Tropescilloscope: No Name Given

A person's name is never told. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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