Tropescilloscope: Intergenerational Friendship

Two friends have a different age gap. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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