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The Old Convict
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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. Only occasionally related to The Con or the Con Man. |
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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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Jarod meets one in an episode of The Pretender when he's trying to help a wrongly convicted murderer. | |
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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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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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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 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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Fergus Wilks (David Kelly) in Greenfingers. Fergus is the one who introduces Colin to gardening. | |
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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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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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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 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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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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In Fairy Tale by Stephen King, Charlie is imprisoned by the villains as part of their plan to gather thirty-two presumed descendants of the royal family and make them fight to the death. There are thirty prisoners in the dungeon when he arrives, causing Charlie to spend a lot of time with those people as their captors hunt for a thirty-second gladiator, with several of his fellow prisoners filling the old convict role. Charlie's cellmate Hamey gives Charlie some good advice about how to survive, while also helping to educate him about the history of the kingdom (although most of the others help with that as well), and recalls how there were only five prisoners (some of whom have since died) when he was brought to the dungeon. Jackah was brought to the dungeon at the same time as Hamey and is constantly challenging other prisoners to solve riddles. Bult has been locked up the longest out of those who survive to meet Charlie (although the two of them rarely interact directly) and says that when he first arrived the Big Bad was hoping to get sixty-four prisoners for the games so there would be more rounds of the death matches (a notion he abandoned due to how long it took to catch people). He isn't a mean person, but is noticeably harder than Hamey or Jackah. Bernd is the only explicitly elderly prisoner in the dungeon, but he's far from the longest-serving one and rarely speaks up. |
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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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Married... with Children: At the end of the show's visit to England, Al ends up in chains in a dungeon for the crime of stealing a hotel towel. His fellow prisoner is a raggedy graybeard who stole an ashtray. | |
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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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22 Bullets: While in prison as a teenager, Charly had a mentor known as 'the Old Timer'. It was the Old Timer's murder that pushed Charly back into the underworld in order to extract revenge, and ultimately led to him becoming a mob boss. | |
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Yakuza 5: Saejima, while trying to find proof that Kugihara tortured Baba, he has to find out which prisoners would have access to the tools the torturers used. The only person who knows is the only elderly convict in the prison, who is in good terms with the guards. He makes Saejima run errands for him before telling him, and his information is right on the money. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cresus in Prison, who has been in various prisons since the forties. | |
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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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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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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 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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"Jack" Andy Beanstalk who Puss meets in prison in Puss in Boots. He provides useful information about "the Great Terror". | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Robin of Sherwood has the nameless insane old prisoner in the dungeon of Nottingham Castle, who constantly refuses to join in escape plans because he doesn't want to leave his pet rat Arthur. He was initially created as a plot device for one episode, but became an Ensemble Dark Horse. | |
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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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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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Jafar disguises himself as one of these in Aladdin, in a Monte Cristo reference. | |
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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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