Tropescilloscope: Demoted to Extra

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

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