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