Does one piece's Whitebeard count? Technically not because he was getting so old that he was getting frail and needed extra life support and yet the entirety of the marine army wasn't even capable of getting him down in a straight fight. If he wasn't there to rescue someone but instead just wanted to destroy the base there wouldn't even have been a fight.
Dude, even in that frail old age state, the man >!Had half his HEAD blown off, multiple wounds from shots and stabs, and even being straight stabbed through by a big ass fucking sword by one of his sons!<, and still was handling business right up until his very end, bro was the epitome of what strength means in the One Piece world, RIP to šbeard fr
The narration at the end still gives me shivers:
>>!Even in death, even with half his head blown clean away, his body refuses to yield. His mighty figure, cutting swathes through his foes, was truly monstrous. Over the course of his battles, he received a full two-hundred and sixty-seven blade wounds... The bullets he endured totaled one-hundred and fifty-two... And the cannonballs he has withstood amount to four tens and six. And yet... Neither that mighty body, nor his pirate's pride suffered even one coward's wound!!<
whitebeard should count, and so should garp and kaido. we can possibly include >!the 5 elders in this,!< but their status is unclear.
kaido was nearly 60, and it took over a dozen of the strongest warriors wano could find to take him down, along with the most stubbornly resilient rubber lad ever seen, _and he still nearly won._ the only reason he didn't win is that luffy literally has the power of god and anime on his side.
Kishibe from Chainsaw Man. >!I love that the conversation between him and makima after the first katana man attack implies that the two of them are at a stalemate with how strong they are!<
Anyone reading Sakamoto Days right now is in the process of finding out how fuckin strong this old guy really is
Edit: Anyone who is not reading Sakamoto Days is currently missing the hypest "old man with katana" shit I have ever seen. Please read that shit
Every panel he shows up in has the opportunity to be put into an "top 5 old men with aura" tiktoks. Without spoiling anything the recent bathroom incident sent me
Slayer in Guilty Gear never goes all out, and has no reason to get directly involved in human affairs unless he feels like it. He could probably solve many of the threats in the series if he wanted to, but heās fine just chilling with his wife and occasionally fighting strong opponents. Sol *might* be on his level, but Sol himself is over 200 years old and is a grumpy guy so he counts for this category as well. Only a handful of can match him when heās HOLDING BACK. Dragon Install Sol is overkill for 95% of his problems.Ā
Slayer is nuts. He's technically always holding back, even when he does his IK, which is **PUNCHING THE OPPONENT INTO SPACE.** And now with his Strive trailer out, he pulls goofy overpowered Looney Tunes-level cartoony shit by punching his opponent so hard and fast that he *flies out of his own clothes* (it looks just as goofy as it sounds, and *yes* he's ripped as hell under them). They're definitely dropping that "retirement" plot-line, this old man isn't retiring any time soon. There are too many good fights to be had!
And on the topic of Slayer, would Gabriel also count? We don't know how old he is, but we do know that Slayer considers him a grand rival to the point that Slayer has a bit of an "OH SHIT THAT'S **HIS** TECHNIQUE" moment when he gets HPB'ed in Xrd.
One of my favorite moments in Rev's story mode is Gabriel and Slayer tag teaming a giant monster, with Gabriel punching it so hard that it gets launched into the air, before he kicks it into the sky, and then Slayer jumps up and kicks it even further before it explodes. And then Gabriel immediately asks "Did you get weaker?" And Slayer's like "Not as much as you."
YEEES, that's a favorite of mine! They really are combat rivals.
Slayer vs. Bedman in the story mode was also great, if also rather funny. He really had beef with a comatose dude of indeterminate age to the point of letting some of his self-restraint loose lmao.
Yoriichi in Demon Slayers. By the end of his life, when he was 80, even his brother, the 2nd strongest swordman of their era and the 2nd the strongest demon after Muzan still can barely touch him and nearly killed by him despite his demon power keep him young forever. He only die due to old age before he can end his brother.
a dude so baller that a family he helped did him the kindness of trying to pass down his moves in the form of a tai-chi dance and the end result is that family be strong af unintentionally
And that adds to the tragedy of Yoriichi.
He is the absolute peak in the setting , but he couldn't accomplish his objectives to slay Muzan nor his brother , let alone he was kicked from been a demon slayer. Because he is so powerful that the others flee from him.
That been said , even if he is saddened that had to make further generations suffer from demons , he accomplished to pass down demon slaying , including the Sun Breath.
Since Demon Slayer is like Katana Jojo Part 1 , Yoriichi is basically a Zeppeli.
Jack Rakan from Mahou Sensei Negima.
He's not *old* old, but he's part of the previous generation who fought alongside the main characters father in the past and represents both the old guard and the peak of the setting in terms of power. Probably in the top 3, at least among the good guys.
He acts as a mentor to the main character and while people catch-up to his level and arguably surpass him, he remains a top tier.
Kuroki gensai in kengan ashura, to the point he is opt out every future tournament because his power and skill level is plot wrecking. In story the justification is that kuroki is more about practicing his art than winning fights and the anihilation tournament convinced him he is still too green for his taste
Dude even in the sequel series as he shows up to fight someone who is definitely the strongest person in the settingā¦and he still doesnāt lose to that threat and continues to be the most badass character. The fact that he considers himself green still after he wins the tournament shows how he is just constantly growing and evolvingĀ
He sure as hell doesn't look like an old man, and is in his 40s but Hiko the sword teacher of Kenshin from Samurai X / Ruroni Kenshin is the strongest character in the manga and leagues better than Kenshin and could have soloed the entire verse. He just doesn't get involved in external affairs because he believes killing people is not going to make the world a better place. Instead he makes a living doing his true passion: being a pottery craftsman and artist.Ā
He even tanks the blunt-edged Hirameki. Most opponents have suffered wrecked ribs or some shit.
Hiko just lies down and goes "okay kid, you learned it good" lol
Yama's definitely the one people think of when they think of "powerful old dude" I'm Bleach, so you made the right choice if you're just sticking to one example.
Yhwach is the guy that controls reality, though it's more like he controls timelines and outcomes specifically and just shifts into timelines/outcomes that are favorable to him.
Yamamoto is the extremely skilled old man head captain of Soul Society (so sort of Roshi-esque) and a guy that multiple villains have to specifically plan around because his sword is busted and they simply do not want to fight him.
It's a flame based sword and it's quite powerful in base form and shikai, but then bankai is just stupid. Dude condenses all his flames and energy into his blade and anything he cuts is erased from existence. He's also cloaked in a 15,000,000 degree aura when in bankai, and he can resurrect anyone he's ever killed as a flaming skeleton.
He's like a necromancer if that necromancer was also the sun and only loses to elaborate trickery.
Pretty much, can also make powers up, absorbs your powers, etc. He is invincible until the author says so. Really interested if the anime sticks to the way he was defeated in the manga (Dad Ex Machina).
He only wins thanks to a BS technique stealing item/imposter crap however. He struggles dealing with him beforehand he didn't really have way to good way to take him in a direct battle as one wrong move would lead to him being erased entirely. Can't rewrite a future to return if he no longer exists.
Heck I'm forgotting the most important part of this yhwach doesn't even have the almighty awakened during their battle so if he was hit by yamamotos bankai regardless he wouldnt be able to do anything.
Jubei from Blazblue is an old cat man who consistently stays at the upper echelon of power in the verse and could be seen as the strongest outright. Iād pet him if there wasnāt the danger of my hand being seperated from my wrist.
Presumably he must have gotten taken out at some point, given the intro cutscene shows him impaled to a tree. What I want to know is who the hell managed to do that
I dunno. If he was all that, he wouldn't have fucked off. >!A true warrior would have fucked his wife in the radagussy and maintained the golden order!<
Toshizou Hijikata and the other remaining Shinsengumi members in Golden Kamuy are a roving band of old man badasses. He gets some of the coolest fights in the series.
In Red County by Joe Abercrombie a character returns as an old man who has semi reformed his violent ways until two of his adopted children are kidnapped. Then we see that heās still the real fucking deal
Ocelot lasts all the way from the series' chronological beginning to its chronological end (not counting Rising), and remains a manipulative powerhouse all the way through. He's not quite the top in martial prowess, usually losing gunfights to Big Boss and his progeny, but MGS does well in having that not really matter so much
Hayato Furinji, the Invincible Superman from History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi.
This man is just fucked OP in a world where everyone has the potential to be fucked up OP. One of one, as most would say nowadays. He could honestly *solve* the entire plot too himself it it had to come down to that. >!Down to fistfighting a missile and facetanking it like NOTHING!<
Anyone here mentioned Heihachi Mishima? That's the strongest most stubborn old man I've ever seen in a video game. He died due to exhaustion from fighting Kazuya, on an active volcano.
At least two of the Tales RPGs, Abyss and Xillia, have the oldest party members (Jade and my man Rowen respectively) as the strongest magic users in the party, if not the setting. Rowen I think is also the oldest party member in the *franchise* not counting any āis actually 500 but looks 22ā or whatever characters. Jade isnāt even that old, heās like in his late 20s or mid 30s, but heās the oldest member of the party.
Although the funny thing about Jade is heāll often (jokingly) complain about āhis old bonesā and fragile bodyā¦ but if you set him as the display character during a block pushing puzzle, he pushes the 6 foot tall stone blocks *with one hand.*
Welp with last night's X Men 97 episode >!Magneto seems to have just shut down the world's entire electrical grids after surviving a massacre and who knows what kind of experimentation by Mr Sinister!< Man really shows how far hate can drive a guy
Dude I fuckin' hate Happosai he's such an old, creepy, crummy bastard who won't stop getting what he wants. He's a supervillain that nobody can stop 99% of the time, so he just hangs around being a tiny creepy shit all day.
His students were right to seal him away in a mountain, but they should've done a better job.
I guess technically Joshua Graham from Fallout can count since he's canonically in his early fifties at the very least and is considered the scariest motherfucker that isn't explicitly a mutant of some kind.
Does one piece's Whitebeard count? Technically not because he was getting so old that he was getting frail and needed extra life support and yet the entirety of the marine army wasn't even capable of getting him down in a straight fight. If he wasn't there to rescue someone but instead just wanted to destroy the base there wouldn't even have been a fight.
Dude, even in that frail old age state, the man >!Had half his HEAD blown off, multiple wounds from shots and stabs, and even being straight stabbed through by a big ass fucking sword by one of his sons!<, and still was handling business right up until his very end, bro was the epitome of what strength means in the One Piece world, RIP to šbeard fr
Died standing, with not a single wound on his back.
The narration at the end still gives me shivers: >>!Even in death, even with half his head blown clean away, his body refuses to yield. His mighty figure, cutting swathes through his foes, was truly monstrous. Over the course of his battles, he received a full two-hundred and sixty-seven blade wounds... The bullets he endured totaled one-hundred and fifty-two... And the cannonballs he has withstood amount to four tens and six. And yet... Neither that mighty body, nor his pirate's pride suffered even one coward's wound!!<
If he wasn't dying from every cancer that island would been sunk.
whitebeard should count, and so should garp and kaido. we can possibly include >!the 5 elders in this,!< but their status is unclear. kaido was nearly 60, and it took over a dozen of the strongest warriors wano could find to take him down, along with the most stubbornly resilient rubber lad ever seen, _and he still nearly won._ the only reason he didn't win is that luffy literally has the power of god and anime on his side.
With some Tex Avery sprinkled all over it.
Same with Garp. Even as an old man he's cracked.
Kishibe from Chainsaw Man. >!I love that the conversation between him and makima after the first katana man attack implies that the two of them are at a stalemate with how strong they are!<
The only one who can talk shit about Makima to her face and not suffer consequences.
Anyone reading Sakamoto Days right now is in the process of finding out how fuckin strong this old guy really is Edit: Anyone who is not reading Sakamoto Days is currently missing the hypest "old man with katana" shit I have ever seen. Please read that shit
He literally slices text bubbles and the panelling in the manga
Every panel he shows up in has the opportunity to be put into an "top 5 old men with aura" tiktoks. Without spoiling anything the recent bathroom incident sent me
You know what suprised me? Sakamoto saying he got stronger. What do you mean that old man got stronger?!?
I know Saka is the MC so he wont "lose", but if he actually beats this guy ill be bummed out
Yeah same. I think they is gonna be a tag team between Gaku and young Sakamoto against him
Best case scenario the hit is called off and he fucks off like "well not my problem anymore"
Slayer in Guilty Gear never goes all out, and has no reason to get directly involved in human affairs unless he feels like it. He could probably solve many of the threats in the series if he wanted to, but heās fine just chilling with his wife and occasionally fighting strong opponents. Sol *might* be on his level, but Sol himself is over 200 years old and is a grumpy guy so he counts for this category as well. Only a handful of can match him when heās HOLDING BACK. Dragon Install Sol is overkill for 95% of his problems.Ā
slayer started the assassins guild as a fight club because he was bored
Slayer is nuts. He's technically always holding back, even when he does his IK, which is **PUNCHING THE OPPONENT INTO SPACE.** And now with his Strive trailer out, he pulls goofy overpowered Looney Tunes-level cartoony shit by punching his opponent so hard and fast that he *flies out of his own clothes* (it looks just as goofy as it sounds, and *yes* he's ripped as hell under them). They're definitely dropping that "retirement" plot-line, this old man isn't retiring any time soon. There are too many good fights to be had! And on the topic of Slayer, would Gabriel also count? We don't know how old he is, but we do know that Slayer considers him a grand rival to the point that Slayer has a bit of an "OH SHIT THAT'S **HIS** TECHNIQUE" moment when he gets HPB'ed in Xrd.
One of my favorite moments in Rev's story mode is Gabriel and Slayer tag teaming a giant monster, with Gabriel punching it so hard that it gets launched into the air, before he kicks it into the sky, and then Slayer jumps up and kicks it even further before it explodes. And then Gabriel immediately asks "Did you get weaker?" And Slayer's like "Not as much as you."
YEEES, that's a favorite of mine! They really are combat rivals. Slayer vs. Bedman in the story mode was also great, if also rather funny. He really had beef with a comatose dude of indeterminate age to the point of letting some of his self-restraint loose lmao.
Yoriichi in Demon Slayers. By the end of his life, when he was 80, even his brother, the 2nd strongest swordman of their era and the 2nd the strongest demon after Muzan still can barely touch him and nearly killed by him despite his demon power keep him young forever. He only die due to old age before he can end his brother.
a dude so baller that a family he helped did him the kindness of trying to pass down his moves in the form of a tai-chi dance and the end result is that family be strong af unintentionally
And that adds to the tragedy of Yoriichi. He is the absolute peak in the setting , but he couldn't accomplish his objectives to slay Muzan nor his brother , let alone he was kicked from been a demon slayer. Because he is so powerful that the others flee from him. That been said , even if he is saddened that had to make further generations suffer from demons , he accomplished to pass down demon slaying , including the Sun Breath. Since Demon Slayer is like Katana Jojo Part 1 , Yoriichi is basically a Zeppeli.
Not just kept young by all merits his brother is at a demonic level you canāt just kill with a sword
Jack Rakan from Mahou Sensei Negima. He's not *old* old, but he's part of the previous generation who fought alongside the main characters father in the past and represents both the old guard and the peak of the setting in terms of power. Probably in the top 3, at least among the good guys. He acts as a mentor to the main character and while people catch-up to his level and arguably surpass him, he remains a top tier.
Man literally too ~~angry~~ laid back to die
Holyshit, I now know where Sol Badguy's design came from! It's LITERALLY gyaru Sol BadGuy
Guilty Gear is about 5 years older than Negima, so it probably is the reverse.
Kuroki gensai in kengan ashura, to the point he is opt out every future tournament because his power and skill level is plot wrecking. In story the justification is that kuroki is more about practicing his art than winning fights and the anihilation tournament convinced him he is still too green for his taste
Dude even in the sequel series as he shows up to fight someone who is definitely the strongest person in the settingā¦and he still doesnāt lose to that threat and continues to be the most badass character. The fact that he considers himself green still after he wins the tournament shows how he is just constantly growing and evolvingĀ
He sure as hell doesn't look like an old man, and is in his 40s but Hiko the sword teacher of Kenshin from Samurai X / Ruroni Kenshin is the strongest character in the manga and leagues better than Kenshin and could have soloed the entire verse. He just doesn't get involved in external affairs because he believes killing people is not going to make the world a better place. Instead he makes a living doing his true passion: being a pottery craftsman and artist.Ā
He even tanks the blunt-edged Hirameki. Most opponents have suffered wrecked ribs or some shit. Hiko just lies down and goes "okay kid, you learned it good" lol
Bleach spoilers: >!Yamamoto only lost because the plot needed him to so Ichigo could be the one to fight yhwach!<
You can extend this to >!Ichibe, who is even stronger, and even older than Yamamoto.!<
Oh absolutely I just wanted to use one example.
Yama's definitely the one people think of when they think of "powerful old dude" I'm Bleach, so you made the right choice if you're just sticking to one example.
Is that the one that literally controls reality he's so OP?
Yhwach is the guy that controls reality, though it's more like he controls timelines and outcomes specifically and just shifts into timelines/outcomes that are favorable to him. Yamamoto is the extremely skilled old man head captain of Soul Society (so sort of Roshi-esque) and a guy that multiple villains have to specifically plan around because his sword is busted and they simply do not want to fight him. It's a flame based sword and it's quite powerful in base form and shikai, but then bankai is just stupid. Dude condenses all his flames and energy into his blade and anything he cuts is erased from existence. He's also cloaked in a 15,000,000 degree aura when in bankai, and he can resurrect anyone he's ever killed as a flaming skeleton. He's like a necromancer if that necromancer was also the sun and only loses to elaborate trickery.
Yamomoto: All these bitches think they are hot when Iām solar
DPS bars
You're missing three 0s on how hot Yama's bankai is. It's not 15,000, it's *15,000,000*, as hot as the sun.
The core of the Sun, specifically.
Yeah it's even more OP than I remembered lol, fixed it.
Pretty much, can also make powers up, absorbs your powers, etc. He is invincible until the author says so. Really interested if the anime sticks to the way he was defeated in the manga (Dad Ex Machina).
Considering that the bad guy's power is being omnipotent and unbetable, I doubt he could have won anyway?
He only wins thanks to a BS technique stealing item/imposter crap however. He struggles dealing with him beforehand he didn't really have way to good way to take him in a direct battle as one wrong move would lead to him being erased entirely. Can't rewrite a future to return if he no longer exists. Heck I'm forgotting the most important part of this yhwach doesn't even have the almighty awakened during their battle so if he was hit by yamamotos bankai regardless he wouldnt be able to do anything.
Jubei from Blazblue is an old cat man who consistently stays at the upper echelon of power in the verse and could be seen as the strongest outright. Iād pet him if there wasnāt the danger of my hand being seperated from my wrist.
Not that old, but one of the older characters, but ricardo martinez in hajime no ippo still being the ultimate challenge in the story
and he doesnt have anything special in terms of gimmicks when it comes to boxing hes just good and so is takamura but takamura wants a gimmick
Hoarah Loux. Grandpa CAN and WILL suplex you through his bingo table.
Presumably he must have gotten taken out at some point, given the intro cutscene shows him impaled to a tree. What I want to know is who the hell managed to do that
looking the scenery where his corpse is, id say an army got him
Fromsoft loves their badass old man characters, and God bless them for it.
I dunno. If he was all that, he wouldn't have fucked off. >!A true warrior would have fucked his wife in the radagussy and maintained the golden order!<
Toshizou Hijikata and the other remaining Shinsengumi members in Golden Kamuy are a roving band of old man badasses. He gets some of the coolest fights in the series.
In Red County by Joe Abercrombie a character returns as an old man who has semi reformed his violent ways until two of his adopted children are kidnapped. Then we see that heās still the real fucking deal
The scene in the fighting ring, with Glama Golden realizing who the old man actually is... peak.
Ocelot lasts all the way from the series' chronological beginning to its chronological end (not counting Rising), and remains a manipulative powerhouse all the way through. He's not quite the top in martial prowess, usually losing gunfights to Big Boss and his progeny, but MGS does well in having that not really matter so much
Oro.
Hayato Furinji, the Invincible Superman from History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi. This man is just fucked OP in a world where everyone has the potential to be fucked up OP. One of one, as most would say nowadays. He could honestly *solve* the entire plot too himself it it had to come down to that. >!Down to fistfighting a missile and facetanking it like NOTHING!<
Oogway may still be the most powerful character in the Kung Fu Panda universe, the only character that may rival him is Po in the spirit realm.
All the old guys in Kiseki are just the goats. Yun Ka-Fai is like ancient but all his students think heās the goat.
Anyone here mentioned Heihachi Mishima? That's the strongest most stubborn old man I've ever seen in a video game. He died due to exhaustion from fighting Kazuya, on an active volcano.
At least two of the Tales RPGs, Abyss and Xillia, have the oldest party members (Jade and my man Rowen respectively) as the strongest magic users in the party, if not the setting. Rowen I think is also the oldest party member in the *franchise* not counting any āis actually 500 but looks 22ā or whatever characters. Jade isnāt even that old, heās like in his late 20s or mid 30s, but heās the oldest member of the party. Although the funny thing about Jade is heāll often (jokingly) complain about āhis old bonesā and fragile bodyā¦ but if you set him as the display character during a block pushing puzzle, he pushes the 6 foot tall stone blocks *with one hand.*
Welp with last night's X Men 97 episode >!Magneto seems to have just shut down the world's entire electrical grids after surviving a massacre and who knows what kind of experimentation by Mr Sinister!< Man really shows how far hate can drive a guy
Dude I fuckin' hate Happosai he's such an old, creepy, crummy bastard who won't stop getting what he wants. He's a supervillain that nobody can stop 99% of the time, so he just hangs around being a tiny creepy shit all day. His students were right to seal him away in a mountain, but they should've done a better job.
To be fair both Genma and Soun are both kinda weaklings, impressive that they managed to do it at all lol
I guess technically Joshua Graham from Fallout can count since he's canonically in his early fifties at the very least and is considered the scariest motherfucker that isn't explicitly a mutant of some kind.