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