Tropescilloscope: Loads and Loads of Characters

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

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