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