Tropescilloscope: Intergenerational Friendship

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

More Tropes Left the Background Music On Music Stories Covers Always Lie Stuff Blowing Up Insane Troll Logic Guns Akimbo Bottomless Magazines Catapult Nightmare And the Adventure Continues He Knows Too Much Real Life Writes the Plot Anguished Declaration of Love Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Married to the Job Tempting Fate Race Lift Be Careful What You Wish For Fatal Flaw In the Back Psychological Thriller Cat Scare It's All About Me Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dutch Angle Big "NO!" Green-Eyed Monster The Load "Awesome McCool" Name Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Celebrity Paradox Pet the Dog Shirtless Scene Mad Scientist Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Bait-and-Switch Improbable Weapon User Ambiguous Disorder Disney Death Morality Pet The Lancer The Alleged Car Evil vs. Evil Evil Laugh Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Rule of Three Eagleland Superhero Disney Villain Death Wham Line Humiliation Conga Ungrateful Bastard Pretty in Mink Death by Adaptation In Medias Res Adaptation Expansion The Smart Guy Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Light Is Not Good Heroes Want Redheads Actor Allusion Rich Bitch Stalker with a Crush Soft Glass Hooker with a Heart of Gold Creepy Child Rasputinian Death Recycled IN SPACE! Insistent Terminology Mighty Whitey Sassy Black Woman Ship Tease Running Gag Bar Brawl Hypocritical Humor Arranged Marriage Mr. Exposition Index of Film Westerns Blackmail Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Thriller Deliberately Monochrome You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Truth in Television Adult Fear Heroic Sacrifice Silence Is Golden The Stoic Suspiciously Similar Substitute Reality Is Unrealistic Naked People Are Funny Heel–Face Turn Sir Swears-a-Lot My Beloved Smother Hidden Depths Aluminum Christmas Trees Naïve Newcomer Gold Digger Match Cut Mugging the Monster Leaning on the Fourth Wall Insult Backfire Totally Radical Military and Warfare Films Parental Incest Bland-Name Product Five-Man Band Toplessness from the Back Properly Paranoid Costume Porn Fantasy Films Actually Pretty Funny I Have Your Wife Artistic License – Geography Hero Antagonist The Cavalry Henpecked Husband Those Two Bad Guys And I Must Scream Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Fantastic Racism Intergenerational Friendship Arc Words Only Sane Man Dark and Troubled Past Funny Background Event What the Hell, Hero? 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Bad "Bad Acting" Arch-Enemy Break the Haughty Gainax Ending Posthumous Character Reality Has No Subtitles Hollywood Law Blood Knight The Chick Unwitting Instigator of Doom Demonic Possession Would Hit a Girl Death Glare Parental Abandonment Lock and Load Montage Canon Foreigner Aside Glance The Stinger Amoral Attorney Cain and Abel Neck Snap Enemy Mine Kubrick Stare Would Hurt a Child Vomit Discretion Shot Asshole Victim Offscreen Moment of Awesome Motor Mouth Yandere Documentary Homage Face Death with Dignity Manipulative Bastard Random Events Plot Never Found the Body Meaningful Echo Babies Ever After Film Series Shown Their Work Cool Guns Informed Ability Bullying a Dragon Cool Old Guy Straight Gay Sole Survivor All Just a Dream Once More, with Clarity! 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Is Serious Business Drowning My Sorrows Fiery Redhead No Ending Artistic License – Gun Safety Setting Update Take a Third Option Ominous Latin Chanting This Is Gonna Suck Gender Flip Japanese Films Cool Car Mexican Standoff Abhorrent Admirer Heroic BSoD Dying Moment of Awesome Fanservice Extra Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Retirony Calling the Old Man Out Get Out! Laser-Guided Karma Horror Films Romantic Comedy It's Personal Four-Temperament Ensemble Historical Hero Upgrade May–December Romance For the Evulz Not Quite Dead Chekhov's Skill Defrosting Ice Queen Distracted by the Sexy No Name Given Nothing Is Scarier Major Injury Underreaction Big Bad Duumvirate German Films Danny Peary Cult Movies List Early-Bird Cameo Crapsack World The Film of the Book Product Placement Badass Boast Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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The Dragon Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Paper-Thin Disguise Adults Are Useless Storming the Castle The Un-Reveal Author Appeal Idiot Ball Jerkass Heel Realization Pretty Little Headshots Country Matters Manly Tears No OSHA Compliance Nice Guy Chiaroscuro Advertised Extra Annoying Younger Sibling Dark Is Not Evil Auto Erotica Translation Convention Bowdlerise Sports Stories Film Noir Index A Father to His Men Bavarian Fire Drill Suddenly SHOUTING! Vampire Fiction Hair-Trigger Temper And Starring The Mole Ass Shove Cloudcuckoolander Cold-Blooded Torture It Can Think Have a Gay Old Time Mythology Gag Evil Counterpart Award-Bait Song Artistic License – Physics Not Even Bothering with the Accent Mercy Kill An Arm and a Leg Silent Movie Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Book-Ends Narrator Riddle for the Ages Red Right Hand Only in It for the Money Dwindling Party BFG Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Throwing Your Sword Always Works Deconstruction The Great Depression Central Theme Film Noir Better to Die than Be Killed Implacable Man Whole Plot Reference Monumental Damage 20 Minutes into the Future Malevolent Masked Men Self-Deprecation Affably Evil Earn Your Happy Ending Every Car Is a Pinto Brutal Honesty Empathic Environment Dull Surprise Fainting Italian Films No-Sell Leitmotif Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Musical Overly Long Gag Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Beta Couple Australian Movies Fingore Broken Aesop Manic Pixie Dream Girl Creator Cameo Love Triangle Dual Wielding Bittersweet Ending Well-Intentioned Extremist Kick the Dog Chase Scene Flipping the Bird Shower Scene Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Brute Romantic False Lead Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Foreshadowing Unusual Euphemism Chekhov's Gunman Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Disappeared Dad The Bully The Place As You Know She Cleans Up Nicely A Minor Kidroduction Accidental Murder The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Alas, Poor Villain Adaptational Heroism Grievous Bottley Harm Shut Up, Hannibal! From Nobody to Nightmare He Who Fights Monsters Darker and Edgier Adaptational Badass Unusually Uninteresting Sight Big Applesauce '80s Hair Dropped a Bridge on Him Jump Scare Word of God The Sociopath Catch-Phrase Fourth Date Marriage The End... Or Is It? Framing Device Red Eyes, Take Warning Villain with Good Publicity Trailers Always Spoil Video Credits Badass Grandpa Creative Closing Credits Lampshade Hanging Moment Killer Reality Ensues Wham Shot The Mafia Needs Wiki Magic Love Intrepid Reporter Greater-Scope Villain The Chessmaster Frame-Up Eldritch Abomination Not So Stoic Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Faux Affably Evil Bloody Hilarious Foil Spanner in the Works Dirty Cop Sadistic Choice Freudian Excuse Karma Houdini Meaningful Background Event In Name Only Up to Eleven Stylistic Suck Blatant Lies Downer Ending An Aesop Fake Shemp Big Eater Kill It with Fire Put on a Bus For Want of a Nail Adorkable Papa Wolf Villainous Breakdown Bad Boss Evil Is Petty "The Reason You Suck" Speech Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Drill Sergeant Nasty Punch-Clock Villain Fate Worse than Death Race Against the Clock Not Using the "Z" Word Psycho for Hire Overprotective Dad Skewed Priorities Redshirt Army Only One Name N-Word Privileges Roaring Rampage of Revenge Mr. Fanservice Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Shout-Out Visual Pun Sci-Fi Horror Anti-Hero Expy How We Got Here Parental Neglect Russian Films Evil Sounds Deep Did Not Get the Girl Police Brutality Shipper on Deck Stealth Pun Off with His Head! Friend to All Children Call-Back Bring My Brown Pants Car Fu Rewatch Bonus All There in the Script Chewing the Scenery Sealed Evil in a Can The Hero Here We Go Again! 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Is a Crapshoot Disguised in Drag Slasher Smile Historical Villain Upgrade Hate Sink You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Stepford Smiler The Remake Armor-Piercing Question Big Brother Instinct Black Comedy Meet Cute Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Exact Words Sanity Slippage NO INDOOR VOICE Sacrificial Lion The Alcoholic Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Brother–Sister Incest It Will Never Catch On Camera Abuse Abusive Parents Maybe Ever After Your Head A-Splode La Résistance Mystery and Detective Films Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Early Installment Weirdness Loads and Loads of Characters Demoted to Extra Crazy Jealous Guy Comically Missing the Point Our Vampires Are Different More Dakka What You Are in the Dark Deus ex Machina Off-into-the-Distance Ending Smoking Is Cool Madness Mantra Beard of Evil Black and Gray Morality Small Name, Big Ego As Himself Deliberate Values Dissonance You Killed My Father Re-Cut Precision F-Strike Dressing as the Enemy Double Entendre Not So Different Coming-of-Age Story "Well Done, Son!" Guy Dirty Old Man Novelization Brainless Beauty Bald of Evil Red Oni, Blue Oni One-Word Title Failed a Spot Check I'm a Humanitarian