Tropescilloscope: Demoted to Extra

Main character turned into a background object. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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