Tropescilloscope: Only Known by Their Nickname

Even if their real name is known, no one uses it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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