Tropescilloscope: Ascended Extra

A background or minor character becomes a major character. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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