Tropescilloscope: Loads and Loads of Characters

A work has too many cast members to count. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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