Tropescilloscope: Older Than They Look

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

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