Tropescilloscope: One Steve Limit

Having two or more characters bear the same name in the same story is usually not recommended. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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The '80s Never Trust a Trailer Cat Scare Irony Artistic License – Geography Manic Pixie Dream Girl Only a Flesh Wound Punch-Clock Villain A Father to His Men Those Two Guys Smug Snake Daddy's Girl Moment Killer Bi the Way Ms. Fanservice The Casanova Cluster F-Bomb Mad Scientist Hypocritical Humor Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Wounded Gazelle Gambit The '70s Retcon Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Laser-Guided Karma Reality Ensues Badass Normal The Alcoholic Redemption Equals Death Tagline Mexican Standoff Off with His Head! I Have Your Wife The Faceless Pyrrhic Victory Bolivian Army Ending Beware the Nice Ones The Musical Meaningful Background Event Fanservice Extra Contrived Coincidence Affectionate Parody Loads and Loads of Characters Have a Gay Old Time Not Quite Dead Together in Death Actually Pretty Funny Early-Bird Cameo Word of God Humiliation Conga Spanner in the Works The Oner Adaptational Attractiveness Slap-Slap-Kiss Intergenerational Friendship Maybe Ever After Rasputinian Death Annoying Younger Sibling The Un-Reveal As Himself Unresolved Sexual Tension Dark Reprise Drill Sergeant Nasty Dirty Old Man The Smart Guy Domestic Abuse The Dragon Blackmail Character Development Laughing Mad O.O.C. 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Sports Stories Pretty in Mink Military and Warfare Films Paper-Thin Disguise Man on Fire Tempting Fate Butt-Monkey Imagine Spot Sexy Discretion Shot Toplessness from the Back Canadian Movies Black Comedy Rape Light Is Not Good Foregone Conclusion Faking the Dead Camera Abuse Evil-Detecting Dog One-Man Army Not So Different Rule of Cool Combat Pragmatist Shoot the Shaggy Dog Nice Guy Bald of Evil Heterosexual Life-Partners Badass Grandpa Make It Look Like an Accident Red Herring Brainless Beauty Obstructive Bureaucrat Captain Obvious 20 Minutes into the Future Token Minority Film Series In Medias Res Really Gets Around An Arm and a Leg Shell-Shocked Veteran The Starscream Does This Remind You of Anything? Bunny-Ears Lawyer Diabolus ex Machina Fantasy Films Truth in Television A.I. Is a Crapshoot Double-Meaning Title Vomit Indiscretion Shot Mighty Whitey My Beloved Smother Getting Crap Past the Radar Artistic License – Military Mood Whiplash Unusually Uninteresting Sight Sci-Fi Horror For the Evulz Villainous Breakdown Dull Surprise Insane Troll Logic Did Not Get the Girl Italian Films Abhorrent Admirer Dark and Troubled Past Armor-Piercing Question Arranged Marriage Bait-and-Switch Important Haircut Adaptational Heroism Henpecked Husband Cool Old Lady Wrong Genre Savvy Exact Words Breaking the Fourth Wall Scary Black Man Extreme Doormat Adult Fear Self-Deprecation As You Know Guile Hero Cowboy Cop Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Music Stories Call-Forward Composite Character The Cavalry Body Horror Noodle Incident Those Wacky Nazis Took a Level in Jerkass Woman in White Married to the Job Wham Shot Crazy Jealous Guy Stalker with a Crush Bittersweet Ending Darkest Hour Chekhov's Gun Real Life It Will Never Catch On "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Curb-Stomp Battle Betty and Veronica Fatal Flaw Despair Event Horizon Tap on the Head Scenery Gorn How We Got Here Plot Hole Every Car Is a Pinto Adaptation Dye-Job Villain Song Politically Incorrect Villain Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Reveal Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Sanity Slippage Precision F-Strike Disproportionate Retribution Badass in a Nice Suit All There in the Script Arch-Enemy Vampire Fiction Alas, Poor Villain Mr. Fanservice The Great Depression Even Evil Has Loved Ones Rated M for Manly Last-Name Basis Humans Are Bastards Riddle for the Ages Spell My Name with an "S" Fan Disservice Parental Incest Red Shirt Groin Attack Bilingual Bonus The Hero Only in It for the Money Demoted to Extra Mythology Gag Red Eyes, Take Warning Developing Doomed Characters Broken Aesop Offscreen Teleportation Action Genre Documentary Not Even Bothering with the Accent Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Japanese Films Evil Laugh Stock Footage Bare Your Midriff Motor Mouth Twist Ending Playing Gertrude Romantic Comedy Soft Glass Lighter and Softer The Voiceless Auto Erotica Serious Business Implacable Man The Mafia Shout-Out Sacrificial Lion Bond One-Liner The Cameo folderlabel B-Movie Big-Bad Ensemble The Vamp Captain Ersatz Manchild Science Fiction Films Call-Back Yandere Based on a True Story Soundtrack Dissonance Sequel Escalation And Starring Insistent Terminology Very Loosely Based on a True Story Evil Is Hammy Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Ascended Extra Lock and Load Montage Totally Radical Disappeared Dad All for Nothing Killed Mid-Sentence Hollywood Darkness Vitriolic Best Buds Card-Carrying Villain Slasher Movie Psycho for Hire Broken Pedestal Police Brutality The Load Funny Background Event Take That! Only One Name Spared by the Adaptation Bullying a Dragon Victoria's Secret Compartment Dwindling Party Fat Bastard Determinator Disney Death Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Biopic Storming the Castle Face Death with Dignity "The Reason You Suck" Speech Mystery and Detective Films '80s Hair All Just a Dream Sassy Black Woman Same Language Dub As Long as It Sounds Foreign Epic Movie Meaningful Name Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The '60s Fainting Mr. Exposition As the Good Book Says... 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Jitter Cam Knife Nut Bad Boss Eagleland Dogged Nice Guy Does Not Like Shoes Serial Killer Malevolent Masked Men I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Corpsing Gainax Ending Defiant to the End Would Hit a Girl Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Everyone Has Standards Public Domain Feature Films Video Credits Aside Glance In Name Only Cat Fight Market-Based Title Men Are the Expendable Gender Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Final Girl Overprotective Dad Small Name, Big Ego For Want of a Nail Evil Sounds Deep Bloodless Carnage The Film of the Book Country Matters The Lost Lenore Those Two Bad Guys No Ending Trailers Always Spoil Smoking Is Cool Extremely Short Timespan Off-into-the-Distance Ending Ironic Echo Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Recycled IN SPACE! Not Using the "Z" Word Babies Ever After Almost Kiss Depraved Bisexual Deus ex Machina Not So Above It All Stealth Pun Australian Movies Cold-Blooded Torture Manly Tears She Cleans Up Nicely Parental Substitute Fantastic Racism Pragmatic Villainy Line-of-Sight Name Darker and Edgier Friend to All Children Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Scare Chord British Films What Happened to the Mouse? Deliberate Values Dissonance Alliterative Name Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Suddenly SHOUTING! Shipper on Deck Reckless Gun Usage Skewed Priorities Curse Cut Short Star-Crossed Lovers Bond Villain Stupidity Redshirt Army Sir Swears-a-Lot Dark Is Not Evil The Bully Deliberately Monochrome Rape as Drama Bloody Hilarious Our Vampires Are Different Roaring Rampage of Revenge Celebrity Paradox Five-Man Band I Did What I Had to Do Kubrick Stare Boom, Headshot! Shown Their Work Older Than They Look Facial Horror Amoral Attorney Genre Savvy Bar Brawl Black Dude Dies First Air-Vent Passageway Historical-Domain Character Dramedy Horror Comedy Villain Opening Scene Monumental Damage Disguised in Drag Kick the Son of a Bitch Madness Mantra Gratuitous English Parental Neglect The Sociopath Even Evil Has Standards Creative Closing Credits Random Events Plot Plucky Comic Relief Grievous Bottley Harm There Is No Kill Like Overkill Evil vs. Evil Gilligan Cut Arc Words Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Historical In-Joke Obfuscating Stupidity One-Word Title She's Got Legs Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Vomit Discretion Shot Throwing Your Sword Always Works Chewing the Scenery It's All About Me You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Names to Run Away from Really Fast Time Skip Hoist by His Own Petard Villain Ball Index of Film Westerns Dirty Coward I Need a Freaking Drink Animal Title Index Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Deconstruction Leaning on the Fourth Wall Our Zombies Are Different Determinator aka: The Determinator No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Historical Villain Upgrade Beta Couple Evil Counterpart Earn Your Happy Ending Sadistic Choice No Name Given Genre Throwback Informed Ability Good Is Not Nice Undying Loyalty Eiffel Tower Effect Mundane Made Awesome