Tropescilloscope: Age Lift

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

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