Tropescilloscope: Older Than They Look

Someone looks younger than they really are. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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