Tropescilloscope: Loads and Loads of Characters

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

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