Basic Trope: A work with a large cast stuffs every character into one shot.
- Straight: In the final episode of Tales of Troperia, every character introduced over the course of its run is invited to a special gathering, and a shot of every character occurs at the climax.
- Exaggerated: Even the ghosts of the characters who passed away show up for this shot.
- Downplayed: The dead don't rise from their graves for the occasion, and characters who have been thoroughly Put on a Bus don't come back either.
- Justified:
- It's the final episode, and actors come Back for the Finale.
- Everybody has gone to the afterlife, little Marie has her parents back, but she'll never get to grow up.
- Town hero P.C. Ellington has passed away, and the entire town is giving their respects at his funeral.
- Subverted:Alice: Hey, where's Bob? We have everyone but Bob! Eh, take the picture anyway.
- Double Subverted: Bob runs in at that very moment and photobombs.
- Parodied: Not only do characters Put on a Bus come Back for the Finale, the ghosts of the characters killed off come back for the photo, and even the characters specific to the Spin-Off and the characters from all the shows Tales of Troperia had crossovers with come!
- Zigzagged: ???
- Averted: A shot in the finale only includes the characters who were leads in the final season.
- Enforced: Actors took time out of their busy schedule to come Back for the Finale, so the producers wish to put them all together one last time.
- Invoked: Alice realizes the series is about to end, and calls up all the characters to come together one last time.
- Exploited: Charles uses the cast reunion to propose to Daphne in front of all their friends and family.
- Defied: A bitter Ethan refuses to join the shot, leaving it incomplete.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: “Oh, look, all the characters came back for a finale group photo! Isn’t that nice?”
- Deconstructed: Something goes horribly wrong right before the photo was taken, and that’s where the series ends.
- Reconstructed: The photo was retaken during The Stinger.
Back to Crowded-Cast Shot.
