http://ancret.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2rm4k7
Beware, some of the other panels have spoilers in them.
How about the one about halfway down the comic with the smoking monk?
edited 24th Mar '11 7:47:09 PM by LenisJates
I think we had this talk at another thread too. I'll look around.
The colonel works. Caption to Colonel Badass?
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Here are the candidates from that thread:
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However, there were suggestions that we don't picture some old guy that looks badass. Cool Old Guy is broader than that; might as well try to find something that doesn't border on Badass Grandpa.
edited 24th Mar '11 10:51:29 PM by Catalogue
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.Kevin Flynn from Tron: Legacy? There are a few decent pictures of him posing, though unfortunately I'm having difficulty finding shots of him actually doing stuff: [1]
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Also Forsythe from Advance Wars
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◊ from Mass Effect 2. Unfortunately all the non-natural lighting in ME 2 makes it a little difficult to find pictures of Zaeed which clearly show that his hair is greying.
The problem with all the images is the have to show the fact that he is older than the rest of the cast if the cast is in their 20s or less a 30 to 40 year old counts but if the cast is in their 40s he doesn't it's a ratio between avg cast members age with the old guy being 20+ above that.
So it's got to show a few of the younger cast members in addition to the cool aspect of the trope.
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!Could theoretically be JAFAAC. Stan Lee may be a Cool Old Guy, but he's sort of an atypical cool old guy in that you probably wouldn't find him in a ragtag group of misfits.
Okay, this is going nowhere fast, so I made a crowner
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Let's get this settled.
And someone lock this dupe thread
please.
edited 11th Apr '11 1:12:02 PM by ThePope
As I remarked... somewhere, thought it was this thread, maybe we had another on the same topic?
Anyways, I think it's a good idea for the Cool Old Guy image to not look all that Badass. There's a lot of overlap between Cool Old Guy and Badass Grandpa, but I think we're better off not emphasizing that overlap with the trope images.
Jet-a-Reeno!I think the pic of Bill has a nice middle ground. He's not really kicking anyone's ass; he's just lighting a cigarette. And has a molotov.
I'm pretty sure Badass Grandpa is an older man who can physically beat the crap out of other younger characters. Bill isn't any more physically powerful than the other Left 4 Dead characters; he's just, well, cool. Which is what the image requires.
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You did mention it, in another thread.
I support showing a cool old guy in a strictly non-combat sense. Perhaps someone like Bertrand Russell smoking his pipe with an obvious air of grandeur.
GIS-Fu (not that good, but still):
Old cowboy on a laptop computer
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edited 13th Apr '11 10:12:14 PM by Catalogue
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Crown Description:
Nominations for replacement images:

What about Qui-Gon, original-trilogy Obi-Wan, or maybe Count Dooku?
edited 24th Mar '11 7:23:21 PM by neoYTPism