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