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)

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