Tropescilloscope: Last-Name Basis

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

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