Tropescilloscope: Age Lift

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

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