History Main / CrustyCaretaker

* Frank, the school custodian in ''film/SerialKilling4Dummys'', is a creepy individual who hits on the senior girls and is suspected of being the SerialKiller.

* Mr. Smitty from ''Franchise/ArchieComics''

* The 2002 version of ''Film/DarkWater'' has Kamiya, who doesn't seem to care for Yoshimi's concerns about the damp, leaky patches on her ceiling. The rest of the building seems to be falling into disrepair as well, and the water tank hasn't been cleaned for years (this becomes a relevant plot point). The 2005 [[ForeignRemake remake]] also features a CrustyCaretaker, who is much more of a {{Jerkass}}.

* Blockhead from ''Webcomic/TheKingfisher'' is too defiant to be a true {{SycophanticServant}}, but has plenty of crust in his caretaking duties.

* In ''Film/TheGravedancers'', the cemetery caretaker lurks around in the background of many scenes, looking threatening but not otherwise doing anything. However, at the every end of the film, [[spoiler:it is revealed that he is the one leaving the incantation on graves]].

* In ''Film/CurseOfTheHeadlessHorseman, Solomon is the disfigured caretaker who stands to inherit the ranch if Mark cannot make it turn a profit in six months. He skulks around the ranch, spying on people and making cryptic utterances about the Headless Horseman.

* In ''Film/TheGravedancers'', the cemetary caretaker lurks around in the back of many scenes, looking threatening but not otherwise doing anything. However, at the every end of the film, [[spoiler:it is revealed that he is the one leaving the incantation on graves]].

* Subverted with The Caretaker from ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights''. While he looks creepy, he's actually perfectly well dressed, soft spoken, and polite. Too bad it's [[SoftSpokenSadist the wrong kind of soft spoken and polite]] and that he's a MadDoctor with a penchant for live autopsies.

[[caption-width-right:280:“Willie hears ya, Willie don't care!”]]

He - [[AlwaysMale and it is always he]] - is a caretaker, janitor, groundskeeper, or better yet, gravekeeper, who is crusty, uncouth, or otherwise lacking in people skills.

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* [[Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate Torgo]]
** Another ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' classic, ''Film/{{Werewolf}}'', had a similar character.

* Francesco Dellamorte the Gravekeeper (''Film/CemeteryMan''), while elegantly handsome, is gloomy, socially awkward and misanthropic ("Go away. I have no time for the living"). The only people he tolerates are his mute assistant, an administrative secretary he sometimes telephones and the beautiful woman he [[StalkingIsLove relentlessly pursues]]. Sometimes [[MisanthropeSupreme no-one is lucky]].

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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Hogwarts has two: Hagrid the groundskeeper ([[TheEeyore good crusty]]) and Filch the caretaker (bad crusty). Interestingly, for [[BanOnMagic two entirely]] [[MuggleBornOfMages different reasons]], they're the only members of staff not to be practising wizards.

** Kreacher, the Black family's house-elf, is another example of the bad type. [[spoiler: Until he makes a HeelFaceTurn.]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' debut episode "A Hard Day's Night," the boys encounter a figure emerging from a grave at a haunted castle.
-->'''Caretaker:''' Being a caretaker here is a lonely lot.
-->'''John:''' (''relieved'') Caretaker?
-->'''George:''' Then you're not...
-->'''Caretaker:''' One of "them"? Shucks, no. That's just where I keep my office. It's real cool.
-->'''Ringo:''' Cool? It's altogether daft.

* There's one of these, Saturnin, wandering around Cloux Manor in ''SecretsOfDaVinciTheForbiddenManuscript'', though it's not clear for most of the game whether he's the good kind or the bad kind.