Tropescilloscope: Demoted to Extra

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

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