Tropescilloscope: Ascended Extra

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

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