Tropescilloscope: Older Than They Look

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

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