An index of tropes which require at least one crowd or a large group of characters.
See also the indexes Our Clones Are Identical and Military and Warfare Tropes (the section "Armies and units").
Tropes:
- All of the Other Reindeer: A large group of people constantly put someone down.
- Alone in a Crowd: A character feels lonely in a crowd.
- Angry Mob Song: A crowd expresses its anger through song.
- Animal Stampede: A large group of animals starts rampaging.
- Audience Murmurs: A crowd reacts to something by whispering among themselves.
- Booked Full of Mooks: A character in a public space discovers that all the bystanders around them are actually another character's employees or co-conspirators.
- Bystander Syndrome: The more people there are, the least likely anyone will act in a crisis.
- Collective Death Glare: An entire group glares at someone for doing/saying something dumb.
- Collective Groan: An entire group groans in response to lame joke.
- Conforming OOC Moment: A group of people do something, including one person who'd normally never do that.
- Conspicuous in the Crowd: Someone in a crowd is acting differently...
- Crowd Chant: An entire crowd starts chanting something in unison.
- Crowded-Cast Shot: The whole cast gathers to for a shot.
- Crowd Hockey: A character loses something in a crowd.
- Crowd Panic: An entire crowd freaks out.
- Crowd Song: A song sung by a large group of people.
- Crowd Surfing: A person moves on top of a crowd.
- Escalating Chase: The number of pursuers ramps up until a whole crowd is after someone.
- Faceless Masses: A crowd without faces.
- Flash Mob: When a crowd plans a seemingly-spontaneous choreographed dance out of nowhere.
- Flash Mob Cover Up: Creating a distraction by orchestrating a flash mob.
- The Freelance Shame Squad: A crowd reinforces social norms through shaming.
- Groupie Brigade: A horde of fans descend on a celebrity.
- Hiding in a Hijab: A character wears face-concealing Muslim clothing to blend in a crowd.
- Horde of Alien Locusts: A horde of aliens want to eat everything.
- Lost in a Crowd: A character blends into a crowd.
- Make Way for the Princess: A crowd parts for an important character, often the Alpha Bitch of a school.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": An entire group has an Oh, Crap! moment.
- Media Scrum: A crowd of reporters.
- Million Mook March: A large crowd of marching mooks.
- Mobstacle Course: A character has to navigate through a crowd.
- Open the Door and See All the People: A character opens the door, sees a crowd, and closes the door in a panic.
- Powder Keg Crowd: A crowd that's ready to riot.
- Prison Riot: A crowd of rioting prisoners.
- Pulling Your Child Away: Someone is marked as an outcast when an entire crowd backs away from them, including a parent with their child.
- Rabble Rouser: A character incites a crowd to riot.
- Retail Riot: A crowd of angry shoppers.
- Shamed by a Mob: A crowd shames a character.
- Shaming the Mob: A character shames a crowd.
- Spontaneous Choreography: A crowd bursts into dancing.
- Spontaneous Crowd Formation: A crowd appears out of nowhere.
- Studio Audience: The crowd is the audience behind the cameras where the show is taped or filmed.
- A Thicket of Spears: Massed infantry using polearms in formation.
- Torches and Pitchforks: These implements often show that a crowd is angry.
- Torn Apart by the Mob: Death at the hands of an angry mob.
- The Worm That Walks: A monster made out of many little creatures.
- Zerg Rush: A crowd attacks all at once.
