Tropescilloscope: Intergenerational Friendship

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

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