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