Basic Trope: A teenager or a young adult is attracted to somebody older.
- Straight: Fifteen-year-old Bob Likes Older Women. He has a crush on 40-year old Alice.
- Exaggerated: Bob is ten years old and madly in love with Alice who is pushing 50.
- Downplayed: Bob, who is college-aged, wants to be more than friends with 30-year-old Alice.
- Justified:
- Bob is interested in Alice because she's Claire's mother. Claire was born when Alice was young, and Claire is more or less the same age as Bob.
- Alice has aged gracefully and still looks like a Dawson Teen.
- Inverted: Middle-aged Alice has a crush on high school student Bob.
- Gender Inverted: A rare version where fifteen-year-old Claire Likes Older Men, so she has a crush on her male or female friend's dad, Steve.
- Subverted: Alice is actually a student posing as a teacher in Bob's school.
- Double Subverted: But it turns out Alice is lying about her age.
- Parodied: Bob is a newborn and has a crush on the nurse who delivered him.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Bob has no romantic feelings for anyone much older than he is.
- Bob and Alice are roughly the same age.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Bob, why are you looking at my mom that way?"
- Invoked: Alice wears more revealing clothing around Bob.
- Exploited: Claire invites Bob over for dinner and leaves him alone with Alice most of the time.
- Defied: Claire tries to drive Bob's attention away from Alice by acting more flirtatious.
- Discussed: "Why does Bob always act so tongue-tied around Alice?" "Yeah, she must be at least double our age."
- Conversed: "Man, Bob really acts all weird around Claire's mom."
- Deconstructed: Alice catches Bob giving her a Male Gaze and gives him a talking to on the spot.
- Reconstructed: Then Alice realizes that what Bob is doing is only natural, and it gives her confidence in her body.
- Played for Laughs: Alice makes herself over to look just like Claire so that Bob can't tell the difference aside from the figures.
- Played for Drama:
- The police catch Alice having an underage relationship with Bob, and Alice has to register as a sex offender.
- Alice becomes pregnant or gives Bob an STD.
Sorry, Stacy. I'm going back to Stacy's Mom.
