Tropescilloscope: Age Lift

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

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