Tropescilloscope: Ascended Extra

A background or minor character becomes a major character. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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