Tropescilloscope: Older Than They Look

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

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