Tropescilloscope: Age Lift

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

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