Tropescilloscope: Age Lift

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

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