Tropescilloscope: Ascended Extra

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

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