Tropescilloscope: Intergenerational Friendship

Two friends have a different age gap. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is Serious Business Bloodless Carnage The Chick Anti-Hero Covers Always Lie Love at First Sight Wounded Gazelle Gambit Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Gorn Eldritch Abomination Maybe Ever After Trailers Always Spoil Shower Scene Cat Scare Love Triangle Creative Closing Credits I Need a Freaking Drink Punch-Clock Villain Hypocritical Humor Bait-and-Switch Lighter and Softer Freeze-Frame Bonus Unspoken Plan Guarantee Big Bad The Place Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Heterosexual Life-Partners Jerkass Has a Point Extremely Short Timespan Vitriolic Best Buds Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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A Father to His Men timeperiod Obstructive Bureaucrat Very Loosely Based on a True Story Shut Up, Hannibal! All Just a Dream The '50s Only One Name Heroic BSoD Abhorrent Admirer The Vamp Eye Scream Captain Obvious Air-Vent Passageway Animal Motifs No OSHA Compliance Have a Gay Old Time Casting Gag Early Installment Weirdness Anguished Declaration of Love Chekhov's Gun Award-Bait Song Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Captain Ersatz Vampire Fiction The Stoner Make It Look Like an Accident Meaningful Background Event Artistic License – Gun Safety Reality Ensues Action Genre Scenery Porn Age Lift Cat Fight Ungrateful Bastard Disproportionate Retribution Action Survivor The Great Depression Idiot Ball Obviously Evil Horror Comedy Motor Mouth The Alleged Car Crazy-Prepared Dirty Cop Not Quite Dead Blackmail Mood Whiplash Fanservice Extra Public Domain Feature Films Deus ex Machina Beta Couple Fish out of Water Bond One-Liner Femme Fatale Historical Villain Upgrade Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Ascended Extra Deal with the Devil Vomit Indiscretion Shot Shell-Shocked Veteran Cluster F-Bomb Training Montage Gold Digger Playing Gertrude Genre Throwback Chekhov's Gunman Arc Words No-Sell Disguised in Drag Break the Haughty It Can Think Easily Forgiven Slasher Movie Real Life Rule of Funny Failed a Spot Check How We Got Here Agony of the Feet Depraved Bisexual Diabolus ex Machina Riddle for the Ages Nice Hat Faux Affably Evil Let's Get Dangerous! 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Is a Crapshoot He Who Fights Monsters Australian Movies Broken Pedestal Well-Intentioned Extremist The Smurfette Principle Author Appeal Male Gaze British Films Those Two Guys Improbable Weapon User Gainax Ending Bland-Name Product Needs Wiki Magic Love Shoot the Shaggy Dog Death Seeker Running Gag Karmic Death Drives Like Crazy Stalker with a Crush Artistic License – Law Guile Hero Woman Scorned Demoted to Extra Becoming the Mask Chase Scene Half the Man He Used to Be Adaptation Name Change It Will Never Catch On Anyone Can Die Fake Shemp "Well Done, Son!" Guy Big Brother Instinct Bowdlerise Bare Your Midriff The Smart Guy Curse Cut Short Ambiguous Ending Evil Counterpart No Celebrities Were Harmed Ship Tease Together in Death Noodle Incident Brutal Honesty Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Heel Realization Evil Sounds Deep Meet Cute Big "NO!" 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Kids Are Cruel Slasher Smile Small Name, Big Ego Blood from the Mouth Early-Bird Cameo Made of Explodium Downer Ending Sole Survivor Took a Level in Jerkass Spell My Name with an "S" Scare Chord Disney Death Homage Dumb Blonde Bilingual Bonus Big Damn Heroes For the Evulz Breaking the Fourth Wall Almost Kiss What Happened to the Mouse? 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Decoy Protagonist Ghost Fiction Adaptation Distillation She Cleans Up Nicely Serial Killer Stylistic Suck Really Gets Around Mistaken for Gay Plot Hole All There in the Manual Russian Films Those Two Bad Guys Police Brutality Composite Character Death Glare Enemy Mine Line-of-Sight Name Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Villain Protagonist Jump Scare Take That! Superhero Babies Ever After Leaning on the Fourth Wall Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Kubrick Stare Guns Akimbo Artistic License – Physics Death by Adaptation Smug Snake Works Set in World War II Did Not Get the Girl Heroic Sacrifice I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Advertised Extra Psychological Thriller Everyone Has Standards Scenery Gorn Aluminum Christmas Trees The Hero Dies Groin Attack Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Off-into-the-Distance Ending Science Fiction Films Sports Stories Eiffel Tower Effect Off with His Head! 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Posthumous Character Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Despair Event Horizon Big Applesauce Honor Before Reason Back from the Dead Cool Shades Poor Communication Kills Artistic License – Geography Intrepid Reporter Self-Deprecation Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Once More, with Clarity! Narrator Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Dropped a Bridge on Him Greater-Scope Villain Anachronism Stew Arranged Marriage Sequel Escalation Asshole Victim Adaptation Expansion Closed Circle Humans Are Bastards Establishing Character Moment Police are Useless Tap on the Head The Remake Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Improbable Aiming Skills Re-Cut Book-Ends Heroes Want Redheads Gone Horribly Right The Stinger Dramatic Gun Cock