Tropescilloscope: Loads and Loads of Characters

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

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