Tropescilloscope: May–December Romance

A romantic relationship with a big age gap between the two characters. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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