Tropescilloscope: Last-Name Basis

Addressing others by just their surname. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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