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