Tropescilloscope: Age Lift

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

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