Mrs Brady the Old Lady

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Mrs Brady - Old Lady is a character in Viz who depicts a stereotypical image of an elderly woman. She is forgetful, bigoted and constantly talking about her ailments while also referring to her youth and how life was so much better back then. She doesn't seem to pay much attention to what is going on around her - when a friend of hers is dying she continues to talk about her own ailments - and often misunderstands what other people say to her. Her first name is Ada. She is a widow, her late husband being a man named Sidney, who she often talks about.

She is often portrayed as being a hypocrite as in most episodes she complains about how immoral the modern world is and how values have gone down and then talks of happy memories of doing the same sort of things herself in her youth because "you had to in them days". She is a hypochondriac, and is particularly obsessed with her bowel movements.

Her speech is littered with archaic colloquialisms (for example, she uses "oxter" and "lisk" instead of "armpit" and "groin") and racist (or "racialist", as Mrs. Brady would say) phrases (for example, she'll talk of "being Jewed at the till").

She has a best friend called Dolly Earnshaw, who is just like her- an old lady who is bigoted and forgetful, talking constantly about her illnesses. She also has a frequent habit of repeating whatever Ada says, and then saying "Yes, that's right". Dolly almost always appears in a Mrs. Brady Old Lady strip, and both she and Mrs. Brady herself regularly have non-speaking cameo roles or appear as background characters in other Viz strips.