Tropescilloscope: Loads and Loads of Characters

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

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