Tropescilloscope: Intergenerational Friendship

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

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