Tropescilloscope: Age Lift

Characters' ages are changed in an adaption. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Big Applesauce Dying Moment of Awesome Deus ex Machina Riddle for the Ages Bland-Name Product Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Implacable Man Christmas Movies Index Off-into-the-Distance Ending Dual Wielding Cat Scare Bury Your Gays Time Skip Fourth Date Marriage Four-Temperament Ensemble Brainless Beauty Small Name, Big Ego Translation Convention Meaningful Name Aluminum Christmas Trees As Long as It Sounds Foreign Daddy's Girl Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Great Depression Defiant to the End Cloudcuckoolander Gone Horribly Right Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Faceless Psycho for Hire Sadistic Choice Rich Bitch Combat Pragmatist Meaningful Echo Hero Antagonist Never My Fault Romantic False Lead Reasonable Authority Figure Slasher Smile Eldritch Abomination Tempting Fate Psychological Thriller Skewed Priorities Expy The Chick Kick the Son of a Bitch Wham Line Character Development Fatal Flaw Retcon Truth in Television Bottomless Magazines Random Events Plot Redemption Equals Death Noodle Incident World of Ham Rewatch Bonus Beauty Is Never Tarnished Fatal Family Photo Fingore Wretched Hive Ship Tease A.I. Is a Crapshoot Not What It Looks Like Eye Scream All There in the Manual For the Evulz Unwitting Instigator of Doom Country Matters Deconstruction The Dreaded Leave the Camera Running Offscreen Moment of Awesome Silent Movie Darkest Hour Paper-Thin Disguise No OSHA Compliance Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Stoner Adaptation Distillation Despair Event Horizon Would Hurt a Child Demonic Possession Pragmatic Adaptation Retirony Scenery Gorn Heroic BSoD Needs Wiki Magic Love He Who Fights Monsters Missing Mom Historical-Domain Character Gold Digger Historical Hero Upgrade Mr. Exposition Chuck Cunningham Syndrome You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Hypocrite Scenery Porn There Is No Kill Like Overkill Improvised Weapon Foil Annoying Younger Sibling Real Life Writes the Plot Deadpan Snarker Big Eater Conspicuous CG Beware the Nice Ones Pimped-Out Dress Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Soft Glass "The Reason You Suck" Speech Together in Death Death Glare Aside Glance Pragmatic Villainy Beard of Evil Belligerent Sexual Tension Product Placement You Killed My Father Action Survivor Punny Name Cool Car Slasher Movie Rasputinian Death Decoy Protagonist Race Lift Oh, Crap! Adaptational Villainy Canadian Movies Creepy Child Public Domain Feature Films You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Anyone Can Die Exactly What It Says on the Tin Sanity Slippage Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Ambiguous Disorder Creative Closing Credits Hong Kong Films The Chessmaster Off with His Head! Every Car Is a Pinto It Can Think Nothing Is Scarier Crazy Jealous Guy Eyepatch of Power Armor-Piercing Question Sealed Evil in a Can "Awesome McCool" Name Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Arc Words Breaking the Fourth Wall Cowboy Cop The Starscream Brother–Sister Incest Death of a Child Your Cheating Heart Thriller Index of Film Westerns And the Adventure Continues Evil Is Hammy Visual Pun Bring My Brown Pants Tap on the Head I Need a Freaking Drink Faux Affably Evil Funny Background Event La Résistance Auto Erotica Death by Irony Groin Attack Bar Brawl Sole Survivor Black Comedy Plucky Comic Relief Outrun the Fireball Light Is Not Good An Arm and a Leg Well-Intentioned Extremist Novelization Ascended Extra Adorkable Abusive Parents Stock Footage The Mafia The Lancer Historical In-Joke Drowning My Sorrows The Reveal Adaptational Attractiveness Shown Their Work Here We Go Again! One-Man Army For Want of a Nail Playing Gertrude Mad Scientist Hero of Another Story Vomit Discretion Shot Meet Cute British Films Spiteful Spit Half the Man He Used to Be Costume Porn Big Fancy House Television Movie Index Self-Deprecation Due to the Dead Killed Mid-Sentence Shirtless Scene Interrupted Suicide Mystery and Detective Films Ambiguously Gay Air-Vent Passageway Fat Bastard Stalker with a Crush The Dragon Protagonist Title Pet the Dog Show Within a Show The '50s Age Lift The Hero Heterosexual Life-Partners Shout-Out Have a Gay Old Time Actor Allusion Antagonist Title Wham Shot Dark and Troubled Past Villain Song Non-Indicative Name Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Karma Houdini One Steve Limit Damsel in Distress Bowdlerise Face Death with Dignity Deliberate Values Dissonance Vomit Indiscretion Shot Genre Throwback Didn't Think This Through Music Stories Nice Hat Zombie Stories Badass Grandpa Gender Flip The Stoic Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique French Films Really Gets Around Dramatic Irony Black Comedy Rape The Quiet One Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Fainting Framing Device Major Injury Underreaction Evil Sounds Deep Apocalypse How Shell-Shocked Veteran Silence Is Golden Anguished Declaration of Love Neck Snap Horror Films Hypocritical Humor Australian Movies Sci-Fi Horror Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Heroes Want Redheads Reality Ensues Sequel Escalation Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Spared by the Adaptation Narrator Intergenerational Friendship Hell Is That Noise Cool Shades Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Morality Pet Disguised in Drag Offscreen Teleportation Made of Explodium Lighter and Softer Logo Joke Informed Ability Sexy Discretion Shot Frame-Up Bullying a Dragon Properly Paranoid War Is Hell The Cameo The Bad Guy Wins Villain Ball Easily Forgiven Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Butt-Monkey Bond One-Liner Never Found the Body Lampshade Hanging Loophole Abuse Adapted Out Chewing the Scenery Bloody Hilarious Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Hidden Depths Almost Kiss Same Language Dub Broken Pedestal Accidental Murder The Film of the Book What You Are in the Dark She's Got Legs Made of Iron Revenge Curse Cut Short Stuff Blowing Up Department of Redundancy Department Sequel Hook Leaning on the Fourth Wall All Girls Want Bad Boys Boom, Headshot! Pretty Little Headshots Psychopathic Manchild Intrepid Reporter Moment Killer Everyone Has Standards Serial Killer Action Girl Handicapped Badass Dissonant Serenity Demoted to Extra Jerkass Action Genre Arranged Marriage Catch-Phrase Five-Man Band Eureka Moment Dirty Coward Hate Sink Never Trust a Trailer Mama Bear Jump Scare Documentary Ungrateful Bastard Black Dude Dies First Whole Plot Reference Continuity Nod Men Are the Expendable Gender The Dog Bites Back It's All About Me The Ditz Fan Disservice Badass in a Nice Suit Not So Stoic Authority Equals Asskicking Catapult Nightmare Foreshadowing You Have Failed Me Fantasy Films No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Double Entendre Mistaken for Gay Insane Troll Logic Honor Before Reason Disney Villain Death Recycled IN SPACE! B-Movie Love at First Sight Cruel and Unusual Death Took a Level in Badass From Bad to Worse The Un-Reveal Mr. Fanservice Toplessness from the Back Drugs Are Bad Only a Flesh Wound Peek-a-Boo Corpse Irony Race Against the Clock Ghost Fiction Bare Your Midriff The Remake Mooks The Alcoholic Neck Lift Greater-Scope Villain The Bully Jerk Jock The Smart Guy My Greatest Failure Downer Ending Heel–Face Turn All There in the Script Evil Plan The Smurfette Principle Too Dumb to Live Ass Shove Retired Badass 20 Minutes into the Future Pay Evil unto Evil Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Video Credits Politically Incorrect Villain Big Damn Heroes Tagline Funny Foreigner Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Early Installment Weirdness Martial Arts Movie Disappeared Dad Loads and Loads of Characters Blatant Lies Vampire Fiction Shipper on Deck A Date with Rosie Palms Betty and Veronica Stepford Smiler Artistic License – Gun Safety How We Got Here Bavarian Fire Drill Unspoken Plan Guarantee I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Fire-Forged Friends Death Seeker Market-Based Title Beta Couple Suspiciously Similar Substitute Victoria's Secret Compartment Cold-Blooded Torture Instant Death Bullet Artistic License – Law Chekhov's Gun Central Theme Diabolus ex Machina Parental Neglect Affably Evil Guile Hero Sassy Black Woman The Ace Earn Your Happy Ending Plot Hole Animated Credits Opening Nice Guy Obfuscating Stupidity Manic Pixie Dream Girl No Ending Undying Loyalty Mood Whiplash Screw This, I'm Outta Here! All Just a Dream Insult Backfire This Is Gonna Suck Roaring Rampage of Revenge Epic Movie Batman Gambit Those Wacky Nazis Film Noir Index Dark Reprise Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Gorn Historical Villain Upgrade Abhorrent Admirer Contrived Coincidence Meaningful Background Event Sinister Minister Amoral Attorney Fake Shemp Only Sane Man Artistic License – Military '80s Hair Mind Screw The Casanova Enemy Mine Obviously Evil What the Hell, Hero? From Nobody to Nightmare Fanservice Extra Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism NO INDOOR VOICE Works Set in World War II Take That! Reality Is Unrealistic Film Noir The End... Or Is It? Dark Action Girl Fish out of Water Rule of Cool What Happened to the Mouse? Super Strength Asshole Victim Credits Gag Jerkass Has a Point An Axe to Grind Blood from the Mouth Rated M for Manly Freudian Excuse Author Appeal Only One Name Tranquil Fury Bloodier and Gorier Car Fu Rousing Speech Spell My Name with an "S" Those Two Bad Guys Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Bolivian Army Ending Fiery Redhead Flipping the Bird Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bad "Bad Acting" Hollywood Law Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Adult Fear A Minor Kidroduction Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Adaptational Badass Improbable Weapon User Parental Incest Even Evil Has Standards Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bad Boss Our Zombies Are Different Kill It with Fire Break the Cutie Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Overprotective Dad Attempted Rape Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Monumental Damage Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Leitmotif The Alleged Car Trailers Always Spoil Crucified Hero Shot Papa Wolf Dutch Angle I'm a Humanitarian Brutal Honesty Cool Old Lady Get Out! Police are Useless And Starring Anachronic Order Guns Akimbo Red Eyes, Take Warning Dirty Old Man Death by Adaptation Improbable Aiming Skills Crazy-Prepared Break the Haughty Japanese Films Knife Nut Names to Run Away from Really Fast Older Than They Look Pyrrhic Victory Call-Back Blood Knight Re-Cut Horror Comedy Dirty Cop The '70s Evil Is Petty Corrupt Corporate Executive Author Avatar All for Nothing Laser-Guided Karma Obstructive Bureaucrat Adaptation Name Change Anachronism Stew Gory Discretion Shot Male Gaze Smoking Is Cool Establishing Character Moment Those Two Guys Up to Eleven Stealth Pun Cassandra Truth Bittersweet Ending "Shaggy Dog" Story Coming-of-Age Story Adaptation Dye-Job Word of God Wicked Cultured Death by Sex Match Cut Rule of Funny Card-Carrying Villain The Cavalry The Oner The Power of Love Becoming the Mask Superhero After the End Cat Fight Precision F-Strike Poor Communication Kills Anti-Hero Failed a Spot Check Star-Crossed Lovers Henpecked Husband The Place Russian Films The Musical Real Life Left the Background Music On Soundtrack Dissonance Manipulative Bastard Disney Death Twist Ending No-Sell Overly Long Gag "Well Done, Son!" Guy As Himself The Atoner Closed Circle Suddenly SHOUTING! Humiliation Conga Big Bad Villain Protagonist Daylight Horror Ms. Fanservice Bunny-Ears Lawyer BFG A God Am I Evil Laugh Covers Always Lie Chekhov's Skill Dressing as the Enemy Throwing Your Sword Always Works Title Drop No Name Given Totally Radical Wrong Genre Savvy Badass Boast Taking You with Me Artistic License – Biology Male Frontal Nudity Unresolved Sexual Tension Crapsack World Shoot the Shaggy Dog Our Vampires Are Different Kubrick Stare Jitter Cam The Load Reckless Gun Usage Bloodless Carnage Canon Foreigner Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Back from the Dead Chekhov's Gunman Grey and Gray Morality Red Herring Faking the Dead Eiffel Tower Effect Big-Bad Ensemble Better to Die than Be Killed Naïve Newcomer Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Kill 'em All One-Word Title Genre Savvy Love Triangle The Vamp Madness Mantra Did Not Get the Girl Punch-Clock Villain Big Brother Instinct The Voiceless Depraved Bisexual Hooker with a Heart of Gold Alpha Bitch Deal with the Devil Cain and Abel Extremely Short Timespan The X of Y Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Ax-Crazy Adaptational Heroism Manly Tears Deliberately Monochrome Homage Room Full of Crazy Serious Business Animal Title Index Vitriolic Best Buds Sir Swears-a-Lot Final Girl Stylistic Suck Hope Spot Sports Stories Sacrificial Lion Amusing Injuries Badass Bookworm Dull Surprise Brick Joke Dies Wide Open Spanner in the Works Facial Horror Big "NO!" Naked People Are Funny Say My Name Badass Normal Lock and Load Montage Evil Brit Cluster F-Bomb Green-Eyed Monster Evil Counterpart Motor Mouth Dramedy Only in It for the Money The '80s Blackmail Married to the Job Manchild In Name Only Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! It's Personal Malevolent Masked Men Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Alas, Poor Villain Reality Has No Subtitles Bait-and-Switch My Beloved Smother Would Hit a Girl Red Right Hand Exact Words Distracted by the Sexy Face–Heel Turn Bond Villain Stupidity Heel Realization Hoist by His Own Petard Flashback Line-of-Sight Name Posthumous Character Ambiguous Ending Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Driven to Suicide Your Head A-Splode Red Shirt Bi the Way Adaptation Expansion Gratuitous English Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Large Ham Danny Peary Cult Movies List Italian Films Fanservice No Antagonist Black and Gray Morality Dogged Nice Guy More Dakka Evil vs. Evil Getting Crap Past the Radar Bald of Evil Rule of Three Slashed Throat Mercy Kill Broken Aesop Man on Fire Villainous Breakdown Artistic License – Physics The Lost Lenore Woman in White Friend to All Children Book-Ends Awesome, but Impractical Gilligan Cut Scare Chord Camera Abuse Berserk Button Pretty in Mink Slap-Slap-Kiss The Ghost The '90s Determinator The Big Guy Happily Married Dumb Blonde Body Horror Babies Ever After Foregone Conclusion Big Bad Duumvirate Running Gag Be Careful What You Wish For Bound and Gagged Based on a True Story Empathic Environment The Sociopath Captain Ersatz Grievous Bottley Harm Vacation Films Stealth Hi/Bye Laughing Mad Biopic Badass Longcoat Rape as Drama The Hero Dies Suspiciously Specific Denial Double-Meaning Title The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Rule of Symbolism Comically Missing the Point Karmic Death Calling the Old Man Out The Mole Film Series Dropped a Bridge on Him Bilingual Bonus Alliterative Name Artistic License – History Famous Last Words Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Ripped from the Headlines N-Word Privileges Took a Level in Jerkass Darker and Edgier Kids Are Cruel MacGuffin Disproportionate Retribution All Men Are Perverts Pre-Mortem One-Liner Storming the Castle Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Training Montage Make It Look Like an Accident Captain Obvious Dwindling Party Eagleland timeperiod Fun with Acronyms Anti-Villain Shut Up, Hannibal! Kick the Dog Put on a Bus Camp Gay Knight Templar O.O.C. Is Serious Business And I Must Scream Artistic License – Geography Immune to Bullets Unreliable Narrator I Have Your Wife Shower Scene Children Are Innocent Take a Third Option Not Quite Dead Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Let's Get Dangerous! Dark Is Not Evil The Stinger Not Using the "Z" Word Unusual Euphemism Creator Cameo Taking the Bullet Insistent Terminology Actually Pretty Funny Setting Update I Did What I Had to Do Destination Defenestration Affectionate Parody Award-Bait Song Token Minority Science Fiction Films Femme Fatale Straight Gay Spiritual Successor Mythology Gag True Companions Drill Sergeant Nasty Maybe Ever After Wounded Gazelle Gambit Last-Name Basis Bitch in Sheep's Clothing German Films Black Best Friend Villain with Good Publicity Ominous Latin Chanting Smug Snake Woman Scorned Composite Character Animal Motifs Gainax Ending Advertised Extra Once More, with Clarity! Does This Remind You of Anything? Action Prologue Parental Substitute Military and Warfare Films May–December Romance An Aesop She Cleans Up Nicely Chiaroscuro Very Loosely Based on a True Story Celebrity Paradox Drives Like Crazy Dramatic Gun Cock In Medias Res Mighty Whitey Cool Old Guy Broken Bird "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Epic Fail The '60s Accidental Misnaming Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Determinator aka: The Determinator Heroic Sacrifice Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Developing Doomed Characters Curb-Stomp Battle Good Is Not Nice I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Redshirt Army Ironic Echo Not So Above It All Casting Gag Chase Scene It Will Never Catch On As You Know Unusually Uninteresting Sight Imagine Spot Only Known by Their Nickname A Father to His Men Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Brute Fantastic Racism Mundane Made Awesome No Celebrities Were Harmed Villain Opening Scene Extreme Doormat Even Evil Has Loved Ones Freeze-Frame Bonus Arch-Enemy Refuge in Audacity Police Brutality Cool Guns Genre Shift Humans Are Bastards Does Not Like Shoes Red Oni, Blue Oni Romantic Comedy Yandere Hair-Trigger Temper As the Good Book Says... My God, What Have I Done? Parental Abandonment Hollywood Darkness He Knows Too Much Early-Bird Cameo folderlabel Important Haircut Domestic Abuse Expository Hairstyle Change Corpsing Agony of the Feet Not So Different In the Back Call-Forward Evil-Detecting Dog Idiot Ball Defrosting Ice Queen Scary Black Man Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Fate Worse than Death Mugging the Monster Mexican Standoff Adults Are Useless Worthy Opponent