Tropescilloscope: Only Known by Their Nickname

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

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Re-Cut Killed Mid-Sentence Brutal Honesty Credits Gag Facial Horror In Name Only Slap-Slap-Kiss Shut Up, Hannibal! Pragmatic Adaptation Hair-Trigger Temper Break the Cutie Take That! 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Bilingual Bonus Face–Heel Turn Eyepatch of Power Animal Motifs Big Damn Heroes Your Head A-Splode Let's Get Dangerous! 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Fat Bastard Fanservice Extra Not Quite Dead Lock and Load Montage Anti-Hero Arch-Enemy Hollywood Darkness Alas, Poor Villain Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Bully Fire-Forged Friends Red Oni, Blue Oni The '70s Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Smurfette Principle Defrosting Ice Queen A Minor Kidroduction Only in It for the Money Pragmatic Villainy Bavarian Fire Drill Calling the Old Man Out Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Zombie Stories Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Early-Bird Cameo Brainless Beauty Beard of Evil Only Known by Their Nickname Protagonist Title Adults Are Useless The Lancer '80s Hair Race Against the Clock Broken Pedestal I Need a Freaking Drink Heroic Sacrifice Establishing Character Moment Bloody Hilarious Gilligan Cut Beware the Nice Ones Monumental Damage Naïve Newcomer The Cavalry Adapted Out Five-Man Band Evil Plan Video Credits I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bland-Name Product Flashback The Voiceless Aluminum Christmas Trees Peek-a-Boo Corpse Lighter and Softer Camp Gay Blood from the Mouth Bottomless Magazines Domestic Abuse Market-Based Title Christmas Movies Index Empathic Environment Recycled IN SPACE! Deal with the Devil Corrupt Corporate Executive The Place Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Training Montage Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Bond Villain Stupidity Canadian Movies Slashed Throat No Antagonist The Oner Parental Neglect The '60s Self-Deprecation Not So Different Offscreen Teleportation Dark and Troubled Past Reckless Gun Usage Wrong Genre Savvy Man on Fire Daylight Horror Rape as Drama Well-Intentioned Extremist No-Holds-Barred Beatdown All There in the Script Genre Throwback Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Last-Name Basis Call-Back Ass Shove Nice Guy NO INDOOR VOICE Non-Indicative Name Would Hit a Girl Victoria's Secret Compartment Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Fourth Date Marriage You Killed My Father Roaring Rampage of Revenge Funny Foreigner Ambiguous Ending The Big Guy Broken Bird Japanese Films Worthy Opponent Posthumous Character Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Pay Evil unto Evil Needs Wiki Magic Love Rule of Three Shown Their Work Punny Name Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Body Horror Villain Protagonist Big Brother Instinct Film Noir She's Got Legs How We Got Here Diabolus ex Machina Retirony Kill It with Fire Silent Movie Faux Affably Evil Thriller Famous Last Words Super Strength Contrived Coincidence Index of Film Westerns Four-Temperament Ensemble Oh, Crap! Visual Pun Country Matters Our Zombies Are Different Made of Explodium Tranquil Fury Slasher Movie Narrator Creator Cameo Gainax Ending Groin Attack Evil Cannot Comprehend Good An Axe to Grind Hypocrite Shipper on Deck I Have Your Wife Pretty in Mink Storming the Castle Accidental Misnaming The Great Depression Jump Scare Henpecked Husband Depraved Bisexual Sir Swears-a-Lot Distracted by the Sexy Only Sane Man Death of a Child Men Are the Expendable Gender Insane Troll Logic Ax-Crazy Dying Moment of Awesome Fantasy Films Happily Married Adaptation Distillation Badass in a Nice Suit Hoist by His Own Petard Obfuscating Stupidity Military and Warfare Films Italian Films Rasputinian Death The Dog Bites Back Pimped-Out Dress Adaptation Expansion Moment Killer Central Theme The Dragon Dwindling Party Only One Name Overly Long Gag Hell Is That Noise And the Adventure Continues Card-Carrying Villain Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dutch Angle Police are Useless Our Vampires Are Different Parental Abandonment Damsel in Distress Manic Pixie Dream Girl Room Full of Crazy The Quiet One Cluster F-Bomb Dirty Coward Those Wacky Nazis Children Are Innocent Bi the Way Canon Foreigner Fatal Flaw Does Not Like Shoes Kids Are Cruel Morality Pet The Sociopath Bloodier and Gorier Unspoken Plan Guarantee Sinister Minister It's Personal Big-Bad Ensemble Vomit Indiscretion Shot My Beloved Smother Anguished Declaration of Love Sexy Discretion Shot Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Sequel Hook Immune to Bullets The Un-Reveal Serial Killer Almost Kiss Ominous Latin Chanting Meaningful Echo Cat Fight Big Applesauce Shower Scene Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Heroes Want Redheads Animated Credits Opening Horror Films Anyone Can Die Large Ham Adult Fear Fantastic Racism Dramatic Gun Cock May–December Romance After the End Batman Gambit For the Evulz Author Appeal Neck Lift Serious Business From Nobody to Nightmare Exactly What It Says on the Tin Cat Scare Dramatic Irony Redemption Equals Death Air-Vent Passageway The Ace Make It Look Like an Accident The Dreaded Superhero The Musical Laser-Guided Karma Ragtag Bunch of Misfits World of Ham Daddy's Girl Kick the Dog Blatant Lies Psycho for Hire folderlabel Badass Longcoat Loads and Loads of Characters Crazy Jealous Guy Martial Arts Movie Badass Boast The Load Television Movie Index Say My Name Chekhov's Gunman Heterosexual Life-Partners Rule of Funny Ironic Echo Disguised in Drag Stepford Smiler Those Two Bad Guys Totally Radical Mighty Whitey Refuge in Audacity Cool Old Guy Real Life Writes the Plot Scare Chord The Alcoholic Downer Ending Those Two Guys Adaptation Dye-Job "Shaggy Dog" Story Love at First Sight Wicked Cultured Real Life Exact Words Title Drop Authority Equals Asskicking The Hero Dies Curse Cut Short Based on a True Story No Ending Drowning My Sorrows Even Evil Has Standards Suddenly SHOUTING! Failed a Spot Check Fiery Redhead Skewed Priorities Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Bond One-Liner Loophole Abuse Becoming the Mask Celebrity Paradox Badass Grandpa Sealed Evil in a Can Fatal Family Photo Suspiciously Similar Substitute Big Bad Grey and Gray Morality Bittersweet Ending Artistic License – Law Mr. Fanservice Outrun the Fireball Kill 'em All Disproportionate Retribution Spanner in the Works Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Black Comedy She Cleans Up Nicely The Mole Psychopathic Manchild A.I. Is a Crapshoot Department of Redundancy Department Dissonant Serenity Amusing Injuries The Brute Not What It Looks Like Dual Wielding Author Avatar What the Hell, Hero? As the Good Book Says... Award-Bait Song The Stinger Awesome, but Impractical Cool Car Sci-Fi Horror Double-Meaning Title He Knows Too Much Chiaroscuro Silence Is Golden Ungrateful Bastard Bowdlerise Riddle for the Ages Conspicuous CG Red Shirt Hidden Depths Not So Stoic Left the Background Music On Scenery Porn Abusive Parents Deadpan Snarker Call-Forward Extreme Doormat "Well Done, Son!" Guy Honor Before Reason Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Adaptational Heroism Properly Paranoid Woman in White Madness Mantra Curb-Stomp Battle Hero of Another Story Didn't Think This Through What You Are in the Dark The Reveal Chase Scene Never Found the Body Woman Scorned Motor Mouth Annoying Younger Sibling Demonic Possession Unusually Uninteresting Sight Leave the Camera Running Reality Has No Subtitles Defiant to the End Car Fu 20 Minutes into the Future Auto Erotica Black Comedy Rape Cool Shades Spiritual Successor Novelization Mind Screw Rousing Speech Foil Freeze-Frame Bonus Tap on the Head Villain with Good Publicity Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Wham Line Hollywood Law Badass Normal Never Trust a Trailer Trailers Always Spoil Historical-Domain Character Star-Crossed Lovers Fate Worse than Death Here We Go Again! Biopic Villain Song Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold No OSHA Compliance Spell My Name with an "S" Darker and Edgier Artistic License – History Obviously Evil The Bad Guy Wins Improbable Weapon User Brother–Sister Incest And I Must Scream Retcon Due to the Dead Implacable Man The Atoner Spiteful Spit Really Gets Around Noodle Incident Historical Hero Upgrade Despair Event Horizon Meaningful Background Event British Films Pyrrhic Victory Destination Defenestration Shell-Shocked Veteran Off with His Head! La Résistance Red Right Hand Action Prologue Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Spared by the Adaptation Actually Pretty Funny Deliberate Values Dissonance Evil-Detecting Dog Good Is Not Nice I'm a Humanitarian Mistaken for Gay BFG Shirtless Scene Jitter Cam Dark Is Not Evil Male Gaze Evil Is Hammy Mugging the Monster Jerkass Has a Point Hate Sink Captain Obvious Armor-Piercing Question The Film of the Book Developing Doomed Characters Poor Communication Kills Big Eater Humans Are Bastards Dogged Nice Guy Dressing as the Enemy Once More, with Clarity! Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Married to the Job Beta Couple Names to Run Away from Really Fast Major Injury Underreaction My Greatest Failure Break the Haughty Artistic License – Military The Remake Older Than They Look Crazy-Prepared Pretty Little Headshots Manchild Taking the Bullet Eureka Moment "The Reason You Suck" Speech Funny Background Event All Girls Want Bad Boys Badass Bookworm Catch-Phrase Deus ex Machina The Mafia Not Even Bothering with the Accent Gold Digger Frame-Up Character Development Evil Is Petty Intrepid Reporter Adaptational Villainy Ambiguous Disorder Parental Substitute Bolivian Army Ending Mercy Kill Get Out! The Ditz Would Hurt a Child Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Adaptational Badass Pet the Dog Manipulative Bastard Lampshade Hanging Actor Allusion Asshole Victim Small Name, Big Ego Documentary As You Know Sacrificial Lion Australian Movies Unusual Euphemism War Is Hell Dull Surprise A Father to His Men The Stoner Faking the Dead Sadistic Choice Epic Fail Revenge Kubrick Stare Dropped a Bridge on Him The Chick Karma Houdini The Faceless Berserk Button Jerkass Police Brutality Bad "Bad Acting" Darkest Hour Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Deconstruction Getting Crap Past the Radar Artistic License – Biology A Date with Rosie Palms Dark Reprise The Ghost Artistic License – Physics It's All About Me Logo Joke Humiliation Conga All There in the Manual Unwitting Instigator of Doom One-Man Army Leaning on the Fourth Wall The '80s Better to Die than Be Killed Ambiguously Gay Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Cameo Idiot Ball Vacation Films Driven to Suicide Interrupted Suicide "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The '90s No Celebrities Were Harmed An Aesop Framing Device Did Not Get the Girl Evil Laugh Alliterative Name Stealth Pun Running Gag Creative Closing Credits Word of God Unresolved Sexual Tension Brick Joke Stealth Hi/Bye Eye Scream Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Instant Death Bullet Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Put on a Bus Soundtrack Dissonance Danny Peary Cult Movies List Mad Scientist Deliberately Monochrome The Vamp Fish out of Water Freudian Excuse Anti-Villain Smoking Is Cool Tagline Every Car Is a Pinto As Himself Ghost Fiction Up to Eleven Death by Sex Wretched Hive Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Stylistic Suck Hero Antagonist Evil vs. Evil Chewing the Scenery Bury Your Gays Missing Mom Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Apocalypse How Playing Gertrude Mystery and Detective Films Bald of Evil Sassy Black Woman Off-into-the-Distance Ending Chekhov's Skill Overprotective Dad Guns Akimbo All Men Are Perverts Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Determinator aka: The Determinator Show Within a Show Final Girl Bare Your Midriff The Smart Guy Works Set in World War II Not So Above It All Captain Ersatz For Want of a Nail Black and Gray Morality Knight Templar Horror Comedy Truth in Television Soft Glass Too Dumb to Live Taking You with Me Disappeared Dad Stuff Blowing Up Throwing Your Sword Always Works Plot Hole The Lost Lenore The Stoic It Can Think Product Placement Rewatch Bonus Greater-Scope Villain Beauty Is Never Tarnished Rich Bitch Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Together in Death Back from the Dead O.O.C. Is Serious Business Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Reality Ensues Attempted Rape Parental Incest Yandere Male Frontal Nudity You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Accidental Murder Anachronic Order timeperiod B-Movie Femme Fatale