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