Tropescilloscope: Ascended Extra

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

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