Tropescilloscope: Demoted to Extra

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

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