Tropescilloscope: All There in the Script

A character's name isn't mentioned in the primary medium itself but is mentioned in another source material. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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