Tropescilloscope: Ascended Extra

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

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