Tropescilloscope: Loads and Loads of Characters

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

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