Old man

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Old man may refer to:

• An elderly, male human.
• A person's father
• A girl or woman's boyfriend
• A Captain of a British Merchant Navy vessel

In arts and fiction:

• A character from the Shakespeare play Macbeth.
• The Old Man was an ancient and seemingly immortal superhuman appearing in the New Universe comics published by Marvel.
• A song by Neil Young, see "Old Man (song)".
• A character found in the videogame Legend of Zelda for the NES, and also in its remake BS Zelda for the Super Famicom and Bandai Satellaview. See The Legend of Zelda series characters
• The Old Man, a character in Square's console role-playing game Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
• A short story by William Faulkner, which was made into a 1997 movie titled William Faulkner's Old Man.
• "Old Man" of La Chapelle-au-Saints, a Neanderthal skeleton found in France.
• "Old Man", a song by Love from their 1967 album Forever Changes

Furthermore:

• The Sick old man was a metaphor for (the Sultan of) the Ottoman Empire once it was no longer able to fight off separatism, especially of its Christian provinces on the Balkans