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