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Spear Carrier
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A character who walks into a scene, says a few lines at most, and departs. Essentially, an extra with a line. But hey, it's a part. You have to start somewhere, and they wouldn't give away a part this small unless it served some purpose in the story, however small... right? Plus it's usually enough to get you a card in one of the actors' guilds. A Bit Character or Flat Character are next step up. Compare with the Almost Dead Guy, who walks into a scene, delivers a message, and dies horribly. The term comes from Greek theater, specifically tragedy: While the plot of a given play focused on members of important nobility, the theater still needed actors to fill the role of their military entourage — you know, the kind of soldiers whose only job on the stage is to stand at attention and give a salute whenever a noble walks by them. It has also become the standard term for an operatic supernumerary, one of several silent extras (of either sex) who may carry anything from a flagon to a kidnap victim. See here. A Herald is usually more dramatic and foreshadows The Call. In mid-20th century domestic dramas, this was often the role of household servant characters, who would be neither seen nor heard at most times, but occasionally would be called on to deliver some tidbit of dialogue that none of the main characters could credibly utter. Compare The Cameo and Pursued Protagonist. Not to be confused with the native assistant of the Great White Hunter, or with The Lancer, or with literal wielders of spears. Can sometimes result in a One-Scene Wonder. Or a Red Shirt. For just a generally dull character, see The Generic Guy (or Girl). If an already established character plays this role at some point, see Mandatory Line. Examples |
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In The Naked Gun, the man at the baseball game who yells out "Hey, it's Enrico Palazzo!!!" is credited as such during the closing credits. At least one other spear carrier is billed as such, which is common for the ZAZ team. | |
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In pretty much every episode of iCarly there are random interactions between the main 5 characters and members of their school or viewers on the webshow. Occasionally some of these become a Bit Character like Wendy, and Gibby (who eventually was upgraded to the main cast), whilst most vanish and are never seen again after one or two episodes. | |
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In the first game, scientist and guards occasionally pop up to deliver a message or herald Gordon. Sometimes you can recruit them to do something, though one guard doesn't even manage to finish his message before being shot in the back. | |
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Half-Life 2: A woman can be found in a culvert as Freeman leaves the recently raided Station 1 who says she's going to stay there to keep the underground railroad open a while longer. | |
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Kath, who is a non-speaking Spear Carrier in Casualty. Similar to Nikki, but also an unlikely cult character too. | |
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Half-Life In the first game, scientist and guards occasionally pop up to deliver a message or herald Gordon. Sometimes you can recruit them to do something, though one guard doesn't even manage to finish his message before being shot in the back. Half-Life 2: A woman can be found in a culvert as Freeman leaves the recently raided Station 1 who says she's going to stay there to keep the underground railroad open a while longer. Half-Life: Alyx: Olganote Only named in the credits is there at the start of the game to inform Alyx that the Combine are reacting more strongly against Eli's theft than they normally would. On a meta level, the developers put Olga there to ensure that players understood that they were playing as Alyx, as well as reinforce that Alyx will be responding verbally to her surroundings, unlike Gordon. |
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Discussed— rather bitterly— in the John Ritter film Hero at Large. Steve is talking to his agent Marty about Marty not getting him any stage work (instead of all the commercials he's doing). | |
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Happened once again in the spinoff Girl Meets World with Farkle, who gets the part of Spear Carrier in his school production of Romeo and Juliet, only to take over the entire show. Twice. | |
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The member of the crowd in Monty Python's Life of Brian who is individual enough to admit he isn't. Interestingly, that was a Throw It In line—and he was paid extra for coming up with it. This was parodied in the comic oratorio Not the Messiah: He's a Very Naughty Boy, where Terry Gilliam shows up and walks onto the stage in a grand fashion, bows to the cheering audience, says the line, bows again and leaves. |
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The woman Chekov asks about "Nuclear Wessels" in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was just supposed to appear as an extra (i.e. non-speaking), but her answer to the question was so perfect they had to Throw It In, promoting her to spear carrier. | |
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Westeros: An American Musical: In "Sword in the Darkness", a couple random members of Mance's army (who are actually Demoted to Extra named characters from the original story) each have a couple of comments about Jon Snow. | |
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In Deadwood, Richardson was originally an extra, then promoted to Spear Carrier when he received a line, then promoted to regular cast member when the showrunners liked the results. | |
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In Turning Red, the streetcar driver who Mei proudly shows her transit pass to: | |
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Mad Max: Fury Road gives us one nameless Warboy who, for our benefit and Nux's, neatly summarises what kicked off the plot: | |
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Spyro the Dragon (1998): Basically all the dragons to free. After freeing them, they say a few words and disappear. Most of them don't appear again and dialogue with them never lasts longer than half-a-minute. | |
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In It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown, Sally performs in a stage play in which she plays an angel who walks onstage, says "Hark!," and departs as part of a scene transition. She rehearses this one word relentlessly during the few days leading up to the play, but because Charlie Brown was frequently carrying hockey equipment during this time (due to him participating in hockey practice), Sally accidentally blurts out "Hockey Stick!" instead. | |
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Waiting for Godot has the messenger boy who brings the news that Godot will not arrive today. | |
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Half-Life: Alyx: Olganote Only named in the credits is there at the start of the game to inform Alyx that the Combine are reacting more strongly against Eli's theft than they normally would. On a meta level, the developers put Olga there to ensure that players understood that they were playing as Alyx, as well as reinforce that Alyx will be responding verbally to her surroundings, unlike Gordon. | |
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The Cry of Mann: Courier Martinez only has two scenes and a few lines, in which she drops off a letter to the Mann house and then comes to take Agent Martinez back to the MPO headquarters. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has Morn, a character who appeared in 96 episodes, yet never spoke onscreen, with a whole episode dedicated to his supposed death. Hilariously, there's a Running Gag that Morn never stops talking. | |
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Discussed in Seinfeld : In "The Alternate Side", Kramer gets promoted from non-speaking extra to Spear Carrier in a Woody Allen movie, and spends much of the episode working on how best to deliver his one line, "These pretzels are making me thirsty." | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: Voyager features Lieutenant Ayala, a character who appears in 120 episodes including the series premiere and finale but only speaks in four of them (and one of those is an overdubbed communicator voice). Having survived the entire series despite not being a main character, he became something of a fan favourite. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has Morn, a character who appeared in 96 episodes, yet never spoke onscreen, with a whole episode dedicated to his supposed death. Hilariously, there's a Running Gag that Morn never stops talking. |
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Back to the Future: The couple at the dance at the end of the film, who are amazed that George McFly stood up to Biff. | |
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In Macbeth, Seyton only shows up to tell the king his wife is dead (and to hint where she's gone). | |
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Early in Boy Meets World Cory's class is putting on a production of Hamlet. Cory is cast as Hamlet, but refuses the role because he doesn't want to wear tights. He gets a part again... As a lowly spear carrier. ( His best friend Shawn had previously been one, but got bumped up to noble when Cory quit. ) It's defied/parodied just before the credits roll, as he uses the spear to knock everyone down and claim domination over the stage. Happened once again in the spinoff Girl Meets World with Farkle, who gets the part of Spear Carrier in his school production of Romeo and Juliet, only to take over the entire show. Twice. |
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Parodied in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius where Sheen is stuck in the role of a guard in Macbeth in Space, complete with a laser spear. And he manages to forget his solitary line. | |
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The servant from King Lear is known for delivering one line, getting killed, and being one of the best characters in the play. In his theological essay "The World's Last Night," C. S. Lewis observes that "if it were real life and not a play, that is the part it would be best to have acted." | |
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The Elder Scrolls series has the semi-recurring character Jiub. In his first appearance in Morrowind, he only delivers ten short lines of dialog before you are separated from him for the rest of the game. However, being a shirtless, bald, one-eyed fellow prisoner made him popular enough with fans to generate countless Fan Fics and Game Mods which add him back into the game. Bethesda took notice and, in Oblivion, mention that he became a Saint in Morrowind for driving the (much reviled) Cliff Racers to extinction. His spirit makes a cameo in Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC, where he offers a sidequest in the Soul Cairn. | |
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In Bruce Almighty: Bruce asks a young boy if he knows how to work a video camera. He replies, "Duh." They even make special mention of him fitting this trope (not in those words) during the DVD commentary. | |
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Jamie in Mystery Team is essentially this; she does very little to add to the plot, and is good for a few laughs. | |
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Back to the Future Part II: There's Red the Bum, who calls Marty a "crazy, drunk driver" towards the end of Part I, and a "crazy, drunk pedestrian" in the alternate 1985. The guy who thinks that Marty took Biff's wallet. He thinks Marty took Biff's wallet. |
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Game of Thrones: Wendel Manderly is played by an established actor, but has no lines or discernible role other than to introduce his House. | |
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El Goonish Shive has this jogger who's only purpose is to jog up to Susan, Sarah and Grace, indirectly reveal the cave they are standing in front of is Invisible to Normals (and thus the one they're looking for) and promptly jog away. | |
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The various messengers ("My lord, I bring news!") in the first series of The Black Adder. Also, the messenger in the Blackadder II episode "Money", who keeps telling Edmund the Queen wants to see him at inconvenient times. | |
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Lampshaded in Zeus: Master of Olympus, where the Theater and Drama School buildings have an actor complaining that his spear has gone missing, and he can't exactly be a Spear Carrier if he doesn't have his spear. Gets a Call-Back in the sequel, where an Atlantean spearman not doing anything asks if maybe there's someone who can use a spear since he's not using his at the moment. | |
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Gothic: his name is Mud and he wants to talk to you. Sadly, he has nothing useful to say. No, Mud, go away. | |
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Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida has a messenger who is possibly the smallest credited role. He only appears in the middle of the first act to bear mews of the Ethiopians' invasion, and has like three lines. | |
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In The Curse of Monkey Island, Guybrush wants to be in a theater production but is told he "doesn't have the hands of a spear carrier." | |
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From Ghostbusters (1984): The carriage driver in Central Park who remarks: "What an asshole," after Louis Tully has a conversation with the horse. | |
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Nikki, a blonde nurse in Holby City who never speaks on screen (and is considered as Fanservice by many viewers), becoming an unlikely cult character, and the show from which Holby became a Spin-Off of has its own. | |
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Several small characters on Battlestar Galactica (2003). The actor playing Chief Tyrol had a habit of ad-libbing names for these characters, leading fans to get attached/interested, leading to repeat appearances for them, leading to them becoming significant characters. Specifically the "knuckledraggers" of the flight crew | |
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Parodied in the South Park episode "Asspen" when a guy walks onscreen just to explain what the K-13 is before walking back offscreen. | |
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Unlicensed knockoff Larry Poppins from The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part only appears in one scene to make a joke about the "spoonful of sugar" line. | |
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The Greatest Story Ever Told has a remarkably literal example: John Wayne as the centurion at the Crucifixion. | |
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Night and Day's Dennis Doyle is given this exact role in-universe in the school play, which reflects how he feels about himself; but it's not especially an accurate assessment of how the show treats him. | |
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Baldur's Gate: Hold there, traveler, Elminster just wants some attention. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager features Lieutenant Ayala, a character who appears in 120 episodes including the series premiere and finale but only speaks in four of them (and one of those is an overdubbed communicator voice). Having survived the entire series despite not being a main character, he became something of a fan favourite. | |
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Babylon 5 would occasionally use these guys as fodder for promotion later on. Zack Allen (the Chief of Security in the later seasons) started off as a Red Shirt getting thrown down a hallway by Ambassador G'Kar. Lieutenant Corwin, meanwhile, started off as B5's equivalent to Stargate SG-1's Chevron Locking Guy, and ended up as the station's second in command. The first season also featured a French-accented woman who shared Corwin's duties of announcing whenever the Jump Gate opened. | |
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In a commentary to the Dragonriders of Pern, author Anne McCaffrey described Masterharper Robinton and Mastersmith Fandarel as spear carriers in the first book, who later evolved into major characters. | |
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