History PlayingWith / AgeGapRomance

* '''Conversed''': "All right, the older suitor is often boring or abusive, but this time, it seems the author went the other way: the older's wise and cool and the younger is an idiot. No wonder Alice ended up with Bob."

* '''Played For Drama''':
** Alice is 15 and comes from a shitty, dysfunctional, and abusive home and sees a bleak future ahead of her, and Bob is a 26-year-old loser who is a pariah in his age group, but knows all the right things to say to a vulnerable young girl who wants an escape from her dismal life. The two have a dysfunctional off-and-on relationship until Alice turns 19 and can no longer deny what Bob is, and he happily trades her in for another desperate young girl who will eat up his bullshit. The whole saga has left Alice with substantial psychological scars, and she proceeds to go through a revolving door of dysfunctional and often abusive relationships with older men, several of which result in kids who will more than likely continue the cycle based on what was modeled for them.
** Alex is a 16-year-old and deep in the closet, and lives in a place where his dating pool is extremely small. He meets Bob, a 23-year-old gay man, who comes onto him strongly and quickly. Alex ignores all the red flags and assumes that this is his one shot at finding love. What ensues is a toxic, destructive relationship where Bob is sexually aggressive and only cares about the physical aspects of the relationship, while Alex is too lovestruck and blind to notice the power imbalance and abuse in the relationship until it's too late. When Alex finally breaks free, he feels violated and used and becomes closed off from other people as a result.

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice is 15 and comes from a shitty, dysfunctional, and abusive home and sees a bleak future ahead of her, and Bob is a 26-year-old loser who is a pariah in his age group, but knows all the right things to say to a vulnerable young girl who wants an escape from her dismal life. The two have a dysfunctional off-and-on relationship until Alice turns 19 and can no longer deny what Bob is, and he happily trades her in for another desperate young girl who will eat up his bullshit. The whole saga has left Alice with substantial psychological scars, and she proceeds to go through a revolving door of dysfunctional and often abusive relationships with older men, several of which result in kids who will more than likely continue the cycle based on what was modeled for them.

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice and Bob's relationship becomes strained because at their respective ages, they both want different things out of life: Bob wants to settle down and have children before he's too much older, while Alice feels she's too young to be a parent and wants to focus on building her career and having fun. Both also tend to feel like FishOutOfWater when hanging out with their respective friend groups because of the age difference and lack of things in common.

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%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

** Alice is 30, so whilst there's still a gap of fifteen years between them, most people aren't that bothered by it.
** Bob is OlderThanHeLooks, so people mistake him for being in his late 20's and don't really comment on his relationship with Alice.

* '''Discussed''': "I like Bob, but don't you think he's too old to become my boyfriend?"

%%* '''Conversed''':

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Straight''': Dave and Amber are in a relationship. Dave is 45 whilst Amber is 20, they both look their age and people sometimes mistake them for father and daughter.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[MayDecemberRomance Dave is 65 whilst Amber is 20]]; they are sometimes mistaken as grandfather and granddaughter.

** Amber is 30, so whilst there's still a gap of fifteen years between them, most people aren't that bothered by it.
** Dave is OlderThanHeLooks, so people mistake him for being in his late 20's and don't really comment on his relationship with Amber.

** Dave is wealthy and Amber is a GoldDigger.
** Amber [[LikesOlderMen prefers dating older men]] because she finds men her own age immature or unstable in their personal lives.
** Amber and Dave belong to a culture where it's considered normal for a man to wait until he's older to marry, whilst women are encouraged to find a partner at a young age.

* '''Inverted''': Amber and Dave are the same age, right down to being born on the same day and year, at the same time.

** Amber actually turns out to be closer to Dave's age and just looks really good for her age.
** Amber and Dave actually turn out to be just really [[IntergenerationalFriendship good friends]], who are mistaken as a couple.

** Dave has a mid-life crisis and ends up leaving Amber for an actual 20 year old.
** Dave and Amber started out as JustFriends, but end up falling in love.
* '''Parodied''': Amber seeks out older men for the sole purpose of tricking people into believing her lover is her father.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Amber and Dave are involved in a WillTheyOrWontThey situation, where it's never made entirely clear if they have feelings for each other or if they'll act upon them.
* '''Averted''': Dave is 45 and Amber is 40.
* '''Enforced''': Meddling executives discover that Dave and Amber are frequently shipped by fans, and tell the writers to make the relationship canonical.

* '''Invoked''': The ShipperOnDeck tries to make Dave and Amber a couple.
* '''Exploited''': Homosexuality is frowned upon in 20-year-old Amber's society. After moving somewhere nobody recognizes them, she pretends her 45-year-old lover Danielle is her mother.
* '''Defied''': Amber rejects Dave's romantic advances because she feels he's too old for her.
* '''Discussed''': "I like Dave, but don't you think he's too old to become my boyfriend?"
* '''Conversed''':

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* '''Inverted''': Amber and Dave are the same age, right down to being born on the same day and year, at the same time.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Amber and Dave are involved in a WillTheyOrWontThey situation, where it's never made entirely clear if they have feelings for each other or if they'll act upon them.

** Amber [[LikesOlderMen prefers dating older men]] because she finds men her own age immature or unstable in theirbpersonal lives.
** Amber and Dave belong toma culture where it's considered normal for a man to wait until he's older to marry, whilst women are encouraged to find a partner at a young age.

* '''DoubleSubeverted''':

* '''Subverted''':