Tropescilloscope: Ascended Extra

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

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