Tropescilloscope: Demoted to Extra

Main character turned into a background object. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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