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The Old Convict

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The Old Convict	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })You'll find him in just about every prison film and television series ever made. He's the old convict that's been inside as long as anyone can remember—maybe he even received a Longer-Than-Life Sentence. He knows everything there is to know about how the prison works, and can explain it to new inmates. He tends to have the respect of most of his fellow inmates, except maybe the Ax-Crazy psychos. He's probably even on friendly terms with the guards or warden, and may have been appointed a "trustee" with certain privileges if he's stayed out of trouble long enough. Oftentimes no-one (except himself) knows just what he did to end up here, and wonders just why he belongs in jail. If the central characters decide to break out, the Old Convict probably won't go with them, realising he no longer knows how to survive in the outside world. He may die at the hands of the authorities or vicious fellow inmates (maybe in an attack actually aimed at the hero), inspiring the heroes to either escape or seek vengeance. Compare the Almighty Janitor. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Only occasionally related to The Con or the Con Man. Examples:
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The Old Convict / int_10e8a48a	comment	Andersonville provides a prisoner of war version Dick Potter, a friend of Josiah and the others, was captured about a year earlier, is missing a leg and appears prematurely old as he shows them around the prison and gives tips to survive it.
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The Old Convict / int_17024c6d	comment	Jarod meets one in an episode of The Pretender when he's trying to help a wrongly convicted murderer.
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The Old Convict / int_1e3de39d	comment	Henry's Crime: In prison, Henry's cellmate is the irrepressible Max, a Con Man who has grown far too comfortable with the familiarity and security of his "idyllic" life behind bars, but one who also helps plant an idea in Henry's mind which will change his life forever: for a man to find his purpose, he must first have a dream.
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The Old Convict / int_1efe652b	comment	Coach in Death Race. His sentence was actually over years ago, but he stays in prison because he has nowhere else to go.
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The Old Convict / int_25c8b97d	comment	Frank Perry in The Escapist. He is a lifer and has long accepted that he will never see the outside again. Events conspire to cause him to rethink this and start planning an escape.
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The Old Convict / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: 'The last registered Democrat' who helps the Simpsons escape the government re-education centre in the episode "Bart-Mangled Banner".
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The Old Convict / int_2d9c3641	comment	Fergus Wilks (David Kelly) in Greenfingers. Fergus is the one who introduces Colin to gardening.
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The Old Convict / int_31ca9925	comment	The Dukes of Hazzard: In "Cool Hands Bo and Luke", the Duke Boys learn a lot of information about the workings of the Osage Road Gang from another prisoner who has spent six years in the camp for jaywalking.
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The Old Convict / int_34d2004c	comment	There's the choral conductor in the Korean film Harmony. She is able to organize the ladies of the prison into a group (not gang).
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The Old Convict / int_350904b0	comment	Throne of Glass introduces us to Celaena Sardothien, a master assassin sent to mines for almost killing the king. Even though Celaena served only a year in the mine, hardly anyone else sent to the mines lasts more than a few months due to the harsh conditions. Her will and ability to live simples surpassed all others, despite the extremities and being constantly guarded.
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The Old Convict / int_355f992	comment	The Shawshank Redemption: Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding. Also Brooks, though he doesn't seem to be quite as prison-savvy as Red. Or at the very least, it's not as obvious.
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The Old Convict / int_37a71462	comment	Genflou, from the 1952 film version of Les Misérables; a character who is not in the novel and was created to fill this role in the film version.
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The Old Convict / int_3e374b30	comment	The Dark Knight Rises: After Bruce is dumped in the pit, the only other prisoners to really interact with him and provide Exposition are two older men. One of them (the prison doctor) has been incarcerated since Bane was a prisoner, about twenty years ago.
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The Old Convict / int_46c9eb4	comment	Big Stan: Stan's cellmate Shorts is about seventy years old and is an amiable man who knows the lay of the land and is serving a life sentence for drunkenly killing his wife, a crime that he regrets.
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The Old Convict / int_475972f0	comment	In Y: The Last Man, it is discovered that the idyllic if somewhat secretive hamlet Yorick and company stumble across a few months after the gendercide is populated by inmates of the women's penitentiary just down the road that the remaining guards cut loose. The white-haired woman with a cane and fond memories of working munitions factories during World War II that was more or less running the place? Doing life for murder.
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The Old Convict / int_4a245711	comment	Slammer in Micmacs, who introduces himself by saying that he's been in prison for 3/4ths of his life. He uses his status as an old-time prisoner to distract some drug dealers long enough for Bazil to steal their heroin.
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The Old Convict / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Convict's Piano", Eddie O'Hara was framed for murder by the gangster Mickey Shaughnessy in 1928. When Ricky Frost meets him in 1986, he has been in prison for 58 years.
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The Old Convict / int_5755b96a	comment	Ian Starshine fills this role at the gladiator camp in The Order of the Stick; his reference to being nicknamed "Red" is a Shout-Out to The Shawshank Redemption. He's not as reliable as typical examples of this trope, though.
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The Old Convict / int_5a3533fe	comment	When Earl is in jail in My Name Is Earl and looks for a gang to join, he finds that the Old Con gang aren't any more adapted to survival inside the prison than anyone else.
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The Old Convict / int_61750a5f	comment	Porridge: Fletcher. Although Fletch has been in and out of prison his entire life rather than spending most of it inside serving a single sentencenote As the show's intro states, the show centres around his latest stint in prison; a five-year sentence and the most to which he could have been sentenced for the crime(s) he committed at the time., he still fulfills the role of explaining the system to newcomers. A more conventional Old Con is the very ancient Blanco. When we first see him, he's completed a replica of Muffin the Mule in the prison workshop: "You know, him what's on television." (Muffin the Mule was broadcast from 1946 to 1957. The Porridge episode was broadcast in 1975.) It seems Blanco's been inside for so long that younger prisoners don't know his crime; in his last episode it's established that he was (wrongly) convicted of murdering his wife, but in an earlier one he and Fletch were able to convince Norris that he had loot from a robbery stashed away somewhere. (Although this may simply be a continuity error.) In he sequel series, Joe Lotterby is a former bank robber who used to hang out with the Kray twins and has been in prison for decades after accidentally running over one of his accomplices. To put it in perspective, he served time with Fletch during the original series, and is now currently cellmates with Fletch's grandson Nigel, he's lost count of how long he's been inside.
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The Old Convict / int_61b6e496	comment	Prehistoric Women: When David is Made a Slave, he is chained to an elderly slave who tells David of how it all began.
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The Old Convict / int_63e72a51	comment	Ben 99 in the 2000AD serial Harry 20 on the High Rock. Seemed more than a little stir crazy. Turned out not to be what he seemed, in more ways than one.
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The Old Convict / int_70d83c1e	comment	Stroud in the latter half of Birdman of Alcatraz, having grown into this role over the course of his years in prison.
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The Old Convict / int_75149ccd	comment	General Jan Dodonna in The Krytos Trap serves this purpose for the captured Corran Horn in Ysanne Isard's Lusankya prison. Though he doesn't go not because he doesn't know what to do, but because he's the highest-ranking Rebel prisoner, knows they can't get the other Rebels out, and also knows that if he escapes without them she'll have them killed.
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The Old Convict / int_7c4e51e1	comment	Designing Women: T. Tommy Reed, legendary former cellmate of Anthony's during his "unfortunate incarceration." He was so menacing and had been around so long he exerted a weird kind of authority over the cell block, which he used to enforce strict etiquette rules and occasionally force the other inmates to partner him in ballroom dancing.
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The Old Convict / int_7df0e02c	comment	In Starman Jake Benetti, AKA "Bobo" Benetti, one of the first metahumans, with a Healing Factor that grants him extra strength, durability and lessened aging, has been rotting for decades in jail. After being released, having served his sentence, he looks at the new world, sighs, and prepares to rob a bank to go back to jail. (Un)fortunately for Bobo, his slow, methodical heist clashes with the Royal Flush Gang's, and he somewhat inadvertently teams up with Starman to beat the thieves. This gets him a brand-new job and a legit career.
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The Old Convict / int_866fe85c	comment	Prisoner: Cell Block H had Lizzie Birdsworth, an elderly, chain-smoking, alcoholic recidivist prisoner, who provided much of the series comic relief. At the series start, Lizzie had already served twenty years in prison. When she is eventually released, she finds she cannot cope with life on the outside and commits a series of crimes to get herself re-incarcerated.
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The Old Convict / int_86c3beca	comment	In Girl Genius, Tiktoffen is the "man in charge" in the sentient, sapient and homicidal Castle Heterodyne. Subverted, as he's actually only been in for three years - but he's still the longest-serving prisoner. People don't tend to last long inside Castle Heterodyne, especially since half the time it's actively trying to kill them. Fixing parts of the Castle gives you points and takes months off your sentence, but it's worth noting that in the fifteen or so years that the Castle has been used as a prison, only one person has ever managed to get enough points to get out.
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The Old Convict / int_8deb62ad	comment	D.B. Cooper, alias Charles Westmoreland, in Prison Break. He is introduced as Fox River's longest-serving inmate (thirty-two years) and he tells Scofield that he has sixty more years left on his sentence.
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The Old Convict / int_90032631	comment	On Orange Is the New Black, Miss Claudette Pelage is this. She is in jail for murdering someone who raped one of her employees. She ends up getting even more time after attacking a guard. Season 6 shows that B Block in Max is a whole block of this known as "Florida" which houses not only old and senile prisoners, but also medicated inmates like Suzanne and transgender inmates like Sophia.
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The Old Convict / int_9068877a	comment	Wyoming in the Red vs. Blue fanfic Murderer's Row. He's the oldest inmate in the prison. Unlike most variants, he never gives out any tips on survival; in fact, Wyoming is a Wild Card constantly switching sides, which he's able to get away with due to running a smuggling ring invaluable to the prison's economy.
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The Old Convict / int_94678d85	comment	Cresus in Prison, who has been in various prisons since the forties.
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The Old Convict / int_971cb5be	comment	Over the course of the film Life (Eddie Murphy & Martin Lawrence) the two characters become this over the course of decades of incarceration.
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The Old Convict / int_a0ae470	comment	Chatter Telephone in Toy Story 3. He has been at Sunnyside Daycare Center for the longest time. Even before Lotso Bear took it over. To help Woody and his friends escape the daycare center, Chatter Telephone detailedly describes the layout of the daycare center and warns Woody that the only way for a toy to escape is to neutralize the Cymbal Monkey's surveillance system.
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The Old Convict / int_a0d3fb83	comment	Papillon: Julot is only in his early middle-age and arrives at the penal colony in the same boat as the others, but he previously spent a decade and a half on Guiana for an earlier offense and acts as a good source of information about the place for his new friends. Cluisot has spent some time on the tree-cutting details, gives Dega and Papillon some tips for staying alive in the swamps, and joins them in plotting to escape.
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The Old Convict / int_ab2c0508	comment	The equivalent character in the British remake Mean Machine is Doc, who teaches Meehan everything he knows about the prison's goings-on.
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The Old Convict / int_b48b954b	comment	"Jack" Andy Beanstalk who Puss meets in prison in Puss in Boots. He provides useful information about "the Great Terror".
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The Old Convict / int_b69946ad	comment	In Darkness at Noon, while Rubashov has been in other prisons before, and No. 406 had spent twenty years in another prison, No. 402 has known this particular prison for years.
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The Old Convict / int_b7b732a4	comment	Knightfall: Zombie has been a prisoner in Pena Dura since before Bane was born (rising from the janitor of the medical wing to a Mad Scientist charged with making Venom serum). He serves as the narrator of Bane's origin story, and is one of the men who escapes alongside Bane decades later.
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The Old Convict / int_b9e42af2	comment	In Felon, John Smith, who is serving multiple life sentences, fills this role: filling his cellmate Wade in on what he needs to know to survive in prison.
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The Old Convict / int_baa8f7ae	comment	Doyle in The Lydian Option describes himself as the "welcoming committee" - a human who introduces new human prisoners to life in the alien prison and shows them the ropes.
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The Old Convict / int_bd3b42ed	comment	In The Wizard of Id, the Spook has been in the King's dungeons so long, not even Turnkey, the guard assigned to watch him, can remember what he did to be sent there. When asked, Spook says he called the King a "fink".
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The Old Convict / int_c0d124e1	comment	In The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Riddick encounters an old prisoner in the Single Max section, who among other things asks Riddick what his first kill was like ("that's between me and him" being Riddick's answer), and offers Riddick a reward if he gets rid of a troublesome inmate. In a Shout-Out to The Shawshank Redemption, he's named "Red".
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The Old Convict / int_c3875c5f	comment	No Escape (1994): None of the prominent Insiders Robbins interacts with are exactly ''young',' besides Casey and Stephano, but Dysart fits the trope best. He's the second or third oldest Insider (after Killian and the Father), provides some Exposition (although he's hardly alone in that regard), has noticeable authority (although The Father and Hawkins are higher-ranking), has been a prisoner the longest (about thirty years), and feels that he belongs in prison even when escape is possible.
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The Old Convict / int_c5549725	comment	Maul: Lockdown: Zero's nickname comes from how he's been at Cog Hive Seven since it opened, before prisoners got numbers. He isn't a real prisoner, but an administrator in disguise.
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The Old Convict / int_d40ba0ad	comment	Pop in the original version of The Longest Yard, called Skitchy in the remake, who remains in prison far past his original sentence for having struck a guard who later became the warden. Crewe asks him if hitting the warden was worth an extra 20 years — Pops/Skitchy hesitates momentarily and says it absolutely was. The equivalent character in the British remake Mean Machine is Doc, who teaches Meehan everything he knows about the prison's goings-on.
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The Old Convict / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Jafar disguises himself as one of these in Aladdin, in a Monte Cristo reference.
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The Old Convict / int_d4fe0152	comment	Bob Rebadow in Oz. Despite his delusions, Rebadow seems clued into everything that goes on in Oz. Minor character Whitney Munson has been in even longer, 52 years compared to Rebadow's 32. He's serving a 110 year sentence for strangling a prostitute and possession of opium. Miguel Alvarez's grandfather Ricardo has been in the longest - 54 years as of his final appearance. He dies of Alzheimer's Disease in season 1.
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The Old Convict / int_de8e1e65	comment	Escape from Alcatraz: English claims to have only been in Alcatraz for 10 years by that point, but it's Alcatraz. Those years have turned him into a rather jaded sort, especially since his disproportionate punishment (for killing two men in self-defense) was racially motivated. He does form an Odd Friendship with Frank Morris.
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The Old Convict / int_df277244	comment	'Low Key' Lyesmith in American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Like many other examples, there is more to Lyesmith than meets the eye.
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The Old Convict / int_e1a18548	comment	Anchan in Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin, relatively speaking. He's just a teenager, but he's been in prison longer than the others, and he functions as a mentor figure.
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The Old Convict / int_e26905cd	comment	Eddie Gordo's backstory from Tekken 3 is that he was framed by the Mishimas, and while in prison, was trained in Capoeira by the oldest convict interned there. Christie Monteiro is the old man's granddaughter.
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The Old Convict / int_ea4f62db	comment	In the Family Guy episode "Cool Hand Peter", the gang meets an old black inmate who tells them that depsite the fact they were sentenced to thirty days, they're in the jail forever.
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The Old Convict / int_eb46e06a	comment	Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome: Pig Killer has been working in the methane plant against his will for some time and briefs Max about the place when he first shows up. He hasn't been down there that long, though.
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The Old Convict / int_ee6ac780	comment	The original Zorro becomes one of these in The Mask of Zorro, after he gives up hope when he is arrested, his home destroyed, and his wife and child apparently killed. After twenty years, though, he finds the strength to break out.
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The Old Convict / int_f15f622e	comment	Francois Villars in the MacGyver (1985) episode "The Escape". He explains to Mac how the prison works but does not accompany him when he escapes.
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The Old Convict / int_f899ac74	comment	Curly in Hard Time is the oldest lifer in State. Coincidentally, his cellmate is the youngest — 15-year-old school shooter Ethan Harrow. Curly went into prison in his early 20s, and by now is your typical crotchety old man, having come to terms with the fact that he'll never be free again. The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue reveals his long-lost granddaughter eventually got him out on appeal, though only because throat cancer left him with mere months left to live. Curly isn't much of a mentor, and largely doesn't even consider Ethan his friend. Instead, the mentor role is split between two other inmates: Cole, a thirtysomething career criminal who's been in and out of the joint all his life; and "Fruitcake" Mullins, who is around Curly's age but serving a much lighter sentence. Oh, and Fruitcake is the only principal character to die of natural causes in prison. The Distant Finale reveals that Ethan himself served his full 50 years, though he notes that after the first 10 or so he stopped making friends and just did his time quietly.
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The Old Convict / int_fad5e3d9	comment	Fortress (1992): Abraham has been in the prison so long that he's become a 'trustee', a privileged inmate who is entrusted with some responsibilities by the guards. Brennick tries to ask him for help, but he's so jaded that he would rather keep his head down. He does eventually aid the heroes when he realizes that he'll never be allowed to leave by the prison director.
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