Or there's "There are foreground characters and background characters, and a few in the middle.
When I was a kid, westerns, the tertiary and the background characters were the most interesting characters.
But, within hours, an unplanned, illicit kiss between two of the game's background characters made The Sims the talk of the show.
Rushing to meet deadlines, he began to draw fewer and fewer background characters, until finally he found only one remaining – the Common Man.
The complexity of these images, where a large number of distractors (background characters) are irregularly placed together with Wally, the hidden target character, explains the high difficulty involved in this visual searching task.
In this bloodthirsty atmosphere, Gilligan has made several clever gambits to keep the show watchable, including swivelling background characters into the spotlight, where they can absorb the sympathy we once extended to Walt.
Each episode takes the eponymous assassin to a different, vibrant location Paris, Marrakech, Bangkok, and Sapienza, a fictional town modelled on Vernazza, Italy intricately rendered and filled with hundreds of background characters going about their routines.
The producers pointed out that the Vermont episode was just part of a multistate tour in which Buster visited different families -- Mormons, fundamentalist Christians, Hmong -- and that the lesbian parents were background characters.
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Granted, most of the women in LOTR are nothing more than background characters, but there are three fourr if you count Shelob, but I don't because she's a spider) who have significant roles to play in the plot.
Up until that point, both had been mostly background characters on the show (I don't think either had won a challenge yet), but their runway looks seemed so strong, so confident and so well styled that they seemed a sure bet to be among the final three.
