Tropescilloscope: Loads and Loads of Characters

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

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