Tropescilloscope: Only One Name

Rather than having a first name and a last name, a character has only one name. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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