Tropescilloscope: Ascended Extra

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

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