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