Tropescilloscope: May–December Romance

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

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