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