Tropescilloscope: Ascended Extra

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

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