Tropescilloscope: Loads and Loads of Characters

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

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