Tropescilloscope: Older Than They Look

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