts for a desk job in the Department of Defense. The third time is between seasons six and seven where he chooses simply not to come back to the United States. [[ButThouMust Obviously, this doesn't quite work out.]] As of Day 8, Jack is FINALLY truly retired from government work. He even tells someone this in the trailer for the season. He's living peacefully in New York City with Kim and his grandchild (guess this means you can add Retired Badass as well). [[DeskJockey No DoD desk job]], [[HesJustHiding no running from China]] and [[WalkingTheEarth no trip to Africa]]. Needless to say since this is 24 it's not going to last long. Near the end of said trailer cue DramaticGunCock and typical SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic that goes with nearly everything 24 related.
** President of Awesome David Palmer. After some rather unfortunate business in Season 3, he decided not to run for re-election and left political life. Come Season 4, and the current President, the weakly Charles Logan, decides that he needs somebody with balls to save America from mass nuking. One phone call later and President Palmer is back in the saddle (much to the annoyance of the actual Republican cabinet). RuleOfCool? Yes, but who cares?
* Shepherd Book of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fame is a relatively kindly old preacher whose mission in life is to guide the flock he's found on the good ship ''Serenity.'' Sometimes, said flock gets in trouble, and when that happens, the same kindly old preacher starts blasting men in the knees, knocking a cop senseless with his bare hands, and slicing apart battle droids with a giant curved machete.
* Jack O'Neill begins ''Series/StargateSG1'' in retirement, but doesn't stay that way long once Apophis comes to town. SG-1's ReasonableAuthorityFigure, General Hammond, had also ''planned'' on retiring before the Stargate mission began, though he wasn't retired yet...and didn't retire for many years afterward, as he was having ''too much goddamn fun''.
* Sam Axe in ''Series/BurnNotice''. He's a former... [[strike: something or other (it's not explicitly mentioned what he was)]] Navy [=SEAL=] Commander with buddies in seemingly every major US Agency. At the beginning of the show, he was making a living mooching off retired women in Miami. When his friend Michael comes back to town, however, he proves himself to be just as badass as he ever was.
** Lampshaded in "Friends Like These" when the supposedly bad guy Sam's interrogating is Serbian intelligence. He proceeds to try and psych Sam out by asking him what he used to do before he was an "errand boy" and figures out Sam is ex-military. He insults the [=SEALs=] to bait Sam into coming closer, then knocks Sam down and disarms him.
---> '''Milovan''': Navy [=SEALs=]? Little girls! You've gone soft! How stupid are you? * goes to fire, and the gun clicks uselessly*
---> '''Sam''': * drawing a second gun and getting up* Not stupid enough to let you near a loaded gun. Now sit down. * fires an inch from Milovan's foot* Please.
** Well, he's played by Creator/BruceCampbell of all people...
* [[TheBrigadier Brigadier]] Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart of ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''. Enjoys gardening. Will still [[FiveRoundsRapid shoot the hell]] out of any alien invader who sets foot on his planet.
** Unless he's [[RunningGag stranded in Peru]].
** It doesn't take any great leap of the imagination to see the First Doctor companion Ian Chesterton as belonging here. People often remark on the incongruity of a Secondary School science teacher apparently being able to nonchalantly kick various kinds of arse. Glance at a calendar and do some mental arithmetic, and you'll realise that, as a man in his late-30's/early-40's in 1963, Ian [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII probably had quite an important event tucked away in his backstory.]] You can bet that not even the mental kids acted up in ''his'' class.
** The Curator, the caretaker of the National Gallery, who looks suspiciously like an older version of the Fourth Doctor. His CrypticConversation with the Eleventh Doctor in "The Day of the Doctor" suggests that he's a future incarnation of the Doctor, who has since retired from saving the universe and now spends his retirement between working as a humble museum worker and revisiting a few of his old faces ([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall but only the favourites!]]).
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s Rupert Giles, the [[SmartGuy bookish demon expert]] of the group, has a hinted-at past as rebellious badass "Ripper", but now all he does is sit around in the library and help out a few kids. Except for, you know, when he ''charged into the Big Bad's headquarters'', no support, ''completely'' alone, with a flaming baseball bat. And kicked vampire ass.
** Oh, and the time he scared or tortured someone for information in the time it took for Willow to fetch some rope. And the time he forced Ethan to tell him how to break a spell.
* King Uther Pendragon of ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'', played by the same guy as Giles, has handed over most of the combat to his extremely Badass son. He spends most of his time being a ReasonableAuthorityFigure (unless magic is involved) and WellIntentionedExtremist against any magic he encounters (he genuinely believes it is evil) and by series 4 he is bed/chair bound and in a permanent bout of HeroicBSOD. Try and hurt [[PapaWolf his son or his people and he will kill you]]. He once held off his own son, who is unmatchable with a sword, refusing to attack, and took out an assassin during the 4th series bout of HeroicBSOD.
* Claude Rains, the Invisible Man from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' is a variant of this. Subverted somewhat, as he's less of a Retired Badass and more of a Screw-This-I'm-Outta-Here Badass.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Mike Franks, [[CynicalMentor Gibbs's mentor]], is this. Implied that he retired [[spoiler:[[HeroicBSOD due to the Khobar Towers bombing]]]], then he went to live in a beach at Mexico. Whenever a situation arises that has him come back to the United States, however, he turns to be still quite good at what he used to do, and during at least ''two'' cases he got and trailed leads ''before'' Gibbs did, in one of these occasions taking the [[MonsterOfTheWeek episode's villain]] himself. He also sneaked by and terminated [[spoiler:Jenny Sheppard's killers]] and was instrumental in a case holding some keys to Gibb's past.
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'':
** General Williams in "Desert Son", former Commandant of the Marine Corps and Medal of Honor recipient. Even as a retiree, he still warrants his own helicopter transport and honor guard.
** The trio of retired underwater demolition divers (one of them played by Creator/ErnestBorgnine), in "Yesterday’s Heroes", whom despite living at a retirement home in Florida decides to take on a drug dealer.
** Admiral Boone (Creator/TerryOQuinn), the wingman of Harm's dad, is recalled to active duty in season 7.
* Tommy from ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has tried to become this several times, but he ''keeps getting [[TheChosenOne chosen]]'' for new powers and duties. He probably would have stayed retired, if his initial idea of "peaceful retirement" hadn't been "MadScientist experimenting with oversized cyborg dinosaurs and magic rocks on a private island". By the end of Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder, however, he had to take care of the aftermath of that little booboo, and was in the much more relaxing career of "high school science teacher", which, while stressful, is not ''apocalyptically'' so.
** On the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' side, technically ''everyone'' who lost their powers during ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'''s [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Great Legend War]]. While some heroes, such as the members of the ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' and ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhRanger'' are still active in their day jobs, some have settled down to be teachers, shop owners and, in one case, [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarRanger driving instructors]].
** Some of the mentors qualify as well. ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' features Ji, who's old enough to be a grandfather and is mainly in charge of the day-to-day operations of Shiba manor, but he is able to take on a horde of Nanashi using a naginata and a katana, and once killed one ''barehanded''.
* While not a conventional example, Hal from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' can take any one of his sons in a fight and leave them ''gasping for air'' in ''seconds'' (his words). Now if you've ever seen Francis and/or Reese [[HotBlooded cut loose]], you know this [[BumblingDad sweet, unassuming guy]] has got to be like seven kinds of badass.
* Although we haven't seen him cut loose it's implied that Zeke from ''Series/{{Parenthood}}'' is this.
* Samuel Colt of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', as shown in one of the Time Travel episodes. When two demons come knocking, he tells them quite politely to walk away, he's retired. When they refuse, he kills both of them in the span of two seconds, and only laments that they knocked over his bottle of whiskey.
** Bobby could be seen as semi-retired, fielding phone calls and doing research, but is in fact a crafty, tough old bastard with an encyclopedic knowledge of the occult.
* On ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', [[GentlemanThief Archie Leach]] is this. He is also [[ClassyCatBurglar Parker's]] mentor and father figure. With a [[StunGun taser]] built into his cane. And another cane with a six inch stiletto blade.
* On ''Series/TeenWolf'', Dr. Deaton. He repeatedly states HE'S RETIRED, but the end of season two sees him back in action going after Gerard.
* ''Series/MadamSecretary'': Secretary [=McCord's=] husband Dr. Henry [=McCord=] now teaches at Georgetown, but he's also a [[SemperFi retired USMC captain]] and operative for the NSA [[spoiler:and is reactivated in episode eight]].
* In ''Series/TheFlash1990'', the Nightshade used to be a masked hero and a GadgeteerGenius decades ago. He has since retired. Barry eventually learns the Nightshade's secret identity, when the latter decides to don his costume again to fight an old enemy known as the Ghost. And then again, when someone calling himself the Deadly Nightshade shows up and tries to take up the Nightshade's mantle.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': By the start of the series, Picard has long since retired from Starfleet to tend his family vineyard in France, in the wake of Starfleet banning artificial lifeforms and refusing to help the Romulans in the face of their impending supernova. Though 94 and showing his age (yet still fitter than many people now would be) he managed to take out a couple of the Romulans who invaded his chateau.
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* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': Max Keenan, [[PapaWolf the kindest guy who will stab you to death, gut you, put you on a stick and set you on fire if you put his family in danger]]. Normally he's a science teacher who loves kids. Mess with his kids or his grandkids and he comes out of retirement.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Ned's had enough of fighting in war and clearly intends to spend his remaining years governing the North with his family. That is, until Robert showed up out of the blue, hellbent on making him the next Hand of the King.
** Sandor looks to be at peace with Septon Ray and his followers, and seriously considers just giving up his hate and living a normal life. Rogue members of The Brotherhood Without Banners derail that, though.
** Barristan, after being removed from the Kingsguard by Joffrey to elevate Jaime and make room for the Hound - until Season 3, that is.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': [[TheLancer John]] and [[BadassAdorable Mary.]] You don't want to mess with those two. Oh, and if you mess with John's best friend-[[BadassBookworm you'll wind up lying in a pool if your own blood.]] Also, don't mess with John. [[PregnantBadass Mary will kick your ass if you do.]]
** Mary wants to stay in this position, though, in contrast to [[InHarmsWay John.]]
* Christopher Henderson in ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'', though a dark take since once Jack attempts to coax him out of retirement, it's revealed that he had already come out of retirement, did a FaceHeelTurn and was now a [[TheDragon Dragon]] for the season's BigBad.
** Jack himself attempts to retire [[strike:twice]] FOUR TIMES. The first time is following the first season. Jack is not retired in the true sense and listed as inactive. This is mainly due to the breakdown of his relationship with Kim, as well as suicidal thoughts following the big twist at the end of the season. Even so he's pretty quick to tell people he doesn't work for CTU anymore. Next is between seasons three and four, where he opts for a desk job in the Department of Defense. The third time is between seasons six and seven where he chooses simply not to come back to the United States. [[ButThouMust Obviously, this doesn't quite work out.]] As of Day 8, Jack is FINALLY truly retired from government work. He even tells someone this in the trailer for the season. He's living peacefully in New York City with Kim and his grandchild (guess this means you can add Retired Badass as well). [[DeskJockey No DoD desk job]], [[HesJustHiding no running from China]] and [[WalkingTheEarth no trip to Africa]]. Needless to say since this is 24 it's not going to last long. Near the end of said trailer cue DramaticGunCock and typical SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic that goes with nearly everything 24 related.
** President of Awesome David Palmer. After some rather unfortunate business in Season 3, he decided not to run for re-election and left political life. Come Season 4, and the current President, the weakly Charles Logan, decides that he needs somebody with balls to save America from mass nuking. One phone call later and President Palmer is back in the saddle (much to the annoyance of the actual Republican cabinet). RuleOfCool? Yes, but who cares?
* Shepherd Book of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fame is a relatively kindly old preacher whose mission in life is to guide the flock he's found on the good ship ''Serenity.'' Sometimes, said flock gets in trouble, and when that happens, the same kindly old preacher starts blasting men in the knees, knocking a cop senseless with his bare hands, and slicing apart battle droids with a giant curved machete.
* Jack O'Neill begins ''Series/StargateSG1'' in retirement, but doesn't stay that way long once Apophis comes to town. SG-1's ReasonableAuthorityFigure, General Hammond, had also ''planned'' on retiring before the Stargate mission began, though he wasn't retired yet...and didn't retire for many years afterward, as he was having ''too much goddamn fun''.
* Sam Axe in ''Series/BurnNotice''. He's a former... [[strike: something or other (it's not explicitly mentioned what he was)]] Navy [=SEAL=] Commander with buddies in seemingly every major US Agency. At the beginning of the show, he was making a living mooching off retired women in Miami. When his friend Michael comes back to town, however, he proves himself to be just as badass as he ever was.
** Lampshaded in "Friends Like These" when the supposedly bad guy Sam's interrogating is Serbian intelligence. He proceeds to try and psych Sam out by asking him what he used to do before he was an "errand boy" and figures out Sam is ex-military. He insults the [=SEALs=] to bait Sam into coming closer, then knocks Sam down and disarms him.
---> '''Milovan''': Navy [=SEALs=]? Little girls! You've gone soft! How stupid are you? * goes to fire, and the gun clicks uselessly*
---> '''Sam''': * drawing a second gun and getting up* Not stupid enough to let you near a loaded gun. Now sit down. * fires an inch from Milovan's foot* Please.
** Well, he's played by Creator/BruceCampbell of all people...
* [[TheBrigadier Brigadier]] Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart of ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''. Enjoys gardening. Will still [[FiveRoundsRapid shoot the hell]] out of any alien invader who sets foot on his planet.
** Unless he's [[RunningGag stranded in Peru]].
** It doesn't take any great leap of the imagination to see the First Doctor companion Ian Chesterton as belonging here. People often remark on the incongruity of a Secondary School science teacher apparently being able to nonchalantly kick various kinds of arse. Glance at a calendar and do some mental arithmetic, and you'll realise that, as a man in his late-30's/early-40's in 1963, Ian [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII probably had quite an important event tucked away in his backstory.]] You can bet that not even the mental kids acted up in ''his'' class.
** The Curator, the caretaker of the National Gallery, who looks suspiciously like an older version of the Fourth Doctor. His CrypticConversation with the Eleventh Doctor in "The Day of the Doctor" suggests that he's a future incarnation of the Doctor, who has since retired from saving the universe and now spends his retirement between working as a humble museum worker and revisiting a few of his old faces ([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall but only the favourites!]]).
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s Rupert Giles, the [[SmartGuy bookish demon expert]] of the group, has a hinted-at past as rebellious badass "Ripper", but now all he does is sit around in the library and help out a few kids. Except for, you know, when he ''charged into the Big Bad's headquarters'', no support, ''completely'' alone, with a flaming baseball bat. And kicked vampire ass.
** Oh, and the time he scared or tortured someone for information in the time it took for Willow to fetch some rope. And the time he forced Ethan to tell him how to break a spell.
* King Uther Pendragon of ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'', played by the same guy as Giles, has handed over most of the combat to his extremely Badass son. He spends most of his time being a ReasonableAuthorityFigure (unless magic is involved) and WellIntentionedExtremist against any magic he encounters (he genuinely believes it is evil) and by series 4 he is bed/chair bound and in a permanent bout of HeroicBSOD. Try and hurt [[PapaWolf his son or his people and he will kill you]]. He once held off his own son, who is unmatchable with a sword, refusing to attack, and took out an assassin during the 4th series bout of HeroicBSOD.
* Claude Rains, the Invisible Man from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' is a variant of this. Subverted somewhat, as he's less of a Retired Badass and more of a Screw-This-I'm-Outta-Here Badass.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Mike Franks, [[CynicalMentor Gibbs's mentor]], is this. Implied that he retired [[spoiler:[[HeroicBSOD due to the Khobar Towers bombing]]]], then he went to live in a beach at Mexico. Whenever a situation arises that has him come back to the United States, however, he turns to be still quite good at what he used to do, and during at least ''two'' cases he got and trailed leads ''before'' Gibbs did, in one of these occasions taking the [[MonsterOfTheWeek episode's villain]] himself. He also sneaked by and terminated [[spoiler:Jenny Sheppard's killers]] and was instrumental in a case holding some keys to Gibb's past.
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'':
** General Williams in "Desert Son", former Commandant of the Marine Corps and Medal of Honor recipient. Even as a retiree, he still warrants his own helicopter transport and honor guard.
** The trio of retired underwater demolition divers (one of them played by Creator/ErnestBorgnine), in "Yesterday’s Heroes", whom despite living at a retirement home in Florida decides to take on a drug dealer.
** Admiral Boone (Creator/TerryOQuinn), the wingman of Harm's dad, is recalled to active duty in season 7.
* Tommy from ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has tried to become this several times, but he ''keeps getting [[TheChosenOne chosen]]'' for new powers and duties. He probably would have stayed retired, if his initial idea of "peaceful retirement" hadn't been "MadScientist experimenting with oversized cyborg dinosaurs and magic rocks on a private island". By the end of Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder, however, he had to take care of the aftermath of that little booboo, and was in the much more relaxing career of "high school science teacher", which, while stressful, is not ''apocalyptically'' so.
** On the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' side, technically ''everyone'' who lost their powers during ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'''s [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Great Legend War]]. While some heroes, such as the members of the ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' and ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhRanger'' are still active in their day jobs, some have settled down to be teachers, shop owners and, in one case, [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarRanger driving instructors]].
** Some of the mentors qualify as well. ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' features Ji, who's old enough to be a grandfather and is mainly in charge of the day-to-day operations of Shiba manor, but he is able to take on a horde of Nanashi using a naginata and a katana, and once killed one ''barehanded''.
* While not a conventional example, Hal from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' can take any one of his sons in a fight and leave them ''gasping for air'' in ''seconds'' (his words). Now if you've ever seen Francis and/or Reese [[HotBlooded cut loose]], you know this [[BumblingDad sweet, unassuming guy]] has got to be like seven kinds of badass.
* Although we haven't seen him cut loose it's implied that Zeke from ''Series/{{Parenthood}}'' is this.
* Samuel Colt of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', as shown in one of the Time Travel episodes. When two demons come knocking, he tells them quite politely to walk away, he's retired. When they refuse, he kills both of them in the span of two seconds, and only laments that they knocked over his bottle of whiskey.
** Bobby could be seen as semi-retired, fielding phone calls and doing research, but is in fact a crafty, tough old bastard with an encyclopedic knowledge of the occult.
* On ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', [[GentlemanThief Archie Leach]] is this. He is also [[ClassyCatBurglar Parker's]] mentor and father figure. With a [[StunGun taser]] built into his cane. And another cane with a six inch stiletto blade.
* On ''Series/TeenWolf'', Dr. Deaton. He repeatedly states HE'S RETIRED, but the end of season two sees him back in action going after Gerard.
* ''Series/MadamSecretary'': Secretary [=McCord's=] husband Dr. Henry [=McCord=] now teaches at Georgetown, but he's also a [[SemperFi retired USMC captain]] and operative for the NSA [[spoiler:and is reactivated in episode eight]].
* In ''Series/TheFlash1990'', the Nightshade used to be a masked hero and a GadgeteerGenius decades ago. He has since retired. Barry eventually learns the Nightshade's secret identity, when the latter decides to don his costume again to fight an old enemy known as the Ghost. And then again, when someone calling himself the Deadly Nightshade shows up and tries to take up the Nightshade's mantle.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': By the start of the series, Picard has long since retired from Starfleet to tend his family vineyard in France, in the wake of Starfleet banning artificial lifeforms and refusing to help the Romulans in the face of their impending supernova. Though 94 and showing his age (yet still fitter than many people now would be) he managed to take out a couple of the Romulans who invaded his chateau.
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