History Main / YoungerAndHipper

* The objective behind the execrable "OneMoreDay" arc of ''Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}}'', based on {{Joe Quesada}}'s deranged belief that no-one can relate to a married superhero (despite the fact that they'd been doing that for some, oh, ''twenty years or so'' by then). His intention to make Peter a "hip young single swinger" has, unfortunately, reduced him to an unemployed loser who mooches off his elderly aunt and shacks up with anything female and heralded the dawn of another DorkAge for ''Spider-Man''.

** ''TenThingsIHateAboutYou'' took "The Taming Of The Shrew" and put it in a high school.
** ''O'' did the same thing to "Othello".

* Subverted with the Ciem book series adaptation in the works, based on the CiemWebcomicSeries. Candi starts out at the same age as her webcomic self (19 going on 20). But she's... shorter and [[AmbiguouslyBrown darker-toned]], and more Indian. Promotional art bases her design more on the Teen Sim group from TheSims2, and Teen Candi is used much more frequently this time than Young Adult Candi. The new one also aims to be HotterAndSexier; while remaining just-old-looking-enough to avoid Lolicon territory.

* Reality shows rarely have contestants who are older than about 45 anymore. The days of Rudy Boesch (''Survivor'') and "Chicken" George Boswell (''Big Brother'' (USA Edition)) are well and truly over.

* Subverted with the Ciem book series adaptation in the works, based on the CiemWebcomicSeries. Candi starts out at the same age as her webcomic self (19 going on 20). But she's...shorter and [[AmbiguouslyBrown darker-toned]], and more Indian. Promotional art bases her design more on the Teen Sim group from TheSims2, and Teen Candi is used much more frequently this time than Young Adult Candi. The new one also aims to be HotterAndSexier; while remaining just-old-looking-enough to avoid Lolicon territory.

* ''ExtremeGhostbusters'' was a younger hipper version of ''TheRealGhostbusters'', replacing all of the "old" Ghostbuster characters except Egon Spengler, who stayed around as TheMentor. The "Extreme" Ghostbusters were a bunch of college-age kids (including a TokenFemale PerkyGoth).

* TheSuperHeroSquadShow. Definitely younger, hipper is your call.

* Jaime Reyes as BlueBeetle is another case in addition to being an AffirmativeActionLegacy.

** Most advertising doesn't target people out of this range because they're considered too set in their ways to try new products.

When a work is revamped, relaunched, or reconceived with a young (or younger, at any rate) cast, despite the ages of the characters in the original source material. This happens because it is commonly believed that no one in the audience wants to watch "old people" (defined as anyone over the age of 40 or thereabouts). Often, this happens to supposedly allow CharacterDevelopment, because the older character has "nowhere to go" and thus making him young again "opens up story possibilities". YourMileageMayVary as to the truth of this opinion.

* ''TheCityOfEmber'' used the "older and hipper" inversion. The lead characters are twelve in the original book, but are teenagers in the film.

** Sort of justified, since the zombies in the original are slow and shambling, which makes them easier to escape from. The remake has fast running zombies that pretty much require being at peak physical health to escape from. Not to mention several of the survivors are clearly 40+.

** The Star Trek re-launch really doesn't count here. You can't really be accused of going 'younger and hipper' if the cast being replaced are actually elderly (Shatner is 80!) or even DEAD in some cases.

* SuperHeroSquad. Definitely younger, hipper is your call.

* Remember when ''SaturdayNightLive'' didn't have that "25 or under only" rule and the show would book hosts based on their comedic talents? Yeah, we miss that, too. You could actually hear Don Pardo's soul weep when he announced: "...And ''starring''... '''[[DethroningMomentOfSuck Megan Fox!]]'''"

When a work is revamped, relaunched, or reconceived with a young (or younger, at any rate) cast, despite the ages of the characters in the original source material. This happens because it is commonly believed that no one in the audience wants to watch "old people" (defined as anyone over the age of 40 or thereabouts). Often, this happens to supposedly allow CharacterDevelopment, [[{{Wallbanger}} because the older character has "nowhere to go"]] and thus making him young again "opens up story possibilities". YourMileageMayVary as to the truth of this opinion.

The moral opposite of DawsonCasting. SpinOffBabies is a subtrope.

* ''BatmanBeyond'' owes its entire existence to this trope, as the stated concept of the show was "Batman In High School". [[AintNoRule They never specified]] it had to be Bruce Wayne in High School, though.

* The [[DorkAge infamous]] "Teen Tony" era of ''IronMan''.

* ''IronManArmoredAdventures'' is this.

* ''TheCityOfEmber'' used the "older and hipper" inversion. The lead characters are ten and eleven in the original book, but are teenagers in the film.

* The "Batch [=SW6=]" clones in the ''LegionOfSuperHeroes''; they were even given a title of their own to allow this trope to coexist with the original Legion in the TMK era. The ContinuityReboot of the Legion after Zero Hour also resulted in this trope.

* YoungerAndHipper is practically the religion worshiped by every advertising agency around. Unless the product in question is directly aimed at "senior citizens" (read: anyone over 40), expect the people in commercials to all be young.

Occasionally, this trope will be [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when the characters are young children in the source material. The characters will be aged to their teens in order to fit the "younger and hipper" ("older and hipper?") mindset.

* ''TheCityOfEmber'' used the "older and hipper" subversion. The lead characters are ten and eleven in the original book, but are teenagers in the film.

* ''AllGrownUp'' subverted this trope by presenting an ''Older'' and Hipper version of the ''{{Rugrats}}'' characters. It didn't work out so well, as the major draw of the original was that the main characters were all babies.

* The DisneyChannel subverted this with its "Zoog Disney" block by way of aging up the Zoog characters into "older" and hipper versions of themselves through an AnimationBump.

** Also of note: any time that this trope is used for a LegacyCharacter, Spider-Man comparisons are ''inevitable.'' Kyle Rayner and Jaime Reyes in particular (below) both draw a lot of comparisons to Peter Parker.
* Kyle Rayner, whom DC trumpeted as "the One True GreenLantern" while [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropping a Bridge]] on Hal Jordan and the rest of the Corps. Kyle was eventually RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap, and when Hal and the Corps were brought back he was accepted as one of the team.
** Less "RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap" and more "he was the star of the title for 20 years, and thus had an entire generation of ''his own fans'' who couldn't care less about Hal Jordan and thus never saw him as TheScrappy in the first place. As such, when Hal and the Corps were brought back, DC '''''had''''' to include Kyle as "part of the team", lest they alienate the fans who'd kept the title afloat for two decades.