Tropescilloscope: Loads and Loads of Characters

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

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