Tropescilloscope: Last-Name Basis

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

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