Tropescilloscope: Age Lift

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

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