Tropescilloscope: Ascended Extra

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

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